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How to Build The Perfect Home Theater PC

Ian Bell writes: "We have just updated our HTPC guide to include some new parts for building the perfect home theater PC. We scoured the net and talked with various manufacturers to find these hard to find parts and components. This includes a new component width black anodized aluminum case complete with reciever sytle legs, a fold down front door and front USB/FireWire ports. Add to this an ATi AIW Radeon 8500 DV, DVD-RW/CDR-RW drive and Dolby Digital sound and you have the perfect HTPC. Check out our guide for complete system specs pictures and links to where you can find these hard to find parts. This system replaces your DVD player complete with HDTV and progressive scan support, Tivo or Replay TV and TV guide." Update: 05/26 23:44 GMT by T : Helstein writes with another All-In-Wonder based approach, his 1U Multimedia Station.

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  1. Why is VA Software trying to suppress the truth? by hettb · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I wonder why no VA site (including Slashdot and Newsforge) has posted the news of:

    ESR's Removal from the VA Software Board of Directors!

    In fact, that article on Linux Today is the only one you'll be able to find on the entire WWW!

    ESR'S HOMEPAGE DOES CONFIRM THE STORY, THOUGH!

    No more " [representation of] the interests and values of the open-source community [at VA Software -- owners of OSDN and Slashdot]" then, I guess!

    Oh, and for further information about VA Software's demise, read this!

  2. Re:Why is VA Software trying to suppress the truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    boo hoo you cum guzzling shitfuck.

  3. Slashdotted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Time to upgrade, cheapo! & ESR Surprised by co by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    From ESR's resume (updated 2002/04/24):

    >My home computer is a PCI-bus Pentium 133 running Red Hat Linux.

    From Surprised by cock:

    I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.

    "Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.

    Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.

    You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.

    Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.

    But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks


    Hey, I guess Trollaxor ain't far off from the truth.

  5. Re:Real HTPC? by michael+(troll) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK, I can live with that... =)

  6. WoW! What an original username! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WoW! What an original username!

    1. Re:WoW! What an original username! by OriginalUsername · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, well, what can you do?

    2. Re:WoW! What an original username! by Metrollica · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You just created that username right now, didn't you?

      --



      --Metrollica
  7. Re:Real HTPC? Microsoft Debugger Has Bugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft, which described the flaw as "critical," said the program capabilities of the debugger -- designed for diagnosis and analysis of applications running on the operating system -- could allow the running of unauthorized programs. "An attacker could take any action on the system, including deleting data, adding accounts with administrative access or reconfiguring the system," according to the Microsoft bulletin. The company should have responded sooner to the debugging issue, which was discovered in mid-March. They were aware of it quite a while ago and didn't acknowledge it

  8. Re:Real HTPC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. Re:Don't look for Apple to do this. by AdmrlNxn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, it is stealing. Look at it however you want to look at it and throw as many words at it as you want but... If it doesn't belong to you, and you didn't purchase it; it is stealing in all its beauty and splendor.

    From your perspective it would be okay for me to walk into your place of living and copy off your private emails. For in your eyes it isn't stealing because you don't lose anything.

    --
    ~Admrlnxn
    "I got your mom in my trunk"
  10. Re:Don't look for Apple to do this. by AdmrlNxn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't troll. I express opinions that others have a tendancy to dislike. If I was a troller I would be more obnoxious and less opinionated. Either way I care not about my karma score. I care about speaking my mind on the opinion I carry.

    --
    ~Admrlnxn
    "I got your mom in my trunk"