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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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New Windows Home Server

After becom­ing increas­ingly frus­trated with the Tran­quil Home Server, I decided to de-commission it. The drivers required at install time didn’t work, and Tran­quil tech­nical sup­port (online and via email) just didn’t work. #epicfail

There is a mother­board con­fig­ur­a­tion called Mini-ITX where the dimen­sions are 170mm x 170mm. Intel have a great board with 1Gb […]

Lost in FileSpace

It has been a little blog­ging quiet of late. Partly due to pre­par­a­tion for demon­stra­tions in the next few weeks, and other email tasks.
Two major events have clouded out-of-hours pro­ductiv­ity: The Win­dows Home Server crumpled with a BIOS boot­ing error. This required get­ting a spe­cial USB re-setup key from the UK from Tran­quilPC.
Win­dows 7 rocks. Still […]

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Win­dows Home Server Power Pack 1 is now avail­able.
Power Pack 1 fixes the data cor­rup­tion bug as well as deliv­ers sig­ni­fic­ant new func­tion­al­ity includ­ing:
· x64 sup­port for home com­puters run­ning Win­dows Vista
· Home Server Shared Folder backup
· Improved remote access exper­i­ence
· Improve­ments to power con­sump­tion and per­form­ance
· Loc­al­iz­a­tion sup­port for Japan and China

Double check Tran­quil PC’s web […]

ROCK!">Windows Home Server team just ROCK!

The Win­dows Home Server team abso­lutely rock. OK, I work for Microsoft and am paid to say that.
Well, today I am on hol­i­day. So, I am say­ing this as private cit­izen Nick Hodge.
Listen­ing to users, research­ing and fix­ing bugs quickly; and adding reques­ted fea­tures in an open and rapid way. This is the way to make soft­ware.
Watch […]

Home Server Pimpin’

My Win­dows Home Server just sits on my gig­abit net­work, and well, works.
Since my last post­ing, I’ve added a 750Gb external hard drive bring­ing the total stor­age to some­thing near­ing 2Tb.
Oth­ers are pimpin’ their install­a­tions: a major shout out goes to Andrew Dug­dell and his combo home MAME / Home Server.

How Windows Home Server Saved My Sanity

The recent install­a­tion of the Win­dows Media Cen­ter has been an ongo­ing major pro­ject. Apart from the phys­ical install, there has been a a few ongo­ing issues:

High-Definition TV “green screen of death”.Thanks to the Vista and XP Media Centre forum, this is a known and fixed issue. The Microsoft Hot­fix is avail­able here.
Elec­tronic Pro­gram GuideAttemp­ted to […]

Weekend Project: Windows Media Center

Yes, I know that the cor­rect eng­lish spelling of Cen­ter is Centre.

Thanks to the gen­er­os­ity of Jeffa, I scored an old Mini-ATX case with power sup­ply. Yeah, being the junior on the team — I get all the hand-me-downs.
Some hun­dreds of dol­lars later from AUS­P­CMar­ket, and I have my first ever:

AMD based PC (AMD Athlan64 x2 6000+)
Gigabyte […]

Windows Home Server

I just love pok­ing fun at our pommy over­lords.
The Tran­quilPC is setup, back­ing up and not keep­ing the cats warm. It runs too silently and cool.

I spend online therefore I work online

Acquis­i­tions today. I hope Avril isn’t read­ing this:
1. Win­dows Home Server from Tran­quil PC
After much pro­cras­tin­a­tion, I’ve decided to buy some­thing that’s already built. And isn’t going to require lots of coal to be burnt to keep the thing going.
2. Meraki Stand­ard Mesh
All the cool kids were doing it, hon­est! Attempt­ing to wire up Liam whilst he is at […]

FTW!!1">Windows Home Server. @aeoth rollies FTW!!1

@aeoth wins the small com­pet­i­tion: Mel­bourne Win­dows Home Server–install off.
Don’t know what he’s going to win yet. Maybe a new cir­cu­lar saw?
Well done, dude. Good server name, too
Like to make your own Win­dows Home Server? David Flynn from APC Magazine in Aus­tralia has some local col­our on how to. Even the Win­dows Home Server team have found […]