Kindel Systems

live.com is (finally!) sooo much better. Yes, I know "Google" has become a verb and it's hard to say "Live it", but the reality is Live's search results are (finally) better. Live's mapping ( http://maps.live.com ) is far superior. Better directions, better satellite imaging...

Back before the invention of the printing press my great, great, great grandfather came to the United States from Bavaria. His name was August Kindl. At Ellis Island the immigration officials added the 'e'...hence my family's name. We pronounce it Kindl.  Not Kind-el. Kindl translates...

Late last year I "discovered" Karl Schroeder when I read Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga . Recently he released the 2nd book of this series titled Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga and I finished it this weekend. Like the first book I thoroughly enjoyed it. Like the first book, I found a...

I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say " Blade Runner ". No need for me to wax poetic about how great it is. I mean it has been around for 25 years now...

09-22-02 107.jpg Originally uploaded by ckindel I just updated my Windows Home Server with Ed Halloway's PhotoSync Beta 2 . This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server are automatically published to your Flickr account...

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 realize I had no business doing. I was a hobbyist...

See my post over on the Windows Home Server team blog announcing the availabilty of the Windows Home Server SDK!

I'm getting old and I think some of this newfangled technology stuff is beyond me. But that doesn't stop me from trying to understand (and use it). I learn by doing. I can't learn by reading. So I started blogging mostly to learn how blogs and blogging really worked. I run 6 servers in my house so I...

There are few things cooler than this. Ever. I want one of these. Wow. http://jet-man.com/playervideo.swf?video=jetman2007.flv

Until OEMs ship Windows Home Server hardware the only way to run Windows Home Server is on a machine you provide. The hardware requirements are pretty meager: An x86 CPU with roughly the same horsepower as a 1GHz Pentium III. It will actually run on less (I had it running on an old 550MHz Pentium III...