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Geeky rants, raves, and random thoughts from Charlie Kindel...

The Four Rules of Firearm Safety
  1. All guns are always loaded.
  2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
  3. Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are on the target.
  4. Be sure of your target and the backstop beyond.

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Back on Twitter
On April 4, 2007 I got on twitter to check it out. I didn’t see the value and bailed. Then in June of 2008 I gave it another try .  At that time I was using @ckindel and I bounced between it being private and public.  My use of twitter finally...
Windows Home Server makes for a happy family
Once again the most amazing consumer product Microsoft has ever created, Windows Home Server , has saved my family [disclaimer] . Today I was in a meeting and I got a text message from my 15 year old daughter. It read (spelling and txt errors verbatim...
The Wicked Witch Is Dead!
From the Windows Home Server Team Blog : The team is pleased to announce that Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center! This update fixes the data corruption bug that...
Windows Home Server is actually useful!
Today, instead of being the GM for Windows Home Server, I was simply a user... For the last two weeks my wife has been giving me the gears because the voicemail attachements from Vonage refused to play in Outlook on her computer. It was one of those weird...
The connections are eerie
Via my regular browsing of blog searches for Windows Home Server related stuff I came across this poor guy's extremely sad story of data loss. http://adams-allegory.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-lost-everything.html First connection: He should have had...
A revolution is underway
Soma's post announcing Popfly got me thinking. He uses the word "evolution". I say it's a revolution. Over 25 years ago I was part of a movement in the computer industry and didn't even realize it. I was just a kid doing things on my Apple ][ I didn't...
Windows Home Server SDK
See my post over on the Windows Home Server team blog announcing the availabilty of the Windows Home Server SDK!
Stop Digital Amnesia
Stop Digital Amnesia SWAG Originally uploaded by ckindel . Have you checked out www.stopdigitalamnesia.com yet? We put this website together as a teaser for our announcement of Windows Home Server at CES. It is funny and informational! This photo is of...
More photos from Africa
Air Originally uploaded by ckindel . I'm now about 1/3 of the way through organizing and filtering the over 4000 photos we took in Africa. I still haven't geo tagged any, but I appreicate the pointers I have gotten from people on good tools to use. Click...
Using WHS Computer Backup to upgrade a PC
This morning I used Windows Home Server's Compter Backup capability to “upgrade” my main workstation's HDD. Here's how I did it... My main PC at home has a 60GB WD Raptor 10k RPM drive in it. For some reason that escapes me, long...
Where I answer "why not"...
FYI: I just posted a lengthy post titled “ Why Doesn't Windows Home Server do Foo ?” over on the Windows Home Server Team Blog.
Windows Home Server team blog
My team (the Windows Home Server team) now has a blog . Here's the abstract for this new blog. This blog is managed by the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft. Our goal with the blog is to educate and inform families with multiple PCs about how Windows...
Visual Studio Express and Windows Home Server
Dan Fernandez is the lead product manager for Visual Studio Express . He just blogged about developing tools and applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio. + As I mentioned in my Channel9 video I'm super excited that WHS is going to enable...
Direct support in Vista for Nikon file format
http://www.nikonimglib.com/nefcodec/ This is very cool! We have both a Nikon D-50 and a D-80 and I've never bothered with RAW images because of the fact that only the Nikon tools work. And I've never really liked the Nikon tools, instead preferring Microsoft...
Posted: Jan 26 2007, 06:52 PM by charlie | with 4 comment(s)
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Matt Pietrek & Windows Home Server
I just noticed that Matt Pietrek has been blogging about his experience playing with Windows Home Server . Matt is one of the many MS employees who have been Dogfooding the product for a while.
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