The only problem is they HAVE NO PCI SLOT! There is a miniPCI slot, but what's that good for? I want a miniPCI TV Tuner so I can make a tiny PVR. I found one here , but it looks like vapor.
I can go USB, but USB tuners have a reputation for sucking.
And now VIA is pushing a new Grace platform that is supposed to be even SMALLER than nano-itx...
Dump XP (or make it dual-boot). Change the form factor. Lose the stupid DRM. Make it foldable, with various controller options (SMS style keyboard, d-pad, a-pad, track-ball), jump up the horsepower a bit and you have a tiny laptop.
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The ATI card has an MPEG hardware encoder on board. It can record at VCD or DVD format with less than 1% of dropped frames.
Due to a sale, rebate and 10% off coupon, I paid $9 for the card. And it works fine for cable TV recording. A good bit better than HQ VHS.
And the mini-itx M10000 board has MPEG hardware decoding built into the video chipset.
The last I heard from a VIA market-drone, they were supposed to ship in May. They better hurry their asses up!
They supposedly had working models at E3.
I use an ATI TV Wonder VE with my M10000 board. Works fine for recording/playback, but forget about pausing live tv.
DVDs play fine, too. So does about every video codec I've thrown at it.
Try Win2000. Runs just fine on my M10000.
Since I'm using an ATI TV Wonder VE in my current mini-itx Toolbox PVR (built into a $5.99 K-MART Toolbox), I decided to run Win2000 on it.
I had NO PROBLEMS with getting the hardware to work. None. All the VIA stuff loaded and ran perfectly.
Since I've committed the Sin of admitting M$ use, I will go so far as to admit records the season finale of Enterprise on it last night...
VIA had them out in public at E3. I want one BAD.
The only problem is they HAVE NO PCI SLOT! There is a miniPCI slot, but what's that good for? I want a miniPCI TV Tuner so I can make a tiny PVR. I found one here , but it looks like vapor.
I can go USB, but USB tuners have a reputation for sucking.
And now VIA is pushing a new Grace platform that is supposed to be even SMALLER than nano-itx...
You can always bop down to the Thieves Market and buy your bike back.
Amsterdam is great, if you like stepping in dog shit.
Aaaaaaaaaah!
And hearing "Cocaine, Heroin, Speed?" mumbled by every other pedestrian.
Though the "Coffee Houses" and "Window Shopping" do tend to make up for it...
A gig.
Is.
A gig.
(Besides, smegging PriceLine won't let me sing anymore.)
Tribbles make me nervous.
I mean really. How do you have sex with that?
I wonder how long into the episode before he sleeps with T'Pol or Sato
Threesome. Time.
In the decon chamber! Bring on the Denobian love lotion/anti-bacterial cream!
Too bad neither one is from Orion.
That is sooooo not funny. Do you know what Denobians *EAT*?
Imagine living in a giant bird cage, a couple of hours after feeding time...
I'll think about it.
Bite. Me.
That movie is a hoot! The "slave making assembly line" alone makes it worth watching.
Is it ever going to come out on DVD?
It's an allegory
A big lizard that lives in the everglades?
Stallman? Cleaning?
Heh.
Shh, or "DumbNickName" will show up!
"Wesley"? In *MY* day, we had Ensigns with more manly names, like "Pavel".
Now a days, pretty much fucking *EVERY* channel.
Survivior, Fear Factor, Big Brother, Screw Around On Your Girlfriend Island, The Donalds Hair Show, etc.
If you can't find "Reality TV", you ain't a lookin!
Wouldn't the Target Audience also be the largest set of Tivo-type device users?
Of course, that also kind of shoots the advertising in the head...
It's been discussed before, but why not just do a forced patch of the OS? Kill the virus and immunize the machine...
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty ... ...and a really, really sharp knife.
It's some kind of sub nano-itx form factor called Grace.
tiny laptop
This is a pretty good idea, with some changes.
Dump XP (or make it dual-boot). Change the form factor. Lose the stupid DRM. Make it foldable, with various controller options (SMS style keyboard, d-pad, a-pad, track-ball), jump up the horsepower a bit and you have a tiny laptop.
It could give my Zodiac a run for it's money.
Smoke?