Posts by jmallory

+1 on the Monoprice forward breakout cable. I have two of them in my new home server running an icy dock 6-in-1 drive cage in my N54L. Work like a champ.

The article states that only the feature content is included.....so I would assume that the audio and video bit-rates are going to be much higher. Anyone know if these are BD-50s?

Maybe Ceton could get Charter to subsidize the R&D? . I am on Charter myself and it really seems unlikely that the what, fifth largest MSO, could get a CE company to develop and get retailers to stock this kind of device. Maybe if it...

The XBOX 360 is the only extender right now that works with either Windows 7 or 8. Ceton makes an extender but it is only for Windows 7 (for the foreseeable future). The XBOX 360 should be able to connect via the component, composite,...

That size power supply would probably only run for less than five minutes. Enough to survive any power "flickers" but not enough time to shutdown (if shutdown does take ten minutes). My original HTPC config was a Q6600, 4GB of RAM,...

I bet is that this is intentional for the reason you are stating. Every big IT vendor that I have dealt with does this at one time or another.

Quote:Originally Posted by amarshonarbangla Isn't vSphere client super expensive? Are there other free clients to control ESXi? How are you guys affording it? vSphere client is free...you are thinking of vCenter.

I have dual NICs on my EVGA motherboard in my HTPC. One goes to the House VLAN on my "core" switch, the other is connected to a small VLAN for my HDHomerun. Probably overkill but does work well.

Firewall: pfSense 2.01 running on a dual-core Atom D2500 based ITX motherboard Switch: D-Link DGS-1216T Web Smart Switch Access Point: Apple Time Capsule

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffkahn One other quick question, I didn't see the business switch that you bought on Amazon (they do have some used ones on ebay). Do any of these look like adequate...