[plug] low heat & low noise linux box for firewall?

[Tony Clark]

Wouldn't an Xbox be ok  for this?  I guess you would need USB nics.  I don't 
have one so maybe they are noisy.  Ok you would have to run suse at present 
but that won't last for long

tony

On Monday 09 September 2002 03.18, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Dont I know it.  What do you ( and other people) use for recording?
> streamer (xawtv) skips too many frames, even on fast hardware, kwintv's
> output is not compatible with a lot of players and so on.
>
> BillK
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 08:00, hooker at iinet.net.au wrote:
> > Personal Video Recorder.  A computer which digitises TV and stores it on
> > hard disk on request, like Tivo but without the mandatory subscription to
> > a service which allows you to download program details and keeps track of
> > what you watch.
> >
> > Program information is available free if you're willing to pull web pages
> > apart (not difficult). The big difficulty, for Linux at any rate, is the
> > poor state of device drivers for capture hardware.
> >
> > The Hooker
> >
> > > PVR ... ???
> > >
> > > BillK
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 21:10, Hook wrote:
> > > > I can't help you I'm afraid Daniel, but I'd be interested in any
> >
> > comments
> >
> > > > that anyone can make about quiet PC cases in general. I'm interested
> > > > in putting together a PVR, and one of the things I'm not very
> > > > impressed by
> >
> > is
> >
> > > > the noise level of most PCs.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any helpful comments?

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