Where Enterprise Computer Networking and Video Games Meet!
Shows: The Jolly Roger Blocast: Enterprise computing At It's Best The Black Spot: Our Views On Video Games
Hosts: Mike, Mr BagHead and Randy
What did we use?
Intel BOXD945GCLF Intel Atom processor 230 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo, APEX MI-100 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply, 1Gb Kingsten, 40 GB Segate, Sony DVD drive.
Microsoft Home server
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
Microsoft Express Products
http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/
Netflix
http://www.netflix.com
Linksys WRT54G Flash
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
XBOX 360 WiFi 802.11 Antenna Mod
http://www.armorytech.com/XBOXWifi.htm
RedDawn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/plotsummary
Microsoft has recently updated the Virtual Server 2005 to add more support for Linux guest systems. MSVS 2005 is a very impressive product and deserves some testing in your lab. Now not only will Linux distributions run on MSVS2005, but Microsoft will support it.
You can install these Virtual Machine Additions components in your Linux guest operating systems to improve the following operating system capabilities:
· Guest and host synchronization for time synchronization, for heartbeat generation, and for coordinated shutdown operations
· Mouse driver
· Display driver
· SCSI hard disk emulation
The following Linux operating systems have been tested and are on the list of supported guests for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1:
Have you been thinking about learning scripting? Well if you work in IT the answer should be yes. I bought Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide by Ed Wilson a few months ago. I didn’t have a driving project so I took my time reading it.
Pros: This book starts with the basics. If you don’t know anything about scripting this is where you should start. This book walks you through the scripts and explains what each part does. The biggest pro is that you really learn scripting. $29 for a techie book is not a bad price. You can buy it at Amazon.com
Cons: Some parts were repetitive, once you have read parts there are whole sections you can skip later on in the book. Understand this is not a scripting “reference.” If you are looking to perform some specific task chances are it is not in this book.
Over all if you don’t know scripting in just a few weeks you will be writing scripts to create folder structures with corresponding global groups or a script to find double dead ends in your TradeWars 2002 game. I enjoyed it and now I have added a new skill to my IT War Chest.
What you don’t know what Trade Wars 2002 is? Well that’s for a future blog.
2005 R2 SP1:
