I've been using Bacula for a while and it is a great open source backup system. It is available for all major platforms and should be able to do what you want. It will most likely require the laptops to be connected to your LAN from time to time.
This is the same hp that is forcing it's workforce to take vacation during Christmas 2004 because the company will close for a week to save money.
That doesn't sound bad upfront, but it actually is. I used to work for HP and the fact that they made you take vacation for a whole week during certain holidays used to piss me off. There were times when I didn't have any vacation left, so I had to stay home without pay. To me thats saying: "you have vacation time, but we tell you when you can take it."
Anyway, the fact that HP is so self-centered and is investing in Linux is quite a good sign for its widespread adoption. They clearly feel there is a market and a profit to made in selling computers with Linux preinstalled.
Since your monitor is a much better quality picture than your tv, you see all the defects in the resulting display. The software you mentioned does nothing to the analog signal to improve the picture which is why it looks so crappy. There are some programs that integrate advanced filters to remove most of these defects. Although it doesn't record at full size yet, the best program I've found is DScaler. Unfortunatly there isn't a linux port.
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I've been using Bacula for a while and it is a great open source backup system. It is available for all major platforms and should be able to do what you want. It will most likely require the laptops to be connected to your LAN from time to time.
This is the same hp that is forcing it's workforce to take vacation during Christmas 2004 because the company will close for a week to save money.
That doesn't sound bad upfront, but it actually is. I used to work for HP and the fact that they made you take vacation for a whole week during certain holidays used to piss me off. There were times when I didn't have any vacation left, so I had to stay home without pay. To me thats saying: "you have vacation time, but we tell you when you can take it."
Anyway, the fact that HP is so self-centered and is investing in Linux is quite a good sign for its widespread adoption. They clearly feel there is a market and a profit to made in selling computers with Linux preinstalled.
Since your monitor is a much better quality picture than your tv, you see all the defects in the resulting display. The software you mentioned does nothing to the analog signal to improve the picture which is why it looks so crappy. There are some programs that integrate advanced filters to remove most of these defects. Although it doesn't record at full size yet, the best program I've found is DScaler.
Unfortunatly there isn't a linux port.