Category: Gadget

Reef Keeping and Windows Home Server: Part 2

Reef Keeping and Windows Home Server: Part 2

  A few weeks ago I blogged about marrying my two favorite hobbies, Reef Keeping and Windows Home Server in which we installed a Digital Aquatics Net Module (webserver) and hooked it up to Windows Home Server.  The master plan is to create a real time “dashboard” on my personal website that shows the current [...]

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Putting a Digital Aquatics Web Server in a Reef Tank and Connecting it to Windows Home Server

Putting a Digital Aquatics Web Server in a Reef Tank and Connecting it to Windows Home Server

So I must admit, Window Home Server is not my only obsession, I’m also a reef geek (salt water fish tank nerd). Anyways, I thought why not marry my two obsessions into one glorious hobby and put a web server in my reef tank! That way I could monitor the reef remotely and put my [...]

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Lenovo Q110 Nettop Home Theatre PC Impressions

Lenovo Q110 Nettop Home Theatre PC Impressions

by Christopher Lux (IndyLux) Sometimes great things come in small packages.  This definitely applies to the Lenovo Q110 nettop.  A nettop is a small form factor PC with similar specs to a netbook but without a monitor.  It can function as a low-powered desktop PC to check e-mail and browse the internet or, if properly [...]

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OTA HDTV on a Netbook

OTA HDTV on a Netbook

I just figured out how to setup my Pinnacle HDTV Pro stick (801e) on my HP Mini Netbook (1010NR) to watch live TV in Windows 7 Media Center.  It’s pretty simple, but there is a catch.  There is not enough storage on the SSD to store the live TV buffer (needs 6 gigs minimum) so [...]

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The Shuttle X27 a future Windows Home Server? Media Center?

The Shuttle X27 a future Windows Home Server? Media Center?

CNet has announced the new pricing on the Atom Powered Shuttle X27.   Does it have enough giddy’up to power a WHS?  HTPC? Perhaps it would be a good companion desktop running gOS. Here are the Specs:

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