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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:01 AM

My first Netbook purchase…. Acer Aspire One….

About two weeks ago I made an impulse buy of a netbook PC. Consider it my contribution to stimulating the economy. I was at Fry’s pricing some hardware and getting ideas for a new TV for a Media room I am working on when I saw all the tiny netbooks and
Posted by chrisavis | 4 Comments
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:56 PM

Uncompressed HDTV....over USB?

Wow!   Imagine a day when you can buy a hard drive or other USB type device that is jam packed with ultra high quality HD programming in full surround sound and all you have to do is plug it into a USB port to view it. According to this article
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:15 PM

I played a Wii for the first time tonight....

Setup - My daughters live in Texas with their mother. They have a Wii. I am visiting my daughters. Tonight, my youngest daughter, Samantha (9), asked me to play a video game with her. She fires up Guitar Hero 3 (awesome!) on her Wii. I watched her put
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:42 PM

Did my mouse just jump a shark?

I just sat down at my laptop and realized I don't have my external mouse plugged in. As I am going for it, it dawns on me that I can't remember the last time I used the external mouse with my laptop. I think it was for my event in Berkeley, CA about three
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 11:58 PM

How many images can I run at the same time with Hyper-V?

I have spent the better part of today building out a temporary Hyper-V server. It is sort of a proof of concept of the super server that I would like to build and the same on that I asked for suggestions on a couple days ago. I took my second quad-core
Posted by chrisavis | 3 Comments
Monday, September 29, 2008 9:15 PM

What would you recommend?

You may have noticed that I haven't posted any updates on the home network lately. I decided to halt my current plans and take another path. As a result I am looking for a "super server" of sorts. On that will  virtualize most of the loads
Posted by chrisavis | 6 Comments
Friday, September 19, 2008 5:51 AM

Freaky Coolness....

A buddy of mine in SoCal (Thanks Luke!) sent a link to me last night. I have since watched the video a half a dozen times and I want to keep watching it. Robots are cool ....   Cheers!
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:58 AM

Zune 3.0 Update available....

We announced the Zune 3.0 software update today and you can get the software over at Zune.net . I have my 2nd generation Zune with me and just started the download.    Check it out!   Cheers!
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Monday, September 15, 2008 7:06 AM

Looking for Motherboard suggestions....

I have several dual-CPU machines. Yes....these are true multiple-CPU machines, not multi-core machines. With one exception, I have been very happy with these machines over the years. I would like to build a super server based on a dual-CPU config with
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Friday, September 12, 2008 6:58 AM

Windows Live Search comes to BlackBerry....

Check out this story over on Bloomberg announcing the deal we made with Research in Motion to get Live Search on BlackBerry devices . Take THAT Google.... ***UPDATE*** -- More on the deal from MSNBC . This one includes info on the RIM/TiVO/MySpace deals....
Posted by chrisavis | 3 Comments
Monday, September 01, 2008 10:08 PM

Maxed out one of my TeraStations....

Just tried to move some pictures from my Sony HD video camera over to my media storage server and got a disk full message. Impossible!  It's a 1 terabyte drive! So I looked up at it an freaked out when I saw red LED's on the panel for the first time
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:17 AM

The Worlds Smallest PC?

It runs Red Hat but I am ignoring that. The Space Cube is an interesting little device ( Link to Manufacturer ). Check out the pictures of the Space Cube next to a cell phone to get an idea of how small it really is. The article linked above makes it
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:06 AM

Interesting Downloads for the Week Ending - 08-22-2008

Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 · System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Hotfix Rollup Package (KB954641) (x86 Systems) · System Center Data Protection
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:34 PM

My awesome laptop....times 2...

I have had a Lenovo T61p laptop for almost a year now. This is absolutely the best laptop I have ever used (no...it is not the laptop that has given me so much grief for the past few weeks). The T61p is used as my demo platform when I am in front of audiences
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Monday, August 18, 2008 8:39 AM

Native Blu-Ray support in Windows?

While posting my previous article, my eye caught a link on the PCPro.uk site stating "Microsoft bulks up Windows with Blue-ray support" . The article says we are developing a feature pack that will add native support for burning to Blu-Ray media
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