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We’ve been doing a lot of minor renovation around the house, trying to make the place ours. Painting, replacing hardware, new appliances in the kitchen, that sort of thing. Our half bath downstairs was painted a nice color but in all other aspects it wasn’t at all our style. It had this ugly gold hardware [...]

My stereo had long ago morphed into a home theater system, and for a while I’d been thinking about separating the two. My stereo had been built up piecemeal since I was in high school, it was a real deal-hound special (huge floor standing cerwin vegas I got a garage sale in a ritzy suburb [...]

Well, it looks like the experiment to use the NSLU2 NAS device as a music server has come to an end. My NSLU2 bit the dust a week or so ago, refusing to come back from a reboot and offering up some random beep error codes. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back, [...]

For a while now, message boards and mailing lists have been the best place to find product reviews and troubleshooting information. Want to find out how to add a larger capacity hard drive to your Tivo? Hit the Tivo Community Forums. Want to know which 4 megapixel micro camera you should buy? Look at what [...]