Reading the comments, it seems pay appears top of the list as far as criteria goes. This is sad as you guys in the US and UK will never be able to compete with the up and coming markets in China and India.
I've used freelance coders from India and Russia, who are technically as good, or better, than people here in my native UK. Why *should* I pay more for the same piece of code? For the same price, I can pay someone in the developing world top dollar, or I can listen to someone in the developed world bitch at me that I'm not paying enough.
As far as hardware goes, you could check out the PVR Hardware Database at http://www.goldfish.org/~mcooper/pvrhw/. It holds a rated list of peoples different hardware set-ups.
Software wise, MythTV is by far the best solution atm, although Freevo is coming along.
Kiosk's and public workstations will normally come in for some abuse from script kiddies etc. So for security/privacy reasons, I would consider a diskless ( floppy and CDROM ) workstation that boots from a DHCP server with a network provided OS image. This would ensure a secure baseline OS for each user. This would also reduce OS update/patch problems to a single image.
By tailoring the OS ( through permission's ) you could ensure that users could only save to their home directory which could be stored on an NFS mount. This enables users to have their data each time they login without the worry of someone else tampering/reading it.
Network security would also need to be addressed with the use of switches, firewalls and an IDS. Ensure the switches are intelligent enough to accept filters or firewall rules:)
Depending on the application's available to the users, a good general rule of thumb is limit network access to the bare minimum. So filter outgoing aswell as incoming.
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Reading the comments, it seems pay appears top of the list as far as criteria goes. This is sad as you guys in the US and UK will never be able to compete with the up and coming markets in China and India.
I've used freelance coders from India and Russia, who are technically as good, or better, than people here in my native UK. Why *should* I pay more for the same piece of code? For the same price, I can pay someone in the developing world top dollar, or I can listen to someone in the developed world bitch at me that I'm not paying enough.
Here's a far funkier way to browse the web.. JAVA GoogleBrowser ;)
Linux Devices has an article on the 2.6 network features here http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7885999771.html
Software wise, MythTV is by far the best solution atm, although Freevo is coming along.
Whats it like to see the online 'transcripts' of your old telnet sessions on Shimomura's website?
What sort of emotions/memories do they present to you?
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Just because your paranoid - doesn't mean they are not out to get you!!
1) There's a thread in the mythtv-dev mailing list regarding the creation of ISO images. So don't worry - its in the works.
:) The only restriction would be the bandwidth available.
2) There are a number of different mythtv themes to choose from and remember its not a finished product...its gonna get better
3) If you can mount it, you can use it
Kiosk's and public workstations will normally come in for some abuse from script kiddies etc. So for security/privacy reasons, I would consider a diskless ( floppy and CDROM ) workstation that boots from a DHCP server with a network provided OS image. This would ensure a secure baseline OS for each user. This would also reduce OS update/patch problems to a single image.
:)
By tailoring the OS ( through permission's ) you could ensure that users could only save to their home directory which could be stored on an NFS mount. This enables users to have their data each time they login without the worry of someone else tampering/reading it.
Network security would also need to be addressed with the use of switches, firewalls and an IDS. Ensure the switches are intelligent enough to accept filters or firewall rules
Depending on the application's available to the users, a good general rule of thumb is limit network access to the bare minimum. So filter outgoing aswell as incoming.
Hope that all makes sense.