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[HSS-Dave]

Hey Guys,

I just published 173 and we had a fun time on video with this one. Jim will have the video out shortly so you guys can see the screens that we were looking at. We had some fun with Windows 8 and Server 8 although I'll admit that I had only a few minutes with the server prior to the show. I'm sure this topic will be a focus for us for a while though.

I also have been playing with audio production some. I've not been very happy with the audio quality for the last few episodes and that's primarily my fault. This one is better however I tried some noise reduction techniques and they work but they do have side effects. I'm learning how to minimize those effects. One of my big pet peeves is mouse clicks and there are a lot of them in this show. Mostly mine. I will work on that microphone gain!

Let me know what you thought of the show and the audio. Thanks for listening guys. You make it fun to do this week in and week out.

Dave

[HSS-Dave]

There is a point in this show where I try to create a virtual disk out of a 500 Gb drive and a 40 Gb drive. I forget the method I chose but it failed and we pretty much stopped right there. I looked at it again tonight and was able to create a mirror out of the two drives. Obviously, or maybe not due to my error last night, you can only mirror up to the size of the smalled drive. So I have a nice 40 gig volume with the drive letter of D now. It looks like the rest of the space on the 500 is now useless but this was just a test. In a real situation I don't think anyone will put a 40 gig SATA drive in as a data drive!

[ikon]

What museum did you rob to get that 40GB drive?

[jmwills]

You want one? I still have some 20 gig IDE drives

[ikon]

I'd have to make room beside my Micropolis and other old hard drives. Can you say "MFM" ?

[timekills]

They made 40GB *SATA* drives? I still have some that size IDE, but SATA?!?!

[ikon]

They made 40GB *SATA* drives? I still have some that size IDE, but SATA?!?!

http://www.streetpri...s/2000000007584

There's also this: http://www.ebuy9.com...html?currency=2, but I suspect it's a cheat. I think it's an IDE drive inside a SATA enclosure.

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

I haven't noticed the audio problems you speek of. I think you are overly critical.

[ikon]

I haven't noticed the audio problems you speek of. I think you are overly critical.

I listen using Bose QC15 headphones and I haven't noticed any issues.either.

[HSS-Dave]

I haven't noticed the audio problems you speek of. I think you are overly critical.

There is absolutely no doubt about that! Show 174 is up and I think the audio was much better. I'll let you decide.

[eagle63]

Another great show guys. There was a brief discussion about media center that got my hackles up. I'm a MC user and I generally am very happy with it, but I really think Microsoft has neglected the product. This is very evident in the utter lack of integration with 3rd party media services. Other than Netflix, there's nothing. No Pandora, no Hulu, no LastFm, not Spotify, etc. I get that there are (or were..) some competitive reasons why Microsoft may have chosen to not integrate a few of those services, but I still think it's a black eye on an otherwise great product. Additionally, I think the fact that there are no plugins to integrate those services speaks volumes to how painful it is to develop for WMC. Pandora has an app on virtually every consumer device on the planet, and yet there'e nothing for WMC. (and there are how many millions of windows PC's out there?)

Hopefully Win 8 might tie some of these things together!

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

There is absolutely no doubt about that! Show 174 is up and I think the audio was much better. I'll let you decide.

I would think that Microsoft expects others to develop those apps since they are not mainstream products.

[ikon]

Another great show guys. There was a brief discussion about media center that got my hackles up. I'm a MC user and I generally am very happy with it, but I really think Microsoft has neglected the product. This is very evident in the utter lack of integration with 3rd party media services. Other than Netflix, there's nothing. No Pandora, no Hulu, no LastFm, not Spotify, etc. I get that there are (or were..) some competitive reasons why Microsoft may have chosen to not integrate a few of those services, but I still think it's a black eye on an otherwise great product. Additionally, I think the fact that there are no plugins to integrate those services speaks volumes to how painful it is to develop for WMC. Pandora has an app on virtually every consumer device on the planet, and yet there'e nothing for WMC. (and there are how many millions of windows PC's out there?)

Hopefully Win 8 might tie some of these things together!

Unfortunately, I think MS keeps looking at the 'only 6% of Windows users have ever even launched WMC' statistic to put much time & effort into it.