I want to post a quick update.  As some of you noticed, the site had a bit of downtime late last week.  I’m sorry that I was unable to post a notice before hand, but I had to undergo emergency server maintenance and I needed to recreate all of my websites from scratch.  In the process, I optimized everything and I hope that the site will run much faster for you.

Besides that, I want to wish all of you a happy new year and may this year shower with good fortune (and no server crashes).

I have been spending the past few weeks playing with Windows Home Server, Hyper-V virtualization, and finalizing my Windows Server 2008 beta testing.  I also have deployed a CentOS based Voice-over-IP system, created a website for work, and a whole host of fun and not-so-fun activities.  I’ve also resumed being active in the newsgroups, primarily around Vista networking and DFS-Replication.

Whats on tap in the near future?  I want to review two Linksys router firmware packages - my new all-time favorite Tomato and a new public access point firmware known as Coova.  I’m implementing Tomato at home and have used Coova as our new wireless guest portal at the office.  Second, I need to update my pfSense review - actually give a 1 year overview.  Finally, I want to discuss some of the issues with Samba and Windows Vista.

Again, I would like to thank you for visiting the site.  If you have comments, questions, etc, feel free to contact me via any of the mechanisms listed at the top of the site.