Jun
03
Regular readers of this blog will have seen that I have been doing some work on a solution for the storage of all my digital media (DVD’s, Movies, Photographs, Music etc.) I will not go into the solution that I have actually done because it will just cloud this review, but if you want to …
Jun
02
Recently I have posted about my tribulations with setting up my perfect network at home. A quick re-cap is that we have two Windows Media Centre PCs connected to TVs. a laptop each and my main PC. The main problem we have been facing is one of storage. Until recently we have just had some …
May
09
Having setup the media storage and samba shares on the network at home, I do loose some control via windows of monitoring the space left on each of the disks. Each disk has several Samba shares running on it s I now have 10+ network drives on each computer on the network. I can of …
May
07
I have spent the past week moving 100′s of terabytes of data from disk to disk, trying to find the best solution for the central storage of my media. Let me back track a little and give some background, at home we run a Windows 7 Media Centre, my main desktop and two laptops also …
Nov
22
With the new kitchen orangery extension well underway, I need to consider how to get an aerial to where the TV will be situated in the Orangery. It may seem a little silly, but this has actually ended up on the critical path for the project plan as it needs to be done before plaster …
Oct
30
I have been looking for a solution to tidy up the media wires behind the television in the new Orangery Kitchen extension. The television will be wall mounted at about 1300mm off the ground, we will also have a media centre PC running windows 7 media centre tucked away under a cupboard in the centre …
Aug
04
I have been adding some additional functionality to our media centre over the weekend. I used to run many plugins on Vistas Media centre, but after the upgrade to Windows 7 some of these did not work and others I just have not got round to installing. I thought I would post about the three …
Jul
01
Following my recent post about media and backup, Andy from Cloudberry contacted me about his companies product asking me to try it out. It has been some time since I got the software, but last night I finally got the time to give it a try. If you remember I was discussing the media that …
Jun
14
As you will have recently ready I am backing up all my media to Amazon S3. My photographs are stored on my Western Digital MyBook World which I have hacked to open up the Linux shell, and as such i use S3Sync on command line to back up my photographs. I have even written a …
Jun
11
I have just received a new External Hard Drive from Amazon to try and keep up with a spiraling amount of Media I seem to be collecting, what with the Media centre recording TV, the digital movie archive, digital photos and the HD video from our Digicam we have more media than most. I have …
