Tim Higgins
This release from AirMagnet gave me a chuckle this morning. Seems it’s bad enough that putting up holiday decorations might get you reported to H.R. by those who don’t celebrate your particular holiday. But now they might also screw up your wireless LAN.
So while making your list and checking it twice, be sure to include a before and after WLAN site survey in your holiday preparations…
In his CES keynote, Bill Gates introduced the Microsoft Home Server, but didn't provide many details. Thankfully, George Ou is also at CES and did a good drilldown with the Microsofties and spills some of the beans behind what makes the product tick.
The short story is that it is based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and has a "rich" admin GUI delivered to a Windows desktop and a not-so-fancy one for the riff-raff who choose to run another OS. Windows Server 2003 also powers some of Iomega's StorCenter Pro series NASes and they ain't cheap. And when Jim Buzbee looked at the StorCenter Pro NAS 200d/320GB with REV built-in, he found that some admin functions required dropping into Windows Remote Desktop.
The trickle of news from CES 2007 has started and will soon become a flood. I’ll be in Las Vegas, ...
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