Category Archives: OS Quest Trail Log

The OS Quest Trail Log #27: WordPress Edition

Another slow week on the Quest. The only item of note was that I figured out how to exclude WordPress categories from feeds and created a couple of new rss feeds for the site.
My interest in the customized feeds was driven by a redesign I’m considering for The OS Quest. I’m still bouncing around [...]

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The OS Quest trail Log #26: Microsoft Edition

There wasn’t much forward movement on the Quest this week as my day job tended to take up all my time. I did add some disk to my Windows Home Server and began ripping some DVDs and moving other files to it. The only software update was a very minor update to iPhoto.
On the [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #25: WHS Edition

It was a week of Windows and Windows Home Server. I set up the UPS on the WHS. Then I did a factory reset due to some problems I was experiencing. After the factory reset things improved. No more sever power-offs and access from my Macs was problem free. So I then took the [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #24: Hardware and Software Updates Edition

Another busy week on the OS Quest but a lot of it felt like running in place due to the continued onslaught of software updates. The big updates, at least based on size and time, were OS X 10.5.2 and the follow-up Leopard Graphics Update. There were two other big updates, based on the [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #23: Update Edition

It’s been two weeks since the last trail log and pretty much all that’s happened on the quest is a bunch of software updates. I won’t bother mentioning them all again or linking to the posts. Clicking the previous post link down at the bottom of each post will scroll you through them if [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #22: Abridged Edition

This week’s Quest included progress in the Ubuntu Server series with articles on setting up iptables and getting comfortable with Ubuntu. So now I’m at the point where I can start installing the server software. MySQL will be first up. I also started down the Windows Home Server path and I’ve been looking at some [...]

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