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Christian Nordbakk said:

How about if you try and put 'http://' in front fo the address?

# November 3, 2003 3:54 AM

Christian Nordbakk said:

http://www.dasblog.net has implemented this, and you should be able to use some it's code. It also supports attachments and inline pictures.

# November 3, 2003 4:22 AM

Charlie -

Good recap of the instructions - that seems to be a stumbling block for many setting this up.

I really like the skin... very professional looking.

There seems to be a number of common pitfalls that catch unwary .Text installers - I, for example, have gotten the single blog running, but never sucessfully setup multi-blog.

On one hand, I thought about developing comprehensive instructions - like you did very well, on the other, Scott W. seems to have big plans for changing the structure of .Text...

Moving target, anyone?

Good luck and good blogging...

- Nick

# November 3, 2003 4:36 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Yep, that fixed it.

# November 3, 2003 9:35 AM

Kris said:

Also your stats are not activated I see...

# November 3, 2003 9:40 AM

A.Vance said:

Thanks for the great instructions -- after following the dottext e-mail list for some time -- this FINALLY addressed the multiple blog setup issue I have been having!

Thanks!

# November 3, 2003 8:11 PM

Marek said:

Stats may not work because of missing trigger in version 0.94. It's decribed on the .text site.

# November 3, 2003 11:43 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Now are they working? I'm posting this as a test of the trigger I...

# November 4, 2003 5:14 AM

hongs said:

It really got work after i have follower u tutorial. Thank you very much.
but i still have a problem. when you log in as a administrator to a sub weblog,and add a new link. the link does not work correct.
i try this in my local host. neither single blog nor multiple blog will work correctly.
thank u for help. u can email to me: hongs@163.net

# November 6, 2003 5:53 AM

TrackBack said:

Test

# November 6, 2003 10:48 PM

TrackBack said:

How does this work?

# November 6, 2003 10:49 PM

Lewies Blog said:

# November 7, 2003 11:32 PM

Lewis Moten said:

Thanks. Everything worked. However, when i clicked on the link to my blogs homepage, it kept saying file doesn't exist. I had to change the line for getting the aggregate homepage to:

^(?:\/\w+((\/default\.aspx|\/)?|(\/?))?)$

# November 7, 2003 11:43 PM

Lewis Moten said:

doh! I spoke too soon. Still having problems requesting home pages without specifying "default.aspx"

# November 7, 2003 11:59 PM

iis said:

Thanks! Found this in the forums at asp.net and will bookmark it
for my own installation.

# November 17, 2003 2:51 PM

Theoblogical.Net said:

# November 19, 2003 4:59 AM

TLIANGPBI said:

when i tried to add an image to a newly created gallery, i got an error saying:

... The error message related to this problem was as follows: Access to the path "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\blogs\images\localhost\test\4" is denied.

what might be the problem? i am using Windows 2000 Professional, .NET 1.1

thanks

# November 22, 2003 6:31 AM

TLIANGPBI said:

got it, i need to set ASPNET user to have full access to that directory

# November 22, 2003 7:53 AM

NightOwl said:

HELP!!!!

After following above directions TO A "T", this is what I get...

.Text - Application Error!
Details

Cannot open database requested in login 'DotTextDB'. Login fails. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'.

# December 9, 2003 9:31 PM

andremoraes@hotmail.com said:

My aspnet user has full permission to the directory, but still ......

Failed to start monitoring changes to '\\{servidor}\{compartilhamento}'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Failed to start monitoring changes to '\\{servidor}\{compartilhamento}'.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HttpException (0x80070035): Failed to start monitoring changes to '\\{servidor}\{compartilhamento}'.]
System.Web.FileChangesMonitor.FindDirectoryMonitor(String dir, Boolean addIfNotFound, Boolean throwOnError) +527
System.Web.FileChangesMonitor.StartMonitoringPath(String alias, FileChangeEventHandler callback) +477
System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency.Init(Boolean isPublic, Boolean isSensitive, String[] filenamesArg, String[] cachekeysArg, CacheDependency dependency, DateTime utcStart) +1535
System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency..ctor(Boolean isSensitive, String[] filenames, DateTime utcStart) +50
System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationSystem.GetCacheDependencies(Hashtable cachedeps, DateTime utcStart) +151
System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationSystem.ComposeConfig(String reqPath, IHttpMapPath configmap) +697
System.Web.HttpContext.GetCompleteConfigRecord(String reqpath, IHttpMapPath configmap) +434
System.Web.HttpContext.GetCompleteConfig() +48
System.Web.HttpContext.GetConfig(String name) +195
System.Web.CustomErrors.GetSettings(HttpContext context, Boolean canThrow) +20
System.Web.HttpResponse.ReportRuntimeError(Exception e, Boolean canThrow) +40
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FinishRequest(HttpWorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context, Exception e) +480

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

# December 11, 2003 12:16 PM

Gabriel Rodriguez said:

Hum.....you cant add a new blog from the Admin UI.....but you can create a stored procedure in the database and just create an asp.net page where you put the username and password parameters in textboxes.......and that would do.

wouldnt it?? Since Im planning to Install this on a school server next semester and give blogs to my team, i thought of this so i could remotely administer adding blogs instead of having to be physically at the machine.

# December 17, 2003 12:41 AM

Gabriel Rodriguez said:

Hey Charlie, you forgot to add the last step.

12. Get Scott's Missing trigger fix so it will update the post count and blogger list correctly.

great instructions man.

# December 17, 2003 2:04 PM

Thomas said:

Get Scott's Missing trigger fix ??? Where can i find that thanks

# December 29, 2003 6:20 PM

Alexander said:

There should be more soccer in US schools not just basketball or baseball or so callled American football

# December 29, 2003 9:01 PM

proempiet said:

I am trying to write a telnet programm to comunicate with MCE Controler.
This program is written in VB.Net 2003.
The problem is this programm only works once then I have to start the WindowsXP telnet programm again and it works only once ;-(

Maybe someone has some advice?

The code is VB.Net just add an RichTextbox, Textbox and 2 buttons to the form and then put in the underneath code:

Imports System.Net.Sockets
Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Collections
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Dim sock1 As New Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp)

#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()

'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()

'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call

End Sub

'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub

'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
Friend WithEvents TextBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Friend WithEvents Button1 As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents Button2 As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents RichTextBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Me.Button1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
Me.Button2 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
Me.RichTextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
Me.SuspendLayout()
'
'TextBox1
'
Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(40, 88)
Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"
Me.TextBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(176, 20)
Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 0
Me.TextBox1.Text = "TextBox1"
'
'Button1
'
Me.Button1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(24, 144)
Me.Button1.Name = "Button1"
Me.Button1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(88, 32)
Me.Button1.TabIndex = 1
Me.Button1.Text = "Send"
'
'Button2
'
Me.Button2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(144, 144)
Me.Button2.Name = "Button2"
Me.Button2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(88, 32)
Me.Button2.TabIndex = 2
Me.Button2.Text = "Connect"
'
'RichTextBox1
'
Me.RichTextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(40, 8)
Me.RichTextBox1.Name = "RichTextBox1"
Me.RichTextBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(192, 72)
Me.RichTextBox1.TabIndex = 3
Me.RichTextBox1.Text = "RichTextBox1"
'
'Form1
'
Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.RichTextBox1)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.Button2)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.Button1)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)
Me.Name = "Form1"
Me.Text = "Form1"
Me.ResumeLayout(False)

End Sub

#End Region

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
'This is the connect button
Connect()
Button2.Enabled = False
'Receive()
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'This is the send button
Send()
TextBox1.Text = ""
'Receive()
End Sub
Private Function Connect()
'BAD connection example = 206.245.158.190 5000
'GOOD connection example = 63.205.237.177 1912
Dim myIP As IPAddress = IPAddress.Parse("192.168.0.2")
'Parse the port number from the end of the string in the combobox
Dim EPhost As New IPEndPoint(myIP, 5150)
'Catch errors trying to connect to hosts that may not be there
Try
sock1.Connect(EPhost)
Catch ex As Exception
RichTextBox1.Text += ControlChars.CrLf & "ERROR: " & ex.Message
End Try
End Function

Function Receive()
Dim scanstring As String
Dim buffer(32000) As Byte
Dim ttlbytes As Integer
Dim x As Integer

sock1.Blocking = False
For x = 1 To 1000
Try
ttlbytes = sock1.Receive(buffer, buffer.Length, 0)
Catch ex As Exception
'RichTextBox1.Text += "ERROR: " & ex.Message
End Try
'Convert this received message from a byte array to an easier to use string
If ttlbytes > 0 Then
scanstring = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, ttlbytes)
RichTextBox1.Text += scanstring
ttlbytes = 0
End If
Next x

End Function
Public Sub Send()
Dim i As Integer
Try
'// Send the Message
Dim messageText As String = TextBox1.Text + ControlChars.CrLf
Dim sendMessage(messageText.Length) As Byte '= New Byte()
For i = 1 To messageText.Length
sendMessage(i - 1) = Convert.ToByte(Asc(Mid(messageText, i, 1)))
Next

sock1.Send(sendMessage, sendMessage.Length, SocketFlags.None)
Catch e As Exception
RichTextBox1.Text += ControlChars.CrLf & "ERROR: " & e.Message
End Try
End Sub
End Class

# February 29, 2004 4:05 AM

proempiet said:

Got it running posted the code on the Greenbutton

# March 3, 2004 1:41 AM

Jonathan Bradshaw said:

Very nice. How did you manage to send the Windows Key?

# March 10, 2004 1:57 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I use SendInput and use the VK_LWIN vk code. VK_LWIN and VK_RWIN act like ctrl, shift, and alt in that my code "holds them down" if you specify true in the command in the .commands file.

# March 10, 2004 9:59 PM

Kristofer Krause said:

On IIS and Win 2003 server... both ASPNET and NETWORK SERVICE users need access to the directory.

# March 17, 2004 12:02 PM

gary brine said:

Thanks Charlie, I am considering setting up a personal server and a back up storage device. your review helped me deciede to go with the linksys device.

# March 22, 2004 2:21 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I forgot one big one:

- Install landscape lighting.

# March 22, 2004 11:05 PM

Robert Hartman said:

Sounds like you're touching on some of the same issues referenced in Chris Sells blog at http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1184

Note the last few entries on the joys of wandering through mazes.

# March 31, 2004 10:23 AM

Dave Bordne said:

I purchased this same product and have found VERY POOR results while using it on a 1 gb connection. Performance is SLOW I'm talking a 1% MAX speed while copying anything to it. If it is plugged into a 100 base T switch. It performs well at that speed, much faster then on a 1000gb switch. The problem is when the NAS is running at GB speed. I tried using a crossover cable set at 1gb & still the same slow problem. Server to server is also not a problem running at gb. We also took it back & got a 2nd one. Same problem. I am curious to see what kind of speed your getting out of it running at on a gb lan. I called Linksys & they have no solution to the problem. If you can email me the results to bordned@hotmail.com

# April 15, 2004 9:15 PM

Rabi Satter said:

Your right, I totally did not talk about servers. As things start to shake out it will be interesting to see if thin clients with servers/Internet providers will win, fat clients or some combination.

A strike against thin clients is the dismal failure of smart displays. These devices are very cool and turn the monitor into the computer. After all when you talk at your computer do you talk to the box or the monitor ;). If you are like most people it is the monitor. Yet smart clients have not sold well. Nor I think will such technology until the price comes down below a sub $500 pc. Heck I doubt until they come down to 300 or less will they become even common place in the digital homes much less mainstream.

But here is an interesting problem. Can Microsoft (MS) make money on these devices?

In the consumer electronics (CE) I am not sure MS can win. The problem is the cost. If I am a CE company and I have a choice between MS or Linux, economics dictate that Linux will win. Why? Money, if MS charges even the ridiculous price of $5 a device at these low price points that is a significant cost. I am of course assuming that support, manufacturing and research are the same between Linux and Windows i.e. the cost to put either one is the same. Thus the only difference is that one costs me $5 out of my price. At a $250 price point that is 2% of the price.

So, MS has to spend money to convince CE companies or their customers that it's software is worth the additional $5. Add on top of that marketing bill the cost of R&D, support, etc. and I am not sure that Microsoft make the economics work. Sure you can say that they make money because they will sell PCs to support those devices but is that true. I think we have started to see saturation in the marketplaces around the world i.e. a machine is simply being sold to replace an existing computer and not really adding to the pool of computers. That’s why progressively we see fewer versions of the OS being sold at its release. True eventually they over take the old OS market but that is due to it being sold on new computers.

Linux on the other hand has no direct R&D, support or really any cost. Yes there is a people cost for development but I have to have those people whether I use Linux or MS. So the CE company can make an additional 2% by cutting out MS. And when a good company has profits in the 10-20% range 2% is an additional 10% to the bottom line.

By the way, I am not saying Linux or MS is a good or bad choice from a technology point of view. Both have their merits and problems. What I am talking about is good old economics. A couple of good case studies are the BetaMax vs. VHS and Apple vs. MS. The winners were the organizations with the economic model that made sense to the manufacturers and vendors who sell the product and spin offs which drive more sells of the original product. By the way Sony and Apple were not out marketed. They lost due to critical mass. Beta was only sold by Sony just as Apple is only sold by Apple. Their competitors on the other hand used licensing to grow faster thus achieving critical mass faster. By the time Apple figured out licensing it was too late and they could only really cannibalize their own sales.

So the trillion dollar question is will MS or Linux get to critical mass first?

p.s. cross posted to HAGeeks.com

# April 16, 2004 5:52 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Your basic premise on Linux flawed. Linux is not free to an ODM (Original Device Manufacturer). The R&D costs to take a Linux distro and customize it for a device are much, much higher than you assume, and much, much higher than the cost of implementing a profile such as SmartDisplay for Windows CE. For an ODM who is primarily interested in selling HW at volume (e.g. high volume/low margins), R&D and support costs are a critical factor. By going with Windows CE these costs are greatly reduced (at least for device profiles directly supported by CE).

In addition, the dissapointment of SmartDisplay's is entirely about cost, as you point out. But the OS licensing costs are insignificant relative to what really caused SmartDisplay's to be too expensive: LCD touch panels.

Regarding Media Center Extenders...stand alone versions will be relatively expensive initally. That's just a fact of life for a new type of device. But as they get integrated into other devices (e.g. LCD/Plasma TVs and DVD players) the cost of the components is amortized signifantly across the rest of the device (esp. with LCD/Plasma displays).

# April 17, 2004 4:58 PM

Rabi Satter said:

I have heard that comment before about Linux that R&D cost is much more. How do you come by this assumption or information? My actually assumption is that the R&D cost for either Windows or Linux based devices are the same. This is based on the labor costs for developers being the same. True in the business world a VB developer is cheap but we aren't talking about business apps. So a developer who can design and write these kinds of applications will tend to be more expensive than your typical programmer.

Or is MS footing part of the bill by providing developers? Which in that case you are reallying talking about shifting the cost to MS who has to add it into the pricing of licensing or eat the cost. Which to me makes no sense to eat the cost. For the sakee of argument lets say the market is 1 billion units or at $5 billion dollars total market for MS. This means for MS to make a return on their investment they can not invest more than 3 or 4 billion total. Otherwise they might as well invest the 3 or 4 billion in other areas. They would make more.

"insignificant relative to what really caused SmartDisplay's to be too expensive: LCD touch panels. "

I got to question that because for example Dell will see you a computer with an LCD panel for $499. If LCD is the significant cost how can Dell essentially give away an LCD panel. I am assuming that for SmartDisplay's we are not talking about tiny screens. Yet a 15" Airpanel will cost you almost $1k. Ok to be fair lets price a laptop which the cheapest at Dell is $799. So why is Airpanel more. If anything it should be less after all the SmartDisplay OS should be cheaper than XP home. And the craddle can't account for the $200 difference.

By the way, personnal I hope Windows wins because then I don't chuck 10+ years of Windows OS skills out the window ;) I just question that economics and market forces automatically assume that MS will win.

# April 17, 2004 7:15 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

My data comes from the fact that I work regularly with ODMs building devices. They are starting to realize the costs of engineers salaries needed to take a Linux distro and customize it (and support their customizations) are much higher than they expected. Now, remember I'm talking about device profiles that are tier 1 for Windows CE; those where MS has implemented the solution end-to-end (like SmartDisplay, PocketPC, SmartPhone, Portable Media Center, Media Center Extenders ...). In these cases the ODM can almost literally use the CE platform builder to generate their image, maybe do a little driver work, and maybe a little UI branding. They are assured of very high quality levels because it has already been rigourously tested by MS. For devices where MS has not invested in the vertical stack for that profile the advantages are not as great.

Here's an example I'm very, very familiar with (for the previous 1.5 years I worked in this group): Windows Powered Storage (NAS). Ok, so the analogy isn't perfect because (1) we're talking about the NT/W2K3 codebase not CE, and (2) the price point is much higher, but the results are the same. Windows Storage Server now commands over 50% market share for NAS. Prior to us being serious about he business 2 years ago we had a miniscule share with the majority being Linux, NetApp, and EMC. Alomst all the share we've picked up has been at the expense of Linux! Why? OEMs and ODMs can get Linux for free? Why would they burden their products with the price of Windows Server? (Windows Powered Storage is completely based on W2K3). Because they can be assured of a high-quality, 99% complete solution that requires very little software development on their part. These guys aren't software companies...they are hardware companies.

Regarding the SmartDisplay topic: The $499 DELL you mention is a promotion to draw people in. It is heavily discounted in order to draw people in...in reality very few people buy the base model (Dell works very hard to up-sell you and have you accessorize). 128MB/40GB and a 2.4GHz processor. All massively commoditized components (probably $120-150 BOM). And the 15" LCD that comes with it is also now a massive commodity ($100 BOM). This all supports my point. But what really makes my point is the fact that he LCD on the SmartDisplay is a VERY different beast: it is a touch screen! Add battery, craddle, and other things...and the fact that most of it is not mfg. in commodity volumes. To be clear: the reality is this sort of device is expensive; not because of the Windows license, but because of limited volumes. Time will fix that and hopefully MS will be able to have the highest value software stack available with the lowest overall cost. For us enthusiasts, we just have to continue to be patient...

I know I'm biased, I do work at the Big House after all. But I do have real experience here. I was one of the earliest proponents of using RDP as the basis for ultra-light-weight client devices in the home w/in MS. SmartDisplay and Media Center Extenders were both conceived by me. I'm just fairly tired of people continuing to say "Linux is free" without really thinking through the total costs. The good news (for MS anyway) is we continue to see strong evidence that various companies are waking up to this.

# April 17, 2004 11:11 PM

Rabi Satter said:

This is an enlightening conversation. From my perspective it will help me understand the market from a business perspective. And to have facts to backup my assumptions.

As far as the NAS analogy it actually is a good example. True the OS from a cost perspective is more. However in terms of percentages it should not be that off base. So from this perspective you are really contending that R&D is more for a Linux than a Windows based product because MS provides a turnkey environment. On the other hand a Linux environment requires someone paid by the manufacturer to create the software. When you cost it out against the licensing of Windows it comes out for the sake of argument to be the same. So now at this point you look at the support and quality of the platform. In the case of a Linux platform, the manufacturer has to fix bugs, create upgrades, etc. In the case of MS that cost is borne by MS. So if your core business is hardware manufacturing the value proposition of using MS is so you don't need to also be a software developer.

Or put another way, MS saw that providing a reference platform for manufacturers is the value added proposition that justifies the licensing fee. Where as Linux proponents, no one seems to have realized that the value proposition of creating a Linux company that focuses on creating reference platforms and making money by licensing the platform.

Is this a fair assessment?

In regards to the SmartDisplays, I still do not understand the pricing model. As you point out the hardware is not volume hardware. And that is why I am surprised! If anything it should be volume hardware configuration with the only added cost the touchscreen film. After all to run RDP should not require heavy duty horsepower.

Having been on a touchscreen design team it did not cost that much to design or run a prototype batch. The biggest hurdle was sound and screen resolution since we wanted a small high res screen. Which was the issue. If we had said a 15" high res screen it would have been cheaper vs. a 12". Go figure. The sound was a side issue since we wanted to have a fairly nice stereo sound coming out of the screens.

Last thing to be clear. I would not ever say that Linux is free in terms of development. What I meant by free is this; that if R&D is equal (which you point out is not true) then the price of a Linux device vs. Windows device would be the difference in the price of the Windows licensing fee.

# April 18, 2004 2:54 PM

BT said:

I have thought about this a lot and even written my own software to do it (PlayerPal). At the moment I think the perfect control hardware is the Pocket PC. They are very cheap and support Wifi and HTTP.

As for remoting the UI, I use good old ASP.NET and .remoting to remote my servers WMP. Thus my server is headless (no keyboard, mouse or monitor).

I think a lot of the current DMR UIs suck. IR control is also a bit arcane in the Wifi age. I have designed the UI to be Google like. It is optimised for surfing/discovering your music.

Anyway, if you are interested the PlayerPal remote control for Windows Media Player can be downloaded over at www.playerpal.com. It's not the holy grail but I hopefully it will contribute in some way.

# April 19, 2004 6:36 AM

John Schroedl said:

Thanks for sharing the DFS adventure with us. Now I'm interested in setting up a more elaborate home network. Could you blog a little more about your configuration and pains you've gone through? e.g. How hard is it to setup the Digital Persona? What about the initial setup of DFS and your DCs? Is everything wired or are you wireless as well?

John

# April 21, 2004 7:14 AM

Joris Schoot said:

I have bought a EFG120 and also found out that when you use on a GB lan it performs realy poor.. They could put a 10Mbit network interface in it because it does not peform better. The average read througput on a GB network is 5 megabyte a second the write througput is 1 megabyte a second. The specs of a 1GB network are lots higher.

# April 22, 2004 12:12 AM

Tom Swart said:

There is some thought of switching from PC to Thin Client on our campus. I have talked to some larger campuses and they say not to do it. That PC is still better? Whats is the straight story on this? Is the PC becoming a dead issue and thin client the real deal? I'd like to be better informed on this topic. Any comments would be appreciated.

# April 22, 2004 6:12 AM

Ken Brubaker said:

pinvoke.net, a PInvoke community Wiki, pinvoke.net, maintained by the PInvoke deity Adam Nathan.

# April 23, 2004 5:19 AM

Rabi Satter said:

Depends on the application. In this case we were discussion a particular type of thin client.. i.e. media clients. These devices are great for that kind of operation because of environmental issues... i.e. noise in the living room. Keep the device cheap, silent and that way your stereo, TV, or Theater does not have to overcome the noise of the computer.

I think that thin clients are useful under other kinds of conditions. Specifically, ones in which you do not want storage on the machine. For example, using a thin client machines in a public setting for Internet access or in customer service centers really most company jobs. Here the machine is just a PC with no drives of any kind or USB ports. It uses bootp to boot the OS from a server and only can use applications that are available from the server. This makes support much easier since the machine can only be in a configuration specified without any programs being put on by unauthorized personnal. The user can still store stuff like documents file servers.

The biggest problem is cultural since people think of their office PC as their's even though it is owned by the company. So people feel they have the "right" to put additional software on the machine. Hence I think the adoption of the so called thin client has not been faster.

By the way, in writing this I can't really think of a situatiton where an organization would get a lot of benefit from deploying a network with thin clients i.e. storageless PCs and large fileserver farms. There are even companies that specialize in making thin client farms i.e. a rack that holds a huge number of diskless PCs with keyboard/mouse and monitor connected by cat5.

http://www.clearcube.com/

# April 23, 2004 12:02 PM

File it! said:

# April 26, 2004 2:11 PM

ML said:

Hello,

I am new at this, but also trying to create a way for people to upload images from their digital camera or scan photos onto a database for viewing online.

You wrote "I know that storing images in SQL Server vs. the file system has performance issues" Since i am new at this could you explain to me why? Also what is file system?
15seconds.com was helpful.

Thanks,
ML

# April 27, 2004 4:39 AM

John Scalzi said:

Tigger!

Glad you're enjoying it so far.

As a person who I remember as being almost unseemly in love with Depeche Mode's music, may I commend to you my remix of "I Feel Loved":

http://www.scalzi.com/ifl.mp3

Enjoy --

# April 27, 2004 10:32 AM

Keith Moore said:

Ahh... Duct Tape... Now *there's* a project name I haven't heard in a long time.

# April 27, 2004 2:04 PM

J.P. Stewart said:

Note that you can also use dfscmd for many of your dfs debugging issues. I constantly have problems accessing dfs from non-domain machines. AND especially accessing dfs shares from machines that are not "dfs aware". Using dfscmd.exe however can show you the full dfs map and allow you to net use directly to the location that you are interested in getting to, thus cutting dfs out of the picture.

# April 28, 2004 8:53 AM

Luc Stappaerts said:

Same problem here, very slow performance when using the EFG120 on a gigabit LAN. I cannot understand that LinkSys is selling a product which claims gigabit performance, but it simply does not work. Did they actually test this product for this speed ?

# April 29, 2004 1:41 PM

lou said:

Charlie,

What is the status of your external control processor for sys?

I was thinking of integrating the vity system with premise. This system is pretty cool, they have some interesting Touch panel options...
-Lou

# April 29, 2004 2:31 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I use it every day. A few other people are evaluating it now.

If you are interested in trying it out, let me know.

# April 29, 2004 2:34 PM

Brian Desmond said:

Hi there,

I found your site through another blog - just poking around a bit. Have you considered an RS232 driver so you can control easily via a Crestron (though IR would work, but, then you need the gadget o learn the IR codes)? ;)

# April 29, 2004 8:37 PM

Will Lane said:

How are the relays controlling your irrigation system. I am trying to find an irrigation product that will integrate with crestron

# May 22, 2004 1:42 PM

Bruce Williams [MS] said:

Nice bit of investigation there!

# May 26, 2004 7:25 PM

Mike said:

What a freakin Kluge this is :(

# June 3, 2004 8:14 AM

loulou said:

He really is a geek. Take it from me, I'm his sister.

# June 3, 2004 10:25 AM

Tom said:

Takes one to know one.

# June 3, 2004 7:00 PM

Loulou said:

you would know Tom.

# June 3, 2004 7:01 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I wondered how long it would take you to find this post. See you guys in about a month!

# June 4, 2004 11:16 AM

Emily said:

Uncle Tigger is a geek!

# June 15, 2004 12:07 PM

Rabi Satter said:

Welcome to wide world of wireless. An interesting thing to do is stream video on G. It doesn't work but you will see the video coming in waves like on a coastline. Strong signal - pullback, build back to a strong signal then pull back. I have not yet figured out why it seems to work in waves. And it has nothing to do with buffering since the client has almost no buffer.

One thing you might try although this is extremely dangerous is to reflash the firmware. The linksys is actually Linux and the software is under gpl. Check here for a list of potential firmware http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html.

I will totally deny everything if you get into trouble. :)

# June 19, 2004 5:22 AM

fred said:

cool stuff dude. I also have a DFS installed in my home network. It's working great. The only problem i have now is Roaming Profile. It doesn't save the profile for the wallpaper when you roam...

anyway, cheers for you... btw how much is the biometric device?

# June 19, 2004 5:42 AM

Scottie said:

When I run the query I get a hot of errors.

Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Line 3: Incorrect syntax near 'function'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Line 3: Incorrect syntax near 'FUNCTION'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 20
Must declare the variable '@list'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 23
Must declare the variable '@list'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 26
Must declare the variable '@delimiter'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 31
Line 31: Incorrect syntax near '@tbl'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 33
Must declare the variable '@delimiter'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 39
Line 39: Incorrect syntax near '@tbl'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Line 4: Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Procedure blog_InsertLinkCategoryList, Line 13
Line 13: Incorrect syntax near '@CategoryList'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Procedure blog_InsertLinkCategoryList, Line 20
Line 20: Incorrect syntax near '@CategoryList'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Procedure blog_Content_Trigger, Line 7
Line 7: Incorrect syntax near 'AFTER'.

# June 22, 2004 4:00 PM

Steve Purpura said:

I solved a similar problem on Linux by forcing the Linux driver to never attempt to handshake with a new AP. It was useful for pushing data between AP and client as fast as possible. The dropouts nearly disappeared, although operation of certain electronic devices could still cause interference.

# June 23, 2004 1:42 AM

Brian Goldin said:

I have a Netgear MR814v2 access point at home and and never experienced any problems until I started using my new Toshiba Portege M200 tablet pc. Like you the built in wireless would consistently connect, drop off, connect, drop off and so on. I found that by putting a cisco pcmcia wireless card in it worked much better with 'excellent' connection strength most of the time.

In researching what might cause my card to have problems I found a few articles about the centrino processor and problems that people were having with power management. Apparently whatever firmware, bios, software / processor scheme on my machine was causing the power to my wireless adapter to throttle up and down. This was causing issues with the access point.

Netgear posted a fix for my AP regarding compatability issues with centrino based systems. I flashed some new firmware and all is well now.

just some thoughts.

Brian

# July 10, 2004 8:03 AM

Michael Teper said:

Are you securing your feeds? Also, can you speak a little more about Premise?

Thanks!

# July 27, 2004 1:29 PM

Sean McLeod said:

One option if you're concerned about the amount of CPU horespower used is to get the AverMedia DVD EZMaker Pro USB2.0 device since it generates MPEG2 streams. So you won't burn any cpu cycles encoding, just a couple streaming.

Downsides I guess are that it's probably not as flexible, for example I'm not sure that you could get the device to output multiple bitrate streams like you currently can with Windows Media Encoder.

Other issue is that I've played around with Windows Media Encoder to stream video from an attached DV camera etc. and I can't see anyway to stream the input (in my case DV or mpeg2 for a number of capture devices) without encoding to Windows Media format first. If you know of a way please let me know.

# July 27, 2004 2:33 PM

cek said:

Yes, I am securing the feed. Plus I'm not telling anyone the URL to the feed :-).

# July 29, 2004 12:14 AM

Steve Downs said:

Close proximity to a cordless phone can interfere with an access point since they are on the same frequency. I moved my phone to the other end of the house and it improved the signal strength

# July 30, 2004 11:26 AM

Joey said:

I have been a casual user of TheSky since it was The_Sky, and while I loved it then, I am absolutley thrilled with it now. I've not yet gotten v6, but have seen a few samples and I'm chomping at the bit to get it and play. With just a little time and practice, TheSky makes it possible for anyone with a half-decent computer to learn more about astonomy than any undergrad level astronomy class ever could. You don't even need a telescope, although having one, along with the suite of software these talented people have created, will enhance the power of TheSky to take your knowledge and ability to nearly unlimited levels.

I have had the pleasure of meeting the Brothers Bisque on more than one ocasion, and have always found them to be among the most down to Earth people I've ever met. The fact that SoftwareBisque is a family business is readily evident in every facet of the business, from the warm and inviting decor of their headquarters in Golden, to the fact that a phone call to their offices might just as easily be answered by Steve (The President), as oneoof his employees. The friendly, casual atmosphere of their office and staff belies the professional quality of their products and staff.

Well done, Brothers Bisque. Well done indeed. Keep up the good work, and thank you for doing so much to make the wonders and thrills of and astromony so readily available to rank amatures like me. May you enjoy every success. You deserve it!

# August 11, 2004 1:25 PM

Andy Johnson said:

Looks like an impressive piece of software. You might want to check out Celestia - a very cool space-flight simulation app. Its at http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

# August 12, 2004 8:04 AM

samdruk said:

i just bought one of those mitsumi combo drives a couple weeks ago at computerstop and it's a champ. SD, CF and MS parts float around from various devices in our house all the time and usb2 is as speedy as we're going to get right now anyway.

# August 13, 2004 10:32 AM

Haiyan said:

Hello,

I am a student of University of Portsmouth in UK. Now conducting an online survey which is concerned with the use of weblogs especially in internal / external communication building; knowledge / project management, customer services etc. The survey is to analyze the psychological factors of bloggers and visitors.

Could you kindly take 5-10 minutes to have a look at it or pass it to other bloggers or colleagues, might find some interesting stuff or want to see the result of it : )

One is mainly for bloggers as you and your colleagues:
http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=53800

Another one is for the normal blog visitors :
http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=53510

Sorry for taking your time and blog place :(
As a student, I will be very grateful if you can take a little time to assist me :)

Your reply will be highly appreciated ! Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Haiyan
haiyanuk@126.com

# August 17, 2004 12:09 PM

Simon said:

After a drive failure that hit me hard, and needed about two days of work to recover most of the data from it (and it was just the OS and applications disk that happened to have some important stuff on) I have gone from not worrying that much to being a touch silly:

I implemented raid 1 on enteprise class disks (SCSI disks at one point, WD74 10000rpm SATA150's now - hopefully they'll be reliable) for primary storage volumes, then a weekly backup to ANOTHER raid 1 volume made of cheap disks that can take several of the primary storage volumes (using 250GB drives). Then I replicate anything ultra important to a server in America.

Mass storage isn't so much of an issue, I'm not tooo worried about loosing backups of dvd's or images of CD's - yes, it'd be time consuming to replace, but a few 400GB drives per machine and a couple of copies around my home network should keep me from doing that! No raid at all - so worst case I have to copy 400 gig of data between two machines, rather than several TB if I striped it.

Since implementing this, I've been pretty lucky - so far anyway. Eight drives have failed in three years and no data lost.

# October 3, 2004 10:28 AM

Brett said:

Dude,
This must be an American thing because I have been sitting here in my office in sunnay Australia for an HOUR trying to work out why this is funny! I am saddened to admit that I just dont get it, so can you PLEASE explain it to me: its driving me crazy... !

Cheers
Brett

# October 3, 2004 7:04 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/cow_tipping.html

Not that I condone such activity, of course.

:-)

# October 3, 2004 7:48 PM

Brett said:

You should, because its great fun...errrrr....so I have heard.
Thanks though, I can sleep easy now!
Cheers
Brett

# October 3, 2004 8:16 PM

Shawn said:

And though we *never* did this in Texas, I heard the folks up in Oklahoma used to go tipping as football practice... Make sure the bulls are in a seperate pasture, and it ain't "breedin' time" if you ever do this...B-)

# October 3, 2004 8:37 PM

shawn's blog said:

# October 3, 2004 8:43 PM

Code/Tea/Etc. said:

# October 3, 2004 8:50 PM

Pierre Phaneuf said:

How about the noise levels? Reasonable?

# October 3, 2004 10:09 PM

Roger Lipscombe said:

Wow, I just read your follow-up article, and while I don't have nearly that much data, I do have several years of digital photos, and several Gb of MP3s. I'd hate to have to rip all of those CDs again.

Recently, one of the disks in my fileserver died, so I went looking for something a bit more robust. Fortunately, I didn't lose much data -- I'd backed up all of the important stuff onto DVD+R a few weeks previously.

In the end I opted for a 3ware SATA150 RAID card, to which I've got connected 4x200Gb Seagate Barracuda drives, configured for RAID5. So, I figure I'm good for any single-drive failure.

I still need to look at a long-term offline-backup (tape, DVD, removable disks, etc.) strategy, though.

# October 4, 2004 1:23 AM

cicorias said:

Have you checked out Shuttle?

This case supports 2 - 3.5"

http://us.shuttle.com/specs2.asp?pro_id=514

# October 4, 2004 7:13 AM

chris hollander said:

my "digital empire" is no where near as expansive, but i've experienced a potentially earth shattering HD crash last year that has me rethinking my entire storage/archival strategy.

platters are delicate enough; when companies cram 4 of them into a single enclosure, its a disaster waiting to happen.

i haven't fully thought this out yet, but i see my long term "precious data" solution as having two critical components; redundancy and optical storage. "live" data; that is, data that is still being added to, modified, or constantly accessed, needs to live on a 0+1 raid array; true archival material (photo's i've scanned, videos i've captured, broadcasts i've recorded) should live in a DVD jukebox.

are there any good solutions for firewire raid?

# October 4, 2004 7:17 AM

Blog Jammin' said:

# October 4, 2004 8:13 AM

Wayne Taylor said:

Hi

What you have descriped here, is what is happening to my Exchange 2000 server, how (if I can) do the same using Exchange 2000 (SP3) ?

Cheers

Wayne Taylor

# October 4, 2004 8:19 AM

doug ransom said:

It is a mistake to archive precious material to dvds or cds. These degrade.

# October 4, 2004 8:33 AM

Mikehall's Embedded WebLog said:

# October 4, 2004 10:10 AM

Mikehall's Embedded WebLog said:

# October 4, 2004 10:10 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

The Shuttle is huge (relatively), much more expensive, and very noisy. You don't need anywhere near the horsepower for this sort of home server.

The C135 is very quiet. I has a fan, but it is not lound. There are variants of this case that do not have fans...

# October 4, 2004 1:09 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I do not believe this technique will work on Ex 2000.

# October 4, 2004 10:04 PM

Brad C. said:

Looks like the Inquirer link got a bit chopped off in the posting process. Perhaps it's for the better... "The Inquirer: We Pad half-rumors with 3 paragraphs of fluff and call it an article!"

# October 5, 2004 12:51 AM

Chris Kinsman said:

The problem is that tape hasn't kept up and changers are too balky to keep running hands off.

I looked at building a SAN using iSCSI and that just doesn't seem quite ready for prime time. One more system to fail.

Love to see where you are going with this...

# October 5, 2004 4:27 AM

Sean McLeod said:

Do you know what the max resolution is? Is it standard definition TV or can it drive higher resolutions like HDTV.

Would be great if it also included a DVI connector to connect to high-res LCD TVs etc.

Cheers

# October 5, 2004 8:11 AM

Eduardo said:

The points are easy the tell, but difficult to find an answer:

* Implement an automated regularly scheduled backup scheme
where do you backup tons of gigs? Tapes? no, DVDs? no, hard-drive? maybe, but you need to double your capacity to acomodate the data

* Keep a copy of all precious data "off-site"
Again, where? removable hard-drives. Bulky. Maybe an internet backup schema

* Practice restoring from your backups
Here do you need another system to test and enought free time to do it. It's a lot of $$$

# October 5, 2004 12:17 PM

Chris Sells said:

Holy cow! Why would I spend $250+ on that Linksys thing when I could buy an XBox with whatever media extender attachment it's bound to get? I'm so disappointed in the price...

# October 5, 2004 3:41 PM

Steve Makofsky's WebLog said:

# October 5, 2004 8:36 PM

Sean McLeod said:

I thought the press releases earlier this year when the media center extender devices were first announced mentioned prices on the order of $150.

# October 5, 2004 11:27 PM

Richard Tallent said:

Good post, this is an important topic as bulky personal media continues to fill our hard drives. I think I have a partial solution to the problem, follow the link below for more info:

http://www.tallent.us/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=407ef0ab-f061-472f-8209-51658e7dcfd8

# October 5, 2004 11:34 PM

Mikehall's Embedded WebLog said:

# October 5, 2004 11:40 PM

Steve Bolton said:

Have you considered using one of the tools that monitor the S.M.A.R.T. data stored on most modern drives. This information is supposed to be a predictor of a failing drive.

A lot more of our company staff are using laptops and we are getting regular drive failures on these.

# October 6, 2004 1:25 AM

Sean McLeod said:

Although price wise the WiFi version of Slim Device's Squeezebox which only does audio costs $279.

http://www.slimdevices.com/

# October 6, 2004 4:00 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Xboxes make noise and are not always on, Extenders ave silent and can always be on. Not everyone his an Xbox or wants one. And the cost diff. is not that great.

# October 6, 2004 10:00 AM

stevex.Text said:

# October 7, 2004 5:31 AM

Jeremy said:

It certainly looked to be one until this disappointing news:

No Standalone Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/no-standalone-windows-xp-media-center-edition-2005-022871.php

# October 7, 2004 8:52 AM

REM2000 said:

As above, ive found CD's and DVDs to be too unreliable for backup. A couple of CD's from a few years back have already started to corrupt.

The most reliable format for backing up is to place the data on many computers. For example my media collection is on my server, pc and laptop. So during a problem one of these devices should be able to restore the data. But it's still an expensive option.

Apart from the above the most reliable method for backing up in my experience is the Iomega Zip Drive. However 100, 250 and 750MB don't really dent any normal sized media collection.

# October 7, 2004 9:00 AM

Peter said:

For just a home fileserver the iomega nas 100d might be interesting too. It is delivered in a 160 Gb and a 250 Gb model.

# October 7, 2004 12:08 PM

Alan said:

The Ultra-X doesn't have SATA power connectors? That's a pretty big negative, otherwise it looks real nice. I would like to see more mobos with at least 4 sata ports and still have two pata ports for optical drives.

# October 7, 2004 5:46 PM

Alan said:

*edit above post*
Sorry, I see they are available now, and that if you have purchased an Ultra-X p.s., they will send you a free sata cable. Very nice.

# October 7, 2004 5:49 PM

cb said:

Just built a 1tb md raid5 array on a Linux box to rsync everything important onto. Works great, samba really integrates nicely with the rest of the house network.

Now I need a second array for MythTV

# October 8, 2004 6:21 PM

Chris Sells said:

Now *this* looks like a well-priced unit. : )

http://www.ghettohardware.com/articles/mcebathroom/

# October 9, 2004 10:08 AM

fossne said:

great job

# October 10, 2004 4:21 AM

Doc McClenny said:

This seems silly to me. Is a consumer willing to pay a premium to make sure that they don't lose the latest Apprentice?

If the PVR morphs into the home media archive, storing priceless digital photos, they may have a point, but we seem to be a ways away from that point. However, the price delta is likely to be large in a very price sensitive market.

Doc

# October 10, 2004 7:45 AM

nick said:

> Have you considered using one of the tools that monitor the S.M.A.R.T. data
> stored on most modern drives. This information is supposed to be a predictor
> of a failing drive.

I hadn't thought of this, according to the wikipedia, the indicators SMART checks for can predict 60% of drive failures.

I assume that modern OS's or bios's would already recognize and alert the user that something bad is going down? Anyone know if XP already supports SMART monitoring?

# October 10, 2004 6:59 PM

Amy -the evil elder not "big" sister said:

What he fails to mention is that "Tigger" morphed into "Tiggy Poo". What would "Bill" say to that?

# October 11, 2004 4:03 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

This is what happens when your family starts reading your blog.

# October 11, 2004 11:33 PM

Maung Yogesh said:

Its a really cool app and I'm really amazed that you've been able to do that in C#. One of the things I've been wondering is how you've been able to send WM_INPUT commands in C# (used for things like the subtitle key)? I've always thought that you had to resort to C++ for that sort of thing.

# October 12, 2004 10:42 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Look up PInvoke.

# October 12, 2004 1:57 PM

Henry said:

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# October 13, 2004 12:19 AM

Gary Newman said:

Can you install it with out having a OEM?

# October 13, 2004 6:06 AM

bws said:

yes. you can install without an OEM. I believ its a full version installable on any pc.

# October 13, 2004 12:10 PM

Chris Sells said:

And so does this:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/557/557142p1.html

I think I have to get myself an XBox now... : )

# October 14, 2004 2:47 PM

Steve Butler said:

Definitely know what you mean - I've been away from coding for about 6 months, and came back to release my Newsgator subscription and make an aggregation server using the new SQL 2005 CLR capabilities.

Productivity is amazing in the new VS Shell, and the server tool capabilities are simply amazing!

# October 15, 2004 2:34 PM

Rod Trent said:

VERY, VERY NICE! Unfortunately, I had too much to do with the kids' halloween parties last night to even look up into the sky. But -- oh, I was so looking forward to it. Thanks for the coverage!

# October 28, 2004 7:34 AM

Rants said:

# October 28, 2004 10:13 AM

Ciam said:

That is SO cool!
I spent a while watching the eclipse, but didn't have time to get the telescope out and just plain didn't think of getting my camera. Just as well, since this shot is better than any I could have gotten!

-Ciam Sawyer

# October 28, 2004 12:53 PM

Rants said:

# October 28, 2004 10:41 PM

Rants said:

# October 28, 2004 10:42 PM

Dan's Archive said:

# November 2, 2004 5:45 AM

Condor said:

Hi Charlie,

I'm the lead programmer at alienware.com, and it was a big surprise when I saw this on your weblog. I read you every week ;-)

thanks

--Raul

# November 4, 2004 8:03 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Love your guys' stuff at Alienware. Keep it up.

# November 5, 2004 10:33 PM

Steve Butler said:

Put the weapon er. mouse down - step away from the keyboard ;)

Just when I thought I'd climbed far enough up the ladder after VBA & Scripting let *any* Office user become a power developer. I guess the last redoubt will be MASM until IL becomes *the* micro code.

# November 8, 2004 9:39 AM

Scott Williams said:

I have the most recent copy as of a couple weeks ago. I'll use your contact page to get you ftp information.

# November 16, 2004 7:16 AM

Brian Muirhead said:

I like the Cogitation skin, too. You did a great job modifying it. Looks great!

# November 17, 2004 3:34 AM

JB said:

I really like it! Where can I get a copy?

# November 17, 2004 4:57 AM

Mark Wagner said:

Very nice skin. I may just copy the picture of Charlie too. LOL. Looks just like me, no kidding.

# November 17, 2004 5:17 AM

vgblog@thegillfamily.us (vern) said:

If you look in PageTemplate.ascx in the Skins directory, under the skin you are using, you will see the various controls that are used, and what order they are in. Just play around with that for a while...

# November 17, 2004 5:57 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

No, that's not right. PageTemplate.ascx only specifies the header, main, left (right in my case), and footer cells. It is CategoryList.ascx that generates the contents of the right pane. It has a repeater named CatList using OnItemCreated="CategoryCreated" to generate the lists.

# November 17, 2004 8:02 AM

John Cavnar-Johnson said:

That has got to be the creepiest title for a blog entry yet. I know what you mean, but still....

# November 17, 2004 1:59 PM

AC said:

Any chance you'll post some pictures?

# November 17, 2004 6:07 PM

Gareth Jones said:

So my big question is what O/S to run on such a box?

I need a server OS as I only have 56K dialup and so need Software Update Services to spread the download cost of huge patches around my three or four clients in the house.
But the killer problem for me is that Windows Media Connect doesn't run on server OS's.

Right now I'm compromising and running Windows Server 2003 with Virtual Server running an instance of Windows XP. This is not exactly what you'd call a consumer appliance ;-)

What I want (and I suspect a lot of the international market needs) is a "Home server" product that is a UPnP server and an anti-virus and patch management solution all in one that doesn't make the assumption that I can get broadband where I live.

# November 18, 2004 4:06 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Clearly I'm a fan of W2K3 as a home server OS. I do understand your frustration with Windows Media Connect not installing on it. Very cool that you are using VS and XP as a work around.

Where do you live that you can't get BB?

# November 18, 2004 7:22 AM

papa Pimp said:

i looooooooooooove this web site

# November 18, 2004 9:44 AM

jpc said:

If you build it yourself it would be cheaper either way (linux or windows) so I don't really see your point (this one: ,,I thought Linux devices were supposed to be cheaper...''). ;)

# November 18, 2004 1:51 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

The point is, if it's Linux based and they have no OS royalty, why do they charge a 200% markup?

# November 18, 2004 6:38 PM

Gareth Jones said:

Nowhere outlandish, just outside Cambridge in the UK. I have my fingers crossed for broadband in the new year!

We had a power cut last night, and I have to say I was fairly impressed that even with this complicated setup, my investment in a £50 UPC and the quality of Virtual Server meant that when I turned on my Roku this morning I still had streaming media ready to go.

So I think I'm adding "built-in cheap UPS" as a must-have feature for my dream home server appliance. Too few people will buy it separately if its not built in and it will save a lot of pain with people's digital assets.

# November 19, 2004 12:58 AM

jpc said:

Probably because they are lame ;)

# November 20, 2004 2:17 AM

Nick said:

Thanks you... We installed your skin and love it! what do you think?

-nick

# November 28, 2004 7:37 PM

yipyip said:

So....

If we're already building it ourselves, why not put Linux on it ourselves and save the $400 for Windows too?

See? Cheaper. :P

# December 1, 2004 11:01 AM

Fred said:

Take this comment as a trackback. There are some of my thoughts about this new and really interesting MSN service:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/stories/2004/12/02/msnSpacesAnotherStarInMsnsSpace.html

# December 2, 2004 3:12 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Many enthusiasts who would build their own home server don't have the time, nor patience, to deal with Linux.

# December 2, 2004 7:30 PM

Stephen said:

i am also doing a similar things, but found there is 10 sec delay on the streaming video. Do you have this problems

# December 3, 2004 8:57 AM

mike dusche said:

i'd like 2, would you sell just a pair?

# December 4, 2004 12:15 PM

Malia Bachesta said:

Hola! Thanx for the great comments!!!:) How are ya!!! I went on google to find this and I found it!! I am really really bored!!!!!!!! Bye! Bye!!!

# December 5, 2004 8:16 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Uh, those tix were for *last year*. ;-)

# December 5, 2004 12:18 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Yes, the encoder/WM Server are not perfectly real-time. I do not know how to speed it up, but there are probably options that will help. Maybe if I figure it out i'll post it...

# December 5, 2004 12:19 PM

rick said:

No, that's the second best. The best is at http://simon.incutio.com/. Stare at the green title bar long enough and you see Beaker (the muppet)!

# December 6, 2004 10:31 AM

cool said:

strong bad is gay

# December 6, 2004 4:29 PM

Peter A. Frisch said:

Does the SP1 RC1 take care of the massive writing of Event ID 576 to the Security Log??

# December 7, 2004 1:27 PM

Malia said:

Soccer is amazing and every kid should try it! If ya don't yur missin out in life!

From the team member

MAlia Soccer is the best!!!!!!!!!!!

# December 9, 2004 4:28 PM

Mia said:

I know I've been the only one doing feedback but I just can't get over how much fun this years soccer tourney was! it was awsome! Coach please try and do some sort of spring soccer! Cus it be so cool! Yur the best!

# December 9, 2004 4:31 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Malia, you bet we'll do something in the Spring! It was a blast coaching you this year.

Polar Bears Rock!

-coach kindel

# December 10, 2004 7:07 PM

irl said:

" Many enthusiasts who would build their own home server don't have the time, nor patience, to deal with Linux. "

erm, i think you just described most of the linux DIY community - do you really believe this? :-)

# December 11, 2004 5:45 AM

greg querry said:

where are you located, what is your asking price

# December 12, 2004 12:25 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Bellevue, WA (Lake Sammamish). The dock was originally $8500. Make me an offer.

Send me email at charlie@kindel.com if you are interested.

# December 13, 2004 6:59 AM

Lockie Brown said:

If you have any freinds that are interested in trying Chatter Creek near Golden in late January, please contact the "Chatter Editor" at the above Web site.

# December 13, 2004 10:14 AM

Richard Blewett said:

phew! I thouht for a minute you were talking about Visual Source Safe

# December 14, 2004 11:07 PM

Charlie said:

Ha, ha. *That* is funny. SourceSafe being one of my favorite technologies! Ha, ha, ha, ha...

# December 15, 2004 5:17 AM

pimpkay said:

just a question :-)
cars are yours... and what about the background in the bmw picture? your everyday view from the car :-) ?

# December 17, 2004 11:19 AM

Lauren said:

i did nt see it

# December 26, 2004 7:15 AM

David said:

thanks - i searched the web for sound blaster "wireless music" and "run as a service" and stumbled on this blog. was very helpful as i wanted to know about running the media server as a service. was surprised to find out you are fellow MS employee. anyway - thanks, it was a helpful post.

# January 1, 2005 6:27 AM

François said:

Hello,

I have also purchased a a Creative Labs “SoundBlaster Wireless Music” at the beginning of last year. Now I have to reinstall it, but I have lost the original CD, and cannot find it on the web. Could you please find it and send it to me?
Best regards,

François
Paris / France

# January 3, 2005 12:30 PM

frake said:

i like strong bad

# January 5, 2005 4:10 AM

frake said:

i like strong bad

# January 5, 2005 4:10 AM

Malia said:

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanx!!!

# January 5, 2005 8:11 AM

Daniel said:

We purchased 2 of the efg120 while running 100mb connection. We upgraded to gigabit (with linksys hubs/switches/cards) and the efg120's did not speed up at all. All the computers on the network could communicate at gigabit speeds with each other, but not to the EFG120. I faulted myself at first but soon came to believe it was the EFG120. I spent hours on the phone with tech support with people that spoke broken english and they refused to admit there was a problem. They kept telling me to reduce the link speed and everything would be fine. I told them the only reason we purchased the efg120s was to get the speed and that made the product either mis-represented or defective. They refused to admit that it was defective and would not offer any kind of monetary reparation. We decided never to by linksys again and instead sold off the efg120s to people that didn't need gigabit speed.

My experience with linksys had been good up to that point, but spending $1,500.00 on something and just getting run around is not my idea of "good" customer service.

Daniel

# January 8, 2005 10:56 AM

Steve Portigal said:

Okay, this is probably pretty obnoxious in which case I guess you'll just ignore it. I found this particular blog entry in Google, natch. I've got a Rio Cali, a new laptop and although it is being recognized as a USB device, I can't see it as a HD either in My Computer - not sure what you mean by the old flash - is that the previous firmware? I upgraded the firmware, formatted the player, etc.

I gather it may have something to do with a drive letter conflict?

Thanks for any ideas - steve <at > portigal dot com

# January 13, 2005 3:33 PM

Josh said:

see this for info about reducing delay,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/BroadcastDelay.aspx

Are you capturing video to hard disk and encoding live at the same time? How? Thanks.

# January 16, 2005 9:51 PM

John R. Shearer said:

> The only downside of this is that I can see is
> that messages where people accidentially spell
> real alias incorrectly (e.g. chalrie@kindel.com)
> will not get a NDR. Small price to pay I think.

People that send Email to invalid recipients at your domain will still get what you call an "NDR". The Email they send will pass to their outgoing mail server which will connect to your mail server. When your mail server rejects the message coming from the sender's outgoing mail server, then sender's outgoing mail server will generate a rejection notice ("NDR") and send it back to the proginal sender.

# January 17, 2005 1:01 PM

David said:

Question? Why is your system sending that many NDR's? Because it's receives lots of mails send to bogus users in your domain? So, maybe your system is not comprimised, but under attack?

# January 20, 2005 4:27 AM

David said:

Guys,

One of my colleagues has the same problem. In one day the data store grew from a few MB to 3 GB !!!

Some spammers might use a huge list with user names that are glued to you domain name. If you send millions of combinations <a name>@<your domain>, there is a chance that a few hundred mails arrive. When the user opens the mail, the spammer might be informed that the recipient's address is valid. Of course for mails send to unknown recipients (and there are many to fill up 3GB, that's why I'm thinking of an attack) Exchange generates NDRs.

Most probably the spammer uses a fake domain name in it's reply address. That is why NDR's are stuck in the Exchange outbound queues. This should be cleaned up automatically after 2 days.

The recipient filtering solution will prevent that Exchange sends back NDRs for this kind of issues, but this doesn't solve the spam issue !!!

Best solution is to use a 3rd party anti-spam gateway like e.g. TrendMicro's IMSS to prevent spam entering the network...

# January 20, 2005 5:01 AM

Jim Blakely said:

The Green Button rocks!!!

# January 23, 2005 2:11 PM

Björn Jahn said:

I´ve some problems with windows media encoder, it works great for one and for two simultanius streaming sessions (two diferent cameras or two files).
The problem is when I want to stream from a third camera or file...
The cpu usage goes from 25% to 100% and the memory usage goes from 200MB to... well an x^2 curve...
it just keeps climbing... last time i tried it it got to 4GB in under 4minutes...

When i then kill one of the processes (doesn´t mather wich one) it creaps back to normal.

Is this something that you have had problems with?

# January 24, 2005 11:22 AM

Blog Jammin' said:

# January 24, 2005 11:48 AM

Blog Jammin' said:

# January 24, 2005 11:49 AM

John Leonard said:

I have XP Professional and IIS. Can I open Google, type in a C drive address having an ASPX suffix. Will the suffix send the file to the IIS server to be ASP.NET processed and from there sent on to the browser for display. Like it used to be where you could test your html off the C drive. OR, is it more complicated than that? I have this feeling it is. Like maybe I need something called Web Matrix for something like this.

John

# January 24, 2005 4:13 PM

Mindfungus said:

I'm following up on the exact same issue with an associate. We have Exchnage 2003, and about a week ago, a large number of remote users, and a few local users were getting the "Outllok is trying to contact Exchange server", and upon checking exchange, everything appeared as normail, but i had 70 or 80 messages in about 30 to 40 of my outbound queues, all from postmaster@mydomain.com

# January 24, 2005 8:55 PM

Todd Laney said:

Very cool site, I just bookmarked it. Let hope the Pineapple year turns around and we get some more snow.

Hi Charlie!

# January 28, 2005 4:01 PM

crapulux said:

Don't use an EPOX even if it's given to ya... not worth the hassle ! Had one, it died. A friend had one, it died.

# January 29, 2005 4:11 AM

crapulux said:

This is striping RAID right ? Uck. I'd use Linux, of course, and a motherboard with IDE RAID (6 ports) and software RAID5. Even cheaper. Or a RAID5 board... And it would deserve 5 or 6 drives to amortize the RAID5 loss of capacity.

Soft RAID is slower (esp. RAID5) but it will have no prob saturating a slow 100Mb Ethernet. It has another advantage, that there is no RAID board to fail, and you can change all the components wihtout having to re-buy exactly the same RAID board for compatibility if something dies.

The Windows price here is outrageous. Why would I pay that for something slower and less secure ? Nowadays there are linux distros which install in a breeze.

# January 29, 2005 4:18 AM

James said:

WinXP Pro 64 is derived from the Windows 2003 tree? Does that imply that it has the NUMA support that was added to Windows Server 2003? I've been trying to decide whether to build a dual-processor Opteron or hold out for a dual-core processor.

# January 29, 2005 12:53 PM

Rob M said:

GREAT! Thank you for posting this......... the last thing on EARTH i would have though of would be bad memory. I am running 2000 Advanced Server, and I was getting this stupid BAD_POOL_CALLER stop error about once every 3-4 days. It was screwing up a lot of things. I just ran the memory test application and found some bad memory!

God Bless you! Thank you Thank You! If anyone else is having this problem, BURN A CD WITH THAT MEMORY TESTING APPLICATION ON IT, AND TEST YOUR MEMORY!

~Robert

# January 29, 2005 2:20 PM

midosm said:

MCE Extenders do not work in a 2003 server environment? Can you view content on a MCE machine joined to a domain on another XP Machine?

# January 30, 2005 2:49 PM

Ross said:

I have a Windows 2003 Server at home too - Small Business Version. It's a good package. VPN, Server, remote access, exchange and pop connector for external ISP pop accounts.

It works great. I have email for myself and family. I use exchange server side rules to with SSL IMAP for my treo.

Media center pc's can't join a domain but they can access exchange for email. Inability to join a domain does limit things.

I also run a terminal server which is great for the kids doing there homework on any old pc off the central server. I run raid disk on the server and back it up. Outlook web access is great too. I run 2gb email accounts for everyone.

Mind you, my brother calls me a virtual hummer of the internet.

# January 30, 2005 3:52 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

midosm: The issue with MCX devices is not with Windows Server 2003 itself, but with Active Directory. If an MCE machine is joined to an Active Directory domain then Fast User Switching will not work (because FUS is not supported on domain joined machines). The MCX support in MCE 2005 depends on FUS. Thus MCX devices won't work for domain joined MCE 2005 boxes.

# January 30, 2005 7:08 PM

Martyn said:

Fred - your issue could be that you have changed your Roamin profile from a ntuser.dat to a ntuser.man so it now will not update it.

You need to change it to a .dat in order to change anything!!!

Hope this helps

# January 31, 2005 1:32 AM

JM said:

I have a streaming session set up and I can see the input, but as soon as I hit encode, the input goes blank and nothing is saved to output. Any ideas? Thanks.

# February 2, 2005 9:47 AM

Stack Of Toast said:

# February 3, 2005 1:03 PM

Someone in disbelief said:

This application may work goo, but it is a hack none the less. Good thing it is open source or I would not trust it at all.

# February 4, 2005 7:36 AM

The_Pharou said:

It's a correct issue and resolution, I swaped memory sticks and away went my installation...thanks

# February 4, 2005 6:55 PM

Qt Auto News said:

When I hit 40, I decided that I was going to go out and get a 911 but my wife put the brakes on that. I had to settle for '02 530i. After we bought the 530i she said I could have gotten the M5. Doh!

# February 5, 2005 10:33 AM

PS said:

I'm using Magneto-Optical Disks (MO) and drive form Fujitsu since 1994. No failure with any disk since that time. 2.3Gb on a one disk is more than enough for really precious data, such as family pics, working files etc. I have 15 of them.
IMHO Best of the best by now, compare reliability and price.

# February 6, 2005 4:45 PM

Richard Davis said:

See Microsoft KB 886208.

# February 8, 2005 3:36 AM

Robin Capper said:

MindManager has invaded my life since I first saw it in action. Like you, simply a satisfied customer but have delight in showing people one of the best applications I've used.

It's even invaded my offline life as now almost always make paper notes in mind-map format. Even that can get startled looks in meetings as people see you turn the pad to landscape and write the main topic in the middle of the page!

# February 9, 2005 1:22 AM

JoeW said:

It is indeed a great tool, but I think they've overpriced it for what it does.

# February 9, 2005 4:28 AM

SDJ said:

FYI: the " time-bombed trial version" link you provide contains a PHPSessionID which automatically fills in Chris Zinck's name, address, phone number, email, etc . . . you may want to remove this link is you want to keep this information private.

Cheers!
- S

# February 9, 2005 6:46 AM

fezzy said:

thanks i will give this a try

# February 9, 2005 7:29 AM

oberschalen said:

nice site, keep on the good work.
http://www.mms-dienstleister.de/mediam_oberschalen/design.oberschalen-partner/

# February 15, 2005 2:59 AM

David said:

I had the same problems with an SMC WBR2404 802.11B connecting to an Orinoco in an IBM T40, as well as an IBM A/B/G card in an R50 (dropping as often as every 30 seconds). Switching to a NetGear WGU624 A/G router on 5GHz did the trick, which makes me wonder if wireless phones and other gear in the area cause the problem. Another plus is the WPA authentication - easy to set up and more robust than WEP. At $130US from Best Buy, it's a bargain.

# February 15, 2005 4:35 PM

Steve said:

Hey Charlie - 1st off, and a little OT, thanks for turning me towards Mind Manager - the product is a lot more compatible with the way my mind thinks - I especially like the auto tree rebalancing that used to be a real manual pain in One-note.

Back to the subject - how does the mouse switch off and on? Is it just an auto-sense thang?

If battery life works out - I may be tempted to buy one to go w/ my new M2 Tecra.

# February 16, 2005 10:50 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

The mouse has a little switch on the bottom.

# February 16, 2005 10:58 AM

Ray D said:

I just played around with this a bit. I was able to sort of achieve what you're looking for (I think). I saved a PowerPoint presentation outline, which saves as RTF. I opened the RTF file in Word and saved it as a DOC file (because MM gags when trying to open an RTF file). I then opened the DOC file in MM to create a map of the presentation.

Give it a try. :)

# February 16, 2005 4:44 PM

Steve said:

Damn - I've gotta get one. I've wrestled with the MS wireless USB widget one too many times.

# February 16, 2005 10:08 PM

Steve said:

Definitely feeling monitor lust - especially when you walk into the Apple Store in Bell.Sq. and look at those smug designers wondering what to do with all that real-estate.

It's nice to simulate the res. on dual-monitors with stuff like NView, but nothing beats seamless ~2000px wide DevStudio.

Imagine a pair of these side-by-side - all for less than half the price that I paid for a 17" LCD 5 years ago.

# February 16, 2005 10:17 PM

Steve said:

Shame the MS Fingerprint Reader doesn't really play ball yet with domain-lead systems.

I've sew up many areas where my kids can do damage, but of with security comes the dent in Wife Acceptance Factor.

I'm not looking for DoD level security. I just want to make sure than my kids and wife don't call me for password resets :)

# February 16, 2005 10:21 PM

Hobie Swan said:

Charlie,
Thanks for your comments about MindManager! We just got back from DEMO@!5 where we launched our new MindManager Accelerator for Salesforce.com. It's a pretty cool product for salesforce users. But it also shows what we are trying to do as we move forward: Use our "visualization engine" to take data and information out of other applications and make it more useful by enabling users to really play around with the information to plan strategies, make decisions and do team brainstorming. You have to be a salesforce subscriber to use it. But you can see a flash of how it works by going to http://www.mindjet.com/us/products/accelerators/salesforce.php?s=12&sn=1.
Thanks again for mentioning us in your blog!
Hobie Swan

# February 17, 2005 4:04 AM

Fred said:

Hi, I'm Fred and I have a VIA 591p computer chipset with a winxp OS and 256 MB SDRAM and an NVidia Geforce 4 mx 420 video card, and I also received a blue screen error mentioning BAD_POOL_CALLER. I will try the microsoft windows memory tester and get back to you all.

I first suspected a bad shutdown, or a IRQ problem, and I still suspect a IRQ problem. My IRQ 10 is used my my dialup modem, but the IRQ for the nvidia card under the device manager is set for IRQ 10, so I will also try changing the IRQs via the BIOS.

It's strange that this problem just sprung up on me, for no aparent reason. So, I'm glad I found this forum and I suspect that it may be bad memory. Oh no, I am not ready to buy more memory right now....How I am hoping it's an IRQ conflict instead of bad memory...let me try some things and I'll post a reply.

Fred. B.

# February 17, 2005 6:50 AM

David Tebbutt said:

You might find something useful via this link:

http://brainstormsw.typepad.com/thinkerlog/2005/01/exporting_power.html

Steve Rindsberg wrote a VBA macro for exporting outlines from PowerPoint. I would imagine that this would be importable to your mind map program.

If not, it could be imported to BrainStorm (free 30-day trial) and then, depending on your mind-mapper, written to the clipboard and pasted into your mind map program.

# February 18, 2005 9:33 PM

Brian said:

Hi

Do you know (if its even possible) how to get MCE to speak to girder? i.e. when mce wants to change channel it sends infra red signals via the ir blaster... how can I get those messages into girder so that I can use my own redret ir controller rather than the microsoft one (I use girder a lot and easily configured it to control MCE, I just can't get the MCE messages into girder)

Thanks

# February 21, 2005 9:17 AM

James said:

forget the 2005fpw i am getting this :D

# February 22, 2005 9:02 AM

gene said:

cows are fat and so are we you may say you are not a but you are

# February 23, 2005 11:50 AM

Chrissy said:

Hey Charlie,
I answered your questions on my blog (I hope!)

http://netnerds.net/articles/462.aspx#603

Chrissy

# February 25, 2005 3:15 PM

Fred said:

Way cool!

# February 27, 2005 5:42 PM

James Lundgren said:

Thank you Richard for posting the KB article #.. I had an Exchange Server 2003 environment sending out 11,000 NDR's for UCE's an hour. That is exactly what was needed, the situtation is completely corrected now.

# February 28, 2005 5:04 AM

charlie said:

Oh my goodness. Went to Apple store on Saturday and then looked at this... YUM... Give me 2!

# February 28, 2005 7:32 AM

Hobie Swan said:

I have started using ActiveWords more and more as a way to avoid mouse use altogether. AW makes it very easy to create keyboard shortcuts to do just about anything you might want to do with a mouse (except navigate around a particular interface).

AW has come out with an InkPad for tablet pcs. I use it on my Toshiba Portege M200 tablet pc and it makes it much easier to go from program to program. They are just about to release a gesture-driven version for tablets so there will be no need for opening an InkPad.

# March 2, 2005 4:42 AM

Hobie Swan said:

I have started using ActiveWords more and more as a way to avoid mouse use altogether. AW makes it very easy to create keyboard shortcuts to do just about anything you might want to do with a mouse (except navigate around a particular interface).

AW has come out with an InkPad for tablet pcs. I use it on my Toshiba Portege M200 tablet pc and it makes it much easier to go from program to program. They are just about to release a gesture-driven version for tablets so there will be no need for opening an InkPad.

# March 2, 2005 4:42 AM

jschroeder@kiterealty.com said:

Is the boat still availible?
How much?
Where is the boat located?

# March 3, 2005 1:24 AM

grant said:

hi were can i get softwar to contorl my cadx nx8e?

# March 3, 2005 10:36 AM

Truck Monday said:

I think bears should be able to live without being out of their faces. I think my roadkill sandwich gummibear MY POND IS FULL OF RATS! GET THE RATS OUT OF MY POND, Matthew Stanton!!!

# March 6, 2005 2:22 PM

Ed S. said:

I purchase a couple of EFG120's. I upgraded the firmware to the latest version R18 from the USA Linksys site, and have the units running with 300GB Maxtor drives. Works just fine. I use the backup option (from drive 1 to 2) the first backup takes ages (all night), but after that the backup are incremental and just take a small time.

As to network speed, I can see an appreciable difference between 100base and 1000base, I haven't done any measurements though. Rememeber these are brand new units (I have heard that there are version 1 units and version 2's, but no mention of this from Linksys... the clue is on the firmware upgrade site on Linksys.com.

Overall, I'm quite happy with the EFG120 (although, technically, I suppose I am running them as EFG300's. There is an EFG240 available, but I got the 4 x Maxtor 300GB for cost so hence my own upgrade...

Hope this helps :) Ed S.

# March 8, 2005 10:37 AM

Jenny said:

thats bad so ya'll need to stop but it is kinda funny

# March 11, 2005 2:06 PM

Jenny said:

thats bad so ya'll need to stop but it is kinda funny

# March 11, 2005 2:06 PM

Susie - the middle sister said:

What he also fails to mention is that Tiggy Poo morphed into Tinky Winky...

# March 12, 2005 5:15 PM

ali said:

vere good

# March 13, 2005 2:36 AM

andy said:

I am looking to buy the 24" dell. For those who have it already please tell me how is it when use with playstation and xbox? What's the quality like? Is it better then normal flat panel tv?

# March 14, 2005 4:45 PM

Aaron said:

How can I control my Crestron CP2e via the internet? I want to be able to have the same touch panels that I have on my touch panel remote installed on my PC. From there, I can access my media room PC remotely and control all my AV equipment. For example, I could change channels on my satellite receiver and record shows to my PC or schedule a recording on my TiVo, etc. Thanks a million.

# March 17, 2005 12:33 PM

Cameron said:

Because of the high pixel count, it should be much higher quality than your standard TV.
I can't wait until this comes over here to Aus.
Imagining using the PIP feature so that I can use my PS2 while watching my how my install is coming along on the PC, in the corner of the screen.
I really didn't expect something this promising comnig from Dell, not that I'm complaining. ^_^

# March 19, 2005 2:14 PM

ALL said:

Can it support xbox HD

# March 21, 2005 7:07 PM

Josh said:

How do you get the bt drivers installed on XP that give you that "Bluetooth Configuration" window?

I have a "Bluetooth Devices" cp applet and not the other one... I found some drivers that look like that, but it doesn't seem to want to take control of the bt stack and hence will not work.

HELP!
Josh

# March 24, 2005 3:25 AM

Mohammad said:

watch out for feedback spamming. There are some awful lot of spams in your posts.

# March 27, 2005 12:35 AM

Jonny Pajamas said:

When do you think this will be available for pocket pc to allow a custom graphical remote?

# March 27, 2005 2:33 AM

Malaga said:

Greetings from Malaga (Spain). Antonio :-)

# March 27, 2005 6:27 AM

SiN4 said:

This error came up recently for me, as well. My computer blue screened with an error from my sound card, then loaded, and blue screened again with a different error. After that, I couldn't load into Windows at all, and the bad_pool_caller error kept coming up.

My computer seems to have a history with bad RAM, I've had to replace it multiple times now, because of blue screens. Is there anyway to find out what may be the cause of these blue screens? Any sort of help would be great, thank you.

# March 28, 2005 5:51 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Reaccuring memory failures are often caused by a faulty power supply. I suggest you replace your power supply.

# March 28, 2005 6:15 PM

SiN4 said:

So mainly the power supply is the cause to it? Is it possible that anything else is causing it?

# March 28, 2005 7:12 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Have you run a memory test? Go to http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp and download the memory diagnostic tool (you'll have to burn a CD). If the memory diagnostic says your memory is bad you'll have to replace it. If you have replaced bad memory in this machine before then I highly suggest you ALSO replace the power supply. A bad power supply can cause memory to go bad.

Power supplies are cheap. You can get a good one at Fry's for ~$30.

# March 28, 2005 7:18 PM

SiN4 said:

I haven't ran the test, but I'm almost positive it's the memory. I put in an older stick that I had, which also had blue screening problems after time, and with that one in, it loads up the background before blue screening. The one I was using instantly blue screened.

Usually the RAM lasts a few months before starting to cause blue screens, so it seems like it is the power supply.

I'm relieved to hear that it's just that, I was thinking about buying a whole new mobo/cpu/ram combination. Good thing I didn't, the supply probably would've fried those too.

Thanks for your help, hopefully getting a new supply and RAM will fix my computer for good

# March 28, 2005 7:35 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Warning: If your power supply is indeed bad and is the cause of your bad memory, it may have also caused other components to fail. I don't want to make you nervous, but if you are at all looking for an excuse to rebuild the whole shebang (mobo/cpu/ram/ps) this may be it.

# March 28, 2005 7:39 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

The boat has sold.

# March 28, 2005 8:14 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

Thanks re: the spam. I've been working on it. I now have some SQL triggers that catch most of it, but a bit is still getting through. When I get a chance I'm going to implement a CATCHPA filter.

# March 28, 2005 8:16 PM

dsadsad said:

# March 29, 2005 10:28 PM

Steve said:

An April 1st jaunt to Mt.Baker for doesn't look so bad today...

# March 30, 2005 8:39 AM

Craig said:

I started a European car/discussion forum. Join up, and maybee even tell people you know about it?

www.EuroCarForum.com

Thanks

# March 31, 2005 6:54 AM

MikeW said:

Where can I get all the RS 232 codes for my Denon AVR 985S?

# April 4, 2005 5:20 AM

budges whaite river resort said:

hello,
my name is Steve and I have been trying to contact Budges white river resort for a vacation. If you have there contact info could you please email it to me.
Thanks blessteve@yahoo.com

# April 6, 2005 3:58 PM

Edy THE OWL EYE said:

hi,
Thanks for the idea , but problem is that i have only 1 * 512 MB DDR , now the only way i can see this thru is by contacting the vendor which i have already done.
Thanks for the confirmation anyways a very helpfull article.
edy

# April 6, 2005 5:36 PM

Anderson Costa said:

hi, my name is anderson , i'm from brazil, and i was having this problem, but now i just run the test memory, and that it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
thanks you very much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you helped me a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bye bye now i gotta go!!!!!!!

# April 7, 2005 4:13 AM

Lockie said:

Great to hear your trip was good. We were at Chatter Creek at the end of Jan and got the first really good skiing after all that lousy weather. We got really good skiing, pretty well as good as it gets. Chatter Creek's tenure is huge and they were able to last the 5 week drought in Feb/Mar with a good supply of unskied powder. We've got a load of new aerial photos of the Chatter Creek terrain which will be appearing shortly on the Chatter Creek Web site at: www.chatterskiingcatskiing.com. They are also on the Chatter News Weblog, (http://powder-skiing.blogspot.com)

# April 8, 2005 8:11 AM

Troy Dube said:

Just out of Curiousity, what did it sell for. I have the same boat and am getting ready to put it on the market?

TroyDube@hotmail.com

# April 8, 2005 9:43 AM

QT said:

Thank you so much .

# April 9, 2005 7:20 AM

Peter said:

You wont believe : The same is happening to me but I have done all of this and it is still doing the same.As soon as you start your smtp connector the administrator(postmaster) sends out thousands of emails.I have SBS 2003 with the latest patches , service packs and Trend Micro the latest Server Protect and scanmail.Scanned for worms etc.Phoned Trend , IS and Microsoft

# April 21, 2005 2:51 AM

Isaac Grove said:

I have that same message! I have a Dell Windows XP Media Center Edition, and I can't even run safe mode. Like everyone says This blue screen probably bad memory.

# April 21, 2005 12:59 PM

Malia said:

Hola Senor! I was just wondering if we're doing jamboree this year? Cuz if we are i'm going to need your help with convbincing my mom! I hope we can do it!!!!!!:)

# April 21, 2005 3:45 PM

bob said:

a smartphone cleint would own :)

# April 22, 2005 8:10 AM

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You probably can F*UK M$ and put your WMC 2005 into domain. Read the following:

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and enjoy!!!

# April 22, 2005 9:08 AM

Robin Gwynne said:

We front end our Exchange 2003 server with an ASSP spam filter server that will do Active Directory lookups to find valid email accounts and perform the UCE rejection. A key benefit to this is that the incoming email does not cross your WAN connection before the email is refused. Undeliverable SPAM accounts for 84% of our email! It is nice not to be paying for all that traffic.

# April 27, 2005 7:38 AM

GTO said:

I have a comcast DVR and it's possibly the worst piece of consumer electronics ever mass produced. The interface is absolutely awful. It's made by Atlanta Scientific (which should be called Atlantus Scientific). I have a couple of old Panasonic DVRs that I upgraded the hard disks on. The only problem is that these won't do HD. So I'm stuck with the Comcast junk for now, but the second a better HD DVR comes out, you can be I'll get rid of this one.

# April 27, 2005 11:46 AM

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# April 27, 2005 7:16 PM

chrissy said:

I had exactly this same problem; it was all down to an overheating processor fan, all fixed now i've replaced it, just in case anyone's interested!

# April 28, 2005 9:57 AM

mitchell said:

If a memory test fails, how can you tell which stick to replace? I've got over 3 GB of ram on one server thats failing..

# April 28, 2005 5:01 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I find the best way is to take all of the DIMMs out of the machine and run the memory test with only one DIMM in it at a time.

# April 28, 2005 6:27 PM

mitchell said:

yeah...i thought of that but was looking for a lazy man's solution...guess i'll get busy w/ it. thx for the reply!

# April 29, 2005 8:32 AM

jonathan howitt said:

how do you turn off NDR reports in exchange 2000?? i know how to in Exchange 2003..thank you.. please reply to: jon@pacificcomputergroup.com

# May 2, 2005 8:29 AM

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# May 3, 2005 2:53 PM

Steven J. Ackerman said:

I too grew up on Robert Heinlien - "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was my first and favorite. I'll have to checkout John Scalzi. Thanks for the recommendation.

# May 4, 2005 2:47 AM

Greg C said:

I have 2 of these units in service...I'd go with something like a buffalo linkstation or terrastation before another of these.

MAJOR problem: Linksys doesn't seem to know much about them. Every tech support case I've opened on these units ends up "referred to product management" and rots. I've have a couple cases opened up for months.

Next issue: I have a 120 and a 160gb drive in one of the units. I can't create shares on the second drive. Not sure if it's an issue with mismatched drives or something. Don't have a spare 120gb to try. Linksys support has "referred to product management" and I'm still waiting for response.

Next issue: print q. Remember that there aren't as many SIMPLE parallel printers out there any more. Many hps aren't happy when run off a basic parallel connection like this. Also, there is NO provision of print Q management on the EFG. And any windows user will see "Access Denied" for the printer. The printer will operate, but users will be left wondering if they'll still be able to print.

The case is well-built, there is a small cooling fan that stays on all the time. The built-in daily mirror routine is convenient and works well.

It's not a bad solution, but there are better out there for the $$$. It's especially annoying to buy one of the more expensive linksys products and not get better support. They do a better job with the $50 routers than these.

Greg C

# May 4, 2005 3:22 AM

Mark said:

I went the Windows 2003 Server route. Added 3 120GB drives in Raid 5 Configuration. When I did the math, it just made more sense, and I can add more drives cheap.

I use it to store music and family pictures.

# May 4, 2005 9:11 AM

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# May 4, 2005 9:53 AM

Steve said:

Yeah I followed Mark's path after toying with the idea of Mirra, Linksys, IOMega etc.

For the capacity that I want (around 1Tb), its much cheaper and more reusuable e.g. as a proxy and print server to go the PC route. Especially since a HDs are <$100 for 100Gb+ per spindle.

# May 4, 2005 8:45 PM

Steven J. Ackerman said:

We use a Win2K server with an Adaptec SCSI RAID controller in a RAID 0+1 configuration with a hot drive for backup. I've lost a drive, but no data, and its fast. We also have a Tandberg DLT tape for backup, with a scheduled incremental / full backup and offsite rotation of tapes.

# May 5, 2005 2:58 AM

Josh said:

I too ended up setting up a Win2k3 box w/ 4x250GB HD's for cost and expandability. It's great.

# May 5, 2005 5:32 AM

asher said:

You all seem to keep forgetting something...
For us, non-MSFT employees (which are still the vast majority of computer users), Windows Server 2003 cost 1000$ (or 400$ for the web edition) a pop... that's SW only, with

You ***can't*** say that those hardware solutions are not cost effective if you don't consider the cost of licensing Windows (not that there is anything wrong with paying for Windows...)

# May 8, 2005 11:11 AM

Squintz said:

Thanks for sharing this. Do you have to use two seperate PC's or can your Video Capture and Video Streaming be done on the same pc?

Also please visit cocoontech.com and share your experiences with us there. We like to talk about security and home automation

# May 10, 2005 3:24 AM

Squintz said:

Thanks for sharing this. Do you have to use two seperate PC's or can your Video Capture and Video Streaming be done on the same pc?

Also please visit cocoontech.com and share your experiences with us there. We like to talk about security and home automation

# May 10, 2005 3:24 AM

Squintz said:

Thanks for sharing this. Do you have to use two seperate PC's or can your Video Capture and Video Streaming be done on the same pc?

Also please visit cocoontech.com and share your experiences with us there. We like to talk about security and home automation

# May 10, 2005 3:24 AM

Konrad said:

Awsome work guys, my friend just called me with the same problem (error BAD_POOL_CALLER) and wants me to fix it, you guys just made my job a lot easier.... Thanks :-)

# May 10, 2005 12:10 PM

Jens said:

Thanks a lot! The Stop-error came up on a new machine I just built. But first it seemed like it was a Harddisk/Raid-Controller-error because I had problems during the Harddisk-format and copy of Windows.

# May 11, 2005 3:24 AM

Lee said:

Here's a feature request for whoever's got the time; how about voice recognition. Even simple commands would be cool like pause, play, next previous etc. I use a plantonics headset with Skype at the moment but I reckon it would be darn cool to able to use it for controlling films and musc as well :-) Like you I don't have the time to explore this though, so if anyone is feeling brave...

# May 11, 2005 10:23 PM

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# May 17, 2005 8:35 AM

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... i'm feeling brave

# May 17, 2005 1:17 PM

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# May 18, 2005 6:47 PM

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# May 19, 2005 8:47 PM

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# May 20, 2005 4:03 AM

Ricky said:

I was checking the mem stick on my gateway 500, the first checking item on my list, As I was pulling the mem stick, my fingers rubbed against the Voodoo video card..and it was hot enought to make me jump! Would that be a plausable cause to bring on a BAD_POOL_CALLER screen??? A bad video card that is. Any reasonable input would be appreciated. thanks

# May 24, 2005 11:59 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Video cards generate lots of heat. This does not mean it is defective. However, the heat it is generating *could* be increasing failures of nearby memory chips. I do not know if a failing video card can cause a 0xC2.

# May 24, 2005 12:22 PM

Mik Kim said:

People are complaining about speed, but if you test it with files, the throughput will be limited by hard drive access times. I don't know if this uses UMDA, but even with UDMA sustained data rate from hard drive is much less than advertised. My tests show ~20 MB/sec (160 Mb/sec) with UDMA133 (claimed 133*8=1064 Mb/sec)!

In my opinion, Gb Enet is useless for NAS unless the drive is on RAID0+++ or using multiple NAS at a time.

# May 24, 2005 7:52 PM

Tim Geyer said:

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# May 29, 2005 8:23 PM

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# May 30, 2005 12:51 AM

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# May 30, 2005 10:06 PM

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# May 31, 2005 2:27 AM

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# June 1, 2005 3:18 AM

Geek #3 said:

Are you done listening? Have you abandonded us now? Are you like the rest of the 800lb gorrilla who doesn't care what the customer thinks?

# June 1, 2005 12:33 PM

John said:

Good work thanks for the info! I was having a bad_pool_caller blue screen on a Sony Vaio, swap the memory out and it works fine now!

# June 1, 2005 10:50 PM

Rob Russell said:

I have a 2003 Didge SX 2.0, and lately, there has been a weird squeaking noise coming from the front wheels. I highly doubt if it had anything to do with the noise, but it was nonexistent until we had an oil change done a couple weeks ago. It sounds like crickets in the hubcaps, and it is constant...NOT just turning corners. Does anyone have any suggestions?

# June 2, 2005 3:28 AM

Mike said:

I've had the exact same problem as these people. But my power supply went out months ago and I replaced it with a Super Silencer 300w. I did started getting blue screens a couple weeks ago. Pulling the memory out and putting it in another slot helped when I couldn't even get into safe mode. Although now I thinking the heat route since my pcu heat sync is awfully hot. I still need to do mem test also. I don't feel so alone any more. : )

# June 3, 2005 7:23 PM

Bill said:

Charlie,

It'll be our secret, but the Office team included a MindMap stencil and it has been shipping in Visio, for several releases. I'm not sure when it debuted, but I think I have used it in each Office version from 2000, XP & 2K3.

-bill

# June 4, 2005 4:09 PM

MIKE GURTLER said:

I have a cobalt 190 for sale as well, and would love to know whwt you sold it for and how much trouble you had selling it. I'm on Lake Sebago in Maine, and would also like to know whether you had a positive experience with your boat lift.

# June 5, 2005 6:13 AM

MIKE GURTLER said:

I have a cobalt 190 for sale as well, and would love to know whwt you sold it for and how much trouble you had selling it. I'm on Lake Sebago in Maine, and would also like to know whether you had a positive experience with your boat lift.

# June 5, 2005 6:13 AM

Roland said:

I don't have one but I'd really like a small, quiet and simple device for backup and sharing of files at home. Using a full-scale computer isn't small or quiet.

# June 5, 2005 11:52 AM

Vishal said:

Hi. I wanted to know how you were capturing still images from your video camera. What I am looking to do , is to capture images from a live video stream every 60 miliseconds. Can you tell me how to do that? I am looking into using Windows Media SDK for it, but its a little confusing. It will be great if you can guide me. Thanks.

# June 7, 2005 10:22 AM

casey chesnut said:

sorry charlie (intended), that CAPTCHA is easily beaten
http://www.brains-N-brawn.com/aiCaptcha/
BTW thanks for contributing MCE Controller. works great

# June 9, 2005 12:51 PM

Charlie said:

Now using the Clearscreen 1.3 HIP (1.4 doesn't work). Thanks for the head's up.

# June 9, 2005 2:25 PM

Marcus G said:

Hmmm! looks like i'm not the only one.
I had a MSI K8N Neo-FSR (Nforce 3 250Gb) with an Athlon 64 3400+ and 1gig of RAM. Everything was ok until I decided to change my old PS2 keyboard for an USB one. (In fact, it is only today that I realise that). One day, I plugged my USB Hard Drive and the operating system (Windows XP) say to me "Unknown Peripheral", and the keyboard wasn't responding. After a little more time, the computer shut down himself and never rebooted. And until now i'm waiting for it to power on. As you did, i've changed my power supply but nada, dead. F..k it !!!
Hoping that it's only the Mainboard which is dead, i've ordered a new one: Asus K8N-E Deluxe.( i needed the 4 sata ports and the AGP8X for my X800).
Hopefully, when i swapped the stuff, everything was ok. thanks
The MSI K8N went to the nearest trash.
Life was beautifull until yesterday (06-16-2005).
I've plugged an USB Hard Drive (a new one, because i changed the last one) and the same problem : No keyboard response (the same keyboard, an Textorm Mini Keyboard USB)
but this time, the computer did not shut down himself. It's me who did it. He never rebooted. dead. another one. F..k !!!
(An exception, that one power on but nothing else.)

Now, my question is: why do today's components are so shitty.
Normally, the USB is supposed to be "HotPlug". F..k it damned mo........k !!
Until my P4 2,4Ghz (Asus Intel I845E), I haven't found a reliable motherboard.

# June 17, 2005 10:23 AM

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# June 22, 2005 4:05 AM

Josh said:

It's true; RAID5 is far from the perfect solution. You still will have a heck of a time, as Steve found out, if a drive fails.

I find it interesting that he points out in his post on the topic that he couldn't imagine an average user going through the rebuild process, or even using RAID5 for that matter. Both are very valid points. The average home user (I know a LOT of people doing this) will go out and buy a big drive, maybe 300 or 400 GB, and fill it full of all their "precious" data; digital pics, ripped DVDs/CDs, and so on. While RAID5 is not necessarily convenient to work with if a drive fails, you will be in much better shape with it than with the setup of the average home user. It is very true though that it wouldn't be realistic to expect the average user to put together a RAID set... so what is the answer?

# July 7, 2005 6:33 AM

Chris Sells said:

Aha! Now I remember where I got this recommendation! : )

# July 10, 2005 5:29 AM

Chris Sells said:

I tried reading, but couldn't find the start of the story -- I hate starting in the middle.

# July 16, 2005 4:24 AM

Charlie Kindel said:

Use the archive on the right side of the main screen. They are listed in order.

# July 16, 2005 6:56 AM

Carl said:

Thank you for this posting...had a variety of other errors suggesting bad device drivers but would BSD on this error the most. I took out the memory sticks and put them back one at a time...voila...one was hosed.

# July 19, 2005 3:27 AM

Richard said:

Strong Bad is Awesome!! If anyone disagrees that's their right I guess but they must not have a sense of humor worth squat.

# August 3, 2005 9:29 PM

Eric said:

Charlie! whats up man, i am going to WSU now and majoring in history, i have given up on computers just a hobby now they give me a huge headache hehe. Shoot me an email sometime with whats new with you. inf@system42.net
Eric Hollenbeck

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You may pay $60 to an AAA Plus membership and they will tow your car for the first 100 miles plus a nominal fee per mile over the 100 miles mark. However, you have paid 20-25 times that amount to BMW Assist and they will not even tow you car to your preferred location.

You get calls almost every day while the vehicle is running fine. But no one calls when something happens. It is all about marketing strategies. They show the customers they care just about enough to screw them over.

There are plenty of other luxurious vehicles to choose from other than BMW. I was so excited to drive my first new BMW and in a blink of a month they have killed that dream.

I just could not make up my mind whether I wanted a BMW or a Mercedes Benz. But I am about to think that I have made a mistake. But all I can do now is to try as much as I can, forget what has happened and what is going to happen, to enjoy my BMW vehicle anyway, if ever I can get it back from BMW and if ever I can convert my frustration, disappointment, and anger into a positive feeling toward my supposedly dream car.

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# December 20, 2005 5:48 AM

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Hi,

I had this trouble with my home computer. When I was installing Windows XP-PROf. this error has shown to me. I did what is write here but problem is not solved yet.

# December 25, 2005 12:01 AM

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# December 25, 2005 2:34 AM

GoldChain said:

I don't have one, but was considering one. I used to be a server admin, so using Win2K (or 2K3, etc) wouldn't be an issue, but as was pointed out, purchasing Win2K3 is as expensive as a RAID 5 card + 5 250GB drives (1TB usable RAID 5 storage). But I can't find any good information on a robust stand-alone NAS that will do RAID.

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Daniel said:

Hi There,

I have tried a similar thing but am having trouble with the encoder as it is only encoding the audio....It doesn't come back with any errors and is set to encode video for streaming. ( I have tried different encoding setting but can't get WME to encode the video)
Just wondered if anyone had any ideas ?

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