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Entries from December 2007

intel htpc

December 9th, 2007 · No Comments

this might be anouther option for an htpc. The amd processor is suposedly the best choice for that however all the motherboards that seem to be available have ati video built into them which doesnt work well in linux. Not good for me since I will be runing mythtv on ubuntu.
GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2H Micro ATX [...]

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HTPC configuration

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

I have decided to build my own HTPC box running Mythtv on top of Linux. Most likely I will be either using the Mythbuntu distro or a custom install atop of Ubuntu or Debian.
To Give you an idea of what MythTV looks like here are a few screenshots:
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looking into a dvr box for my bedroom tv

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

So Recently I have been thinking it would be cool to have a DVR box in my room for recording shows off tv. First I began looking at what in terms of retail DVR boxes and let me tell you there is not much. Currently the options are basically a Comcast DVR for $12/m, A [...]

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my adobe rant

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Ok so I have to rant about adobe. I promise it wont be too bad Basicly it realy annoys me that they after all this time still refuse to release adobe audition (aka cool edit pro) to the mac platform. It cant be that hard for them to compile it for the mac like [...]

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