Mark, congratulation on being named International Open Source Personality Of The Year. It is nice to see somebody from South Africa being recognized for the work that is being done on an International platform.
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Update on building a Linux PVR
One thing that is missing from my hardware list and which is a critical item. I obviously need some optical device and the first one that springs to mind is a Dual Layer DVD writer. After thinking about this a bit I was wondering whether it would not be worthwhile to go directly to Blu-Ray or HD DVD drives. The question then arises, what one?
Time to get DSTV
For a while now I have considered getting DSTV, I do not even have M-NET at the moment. Now that DSTV also come with their own PVR (Personal Video Recorder) I was considering it. Over the New year long weekend I read an article about a guy that build his own PVR. I then decided that it would be a nice hobby project to also build my own. Here is my idea on what I will use (please comment if you have any other ideas)
Hardware
- Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-350
- AMD based PC (Athlon XP 1800 or faster)
- 1GB of RAM
- 160GB Harddisk or bigger
Software
- Linux OS (Probably Ubuntu Breezy but may consider Dapper)
- MythTV
I will add blog entries as I progress with this hobby project.
Ubuntu and UDU
Today as I am sitting here and reading on IRC about all the guys/gals travelling to Sydney for UDU (Ubuntu Down Under), I wished I had some money to join the guys/gals there. Well I suppose all that needs to be done is to convince sabdfl that the next Ubuntu Conference should be held here in SA and then in Cape Town.
Since Jane (she is the PM for UDU) is from Cape Town should make things a bit easier.
Ubuntu 5.04 and getting it!
I have this old laptop without a hard disk and its battery is not working but it is working great with Ubuntu 4.10 LiveCD — have a look here.
Now with the release of Ubuntu 5.04 I decided it was time to download the LiveCD for it but wow what an nightmare here in South Africa or for anyone that has dialup. I have an ISDN connection with InfinityCall (that means that there is a max call charge of about R9 over off-peak) so I try to download big things over weekends and I try to use and torrent.
So I tried over this weekend and it is a slow and tedious process and while it is downloading my Internet connection is useless.
So if anybody from Cape Town has Ubuntu 5.04 LiveCD on a CD available then give me a shout and I would like to get a copy from you. Yes I did order my bunch of CD’s from shipit but that will take a while to arrive.