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
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
