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One of the common question that appears on our mailing list is regarding the use of Cat6 cable in home installations rather than Cat5e. Here's a very interesting piece which gives some of the problems you might not have considered...

Quinten Uijldert (lets just call him by his IRC name - "Q") has documented how he has converted an old laptop into a digital photo frame. He has used Damn Small Linux as the OS...

"If you take an old IBM Thinkpad 560X, a £7 beech frame, some glue and a bit of patience you can make yourself one of these :). The OS is Damn Small Linux and the slideshow software is Feh...

A nice little "How To" article..."For any build project, the primary consideration is the purpose for which the box will be used. This server has the job of acting as a secondary media server to support streaming MP3 music files around an office, with, perhaps, some Web-serving duties, too...

Rather than wait another few weeks to publish my Home CCTV Server review I've decided to make t a two part affiar. Part one is now on-line...

"I have had CCTV at home for 8 years now in one form or another. Over that time camera performance has increased, whilst prices have fallen. Par for the course where most technology is concerned I suppose. A year or so ago I bought a Samsung CCTV switcher from eBay to view our cameras by modulating its output round all the TVs in the house. Using its simple timer it switched between each camera at a set interval, while this worked it was frustrating as the camera you wanted to view was rarely the one that was on the screen at that particular moment in time. The eBay acquired switcher died a month or so ago and so the search for the "upgrade" was on"...