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Apple iPad Pre-ordered

March 14, 2010
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Well, I went ahead and pre-ordered an Apple iPad on Friday. I usually don’t pre-order a $500 piece of tech site unseen. OK, I pre-ordered the iPod Touch 3rd gen when it was announced but I’d seen and touched the earlier versions and was simply waiting on the latest upgrades before buying.
So first I had [...]

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Windows Home Server Add-Ins I Use

March 13, 2010
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I was recently asked what Windows Home Server Add-Ins I us and figured it was a good topic for a blog post. So this morning I took a look and see that I have six loaded. I don’t use a lot of add-ins for two main reasons:

In general I like my important systems to be [...]

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A New Web Host – Linode

March 7, 2010
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Just before the New Years holiday I moved this site to a new web host, Linode. I’ve been with Slicehost for just over two years and don’t have any complaints and think they’re great. There’s an interesting thread on the Slicehost forum about how other vendors have matched and exceeded Slicehost’s offerings. In the thread [...]

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School of Hard (Drive) Knocks – Part 2

February 9, 2010
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At the beginning of the month I wrote about my Windows Home Server hard drive problems and at the time I was waiting for WHS to finish removing the bad drive from its storage pool. When I posted the article I was letting Windows Home Server run through the drive removal process while I slept. [...]

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School of Hard (Drive) Knocks

February 2, 2010
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One of the problems with having a Windows Home Server with 12 hard drives is that hard drives do fail and there’s a dozen chances for that to happen. Add to that the 18TB of data those drives can hold and things are further complicated. The odds are not in my favor and it’s only [...]

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Yet Another Windows Home Server Disk Upgrade

January 9, 2010
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Just last week I wrote that I’d just upgrade the drives in my Windows Home Server as I needed the space, and I really didn’t think I’d need the space for awhile. Well, I copied up a bunch of files and my free space dropped below 2TB which is where I start considering upgrading a [...]

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Optimizing My Website – Low Hanging Fruit

January 7, 2010
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In this article I look at the 4 main areas which I could easily optimize to improve my website performance. Image optimization, CSS optimization, Javascript optimization and plugin optimization where all used to improve the performance of my Wordpress site.

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Domains Up For Auction At Bido

January 4, 2010
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Over the past year or so I’ve been looking at domaining among other potential ways to turn my interest in websites and operating systems into income producers. At least enough income to make it a self-supporting hobby. One of the ways to make some money with domains is to put them up at a domain [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #47: State of the Quest

January 3, 2010
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This isn’t one of those year in review or predictions for the year ahead posts. I hate those. But this is the time of year I look at my current computing situation and muse about where I want to go the next year. Not goals, not predictions, just some practical reviews – if I want [...]

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Website Performance Tools

December 18, 2009
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I mentioned in my previous Trail Log that my look at the new Site Performance feature in Google Webmaster Tools tools led me down a rat hole looking into ways to optimize my website. Since I use WordPress I approached this as WordPress optimization, but the reality was most of this was basic web optimization. [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #46: Housekeeping Edition

December 13, 2009
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It’s been over a month since I’ve done a Trail Log and I got some time for blog updates this weekend so I might aw well do one. The day job has kept me busy and pretty well burnt out by the time I get home so I haven’t dived in depth into anything for [...]

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