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Steve coins a new phrase: DVR Clog

February 5, 2020February 24, 2005 by tig

In The Furrygoat Experience: DVR Clog Steve coins a new term that I like: “DVR Clog”. I love it! DVR Clog. The state of affairs when your digital video recorder is full of shows you want to … Read more

Chris Gray – Building your own home server

February 5, 2020February 24, 2005 by tig

Chris talks about his home server on Channel9. “Let’s go to my white board…here’s a diagram of my home network…” He’s actually a pretty good artist. And I thought he was just a great developer. Chris’ … Read more

Great Windows Media Center videos

February 5, 2020February 24, 2005 by tig

Check out these great Channel9 videos on Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). If you’ve ever wondered what all the fuss over MCE is watch John Canning and Charlie Owen expose it all. Media Center exposed, … Read more

Blobservations: Windows Server, Home Edition

February 5, 2020January 24, 2005 by tig

Rick Hallihan presents a really nice vision of what a Windows based home server would look like in Blobservations: Windows Server, Home Edition. At my house I use Windows Server 2003 to manage all of my … Read more

Bluetooth GPS, Smartphone, Channel9, Oh My!

February 5, 2020December 13, 2004 by tig

Channel9 has posted a wicked-cool video of Alex Kipman demoning using Visual Studio to write slick SmartPhone app that talks to both the GPS and MapPoint via a web-service. Who says Microsoft can’t innovate? What other … Read more

My team

February 5, 2020November 20, 2004 by tig

Chris Gray on my team is playing with IIS at home. He’s got a little moblog app that automatically takes pics from his PocketPC phone and uploads them. This pic was taken right before we had … Read more

Crazy expensive home server

February 5, 2020November 18, 2004 by tig

Sheesh. I thought Linux devices were supposed to be cheaper… Engadget writes about the Niveus A/V Storage Server which is basically just a Linux based NAS box with 1TB of RAID 5 storage in it. I … Read more

Killer home server deal

February 5, 2020November 18, 2004 by tig

Slickdeals.com is showing that you can now get a DELL PowerEdge SC420 P4-2.8GHz, 80GB system for $289+tax w/free shipping. These SC series machines from DELL make great home servers. They are plenty powerful, expandable, and amazingly very … Read more

A File Server…in Your Living Room?

February 5, 2020November 15, 2004 by tig

Via BusinessWeek a good article on home servers: That’s right, with most homes nowadays having multiple computers and lots of files to share, these new low-cost devices can do wonders Want to watch movies, control your stereo’s … Read more

New Windows PC Form Factors

February 5, 2020November 3, 2004 by tig

It’s going to be very interesting over the next few years as OEMs begin to finally produce truly innovative new PC form factors focused on specific user scenarios. Neowin.net points out that a British OEM, Scan … Read more

In depth MCE 2005 article on AnandTech

February 5, 2020October 13, 2004 by tig

AnandTech has a very deep article on Windows Media Center Edition 2005. They didn’t think much of the earlier versions of MCE. Some quotes: “Media Center Edition continues to be the coolest looking highest performance PVR/DVR (with … Read more

Dilbert’s Home Server

February 5, 2020October 5, 2004 by tig

According to the press release, “…Dilbert’s Ultimate House”(DUH). DUH is a virtual web-based home that the famous icon of the workplace Dilbert, his fans, tech geeks, the environmentally conscious, and those who just plain love the … Read more

Time to RAID PVRs, says Silicon Image

February 5, 2020October 5, 2004 by tig

In Time to RAID PVRs, says Silicon Image The Register reports that Silicon Image has a new RAID chip that they think they can sell to PVR vendors. Not sure how this differs from their existing SATA/IDE … Read more

Helmet Home Server

February 5, 2020October 5, 2004 by tig

news.com reports on a new PC form factor: Helmet PC aims to score with football fans. This thing would make a fantastic home server (see my mini-ITX post)…as long as you used a Seattle Seahawks helmet … Read more

Windows Server is listening…

February 5, 2020October 4, 2004 by tig

Billie Jo Murray, who runs the Windows Server Customer Experience Group, is now blogging. If you have feedback about Windows Server’s documentation and customer programs head over to her blog and let her know.

mini-ITX Windows Server 2003 Home Server

February 5, 2020October 3, 2004 by tig

I recently built a really small and quiet home server that ran Windows Server 2003 based on a mini-ITX motherboard. It turns out you can build a great system in a very small package. The only down-side is … Read more

MCE Controller doc ommission

February 5, 2020August 10, 2004 by tig

I forgot to mention a key (pun intended) command that MCE Controller supports in the 1.0.3 documentation. The “key:” command allows you to simulate any alphanumeric keyboard key press. For example “key:3” is the same thing … Read more

New MCE Controller sample available

February 5, 2020July 29, 2004 by tig

Multiple people have asked me for a sample that illustrates how to talk to MCE Controller from Crestron using SIMPL Windows. Ask no more: On the MCE Controller site, I’ve added a SIMPL Windows sample program … Read more

Distributed File System (DFS)

February 5, 2020April 21, 2004 by tig

If you have a network with lots of storage that includes a Windows 2000 or W2K3 Server the Distributed File System (DFS) is your friend. This very cool technology makes it easy to move around where … Read more

MCE Controller 1.0.3 Released

February 5, 2020March 27, 2004 by tig

No code changes. Just added an installer using the very cool NullSoft Scriptable Install System. Wow, that was easy! Download and install from http://www.kindel.com/products/mcecontroller/