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PS3 slim announcement and release date

August 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Sony have announced that the Playstation 3 Slim will be released on the 1st of September 2009. LINK: Entertainment on PS3 has a new look In an interesting move, Sony, will be removing the ability to install other operating systems on the unit to focus on just playing games and entertainment.

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Tags: Gaming · Hardware

Alteon 184 default password

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments

I reset the configuration on one of these old switches and obviously it changed the password.  The default password was: admin

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Tags: Hardware · Networking

Synology 209+ bluray m2ts (mpg) file indexing issues

May 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Previously when I tried to rip one of my Blu Ray disks to a .m2ts file on the DS209+ and tried to view it via the PS3 (uPNP on Synology 209+) I had to contact Synology support as it broke indexing completely on the DS209+. I thought I had done something wrong ripping the blu [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Operating System

Dell R300 painful Windows 2003 x64 install

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Received a new Dell R300 2.8Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM, 2x500GB SATA drives, PERC RAID controller and needed to install Windows 2003 x64.  The CD/DVD (“Systems Management Tools and Documentation Version 5.5″) that comes with the Dell systems allows you to boot into the “Dell Systems Build and Update Utility” so that you can install [...]

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Tags: Hardware

Synology DS209+ uPNP Re-indexing media files (fixed)

April 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

After contacting Synology support they confirmed that this is a known bug and they logged into the system and now after going into the management interface and clicking “Re-index” it has worked.  I can once again see the media files via the uPNP & the PS3. Waiting to hear back from the support team what [...]

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Tags: Hardware