I’m building a new home media centre to sit in my living room and play video and music through my TV. Today the hardware for my media centre arrived from Ebuyer. The delivery consisted of a HP Proliant Microserver, some replacement DIMMs to upgrade the RAM to 8GB and a Sapphire Radeon HD5450 Graphics card. The server …

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Following on from New Media Centre Part 1 where I put the hardware together it was time to move onto installing the software- XBMC. I’d chosen to use XBMCbuntu. This is an all-in-one install with an Ubuntu Linux operating system and the XBMC software on top. As this server will only be used for the one purpose this …

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