May 5, 2011

Windows Ninja – Part 2

So while I’ve been busy setting up domains and hosting for Windows Ninja, I thought about some of the things I could do to get people to read it. So I created a Twitter page (@windowsninja), that was easy enough. Creating a Facebook page for a community/blog? I’m pretty sure a frontal lobotomy is easier. I didn’t realise Facebook could make it so complicated, or restrict some of the things you can do on Facebook if you want a page for your blog. I think I’ve had to recreate the page at least 3 times, because it keeps wanting to integrate with my personal Facebook account.

NO FACEBOOK! I DONT WANT THAT. LET ME MANAGE IT ON A DIFFERENT LOGIN! The whole “use this page as” under the account settings is bullshit. If they were merged together, my windowsninja facebook and personal, if I wrote a post on Windows Ninja, it would post it across to Facebook under my personal account. Give me a break!

I’ve had to essentially set up a Facebook account with different email addresses in a different browser just to do it. It’s almost tempting to use a second Windows install in a partition just to get away from it conflicting.

I will progress!

April 23, 2011

Windows Ninja

I spent last night, and a few hours this morning pissing about with a wordpress.com hosted blog for something I wanted to start up.  This was due for 2 reasons, I wanted to have a blog where I can put things that I learn, and share with others about Windows Desktop and Server Operating systems. But also because a site I went to regularly, sysadmingeek.com didn’t have some of the stuff I wanted to learn about. But then again, I guess sys admin and network administration are slightly different. So that’s why I ended up with Windows Ninja, I should thank Ben from leetgeek.com.au for the ninja thought. I know they are looking for a Mac Ninja.

I’m finding the wordpress.com hosting irritating though, while there are some added features on wordpress.com. There’s some stuff that limits me as to what I can do, like I do with this blog.

So I think I’ll get some more paid hosting and a domain name, and set it up properly.

April 9, 2011

WordPress updates and WHS

I think everytime I login to the site to work on a post, theres a WordPress update, plugin updates, and by the time I’ve done them I forgot what I came here for.

Currently working on a post for my Windows Home Server setup, this includes an “ikea hack”. Which I’ll post along to ikeahackers.net at some stage and see if it’s worthy.

September 22, 2010

Got myself a new pc… kinda.

I recently bought some used parts off a mate of mine cheaply to get something of an upgraded PC.

I was using the following, which will become a home server (maybe).

AMD 3800+ 64bit @ 2.4ghz
MSI K8N Neo Platinum board
2.5gb DDR2 400mhz
2 x IDE drives
Nvidia 8600GT (512mb)
500w Coolermaster PSU

I’ve moved to the following
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.0ghz
Gigabyte n680sli-dq6 board
4gb Corsair DDR2 1333mhz
1 x 500gb Seagate SATA drive
Nvidia 8800GTX
750w Coolermaster PSU.
Coolermaster RC-690 case
Thermaltake ISGC-200 CPU Cooler

I have 2 x 1tb external drives attached to the server, and I’m hoping to change the IDE drives inside to sata and fill it up for serving media to my xbox 360. I also want to add a second 500gb drive and run it as a mirror of the primary drive for backup. Then later add another 8800GTX for SLI so I have something to play with, with any luck it will make good for using Fraps for some game movies. The Coolermaster case comes with fan’s containing LED’s, which I will swap out as I’m not big on lights in my case.

At a later stage, I will be mapping out my home network with Visio and showing the devices in the network it uses.

February 28, 2010

Studybug

My Windows 7 configuration book has arrived, time to begin studying and my path to Windows 7 certification, and also my MCITP (Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional) in Enterprise Server 2008 Administration!

Certs get me more money!

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