Category: Windows

Software RAID on Windows Professional

September 14, 2007 - Technology , Windows - by admin - No Comments

I was recently asked if it was possible to get software RAID functionality on Windows Professional. Although Microsoft would like you to believe otherwise, it is possible. By default, Windows 2000 and XP Professional offer RAID0 (Striping), but not any of the other RAID levels. We won’t go into the […]

iSCSI

September 3, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the […]

Windows Home Server

August 23, 2007 - Linux , Technology , Things that annoy Kyle , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Recently Linux-Watch.com ran an article on how to do the same job as Windows Home Server with Linux. It’s annoying that people, even those qualified enough to write articles on prominent websites, seem to fall victim to misunderstanding what various platforms offer.

GDATA Provider

April 2, 2007 - Computers , Internet , Technology , Windows - by admin - 2 Comments

I’ve been hunting for a decent calendaring protocol system for a while now, and been investigating ITIP, IMIP, iCal, xmlrpc, caldav, and finally WCAP. Having initially settled on WCAP, as a result of having a fairly decent plugin available for Lightning, I set about trying to find a decent Calendar […]

Linux & Active Directory

February 14, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

I used to deal with Linux in Active Directory quite a bit, especially with Winbind, Samba and Active Directory. It’s amazing how quickly things change, and I already feel as if my knowledge is atrophying at an exponential rate…