Migrate from WHS v1 to WHS 2011

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MissingRemote have a article on migrating away from Windows Home Server Drive Extender which explains how to migrate your data out of the drive pool from version 1 of WHS to Windows Home Server 2011. The explained process will also work if you intend to move to any alternative "drive pool" solution, such as FlexRAID, unRAID, FreeNAS, or the couple of 3rd party add-ins which are available for WHS 2011.

Its a great comprehensive guide which you can find here.

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Ask Engadget: best over-the-ear headphones?

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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Simon, who seems interested in something a bit more... substantial than in-ear monitors, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

"I'm looking for a quality piece of over-the-ear headphones to go with my continuously growing iTunes library. That means I'm also looking for a set that comes with an inline mic / control akin to the official pair of Apple bundles in with the iPhone. I've been looking at the Marshall FX cans but as this is my first real foray into audio equipment I'm more hesitant than usual."

Loving your cans? Not so much? Let us know your experience either way in comments below!

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Hack your monitor and 3D glasses, ensure ultimate privacy

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You've always wanted a bit more privacy with your monitor (porn jokes notwithstanding) and if you're willing to tear apart a spare LCD monitor and a pair of 3D theater glasses (thanks, Dreamworks and Pixar!), you'll get it. In lieu of a thicker tinfoil hat, Instructables' dimovi suggests removing the LCD's frame, cutting out its polarized film with a utility knife before removing the screen's film adhesive with a combination of cleaner and paint thinner and reassembling the monitor. Once complete, grab the glasses, cut out the lenses and combine them with the plastic film removed from the monitor before inserting them back into their frames. The result is an LCD monitor that displays a white screen to anyone not wearing the customized glasses, your actions being confidential, no matter what they might happen to be. Check the how-to video embedded after the break, or hit the source link for full instructions

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Engadget's holiday gift guide 2011: accessories

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Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! We're well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties surrounding the seasonal shopping experience, so we're here to help you sort out this year's tech treasures. Below is today's bevy of curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the holiday season.

As any technophile will tell you, accessories make the getup when it comes to complementing your favorite gadgets. Whether you're decking out a smartphone, computer, tablet, gaming system or just looking for some good old-fashioned holiday kicks, we're here to help you pick from our favorite accessories of 2011. Jump past the break to find out which ones made the "Nice" list.

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Engadget's Black Friday 2011 roundup

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Black Friday is just around the bend -- in less than 36 hours, many a deal hunter will be camping outside their prospective Wally Worlds searching for prey. Thankfully, we've eagled-up in advance and thrown together a few deals in the meantime that should cause a sparkle in at least a few eyes. (Just to be safe, we've also included links to each store's full line-up of deals.) So, join us after the break, read along and see if anything strikes your interest. What's to lose, really? A chance to miss out on a good deal, of course! Feel free to thank us later or let us know about anything else you spot in the comments below.

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Happy Thanksgiving with “The Morrisette Family Cookbook”

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Today is the day most of us in the United States will sit down to give thanks and celebrate food. Repeatedly. In the spirit of second helpings, here’s a classic Blurberati Blog post about a recipe book that celebrates the wonder and beauty of family cooking:

The Morrisette Family Cookbook by Laurice Morrisette Palmer | Make Your Own Book

‘Tis the season of eating and for those of us in the U.S., today is the day we kick it off with a huge Thanksgiving feast. In honor of that and of all the festive feasts to come, we thought we’d focus on recipe books. This one caught our eye and captured our appetite for creativity and fun. In fact, in reading through this wonderful recipe collection, we felt like we got to know – and like – the whole Morrisette family.

The story starts with the great cover image of Grandpa’s cast-iron skillet, and ends with Grandma’s vintage McCoy Apple cookie jar on the back. In between are yummy recipes and well-told (funny!) family stories (check out Christian’s Peace Corps Chocolate Chip Cookies, pg. 70).

With a collaborative book like this, it can be a challenge to find photos for every single recipe. We appreciate the creative mix of family photos old and new, shots of recipes made, and simple images of, say, green apples for an apple pie recipe. They help you get a sense of both the food and this family’s deep connections and standout personalities. And it all made us wonder: What are they eating today?

Happy feasting from the Blurberati!

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Add-In: AdminiMe 2012 v2.0.1.2016

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With lots of new features and an extra language the 2012 version of the add-in AdminiMe has been released.

What is AdminMe?

It is an add-in that constantly monitors your server without you having to do anything. As the Home Server is a headless machine that is running non stop for long periods of times, and mostly hidden away in some closet/basement/small room; people don’t look at its ‘health’ to often. But in reality, it could be that the server’ CPU usage is high for very long periods, or errors are occuring, memory utilization is high,…To avoid this, you can use AdminiMe! It will monitor your server in the background without you having to do anything. And in case something goes wrong, it will notify you.
Added to this monitoring, it contains a console where you can watch all kinds of parameters in real-time. Things like CPU, memory, network, disks and all kinds of statistics like uptime, longest uptime, # of starts,…
But it doesn’t stop there, it also has shortcuts to the most relevant tools: Event Viewer, Task Manager, Performance Monitor, Remote Desktop. You also have the option to add your own shortcuts to applications! And next to that, there is a ‘Run-box’ which has the same functionality as the Windows Run Dialog. There is also a screen where you can view, which users have open files to the server shares. All events are kept in a log that can be consulted later on.

AdminiMe 2012 is a major upgrade for WHS version 1 with a version for WHS 2011 to follow.

Here’s what’s new:

• Top 5 current cpu consuming processes
• Top 5 current memory consuming processes
• Cpu temperature monitoring
• Statistics are kept on the number of shut downs, suspends, resumes, log offs
• Server name is listed in the email
• Server IP Address is listed in the email
• Option to shut down / reboot / … when a serious error occurs
• Execute a process when a failure or error occurs
• Redesign of the user interface
• Option to turn off the chart updates
• Support lnk files / command line switches
• Export logging
• Full support for Simplified Chinese
• A lot of tweaks underneath and some new settings

Fixes:

• The total number of days went into negative after 20+ days running nonstop
• Some GUI advancements
• Some other minor issues

AdminiMe 2012 costs 9 Euro whilst existing users can upgrade for 5 Euro, unless you purchased a copy of AdminMe between 1 October and
23 November 2011, in which case you can get it for free.

More details including the download can be found here.

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Growing up Geek: Chris Pirillo

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Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have a special guest: internet entrepreneur, tech support blogger, media personality and geek, Chris Pirillo

Before I begin, let me just say: I'm not a slave to your mental delusions of who you think I am.

I have to get that out of the way largely because I've been "doing things" publicly for so long that some people have already formed opinions about me and what they believe I stand for. That's their problem, not mine.

I don't know if there was ever a specific moment I found myself attracted to electronic objects? I certainly recall playing with my cousin's Merlin and watching with wonder as my brother fiddled with his Alphie. I was certainly mesmerized by calculators, but that didn't lead me to develop advanced math skills.

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Check This Out: The United States as Defined By Documentary Films

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While most films aim to tell stories as a means of escape from the real-world, there are those that instead choose to take us to places we may have never gone and introduce us to people we would have never known. These are documentary films, and some paint such an impacting picture that people easily identify a certain location with the documentary film that put it on the map. Now the PBS documentary blog POV (via Movies.com) literally has that map containing poignant and popular documentary films to represent each of the 50 states in the United States of America. Find out which documentary defines your home state below! ...

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Lenovo's diminutive Q180 HTPC dishes out multimedia for $349

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Ultrabooks have been getting a lot of love from PC makers these days, and Lenovo's no exception. But laptops aren't the only machines getting slim and trim, and the Chinese firm has outed its svelte IdeaCentre Q180 home theater PC to fulfill your entertainment needs. Stuffed inside a 22mm-thin frame that makes other skinny HTPCs look downright portly, is a 2.13GHz Intel Atom dual-core CPU plus Radeon HD 6450A graphics and up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM to keep video playback buttery smooth. You can also get up to a 750GB HDD or a 128GB SSD to store all of your myriad media, and a Blu-ray drive's available for those digging disc-based content. Hooking up displays and peripherals are easy with USB 3.0, VGA and HDMI out, and wireless connectivity via Bluetooth and 802.11b/g/n WiFi. The Q180 starts at $349 for the base model, with prices escalating accordingly if you start adding options like a hand-held keyboard. Full PR's after the break.

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Terahertz wireless chip could deliver 30Gbps of bandwidth, stream uncompressed 4K video

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Usually, when we start talking terahertz, it means one thing: lasers! But not today, friends. Today, we're talking something with a little less flash and a little more potential for everyday use. ROHM, a Japanese electronics component manufacturer, has developed a chip measuring just 1.5mm by 3mm that can transmit data at up to 1.5Gbps using those precious terahertz radio waves. That's both significantly smaller and faster than existing terahertz wireless experiments and the research teams at ROHM and Osaka University (who are collaborating on the project) believe they can scale the tech up to 30Gbps -- enough bandwidth to stream HD video to every room in your home, provided you don't live in a 200 room mansion. Perhaps most exciting though, producing these chips costs only a few hundred Yen, while earlier versions saw prices hovering at around several thousand. For a few more technical details check out he machine translated PR at the source.

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VIA's ARTiGO 1150: a $265 barebones nettop with big potential (video)

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That VE-900 mini-ITX kit still too big for you, eh? Then check out VIA's latest pico-ITX alternative: the ARTiGO 1150 DIY nettop. It improves on last year's 1100 model with a dual-core Eden X2 processor clocked at 1GHz and a VX900H media system processor for accelerated decoding of video up to 1080p. The palm-sized chassis houses the usual HDMI and VGA outputs, gigabit Ethernet and four USB 2.0 host ports, while also leaving just enough room for you to install up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, one 2.5-inch SATA HDD or SSD, plus optional WiFi and SD card reader modules. We've found the 1150 selling for $265, which strikes us as appropriately diminutive, but there's a promo video and press release after the break to help you weigh it up for yourself.

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Tascam unveils iM2 microphone add-on for iOS devices, makes live Foo Fighters bootlegs a breeze

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Sure, audio recording via the stock mic and iOS app is pretty serviceable for most tasks, but what about capturing that next Avett Brothers gig? You need look no further than Tascam's iM2 stereo microphone for your Apple handheld or slate. Equipped with a pair of condenser microphones -- the same kit as the outfit's DR-series recorders -- the iM2 plugs right in to the dock port of your iOS device. The duo is adjustable over 180-degrees for the perfect capture and it sports its own preamp and analog-to-digital converter to cut out unwanted coughs and increase those vicious banjo chops. Since the peripheral doesn't use the stock iPhone preamp, it is capable of capturing up to 125dB levels without distortion. And don't worry about that 4S dying mid-set, as the iM2 features a USB input that enables charging through the encore. If you're jonesin' for a closer look, hit the gallery below before grabbing yours for $80.

Gallery: Tascam iM2

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iHomeServer for iTunes Runs Apple’s Media Player as a Service

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I get a lot of email from WGS readers seeking to integrate Apple's iTunes media player into their Windows Home Server network - you may remember a walkthrough published last October that helped you do just that. The problem most users face is that iTunes simply doesn't run as a service, so you always need to be logged into your home server to keep the stream available. 2010's answer to that problem was an app called JTunes (which we featured), but that solution had a couple of limitations - it stopped working whenever iTunes put up a dialog box and adding media to your collection required stopping iTunes, adding the media and restarting it again. Better but not ideal. Here's 2011's solution.

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