I'm honored to have been invited back, for another visit with Mike Faucher, to be the guest on the BYOB (Build Your Own Box) podcast. This time, John Zajdler, aka @Dieharder, and I talk about a wide variety of tech, including Windows Server R2 Essentials domain join skipping,…
Jim Collison kindly had be back for another fun and informative podcast, recorded Thursday, Dec 6 2013. Christian talks about cool IBM Watson stuff, and I talk a bit about life at home with 150Mbps downloads, winter preparedness, Anker USB 3.0 hubs, and more. Check it out! Featuring hosts Jim…
Was good fun to meet the crew of GeekBeat.TV at their meet-up near Boston Monday, along with many other fans. The relaxed atmosphere at Tasty Burger in Harvard Square went well with the wide variety of tech talk. The conversations were a lot like attending a user group actually, with many other IT…
I'm honored to have been invited back, for another visit with Mike Faucher, to be the guest on the BYOB (Build Your Own Box) podcast. This time, Mike discussed his recent rack mount enclosure experiences, and I talked all about my recent trials and tribulations trying to get to 150Mbps down and 50…
Fall Forward 2013 Agenda & Breakout Sessions. Another wonderful event, thank you Chris Harney @csharney! See also Virtualization Technology User Group Summer Slam 2013. Met a lot of new folks, learned a lot in the breakout sessions, and enjoyed some beautiful autumn weather on the drive…
The 3rd Annual Home Server Show Meetup Image compilation courtesy of David McCabe of Home Server Show. That’s me taking the picture of Chris Kenney. Fun related tweet (seen at right) here. Big event originally announced here, with over 70 registered attendees already, with room for a few…
Jim Collison has arranged for me to be a guest on his Average Guy podcast this Thursday, August 29 2013. We go live at theAverageGuy.tv/live at 9pm eastern. Please join us on the livestream with chat, it's always good fun. Bring some ideas and chat with hosts Jim Collison (@jcollison), John…
Welcome to my landing page, for my first TinkerTry hosted live event, with full details listed on the event site here. If you're looking for a way to see me share live video from my desktop, as I kick the tires on ESXi 5.5 see me share my live webcam see yourself, on camera, and able to talk and…
Here's Jim Collison's announcement of this Public Google Hangout Event at 9pm Eastern on Thursday, June 20 2013. The Hosts of Home Tech take a look at the New Preview of Windows 8.1. We will have demos and live screens shots with discussion around the new updates to the OS.…
Here's Mike Faucher's bold announcement. BYOB 125 is out and all about Home Automation. Special guests, Richard Gunther from the DMZ and Paul Braren from TinkerTry.com. Great show and a pile of information. You have to listen to this one. Mike Faucher and I decided to try a little something…
Here's Jim Collison's announcement of this Public Google Hangout Event at 9pm Eastern on Thursday, June 20 2013. Windows Home Server MVP John Zajdler and Paul Braren of TinkerTry.com, WHS Addins, Windows Server 2012 Essentials and R2 – HT123 You know any time we have Microsoft Windows Home…
SeeEye2Eye first look, a webcam eye contact device for Google+ Hangouts? I don't know, you be the judge! What I mean is that I just got the device, and am using it for the first time live, tonight, right on The Average Guy Podcast, "The first one about Virtualization." All the links and…
Replay and shownotes available below, or show your support for "the average guy" and subscribe to hist podcast at: ) May 29 2013: Here's Jim Collison's announcement of this public event: Join Christian, Andrew and Jim, with Guest Paul Braren and Kyle Wilcox as we discuss Virtualization…
Being a guest on a podcast that uses Google Hangouts On Air is a lot of fun. Interested in seeing everything from Windows Millennium Edition booting on a 1995 ThinkPad 701 "Butterfly" to a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13? The crew discuss a lot of laptop gear, come on over and check out the…
Being a guest on a podcast that uses Google Hangouts On Air is a lot of fun. It was kind of a last minute thing, so I grabbed some gear I used a lot when doing business travel, and held those devices up to the camera as props, as we talked a bit about preparedness. Come on over and check out the…
How to move a YouTube Channel association from one Google Account to another. An admittedly somewhat advanced procedure. This works if: you're willing to delete the YouTube Channel that is currently associated with your primary Google account, the one you regularly use for stuff like Gmail,…
Excerpt from the shownotes: Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Paul Braren (@tinkererguy), Nathaniel Lindley (@thanlindley) and John Stutsman (@JohnStutsman) for Show 106! We were all about Home Networking in this show! How to do it, how not to and how to get it done with what you have! …
Tune into the live coverage this week, right from CES 2013 in Las Vegas, live! Truly unique coverage from some souls brave enough to broadcast over cellular. Dave McCabe of homeservershow.com and surfacegeeks.net is there at CES, with Jim Collison of theaverageguy.tv remotely producing the whole…
Today, while enjoying my day off, I was catching up on some podcasts as I installed several new Leviton dimmers and LED bulbs around my home. To my surprise, I suddenly heard special-guest Gavin Campbell on BYOB (Build Your Own Box) Episode 107 mention that his home virtualization inspirations…
Excerpt from the shownotes: Jim is joined for a special edition weekend podcast with guests Mike Martis from BYOB, Kevin Schoonover, Mike Howard from the jpeg2RAW podcast and Paul Braren. This podcast is all Microsoft Surface and is best consumed via YouTube. Replay and shownotes from the…
The original article announcing my plans to attend this tech-fest weekend found here, with group photo and Google Hangout recording at the end of this article. This article was extensively revised on Oct. 22: please consider reading it again, since a lot has been fixed and added. Friday October…
Got to meet David McCabe, founder of Home Server Show, and Mike Faucher, of BYOB Podcast, for a brief but fun walk around CES 2012 in Las Vegas together, for an hour or two one afternoon, way back in January. Even got to meet Greg Welch, also from the Home Server Show community. But on this October…
Jul 21 2012 Update 05:27pm ET: Warning: I am finding that I cannot get Windows 8 x64 Release Preview to connect to WS2012E when it's in the Workgroup mode described in the original article below. The IE browser in a Windows 8 can find the server by name or IP for example, and network shares work…
Google Events, wow! What a polished and simple way to pull together all the pieces for a broadcast. Invitations, calendar coordination, RSVP, private conversations for show-prep, and finally, auto-publication of a really nice YouTube video from this "Hangouts On Air" experience. Point and…
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