Recent content by $panky

It will be a simple store download and in place upgrade. It is set to be released (along with the new devices running 8.1) on October 18th. 4 AM PST i think actually lol. However we are talking about Microsoft, so I guess the disclaimer should be "no man knoweth the hour or the day!"...

If some of you are hoping for a new direction I wouldn't count on it. They aren't hiring somebody to change direction, they are hiring somebody that will be around long enough to see it through from the (relative) beginning. The wailing and gnashing of teeth is just beginning IMO. It will be a...

I tried to unsubscribe from legitimate sources, but it seems to work maybe half the time. It's much easier to just block them. Just go to your junk folder in outlook.com- select all and click on sweep. Then select block. It will block all senders in your junk folder. The spammers inevitably...

Try freefilesync. Its an excellant free and portable program. I never thought about it, but perhaps you could even put it on the flash drive itself and set it up to run automatically when inserted? It actually has two parts, freefilesync, which is the gui to setup the sync, and realtimesync...

For a basic install, I don't install much of anything other than flash! I just copy over my liberkey folder with all my portable apps. :P I have alot, but the ones I use most are: Firefox OpenOffice 7zip pdf-xchange viewer rocket docket freefilesync True crypt Vlc Calibre media info Mp3Tag...

I haven't got to play with 8.1 much, but even 8 is the best thing going for an HTPC as far as I'm concerned. Can't decide between Media Center and XBMC? MC is hands down better for live tv/cable and XBMC has tons of addons and is much more configurable. Use both. Windows 8 lets you switch...

Yes linux uses the same s3 low power state as windows. The difference being it does not write memory contents to disk like hybrid sleep and hibernate. I would try linux mint 14 cinnamon. Its very similar to windows ui and generally has good driver support. I'm not sure it will work but I...

Hanging up while trying to sleep is usually a driver or incompatable hardware problem, but since you say you haven't changed anything that begs the question wtf? A few things stand out to try. 1: Can you run linux off a dvd or thumb drive? If it has problems in linux too its probably...

You made me think for a minute! No it's kilobits per sec. If you used 3000 megabits per second on your HD videos that would be 3 gigabits per second. (you couldn't stream them over your 1 gigabit connection ;)) Anyway I find 1.2mbps for dvd's and 2-4 mbps for 720p to suffice for most things. I'm...

I don't like iso at all. It takes up too much space and too many devices will not play it. I rip all my dvds to folder structure(video_TS folder) format then transcode them to mkvs- H264 at 1200kbps looks fine to me and uses about 1 GB per movie. Older movies in 1080p I will usually transcode to...

On my HTPC/server, I have a partition to hold and share all my media. E:/audiobooks , E:/music ect. Since this is the main repository and several users and devices must access it, the entire partition is set to read only file permissions. To allow additions to the library I have a recently added...