FreeNAS seems to be making a lot of news and tech sites lately; it’s a free network attached storage operating system so you can make your own NAS box out of whatever hardware you want.  I haven’t been interested because of how great works for me, but I had a friend who needed network storage cheap as in free.

He had a Pentium III 700 MHz PC, Asus CUSI-M SiS motherboard with a 20 GB hard drive and 512 MB of RAM and a CD-ROM.  Since it had to be …

I just finished setting up my second Windows Home Server (more on that later) and went through my favourite add-ins.  This led me back to Client Info, which displays all the WMI information collected from the computer.  Unfortunately in the past I was never able to get it working: this time around I hit the links and forums and found a few suggestions.
First issue was the service failing to install.  It’s a simple batch file that adds an executable as a service and prompts you for a username and password …

I read a post today about setting up hMailServer on your Windows Home Server (WHS).  This reminded me of a lot of comments made during the beta stages of WHS when testers kept asking for a mail server like Exchange to be added to the product.  The developers responded that if you needed that feature then Small Business Server was the product for you.
I’ve used every version of Small Business Server right up until the RC1 of SBS 2008: it was the only all around server product that Microsoft offered …