Since Smitty (see the Computers page) is used for DVD conversion, it really needed a larger, faster hard drive added. Fortunately, I had a spare 500GB drive in an eSATA enclosure, and an eSATA controller card pulled from another computer. So last night, I shut Smitty down to install the … Continue reading
My Vista HTPC has been running great for months. Unless I need to transfer files to or from it over the network connection. Because the network file transfers maxed at about 150kB/s, even though I was using a 1Gbit card connected to a 1Gbit network. And that 150kB/s only happened … Continue reading
I’ve never been much of a fan of Best Buy. Over the years, I’ve always been able to find what I was looking for somewhere else, for a better price. Not to mention the low quality of service that is usually expected at superstores such as this. However, in the … Continue reading
I’m just sitting at my PC trying to unwind from a very stressful day at work. Don’t feel like firing up the MacBook just to listen to iTunes, and I don’t have the iTunes library on the WHS set back up yet, which is what my PC connects to, so … Continue reading
Thanks to Best Buy’s dirt cheap price on an external 1TB drive (although the price of dirt is often relative) I was able to add enough space back into the server last night to get all the data back on the shares. So I started the last 500GB of data … Continue reading
Well, I wish my server rebuild had only taken 9-12 hours. So far, it has taken me 29 hours to backup up the data, re-install Windows Home Server, and start moving the data back into the shares. Of course, until the new drive shows up on Thursday, there isn’t enough … Continue reading
My mom gave me this recipe today when I was talking about what to make for dinner, and that I was still looking for a good recipe for oven-baked red potatoes. These are pretty deceptive. At first when you start eating them, you’re like “oh, these aren’t bad” and then … Continue reading
Today’s upgrade to the Windows Home Server was supposed to be very simple. It wasn’t really even an upgrade, all I needed to do was install the multi-drive racks in the case, and move one existing hard drive into one rack, to prepare for future upgrades. Since I was moving … Continue reading