by ds | Jun 23, 2013 | Administration
Problem: You have to wait up to ~30 seconds to obtain an IP from your DHCP server – or even if you have configured a static IP, you cannot ping a host in your network for a long time after resume from standby. Solution: Maybe your DHCP server does various checks...
by ds | Jun 23, 2013 | Software
I had some problems with the combination of live TV and “long” standby time (more than 90 seconds): I am using 2 Zotac Zboxes (AD10 with Fusion image, another different Zbox model with ION image) as clients and MediPortal as TV server. I use the latest...
by ds | Jun 22, 2013 | Software
Via command-line Follow this tutorial to prepare the USB stick with diskpart. Via GUI wizard If you don’t always want to remember and enter the same commands, look at this software. It provides a simple, but effective GUI to create bootable USB sticks from ISO...
by ds | Jun 21, 2013 | Administration
Scenario You want to remove an old Windows AD server, and it is not going to be replaced because there are e.g. only 1 or 2 clients where a common workgroup is even enough, or whatever reason there is. Solution You can shutdown the server without any changes, but this...
by ds | Jun 17, 2013 | Software
As I wrote in a previous post, I first tried to assemble a useful centralized multimedia system in my home with free tools like MediaPortal, Openelec / XBMC etc. – but it didn’t work (various hangups, SMB problems, standby problems …). So I decided...
