On 7/31/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > One of my design goals is to avoid having a computer in every room where > > I want to listen to music or watch video. I would much rather run A/V > > cables from a central server out to various wall jacks, where I can > > simply plug in speakers and/or a TV. > > OK, but you'll want to control the server remotely to make it play > something in your room. You could use a laptop, wifi and VNC, say. And > then you have to run multiple audio cards and multiple video cards on the > one server machine. It seems like that would be tricky. Yeah, it might be a challenge. I just don't want to clutter up every room in the house with a computer. As long as my wife and I can carry our wireless laptops around, we can access the server via web interface or VNC or whatever. Another possibility is to do something with these devices: > > http://www.chippc.com/products/jackpc/jackpc.asp OK those are interesting... for other applications. Heck, I could use those at my company where we currently have thin clients. Unfortunately they still require keyboard/monitor/mouse, which is what we are trying to avoid at my house. -- Dave Sherman MCSA, MCSE, CCNA Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060731/d12c87fa/attachment.htm