Tag Archives: MCE

Linksys DMA2100 Freezing on Boot

Posted by dave on June 11, 2011 No comments

One of my DMA2100’s just would not boot recently. It would turn on, and normally the blue light flashes exactly 20 times before it starts up, but for some reason it just constantly flashed, and as a result, no Family …

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Viewing ZoneMinder CCTV within Windows Media Center

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 8 comments

I run ZoneMinder as my CCTV server, which works really well. It sits on a Ubuntu PC and quite happily monitors everything that’s going on, I’ll do a full write up on ZoneMinder some othertime. I can connect into the …

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Remove adverts from your MCE Recordings with LifeExtender

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 No comments

Time is money right? Well, if it’s not money, its definitely valuable and I don’t have a lot of it spare I can tell you. Where am I going this this I can hear you saying, well, I’m referring to …

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Using multiple tuners in Vista Media Center (MCE)

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 No comments

One of the limitations of Vista Media Centre is that officially it only supports 2 tuners. As I’ve got 5 DMA2100 extenders dotted around the house, only having 2 tuners is not really that practical. There are only 2 of …

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 P2V Conversion

Posted by dave on March 13, 2010 No comments

Right, so it’s under way. I got into the office this morning (yes, Saturday), disabled the network adaptor for the external mail connector, I also stopped the information store service and stopped OWA. Basically, I didn’t want anyone making any …

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