In this day and age the use of physical media in your home theatre is very passé. It is so much more convenient to have all of your movies, home videos, television shows and more available on your network and available at the touch of a button – “on demand” to borrow the term from …
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Installing MediaTomb on OpenFiler
If you have researched both FreeNAS and OpenFiler then you will be aware that a key difference between the two is the inclusion of a UPNP media server in FreeNAS. This is lacking in OpenFiler and is a major piece of functionality that I with to have in my own installation. I specifically would like …
Third Party Hard Drive for HP Proliant DL185 G5
This document applies directly to the Hewlett Packard Proliant DL185 G5 server. I have tested this with the twelve front bay configuration and will test shortly with the rear-facing drive configuration as well. [Edit – Tested with fourteen drive configuration and it checked out just fine.] When buying a hot-swap SAS or SATA 3.5″ hard …
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Intel Core 2 Duo Reports as Pentium III in Windows XP
I have been running into a lot of people having issues with Windows XP recently who use WMI to poll data from machines running Intel Core 2 Duo processors. These processors report as Pentium III processors through the WMI Win32_Processor class. This is caused by an actual bug that appears to be impacting Windows XP …
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Accessing HP Integrity MP for Newbies ^Ecf
So you’ve bought/inherited/stolen a hot HP Integrity server… now what do you do? For those not up on their EPIC systems, the HP Integrity line is Hewlett-Packard’s Intel Itanium 2-based server line running the EPIC IA64 architecture. These are seriously high-end servers and not to be taken lightly. So you acquire one. The first thing …
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