[Hampshire] Book Reviews

Hi, This week I received an email from book publisher APress, they are willing to give books away in exchange for reviews. I have confirmed that they will send them to the UK (the initial email was not clear). You don't get a free book for two lines on your blog, but if anyone is serious the b

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone played with Aurora Linux?

Hi, I saw a similar issue with Gentoo on my laptop because the supplied kernel didn't have the correct drivers needed to access the DVD drive. The solution there was to roll your own kernel with the correct driver on another machine then rebuild the install media. I just couldn't be bothered.

[Hampshire] Anyone played with Aurora Linux?

Hi All. I'm trying to bring some of my old Sparcs into operation. I'm having trouble gett Aurora onto an Ultra 10 - it complains of being "unable to find any devices of the type needed from this installation type". Anyone seen this before? Thanks! Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

>My main objection to Sony is not the quality of their kit It is mine. Older Sony kit was top-notch, but a few years ago, they started getting ever so conscious of their costs. As a result, they became just another kit manufacturer - the old Sony quality being entirely absent :-( > but more

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:11:17PM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: > Hugo Mills wrote: > > PS. Sony. E. > > We are on our third 40GB PS3 - the first one died after 4 months > (optical drive refusing to read discs), and the replacement has just > died (miscellaneous lockups that seem to be disc-rela

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

Hugo Mills wrote: > PS. Sony. E. We are on our third 40GB PS3 - the first one died after 4 months (optical drive refusing to read discs), and the replacement has just died (miscellaneous lockups that seem to be disc-related). In fairness to Sony, they have agreed to replace it again, despite

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:25:44PM +, Charlie de Courcy wrote: > > >> Does anyone have any suggestions? The current front-runner is this > >> one[1], or one of its friends, but that has a 40mm fan in the back, > >> which says to me that it'll make noise. > >> > >> Hugo. > >> > > > >

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > > Take a look at Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/ > > I think that will satisfy your tech requirements regarding video but > unsure of NFS support. I recall the reviews praising it's lack of > noise. Can't vouch for it's s

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

>> Does anyone have any suggestions? The current front-runner is this >> one[1], or one of its friends, but that has a 40mm fan in the back, >> which says to me that it'll make noise. >> >> Hugo. >> > > Have you considered a Playstation 3? It generates a bit of noise (but you won't he

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

> I've currently got a Freecom MediaGate MG-35 sat next to my telly, > and it does a reasonable job of playing MPEG2s that I've recorded off > DVB-T. However, I've recently tried re-encoding some things as various > forms of MPEG4. > > With XviD or FFMPEG, I get unacceptable (to me) encoding ar

[Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

All, I would like to use HDMI output to get my Linux media centre working on an LCD TV. (I don't have the TV yet though!). What I want to do is to do away with my expensive and small media centre PC and have a high powered PC which can sit in the understairs cupboard, using nice big low noise fans

Re: [Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

> Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum > of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? The Asus "Eee ready" My Cinema U3100 works readily with the Eee 901 under Xandro; the supplied Linux app functions, but is very primitive in comparison to somethi

Re: [Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:21:48AM +, Bob Dunlop wrote: > Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum > of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? > > It's for someone at work and I really don't want to get into compiling > kernels and the like for

Re: [Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

2009/2/17 Bob Dunlop : > Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum > of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? > If you have access to the device then I'd have a look at what firmwares they supply in /lib/firmware for dtt cards. I tried my two Freeco

[Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

Hi, Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? It's for someone at work and I really don't want to get into compiling kernels and the like for them. -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mail