Kevin Schoonover joins the BYOB crew this week for an all rants n raves episode. Some new cloud storage services. PlayOn Cloud Storage – Two New Players Copy.com Bitcasa PlayOn Media Streaming – Re-Revisted PlayOn DLNA Service Router Woes I got the firewall blues. The ZyXell might be traded down for a more consumer [...]
Last July, 2012, I wrote about how I Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a 60GB SSD in a HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and using that as my primary home server. During Home Server Show 216 I talked about several updates I had done including how I replaced my 60GB OS drive with a [...]
Early last year I purchased my first HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer (“MicroServer”) and wrote about some of the things I did to build-out my MicroServer after flashing the modified BIOS from BIOS-MODS. After building-out my second MicroServer that summer and the many things I’ve learned over the last year I felt it was time to [...]
This week on the BYOB Podcast, Windows 8 pricing changes, Logitech Harmony Touch remote, and the Asus Vivobook Q200. Windows 8 – Price Hike is Coming Windows 8 official pricing is released, Microsoft must be high. Logitech – Harmony Touch Mike reviews the harmony touch remote Asus – SFF Touchscreen on the Cheap Michael reviews [...]
The guys are joined by JPEG2RAW host Mike Howard this week to discuss his Windows 8 media center. We talk a bit about our desires for CES. We’ll also touch on custom routing vs consumers solutions. Its the all Mike edition of the BYOB Podcast. Mike Howard – @jpeg2raw JPEG2RAW Podcast SuperRouters – Roll Your [...]
Does “Patch Tuesday” make you cringe? If so you no doubt work in IT. The home users look forward to it though and this upcoming one is going to be busy! This is the KB article that summarizes the upcoming patches. There is not a lot of information in here so you will have to [...]
A new build! An array rebuild, Eye-fi and iPad Mini….Untangle Ramblings of the indecisive on routers firewalls and web filtering all on BYOB Episode 104. Eye-Fi – Photo sync for that camera that isn’t a phone Mike discusses his Eye-fi eye-fi Recent drive failure and Seagate customer service Drives fail, recovery shouldn’t Mike’s recent oh [...]
Special guest Christopher Lux joins for his perspective. More Windows 8 discussion. Surface RT, the honeymoon is over. Bluetooth streaming for your home receiver or vehicle. Bluetooth For Your Ride Mike gives a short review of a neat little bluetooth adapter, the Miccus mini-jack Rx Surface RT – The Makeup Is Off Now that Michael [...]
This week Jim Collison and John Zajdler join us for an open discussion of technology and hardware. It BYOB’s longest show yet so keep that commute in the slow lane for The 100th episode of The BYOB Podcast. BYOB reaches its 100th episode milestone! It was pretty much an open free for all discussion for [...]
This week BYOB discusses Some Windows 8 RTM issues. Server 2012 Essentials. Cord cutting updates. Cord Cutting Update – Six Months Later Michael discusses some ups and downs after 6 months of cutting the cord Windows 8 RTM Some Small Issues We discuss some of the issues we’ve experienced with the RTM version of Windows [...]
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