A little over an hour later, I had my own WHS Mac Mini! The little apple icon is a nice final touch.

After my performance tests, my HP MediaSmart can transfer a 4.1 GB file in aprox 72 secs. When transferring from my HP MMS to my Mac, it took 188 secs for the same file. Comes in 20 secs slower than my MCE 2005 computer and over 2x slower than my HP MMSs.

Not bad for a non-7200 rpm drive.

EDIT:

After getting WHS up and running, I’ve since installed Apple’s Bonjour (for FireFly), FireFly, FireFly WHS Add-In and PP Beta 1. I also setup FirePlay as the default webpage for the site to make it even more music friendly. I might also install Media Player 11 on it to make it XBox 360 streamable with screenshots of video clips. (No other software seems to be able to produce thumbnails of videos except for WMP11 and Zune)

I then decided to try and re-image it back onto a VM running on my HP MediaSmart server. I created an XP Home default VM with 768 megs of RAM and an 80 gig drive. I used Nero to make my Ghost 2002 (I need to get 2003 to write to NTFS) boot disk, then I used nrg2iso to create an iso out of it to mount using VMware Server (free version). I also created a blank FAT32 VM Drive using a Windows XP VM. I copied my Ghost Images off my network onto the FAT32 VM disk that will be used to recover from. I added this FAT32 VM Drive to the HP MediaSmart VM that I will boot from using the Ghost ISO Image.

After booting up the new HP MediaSmart VM, I get to Ghost and do a Drive from Image and point to my ghost images on my FAT32 VM Drive. This is the worst part of the imaging, Ghost for some reason was writing increadibly slow, about 1 megs every 1-2 seconds so the Image took about 45-50 mins to complete.

After it was complete, I made a backup of the VM as I didn’t want to go through that again if it screwed up. I booted the VM and all was well except… once you login the system will want to activate your Windows again, but it will not use your original activation. If you choose not to activate, you will not be able to login.

Since this was going to be a test machine only, I decided to just Anti-WPA it to see if everything was going to work correctly. To do this, you must boot using safe mode (F8) with No network. I once again added another VM drive that had the Anti-WPA program on it, ran it, and let it register its dll. I then rebooted, logged it and everything was fine. You get a log in the event viewer saying Windows isn’t activated yet but that is it. I also had to turn off one of HP’s Health Monitoring services, which monitored the fans, heat etc. Once you do that the errors won’t report anymore and the console will show Good health. No Activation shield errors or anything.

I now had a perfectly working copy of my HP MediaSmart system in a VM! I plan on running most of my test applications on the VM and using the HP for my true file/backup server. This way if I screw something up I can just restore to a snap shot and continue on.

BTW, my HP MSS has the 2 gig RAM upgrade so I can easily run the other server virtualized.

“However, the manufacturers also fought back. They sued the State of California, and in 2003 California lifted the ZEV requirement. GM promptly canceled the EV1 program, rounded up all the EV1s, and crushed them.”

Quoted from Think or Thwim.

This is a great documentary that details the life of the EV. It is currently available from Amazon Unbox for $8.99 to buy it.

Part 1

Part 2

Damn, Sarah Silverman is hot!

There is a download that allows drag and dropping files directly into your SkyDrive. I haven’t tried this yet.

The only problem now is everytime I “restore” the firmware it errors out 1015 I think and I need to use iBrickr to reboot the phone and it is fine. I believe it has something to do with being a newest baseband or something… either way I can live with that for now since I never restore my phone and hopefully the full 2.0 will fix it.