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 …
Tag Archive: Media Centre
May
07
Media Centre And Network Storage Solution
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
3 Must Have Windows 7 Media Centre Plugins
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
Cloudberry Online Backup – Amazon S3
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
Amazon S3 Sync App For Windows
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 …
Feb
10
My View On Windows 7 – I Like It
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 …
Dec
02
Battle Of The Media Centres… Vista Media Centre Vs Mythtv
I have for a long time been running a media centre in various guises, starting with Ubuntu and MythTV on an old laptop which worked nicely for our requirements until we purchased a new Panasonic Viera TV which took a SVGA input. This opened up many more possibilities for the media centre to be more …
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