On Mon Jan 08, 2001 at 05:06:25AM -0800, - - wrote:
> Men what a project this will cost you double my usual
> fee.
Geez man... you're nuts! =)
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> if the remote work with linux thats the biggest
> question, the sounblaster live platinum is the best
> product.
>
> otherwise irman is working under linux and you can use
> any remote
Well, I'm thinking of a remote keyboard/mouse idea now... not as nice
as using a small remote, but it'll do the trick. Then I can also use
that machine for a little bit more than mp3 playing, and it gives me
decent access to it since I don't want it running any servers so it
will be untouchable via the internet/lan other than it running the
samba client to mount an already-existing share on my machine (shared
for my win machine).
> for the tv out I dont know, I know it work I just dont
> know that this particular machine add a card that did
> tv out probably another expense
640x480 VGA monitor hiding in the cabinet. =) No expense. I've
decided to forgo the new video card (they are all much more pricey
than I want to spend).
> since you are installing a network card and you have 2
> gig I know you can install lm 7.2 on it , do you have
> a cd-rom ?
Yup. 7.2 is on it already now.
> frankly if you add a 20 gig or a better machine with
> dvd rom I would see the point because if you look at
> www.mp3.com there is a lot of mp3 player audio theater
Well, I don't need the DVD rom since I've got a real DVD player
already connected... I don't really need two (plus then I'm buying
the rom and the hardware decoder card so that it will actually play
decently). Right now, I figure I can spend about half of the money I
would on the alternatives. I've also decided to go for a SB16 ($40)
instead of the platinum. I figure since my CD player is only
connected to my amp using stereo cabling (not digital) and it sounds
pretty awesome, I figure I'll do the same for the mp3 box. This also
saves me about $150. Since the speakers and the amp have a lot to do
with the sound quality (and this is a $5k stereo system that sounds
unbelievable... everyone should have Nuance speakers), I figure the
sound should be pretty good from a SB16 to this rig. And it saves me
quite a bit.
Maybe I'll get a platinum for myself in the future, and one of those
creative desktop 5.1 theater deals for my own machine... =) Then I
can put the x-gamer into the win machine and connect the altec
speakers on there and play diablo2 in style... =)
> http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/individual/3305.html
>
> wich is the same price as the sounblaster live
Which is why I'm going for the SB16... =)
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