Eagle is a company that I am fast becoming a fan of.  They are consistently releasing practical affordable solutions to some of the needs I have been faced with lately.  I can already hear it… can you? It’s saying, what sets this enclosure apart from the THOUSANDS of others out there?  Simple, its made by Eagle… AND, it is DUAL BAY! Read more…

There are times when simply doing a Windows restore isn’t enough; you also may not have been provided with any operating system / restore CD’s or DVD’s for your Dell computer.  Luckily for you, Dell places restore materials on a separate partition of your hard drive.  If all else fails and your last resort is restoring your computer to “like new”; here are the instructions to do so. Read more…

I have been playing with my home server for more than a year now and I have always just dealt with the slow transfer speeds to and from my server, until now.  I have a gigabit switch (Linksys EG005W) and I am running Cat6 to all my machines that host gigabit adapters. With that said, I would consistently only get 20-30 % throughput on my network.  Now I get 40-50% throughput and sustain transfer speeds of around 60+MB/s by simply enabling Jumbo Frames! Read more…

In my efforts with Vista I keep encountering some nagging issues.  My latest was on one of my laptops; when logging in, I am prompted with an error: “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.” Luckily for me, I was able to piece enough information together to get it resolved.  Now, I hand the resolution over to you. Read more…

I am always looking for new and better ways to do things with my Windows Home Server.  Lately, it has been pretty stale… finding new things that is.  Then, when not looking for something, I found something; Sockso Music Server. Read more…