The New Mac Mini is Finally Here!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Terabyte home on 03. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
I’ve been waiting on a Mac Mini to replace my sluggish and crash-prone Firefly/NSLU2 home music and file server, and Apple finally delivered the goods today, after leaving us in the lurch at Macworld 2009! I’ve placed my order for a base-model Mac Mini, and look forward to using Apple’s iPhone Remote with the Airport [...]
The Future of Home Storage
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home on 12. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Consumers demand friendly, flexible solutions. They don’t want to fuss with their media, and they don’t want simple shared storage. They want integration with multiple devices and flexibility to access their content on any device.
No More CDs
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 17. Dec, 2007 | View Comments
So yesterday we finished ripping our entire CD collection – we’ve now completed our switch to digital music at home. It’s done.
It amuses me to think of the statistics:
We have 11,284 tracks stored, including 279 Christmas songs and 549 kids songs!
Most songs were ripped using LAME at the VBR3 setting in joint stereo
This music library [...]
Another Roku Soundbridge
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 03. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
So I loved the original Roku Soundbridge I bought for the main stereo so much that I couldn’t resist buying a second one when I spotted it on clearance at Best Buy. Now I’ve got one in my office, too.
I wonder why they decided to clear it out. It was brand new, and [...]
Making the Switch to Digital Music at Home
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 27. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
After sticking staunchly to real CDs for home listening, I finally succumbed and expanded my terabyte house into the digital audio server domain. In the end, it was audiophile Mark Schlack from TechTarget who won me over – if digital audio is good enough for him, then it ought to be good enough for [...]
Where is Linux in Storage?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything on 20. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Marc Farley’s challenge of listing all the devices on our home networks got me thinking –I’ve got an awful lot of Linux devices, but all of them are infrastructure rather than interactive PCs. Of the 10 devices currently attached my home network, four are Linux based (two TiVos, a Linksys router, and Linksys NAS), three [...]
