Author: Jim Collison

Jim’s Appearance on Home Server Show 262

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Dave pulls the plug on his Windows Home Server 2011 box and talks about migration to his Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Box.  We are also joined by Christopher Courtney. Home Server Show is live every Tuesday night at 7:30pmC/[spp-timestamp time="8:30"]E (+15 minutes) over at http://homeservershow.com/live. Find the audio and links to the video at http://homeservershow.com/finalizing-move-whs2011-essentials-2012-home-server-show-262.html

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John Nye talks Ethical Hacking, Wifi Pineapples and Quadcopters – HGG172

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John Nye from http://endisnye.com and Christian Johnson join Jim (@jcollison) for show #172 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/.  John Nye, a CompTIA Security+ and Network+ Certified Security Consultant and a student at https://www.bellevue.edu/ spends time with us talking about Ethical Hacking, Wifi Pineapples and Quadcopters.… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Cyber Entrepreneurs, Privacy Matters Pt. 2, Encryption Woes and the Controversy of Anonymity – CF004

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This week on Cyber Frontiers we talk cyber innovation, privacy, and the encrypted era of financial and informational systems with special guest Mark Goldstein, Vice President of Business Development at Insider Spyder (http://www.insiderspyder.com/) Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson,… Click for more / Podcast Player>

New PC upgrade for the AverageGuy.tv Studios: Intel Core i7 and Windows 8.1 Update

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I spent some time over the last several weeks putting in an upgraded PC for the Studio.  I had been running a home build Intel Core i3 530 / 8GB RAM / 120GB SSD that was getting a little long in the tooth for what I was doing with it.  Besides daily use, the studio pc does all the edits, both audio and video for the several podcasts that I do weekly.  A one hour video podcast was taking up to 3 hours to render in 1080p with the older box.  With the new setup, I can render that same

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Hands on Review of the Elgato Video Capture Device, John Zajdler, New Podcast, MyMovies – HGG171

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John Zajdler (@Dieharder) and John Greenaway join Jim (@jcollison) for show #171 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/.  It’s time for a little Home Server action while we have John with us.  We also introduce John Greenaway to the program and catch up with him.  We… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Hands on Review of the Elgato Video Capture Device – Digitizing and Archiving Analog Video

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John Greenaway is a Home Tech listener since show #1 is guest writing for The Average Guy Blog. This item was purchased with proceeds from the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund. https://www.patreon.com/theaverageguy Working through the outset of this project was emotional as well as therapeutic for me.  As such, I felt compelled to elaborate a small amount on why I embarked on this project and how the combination of my personal / family situation, my nostalgic nature, my interest and appreciation for technology, and my paranoid approach to data management, and archival led me to this point.  For those solely

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