Tag: Windows 7

BYOB Episode 112

BYOB Episode 112

Light show this week, VUDU, UltraViolet, TMT 5, Insteon, Livescribe Sky Wifi Pen on this weeks BYOB Podcast. More HTPC – Sort of Vudu UltraViolet TotalMedia Theatre 5 Home Automation – Insteon Insteon Remotelinc 2 Dual Bank Switch Door Sensor Take notes WiFi Style Livescribe Sky Wifi Smartpen Low Budget Server Chassis – High Budget [...]

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Repurposing an Acer Aspire Revo AR3610-U9022 Net-Top with a SSD and Windows 8

Repurposing an Acer Aspire Revo AR3610-U9022 Net-Top with a SSD and Windows 8

Recently I set out to upgrade a three year old Acer Aspire Revo AR3610-U9022 Net-Top (“Acer 3610”) with 4GB RAM, Hitachi 2.5” HDD, and Windows 7 Professional 64-bit to a SSD and Windows 8 Professional.   Contents: Hard Drive Replacement with SSD Thermal Paste Performance Afterwards Conclusion References = = = = = =   [...]

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BYOB Episode 106

BYOB Episode 106

Happy Holidays! 2012 in review, SkyDrive Sync, Crucial RMA, CrashPlan, Super Router, Type Cover, Surface RT, Windows 8 Apps on the BYOB Podcast.   Remember to post your comments on: www.homeservershow.com/forums or send us an email at byob@homeservershow.com. You can also follow us at twitter at www.twitter.com/byobpodcast Follow BYOB on Twitter! Discuss this Podcast in [...]

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BYOB Episode 100

BYOB Episode 100

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 [...]

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BYOB Episode 97

BYOB Episode 97

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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BYOB Episode 94

BYOB Episode 94

This weeks BYOB Podcast is joined this week by John Wills and John Zadjler. We’ll discuss the Corsair 550D Case, Silex USB over IP, ASRock Z77 and Ivy Bridge 3570K, an Onkyo Receiver. John Wills new project and more Windows 8.   Guest John Wills (JMWills) We talk with John about his recent hardware upgrades [...]

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iHomeserver–2.2.20.0-A Good Thing gets better

iHomeserver–2.2.20.0-A Good Thing gets better

It is pretty obvious from the amount of people that read my first write up on iHomeserver, that we are still looking for ways of not having to deal with iTunes.  When I first started using the program it was pretty good, but as early releases often do, there where some features missing.  Since that [...]

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A Server Build with a GA-Z77X-UD5H in a Lian-Li PC-K9WX–Part 2

A Server Build with a GA-Z77X-UD5H in a Lian-Li PC-K9WX–Part 2

  Introduction In part 1 of this series on my build of a Hyper-V Server Home Lab using a GA-Z77X-UD5H in a Lian-Li PC-K9WX case I had concluded that the “Z77X-UD5H with the i7-3770 is a great board with the only glitch that I encountered, and it’s a big glitch, is the lack of official [...]

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BYOB Episode 86

BYOB Episode 86

Short show this week, but we pack it full of hardware info. PCs on a Stick, AMD Trinity update, nVidia releases the GTX 670 Kepler GPU, Dirt cheap hi-res monitors? Server issues all around, Mike & Mike talk about their hard drive server issues on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Is That A PC In Your [...]

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PlayOn–Some things never change

PlayOn–Some things never change

A couple of years ago I tried using PlayOn to stream media to my my devices.  I always thought the concept was good but back then, I had many issues getting things to work correctly.  I do not remember all the details only that it would consistently disconnect, lock up my system, and was generally [...]

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