Episode 65 - Build a Great Vista Home Theater PC!

[davmoo]

Speaking of Serafina, am I imagining things, or didn't you used to have blue hair?

[serafina]

Originally Posted by davmoo

Speaking of Serafina, am I imagining things, or didn't you used to have blue hair?

Hehe, yep, but that was two months ago:

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3622/photo19ag8.jpg

Unfortunately they dont make permanent blue dye, so it's faded away now.

Where I used to work we had a part time tech that would come in with a new haircolor every other week, To each his own, When I was that age, some ladys and guys dyed their hair blond to look cool. Between that and long hair drove most parents crazy. I know I grew long sideburns and a bit longer hair as part of the revolution. My better half had her hair down past her waist. She had to cut it when she started student teaching. Now that she is retired, It is seeming to get longer and longer now. Cool!

Originally Posted by Serafina

The show was about how to turn vista into a media center. We're assuming you've already got Vista running. There's just too much stuff to talk about once it's up, to waste time on a topic that would fit better on a completely different episode. If you want to see "Installing Vista" as its own episode, we'll take that into consideration.

I am sure you are right about the time limitations. I might be nice to have an Iron (chef) Hack one hour or a live streaming episode to have both linux and windows being installed at the same time by two different people on standard duplicate hardware to see the differences, Since linux comes with openoffice, the windows box will also have to load microsoft office as part of the install.

[sparky42]

Roger starts visiting revision3, guess where he now works.

Same thing for Robert?

Even if he's just visiting, it's good to see Robert here.

[davmoo]

Originally Posted by Serafina

Unfortunately they dont make permanent blue dye, so it's faded away now.

That the big complaint of a friend. She likes to dye her hair these vivid shades of purple or green, and when she finally gets it to where she likes it, it holds that look for only a week or so.

[trueblood]

For what it's worth, my HT setup, taken largely from an article on Tom's Hardware:

* A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model ADQVE1A16K - Retail
* AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor Model ADH4850DOBOX - Retail
* Antec NSK1380 Black/ Silver Steel MicroATX Cube Computer Case 350W Power Supply - Retail
* GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
* LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray DVD ROM SATA Model DH-4O1S-08 - Retail

Add a SATA hard drive of your choice, and Vista.

The real magic is the motherboard. The integrated video does Blu-Ray decoding, HDMI output up to 1080p, S/PDIF audio, and plenty fast.

...and for the keyboard: Logitech diNovo Mini.

[davmoo]

Originally Posted by computoman

I am sure you are right about the time limitations. I might be nice to have an Iron (chef) Hack one hour or a live streaming episode to have both linux and windows being installed at the same time by two different people on standard duplicate hardware to see the differences, Since linux comes with openoffice, the windows box will also have to load microsoft office as part of the install.

Too bad we don't live in the same locale...I'd take you up on that. I bet I can install Vista and Office as fast and as pain free as you can install Linux.

And to be fair, since you're requiring an Office install since Linux includes OpenOffice, then it works both ways. The Linux distro chosen must be a similar age to Vista, it must include the same level of graphics eye candy, and all updates must be also installed.

I did not mean for it to be a challenge as much as a good way to educate. Lets add mac os x to that.
The install media must be unaltered or unmodified from the original default disks. Name the distro!
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I am not that familar with the graphics of vista except from the commercials. I do not use a distro just for how pretty it is. Utility is more important to me. Just curious, will Vista easily run on a 1ghz machine with 512m ram and do the fancy graphics? Linux can...... Can you run Vista on a machine that does not even have a hard drive or a network connection? Linux can.... Can Vista run a office of networked computers without even installing it (i.e. for disaster recovery)? Linux can. Will Vista run on a Wii, ps3 or an xbox 360? Linux can.... Can you or would you run Vista without any spyware or virus detectors (including Microsoft's)? Can Vista run in the command line mode for optimized server use and remote only access? Linux can.... Can you run Vista without purchasing any software licenses or upgrading equipement to save a school district valuable tax dollars? Linux can.....

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When you can run vista honestly on my old 166 mhz laptop without protection software, I will give up linux.

[voidzy]

Originally Posted by Sparky42

Roger starts visiting revision3, guess where he now works.

Same thing for Robert?

Even if he's just visiting, it's good to see Robert here.

I would love to see Robert with Rev3. He really knows his stuff and I think anything he gets involved in will be huge (Including SYSTM.)

Bring Robert to Rev3!