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Wireless Card Part II |
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MrHyde |
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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 06:00 PM EST |
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 Some progress has been made with the wireless card. The card now works, but there are still some issues pending.
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MrHyde |
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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 11:30 AM EST |
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What I was expecting to be the hardest part of the whole installation process, turned out to be the easiest. Installing and setting up MythTV.
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MrHyde |
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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 11:00 AM EST |
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The most important part of an HTPC is the TV Tuner Card. I did my research beforehand and had chosen the Dvico Fusion HDTV Dual Digital 4 as the card I wanted. It had two tuner cards, both running off PCI and Linux support was available through patches done by a person up in Brisbane. Even with all the research, there is always a risk that something does not work, so this step was going to be very important in determining whether a Linux based HTPC is going to work or not.
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MrHyde |
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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 10:00 AM EST |
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It is important for me to get the Wireless card working and it will allow me to move the case out of sight next to the TV. With ssh already installed, I will then be able to continue my installation from my laptop and Priyanka will not get annoyed with me having computer parts and cables all over the place.
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MrHyde |
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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 09:00 AM EST |
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The next thing on the list is to install an operating system. My first preference is to use MythTV, which requires a Linux based OS. After reading through a lot of the possible distributions, I decided to try Mythbuntu, which is based on Ubuntu. I have heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu and saw the video of it vs Vista on YouTube, so though this would be a good opportunity to try it out,
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MrHyde |
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 05:00 PM EST |
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Now that I got all the components, its time to put them together.
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 11:00 AM EST |
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I have been thinking about building a HTPC for a while now (over a year). However, the past year has been very busy and I never got the time. A few months ago, I was working in Canberra and my client there told me about his HTPC, which again awakened my desire to build my own. I spec'ed out a system and finally, today, I went out and bought all the pieces. Read on for a description of the specs and why I chose that component.
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