On Saturday 07 October 2006 08:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The birth of my daughter nearly four years ago continues to have > huge repercussions for computer related activities at Casa Mega-nerd. > > The next changes major change in this regard is the removal of all > computers from my computer room (now more commonly called "Helena's > bedroom"). > > I've also recently become interested in setting upi MythTV. That > means that I'd like to combine my main home machine (on 24/7, mail > server, bzr repository, wifi gateway etc) with MythTV into one > machine. I've been reading some of the MythTV Wiki : > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/HardWare > > which suggests that what I want is a machine that does the combined > MythTV front and back ends in one machine which also acts as a > server/gateway which is going to sit in the living room (apartment > living). > > I realise that to just run the MythTV backend I need a reasonably > grunty machine. I also ocassionally need to do some computationally > intensive stuff that can run for days. So, I'm looking at the issue > of cooling as well: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Cooling_Quietly > > Given the above info, does anyone have any recommendations on > hardware?
What I've been playing with of late: MiniMyth in the form of a ram-root PXE boot box. Easy to get a quiet box for the lounge AND good performance eg quite reasonable HD. Putting your main server in a dark corner where the 10000 RPM raptor disks can't be heard, where easy access to the TV antenna is and I used AMD-X2 that is significantly quiet is an option Now use ltsp as a work station (good for most computing tasks, despite the hype audio is not good (actually not useable)) A laptop for interactive www pages, skype etc. Minimyth lets you do music in the domestic sense. I even PXE boot the lappie for the daughters soapies in her room. YMMV James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
