Osiris

After the introduction of Windows 7 the wish for an update got larger. Installation of Windows 7 Professional proved easy enough, however a few quirks remained:

Nachdem die Piraten in Schweden am Sonntag den 7. Juni 2009 einen Sieg feieren durften und einen Abgeordneten ins Europaparlament schicken werden, so formiert sich auch in der Schweiz nun eine Piratenpartei. Diese wurde am 12. Juli 2009 offiziell gegründet.

With Mac OS X 10.5 Apple introduced it's first backup solution for the rest of us. Most other programs I've used were either too complicated, too unreliable or a combination of the two or just to plain expensive. TimeMachine aims to solve all of that.

In the past I've used anything from plain copies via the Finder to Retrospect, Archiware (a great tool if you have a few machines and a server), rsync etc. For my dad for example all of those were not quite what was needed. The problem with most of these solutions in our modern world are, when you use a Laptop, you are not always connected to the backup system and hence schedules fail to run. As soon as manual intervention is needed, backups usually don't happen.

When speaking of HTPCs everyone wants the same. Powerful, easy, stable and foremost quiet. My friend Peder Pfister and I set out to accomplish this for his needs. You can see below what those were.

Prerequisites

already in place were the following components:

• speakers: Teufel Theater 5 THX Select 5.1
• AV receiver: Pioneer AV Receiver VSX-AX4ASi
• projector: Sanyo PLV-Z5 1280x720p projector 

Essentially we were seeking to build a HTPC that would do the following: