Windows Server Fun
Man, school work has been hammering me so far this quarter. I've never in my life been as busy with homework and studying as I have now - and that's partly my excuse for taking so long to make a new post :).
Sometime last quarter, I started work on a project for a competition called ImagineCup (check out the link for details). I'm working with 3 other UW CSE students and I recently had the chance to setup a Windows 2003 server to use for our project. I've done a little bit of server configuration during my MS internships, but after playing with FreeBSD for a while, you learn to appreciate what Microsoft provides to make an administrator's job easier. One of the things I had to do in order to get our special server software to work was to set up a domain controller - yeah, I didn't know what that was either. A quick google search showed us how to start the installation, but it was all very easy to set up after that, even though I had no idea what I was doing!
One thing, however, that I've learned from both this server setup task as well as my MS internships - avoid complicated Beta software like the plague (in this particular case, I'm being haunted by the Microsoft's Team Foundation Server for Visual Studio development)! You'll live a much simpler and more peaceable life this way :).
Short post, but I have networking homework that I need to do today...simulating reliable communication via the unreliable UDP communication protocol - good times.
Sometime last quarter, I started work on a project for a competition called ImagineCup (check out the link for details). I'm working with 3 other UW CSE students and I recently had the chance to setup a Windows 2003 server to use for our project. I've done a little bit of server configuration during my MS internships, but after playing with FreeBSD for a while, you learn to appreciate what Microsoft provides to make an administrator's job easier. One of the things I had to do in order to get our special server software to work was to set up a domain controller - yeah, I didn't know what that was either. A quick google search showed us how to start the installation, but it was all very easy to set up after that, even though I had no idea what I was doing!
One thing, however, that I've learned from both this server setup task as well as my MS internships - avoid complicated Beta software like the plague (in this particular case, I'm being haunted by the Microsoft's Team Foundation Server for Visual Studio development)! You'll live a much simpler and more peaceable life this way :).
Short post, but I have networking homework that I need to do today...simulating reliable communication via the unreliable UDP communication protocol - good times.
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