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

[Nathan Alberti]

The Xbox is surprisingly noisy...

Nathan.

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Tony Clark wrote:

> 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?
> 
>