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
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 …
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 …
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
07
The title of this blog post will be a scandal in many people’s eyes; however, I will justify what I mean later in this post. In the technical circles there are many that continually bash the big commercial software companies, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and so on for producing software that contains bugs and security flaws …
May
26
I have bought several domain names for use with my new WordPress projects, the WordPress Advertiser Plugin and my WordPress Blog Hosting project. I had bought the .com and .co.uk domains for both of these projects, but having visited the WordPress site it appears that they do not like you using domain names with WordPress …
Feb
10
I recently bought myself a top spec PC, it came installed with Windows Vista, however, I had bought within the free upgrade to Windows 7 period so I sent off for the free copy. It took some time for it to arrive, and then some time for me to get round to doing the upgrade …
Jan
27
Following my recent re-install of my desktop machine I have followed the direction we are heading at work and setup Virtualbox with several environments each with a different OS. The Desktop PC I am running is relatively old, Pentium 4 1.8Ghz with 3Gb of RAM. I have the following running in Virtualbox Windows XP Windows …
Jan
17
I have suffered several computer failures in the past month or so, including a big failure of my web server. This has caused allot of problems for me personally and my businesses. I have therefore been looking at online backup services which seem to have been popping up all over the place recently. My first …
Jan
10
Having managed to rescue the partition tables of my machine using ‘The Ultimate bot disk’ I could then boot the machine up into windows, however it was so slow all I could do was login, I could not browse drives or copy anything off. I took the disk out and used a USB to IDE …
