Through a modern tech student's eyes

Windows Home Server. This is a new product announced at CES 2007 that will be released sometime this year...or so they say. Anyway, it'll basically be a lower powered computer that you would leave turned on at all times

• Automatically seeks out and backs up all PCs on your home network
• Data redundancy to protect against a hard drive crash
• Data centralization, which means all the hard drive space will show up in one central location, even if you add/remove hard drives
• Remote management (you log in remotely to change settings)
• Remote file access anywhere you have an internet connection (comes with a domain name, something like lastname.microsoft.com to access your files)
• Health monitoring (tells you if any PCs on your network have virus scanning turned off, are not fully updated, etc...)

Those are the highlights Microsoft announced thus far. Hopefully they announce some cool new features and make it dirt cheap. Overall, it seems like it has the potential to be a very useful product for any household with multiple PCs and digital media they want backed up!

Labels: microsoft, preview, server

Well, break was pretty sweet. My girlfriend actually got me an Xbox 360! That's been consuming a decent portion of my time! Going to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl was also a very cool experience, and if you've never seen Bourbon Street, you should make the trip (I recommend you go after you're 21 though).

Also, I actually go to see pretty much my entire family at one time or another, so that was pretty nice for a change!

Well, now that I'm back in the Haute, I have to return to the "real-world" of hw and going to class. It's sort of annoying, but this quarter is already half way over! We actually schedule classes for next quarter in a few days. I'm strongly considering overloading again so that my senior year can be very light class-wise; I'll be busy enough with recruiting and enjoying my last year of undergrad.

On a more sour note, I traded some gift cards on www.cardavenue.com and still haven't received the other persons cards. However, I'm optimistic because their feedback seems legit; so, maybe they're just on vacation or something weird is going on. That said, my other trades went very smoothly.

Well, that's all for now, I need to check out updates on MacWorld and CES...

Labels: family, gift cards, new orleans, Terre Haute, vacation