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Hands-On: Tranquil PC SQA-5H Home Server

 Could Squash be 2008's Best Home Server? Read on to find out.....

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Welcome to Low Power Computing

A new site dedicated to Low Power Computing started up about a week ago.  I know that WGS has had a few discussions regarding getting the most computer power per kWh, and I hope that this site will provide some additional and useful information on being “Green”.

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HABEY Announce MITX-6852 Mini-ITX Motherboard for Home Server Market

Over in the USA, HABEY (which is part of Norco, manufacturers of the DS-520 Windows Home Server system we reviewed a while back) have announced a new Mini-ITX board which is suitable for self-build home servers. Here’s the release: HABEY USA, leading manufacturer of embedded and server storage products, today announces MITX-6852, a special designed mini-ITX form factor [...]

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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server Part 3

This is the third in a series of articles detailing how one network went from dilapidated junker to media hero with the help of WMC and WHS. 

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Add-Ins: WHSDbDump and WHSDbCheck

A guy named Alex has recently set up a blog sharing his adventures (and indeed frustrations) with Windows Home Server’s backup function, and has written two advanced add-ins which allow you to investigate your home server backups in granular detail.

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Add-In: WHS Backup Database-Backup (BDBB) 1.0.0.4 Beta

Alex Kuretz, who created the handy Remote Notification add-in for Windows Home Server, has released a public beta of new Add-In called Windows Home Server Backup Database-Backup...

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HP Respond to Criticism on MediaSmart Server Performance Issues

Over the past few days a number of articles online highlighted a pretty major performance hit on the HP MediaSmart Server following the installation of the PVConnect and McAfee add-ins included in HP's latest update. We asked HP what was going on - here's what they told us...

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Add-In: Logpoint Performance Monitor 3.0 Beta

James Sadler-West has updated his Logpoint Performance Monitor add-in to version 3.0 Beta, but in reality, this is a full rewrite of the add-in from the ground up, rather than a minor update.

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