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2006-02-16Windows Home Server EditionGeek News Central Revealing Links & Useful Technical Information. [from 2005-02-02: now that's slow cooking] This is one of the Scoble links on the idea of a Windows Home Server. Rick Hallihan's Blobservation is the original source, and it provides a detailed breakdown of the concept. On first notice, this is a device only a geek could love. My basic reaction is, how can this work without having an MCSE in the house? Then I begin to think that I should adopt a systems view and use Rick and Todd's ideas simply to confirm that there is technical feasibility in terms of the pricing and packaging of low cost servers (once someone figures out the Windows licensing issues). Scoble's own lust for a household backup server also indicates something about the entry level. I have two things that matter to me in this scenario. First, I am about to have one computer too many when Blocco arrives and I have a true migrant system that needs to carry my digital life with me and also synchronize when I am disconnected from Centrale, my household net. This raises some sort of Peer-to-peer problem for me. I want access to centrale, but I don't want to open centrale to the internet. So I need an intermediary point and I should be able to have one (I have a couple of hosted web sites with FTP access and also FrontPage extensions.) This should let me do something like a web-services game that puts handshake and presence information where I can get it from the outside and I can also provide my own presence. It is interesting how this makes me wonder about Jabber and other protocols that require presence arrangements. But that is thinking too low. I think the small ideas are there. What I am keen about is the systems view and the abstracted requirements so that we understand the use case without the geek factor. Then maybe there is an organization of small ideas. The thinking small case is as follows: One of the people I always need to collaborate with is myself, and that leaves shared resources still shared with others (e.g., others on my household LAN). But the key thing is collaborating with myself in my different presences (not to mention different personae). |
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