Biffis Blog » Software/Hardware http://www.biffis.com Adventures in the world on the web Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:33:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Looks like I can do Networking now too! http://www.biffis.com/computers/looks-like-i-can-do-networking-now-too/ http://www.biffis.com/computers/looks-like-i-can-do-networking-now-too/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:55:55 +0000 admin http://www.biffis.com/?p=170 Just finished up a job in Montreal doing networking for our new Evolutra office we are setting up.  With the help of a couple of guys (and a few beers), we were able to wire up the new office without too much difficulty.  Check out the pics below:

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What I came up with was using NextGEN Gallery for WordPress.  It seemed like a pretty easy way to manage my albums and galleries without getting too involved.  I was also able to utilize Picasa’s experimental publish to FTP feature.

Heres how to get started:

  1. Install NextGEN Gallery for WordPress.  Once you’ve got that installed, you’ll want to make the following changes:
    In the Options menu -> General Options: Make note of the gallery path.  You’ll need this for Picasa later.
    Options -> Thumbnails: Choose the size of your
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I’ve been using an old laptop for the past few months to watch divx movies and downloaded TV shows on my TV. Its been working out pretty good, but now I’ve decided it was time to fully integrate a Windows Media Center into my home theatre setup.

I wanted the media center to act as a server for all my media (music, tv, movies, photos).  I want to be able access the media on this computer from anywhere on my network and also outside my home netowrk as well.

I had a few parts leftover from a recent upgrade of my primary desktop, add in a tuner, and I was set to go with the following setup:

The Setup

  • Intel Pentium D Dual core 2.6 GHz
  • ASUS P5K-VM
  • 3 GB RAM
  • Hauppauge Win-TV PVR150 Media Center Tuner
  • 1 80GB Main windows
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Ok, so now that you have a Media Center computer set up, there are many more things we can do with it.  If your Media Center is hooked up to your TV, you probably don’t want to have to be sitting in front of that system to do all your housekeeping, such as installing updates, programs, or moving files around.  I’ve got two tips here to help make your life easier on remotely managing your Media Center.  These only work in XP Media Center, don’t know about Vista.

Allowing multiple logins

Server guys already know and love this feature.  It allows you to have multiple people logged in to the same machine.  For example you can log in remotely to your system to move some folders around, or to update Windows while somebody else is watching TV, and you will not interrupt their session.  You can do … Read the rest

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