All Posts Tagged With: "Home Server"

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Build A Windows Home Server For $400

Although there’s a big and growing community of Windows Home Server users on the internet, I’ve yet to met one in the flesh.  Given that WHS has been in the wild for around 6 months now, I’m a bit surprised.  Yes, home servers are a ‘new’ concept, but I’d assumed that once users understood the [...]

 26May2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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KeepVault Unlimited Backup Solution For Windows Home Server

I’m a big fan of my Windows Home Server. Being able to access all my files located centrally on one box that I can easily access with other PCs in and out of the home, as well as having a good local backup solution has been amazing.
However, the backup system is not foolproof and [...]

 15Feb2008 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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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 | 21 comments | Continued