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From: Justin Patrin <papercrane@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:46:30
Message-Id: 432beae0507291742f33e58@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box by Luke Albers
1 On 7/29/05, Luke Albers <gtg940r@×××××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > Tom,
3 >
4 > This is designed for cell phones and pdas but it might be worth your
5 > time to have a look at
6 > http://www.rasterman.com/files/eem.avi
7
8 Any idea where I can find "eem" sources / information? I see stuff
9 about E17 being embedded capable, but no actual mentions of "eem".
10
11 >
12 >
13 >
14 > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:49 +1200, Tom Eastman wrote:
15 > > Hey Guys,
16 > >
17 > > I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video
18 > > card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless
19 > > keyboard and mouse.
20 > >
21 > > Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good
22 > > TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but
23 > > not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to
24 > > set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience).
25 > >
26 > > So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an
27 > > older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice
28 > > window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing
29 > > or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window
30 > > based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such.
31 > > As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a
32 > > TV screen.
33 > >
34 > > So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab
35 > > movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure
36 > > there is potential for it to be so much more!
37 > >
38 > > Inspire me! ;-)
39 > >
40 > > Tom
41 > >
42 > >
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44 > Luke Albers
45 > Electrical Engineering
46 > Georgia Institute of Technology
47 > gtg940r@×××××××××××.edu
48 >
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