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 [...]
Special Guest Chris Barnes from the DMZ podcast thEndUsr joins us to discuss his systems. We’ll also tackle nVidia’s GTX690. Amazon plays me too with their cloud drive. Playon is told to move on. Welcome to Episode 85 of the BYOB Podcast. Special Guest – Chris Barnes Chris Barnes is host to the thEndUsr Podcast [...]
Z77, Ivy Bridge, Windows 8 talk, SplashTop, and Cloud Drives. Tonight we have some in depth discussions on the new Ivy Bridge CPU’s and the Z77 chipsets. We also hash out some differences on the various cloud drives such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, and G Drive and talk about the pros and cons of each. We discuss [...]
If you are like many and are jumping on the SkyDrive band wagon you might find yourself having to install it on many systems in your house. The issue soon becomes with many of these services is that you end up installing on too many devices. Since I have many computers on my internal network, [...]
We have a special guest, Michael Ross, filling in for Tim this week. Mr. Ross has some really impressive systems. We’ll also discuss his thoughts on media and cutting the cord. Its an All Mike episode on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Office PC My old P5B lasted me nearly 6 years with a minor upgrade [...]
There are those shows you remember and some you would rather forget. Episode 179 will not be forgotten by me due to two things. The first, Skype hates me, and two, Susan Bradley joined us for some conversation. It was hard for me to wrap the show because we all wanted to hear more from [...]
If you are one of the fortunate few (i say that tongue in cheek, see warning below) plagued by the computer monitoring error bug from UR2 a hotfix is now available for you. This bug was introduced by Update Rollup 2 for Windows Home Server 2011, SBS Server 2011, Storage Server 2008 R2, and Windows [...]
Adam Thursby joins the podcast and we will talk about moving data from one PC to a Windows Home Server 2011 box and we’ll try not to lose any data in the process. We also go over backups and redundancy options for Adam. A little bit of news as well. Enjoy. Audio experimentation continues with [...]
It’s another week about the future. Windows 8 and what it means to file systems, storage, and home servers. We go over Storage Spaces in detail with Mike Faucher of the BYOB Podcast. Lots of chat with zero news. We dive right in! Enjoy Sponsor: GoToMeeting with HD Faces makes it easy to collaborate online [...]
Tonight we talk to John Wills (aka jmwills from the forums) about his setup, networking overseas, and of course Windows 8. We are joined by John Zajdler for the second half of the show to discuss Storage Spaces and other topics. A special thanks to John W. for joining us tonight. Watch us on Livestream [...]
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