I thought shooting some video for my last two post on building a custom home media server, showing off all of the hot hardware I used for the build, would be somewhat more exciting than simply writing about the individual
One of my roommates, in the throes of a head cold, decided to start trying to troubleshoot our furnace — by flicking off random switches in our circuit breaker. I was right in the middle of a game of Left 4 Dead when
Continuing our quest to build the ultimate, while inexpensive, home theater PC, the one thing you need to consider when talking about media is how you are going to actually get the media to the computer. After covering the main
I just took my old machine into the local computer repairman's shop, mostly as an experiment. I'd built it about two years ago but it died in my most recent move, it'd power on but wouldn't boot, so I figured it was worth
