Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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WHS and the SI3114 SATA controller

A Windows Home Server enthusiast wanted to add a SI3114 SATA controller to his Home server to add its 4 SATA ports to the system. Apart from the problem trying to find the appropriate driver for this particular Silicon Image controller card he also had the card froze his WHS at a prompt that said […]

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Interview with Tranquil PC

Episode 258 of "The Media Center Show" has host Ian Dixon talking to David Thompson from UK based Tranquil PC about their Home Server and Media Center machines. A great episode which you can listen to here.

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 92

The latest Home Server Show podcast is available with Home Server news from John, Chris and Dave as well as add-in chat and some craziness too. You can listen to episode 92 here.

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DVBLink 3.0 beta 1 – Transcoded Streaming to Browsers

Version 3.0 beta 1 of DVBLink is available for testing – The software which enables you to add tuner cards to Windows Home Server. The main feature added to this release is transcoded streaming to internet browsers. TV is streamed using Windows Media format and works both for internet and intranet although 5 consequitive ports […]

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Add-In: WHS Folding Coming Soon

Home Server Land has put up a teaser picture on their Wall in Facebook of a new add-in called WHS Folding. Folding@home is a  distributed computing project which help scientists studying protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases by you simply running a piece of software on your PC, and in this case on your Windows […]

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Add-In: AdminiMe for WHS Update-Release-1

A new version of AdminiMe for Windows Home Server is available. The add-in constantly monitors your server in the background, without you having to do anything and will notify you in case something goes wrong. Update Release-1 includes the following fixes: APP:CA002 Cpu Analyzer Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero […]

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Developing for the Launchpad in Vail

The second edition of the Vail Engineering blogs is up, and this time they are talking about Launchpad. If you are a developer then you will want to know what Lauchpad is, why you should care about it and when to extend it and when not to. Then this is a read for you.

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Add-In: WHSThumbnailer 1.0.0.2

WHSThumbnailer is a photo resizer/thumbnail generator add-in, which is currently available for beta testing. Do you have a lot large photos on your Windows Home Server which are difficult to manage and that take too long to share with your friends and family? Are you a professional photographer and want to sell your photos from […]

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HomeServerSync – Additional Information

As you may be aware, Tranquil PCs HomeServerSync add-in will be available from July 2010, bringing the data connection and data sharing functions of Home Server to new levels in the real world by: Multiuser multi folder synchronization both on the local area network and also via the Internet. Included 100GB off-site backup facility, upgradable […]

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CloudBerry Online Backup for WHS Reviewed

The How-To Geek has a review of the add-in “CloudBerry Online Backup for Windows Home Server”. Getting a Geek rating of 4 out of 5 stars, their thorough review takes you through the installation of the add-in and the setup of a Amazon S3 account, which is also needed. How it performs in actual use […]