Before I start - I installed Server 2003, and it’s up and running, so far so good

Anyway, I actually got some post today, although it wasn’t anything that I’ve been waiting for for about 2 weeks now, it was something that I’ve been waiting for, for about 5 days. Take that into account AND it was posted from the US (L.A in fact) and then it raises some serious issues with the Royal Mail, I mean, I know there was that postal strike not so long ago, but still, I ordered these things AFTER the strike, so surely they shouldn’t be affected by it?

It’s just annoying

So my University is part of the MSDN Academic Alliance, which basically means that I get Microsoft software for free!!

So the point of this post as I’m sure you can tell is that I’m downloading Windows Server 2003 to try out on an old PC, which only just meets the minimum system specs, but nevertheless, it’s a PC that doesn’t need to be in perfect working order all the time.

If it works it should be quite good and I’ll look at converting another PC into a server (one that has a bit more Spec’s) possibly even using Windows Home Server instead.