Pedro Innecco

I was quite happy to see in the news today that Brazil tops the world rank of countries asking Google to remove content (Reuters) (Google Blog).

Right now one might be wondering if I am a fascist or a communist, or some sort of enemy of the free world. No, not at all. In fact on the contrary.
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I’ve been watching the development of Office Live since it became available as a beta (and I able to join in), and I always had hopes that the product would get better in time. However, I am sad to think that I am probably wrong and this product is at a dead end, offering no differential/competitive advantage over other products out there.

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Back in 2002, I ventured myself into the wonders of open source Content Management System (CMS). Being a former SysOp for two Bulletin Board Systems during the mid-nineties, I was extremely excited with the prospects of what could be built using free tools to create dynamic and rich web portals – the web was finally making sense, I thought! However, a lot changed since 2002, and it seems that the open source Content Management Systems are lost in the plot.
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I read a few weeks ago in some of the Windows Home Server forums that some enthusiasts are trying to install Linux on a HP MediaSmart server. While I do find it to be a quite interesting exercise, I fail to see the benefits of replacing Windows Home Server with a copy of Linux, particularly since HP has their own Linux-based home servers, plus it would be probably cheaper to build a custom one.

On a personal note, I rather like the idea of having a Windows-based server at home. But I do miss having the ability to play with Linux hacks. So I was thinking what I could do to have Linux as an option at home when I came with a solution where I could have both Windows Home Server and Linux on my MediaSmart server running at the same time: Virtual Server.

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If you are into IT, you probably heard the news that Gartner, the big USA research and advisory company recently warned the industry in a conference that Windows is in danger of collapsing. A bold statement, and once you read Gartner’s argument, it can give the impression to neophyte readers that it is a smart and throughfully researched argument. Well, not really.
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So you consider yourself a hardcore IT techie. There is no computer issue so far that you couldn’t sort.
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The HP MediaSmart server [470 and 475 models] comes with some handy add-ons, such as the iTunes server (for those who have an iPod) and an addition to the web server called Photo Webshare, which allow users to create and share pictures through the web, straight from their Windows Home Server (WHS). Sounds cool, right? Well, not for me it doesn’t.

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Feeling like getting a Windows Home Server (WHS)? I must say, the product really rocks! Well at least in theory. In practice, the product has been overwhelmed with bugs. I am not only talking about the well known data corruption issue. There are other issues that could really drive you nuts. I’ve been using the WHS without any issues so far, but that is because I am only making use of 40% of what I originally wanted to do with it.

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I have been eagerly waiting for the Wireless-N standard to be rectified so I can finally change my home router for a new one. I must say that during the years I had enough of Linksys routers. Although owned by CISCO, I’ve been quite disappointed with the level of features provided by my WAG54G router. However, while browsing www.linksysinfo.org I found about two quite useful configuration pages which seem to be ‘hidden’ in the router. In particular, there is a page to configure DHCP reservation; a feature that I’ve been missing badly!

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If you are using Enterprise Search for a network location accessible through webDAV, you will find that clicking on search results will try to open the results in Internet Explorer. Here is a quick method to add an option for users to open links as Web
Folders.

NOTE1: This only works in Internet Explorer 5 or above
NOTE2: You will need SharePoint Designer for this tutorial
NOTE3: You must have a knowledge of html (understand tags, elements and attributes)

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