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Taxonomy at Home

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After reading the chapter on taxonomy governance in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry and Bill English, I started thinking about my own personal taxonomy. Taxonomy is a division into groups or categories.  A good example is a Library’s Dewey Decimal Classification. Tagging has become a popular means of classification in blogging and … Read more

How to Backup SQL Server 2005 Databases

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Backup Requirement Daily full backup, transaction log backups every 15 minutes. Files are backed up to the local filesystem. Remote backup server copies changes from the server every 15 minutes. Although not an efficient use of space, it is useful to backup to the local hard drive in case a point in time restore is … Read more

Push email.

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What’s the big deal about push email? RIM’s Blackberry and BES server, Apple’s iPhone and MobileMe service, Microsoft’s ActiveSync with Exchange all offer Push Email. That is, your phone instantly gets a notifcation of new email. I don’t get it. I don’t want my phone to tell me when I have new email. I disable … Read more

2001-06-24 21:28:00

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2001-06-24 21:28:00
2001-06-24 21:28 I set up a home network with 2 linux computers and 1 Windows computer. I had the Falcon (my fastest computer …running Linux) set to dialup and automatically masqurade the internet connections for the other two computers (no proxy server, no nothing, just plug them in and they work). Then I had my SCSI Linux server with file sharing through Samba. And the Windwos computer in the Living room. It was great. …this all lasted until mom and dad decided they didn’t want a 100ft cable running from my room to the living room. …but I still have the 2 linux computers networked. 

2001-06-09 18:58:00

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2001-06-09 18:58:00
After a few minutes and 4 reboots (Windows is dumb that way) Jason and I set up a network! 

We played Quake, transfered our files, setup a proxy server in 30 seconds (I forgot to turn it on the first time), and used VNC to pester each other. 

2001-05-12 17:47:00

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2001-05-12 17:47:00
Isaac went down again…this time only after three weeks. I’ve found the problem and I’m working on a way to prevent it from happening…but its not easy. If I watch the processes closely I can get up to a 15 second warning to kill the task before it sends the httpd daemon into an infinite unbreakable loop.