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A trip on the Sophie C

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  Marianne and I spent Saturday in the lakes region of NH. We stopped at Weirs beach and decided to take a 2 hour tour on the Sophie C. The Sophie C is a US Mail Boat on Lake Winnipesaukee. So we actually went to several of the islands and delivered mail. They also bring something even more important on board. They bring ice cream to sell to the people on the islands!

Mike & Marianne on the sopie c

  Take a look at the beautiful view!

Lake Winnipesaukee taken from the Sophie C

Windows Home Server

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  I have always been pretty good about backing up my desktop. My laptop, however, never gets backed up. I occasionally copy important files over to my desktop, but that's it. So, after a virus and a bad sector on the hard drive made the laptop start acting up, I had to rebuild from scratch. I decided it was time to have a single backup solution that works for all of my machines. So, I bought an HP EX475 Windows Home Server. So far, I'm very happy with it. It just sits in my basement with a gigabit network connection and my machines automatically backup every night. I've only found 1 gotcha so far. It says it allows remote access to your home machines, which it does... as long as you are running Vista Ultimate. If you are running any other version of Vista, you can't remote in.

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