NAS, or Network Attached Storage is finally affordable to use at home. For a few weeks I have been running two $70 Coolmax CN-550 devices: This is an external USB drive with an RJ-45 ethernet port. My devices both have 320GB hard discs and allowed me to dismantle a dedicate file server PC Now we [...]
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None of my longish Cat5 cables would work at 1GB/s. Adhering to this image found on Wikipedia, cables that maxed at 100MB/s now dance at 1GB/s, wahoo!: The order of the wires is very important. Of course I learned about twisted pairs in high-school. I just assumed that like colors go together in pairs, but [...]
Paul’s IPTV OMPL. IPTV is very much in its infancy; especially when looking for quality content that is distributed via RSS. For those interested here is my OPML, Juice Receiver works great on my server machine. I watch using xbmc and an SMB share (very simple to set up).
Last year Scott Hanselman raved about the Harmony 880. I have been using one for three months, and have to say it tamed my fairly complex media set-up. The system was manageable before I cancelled Tivo + premium cable, instead switching to an xbox using xmbc. At this stage using the system effectively required juggling five remotes, and [...]
It seems many people have not run across these posts yet, I particularly loved this one: 4. RealEstateStockMarketitis: Usually occurs in patients around the age of 25 with about 3-4 years of post college experience. The sudden rush of a few ten thousand dollars in the bank prompt them to set high aims and expectations [...]
Mix means developers, designers and business professionals at the same conference. Most devs I know are waiting for TechEd/ PDC, but I jumped at the chance to ‘win’ my ticket at the Architect’s meeting today (It will cost me about $400 for the flight + hotel room). Taking a full week off week is too costly, [...]
For the last month or so I have using OpenOffice. It is part of my long term plan to try moving my personal Laptop (email/ web browsing machine mainly) to Linux. The idea is to find open source software that exists in both Windows and Linux. I am checking out the tools on Windows, before making [...]
Let’s start by saying that I loved this book. While in a speakers lounge once I picked it up from the sky-high give-away pile, started reading, got engrossed and well… it ended up travelling the 500 miles back home with me! This is a book that would have been very useful when starting my .Net career. [...]
IE7 looks cool, but I do not recommend using it on your main machine. Since Firefox does not work well on some sites I use all the time, IE 7 had to go. It is not obvious how to remove it, but is documented in Microsoft’s IE 7 Beta 2 FAQ: How do I uninstall [...]
Wally commented on this today and it is the first I had heard of the controversy: http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2006/02/01/the-deterioration-of-the-mvp-program/ My .05 cents is that anyone who puts in 20 hours/week of unpaid time to the Microsoft cause deserves to be rewarded by Microsoft. Just do the math: 46 weeks x 20 hours x <insert hourly bill rate [...]
