Thursday, December 4th, 2008
So my trusty old Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop finally really died the other night. After many many years of service the hinge snapped. It's been limping along for a while; the battery no longer works, the disk drive has been replaced, the wireless card is cracked and the track pad ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Netbooks
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Pat Helland gave an awesome keynote last week at the p&p Summit. I wasn't able to blog about it until today as he gave the same talk at TechEd in Europe yesterday. You can read the abstract here. He got through over sixty slides in an hour so this just ...
Tags: Green IT, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Which uses more power, the AeroCool Green Home Server or a 40 Watt light bulb? You guessed it, the light bulb looses.
A few hours playing with a Smart-Watt meter hooked up to my home server I came up with some power usage numbers. While idle the Home Server consumes less ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Performance, Windows Home Server
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Here's the complete list of posts so far on building a Windows Home Server. The server is built with off the shelf low power consumption components and only uses 37W when idle. It's also configured to run near silently under low server loads: Choosing the Hardware - Choosing ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
It works! So the build is complete and I have a working server. Interesting this weekend the system disk in the machine I have downstairs chose to start failing CHKDSK. WHS actually picked up on this and warned me while it was trying to backup. Restoring the disk from ...
Tags: Gotchas, Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
So now the hardware all seems to be working it's time to install Windows Home Server and any associated add-ins. More importantly there are some drivers, BIOS and operating system settings to update in order to get the best performance from your system and reduce it's power consumption. The ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Performance, Windows Home Server
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
So this isn't a blow by blow account of how to build a PC from scratch. I have tried to include any obvious gotchas that caught me out. In general I was very pleasantly surprised by the level of documentation that came with all the bits. On the left you'll ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Last week I finally caved and decided it was time to get serious about backing up the two or three PCs we have scattered around the house. Backups and the desire to stream my digital music to the living room made me think it was time to get some sort ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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