Tiernans Comms Closet

So, this morning Amazon has announced that your can set the Root Object of a CloudFront distribution. this now means that you can have an index.htm file (like the front page of this blog) hosted, and tell Amazon to host that when someone goes to the main page. and since you can use a CNAME [...]

So, with the event of Amazon’s Cloud Front and RackSpace Cloud’s Cloud Files (with the backing of Limelight Networks) the world and its mother can now use cheap and cherfull CDNs for hosting images, CSS and JS files for their blogs. but what about the rest of the blog?
In theory, a blog is 99% static. [...]

So, a few days ago, i was talking with some colleagues about printers and DIY printing of your photos, and the consensus was pretty much Don’t DIY, outsource. and it started making me think about my current in-house systems, hosting, etc. so, this is the basis of what this post it about.
Current setup in house
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So, we are 2 weeks into the new year (give or take a few hours as of writing this) and i am already starting to think about upgrades… some are more likely than others… but here are my thoughts for the new year and upgrades…

Phones: So, i have had my G1 for a while now [...]

So, i have been wanting to talk about this for a couple of weeks, but never actually got around to it. In September, some time, i will be heading back to college, part time. I am going back to get my Degree, which i have wanted to do since i left Clown College and now [...]

Ok, so, this post has been delayed for quite some time. in part 1 of this series, i talked about Media. And in part 2, i talked about Photography. these where both looking forward, at what could go wrong. Well, part 3 is now looking back. The upgrade of the Mac PRo to run Win2k8Srv [...]

So, for the last few days i have been running my blogging tasks with 4 major tools: Evernote, Twitter, GTalk and IWantSandy. These are invalueable tools, which i want to talk about today and tell you how i am using them.
Evernote

Evernote is a great service for taking and hosting notes. I have it installed on [...]

Its only postponed for a few days, but i have had to postpone the move of my workstation to Windows Server 2008, and the rest of my checks on the OS, till probably next week. the reason is because this blog is now hosted on the Mac Pro, which is the workstation i am upgrading.
As [...]

So, I have done some testing with a Virtualized Win2k8 Image and found out some interesting things. Firstly, you can install Windows Media Player on your Win2k8 server by selecting Desktop Experience in the Features section of the Server Manager. Problem is that Media sharing is not enabled, and by the looks of my searching [...]

In part 1, I said I hoped most of my apps (expect for Media Sharing and Live Writer) would work in Windows Server 2008. Well, my next test is Photography software, and the big one for me is Photoshop LightRoom. And, well, it works! No problems. I haven’t done much with it, other than load [...]