Subj : 10 net
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 06:12 pm

Hey Roy!

Sep 21 04:31 05, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> I couldn't fit 16 in here.

 RJT> They wouldn't all be in here.  :-) 

Understood but in my situation 'here' is all there is to 'here' and unless 
we're talking networked handhelds, 16 computers aren't going to fit in here 
without me losing all my living space.

 RJT> Add one "server" to the mix here.

Right.  Good plan.  Right now my so-called workstation and router act together 
as my 'server'.  These two boxes have an ongoing identity crisis.  Once I get 
the wiring finished and the batteries online the pc/104 jobber will become the 
fulltime router/firewall and that will liberate the C3 jobber as the networked 
audio/visual streaming server, or at least that is the current plan.  I think 
my workstation will always be confused about it's role.

 RJT> I've considered that too,  locally from room to room.  Put a 
 RJT> low-profile box on the top of the tv and rig it to work from a 
 RJT> remote rather than a keyboard, drive it into the tv rather than a 
 RJT> monitor.  Might be do-able.

For sure.  I'll let you know but offhand I think the gstreamer libs might be 
what is required to push this box in the right direction.  As far as little TV 
connected boxes I am still not sure what I am going to do there but have some 
ideas to keep it affordable yet desirable.  Forget recording as that is where 
the resources are going to have to go through the roof but for playing I'd like 
to see how little can be gotten away with while keeping quality maximized.

 RJT> Fun stuff we can do with these machines,  eh?  :-)

No doubt about that here.

Life is good,
Maurice

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