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When I had my recent Macintosh misadventure, I determined once again to banish Windows from my beloved iMac.

I'm not entirely sure why my iMac's web camera suddenly died, nor what made it come back to life.

But I remembered my original intention to keep my Macintosh "pure."

I removed VMWare Fusion & Windows RC1, etc. I rarely remembered to use the Virtual Machines anyway.

The Mac & PCs will not share centralized data storage.

The PCs will use the Windows Home Server. The Mac will us… Continue

The apparent death of my Macintosh’s web camera has set me to thinking again.

It is time to simplify my computer life.

I will concentrate on the Macintosh for awhile.

That includes getting the Macintosh back to full working order first.

Then I will add 2 new 1 TB hard drives. One will be for my projects. The other will be for backups.

I will buy a new External Firewire case that will have RAID 1 for automatic backup of my data.

My Windows Home Server project will be placed on hold.

I will… Continue

I've grown tired of all the mass postings by people who've entered various contests, etc.

I know some people or organizations have requested that people make multiple posts in order to qualify for winning a prize.

I don't have the time or patience to look at all those multiple posts.

They're almost as bad as the posts where someone tells us what they had to eat for lunch, or when they had a "bodily function."

These multiple posts are another thing that have been known to overburden Twitter a… Continue

I recently obtained the following book:

Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life, by Rick Hamilton.

I skimmed through the book because I've already been working with Windows Home Server for a few weeks.

From what I saw, this book is an excellent choice for someone who's thinking of installing Windows Home Server, or someone who's just begun.

The book covers many aspects of using Windows Home Server. That includes the considerations and strategy that you might want to adopt… Continue

I've recently preordered 2 copies of Windows 7. They won't arrive till after October 22.

I've been running Windows 7 RC1 on an old socket-939 computer (The Microfly computer).

That computer is only used for "multimedia." That mainly consists of watching my Hulu shows & Netflix online videos.

The monitor is a 22" LCD TV, in VGA mode. I'm not entirely satisfied with the resolution.

I finally decided to install Windows 7 RC1 on my quad-core Beast PC.

I had hesitated to make the change beca… Continue