From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyfUj-0002K4-N7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:46:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6U0ir5a005543; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:44:53 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6U0fHtT002270 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:41:18 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so676191nzc for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:42:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XE3MfLBXsEXHZ1RqebzO71PK2gp5/daKDoupwAD2Y39vtcTRF2V7LjzvUA37DZummttW2M/6gi70chkJ6gVm/i1N8ZZMCL4Qj8XL1zvTJXRc5WX+ZZvKk0M28Fq1LeXFdjfhuf92d8BhQNXQaWIaFLouOSihkwhmeTDHuqC1FQI= Received: by 10.36.71.12 with SMTP id t12mr3624661nza; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.5.10 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <432beae0507291742f33e58@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:42:01 -0700 From: Justin Patrin To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box In-Reply-To: <1122679947.29064.16.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1122679947.29064.16.camel@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6U0fHtT002270 X-Archives-Salt: 43bc4429-22d9-49c1-801f-9e05e2f71500 X-Archives-Hash: ec4af0a44999d19cb81fb2a1c55ff78f On 7/29/05, Luke Albers wrote: > Tom, > > This is designed for cell phones and pdas but it might be worth your > time to have a look at > http://www.rasterman.com/files/eem.avi Any idea where I can find "eem" sources / information? I see stuff about E17 being embedded capable, but no actual mentions of "eem". > > > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:49 +1200, Tom Eastman wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > > > I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video > > card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless > > keyboard and mouse. > > > > Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good > > TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but > > not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to > > set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience). > > > > So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an > > older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice > > window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing > > or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window > > based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. > > As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a > > TV screen. > > > > So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab > > movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure > > there is potential for it to be so much more! > > > > Inspire me! ;-) > > > > Tom > > > > > -- > Luke Albers > Electrical Engineering > Georgia Institute of Technology > gtg940r@mail.gatech.edu > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list