Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Intel's Atom Processor and WHS

With the Atom processor finding its way into more Home Servers, PCWorld.com takes a look at this chip from Intel and wonders why its being used instead of Intel’s Celeron or AMDs Sempron. Read the story here.

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HPs EX487 Wins Editors Choice Award

PCMag.com takes a look at 3 network-attached storage devices. The Apple Time Capsule, the HP MediaSmart Server EX487 and the Linksys by Cisco MediaHub. I’m glad to say that the MediaSmart Server got the Editors’ Choice award and the reviewer added that: “It’s one of the best NAS servers I’ve tested”. You can read details […]

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Add-In: WebRadio 1.1.0.0

The add-in WebRadio which allows you to play radio streams from the internet has been updated. Version 1.1.0.0 allows you to: hide/show visualization delete, edit and save stations upload/download stations refresh button for station list More information on WebRadio is available from here.

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Europe gets the HP MediaSmart Server

HP announced today that European customers can expect to see the LX and EX series of their MediaSmart Serves for sale in Europe from Autumn this year. This is great news for Windows Home Server addicts this side of the pond as getting hold of one of the new MediaSmart Servers at present is like […]

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MediaSmart Server EX47x Owners to get Official 2.5 Update

HP have had a change of heart for owners of the first generation MediaSmart Servers. In a statement issued today HP will now issue the latest software update 2.5 to all owners of the EX and LX series including the EX470 and EX475. Due to the differences in these servers (platform and processors etc) HP […]

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Defrag Windows Home Server on the Cheap

Raxco Software the people behind PerfectDisk 10 for Windows Home Server have a limited time offer for their defragmentation software. A site license is for 1 x Windows Home Server and for up to 10 PCs and is currently on special at $59.99 instead of the regular $99.99, a massive $40 saving and only $10 […]

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OneNote on Windows Home Server

Website "Spackle" has a tutorial on using Microsoft OneNote with Windows Home Server. The guide explains how to setup the OneNote shared notebook enabling any notes you take in that notebook to automatically show up on all your computers using OneNote. And this is all accomplished by using OneNote’s synchronization and a common, accessible Windows […]

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Part 5 of Securing Your WHS and Network

Part 5 of Securing Your WHS & Network on website Home Server Land is now available. This part of the security series provides an explanation of DHCP and NAT and explains how your internet connection is shared by other computers on the LAN. Configuration of the router, private network address and static IP address for […]

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LX195 MediaSmart Server Manual Available for Download

The manual for the new HP LX195 MediaSmart Server is now available for download. The 236 page PDF manual can be downloaded from here.

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Digital Content to hit 12 Terabytes by 2014

internetnews.com is reporting that two Market Research companies are predicting that digital content in the average US household could hit 12TB by 2014 – Now that’s terabytes or 11,175 GB (Gigabytes), which is a lot of data for our hard drives to hold 5 years from now. With all that data wanting to be backed […]