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.
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?
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…
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.
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.
I’ve just bought a Buffalo LinkStation Pro box to store all my files and it’s great.