Eagle is a company that I am fast becoming a fan of.  They are consistently releasing practical affordable solutions to some of the needs I have been faced with lately.  I can already hear it… can you? It’s saying, what sets this enclosure apart from the THOUSANDS of others out there?  Simple, its made by [...] Read Full Story

There are times when simply doing a Windows restore isn’t enough; you also may not have been provided with any operating system / restore CD’s or DVD’s for your Dell computer.  Luckily for you, Dell places restore materials on a separate partition of your hard drive.  If all else fails and your last resort is [...] Read Full Story

I have been playing with my home server for more than a year now and I have always just dealt with the slow transfer speeds to and from my server, until now.  I have a gigabit switch (Linksys EG005W) and I am running Cat6 to all my machines that host gigabit adapters. With that said, [...] Read Full Story

In my efforts with Vista I keep encountering some nagging issues.  My latest was on one of my laptops; when logging in, I am prompted with an error: “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.” Luckily for me, I was able to piece enough information together to get it resolved.  [...] Read Full Story

I am always looking for new and better ways to do things with my Windows Home Server.  Lately, it has been pretty stale… finding new things that is.  Then, when not looking for something, I found something; Sockso Music Server. Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It’s designed to be as simple [...] Read Full Story

I recently had an interesting issue that was near impossible to find a solution to.  My Windows Vista installation had suffered a bit and it seems that all of my folder views were completely whacked.  I couldn’t reset the views to defaults and it was driving me crazy. There is an easy way, as a last resort, to restore your folder views back to the default state, but it requires that you modify your registry. NOTE: Editing the Registry incorrectly can cause serious, system-wide problems... Read Full Story

Media Center in Windows Vista has the capabilities of displaying and playing DVD content stored on your personal computer, however this feature is not enabled by default.  Enabling this feature is pretty easy and can be done by simply modifying your registry. NOTE: Editing the Registry incorrectly can cause serious, system-wide problems that may require you [...] Read Full Story

I have been looking for a way to stream music from my Windows Home Server without using some intermediary service for some time now.  Most of the applications require some third party service to stream your media, that is, until I stumbled upon Subsonic. Subsonic promises to deliver the solution to streaming my music without using [...] Read Full Story

The administrator account is disabled by default in Windows Vista, here is how you can enable it at logon. Ok there are really two ways of doing this depending on which version of vista you have. And in 1 or 6 easy steps! NOTE: Editing the Registry incorrectly can cause serious, system-wide problems that may require you [...] Read Full Story

If you are like me, you like to take advantage of everything your devices can do.  I overclock my pc’s, my blenders, and like to watch movies on my iPod.  The wonderful features of these devices really are limited only to your skill set.  Finding the movies you want to watch on your next plane [...] Read Full Story