On 7/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu">mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Dave Sherman wrote:<br><br>> One of my design goals is to avoid having a computer in every room where<br>> I want to listen to music or watch video. I would much rather run A/V<br>> cables from a central server out to various wall jacks, where I can
<br>> simply plug in speakers and/or a TV.<br><br>OK, but you'll want to control the server remotely to make it play<br>something in your room. You could use a laptop, wifi and VNC, say. And<br>then you have to run multiple audio cards and multiple video cards on the
<br>one server machine. It seems like that would be tricky.</blockquote><div><br>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.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Another possibility is to do something with these devices:<br><br><a href="http://www.chippc.com/products/jackpc/jackpc.asp">
http://www.chippc.com/products/jackpc/jackpc.asp</a></blockquote><div><br>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.
<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Dave Sherman<br>MCSA, MCSE, CCNA<br>Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware.