The home server closet

Sept. 30th 2011 was the day the microserver went live.  So for the last 2 years, our home network has been centered around this little HP Microserver N36L.  These are great little machines I must say – its been rock solid, no hardware issues, and has just sat in the closet chugging away with barely…

Scheduled Programming.. huh?

So we’ve got two young children aged 5 and 7.  They have no concept of “scheduled programming” for television – to them, TV has always been an on-demand thing. Why? We’ve been running MythTV since before they were born, so they’ve grown up with it.  It works like Tivo – you tell it which programs…