LifeEssay

Google reader is greate, I use it every day. but there are 2 things I think they have missed.

First is “duplicate item remover/filter”, many RSS feeds generate duplicate items, like google news…. that was really sucks, it will generate many many duplicate item for every item.

The second is “keyword filter”, there so many RSS items, we may want to skip some item or some of them we don’t want to see, coz they are disgusting

and I have try some 3rd party rss filter service, none of them satisfied me. 囧

For many reasons we may want keep old machines running,  for people don’t use linux, they may thought: xp or server 2003? when they ask friends/bbs mostly people will told: windows server 2003 is much more stable! coz its server OS/core , etc..

This time I put a old pc with PIII 600E, 384M RAM into a print/scan server. It’s chipset is VIA PRO133A. While the printer/scanner is HP 3030 All in one.

At first, I setup a windows server 2003, and then bad things happen, I can only install printer driver but the computer did not “found” the scanner, I test the hp 3030 with other xp/2003 machines and the scanner did work.

In the end, I setup a XP and the scanner finally worked.

I think the reson for this is first the purpose of each OS was different and XP was born early than server 2003,

XP will more consider low config computers/PCs (PIII 600 was the “mainstream” CPU in year 2000/2001)

Also, like VIA chipset based computers,  hardly you can find in server aera. right? maybe this is a incompatibility problem.

We bought a Linksys WAP4400N for the new office. I checked before buy it.

But I missed one thing, it only support one radius server. (we are using WPA2-Enterprise security mode) with no redundant radius server, our network will die if the radius server fail.

When I called Linksys’s support line, they email me back saying : It is a product for small company only, so it will support only 1 radius server. and they advice me to search other “proper” product from linksys.

Hard to believe a “Business” line product support only 1 radius server (they also have “home” product line).  At least, they should mention that in the datasheet. How sneaky they are!

edit @Nov 10, I have rejected this AP, for the connection interrupt randomly and we can’t find a solution. also I found some posts on linksysinfo.org claiming they had the same problem.

Freenas,openfiler,naslite,windows 2003 storage server - who is the most popular one? let’s see google trends:

as you can see, its FreeNAS.

and who and where like FreeNAS most: