George L. Schmauch Jr.

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My wife wouldn’t even let me finish telling her the story.  Probably a good thing, since I can’t get the images I conjured up out of my head.  Some people think that animal lovers want to treat them as human beings and give them the same rights.  I just happen to think that the punishment should be a strong enough deterrent to the person to never do it again.  Sadly, I see these kids growing up to be worse than Michael Vick.

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HTPC related?  SageTV Mobile Web… although, it’s not an app, but a mobile version of the SageTV Web UI.  It’s always cool being able to fix conflicts, schedule or cancel recordings or just check that everything is working okay.

Non-HTPC?  I love the barcode scanners and, especially, using the for QR codes.  Outside of that, I’m using Handcent SMS (IM client), K-9 Mail, Plume (Twitter), and My-Cast Weather.

I tried the Google Sky Maps and, while it was really cool, I quickly lost interest in it.

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My guess would be that the legality aspect is a bit of an issue for anyone considering developing such a plugin.

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Your situation sounds very similar to my own, so I won’t repeat everything.  But, I do have over 13TB in my server, so picture your own setup, just much larger.  🙂

I have no plans of moving to WHS 2011 because I simply don’t see any benefit to doing so.  I will most likely be moving to a regular Windows 7 installation for the server, using Macrium Reflect for PC backups and FlexRAID for some data protection of my recordings and Blu-ray rips.  I have not used Macrium or the latest version of FlexRAID, so I can’t say for certain that they’ll be exactly what I need.  But, I have used previous versions of FlexRAID (several years ago) and liked what I saw.

If you don’t want to get that complex, I’d just add more storage (NAS, bigger case, etc) and “archive” shows that sit for a while.  You could set up some batch jobs to help automate this or, if you use SageTV, Sage Job Queue (SJQ) could do most of this, but it does have a bit of a learning curve.

This is a situation where there are numerous opportunities and it’s a matter of figuring out which one fits your needs, your setup, and your budget.  Note that, other than the hardware I mentioned (and SageTV, of course), all programs I listed are free.  SJQ v3 is free, but SJQ v4 is not ($4.99 CAN).

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I know there have been a number of suggestions here, so things may have slipped by.  Did you try rolling back the graphics drivers, as was pointed out here?  If that doesn’t do it, I would strongly suggest trying another PSU, even though the readings came back ok.

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But Mike has already said he doesn’t care about system backups so we can assume he won’t care about having to reinstall Windows cleanly or lose the system.

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Good point. 

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…so chances of anything corrupting or hurting it would be minimal.

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Remember this statement when you post a blog about how you just spent the weekend rebuilding your server like someone else recently did. 

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Why not use extenders?  Oh yeah… you don’t use SageTV.  😉

Back to basics with rule #1:  A server is NOT to be used as an “every-day” PC.  Shame on you for even suggesting such a thing!

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Glad to hear it.  That whole DOS thing is like hieroglyphics nowadays.  It’s definitely a good thing to be familiar with, though, as you’re finding out.  Now, you’ll probably find more uses for it in the future.

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I’m looking at the results screenshot and noticing that you aren’t running a batch file.  It looks like you’re pasting it into the CMD window.  Simply put, you can’t do that.  Paste the text into a text editor (i.e.  notepad…  do not use word or wordpad) and save it as commscan.bat to your C: drive and then just type commscan.bat at your C: prompt.

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It looks like a permissions issue.  Are you running the CMD prompt as the administrator?

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Open up a regular command prompt window and run the batch file from there.  This will ensure that the windows stays open and you can see what sort of feedback/errors you get.

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Does your son have an account on the HTPC?  Does it use the same password?  (I do recognize that you said you tried to turn off password protection.)

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I like comfortable computer chairs, too, but I don’t think that a $1k chair can possibly be 10x more comfortable than a $100 chair.  I’ve had very, very good luck by simply going to Office Depot, Office Max, or Staples and sitting in a few.  My last chair was under $150 and it’s still very comfortable.  Sorry, I can’t find the exact one, but I think that method is your best bet.

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Yeah, we definitely appreciate the reporting of bugs (or annoyances even) that people find.  I believe Mikinho already knows about this one because I think I’m the one who told him.  🙂  I think he’s even got some things in mind for the forums already, but needs to find the time to implement them.

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