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 [...]
SkyDrive on mobile, the ESXi saga begins, Fractal Define R3 case, HTC Titan/Focus S/iPhone4S/Skyrocket comments, Xbox has a new console and Cord cutting has a setback. Its BYOB show 71. SkyDrive Tim reviews SkyDrive for iOS and Michael does the same for WP7 ESXi the other VM white meat Mike begins his exploration into ESXi [...]
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 [...]
This week we talk Home Automation with special guest Ted Singh, co-founder and Business Development Manager for Embedded Automation about his mControl product. We did have a few Skype issues but we hope you enjoy this interview. We want to thank Ted for his time and for sharing his wealth of information on the subject. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today we spend some time talking to Steve Dail (aka: Timekills) from our forums. We walk through his VM build, network, and HTPC. We also cover some SSD stuff and Tim talks about the new line up of Z68 boards from EVGA. Lanspeed Test http://download.cnet.com/LAN-Speed-Test/3000-2085_4-10908738.html http://www.totusoft.com/lanspeed1.html AnandTech SSD article http://www.anandtech.com/show/4604/the-sandforce-roundup-corsair-patriot-ocz-owc-memoright-ssds-compared/1 eVGA Z68 http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?switch=5 Netgear XAV5001 and 5004. [...]
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