This holiday I figured out a way to burn DVD-video with my Microsoft Media Center 2005. By default ou can only burn a DVD-data with a MS-DVR format recording.
Simply download and install the Sonic Encoders from the HP website and burn your recorded TV to DVD-video.
This trick works on any MCE installation. I tried it on a clone system with a Dutch MCE.
Thank you HP ;-).
The LaCie Ethernet Disk mini is an external USB 2.0 disk with Ethernet interface.
The content of the disk can be accessed through:
An embedded Linux offers a web-based GUI for remote management. Through this GUI networking, shares and users can be configured.
The disk is formatted in FAT by default and can also be formatted FAT32 and EXT3. Only the last format deals with files larger than 4GB.
The FTP throughput is about 3.120 KB/s. A reasonable performance for multimedia streaming ;-).
The disk are available in 250GB, 300GB, 400GB and 500GB.
Read more at LaCie.
If you have formatted the external disk with the EXT3 file system, you can still access it over USB2 by using onw of the following tools: Ext2 IFS for Windows or Explore2fs.
Today a new stable release of OOo 2 was released. The website still contains the 2.0.0 version, but the link below brings you the 2.0.1 release.
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This weekend I found a great website by Robert Petruska with usefull VMware tools. Robert developed several VMware GUI’s around VMware’s products. The tools developed and available here are:
The last one is ideal for VMware Player creation of virtual machines.
Microsoft has released to manufacturer Windows Server 2003 R2 (Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter) and Virtual Server 2005 R2 (Standard and Enterprise). Both products are downloadable for Volume License and Software Assurance customers at Microsoft Volume Licensing Services.
Hopefully soon, MSDN will be updated. I will keep you informed.
Update 8-12-2006: MSDN has been updated with Windows Server 2003 R2.
