My adventure in Brisbane
Tuesday, 31. March 2009, 22:12:28
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"
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"
WIDGETIZE