All Posts Tagged With: "HDD"
Building A Media Center PC
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post and I haven’t even had the time to keep up with my feeds. I did however find the time over the weekend to build a new Media Center PC. I managed to put the itself PC together fairly quickly, without too many cuts on [...]
9Apr2008 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
Coping With A WHS Hard Disk Failure
I haven’t written a lot of posts this week as I’ve spent most of the week trying to recover files from one of the hard drives in my Windows Home Server that has stopped working. I have several disks in my WHS machine, and if any of the other drives had failed I wouldn’t have [...]
22Mar2008 | Everton | 16 comments | Continued
XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
11Feb2008 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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 [...]
Team Executor Confirm Leaked HACKED Xbox 360 Pics
I’m so glad that Team Executor have confirmed that the pictures below showing Avalaunch running with a larger HDD installed on a HACKED XBOX 360 ARE GENUINE!!! My Xbox 360 has spent over a year waiting for this news, as the main reason I purchased it was because I wanted to run XMBC [...]
11May2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
MBL Community: How To Fix File Copying Problems In Windows Vista
I spotted a very useful tip on One Tip A Day to fix the problems introduced by Windows Vista when large files are moved, copied or deleted. Within Windows Vista this a very slow process, due to problems with Vista’s Auto-Tuning feature.
This was the only major outstanding issue I had with Vista. I [...]
Quick Links: 24/04/07
Some interesting stories I saved in Google Reader last week, but I never got around to posting about:
Word Of The Day: Wilfing - What Was I Looking For?
Justin.TV Has Ladies & Gentlemen
Customising Your WordPress Feeds
Seagate Poised To Break The Terabyte HDD Barrier
New Trend: Raise Music Prices By Offering DRM Free Music
CCleaner Compatible With Windows Vista
One of my favourite pieces of freeware CCleaner is now compatible with Windows Vista. This is great news as although CCleaner is great for freeing up HDD space, my favourite feature is the way it removes unnecessary startup programs.
21Mar2007 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
Digg Killed My Hard Drive
Apologies for the awful site performance - one of my Hard Drives failed literally the second I got onto the Digg hompage, and the remaining drive not surprisingly couldn’t cope with 2k+ connections on its own….The attached image shows how bad things got with my load hitting 281!
The new HDD is now in, and things [...]
The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP
Over the last 12 months I’ve made several posts that list ways in which you can optimise XP - 10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows XP, 10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows XP and More Ways To Speed Up Windows XP.
I thought that now that I’ve already moved one of my PCs over [...]
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