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- rejctchoir, on 01/09/2008, -3/+777My girlfriend and I networked without a firewall, and now the house is full of little home servers :(
- ellvis, on 01/09/2008, -9/+313Between this and the Bill Gates retirement video, M$ is on a roll
- 89vision, on 01/09/2008, -6/+269All the other kids make fun of me because my daddy doesn't know how to use a command prompt.
- Barnolde, on 01/09/2008, -3/+261Sharing music?!?!?!?! Is this the kind of lesson we want to be teaching our kids?
Granny belongs in jail. - Zaeyde, on 01/09/2008, -4/+255And your uncle, who smells like bark.
- hyperspaztik, on 01/09/2008, -4/+248Yeah, but now all of daddy's pr0n is exposed!
- egonSchiele, on 01/09/2008, -3/+204just be glad you didn't catch a virus, what were you thinking?
- Emused, on 01/09/2008, -1/+200Also in this series, "Horton hears a hard drive" and "Neweggs and Spam"
- Digg413, on 01/09/2008, -10/+146I thought this was very clever. No, I would never by a Microsoft Home Server, but the book is a great concept.
- DjOverEZ, on 01/09/2008, -4/+139"Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?"
Because you touch yourself at night. - egonSchiele, on 01/09/2008, -4/+137this is awesome! from the second page:
"Just so you know, Tom O'Connor does not actually have a Ph.D. He is also not actually a person. And the entire premise of this book is fictional. But on the bright side, a Windows Home Server is a real product. Perhaps you'd like to buy one!"
I must say, hats off to Microsoft for a brilliant marketing idea. I don't know what people are complaining about, it's not something to brainwash your kids. It's clearly tongue-in-cheek, and pretty brilliant at that. - kindrobot, on 01/09/2008, -1/+126Mommy..
When I click on this one folder...
It leads to another...
and another...
and another...
and another...
and 20 more after that, mommy.
Then there's pictures of you and daddy wrestling after a bath.
And then some with daddy wrestling with someone else after a bath.
Where did you see those, honey?
At school. - ProphetSix, on 01/09/2008, -5/+81I would not, could not, with a mouse
I would not, could not, in my house
I would not get a Stay-at-Home server ma'am
I would not, could not, Sam I am - ai42, on 01/09/2008, -10/+83This seriously deserves a WTF?!
- skippyoh, on 01/09/2008, -4/+75"Other kids might make fun of you for your server."
haha seriously wtf? - neio, on 01/09/2008, -2/+59It's for your daddy's huge porn collection.
- bloodytemplar, on 01/09/2008, -3/+56WHS does a few things that make it really useful.
First, it makes the whole "network management" thing really, really easy. Obviously, families with people like you and me can use Vista Ultimate and get a lot of good functionality (which I do), but WHS is aimed at the non-technical crowd.
So basically, the way it works is you turn on the server, and it comes pre-configured with a set of shares, like Photos, Videos, etc. You then install a small client on each node in the house, and through that client manage things like users, user permissions, remote access, etc. from within a very simplified interface. Once you tell it what you want, it does all of the heavy lifting for the user, including dynamic DNS and firewall configuration (assuming UPnP).
It also has some really neat storage capabilities. You can add another drive, internal or external, and it just gets "added" to the single storage pool. No drive letters needed, and no RAID configuration required. You can also set up shares so that they are guaranteed to be duplicated across multiple volumes, so in the event of a hard disk failure, nothing is lost.
Finally, the last killer feature is the automatic node backup. It uses a cluster-based incremental backup of some kind. Long story short, a full month's worth of my 40 GB laptop's nightly backups took up less than 7 GB on the server.
That was all on WHS RC1, and when it went RTM, rather than spend the money on it, I instead opted to go to Vista Ultimate from my MSDN subscription. I love the product, but as I earlier pointed out, for someone with the know-how, it doesn't provide much that you can't do on your own, so I couldn't justify the cost. And my offsite backup provider, Mozy Home, wouldn't run on it, because it's based on Windows 2003 Server, and Mozy Home won't run on a server SKU, only Mozy Pro, and I didn't want to pay that much. - burgerpocket, on 01/09/2008, -1/+49anyone else notice how the computer in the office that makes adults angry looks suspiciously like an imac?
- jtrost, on 01/09/2008, -1/+46For $5.95 I would buy this for its novelty value.
- newl, on 01/09/2008, -2/+38But this is Digg, so it must have just been a wet dream.
There, I fixed it for you. - KillerStone, on 01/09/2008, -0/+35Believe it or not Steve Jobs doesn't send you to hell if you can admit Microsoft got something right. It's okay.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+28Perhaps he should buy a vowel?
- LRE13, on 01/09/2008, -0/+27The dog peeing on the laptop was priceless too.
- Emused, on 01/09/2008, -2/+27Act now and we will include the all time classics "Jack and the BeOS","The Princess and the iPod" and finally "The Owl and the OSx", operators are standing by.
- SniperZero, on 01/09/2008, -16/+41No its because daddy is using windows for the server and not linux!
- sfrench, on 01/09/2008, -3/+27Goofus buys windows home server
Gallant installs Linux - Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+24And if you order with your credit card, we will include as a public service, "How to talk to your child about disk quotas"
- McMaster88, on 01/09/2008, -1/+21Dugg for that one line there...made my night, so epic.
- paulface12, on 01/09/2008, -0/+20Ahhh... this brings me back to when my family got our first home server. Times were simpler then... none of this quad core nonsense.
- swordedge, on 01/09/2008, -1/+20From that site...
Big people have a server at the office.
The Office is a boring place where big people go to do boring things.
Offices are why big people get grumpy and say bad words - Tiak, on 01/09/2008, -0/+19http://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Why-There-Server-House ...
Did amazon sell out?... o.O - inactive, on 01/09/2008, -1/+19Because it was made by a software company and it's about servers?
- DefaultGen, on 01/09/2008, -0/+183.5" disk.
- garvallagh, on 01/09/2008, -2/+19Why would two red headed people marry each other ?
- redfox2600, on 01/09/2008, -0/+17ISBN 13: 978-1-60530-641-6 First one to find out where Microsoft is selling this books wins at life.
- Anliz, on 01/09/2008, -11/+28Wow that was annoying to see the pics, until I realized theres arrows when you hover over the right side of the pic
- HigherLogic, on 01/09/2008, -4/+21Well then daddy will never be able to get it up....
- Emused, on 01/09/2008, -1/+17Included in this offer , a preview chapter of "Casper the Windows Scripting Host." Call now 110-512-768-1024 / no more promise
- Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+15I would not, could not in my car
I will not Sync you near or far
I would not, could not by remote
I will not Sync with my Onenote - defectDS, on 01/09/2008, -0/+15I must be the only one who remembers all of the girls in the 5th grade drawing their dogs all the same way, just like the dog in this book.
And all the boys drew everything "anime" style.
And that stupid "S" thing with the V's and |'s. Nevermind. - Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+15Not on my box, not with my Fox
Not in my car, not near not far
Not in my home, put this to tome
WinHome Server you'll Sync alone - issacg, on 01/09/2008, -4/+18That's the price you pay for not using protection.
- kevin32x, on 01/09/2008, -3/+17uncle must be Canadian
- crambo, on 01/09/2008, -9/+23When mommy told daddy she no longer liked the floppy disks, daddy went out and got himself a hardened server. Only trouble is, the new hardened server was rife with viruses and got mommy's SAN infected with some malware. Next time daddy will get mommy a network appliance and leave his floppy disks out of the whole equation.
- raybury, on 01/09/2008, -0/+13Wow, I thought this was about a family with a live-in servant before I clicked through. Weird.
- dvsbastard, on 01/09/2008, -8/+21They should do an adaptation of "Little Red Riding Hood"... and call it "Little Blue Screen of Death"... and replace the Big Bad Wolf with the Big Bad Driver...
- tyywebb, on 01/09/2008, -2/+15wtf ftw
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -2/+15This is the second funniest thing I have ever seen Microsoft make (first being MS Bob). What an awesome book for children. Love the illustrations and the uncle that smells like bark.
- simplenation, on 01/09/2008, -3/+16this might come off as a stupid question but i would appreciate if someone answered it before digging me down.
what is the point of having a Windows Home Server as opposed to a regular PC with Windows Vista Ultimate installed on it? You can do all the things this books lists i.e. share files, log on your computer remotely, etc. - Bisclavret, on 01/09/2008, -3/+15i actually want a server now. am i a tool?
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