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I’m a digital pack rat. Well – mostly. My “junk” is really pretty organized – I just have a lot of it. Last November I upgraded my primary storage system to 4 TB and it’s done pretty well for me… hovering around 3 TB used. My secondary backup server carried the replaced 500 GB drives […]
To quote one of the all time famous lines from TopGear’s Jeremy Clarkson: “How hard can it be?” Now really – I’ve had my personal HTPC humming along nicely for about 5 months now. I’ve been blown away by: Very low noise Fantastically smooth 24 fps 1080p HDTV playback Vista Media Center (don’t use it […]
Need your fix of Olympic goodness? Supposedly some 3,500 hours worth are going to be broadcast this year from China and sufficed to say, one person can’t really get 250 hours of coverage in a day just to make average. Thankfully technology has come to the rescue in terms of fulfilling Olympic gold for those […]
It's now been about a week since all of my HTPC parts arrived and I suppose it's time to divulge a little bit of my day-in-the-life drama of experiences. I do enjoy a bit of computer building as a hobby. Some might call me a computer geek in that I have a basement full of […]
Its been about 16 months since the last major computer purchase arrived at my house. That being said, I long debated on what the next addition to the family would be. First it was an internal discussion on the merits of PS3 versus HTPC (that would be Home Theater Personal Computer). That lasted for about […]