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When other people host your data….

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You are at the mercy of your hosts when they hold your data.  Using an online feed reader like Bloglines or Google Reader means that someone else is backing ...

The $51 server.

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It’s been 6 months since I installed FreeNAS and it really has been like an appliance.  I back up my machine and my wife’s machine with just a few batch file...

User specific connection strings

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Steve Harmon has a good tip on how to use ASP.NET 2.0’s configSource to store connection strings in a file outside of the web.config.  You keep the user spec...