After a painful hard drive crash in my laptop I finally extended my home network and added a dedicated server machine with a RAID5 disk array to minimize future data loss from hard drive failure. This also allowed me to finally separate the web serving duties from my gaming rig, but it caused a couple of days of downtime for my blog while I was juggling hardware and reassembling and reinstalling the machines. Now everything is done and up and running again. And I think the only people who noticed that the blog was down were probably the comment spammers...

I installed the freely available Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Enterprise Edition on my Windows Vista machine today and noticed that the setup did not let me add the Administration Web Site for Virtual Server on a different web site than the default web site. Instead the only option was to have it added as a virtual directory to the default web site running on port 80. However, I expose the default web site to the outside world (as a matter of fact I run this blog off that machine), so I did not want to have the virtual...