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Look at my Sig! 4 year old hardware is limping along. Definitely need some Kepler hardware to speed up my HD video renders!

Damn you guys (or girls) are good! Two new apps for me to investigate and a possible suggestion with SyncBack. Great stuff. Now I will do a deeper dive and see what I find. Thanks so much.

I am looking for backup tool that lets me keep a rolling backup of the last 30 days (or so) of my WHS folders. I have an internal drive that is not part of the pool and I backup the folder shares every night. I have tried Acronis 2012 incremental & differential, Syncback, and the built in...

I am looking for a good folder backup utility that works like WHS. Specifically, WHS does incremental backups every night, and keeps N of them. All I have to do to recover a file from 3 months ago is to go into the WHS Console, highlight the date in the backup list, and then click "Open..."...

About every 3rd or 4th time I put a Handbrake encoded video up on the WHS server in the Video folder, it does not show up in the PS3 directory list. I navigate to the directory (using the lame DOS like folder view), and the .mp4 file is not listed. My W7 PC sees the directory and all the...

HTPC is by far the most flexible and capable approach. Lots of software, updates, cool GUI's, etc. But it is not the cheapest solution, nor is it very "turn key" yet. If using an HTPC, keep all the video files from the rip and use PowerDVD or equivalent to playback the files. Will work just...

Kenworth That is EXACTLY my feeling about it. Good quality video, embedded captioning, 6 channel audio, everything I can do to make the videos top notch, but actually picking one to watch via the PS3 interface is getting lamer (more lame?) as the number of vids grow. Similarly, with the...

Well hell. Since it was DLNA compliant, I figured it would do something a little better than a basic DOS list. Maybe some setting or 3rd party stack on the WHS. Thanks for that info. On the bright side, now I have an excuse to make an HTPC and use a nice skin, like XBMC.

Setup is WHS in office, PS3 in video room connected via CAT6. Lots of Handbrake encoded videos on WHS. The PS3 sees them all and they play great. But... the PS3 interface SUCKS when browsing the videos up on the server. All I have is a folder view and then it gives me a text list of the files...

Question How did you get the failed drive out of the pool since the console remove would not work? Depending on how you did that, you could definitely have some issues.

Thx for the comments. I know it is not a true backup solution, but for the networked PC's, it really is. Automated nightly, full image backups. Even the ability to roll back or recover files from a year ago. All automagically. Very nice. Now, if MS could just provide that same level of roll...

After inadvertently deleting a folder from my WHS Video share, I am having second thoughts about my backup strategy with WHS. I really like the Folder Duplication feature for a simple fault tolerance design, but I was not thinking about accidental deletions. And with the family all using those...

Agree with other posts, DE is THE big feature of WHS. People that say "Just use RAID" are not thinking it through. Part of the beauty of DE was how stupid it was. The files were just stored twice. There was no single point failure that would make you lose your data short of a massive power...

zero2dash Thx for the info. Definitely NOT what I want. I know it is not very space efficient, but I always put the album artwork in the file. That makes the MP3 fully standalone. I can move it to another machine, another account, or whatever.

Does anyone know, when using Zune to update the files, does it embed album artwork in the MP3 file, or in a separate database (like iTunes)?

to sum across multiple sheets. I usually use a start and end sheet, e.g. I have a workbook with the following worksheets present graphsheet firstsheet game1sheet game2sheet ... lastsheet Then, on the graphsheet, add the graph (using data from graphsheet) and you enter the equation...

Nice system. Can't hurt to try.

More good info. Thanks.

Now that is what I am looking for!!! I will look into it. Thanks!

Thx for the inputs. Like I said, I already have iPods and they do scroll well. However, when you have a 4 hour recording, it is not very precise. I also didn't want to have to constantly press the button and then scroll. I am trying to find a player with an idiot proof 30 (or so) second...

Got Dell DJ's, Apple iPods, Shuffles and even an old Rio MP300. However, none of them do what my DVR can do, i.e. skip ahead 30 seconds with the press of a button. I can fast forward, but that is both imprecise and slow. The reason for my need is that I have recently started recording long...

Premiere Elements will do all those things you ask. The newer version even supports HD video.

Nice trolling, Amoeba.... I second keeping Windows in its own partition. I install XP with all my core apps that want to live in the registry. Then I Ghost it for quick recovery. All my games seem to live just fine through an XP re-install. Might just be lucky. Another concern is the...

As someone who does system design and is very familiar with the problems in balancing overall performance, I found the "Real World Gaming" testing for the Core Duo to be useless as a comparison between Intel and AMD. Why? Because the Real World performance was not limited by the CPU. They...

If you really want to be hard core, do a DOS stream dump to a text file. dir > c:\dirlist.txt Then edit that text file to make each line its own rename command WAS baseball.jpg IS rename "baseball.jpg" "baseball2.jpg" Then change the file extension to .bat and run it. It is a...

pxc I agree that is in the article, but it does not actually say Windows Server 2003. Just a version for corporate server computers. That could be anything. Have you read somewhere else that they are using WS2003 BTW, here is a link to a cache of the original article. Original Article

Supposedly, Vista has been rewritten. I read the original article in the WSJ when it came out, and it was very informative. Below is a link to an Inq article that talks about the original WSJ one. Inquirer Article Here is a transcript of the original article. Original WSJ Article I...

Agreed. Good thing. The drivers should be a standard service. If the service thread(s) are killed, the OS should automatically reload them. Obviously, the drivers will need to be changed.

Got a Stacker at Newegg (luv Newegg). It is not the newer 830 model, but the previous model STC-T01. My question is the physical spacing for the add in cards. I mounted an ASUS MB using the supplied standoffs, and all the output ports on the back of the MB line right up to the cutouts...

My major concern was offline capability and Yenc support. Currently using Forte Agent 2.01. I have the free upgrade, but I haven't converted yet. Of course, always looking for something better. :)

Svperstar I am interested in why you went with Newsleecher given some of its warts. When I tried it a while ago, they wanted a yearly fee and it installed Armadillo copy protection, one of the more onerous copy protection approaches. Has any of that been fixed?

Correct. It was a reason, not the reason. The article was focused on that as being the main reason for a development "reset". Can't seem to find it on WSJ's site, but here are some links about it. Windows IT Pro link Inquirer As I searched for it, I realized I read the original...

Exactly. The real question is why is that? It is because the Windows platform was designed from the beginning for single-user PC's. MS wanted to provide the most accessible, extendable OS they could, one that would have broad 3rd party support. The best way to do that was to leave it as open...

J32P2006, You raise some valid questions. Bootvis is a valid tool, and IMO, doesn't fall under the tweak category. The problem with the tweak discussion is that the answer is "IT DEPENDS". A particular registry tweak may very well clean up your computer, and promptly hose up djnes PC...

Thanks for the inputs. I will try to answer the questions. No changes to the video card. Just right during the rotation, the monitor went dead. The enable VGA mode on Safe Mode would be good, but now can't get into Safe Mode. As far as the Windows Advanced Menu, I don't think I can get...

Looking for ideas. Friends Dell Dimension with Dell 2001FP. During rotation, monitor checked out. In the interim, tried to use an old Sony CRT. Booting into XP, get an "out of range" error. Boot into Safe Mode Comes up, 640x480 Change display to 1024x768 Works Boot into regular XP...

Exactly my point. I don't want to go to other sites. I know [H] won't give me the standard PowerPoint PR numbers and they definitely won't pander to the mfgs. I'll get a true assessment. I just think there needs to be more of a comparison.

My 2 cents. As a long time reader (many years), I fully support the concern about playable settings and I understand the [H] approach. We all know that neither Nvidia nor ATI can be trusted. Big money is at stake. However, I have come to HATE the playable settings graphs. I want...

Remember the German's used to be able to camp the Allied spawn area. A player could sit up in the house across the street and shoot down through the floor right into where the Allies would spawn? Maybe it is a little payback :) Seriously though. They should fix that. Wouldn't be surprised...