All Posts Tagged With: "Linux"
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
Refresher Course: The Free Unix Desktop
I have been using a Mac at home since 2002. Prior to that I had been a big NeXT guy, and my home network always consisted of a mix of OPENSTEP and FreeBSD boxes, with the occasional partition devoted to Windows for gaming.
My hosting costs just skyrocketed after a friend and I decided to share [...]
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
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
Google’s Open Source Mobile OS
Amid speculations and rumors about gPhone and its features spreading, there was a surprising announcement came from Google. Google joined with other leading handset manufacturers to form Open Handset Alliance and announced Android: the open source mobile operating system.
7Nov2007 | Sanketh | 11 comments | Continued
