One common complaint amongst us HTPC users is somewhat unreliable playback of flash videos such as from sites like Hulu. This is due to Flash not supporting hardware acceleration and being too much for underpowered CPUs to handle. Well, looks like we have some great news, Adobe has just released Flash 10.1 which promises to support […]
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I’m pleased to announce that today I’ve released a new Add-In to the Windows Home Server community. The Add-In is called “WHS Port Forward”, and it allows the user to utilize the UPnP feature of Windows Home Server to open forwarded ports from your router to your Home Server. This is useful if you have […]
Many of you will remember a couple of months ago when this site had a few days of outages due to my (now previous) web hosting provider. Fortunately my good friend “Senor Guantes” stepped up and provided me a very nice setup that has had the site running faster and more smoothly than ever before. […]
I’ve been using the DD-WRT firmware on my old v1.1 Linksys WRT54G router for a couple of years now. I upgraded to the DD-WRT firmware when I was frustrated with the Linksys firmware locking up the router while using BitTorrent applications due to too many stale TCP connections. This has worked great, but my needs […]
I recently made the switch from cable TV to satellite TV with DishNetwork, the TurboHD packages they have right now are pretty amazing compared to the Comcast offering, my monthly bill was cut in half for almost the same programming with a vastly superior DVR. But of course the switch away from Comcast couldn’t go […]