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Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

gizmodo.com — "Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?" is a children's book dedicated to "Helping Your Child Understand the Stay-At-Home Server." At first we snarked at this over-the-top marketing propaganda. But then it made us crap our pants with laughter. Microsoft is Brainwashing Children!!!

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  • ellvis, on 01/09/2008, -9/+312Between this and the Bill Gates retirement video, M$ is on a roll
    • tyywebb, on 01/09/2008, -21/+9I didn't think the retirement video was that great but this is pretty awesome.
      • CSharpSauce, on 01/09/2008, -1/+10Wow, people are now burring people who insult Microsoft... :)
      • DarkSamus, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2as long as it comes with popup bsod, i'm good
    • jtrost, on 01/09/2008, -1/+46For $5.95 I would buy this for its novelty value.
      • redfox2600, on 01/09/2008, -0/+17ISBN 13: 978-1-60530-641-6 First one to find out where Microsoft is selling this books wins at life.
        • Tiak, on 01/09/2008, -0/+19http://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Why-There-Server-House ...

          Did amazon sell out?... o.O
        • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5Some one who clearly didn't get it left this comment (and a 3/6 rating) at Amazon:

          "Only a collector of Microsoft memorabilia would want to buy this book. If this sells, it will signal to advertisers worldwide that if they disguise their sales literature cleverly enough, rubes will buy it.

          That said, this book is part of a very clever $10 million ad campaign for the Windows Home Server made by HP. The book, by a fictitious psychologist, can be read in its entirely at stayathomeserver com. The site uses fake news clips and the book to promote the idea that servers aren't just office equipment, but make sense in a home that features multiple computers, Xboxes, and other networked technology."
      • davidrools, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5$59.99 in canada
    • simplenation, on 01/09/2008, -3/+16this might come off as a stupid question but i would appreciate if someone answered it before digging me down.
      what is the point of having a Windows Home Server as opposed to a regular PC with Windows Vista Ultimate installed on it? You can do all the things this books lists i.e. share files, log on your computer remotely, etc.
      • bloodytemplar, on 01/09/2008, -3/+56WHS does a few things that make it really useful.

        First, it makes the whole "network management" thing really, really easy. Obviously, families with people like you and me can use Vista Ultimate and get a lot of good functionality (which I do), but WHS is aimed at the non-technical crowd.

        So basically, the way it works is you turn on the server, and it comes pre-configured with a set of shares, like Photos, Videos, etc. You then install a small client on each node in the house, and through that client manage things like users, user permissions, remote access, etc. from within a very simplified interface. Once you tell it what you want, it does all of the heavy lifting for the user, including dynamic DNS and firewall configuration (assuming UPnP).

        It also has some really neat storage capabilities. You can add another drive, internal or external, and it just gets "added" to the single storage pool. No drive letters needed, and no RAID configuration required. You can also set up shares so that they are guaranteed to be duplicated across multiple volumes, so in the event of a hard disk failure, nothing is lost.

        Finally, the last killer feature is the automatic node backup. It uses a cluster-based incremental backup of some kind. Long story short, a full month's worth of my 40 GB laptop's nightly backups took up less than 7 GB on the server.

        That was all on WHS RC1, and when it went RTM, rather than spend the money on it, I instead opted to go to Vista Ultimate from my MSDN subscription. I love the product, but as I earlier pointed out, for someone with the know-how, it doesn't provide much that you can't do on your own, so I couldn't justify the cost. And my offsite backup provider, Mozy Home, wouldn't run on it, because it's based on Windows 2003 Server, and Mozy Home won't run on a server SKU, only Mozy Pro, and I didn't want to pay that much.
        • dshPls, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1Another thing to point out about WHS is that it's a horrible piece of *****. We have 3 computers all saving .fla files from Flash in my office, and about every hour or so we'll get a corrupted file that cannot be opened. We'll finish a project, then have to redo it. Now the only option is to drag over 500mb of files to my desktop, make 15 minutes of edits then transfer it all back. Even then I'm afraid something will get corrupted...
      • MaceSoul, on 01/09/2008, -0/+7If your computer dumps, you can be back to the previous nights status in about 30 minutes using a rescue disk. You can also remote into any computer in your house from the road, even if it's turned off (WHS will start it and shut it back down for you.)
      • BlackCow, on 01/09/2008, -3/+3Resurrect and old PC, install ubuntu server edition. Your all set. (brushing over all the configuration that makes you want to pull your hair out)

        Really, I like vista and all but who would use Vista as a server OS?!
        • olliholliday, on 01/09/2008, -1/+4read bloodytemplar's review for details.
          i can't get normal ubuntu working sufficiently well on my pc, never mind trusting my backups to an ubuntu server i've configured :)
          • krebcycle, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1really? i installed vmware in about 5 minutes, went to howtoforge, paid 5 bucks for a subscription and downloaded one of their ubunut perfect server images in a couple of minutes, downloaded a few more packages to get all the dev stuff on it i needed and i was up and running in under an hour. of course, i did pay 5 bucks to make sure i got exactly what i wanted, but there are also plenty of free images out there pre-configured if you trust the source.
      • jordn, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2also, A computer running WIndows Vista (or any other operating system for that matter) would be using a lot of power. A small box such as this, combined only with the bare essentials, would pull less than 100W on average, at full load.
    • Zera, on 01/09/2008, -10/+4How is this filed under "Tech Industry News"
      • MaceSoul, on 01/09/2008, -1/+19Because it was made by a software company and it's about servers?
    • daza, on 01/09/2008, -2/+15This is the second funniest thing I have ever seen Microsoft make (first being MS Bob). What an awesome book for children. Love the illustrations and the uncle that smells like bark.
      • michaelb1, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6I can honestly say I don't know what bark smells like and I climbed many tress as a kid.
        • Navicerts, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4Well it depends on the three but bark does indeed have a smell.
    • Charlotte_Web, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6By Tom O'Connor?

      More like by Tom O'Connor and Jose Cuervo.
    • blackbeardtron, on 01/09/2008, -0/+9And this video from Microsoft UK with Ricky Gervais from The Office.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKyV-l8i5lg
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKXz2qDTiBU&feature ...
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEOz7nxky6Y&feature ...
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdKMoFqHWA&feature ...
    • plamoni, on 01/09/2008, -15/+6If Mommy really loved Daddy, she'd have gotten him a Linux Server... The Windows Home Server just shows she doesn't respect him.
    • neotrantor, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6what about the doom video with gates from 95?
    • travbrack, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1http://www.enchantedoffice.com/
    • Ataxia87, on 01/09/2008, -0/+11 "Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?"
      "I'll tell you why Billy - It's there because I film and host my very own scheisse porn site with daddy. It's how I can afford to buy you your Wii games."
    • Nerfdude, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2was it really necessary to call it a "brainwashing book", Gizmodo? really? i know they're shoulder deep in Apple's ass, but c'mon, this is all in good fun.
  • gkrat, on 01/09/2008, -52/+9I agree. It's like hillary going after the younger crowd to win tonight....someone needs to put a stop to these "fun" campains
    • lystig, on 01/09/2008, -0/+11You're just jealous, go buy a stay-at-home server!
  • rejctchoir, on 01/09/2008, -3/+775My girlfriend and I networked without a firewall, and now the house is full of little home servers :(
    • JasonMaloney101, on 01/09/2008, -44/+9But this is Digg, so it must have just been a bad dream.
      • newl, on 01/09/2008, -2/+38But this is Digg, so it must have just been a wet dream.

        There, I fixed it for you.
        • Tiak, on 01/09/2008, -8/+2Note: While diggers are extremely unlikely to have girlfriends, they're equally unlikely to enjoy the prospect of having a bunch of little "home servers" running about from an accidental action with said girlfriend, so the original statement was valid.
    • egonSchiele, on 01/09/2008, -3/+203just be glad you didn't catch a virus, what were you thinking?
    • issacg, on 01/09/2008, -4/+18That's the price you pay for not using protection.
      • ccanni1028, on 01/09/2008, -2/+3Especially since you can get some good ones for free now if you know where to look.
      • hokie47, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6Every packet is sacred
        • reddfox321, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3If a packet is wasted, Bill gets quite irate!
    • Nudar, on 01/09/2008, -7/+5I'd digg you up but you likely stole that joke from someone else.
    • alteratti, on 01/10/2008, -1/+2Respect.
  • 89vision, on 01/09/2008, -6/+268All the other kids make fun of me because my daddy doesn't know how to use a command prompt.
    • SniperZero, on 01/09/2008, -16/+41No its because daddy is using windows for the server and not linux!
      • orlyfactor, on 01/09/2008, -6/+10Same difference....
      • ubergeek09, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2Yes they are making fun of you since your dad can't use the terminal, who uses Windows for servers anyway?
  • reepax, on 01/09/2008, -51/+11) http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/01 ...
    looks alot like the pictures going around of the last mac book pro ( one plug )

    2) http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/01 ...
    yes until the server crashes

    3) http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/01 ...
    nobody watches my lights but me!

    • KillerStone, on 01/09/2008, -0/+35Believe it or not Steve Jobs doesn't send you to hell if you can admit Microsoft got something right. It's okay.
  • Zaeyde, on 01/09/2008, -4/+254And your uncle, who smells like bark.
    • McMaster88, on 01/09/2008, -1/+21Dugg for that one line there...made my night, so epic.
    • kevin32x, on 01/09/2008, -3/+17uncle must be Canadian
      • Buzzby, on 01/09/2008, -1/+8Maple Bark?
      • starvo, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1I moved here from Canada, and they think I am a little slow, eh?

        Oh My.
    • LRE13, on 01/09/2008, -0/+27The dog peeing on the laptop was priceless too.
      • defectDS, on 01/09/2008, -0/+15I must be the only one who remembers all of the girls in the 5th grade drawing their dogs all the same way, just like the dog in this book.

        And all the boys drew everything "anime" style.

        And that stupid "S" thing with the V's and |'s. Nevermind.
        • kcdstudios, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1trogdor?

          "I said consumate V's!" (i spelt it wrong cause i don't know what it means :( )


      • blackmage439, on 01/09/2008, -6/+4Who wants to bet the machine that dog pissed on was a One Laptop Per Child computer?
        • Cupantae, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6No-one. Why would it be? That doesn't make sense
      • metalwolf, on 01/10/2008, -0/+0Hmmm....It must have been running Vista Basic.
    • merreborn, on 01/09/2008, -3/+1That's when I *knew* the book was a joke. The blurb on the back cover about pencil sharpeners helped too.

      Interestingly enough, there are a bunch of children's books on amazon by Tim O'Connor...
  • smacksaw, on 01/09/2008, -35/+7Yeah...that wasn't really worth the effort or even funny, intentionally or unintentionally.
  • Digg413, on 01/09/2008, -10/+145I thought this was very clever. No, I would never by a Microsoft Home Server, but the book is a great concept.
    • Archon810, on 01/09/2008, -16/+5perhaps you should by a dictionary instead.
      • daza, on 01/09/2008, -0/+28Perhaps he should buy a vowel?
      • Myonosken, on 01/09/2008, -5/+6I don't see what he spelt wrong? In fact, I just see your ***** grammar.
        • Bleue, on 01/09/2008, -4/+5perhaps you need to by glasses
        • EtherGnat, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Don't feel bad. I had to read it 12 times to find the error. Sleep deprivation is a horrible thing.
      • andycr512, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1I don't think it was intentional, considering the quality of the rest of the comment...
    • aldenhg, on 01/09/2008, -11/+3Yeah, the whole Windows thing kinda ruined it for me. But I'll show them - I'll build my own server... with hookers and slots!
      • Myonosken, on 01/09/2008, -1/+3Blackjack. You can do better than a slots player!
        (Double Reference Score)
    • lyl18, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Im sure glad you said that you wouldn't buy the MS software, I was surely about to digg you down!

      /diggs down
  • Anliz, on 01/09/2008, -11/+28Wow that was annoying to see the pics, until I realized theres arrows when you hover over the right side of the pic
    • neko, on 01/09/2008, -1/+8Really broken interface design.
      The arrows / thumbnails don't even show up until you've enabled javascript. And there's about five or six different domains all contributing their own JS on that page.
      • itsthebrod, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5I never thought it'd be the year 2008 and there would still be people with Javascript disabled...
        • heavyd14, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Its called noscript. Try going to a site like ESPN that runs over 9000 scripts at once.
      • reddevil3, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Ever heard of Noscript? Great for paranoid people like me...we only allow the sites we want to run javascript. And what's the point of using javascript on a gallery like that when it doesn't even load it dynamically?
  • Jenadae, on 01/09/2008, -16/+1/Facepalm
    • Karmavs, on 01/09/2008, -0/+10#Jenadae {
      age: 0; !important
      }

      just thought I'd switch away from html
      • Tiak, on 01/09/2008, -2/+5bool fail(Kamavs statement) {
        if(eval(statement)=="Misrepresenting MUD-style emotes for closing HTML tags despite the fact that only a closing tag would be meaningless in such a context.") return true;
        else assert(false);
        return false;
        }
  • cl2yp71c, on 01/09/2008, -20/+19Better convert to linux early.
    • HigherLogic, on 01/09/2008, -4/+21Well then daddy will never be able to get it up....
  • Barnolde, on 01/09/2008, -3/+260Sharing music?!?!?!?! Is this the kind of lesson we want to be teaching our kids?

    Granny belongs in jail.
    • snatchmstr, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5Of course it is. You don't want to shell out $20k so your kid can fill his ipod do you?
  • hyperspaztik, on 01/09/2008, -4/+247Yeah, but now all of daddy's pr0n is exposed!
    • asurroca, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6Exposed? He just likes to share! Pr0n for the whole family!
    • SierraAlpha, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2What does daddy want with shrimp? I don't know why you guys keep talking about prawns.
  • Metropolis, on 01/09/2008, -17/+6Now I understand! It's all so SIMPLE!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
  • ai42, on 01/09/2008, -10/+83This seriously deserves a WTF?!
    • tyywebb, on 01/09/2008, -2/+14wtf ftw
      • Archon810, on 01/09/2008, -8/+2that's an anagram.
      • MadOtaku, on 01/09/2008, -0/+9Ah, palindromes are great. "Race car" is still one of my favorites though.
        • leftler, on 01/09/2008, -0/+11Rise to vote sir
        • kevyn, on 01/09/2008, -0/+12my girlfriends name is hannah...you wouldn't believe how many people tell her she can spell her name backwards. i just call it backwards compatibility
        • Navicerts, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2@kevyn I have an odd name two, two first names; people love to point that out. My approach to to act totally surprised, pretend to think about what they said for a minute and then be like "Holy crap your right?!".
      • skabyss, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2dugg for WTF bombs
  • smurf22, on 01/09/2008, -15/+7I use my Imac as a server. I use connect360 to serve files to my xbox, and the file-sharing option for my windows computer, and mac laptop. None the less I do like the idea of a home server, but ill stick with network drives for now.
    • aDJsavedmylife, on 01/09/2008, -1/+4OH *****. I ran out of medals, sorry.
  • skippyoh, on 01/09/2008, -4/+74"Other kids might make fun of you for your server."
    haha seriously wtf?
    • Archon810, on 01/09/2008, -0/+11that's because the have a bigger harddrive.
    • nbx909, on 01/09/2008, -0/+7it's because it's a windows server and not a linux server.
    • Soofi, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1That was one of the strangest books I've seen, by the end of it I was thinking.. 'was that even real?'. Like a surreal drug trip, without the drugs, involving microsoft and kids.
  • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -1/+198Also in this series, "Horton hears a hard drive" and "Neweggs and Spam"
    • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -2/+26Act now and we will include the all time classics "Jack and the BeOS","The Princess and the iPod" and finally "The Owl and the OSx", operators are standing by.
      • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+23And if you order with your credit card, we will include as a public service, "How to talk to your child about disk quotas"
        • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -1/+16Included in this offer , a preview chapter of "Casper the Windows Scripting Host." Call now 110-512-768-1024 / no more promise
        • Myonosken, on 01/09/2008, -3/+11Epic thread.
          • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Thanks man, it was long and boring night for me,I do overnight network monitoring for a large Secure Wireless firm.When its working I can sleep (yeah right) all night, sometimes a get a bit punchy., buggy comment system, this meant to be a reply to your post only, .
        • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6Ftw.
        • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Thanks man, it was long and boring night for me,I do overnight network monitoring for a large Secure Wireless firm.When its working I can sleep (yeah right) all night, sometimes a get a bit punchy.
  • neio, on 01/09/2008, -2/+59It's for your daddy's huge porn collection.
    • Identity4, on 01/09/2008, -1/+10Well little timmy, you see; your daddy has lots of pictures he likes to keep around. He puts them on a stay-at-home-sever so that if he is away from mommy on a business trip and doesnt have enough money to buy another nice lady off the street for a few hours, he can simply log in and look at his pictures while he tugs on his fireman. :)
      • neio, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6This is going to be wrong on so many levels. Well, when mommy's and daddy's love each other very much, mommy sometimes wont allow daddy to do thing's uncle Ted is allowed to do.
        So Daddy has to spank it.
  • psykiv, on 01/09/2008, -2/+8So is this thing like a NAS, or will it actually be able to provide more "server-like" functions such as AD?
    • iofthestorm, on 01/09/2008, -0/+9It's more of a NAS with automated backup and remote desktop from anywhere, and some other neat features home users might like, and then it's extensible. Not quite a heavy duty server, but more of a convenient backup solution. I wish it did AD though, I've always wanted to have something like that at home and I remember reading a long time ago (2005ish? haha) that Vista would include some sort of Roaming Profile support for home users. The codename for the system was Castle if I recall correctly.
    • EbilPhish, on 01/09/2008, -4/+9Its more like a NAS that will corrupt any files you attempt to edit on it (see previous articles)
  • xz9925, on 01/09/2008, -12/+5I thought it was gonna be a parody.. something about mommy doing amateur porn..
  • egonSchiele, on 01/09/2008, -4/+135this is awesome! from the second page:
    "Just so you know, Tom O'Connor does not actually have a Ph.D. He is also not actually a person. And the entire premise of this book is fictional. But on the bright side, a Windows Home Server is a real product. Perhaps you'd like to buy one!"
    I must say, hats off to Microsoft for a brilliant marketing idea. I don't know what people are complaining about, it's not something to brainwash your kids. It's clearly tongue-in-cheek, and pretty brilliant at that.
    • smacksaw, on 01/09/2008, -12/+3Wrong. Microsoft is to funny what they are to reliability and easy of use.
      • kiegh, on 01/09/2008, -1/+8I guess straight command prompt is too easy compared to point and click huh?
        • smacksaw, on 01/09/2008, -2/+6As a MCSE and MCT I can attest to you that all of the hours of my life wasted on their stupid ***** in the past 14 years is not easy in any interface. There's no point having an interface when the underlying architecture is *****.
          • aiten, on 01/09/2008, -1/+3lol. Agreed.

            It's like taking a crap, covering it in cling film, and allowing you to poke holes.
    • aussieNickuss, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5Except the book costs $5.95 (sticker on back), wonder how many people will actually buy it.
      • grandwazzoo, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2I doubt it's actually for sale, they send them around as pr stuff.
    • ejan, on 01/09/2008, -1/+8Am I the only person who googled Tom O'Connor before turning to that page just to check the credibility of this book? I think I'm spending too much time on digg. By the way, he is also a British comedian and professor of psychiatry.
      • LingNoi, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2Yes, because everyone else read the second page of the book.
  • crambo, on 01/09/2008, -9/+23When mommy told daddy she no longer liked the floppy disks, daddy went out and got himself a hardened server. Only trouble is, the new hardened server was rife with viruses and got mommy's SAN infected with some malware. Next time daddy will get mommy a network appliance and leave his floppy disks out of the whole equation.
    • tyywebb, on 01/09/2008, -1/+9That's enough out of you about daddy's floppy disks.
  • dvsbastard, on 01/09/2008, -8/+21They should do an adaptation of "Little Red Riding Hood"... and call it "Little Blue Screen of Death"... and replace the Big Bad Wolf with the Big Bad Driver...
  • paulface12, on 01/09/2008, -0/+20Ahhh... this brings me back to when my family got our first home server. Times were simpler then... none of this quad core nonsense.
  • DjOverEZ, on 01/09/2008, -4/+137"Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?"

    Because you touch yourself at night.
  • ProphetSix, on 01/09/2008, -5/+80I would not, could not, with a mouse
    I would not, could not, in my house
    I would not get a Stay-at-Home server ma'am
    I would not, could not, Sam I am
    • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+14I would not, could not in my car
      I will not Sync you near or far
      I would not, could not by remote
      I will not Sync with my Onenote
    • Emused, on 01/09/2008, -0/+14Not on my box, not with my Fox
      Not in my car, not near not far
      Not in my home, put this to tome
      WinHome Server you'll Sync alone


      • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Oh Emused, Wednesday won't be so bad after all.
        • DarkSamus, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3hmm, wednesday
          what's that great thing that's on every wednesday?

          YAHTZEE!!!
          • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Oh man! Things keep comin' up steve.
        • Emused, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Glad it made your day mate.I have to say I had a bit of fun with it myself.
    • cyberoptic, on 01/09/2008, -6/+2I could not sync in my pool,
      i could not sync at my school,
      i could not sync in the grass,
      because my windows server crashed.
  • raybury, on 01/09/2008, -0/+13Wow, I thought this was about a family with a live-in servant before I clicked through. Weird.
    • tyywebb, on 01/09/2008, -0/+10Clearly you haven't been on digg long enough.
  • dserfaty, on 01/09/2008, -8/+2W-T-F?
  • burgerpocket, on 01/09/2008, -1/+48anyone else notice how the computer in the office that makes adults angry looks suspiciously like an imac?
    • MadOtaku, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6I don't think so; it just looks like a typical LCD to me. If it were meant to be an iMac, it would be a different color and the foot would be smaller.
    • avoss, on 01/09/2008, -2/+2... or that the dog vomit on the laptop looks like a phallus.
    • dungbeetle, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6That's not vomit...
    • kcdstudios, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3none of the women of the office are using a computer, just a big pile a of paper though
      • twollamalove, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1yeah thats odd
        • Mooooose, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1thats sexism at its best.
          joke or not, its not right.
  • Porch, on 01/09/2008, -7/+2MS had posters out side near the shuttle area about this home server stuff. Things like "Should a server stay home with the kids, or go to work?" Sort of a two parent working thing. The only people this is going to get is the stupid ones left over from 1990's who think they can run a web host from their home cable and make gobs of money. It went over as well as MS BOB.
  • kindrobot, on 01/09/2008, -1/+123Mommy..

    When I click on this one folder...

    It leads to another...
    and another...
    and another...
    and another...
    and 20 more after that, mommy.
    Then there's pictures of you and daddy wrestling after a bath.
    And then some with daddy wrestling with someone else after a bath.

    Where did you see those, honey?

    At school.
  • Bisclavret, on 01/09/2008, -3/+15i actually want a server now. am i a tool?
    • MadOtaku, on 01/09/2008, -5/+11Yes. Not for wanting a server (who doesn't?), but for being sold by an ad that is simply amusing/clever while failing to highlight the product's advantages.
      • jakem1, on 01/09/2008, -2/+3Isn't that why people buy Macs?
        • MadOtaku, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2It's why most people buy most things; otherwise adverts wouldn't work and brand recognition would mean nothing.
    • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4That's mean Madotaku, I wouldn't call him a tool. Seeing this not only made me laugh but makes me want to rebuild a server that had a motherboard failure recently. Though it most definitely won't be running Windows.

      The campaign is clever, and I hope for their sake that they put as much innovation into the product as they do into the ads. Good products promote good competition, and everyone wins.
  • DeadlyBrad42, on 01/09/2008, -4/+6I wish they were really selling this book, I'd buy it.
    • MadOtaku, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4They are really selling it. Check the first couple of comments, there is an ISBN in there.
  • SomethingNew71, on 01/09/2008, -9/+1Double U T F
  • dext, on 01/09/2008, -12/+5I love how people think that everything MS does is evil and has some kind of alterer motive. like in this case its obviously to brain wash our children.

    Get a grip guys, its a funny little advertisement thats actually pretty brilliant. It targets the exact audience this product is for, family's with children and lots of media who are all to familiar with reading books like this to their children.

    MS isnt any more evil then any other company, they are just bigger and have more money to throw around.
    • Smegzor, on 01/09/2008, -6/+2Have you got enough light under that rock?
    • NichowA, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2The word you're looking for is ulterior.
      • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3The word I'm looking for is "Swoooosh"
  • reventlov, on 01/09/2008, -2/+12I love the fine print that says the author doesn't really have a phd, but that's ok.. they made him up! I just wish they were as forthcoming about the features thy promise to deliver, which also turn out to be works of fiction.
  • terencec, on 01/09/2008, -5/+2answer - cause your daddy needs a unified space to stash his porn
  • bejayel, on 01/09/2008, -1/+10http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08/10 ...
    Microsoft better be careful. They are barking up the wrong tree in this one. That RIAA must be all over that sentance.
  • junkieSaysNO, on 01/09/2008, -2/+2do you have a home server? if not you're in trouble because your daddy doesn't love your mommy enough! Now you will have to be the jealous kid...
  • sfrench, on 01/09/2008, -3/+27Goofus buys windows home server
    Gallant installs Linux
    • filefly, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I haven't heard about them in at least a decade. Man, do I feel old now.
    • phlll, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2Nah. Goofus was ALWAYS cooler than that stick-up-the-ass Gallant.
  • swordedge, on 01/09/2008, -1/+20From that site...
    Big people have a server at the office.
    The Office is a boring place where big people go to do boring things.
    Offices are why big people get grumpy and say bad words
    • wedgemartin, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1Dugg for commenting on the beauty of that sentence.
      "The Office is a boring place where big people go to do boring things. "
      I've been working from home for 3 years now and when I walk into grey, emotionless cubicle farms I get super depressed. Fortunately it seems the corporate world is opening up to remote working, and realizing that people can be productive from home.
  • tuxb0y, on 01/09/2008, -3/+12it would be a better book if it was linux home server
    • bigsteve, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2It wouldn't be funny and it would lack overall design polish. But it would serve as a thorough command line parameter reference.

      /i kid i kid
  • A11YND, on 01/09/2008, -7/+14Who wants a Windows Home-Server? Debian FTW.
    • aiten, on 01/09/2008, -2/+2I would like one. Then I'd get a refund on the operating system and install Linux.
      • itsthebrod, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1You're the dimmest bulb of the bunch. That'd be an absolute retarded thing to do.
    • AROZ, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Well, now I want some kind of home server!
    • wedgemartin, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Enter some lame comment about yet another linux distribution that would be 'ftw' and better suited for my home peecee here.
  • locodude, on 01/09/2008, -10/+6Yeah, having a home server is a Microsoft invention and home server equals Windows Home Server and nothing else. 'Cuz I sure as hell don't have three servers running Linux under my desk right now. Oh wait, I do.
    This is so retarded it makes me laugh. It's just Microsoft forcing themselves to be cute and outsourcing some goofiness. There's nothing sincere about it at all. Dugg for the sheer pleasure of pointing at MS and laughing as they embarrass themselves once again.
    • AntzNZ, on 01/09/2008, -0/+10Wow, gtfo.
    • CookieTrain, on 01/09/2008, -0/+53 servers !? i only have 2. You are so 1337.
      • cr3ative, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4He may have 3 servers; but I, conversely, have 3 PS3s.
        • kcdstudios, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2i like how no one likes ps3s unless you have multiples.
    • itsthebrod, on 01/09/2008, -2/+4lulz yeah the ads Linux puts out are soooooo much better and more clever! Oh wait, they can't afford any because it's crap that they couldn't make anyone pay for! Rofflez omfgz!

      Seriously, get a ***** life and stop trying to criticize an entity for petty *****. You lead a sad, sad life.
    • jawchild, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3I have a gameboy and a cassette deck. Does that make me 1337?
  • copper7op, on 01/09/2008, -4/+7i actually DID give my wife one of those, and i've gotta say, this is SUPER easy for her to run and administer
    • dizam, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1yeah, you got that for your wife, right...
  • vize, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2http://www.stayathomeserver.com/book.aspx
  • garvallagh, on 01/09/2008, -2/+18Why would two red headed people marry each other ?
    • unbrokenspell, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5Why did they make the whole family gingers??? I don't know whether to be insulted or feel complimented....hmmm
      • aiten, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6Gingers and Windows. Bridging connections.
    • jawchild, on 01/09/2008, -3/+4Blacks don't own computers, duh. LOL.

      j/k don't flame me you crackers
      • wedgemartin, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2Dug for the use of the word crackers.
    • TheLD, on 01/09/2008, -1/+4Who else would marry a ginger?
    • JessicaSarahS, on 01/09/2008, -0/+0for the lulz
  • poppacherry, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1oh god, lighten up. its a clever marketing technique. i highly doubt parents are reading this ***** to their kids at night.
  • twoblink, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1Honey do you want a diamond ring or a Stay-at-Home Server??
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