The neutral dialect is also spoken in the Canadian prairies (At least Alberta, where I live) My parents are both from Manitoba and my father's accent is also neutral. My mother spent a lot of time living in Ontario, and her accent tends to drift father to "aboot" than "about".
I've also heard it said that we (with neutral accents) are about the only people in the world who can understand both a Texan and an Englishman at the same time.
Bit of a strange concept of "just working". Downloading and installing drivers from Nvidia (which, AFAIK, requires a reboot), and tracking down drivers from a defunct company for a now unsupported card. Mandrake 9.2 saw my two GeForce cards and asked if I wanted to use them both and how I wanted to set them up. Don't get me wrong - I run two dual head ATI cards in my windows box and I had to D/L the Nvidia driver to get all 3 monitors working on the linux box (via the dual head AGP and a single head PCI), but downloading and installing two seperate driver sets to get your two monitors working is hardly plug in and go.
I want to build one of these, for a number of reasons.
I have a spare computer.
I do not have: a DVD player, Digital VCR, or functional playstation.
I want to be able to: Watch DVDs on my TV, Record shows digitally, play my library of playstation video games.
Cost incurred by using my computer: $0. Cost incurred by using discrete devices: ~$600 ($300 for a Digital VCR of some sort. I'm not too sure what's available here. $200 for a decent DVD player. $80 for a PS1)
Not everyone who builds a "Tivo-alike" ONLY wants Tivo functionality.
I have a Stylistic 1000 pen notebook running linux with the pen tools installed.
486-100 16mb Ram 340mb PCMCIA Hard Drive.
Neat little box - I've had a variety of Linux installs on it over the years. (I used PLIP for networking when I first got it - couldn't afford an ethernet card for it.)
Installing was a bit of a pain - I didn't have a floppy drive or a bootable CD-ROM drive. Latest install is Redhat 5.something, with XFree86 3.something, running the xf86fpit drivers for the pen, and Xscribble for handwriting recogition, both from http://www.linuxslate.org/software.html
Works well enough. Takes several minutes to boot, but once you're in and running netscape it isn't too bad. Having to switch between 'Mouse-mode' and 'Keyboard-mode' for the pen is annoying, as are the more obscure gestures that leave you in control character mode or something. I seem to recall that it was a bit of a pain finding the documentation on what characters do what.
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The neutral dialect is also spoken in the Canadian prairies (At least Alberta, where I live) My parents are both from Manitoba and my father's accent is also neutral. My mother spent a lot of time living in Ontario, and her accent tends to drift father to "aboot" than "about".
I've also heard it said that we (with neutral accents) are about the only people in the world who can understand both a Texan and an Englishman at the same time.
Bit of a strange concept of "just working". Downloading and installing drivers from Nvidia (which, AFAIK, requires a reboot), and tracking down drivers from a defunct company for a now unsupported card.
Mandrake 9.2 saw my two GeForce cards and asked if I wanted to use them both and how I wanted to set them up.
Don't get me wrong - I run two dual head ATI cards in my windows box and I had to D/L the Nvidia driver to get all 3 monitors working on the linux box (via the dual head AGP and a single head PCI), but downloading and installing two seperate driver sets to get your two monitors working is hardly plug in and go.
I want to build one of these, for a number of reasons.
I have a spare computer.
I do not have: a DVD player, Digital VCR, or functional playstation.
I want to be able to: Watch DVDs on my TV, Record shows digitally, play my library of playstation video games.
Cost incurred by using my computer: $0.
Cost incurred by using discrete devices: ~$600 ($300 for a Digital VCR of some sort. I'm not too sure what's available here. $200 for a decent DVD player. $80 for a PS1)
Not everyone who builds a "Tivo-alike" ONLY wants Tivo functionality.
I have a Stylistic 1000 pen notebook running linux with the pen tools installed.
486-100
16mb Ram
340mb PCMCIA Hard Drive.
Neat little box - I've had a variety of Linux installs on it over the years. (I used PLIP for networking when I first got it - couldn't afford an ethernet card for it.)
Installing was a bit of a pain - I didn't have a floppy drive or a bootable CD-ROM drive. Latest install is Redhat 5.something, with XFree86 3.something, running the xf86fpit drivers for the pen, and Xscribble for handwriting recogition, both from http://www.linuxslate.org/software.html
Works well enough. Takes several minutes to boot, but once you're in and running netscape it isn't too bad. Having to switch between 'Mouse-mode' and 'Keyboard-mode' for the pen is annoying, as are the more obscure gestures that leave you in control character mode or something. I seem to recall that it was a bit of a pain finding the documentation on what characters do what.
Kahm