Does it have to be DNLA? The "gold standard" for streaming music from a server to the hifi system would be the Squeezebox boxes, from what used to be Slim devices but nowadays is Logitech - at...
A HTPC is basically no different from any other PC, with the exception that it may have a great deal of hard drive space and be built to be especially quiet and unobtrusive in the home theater. Usually it has a user interface that...
RAID is in fact a great solution for ensuring against the failure of any single drive, but it's only one step in a data protection scheme; like many things it's not sufficient in itself to ensure you're safe. Backups, preferably...
It's kind of hard to fail when buying a general purpose PC these days. Assuming one leaves out the desire to game on it and has the patience to wait for things like a hard drive churning instead of going with a solid state drive,...
The thing about being attacked and taken over, the way your computer appears to have been, is that once that happens you have virtually no way of knowing that you've managed to clean it. Spywaredetectors etc are no help at all against a...
The signal strength and wattage and stuff like that really doesn't alter that dramatically. That said, there are some that are longer ranged than others (can't really name any specific ones) - but, your best bet is really to change out...
In a more corporate world this problem doesn't exist. At work, I use Outlook tethered to an Exchange server - but I can also read the mail in a web mail component and on my mobile devices via Exchange Activesync, so I have the mail on...
A no-expense and very smooth way is to get Synergy.
Synergy
Though you need two screens...
However, you use only one keyboard and mouse. The computers talk on the network and you can just seamlessly move the mouse pointer from...
Why not get a proper remote media player instead and hook that up to the room you are in?
Something like a Squeezebox from Slimdevices - you run server software on the computer but you can pick and choose with a remote what you play...
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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt
I have 2190 songs, 5.9 days work of music, on my harddrive. The only problem with one massive music archive is that my old failing harddrive introduced plenty of barely noticable...
