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I’ve been playing with home theater applications on and off for a few years, I dabbled with MythTV and the ShowShifter type apps, but I’m now a firm believer in Microsoft Media Center 2005 so this entry will serve as a staging point for me to babble on about it…

I’m currently running a Silverstone ST-LC10B (with the iMon VFD software in conjunction with FrontView for MCE it’s sweet!) Full specs are: Mainboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (with a Zalman ZM-NB47J) Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Skt 939) Memory: 1x 512MB Kingmax DDR400 Graphics: GeCube Radeon X700 (SilentCool) Tuners: 2x Hauppauge 150MCE (Though, I’d probably go [...]

This is pretty cool, a definate starter for inclusion into my carputer…

Bloody Idiots!

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Sometimes you just want to have a grill-mounted rocket launcher…

As part of the on-going duplication of data around the interweb, this page is more for my reference than anything else, but if you find this page (and find it useful, then good on you. The TiVo sites I frequent the most are NZ Tivo – The NZ TiVo Community and Oz Tivo which, despite [...]

HOWTO: MythTV in NZ

There’s a page I wrote ages back here which covers off my early experience with MythTV on Fedora – I’ve chosen to just link to it from here as, well – Google knows the old location and I really don’t want to re-edit everything to suit this new blogging template (ahh, the flexibility of flat [...]

Predictions for 2004

After spending the best part of a couple of weeks away from my beloved broadband, I find myself with an almost unquenchable thirst for news and reviews that I may have missed out on during my time down south with just a simple CDMA connection to rely on. I’ve found that I don’t have much [...]