This week we comment on what CES 2012 had to offer. Thunderbolt, Highpoint hybrid RAID, Fractal & LianLi, Passive 3D, Smart TVs and Ceton Q and Echo. What’s up with Netflix? On this weeks BYOB Podcast CES 2012 Western Digital My Book Thunder bolt Synology NAS or is it a SAN? Highpoint RocketHybrid RAID controller [...]
RAID5 expansion, server Anti-Virus, printing tips, Gigabyte’s 3d UEFI interface and LAN optimizer. This week on The BYOB Podcast. RAID Expansion, Yes its possible! Mike comments on his recent RAID expansion. Forum discussion Do you run AV software on your server? Want to? Anti-virus – AVG File server version Learn to print like a pro [...]
Bleeding edge SSDs from OCZ? Michael discusses his desire to cut the cord, with some discussion on why and how to achieve total independence. All on this week’s on the BYOB Podcast. New SSDs from OCZ OCZ Indilinx based Octane SSDs Engadget link OCZ Z-Drive Z4 Enterprise SSD Cutting the Cord Antenna – Monoprice has [...]
Every once in a while you run into a product that you just blows you away. Not so much that it is technologically superior in every way, but rather because it builds on a great idea and makes it easier, better, and cheaper. The new Logitech Link is just one of those products. Most HTPC/HT [...]
Logitech Link, iOS5, Corsair has more new gear, and answer the question: rack or not? While helping a listener with his huge home build. AMD Bulldozer does it push Intel out of the top slot? It’s a big fat one on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Sponsor: GoToMeeting with HD Faces makes it easy to collaborate [...]
Many have or will use home automation tools at some point as it is too tempting and too cool not too. We even justify it as a power savings, but the reality is that it probably more of a convenience than anything else. The savings alone would probably take a couple of years to be [...]
This week our guest is Greg Welch (Welchworks). We go over his extensive and impressive home network that include WHS servers, Hyper-V virtual machines, HTPCs, Home Automation and more on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Remember you can view this show at: http://www.livestream.com/byobpodcast Join us on “livestream” next Monday at 8:00 PM (pacific time) for BYOB [...]
Short show tonight. We cover my closet build, tuning adapters, Touchpad, D-Link Cam View software, and a RAID card upgrade. This was the first video podcast we did for the show. Thank you to those who joined and hope to see you there next time. View the first Video podcast at http://www.livestream.com/byobpodcast We plan on [...]
CETON USB, HD Homerun, Crucial Firmware, Michael’s WHS, and Video Streaming. This week we have a short show and talk about several subjects, including a listener email on video/audio streaming. We would like to know if anyone out there has a solution to this problem: Would like to stream video (Ripped BD and DVD), music, [...]
Often we come up with unusual needs for a computer. In my case, since I could not accomplish what I needed to with the use of VM’s, I decided that I needed to build a small PC to use for a single purpose, recording. I will spare you the details as to what forced the [...]
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