Tag Archives: Windows

It lives!

Posted by on 11 June 2010 No comments

Well the semester is over and again I find that I have time for blogging.  I’ve made some changes to the blog that I hope will increase the readability for my 0 readers.  I’ve changed the theme to something a little easier on the eyes, and I’ve also added some HTML 5 tags and enabled search engine indexing.  Not really sure how or why that was ever turned off, but I expect to see some google spam traffic soon.  But if I really want to see any traffic at all, I need to start writing content more often! Might start with some stuff about my server and Ubuntu 10.04… my honeymoon with Windows Server 2008 R2 is over and I’ve come to find it very painful to work with.

This summer is looking to be a good one for tech.  I’m going to build my girlfriend a computer, and I might also build one for my roommate.  If I get a job, I’ll be building one for myself as well!  But first I need to actually find a job…

In the mean time I’ve been dedicating far too much time to my garden.  I’ve planted spinach and they are doing really well.  Unfortunately, none of my other seeds have germinated yet.  Also I’ve currently killed 5 of 6 strawberries.  I might deviate from the normal ‘technology’ topic and post a little about geeky gardening.  I think spinach was a great choice to plant, and I’m glad that it’s doing well, because spinach can go in just about anything.

Atom Server Complete

Posted by on 29 March 2010 No comments

So after some painstaking construction and setup and configuration I finally got my Atom server up.  Now originally I was going to show people how to build a computer using that setup, however I realized that the computer had a preinstalled power supply, a preinstalled CPU, and all it really was was putting in the RAM and connecting everything together.  So while I still may do a guide on how to build a computer using that machine, I think my main guide will use either my Dell XPS or my second hand PC.

The final hardware configuration (and links to sites where I purchased material) is as follows:

The online prices have changed, but I think the total cost to me was about $180.

I got Windows Server 2008 R2 setup, and I’ll be posting a guide on how I made a bootable USB. Here is a screenshot of proof that I finally got it working!

Atom Windows ServerStill not sure if I am going to stick with Windows Server.  I may switch to Windows Home Server, or maybe just over to Ubuntu Server 10.4 when released.