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We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Streaming Problems? Tell Us About Them

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 03:34:17 +0000

Just last night I had a seriously irritating issue trying to watch some videos directly on the WHS (which is how it's typically used). Just a simple ~1mbps AVI video. Wasn't too hard to track down the culprit, although disk I/O was SO SEVERELY impacted by the issue, I was almost completely unable to do anything with the system. Turns out, Backup was running its database cleanup _WHILE_ DEMigrator was trying to shuffle the backup data around. The two I/O operations conflicted like mad, and made the machine nearly unusable. Stopping DEMigrator (constantly) gave me short bursts of usability, before DEMigrator started up again automatically. Finally, after disabling DEMigrator completely, disk I/O settled down and the cleanup finished. But it was a seriously frustrating issue when I couldn't even read a video file quick enough to play...

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Program Update: Microsoft Security Essentials

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:50:50 +0000

Hmm. I haven't yet been able to get my MSE to pop up and say it needs an update. Still happily green, happily oblivious. Seen it pop up on another PC here at the shop, though. Kinda odd. Maybe because I'm using 7?

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Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:58:39 +0000

That's a heck of a lot of planes!

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : HP: They Finally Got One Right

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:32:35 +0000

Their terrible software is part of the reason I'm still happily using ~10-year-old HP laser printers ;) At least back then, HP didn't have room to load bloatware drivers and such. Good to hear HP is taking it in the right direction, though. Windows 7 seems to be setting a standard I'm very, VERY happy to see the PC industry headed in :)

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Vote for the Features You'd Like to See in Windows Home Server "Vail"

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:39:53 +0000

SATA wasn't around when XP was shipping, so of course there's no supporting driver bundled with the OS. Also, it wouldn't "blue screen", it would simply fail to detect the drive controller, and either not detect the disc, or not allow you to continue with no drives. It's also far from "impossible"; that's what that F6 prompt during the first part of setup is for. Load the SATA drivers from a disk. Either way, again, it's still beside the point. Home users are going to buy a pre-configured Home Server system from an OEM like HP or Acer. Whatever HP or Acer supports, WHS will support. Home users only buy OEM computers as well, and in that regard, XP has been running on SATA drives for years. And I find it quite amateur to comment that native support is better than OEM drivers... the bundled drivers are almost ALWAYS inferior to the most up to date drivers from the OEM. I'd almost be afraid of using a computer you reinstalled Windows on if you believe that...

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Vote for the Features You'd Like to See in Windows Home Server "Vail"

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:12:27 +0000

I don't even know what you're referring to... what kind of nightmare is installing WinXP on a SATA drive? I work at a PC repair shop; we do that nearly every day. Custom CD I made that comes preloaded with nearly all available storage drivers (even RAID), software, etc. It's still beside the point. OEMs are the target market for WHS, not homebrew builders. Homebrewers are on their own, and if they can't figure out how to add controller drivers for device support, that falls squarely on them. Bundled driver support has absolutely zero position on my list of things I want to see in the new version... edit: And, me and my friend both built our own home servers. So consider that.

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Vote for the Features You'd Like to See in Windows Home Server "Vail"

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:08:14 +0000

Huh, the results are already pretty surprising! Didn't think so many people would care about D... *scrolls up*... DLNA support. I voted for Server 2008 R2 as a base (for godssake it needs to be brought into NT6.0 at least... MS designed CBS for this, why not make use of it?), 64-bit, native Mac backup, better printer/fax sharing (it's currently a mess that requires use of the base Windows interface in order to accomplish), and remote access via a custom domain. Anything hardware related should have been disqualified, IMO (like USB 3.0, SATA 3, HDMI)... those are things the hardware OEMs need to tackle, not Windows...

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Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:57:14 +0000

Testing image ID reference

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Rosewill RSV-S8 External Drive Enclosure - That's 8 (Count 'Em) Bays

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:06:24 +0000

Anyone ever heard of a USB to eSATA adapter? One at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/USB-to-eSATA-SATA-Adapter/d... Not 100% sure if it supports port multiplexing (like this enclosure must use), but it sure seems like a way to get it attached to a box without eSATA...

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Happy Holidays from the We Got Served Team!

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:53:35 +0000

You guys have kept me thoroughly entertained since I got a WHS setup. I can only hope MS has a new WHS version (and I don't mean just a darn power pack, MS! Lol...) planned for next year! As it is, my WHS has an activation countdown timer that's pretty much counting down straight to Christmas day to give me a present of a black screen if I don't find a solution soon... =\ Well, at any rate, happy holidays, and here's to what 2010 has in store! :)

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : HP MediaSmart Server Update Delayed Until February

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:33:33 +0000

Not really... there _is_ a "delete" button after all! ^_^

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : HP MediaSmart Server Update Delayed Until February

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:32:22 +0000

There is only one version of WHS, smart one...

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : HP MediaSmart Server Update Delayed Until February

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:00:50 +0000

"Obnoxious" is double posting and not even refreshing to see your mistake and correct it. *facepalm* "Obnoxious" is charging any money AT ALL for any sort of "update" that only works on a product that the company also sold (and that you already paid for). Apple only got away with it for a significant update, and they could hardly be considered having "gotten away with it" - the whole damn Internet hates Apple for that kind of dirty practice. "Obnoxious" is infinitely delaying a product update set to fix problems and maybe add a little more functionality to a system that is plenty capable of it. Windows Home Server has always been based on the same old legacy code it was originally founded on - WHS was obsolete out of the box (a Vista-based install bootstrapper, installing XP code branded as "Server 2003" as a product called Windows Home Server). Nothing has changed, there's no new WHS version, merely an automatic update that everyone with a WHS also gets. This is no more significant an update than HP updating their driver software. Where do they get off charging money for it? "Obnoxious" is calling the same piece of hardware still being sold today "antiqued". We've moved from Celerons to Atoms and gotten bigger hard drives. That's about it. No huge change from IDE to SATA or Pentium 4 to Core 2. We haven't gotten an integrated TV tuner, sound/music capabilities, or pretty much any additional "capabilities" at all. Just a class shift and capacity improvement. You seriously call that old? Looks like you (and HP for that matter) are the one(s) being "obnoxious" here...

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : HP MediaSmart Server Update Delayed Until February

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:18:12 +0000

Awesome. A delayed update that you actually have to PAY for. HP rules. I'm so glad I built my own server and convinced a friend to buy an Acer instead.

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:09:24 +0000

Huh, let's see how this here works.

We Got Served - Connecting Your Digital World : Newbie WHS Developer Kit - Get Started Developing Add-ins For Windows Home Server

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:09:35 +0000

Well, you can entirely turn off (eh, "Mute") the popup notifications by right-clicking the icon in the tray and click to uncheck "Display network health notifications" (or something to that effect). That would solve that problem. My issue is that my "network health notifications" alert me of only entirely useless garbage, like that antispyware protection is not installed on (one of countless computers it's not installed on). I can ignore the issue but it reappears the moment the condition arises again. I got tired of muting all the errors and have learned to live with (and laugh mockingly at) the "Your home network IS AT RISK!!!" (omg!) status. Somehow - SOMEHOW - the WHS community hasn't seen the major glaring issue with this. So nothing has been done to fix it. =( edit: Sorry for the multi-post... it would "post" for maybe 10 seconds, I'd switch to another tab, come back some minutes later and it'd say it timed out. Wasn't until I Ctrl+C'd then F5'd that I saw 3 posts here! D'oh...! =P