Text 13810, 101 rader
Skriven 2010-01-05 19:06:39 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13809 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: will i be pretty
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Hello Maurice.

03 Jan 10 15:59, you wrote to me:

 MK> I liked PIII's except the motherboards I had at the time were lacking.
 MK> mplayer should work great on there but mencoder wouldn't be able to
 MK> convert in real time for such things as TV capture cards.  A PVR 150
 MK> pci card would solve that but near as I can tell they don't sell them
 MK> anymore.

PIII's where good cpu's, but I also had problems with the motherboards, TV 
cards, are a problem to get hold of here, and I never saw a PVR 150 on sale, 
and I sorely wanted one at one stage ... gave the Leadtek 2000 (?) I did 
manage to find away the other day ... , was never really happy with it ...

 >> and 2x P4 boxes (Intel 640, and 524 CPU's)

 MK> Both are 64 bit (em64t).  I'd like to find a S775 HT P4 32 bit for
 MK> cheap but haven't had much luck with it.  Could use that for
 MK> targetting 32 bit systems such as ...

The (emt64) ability, buggered me around, building 32 bit bluedot linux, but 
work fine on a PIII ... , not sure I understand why ...

 >> the EeePc 700 2G Surf,

 MK> Right.  Paul's is identical except 4G and an onboard web cam.

Got a web cam for christmas ... :-) works well, except, 384kbps ADSL is not 
fast enough for both sides of a SKYPE connection to operate webcams ... :-((

 >> and the only one happy booting of USB Memory sticks

 MK> Really?  I would have thought the boards that take the Intel 640 and
 MK> 524 would handle that better than the eeepc.

The board with the 640 on, I have not had any success, the other with the 524 
sometimes boots, and other times, does not ... , same USB stick, unchanged ...
If I remember later this eveing, I want to make a CF_Disk bootable, in an 
adapter, and see if I can boot of of it with the EeePc, I expect it will ... 
<VBG>

 MK> I doubt that it would help me much.  One thing that continually screws
 MK> me up is that commas and periods look exactly same to me and I've
 MK> totally screwed up ip numbers because of it.  Definetly makes network
 MK> troubleshooting a pita.

Why I take great pains to check that I hit the right hand dot on the keyboard 
here when entering them ... :-(

 MK> FOR SURE!!!  With mplayer onboard and the inteldrmfb turned on nothing
 MK> beats it.  However external speakers are definetly a must for movies.
 MK> Headphones work okay.  Anything BUT the onboard speakers.

Speaking of inteldrmfb, is that offer for downloading your full EeePc setup 
still good, if so, then I can grab, it while I still have international 
bandwidth to play with ...

 >> Not always happy with it, but, sometimes, I don't have much
 >> of a choice, like SKYPE

 MK> Hm.  Ever checked out linphone?  gtk based instead of qt.  I flatly
 MK> refuse to go the qt/cmake route.

Can that talk to SKYPE, or does a MS-Win version exist ... , will check it out 
on google later, not heard of it, till you mentioned it ...

 >> unless you have some "heavy" test equipment

 MK> My ears.  Also what I see as far as processing goes as well as
 MK> stinkin' dependencies.

In some circles, there are those who will tell you that your ears "hear" what 
you want them to hear, or otherwise expect them to hear ... :-(( , and more or 
less processing is not regarded as relavant - flat earthers still do exist, in 
the serious audio world anyway ... :-(((( They can be a real PITA ...

 >> In the mean time, I am up the creek, without a paddle,

 MK> Been there, done it.  However in this case I am avoiding that
 MK> particular creek.

Like I said, you don't have computer using brothers in Kabul Afganistan, who 
are not more than computer USERS, and well I enjoy being able to talk to them, 
cheaply via SKYPE as no other avenue is available - must still check out 
linphone ...

 >> till my brothers choose to use something else

 MK> If I am right then they won't have a choice in the near future.  Mind
 MK> you it isn't like MS users really have a choice do they?  I suggest
 MK> nodding, smiling and backing away slowly.  Don't make any sudden
 MK> movements and nobody will get hurt.

MS users don't have much choice, and Linux users usually have too many darn 
choices ... , six of one and half a dozen of the others ... <grin>

Russell

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