Monthly Archives: December 2011
#56 The Home Tech Podcast: Amazon Fire, HP Proliant Microserver, Free iPod?
Jim (who audio was coming from his camera mic for the entire show and not the Yeti!) was joined this week by John Zajdler from The HomeServerShow.com, Mike Howard from the jpeg2raw podcast and Rich O’Neil from Rich’s Random Podcast Generator. Both Andrew and Christian were still on holiday!
In a post Christmas, pre New Year show, Jim asks the question, “What did you get for Christmas?” and “What did you really want for Christmas?” The guys share!
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John spends a bit of time talking about his duel HP N40L Proliant Microservers that he has had now for a couple weeks. He has torn them apart and put them back together several times now.
#55 The Home Tech Podcast: Facebook Wins, Yeti Blue Mics, Roku 2 XS, WD Live,
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Jim was joined this week by Andrew (on the phone), Mike Howard from the jpeg2raw podcast and Rich O’Neil from Rich’s Random Podcast Generator. Christian had the night off for his birthday! Happy Birthday Christian!
Andrew was on his way out of town and we caught him live via Skype to his phone. For Christmas, he was heading out to his parents bed and breakfast. You can visit there site at http://www.bellviewhill.com/ and we recommend you say there if you are ever in Melbourne Australia.
In an article from Business Insider, Facebook Is More Popular And Growing Faster Than Google Search. Surprisingly, Facebook makes up just over 10% of current internet traffic. The Average Guy has a Facebook site over at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/
The guys spend a few minutes looking back at internet firsts. Seems like we always get a history lesson when Make and Rich join the show!
Financial Tech Podcast 11: Big Bonus and Kindle Fire
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So you got a year-end bonus… now what?
End of the year boosts are nice on multiple fronts but the variable income, if not planned for, can slip right between your fingers if you are not careful!
Here are a couple of great options for putting that money to good use:
- Spend the bonus on paper first for 1 time bonuses
- Pay down debt
- Get rid of credit card and charge card debt
- Make an extra payment on your mortgage
- Save
- Emergencies
- Major Purchases
- Wealth Building
- On-going variable income
- How much can you count on?
- Make a budget based on your base income
- Live within those parameters
- Have a plan for variable income
#54 The Home Tech Podcast: HP MicroServer, WHS 2011, Low Power CPUs, Samsung Galaxy S II, Tom Tom, Issuu.com and Viber
Jim and Andrew are joined this week by Gary Johnson for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys start off the show with an update on the solar grid feed system Andrew and his wife installed in May this year, followed by some discussions around if the others would “green” their lives.
Jim talks about his new HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L, which has arrived, and been set up running Windows Home Server 2011 for some testing with a Drobo S.
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The guys talk a bit the hardware power required to transcode video, and how some of the hardware we were using in days gone by is reasonably high in power consumption, as well as being somewhat inadequate for the day to day usage we need from a computer these days, not to mention thermal and energy efficiencies.
#11 Rich’s Random Podcast Generator: Hybrid Drives, Drive Caching, Icy Dock Xpander, RocketHybrid 1220, Acronis True Image Home 2012
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Today I’m joined by John Zajdler MS WHS MVP and Mike Faucher of BYOB. Jim Collison is off today. So…John’s HP MediaSmart Server EX 490 has died (motherboard) so he’s modding it with plans to turn it into a port multiplier drive bay. Mike had an issue caused by a miniport adapter in bridge mode that was absolutely killing his wired network speed. The miniport adapter was likely installed when he put VirtualBox on his PC. He disabled it in Device Manager and the issue went away. I had the same issue on my laptop where it would occasionally fail to connect to WiFi. I also had been using VirtualBox.
They guys talk about different types of hybrid drive options. A hybrid drive is one that pairs an SSD with a regular spinning hard drive in order to gain speed improvement over using a hard drive only. The trade-off is that you lose the full speed of an SSD but end up with a drive that is still faster than normal and which has a lot of capacity.
