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unix, 3rd screen and media noise

Posts tagged with "boxee"

My sad times

Monday, 6. April 2009, 04:16:58

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Somehow boxee did not work on the e4850 box I built and the drivers from ATI produced a ridiculous noise on the display when the CPU underclocked to 1GHz. I'll just have to settle for boxee on my imac for now. I was really looking forward to attempting hardware decode.

Abandoning Ubuntu I was not able to get the device to boot DragonFly BSD off a jump drive. On top of all of this I forgot my brand new 1TB sata drive at the apartment.

Next weekend I'll try to flash the BIOS from a USB jump drive and install the FreeBSD 7.2 beta but I'm not sure how to make a USB boot image for FreeBSD yet. I may just dd the ISO to a OCZ flash drive and see what happens.

In the meantime I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 8.10 sever on a P3 notebook with 256meg of ram for VPN and dynamic DNS.

:frown:

On a distant tangent I'm hoping to switch Hong to an N280 netbook with 10inch display for her birthday.

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My adventure in Brisbane

Tuesday, 31. March 2009, 22:12:28

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I'm suddenly enamoured with boxee so I've ordered a bit of hardware with the idea of building an HTPC on top of ubuntu. I must say this happened after I saw the boxee remote in action with my macbook pro.

So off to newegg I go and purchase a Brisbane core 4850e, ASUS M3A78-EM, two 1GB Gskill sticks, an 8GB OCZ diesel and an antec nsk2480 desktop case from buy.com

I was able to create a boot image on the jump drive with an Ubuntu 8.10 VM running under virtualbox on my macbook pro and install onto a secondary flash drive. Unfortunately something went wrong when patching so I reinstalled on an old 80GB IDE drive.

So far the the box works fine. I just need to look into forcing the CPU up to 2.5Ghz [ the default is 1 Ghz ] then see if boxee and the remote app on my Touch 2G work.

Fun!

Any problems and I'll try to install the HD3200 support from "ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run"

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Potential Projects

Monday, 23. March 2009, 23:41:37

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Some minor projects on the horizon.

First, upgrading an EEE 900a to 2GB ram and giving it away. Then a dual core boxee box for my projector room and finally a P3 rsync target for backups over broadband.

My media box should run a dual 2.5Ghz brisbane with 2GB of ram. I was really impressed with the boxee remote for iPod Touch/iPhone. I'll throw in an old 200GB IDE drive for testing.
If it goes well I will build a freenas VM to host the data.

Finally I hope to connect a 500GB seagate to a AEBS, export it to DragonFly BSD on the P3 notebook and sync/backup between sites. Not sure about this one... the AEBS and P3 are extremely slow.

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