Block Porn with Windows Home Server

September 22, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Have you thought about running a proxy server or an Internet proxy on Windows Home Server. But why would you do that?

One reason is that you could view sites that your company blocks access to (naughty!) or to control web content served in your home by blocking sites (porn etc.) or even keywords to keep pages from being served.

There are many products on the market which can do this including a free software product called FreeProxy which will do the job.

FreeProxy

Blogger Joe DiFiglia details the setup and configuration in his 4 page tutorial and details the fine tuning, how to add some authentication and also setup the Windows Firewall.

Plus a really nice feature of FreeProxy is that you have a basic working proxy out of the box, you only need to configure the service to get it up and running, which is all explained for you here.

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Add-In: TV Manager 1.0.1

September 22, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Add-In TV Manager has been updated to version 1.0.1. The add-in moves your Media Center recordings to your server for storage and management. You can also watch the recordings from the TV Manager Web Interface to non-MC PCs over your local and Internet connection.

New in v1.0.1 is the ability to have TV Manager notify selected email addresses when a new recording for select shows are available for viewing. The recording is then quickly readied in the case you wish to view the recording out of the house using the new web interface.

Changes since 1.0

  • Added Single-sign-on for Web Interface
  • Created Web Interface
  • Fixed Ghost Recording Bug
  • Removed Console Tab
  • Added Email Notifications
  • Removed ComSkip — Had too many problems and people didn’t understand "Experimental"
  • Fixed Move Errors
  • Changed Air Date to the date recorded.
  • Allowed Client install on Non-MC PCs.

The download and a 12 page PDF document is available from the developers site, Brent’s Blog.

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One Mans Backup Strategy

September 22, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Digital photography enthusiast Ian Weatherburn has been blogging about his Backup strategies, which includes having his office computers configured as RAID-0, using a Drobo unit with 4TB of storage along with synchronization software Allways Synch.

But that’s not all! Next is an Intel NAS RAID-5 Server which has 4 500GB hard-drives configured as RAID-5 which does full-system backups and backups of all other purchased software, music and any other important data that Ian has. These full system backups are generated using the software Acronis True Image Home which runs on each workstation.

Finally Ian has also recently just installed a Windows Home Server on his network to determine it’s efficiency.

As Ian states:

Does this all sound paranoid? Possibly? Overkill? Probably? But then again, I take comfort in the fact knowing that my data is secure and redundantly stored in the event of failure. I say again – hard drives fail! It’s just a matter of time. Have you backed up your data lately?

What’s your opinion, what do you reckon, overkill?

You can read Ian’s full blog entry here.

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