Five Months of Windows
I was out of the country and as a result my Windows 10 based server was on without a reboot for months. 5 months. I was rather stressed about it as I've never tested Windows 10 that long, but it did make it. During this time it was running as the house server and running some file management programs written by Sinner Computing and yeah... I got back and it was all running fine. Explorer had crashed and but it was all fine.
(Why no auto-reboots? 'cos I've blocked them. Why? My (...)
Build a better contact
Ahhh, contact pages. I'll have to make a giant rant about this one day, but for now a small rant will suffice. I've generally tried to have one. Direct EMails are just a spam pit, even today with better spam protection. But many contact pages/forms are not much better and often they get hacked in some way. SinnerComputing still has one and it's generally not mis-used, but at the same time I think people don (...)
New NAS November
Before my storage needs exploded I used to have a server that was based on an old computer with a hard drive or two. But due to a combination of increasing photo/video file sizes and slower hard drive density the one or two drives soon became three or four, and the cases I used became a limitation. Thus in 2011 when my then server died without warning I bought my first computer intended for that purpose from the start.
Money was a bit tight at time so I got a machine (...)
