For the last couple of months all my work with Wordpress has been on a pre-built, hosted web server. I’ve always found WordPress to be a relatively straightforward application to use so when my company needed to set up some employee blog microsites I decided to build a server for it.
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In my last post I wrote about building an iSCSI-based SAN using cheap hardware and software. Now for the application layer - virtualisation! But how do we do this using cheap - or free - software?
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The last few days I’ve been planning my company’s IT strategy for the next year with our new financial year looming. Having just started with this company, I’ve walked into a role where most of the servers run either on non-server hardware or are many, many years old. However, I don’t really have the budget to replace them all. Enter virtualisation…
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If, like me, you’re running Vista full time you may be struggling to install one of the most used applications, Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. It’s pretty easy to fix - if you are struggling, here’s how I did it.
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Well, despite my anti-Vista stance a month or so ago when running the MSDN build I went out and bought the retail version of Vista Home Premium and am running it full-time on my laptop.
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I’ve just bought a Buffalo LinkStation Pro box to store all my files and it’s great.
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