Iomega NAS Setup

I got our new NAS Drive out of the box. It's a bit bigger than I expected, but still about 18X smaller (literally) than what we are currently using.

I started by setting up a restore point, just in case. Then I followed the 'Quick Start' quide to a 'T'. At the very end of setup, the install sent me online to register the Hardware. Registered, Done. But - the installation window hungs. Ugh. Then, still following the Quick Start guide, I double-clicked on the Discovery Tool icon on the desktop. This opened a small window that appeared to be searching my network for drives, and it looked like it found the new one, except then that window hung as well. Ugh. Then - just to add insult to injury, the whole system hung and I could do nothing but hard-reset my machine.

After the reset and reboot, I chose to do the system restore and try again. Done. Re-ran the CD software and it installed fine. This installed the Discovery Tool and the EMC Retrospect software on my machine. On this turn, I also registered the software (having already registered the hardware on the first attempt).

I've been working as an IT Administrator and Network Adminstrator at my job, so with the networking knowledge I gained there, I was able to get my new drive setup without using the Discovery tool. Now that it is setup and I have access, I then go through the creation of Shares and am now in the process of copying our data over. This could take a while.

Meanwhile, I'm looking into the backup software. I am required to map a network drive so that when I run the backup software, I can set the destination to a 'backups' share I created on the new NAS drive. Now I've setup the software to run backups on my machine.

Next, I need to setup the other computers in the house to do the same.

And Finally - uninstall the Discovery tool because I do not need it.

New Network Hardware

We have received some new network hardware here at our house. An Iomega Reconditioned Home Network Hard Drive Ethernet 500GB. It's a NAS drive that will be used for network storage of pictures, music, data, software and anything else that needs to be stored.

More importantly, it comes with EMC backup software which I am really excited about to backup our computers, and backup the data drive to an external drive. This should provide us with significant peace of mind.

Currently, (before this new drive) we are using a computer from about 1908 (or a little later than that) for our storage purposes. I installed FreeNAS and, despite a semi-difficult installation and setup, it has worked really well for us. It was just time to upgrade.

The box arrived today and I'll bust it open and see what I find.

Obama says: "Good Job Obama"

I'm taking issue after reading this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35437078/ns/politics-white_house/

On 2 points: #1 - Obama is praising himself, and #2 - All the claims are based on 'what might have been'.

#1 - Is there anything more disgusting than someone talking about how awesome they are?

#2 - "One year later, it is largely thanks to the recovery act that a second depression is no longer a possibility," Really? How do you know? Did you go into the future of the past to see what happened, then returned to the current future to tell us that?

It bothers me to see him, and any leader, make claims of such a nature. They don't know - it's all rhetoric and it bothers me. How does Obama know that a great depression would have / could have happened? He doesn't. He just uses this method of speaking to make himself look awesome <-- see point #1 above.