The whole point of home server is that you connect to it like a appliance over a http connection. So it should run with no display.
Although when setting it up you do need a monitor :( What I like about home server is the automatic backup and one drive/many drives feature. Basically you can throw in 5 drives and they come up as one big drive. You can also RAID it but home server makes that really easy for you to setup. Its all a bit like one of these - http://www.drobo.com/ Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [ x ] private; [ ] ask first; [ ] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +44 (0)2080083965 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods Sent: 13 June 2007 16:25 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Windows Home Server RC1 available for download >From the screens it looks like it has all the same "innovations" as Vista does >- heavier reliance on graphics acceleration (my server's running with a PCI >Voodoo 3 3000 in it... One of the last cards I ever bought with a fanless >heatsink!) and it's only got a 1.5ghz Athlon in it. WS2003 runs nicely, it >boots in an alright time considering the amount of services it's running and >it's an interface I'm far more familiar with both in terms of general daily >usage and administration. I bet it's a right pain getting to grips with WHS if >you're used to the familiar layout of the 2000/XP design. Old dog, new tricks and all that. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 June 2007 15:29 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Windows Home Server RC1 available for > download > > WHS is built ontop of Windows 2003 Small Business and you can remote > desktop into it the same you would with a normal server. You then > have the added support the backup built in. > > Just downloaded the RC, just need some harddrives now. > > On 13/06/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've both accepted and done it for quite a few years now. > Just makes sense. > > > > An old Xbox with XBMC on it makes a cracking media centre > machine, and > > hell, I had so many computer bits lying around I just > bunged together > > an old server and slapped WS2003 on it (OS provided gratis > by my Uni!) > > I know many aren't quite as inclined as I am to have more than one > > computer in their house, never mind one which is running > headless and > > has to be adminned via remote desktop, but with the advent > of little > > gadgets like the Drobo from datarobotics.com (think simplified > > best-of-both-worlds NAS/RAID which you can just plug into > any device > > that'll support USB Mass Storage - including that new > Netgear with the > > USB port, giving you huge amounts of networked storage > without another PC!) we're on the cusp of something very cool. > > > > Obviously MS are pushing people to do this, and I suppose > Apple are as > > well (and they have some cool new innovations for dotmac tie-ins > > including intelligent, self-discovering filesharing across several > > WANs in the Finder). It just makes sense really, doesn't > it? That new > > Asus router which has the integrated harddrive and can carry on > > bittorrenting whilst your PC is turned off, now I like that > (wouldn't > > mind getting my mitts on a unit, > > too!) It's when those kinda bits of hardware come into the > £100-£150 > > range when we'll see mass adoption, combined with n-spec > wifi for HD > > streaming, and then it'll be all about networked media access. > > > > I applied for the WHS RC1 beta, not sure if I'll receive a > key for it > > though > > - and I doubt I'd want to replace WS2003 with it on my server. It > > doesn't look tweakable enough. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ian Forrester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 13 June 2007 14:31 > > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > > Subject: [backstage] Windows Home Server RC1 available > for download > > > > > > From Engadget > > > > > > Microsoft has just announced a tasty banana for all you > code monkeys > > > out there, in the form of the first publicly available download > > > (well, for non-beta testers at least) of the widely anticipated > > > Windows Home Server operating system. > > > Release Candidate 1, as this build is known, is said to offer a > > > number of improvements over previous betas, and is the > first version > > > that participants in the Code2Fame Challenge can use to work on > > > their entries. > > > > > > http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/124341635/ > > > > > > What I find interesting is the new focus on home servers. Are we > > > finally started to accept that people will store tons of films, > > > music and pictures on there local network and use > something like the > > > AppleTV, Xbox media centre or Xbox360/PS3 to stream stuff > over the > > > network? > > > > > > Just a quick thought... > > > > > > Ian Forrester > > > > > > This e-mail is: [ x ] private; [ ] ask first; [ ] bloggable > > > > > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage > > > BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP > > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > p: +44 (0)2080083965 > > > > > > - > > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, > > > please visit > > > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > > > Unofficial list archive: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit > > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > > Unofficial list archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
