While I was gone, I did acquire a few new items related to home theater. I wouldn’t get too excited about what any of them are, but they were all things I had wanted a while or just flat out ended up needing for one reason or another. Since family came to stay for the holidays, I started with a small HTPC setup in our remaining spare bedroom downstairs.
In the last update to the MyMovies application, the developer (Brian Binnerup) decided to encrypt all the created mymovies.xml files that can be created by its metadata manager. This is all fine and good, except, as you know, our beloved Media Browser also reads these files for its own metadata. So, for those of you that preferred the Media Browser Media Center front end and the MyMovies metadata managing capabilities on the backend, your days are now officially over if you have upgraded to the version implementing this change. All your mymovies.xml files are now encrypted and unreadable by Media Browser.
Dec 272011
I have rescued the site. I was able to shell in and get the database and FTP still worked, so I grabbed site-essential files and just now got it all mashed back together on a new image. I had a backup, but it failed the restore process, so I had to do a completely new VM of CentOS and LXAdmin install on the VPS.
Things will be broken and not look quite like they did for a while, but the majority of the site is intact and working. Just bear with me as I try to get things back together.
Dec 022011
So, we had this old dog of a print server at work that had been giving us problems because of it’s OS partition…after nearly 7 years of service, 10GB just wasn’t big enough for Windows 2003 Server and the accumulation of updates over that period of time. We bought a copy of EASUS Partition Master to test on growing the OS partition so that we could do a few other servers that were affected. We decided to test it on the old Dell PowerEdge 745N NAS appliance.
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