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Weekend Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Apr 04, 2009 6:17am PDT

In my opinion, there is something fundamentally wrong if you kick off the weekend by waking up far, far earlier than you normally would on a regular old work day. Even if you have a good reason--say, because you're picking someone up from the airport.

On the plus side, I recently received some samples of the Mana Health and Mana Energy drinks--"energy for gamers"--that should help me get through the drive. I'm actually drinking the blue one, energy, as I type this. It's, well, it's an energy drink in a novelty vial. Certainly tastes better than many of the other drinks out there, at the least.

Oh, and if you have a Nintendo DS and you like Mega Man X (or Zero) and Puzzle League (or Tetris Attack or Panel de Pon) and you haven't played Henry Hatsworth, then I just want you to know that you've made me really sad. Hatsworth is good. You should try it!


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    WHS (Windows Home Server) Lovers!


    I've seen a lot of love for WHS lately.
    I've been running a Win2K3 Server at home for many years.
    I'm really intrigued by the unRAID-type storage/redundancy solution in WHS (probably its no. 1 feature), but I have a couple of questions, since real solid WHS information is a bit hard to come by, and some seems outdated (RTM information?)

    First of all, I'm not planning on buying one of those pre-made ones since I already have all the hardware I need (much better hardware too).

    You can install and run MySQL, PHP, apache, Subversion, etc. on it? Is it a huge bitch to get working? No troubles with .NET 3.5 SP1?

    What's its WINVER? 0x0502 (Win2K3 Server)?

    I have a licence for Abyss Web Server which is a pretty kickass HTTPd IMO (I like it better than apache for Win32... since it also can run ASP.NET stuff natively, and the administration is nice) and I'd really want to use that instead of craptasticular IIS or whatever is built into WHS. Could I run it on port 80?

    I also would like to run RaidenFTPD on it, since it's a very good FTP daemon and I bought a licence for that too...

    Would it get confused by two NICs? I have a 100 Mbps fiber internet connection, but I've wired a gigabit LAN here and I want to keep them separate for routing/security/performance reasons (and no firewall on the LAN).

    If you remote desktop to it, will it look pretty much like Win2K3? Or are you still limited to the console type thingy? I haven't found any clear info about this.

    Information is a bit scarce on the matter (some people say this has changed with PP1 and/or PP2, and some say it hasn't) regarding the system drive and the Landing Zone and backup of the same... Is it true that there's currently no way to backup the system drive (with all your plugins and settings and other third-party applications/daemons)? Is it also true that it's a bad idea to have a RAID1 or RAID5 array serving as the system drive/Landing Zone? You couldn't even do a DriveImage XML image of the system drive to an attached eSATA/USB/Firewire drive?

    Any limitations I should know about?
    May 02, 2009 10:14am PDT

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    Construction Menz

    I was installing some fans in my house this weekend, and while I was in the attick I noticed one of the Trusses has a huge crack going lengthwise on the entire 2x4. I mean...I could see in between the two pieces the crack was so big.

    The Truss goes up at about a 30 degree angle maybe, and goes to about waist high before the next intersection of wood.

    Does anyone have any experience in fixing this type of things? My neighbor suggested that I can use liquid nails to seal the crack, then reinforce the truss by getting some plywood, cutting it to the same angle as the truss, and nail it both to the truss and to the bottom support beam.

    I'm kind of concerned about this since the house is relatively new (2002) and I'm not sure if there is an "official" way I'm supposed to have this fixed. Help!
    Apr 06, 2009 7:15am PDT
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