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69 The Home Tech Podcast: Commodore 64, Dropbox, Facebook, Home OS, Lead Recycling, Timex Sinclair 1000
Apr 14th
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The guys are joined by Bryan Auer and Rich O’Neil for show 69 of The Home Tech Podcast.
The guys start off learning some about the lead recycling business that Bryan works in, with Bryan telling us how lead-acid batteries, and other lead containing products are recycled into re-usable components.
Jim and Bryan take a trip down technology’s memory lane, back to the days of the Commodore Pet, and the Timex Sinclair 1000
#49 The Home Tech Podcast: Drobo, Recycling, the Internet, No More Landline, HD Home Run Prime
Oct 29th
Jim and Andrew are joined by Gary Johnson at The Average Guy for this week’s installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
After the introductions, and weather reports from around the world, the guys kick off the show, talking about Jims’ search for a miniature computer to match to a Drobo S, and run Windows Home Server 2011. Gary warns against small form factor machines that can trap heat inside the case, and recommends using a drive such as the Seagate Momentus XT for a system drive for performance gains.
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The Home Tech Podcast: Drobo Special from San Jose, CA
Oct 10th
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Jim is with Mario Blandini from Drobo and a visit to their international headquarters in San Jose for the first ever Home Tech Podcast from Drobo. Mario and Jim talk about Drobo product direction, hardware vs software development, RAID usage and even some new product announcements! Drobo is now shipping a new 12 bay Drobo for enterprise business that need more storage.
Mario also breaks down some of the new naming convention for the latest line and talks about the future of expanding Drobo’s BeyondRAID technology. He also covers some of the future when it comes to using smaller form factor drives and responds to the hacking community. Jim gives Mario some ideas of what he would like to see in the future including some tips for the Home Server Community.
#45 The Home Tech Podcast: The New Kindle, Amazon Prime, Ford Mustang Customizer, HD HomeRun PRIME, Home Storage, and ISP Modems
Oct 3rd
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Jim and Andrew and Gary Johnson are joined by Gordon Schmidt and John Hughes for this week’s installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
After a timely reminder that the podcast feed will be changed next week, the guys kick off the show.
Jim starts off, talking about the new Kindle range of eBook readers, announced by Amazon this week, with the new range starting at $79 for the Kindle 6” model, all the way up to $199 for the new Kindle Fire, which is 7” has a color display, and runs Android, with the Amazon Silk Browser. The 6” model is available now, with the larger and color units becoming available in November this year. While talking about Amazon products, the guys discuss Amazon Prime, as well as Netflix and Redbox, and cutting the cable.
#30 The Home Tech Podcast: Android Apps, Google Products, Phones, Getting Things Done, and Loyalty Card Apps
Jun 17th
Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Gordon Schmidt for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
Christians’ latest tech news for the Home Server crowd is that the BIOS for an HP EX485 MediaSmart server can be recovered if becomes corrupted somehow. If you have somehow corrupted the BIOS on your MediaSmart Server, you can check out how to recover your MediaSmart Server BIOS over at BIOS-Mods.
In a Windows Home Server bent, Gordon fills us in on upgrade to Windows Home Server 2011, and his coding project in conjunction with his brothers, to bring additional information into the Home Server console. Gordon tells us how he manages the storage drives with Windows Home Server, and how he manages his external backups using an ioSafe external hard disk.
Christian gives us a sneak peek into his Summer vacation projects, assisting some of the local organizations in his area to bring some efficiencies to their businesses via web based services.
#24 The Home Tech Podcast: Cyber-attacks, Online Security, Wuala goes Mobile, Top Ten Tablets, Facebook Events, 7stacks, Password Management and DNS Benchmarking
May 6th
Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Gordon Schmidt for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys kick off with Christian giving a quick insight regarding the change in his development methodologies for his Windows Home Server add-in, Magic Wake-On LAN given the change in technology between original Windows Home Server and the new Windows Home Server 2011.
Jim talks about the latest news regarding the recent cyber-attack on the Sony PlayStation Network and the steps you can take to make sure your credit card details are safe, such as regularly changing your password on your online services, and using complex passwords. For those of you who use the PlayStation Network, Sony are providing regular updates on their Blog.
#23 The Home Tech Podcast: Google Apps for Domains, File Recovery from Hard Drives and Memory Cards, Hulu Plus, Colour Calibration, and Yahoo! has sold Delicious
Apr 30th
Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by good friend of the show, Chris Lux for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
With everyone back on deck, and the Skype Gods working in their favor, the guys kick off with some listener feedback from Michael in Connecticut who shares with the show how he uses the often talked about SyncToy to copy his critical data between his Windows Home Server, and his cloud storage provider of choice, Mozy.
Moving on from backups, Jim talks about his recent experience of recovering data from a friends’ failed hard disk, using the “6-inch drop method”, which involves dropping the disk onto a hard surface from 6-inches which sometimes seems to work as a last ditch effort. The guys go on to talk about the other various methods they have used, such as freezing a faulty drive (in a zip lock bag to prevent condensation build-up), and even the KISS method of swapping the faulty disk into a different PC. Although these techniques do work from time to time, the most failsafe method is still taking a regular backup!
Home Server Show #117
Dec 23rd
Christmas without Skype? We all had a hard time believing that Skype had gone down! So, we recorded this episode a little differently this time and you will certainly hear the difference. With Skype down, Jim, John and Christian, cobbled up a quick solution and off we went! It’s still a great show but I apologize for the audio. We talk about Jim’s Drobo post and what is coming next and our featured guest is Christian Johnson. Christian shares his latest Add-In with us and it’s upcoming release date.
The entire show can be heard at http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-117.html
By the way, you can join in live chat each week on Wednesdays, 8pm Central athttp://homeservershow.com/live.
The BYOB (Build Your Own Box) Podcast #25
Dec 15th

Doc’s RAID 5, Tim has a bad memory? AMD 1100T, AMD 69xx series release date, GTX 570 is loose. This week we talk about some new products and spend some time discussing Software RAID as part of a ongoing quest for mass storage to fill the gap created by the removal of DE. Hope you enjoy the podcast and remember to join us for the BYOB live show on December 18th at 11am PST. Bring your questions and hope to see your there.
Listen to the Podcast at http://homeservershow.com/byob-episode-25.html










