[OT] Serial Input Question

2010-06-23 Thread Thom Paine
I'm posting this to the list because I am hoping I can do this in linux not only for free, but also with greater functionality. I am looking at this software http://www.taltech.com/products/comfile.html to be able to read data off a serial input. I have a printer in my comm center that tracks

Traffic Shaping / Bandwidth Throttling

2010-06-06 Thread Thom Paine
I've been using gShield for years as the firewall on my border device. I am looking at traffic shaping and bandwidth limiting on my network to improve my voip and to throttle down my buddies torrents. I don't mind certain times of the day or night having the speed ramped up, but prime time 4pm to

Re: Burning DVD Videos

2010-05-20 Thread Thom Paine
Mythtv has this functionality built in. You can dump your avi's in your videos folder, then select them with the menus and get the computer to work out the compression to fit all 10 on a DL-DVD. It will even make the menus and stuff automagically. If you have an extra pc lying around, you could