Blue Knight
Gawd
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- Dec 2, 2000
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Short Story - I ended up dropping my laptop, cracking the screen. Given my tight budget at the moment, I found a donor computer from craigslist and swapped the screen. This leaves me with a spare working laptop. Specs are a 1.6ghz turion with 768mb RAM.
Due to several factors, I was thinking about making it into a linux box, but I was wondering if it's got enough juice for MythTV and to record OTA HD content via a ATSC USB tuner that I have. No encoding on this machine - I was just gonna have it record, and then copy the files to a NAS. Think this will work? I've been searching for hardware requirements, but no clear answers here.
Main reasons: 1) Save energy - if left on, the laptop draws 35watts, while the desktop is almost 200. 2) Need a linux box was thinking about using Asterisk (+Sipgate and google voice) at home for phone service.
Due to several factors, I was thinking about making it into a linux box, but I was wondering if it's got enough juice for MythTV and to record OTA HD content via a ATSC USB tuner that I have. No encoding on this machine - I was just gonna have it record, and then copy the files to a NAS. Think this will work? I've been searching for hardware requirements, but no clear answers here.
Main reasons: 1) Save energy - if left on, the laptop draws 35watts, while the desktop is almost 200. 2) Need a linux box was thinking about using Asterisk (+Sipgate and google voice) at home for phone service.