travis' brain dump

Sorry if anyone who subscribes saw a reminder for my last post twice… playing with some new options and such so it tossed out a couple on the previous post. 🙂

Just finished a round of upgrades (some more to follow tomorrow) on the wordpress software and some of the plugins… pretty cool stuff coming down the pipeline.

In other news… I figured out some round-about ways of getting Nimbus MySan working on my Small Business Server. It requires a good chunk of a few hours but it’s working quite well. 🙂 (this info for all those following the whole xbox360 media center server 2003 stuff). It actually wasn’t too bad.

1. Uninstall SP2 (ignoring all the warnings *eeek*)
2. Install SP1
3. Ensure you’ve got .NET 2.0 installed
4. Install MySAN
5. Reinstall SP2
6. Reinstall all the updates hanging out there (including the .NET service packs)
7. Run MySAN and setup your drives. (make sure to give your VISTA machine exclusive rights to the drive)

The only catch is it will need for format the partition you’re intending to use, so you’ll need to backup your data first… I luckily had a drive big enough to hold all the data temporarily while I did this little manuever and now it’s working quite well… I’m currently in the middle of copying some 39,000 files over to the ipSAN drive but it’s working quite nicely without a hiccup and the stuff that has copied over already shows up in the population in media connector and in media center. 🙂

I might post up some screen shots tomorrow or something if I can find some time. I’ve been trying to get all the software for the blogsites updated, new pictures uploaded, two new sites created and manage getting my household duties completed as well. Lot’s of fun. Anyway… I’m getting the look from Amanda… it’s time for bed. 🙂