Archive for March, 2008

unRAID and MyMovies - New Versions Available.

Lime-Technology has released 4.3 Beta 2 as of yesterday.
“Changes from 4.3-beta1 to 4.3-beta2
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Bug fix: Restore missing ‘installpkg’ script.
Bug fix: Fixed possible user share crash if top-level disk directories contain ordinary files.
Bug fix: Fixed warning message generated by ‘find’ when searching user shares.
Bug fix: Fixed problem reporting correct hostname to DHCP server.”
You can download it from [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

unRAID Server 4.3 Beta1 Available.

That’s right…grab it while it’s hot. unRAID Server 4.3 Beta1 is available and, although it is a beta, contains some features that I know I have been anxiously awaiting.
From the unRAID site,
“The first main change in the 4.3 release is an upgrade to the linux 2.6.24.3 kernel. This kernel includes numerous driver updates [...]

Friday, March 14th, 2008

MyMovies Online Collection.

I’ve included a link to my online MyMovies Collection. I’m currently in the process of getting it all synced up, so only about 5% of my collection is actually up there. I had always imported info from IMDB and added my own custom movie info, but never realized that this affected the functionality [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

More Thumbnails Per Row for MyMovies.

Gamacky (from the Mymovies forum) has created a hack for MyMovies 2.43PR4 that allows for 6 thumbnails per row instead of the typical 4 on a 16:9 display. You can follow the progress in this thread.
This is a great little hack. For those of us who have hundreds (I have over a thousand) [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Slow Share Access With Vista.

Thought I’d share this since I’ve spent the better part of the evening trying to figure this out. Last night MyMovies started becoming unresponsive and browsing the movies share in Video Library was next to impossible. I have no idea what brought this on as this system has proven to be very reliable [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Upgrade On Old Server Board.

The media server that I’m phasing out of primary file serving duties was based on the craptacular VIA PT890 chipset. Single-channel memory and no features worth mentioning. I had a spare Asus P5L-MX sitting around that was replaced by a P5B-MX for my bedroom HTPC client (I blew some CPU pins doing a [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Null Sessions for 2003 Server.

OK, I’ve seen this on countless forums, blogs, and other home theater/network sites and I wanted to get this out to all of you who have not yet experienced the inconvenience of disabled null sessions on Windows 2003 Server when trying to connect to a share with your HTPC.
For those that don’t know what I [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Encoding and Aspect Ratio Tip.

Last night I put on The Condemned as I had not seen it and was in the mood for some action. Once it started, I noticed that there was something odd about the way it was displayed on the screen. I knew it was a 16:9 movie and I have a 37″ Hannspree [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

unRAID Media Server Online: Part 2.

I’m going to have to backtrack a few days now that the server has been up-and-running since Wednesday. I had planned a very thorough setup, but I’m not going to go through with that anymore. The Project Gallery entry gives enough background so that I don’t have to do that. Plus, [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Slowly, but surely.

It’s a slow process starting a blog that’s destined to be more than what you can sign up for at MySpace or the like. I didn’t realize it until now. However, I’m slowly making headway towards getting the information on here, and in the way I want it. There has been a [...]

Thursday, March 6th, 2008