Category Archives: Home Network

Axis 2100 Network Camera Repair

Posted by dave on April 18, 2012 No comments

I bought an Axis 2100 camera off the bay the other day, it didn’t have a power supply but was very cheap so I took a gamble with it. I bought an AD-121AD generic power adaptor from the bay too, …

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Creating virtual directories in Windows using MKLINK

Posted by dave on November 16, 2011 No comments

I won’t go into too much detail as to why I needed to do this, but basically I needed a network share to look kinda like a local folder. After experimenting with NET USE, SUBST and various other solutions, I …

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Managing Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in a Workgroup

Posted by dave on June 2, 2010 No comments

I setup a new Hyper-V server at home last night. The install itself was straight forward, I’m basically trying to run even less servers to keep the old energy bills down. It’s a shame there is no USB support in …

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Fitting the Armoured Electric Cable Outside

Posted by dave on May 30, 2010 2 comments

Now that we have a Hedgehog, it was time to get more permanent power to the garden. I picked up some 1.5mm SWA 3 Core Armoured Cable from B&Q along with some conduit, a metal back box, an RCD plate …

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Installing Ubuntu 10.04 with ZoneMinder 1.24 on Hyper-V

Posted by dave on May 26, 2010 2 comments

I decided I need to cut down the number of servers I run at home, yet again. ZoneMinder currently sits on its own Ubuntu box and so I thought I’d create a Hyper-V server and then create a few VM’s …

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Setting the Harmony CCTV IP Address on a Linksys DMA2100

Posted by dave on May 25, 2010 No comments

If you are running Harmony 2007 Automation Server from a DMA2100 Media Centre Extender then you will be aware that you can’t set the IP address and port for the CCTV server (if you have it installed) from the on …

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Hedgehog House with IP Camera, the build…

Posted by dave on May 17, 2010 2 comments

At my last house we had a hedgehog that would come into the garden every evening. I first discovered him when he scared the crap out of me when I came out of the garage one night, having just finished …

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Windows 7 on the HP Compaq Mini 702ea for the win!

Posted by dave on May 6, 2010 1 comment

Last year I bought a HP Compaq 702ea netbook from eBuyer for my coast to coast road trip across the USA in September. I got it on special offer for £199.99 which I thought was a bit of a bargain. …

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Programming Linksys DMA2100 Remote

Posted by dave on March 23, 2010 No comments

This is mostly for my reference, but if you have a Linksys DMA2100 or DMA2200 you will know that the volume, mute and spare power buttons don’t work. This is because they need to be programmed for use with your …

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