Posts by phelmers

There;s a product called Blu Tack which is used to mount speakers on stands. You can see it here. A similar product is available at home centers. Basically its tacky enough to keep things from moving but easily repositioned or removed as...

I saw a suggestion somewhere to buy white RCA jacks and then use colored markers on the white insulators to make them red, green, blue, orange, etc. - Peter

You might want to wait a few weeks on the CPU. The Intel E6600 is going to be replaced by the E6620 on April 22. It is supposed to be less expensive and have double the on board cache.

Kevin: There was a previous thread on the Uniden series phones here. I ended up getting the Uniden TRU9466 5.8GHz 2-Line phone with 5 additional TCX905 handsets and am happy with the system. My previous 2.4Gh systems did have...

Greg: Here's a freebie that I've used: JAlbum. - Peter

noon0: One other option for the OS, which I'm using with a different RAID controller, is FreeNAS. This is based on FreeBSD 6.1 and, in my experience, is extremely easy to set up compared to Linux. The 3ware 9550sx is FreeBSD 6.1...

Thomas: I haven't tried 5.7 yet but just downloaded it for installation sometime soon... - Peter

Thomas- I just set up a PC with the NV3000 and 4 cameras. It was primarily built from parts I had lying around after upgrading other PCs around the house... I am using a previously retired AMD Athlon XP 64 3200+ (socket 939) with...

Josh: I am not aware of such a filesize limit but I've only stored a 3 Gb file so far.... Do you have any references? I just checked the forums for FreeNAS and one user, tbarrenger, stated here , that he regularly copies 9 Gb...

WannaTheater: My FreeNAS system is built around an Asus P5RD2-VM motherboard with a socket 775 Celeron D 336 2.8G processor and 2x256Mb Corsair Value Select PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM. This motherboard has onboard video. The system boots off a...