[SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or video files over a lan connection from a server. recording tv is not necessary but may be good. Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
mythtv in all its flavours, but i recommend the popcorn a-110 i put a review of it at http://rantage.com.au/item/1229558115/ Dean Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or video files

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:35:02PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or video files over a lan connection from a server. recording tv is not necessary but may be good. Is

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Jake Anderson
Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or video files over a lan connection from a server. recording tv is not necessary but may be good. Is there a Linux distro that does this or do

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-07 Thread Jake Anderson
Sonia Hamilton wrote: Ben wrote: I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard with 4x1TB SATA drives,and 2x 200MB IDE drives. I could give you the model number but it's out of date, so wouldn't be of any use. Thanks Ben, that's a wicked setup you've got. Someone mentioned http://www.freenas.org/ in a

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-07 Thread ishwor
Hi Jake and all, Jake Anderson wrote: Just noticed that office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. seems to be ~ $10 more than the cheapest bare drive I could find. Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive but I bought it last month from OW

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-07 Thread Jake Anderson
ishwor wrote: Hi Jake and all, Jake Anderson wrote: Just noticed that office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. seems to be ~ $10 more than the cheapest bare drive I could find. Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive but I bought

Re: [SLUG] Linux Traineeships?

2009-01-07 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Blindraven wrote: Is there such a thing as a job that'd be willing to put someone through the starter ropes with Linux in a Junior SysAdmin role and whiz them of to places for certifications? (or not?) Is this more of a dream then a reality? there is this program:

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread jam
On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or video files over a lan connection from a server. recording tv is not necessary but may be good. Is there

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Owen Townend
2009/1/8 jam j...@tigger.ws: On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or video files over a lan connection from a server. recording tv is not

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
are you installing the nvidia drivers? or just the out of the box open source ones? Dean jam wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to play video files. Sort of like home theatre. or

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

2009-01-07 Thread Morgan Storey
Definately sounds like a setup issue my myth box is probably the least powerful here p3 1ghz, 1gb of ram, geforce 4, and I can watch and record digital, (not and true hd 1080p), and hd Xvids no problems. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: are you

[SLUG] .ssh/config and setting user names for hosts

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Walkom
I know I can set a per host user or a default global username, but what if I want to set a global default and then have specific usernames for a handful of hosts? eg; User mark Host host1 Host host2 Host host3 Host host4 Host host5 user dummy Host host6 Host host7 user sysop I have this sort

Re: [SLUG] .ssh/config and setting user names for hosts

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mark Walkom I know I can set a per host user or a default global username, but what if I want to set a global default and then have specific usernames for a handful of hosts? eg; User mark Host host1 Host host5 user dummy Try this: Host host5 User dummy Host * User mark