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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
A while back I wrote a few notes on building a small home server box. Specifically that I had chosen this neat Morex case and this VIA EK Corefusion motherboard.Here in southern Europe the summer has been in full swing, and it got hotter by the day. A few weekends ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Install the Operating System
As detailed in the Introduction, we're going to drop a standard install of Ubuntu Server Edition on here, and then customise for various additional functionality.
The first step, of course, is to obtain one Ubuntu install CD! Go to the download page for Ubuntu, then make sure you ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
How easy is this going to be?
Worried? Don't be. It may be fair to say that if you've never taken the cover off a computer in your life then this maybe isn't the ideal starting point. But if you've ever dabbled a bit, maybe adding memory or changing a hard ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Here we look at building a cheap, quiet and compact home media server.So what is a "home-media server"? Different things to different folks, but the box I'm going to build is actually to replace an existing unit which works fine but is too large and much too noisy.
What is a ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Media servers for Pinnacle Showcenter 1000
I've had a Pinnacle Showcenter 1000 for a while now. It was one of the first "simple client - smart server" devices around, and is still a great device for getting music, photos and video from a PC to a hi-fi stack and TV.
The ...
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