As part of the consolidation project, I need to be able to virtualize the current TV recording PC. This means being able to capture video

To make along story short, the desktop PC won’t boot. After some digging around, something must have happened to the BIOS? because all the reference

Have been thinking about this some more. The reason I have the X2 4000+ as the desktop is because I sometimes do want to run

It all started about a week ago when I installed the BioShock demo on the HTPC (Athlon2400+, 6800LE video card), to try it out on

Well the joy of the success in splitting the stereo audio pair in 2 separate cards was short lived… SoftSqueeze, since it runs in Java

After deciding to go with a laptop I already owned as a audio server, I pulled out the old PII 266Mhz Dell Latitide CPi.  Spent

Since I’ve changed my strategy slightly on how to distribute audio to the house, I’ve needed to do some research on alsa. Link After coming

Further to the last post, I decided to try putting Vmware server on the server machine to run some vm machines. All got installed ok,

After reading some posts on the slimdevices forums regarding virtualization, I’m intrigued. Idea is to install a VERY minimal linux OS, which is only a

Arghh… Another obstacle… How to put the USB drive into stand-by mode, so it will spin down when not in use.