Just as an amusing, and totally off-topic FYI... (although it could fall under the description of "HA porn" perhaps..) On my system, Honeywell's "HOMETRONIC"...
I bought the HD MediaBox MB100 from Ripcaster and it was delivered on time as promised. The box is well designed to protect the contents and on first ...
Hi, Nothing at all to do with HA, just hoping to embrace the collective knowledge here. Does anyone have DNS hosted by dnspark.net? Since this morning all of...
http://www.flatwireready.com would probably make a decent hidden aerial or sensor strips for Qprox devices too ;) Copper EMI/RFI shielding tape from RS or...
..someone was asking about heated bathroom mirrors a while ago.. and I "stumbled" across this site just now. The mirrors can have a touch sensitive switch (or...
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Mark Have you tried upgrading the firmware for the Vigor - it worked for me recently with a Vigor 2800V. It used to drop out constantly - I used to reboot at...
Hi all This is OT but I am sure is very relevant to us media storage junkies! I am trying to help out a friend who wants to improve his back-up but I don't...
I am a home user and this was/is my plan. I am only part of the way through it. First get an Infrant 2TB ReadyNAS NV+ which formats to 1.3TB using Raid 5. This...
Looks like they are not having a good time at the moment http://status.dnspark.com/ DDoS Update 2007-06-01 07:33:00 Earlier this morning, our remaining servers...
... I'd prefer XviD or something else that has non-proprietary codecs. Many network media players won't touch WMV and Quicktime. Ian Oliver Sunny Leeds, UK ...
I've owned the MB200 for about a year now. Works ok-ish. There are some users out there who aren't too happy about the lack of H.264 support. Have a read at ...
For simplicity, a big tape drive or a device with a simple auto-loader would be a good idea. If you have a reasonable Internet connection then you could try...
How about the terrastation in RAID 1 mode, then set schedules to rotate round 3 (or more) backup sets on the same media. OK your backups are all in one place...
I’m no expert but my vote would be a Terrastation (in a fire safe ?) I have a 2TB model and it has been great… As suggested by others a series of USB...
I'm sure I saw a programme recently - Horizon possibly - that showed work by a fire engineer. They had designed a 'smart' monitoring system for very...
... Ian's just left here with his MediaBox thing in hand and it *DID* happily play the HiDef .WMV files that I downloaded last night. Worked nicely via the...
The thing is, the days of "big tape drives" are over IMO ... ... a "big" tape drive is hugely expensive (as are the tapes themselves) and they also need...
AFAIK these devices are all illegal in the UK, irrespective of power output (stand to be corrected if anyone knows for certain otherwise!). Their get-out...
Have to agree with you Phil. Even in a corporate environment disk is being used quite often instead of tape. The last time I looked at an Ultrium 2 tape unit...
... But then we get into that nightmare of having to add each movie into a database - which is why I've just rejected the "My Movies 2" add-in for MCE. I have...
Useful info re the KUX100 - I had hoped to wire into the motor directly! HA is never that simple, or cheap! Jon [Non-text portions of this message have been...