MajorAap.com – A personal blog by Aprazeth

E-mail is back up and running at work. I wish I could say the same for my internet-connection at home. It’s since Sunday that I haven’t had a single moment of internet connection anymore. Kind of suspicious that the connection dropped out on Sunday-evening. Hmm…

In other news, I started cleaning up the place – starting with the bathroom and one of the toilets. And yes it does make a big difference… Let’s hope it catches on with the others and that they pick it up as well. We will see how it goes.

Ever since yesterday the mailserver at work has been down, and as such we are now unable to receive mail. In addition to that, I don’t have access to my tasks, reminders, appointments, and a lot of information. It’s at times like these that we realize how dependant we are on certain technology.

In the mean time my colleagues are hard at work at fixing the issues and bringing the mailserver back online as soon as possible. I however am working on a SBS-server and finalizing that setup. I must admit that it’s running smoothly :) 

Later tonight I might be able to squeeze some time in for my Windows Home Server rig. Long overdue as well.

Friday I had a good time with a friend as we watched a couple of DVD’s. Saturday I met up with another friend in Rotterdam and went for a few drinks, a snack and the movie Hot Fuzz (which I highly recommend BTW) It ended up being 1 AM in the morning when I got home.

Sunday I wasn’t feel that super, but was cheered up with some DVD’s and a nice visit :) Monday I had a walk out on the grasslands (or as we Dutchies call it; de hei)

After that I had a good night’s sleep. I somehow managed to squeeze in a batch of the laundry, and requested an appointment to be made for some trash to be collected at my place. As soon as that’s done the place should straighten out a bit more. Asides that I don’t have a lot to tell.

Take care all!

Really. But, I do have a new jacket and a new perfume…

Eck. I hate going to the dentist, but I must admit that the current one I have is pretty relaxing and informative. Apart from that I guess I had an uneventfull day.

Just a decisive moment… but that’s a bit private ;)

Today I also started work on a new server for a customer of ours. It’s a small business which will utilize dedicated hosted mail and office evironment services, as offered by Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2. Great stuff and really eases through the installation. However, I did notice a few quirks;

• The installation didn’t take to kindly when I changed the drive-letter of the DVD/CDROM drive.
• R2 technologies CD had to be manually installed (as in, I received no warning to insert th 6th CD)
• Manage your server interface could be a lot easier and clearier

Apart from those gripes it’s a great feat. We chose the DELL PowerEdge 840, combined with an Adaptec 1220 as the hardware solution (RAID 1 solution; with sufficient room to expand towards more hard-disks and more advanced RAID-controllers) Server itself is pretty complete setup and looks great. I think we might have a winner :)

I also would like to express my love and appreciation of companies that allow you to use their online services, thus saving me (and them!) valuable time and money. And yes this is related to my dentist appointment ;) Oh well, I better get to my study (driver’s license thingy and such :))

Catch you all laters!