Home Server

My grand plans to set up a home server in the new house have gotten off to a lumpy start.

I ordered a 500GB SATA hard drive from Komplett which promptly arrived. Unfortunately, it had no leads whatsoever (fair enough, I suppose). One of the lads in work was able to pick me up a SATA power cable the same day so I figured all was good.

The reason I thought this was because I thought I had one in the house, but I didn't. I'll have to wait until we're over in Finglas to get one or buy one (wait methinks).

The biggest problem is the OS. I want to put Windows Home Server on it but I can't write it successfully to DVD. I tried numerous CD/DVD burning software but all failed & now I have 6 or so DVD coasters. The closest I got was extracting the files from the ISO & burning them to the DVD with Vista's own software but the DVD would not boot at startup.

Anyway, I'll figure it out. Only a few bits to fix.

Address

Oh, by the way our address is,

5 Glencairn Court
Leopardstown
Dublin 18

Long time no post.

Been busy with all the moving into the new house then camping last weekend. Added to that, we don't have broadband sorted yet.

Have the house nearly sorted, finished off our room last night.

Will move things around in the attic next week & have to pick up DVD shelf & clothes horse.

The excitement of it all.

We met up with ickle_tayto, blackberry_roan & pearcider for lunch in town.

Was good to see ickle_tayto after her trip to the US & haven't seen blackberry_roan in ages.

Bit more sorting on the room. Had to put some boxes in the house side passage as the room was a tip. Took down some more shelves & filled holes.

Tired now.

Don't make me laugh

As lady_bastet has mentioned, we'll be renting a house with pearcider at the end of the month.

We spent the whole weekend packing up stuff from my mum & dad's house. Amazing how much stuff one collects over the years. Massive thanks to nephster13 for all the boxes. We've offered the room to my brother because we'll be moving everything out & the room will be empty (& we'll probably be over every once in a while now).

The farce begins though on the Sandyford side in lady_bastet's mum & dad's house. We had planned to move a lot of stuff out of the room but hang on to it for storage because we have so much stuff & don't want to clutter the new house. lady_bastet just rang me, informing me that her sister has nominated the room for herself & is not moving out with her partner (so much for commitment there).

lady_bastet has always said that the room would remain hers & we're both astonished how brazen & utterly lazy (down to the atomic level) her sister is.

Photos

Flickr's slideshow is great but scales the photos to the initial size of the browser window so I recommend maximizing and refreshing.

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Brum brum miaow

Cat takes the bus...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447527&in_page_id=1770

Xbox News

Leaked then confirmed news of the features of a new update due in May for the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Also a dinky keypad for typing in Messenger chats on the way.

Beautiful photos...

http://www.viona-art.com/
http://www.nadyalev.com/

New Shiny

I ordered a sweet external hard drive off Komplett. The one I have at the moment is quite bulky so I can bring this one around with me.