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Windows Ninja – Part 2

Alex — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:12:21 +0000

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!

Windows Ninja

Alex — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:56:12 +0000

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.

WordPress updates and WHS

Alex — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:04:35 +0000

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.

Got myself a new pc… kinda.

Alex — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:55:03 +0000

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.