780G chipset sound output through HDMI

I had a few issues with my HTPC where the sound only came out as stereo on my Sony STR-KS1300.
All drivers were installed correctly and the onboard sound was disabled.
But when viewing the supported formats for the playback device, it only listed 2 channels. Unfortunately I have been unable to change this, although I [...]

HTPC resetup using Windows 7 and MCE

From my previous post about building my HTPC and configuring the HTPC using MediaPortal, I have now changed my setup software wise.
Server
Before with MediaPortal I was able to set up multiple shares on a file server running Windows Vista. This has now been changed to running Windows Home Server. The initial steps to [...]

Command prompt and regedit fail to open and restart explorer.exe

On a Windows XP SP2 machine I have had, both the command prompt (cmd.exe) and regedit (regedit32.exe) failed to load and just restarted explorer.exe which closed all open windows and brought you back to the desktop. This also brought up the Restore Active Desktop message on the desktop and the Restore button failed with a [...]

“HTTP request status” in Drupal 6.x on localhost

I just set up XAMPP on my Vista x64 PC and found that after installing Drupal 6 that the status report was throwing up an error.
HTTP request status
Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, [...]

Another spammer – 65.94.2.210

Another spammer caught in action.
Some others that have come up:

94.102.60.43
94.102.60.77
94.102.60.39

Built my first HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer)

The idea of an HTPC is to have a PC that can fit in with your amplifier/receiver underneath your TV which will act as a DVD player but with more features.
Hardware wise it is identical to a normal PC with CPU, RAM, motherboard etc etc but generally put in to more stylish cases specially built [...]

Spam from 93.174.93.89

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Google Chrome really Safari in disguise?

While enabling Google Gears from within the newly released Google Chrome, I noticed something odd about the wording.
In Firefox and IE, you get the same text:

Make note of the first paragraph. Now if you open up the same javascript window within Google Chrome, you get this:

Once again, note the first paragraph again.  Within Google Chrome [...]