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Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality.  I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue.  However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions.  With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…

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The next test, Iometer, was added to benchmark the multi user environment and simply stated; it is both a workload generator and a measurement tool. Iometer measures performance under a controlled load measuring I/Os at varying depths. Iometer will be used with two of the better known scenarios, the File Server and Database patterns. A lot of information can be extrapolated from this such as Total MB/s, Average I/O Response times, and more. The patterns of File Server and Database will be run at a depth of 1 - 128 I/Os in a doubling fashion (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128).

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In early 2000 I became increasingly frustrated with hardware review sites praising less than satisfactory products. The saying: “if you want something done right, do it yourself” applies here. I wasn’t satisfied, so I did it myself; and here we are years later.