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Tom, |
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This is designed for cell phones and pdas but it might be worth your |
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time to have a look at |
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http://www.rasterman.com/files/eem.avi |
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On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:49 +1200, Tom Eastman wrote: |
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> Hey Guys, |
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> I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video |
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> card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless |
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> keyboard and mouse. |
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> Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good |
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> TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but |
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> not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to |
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> set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience). |
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> So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an |
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> older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice |
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> window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing |
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> or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window |
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> based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. |
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> As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a |
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> TV screen. |
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> So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab |
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> movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure |
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> there is potential for it to be so much more! |
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> Inspire me! ;-) |
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> Tom |
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Luke Albers |
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Electrical Engineering |
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Georgia Institute of Technology |
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gtg940r@×××××××××××.edu |
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