Almost for real

I am in the process of installing 7 almost for real. Still not my main box that I use full time but my secondary box that I retired when I got the new one.

This morning I decided to hook up some old speakers figuring I could use it as a music box when I was hooked up to VPN (which doesn't allow me to do much on my local network and monitors what sites I visit, etc.) and doggone if it wasn't broken big time; there were all kinds of sound driver issues and after two hours I figured they weren't going to be fixed. I can't blame XP, I bet I removed a dozen offball programs that had all sorts of weird codecs and most of them were probably trash; I didn't even remember what they did for sure.

So it's a clean install on a machine that'll get hit pretty hard with some video and audio stuff, it'll be interesting if nothing else.

And by gosh the sound better work after all of this....

Not yet. So far I've been depending entirely on the WHS backup service and otherwise I'm kinda skinny on storage lately having blown all my spare on backups of the backups on the server (whew!).

I'm thinking the same. Drive prices have certainly come down but not to the blow out level I had been looking for.

Maybe another month....

I've seen a couple, the Iomega for one, for $90 but didn't like the included hard drive.