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The Shot That Ended The Format War

I wrote a three part series on the Format War when I first started writing for Connected Internet, describing what the two formats were about, and what I thought were hits and misses by both sides. My ending verdict was for HD DVD, and I still feel that it has more to offer than the [...]

 5Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 11 comments | Continued
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HP Announces Low Cost Media Vault Servers

I’ve been dying to talk about the HP Media Vault Server, ever since HP showed it to me in October in a workshop. This low-cost NAS server is a linux based alternative to more expensive Windows Home Server boxes. In fact, that meeting with HP was the inspiration behind me deciding to build [...]

 4Jan2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Phat Sounds from the Fatman

I’m an audiophile and invest in the best possible Sennheiser cans. Escaping to a realm of unreal music crafted by geniuses like Enya, Yanni, Tchaikovsky, and yeah- the occasional Josh Groban helps me recharge my batteries.
After a bit, my girlfriend said I was being selfish. In a joking way of course….
‘Joey, share your music!!’. [...]

 14Dec2007 | Joseph Plazo | 5 comments | Continued
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Windows Home Server Review

Over the last 2 years I have amassed a quite substantial media library as I have ripped all my CDs and DVDs. The problem I have in sharing this media collection around my home is that no single machine within my home has enough storage. An even bigger problem I faced was creating [...]

 9Dec2007 | Everton | 21 comments | Continued
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Building A Home Server Part IV

My shameless begging for a copy of Windows Home Server has finally paid off and I’m in the process of installing it as I write this post.  I knew that somebody would eventually send me a copy!
Over the last couple of days I’ve discovered some problems with my NASLite installation that has made me decide [...]

 6Dec2007 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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Leaving iTunes Behind - Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music

I love it when I read a post that makes me decide to do something totally differently. CyberNetNews are doing a series of daily giveaways of useful software, and yesterday they were giving away three copies of MediaMonkey Gold the reknowned music player.

I don’t know what possessed me to read the story, as I [...]

 5Dec2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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Got An Old PC Lying Around? Build A NAS Server With NASLite-2

Over the last week I’ve been writing a series of posts tracking the progress of the Home Server I’ve been building. My original plan was to install Windows Home Server on my £130 home server, but because the WHS trial disc was taking a while to arrive, I thought I’d try installing a cheaper [...]

 21Nov2007 | Everton | 22 comments | Continued
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Building A Home Server Part III

All the bits I purchased for my Home Server turned up last week. I didn’t manage to put them all together until last night, as things have been hectic recently (apologies for the lack of posts this month as a result).
Now I need to decide what OS/NAS software to run, and I’m having second [...]

 20Nov2007 | Everton | 15 comments | Continued
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Building A Home Server Part II

I was bored yesterday, so I spent some time buying components for my Home Server. I set myself a budget of £250 for the system and I ended up spending just over £130 which I’m very happy with. Here are the components I purchased:

 12Nov2007 | Everton | 60 comments | Continued
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Migrating From Wordpress to Joomla, Part 2

Wordpress is a fantastic tool for managing your blog. Whether you just want to get a theme up and start writing, or if you want to get elbow-deep in css and customize your site’s look and layout, Wordpress makes it exceedingly easy to do so. A certain amount of flexibility has to be sacrificed to [...]

 11Nov2007 | Michael Lankton | 24 comments | Continued
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