Thursday, November 17, 2005 –
In this first two parts of this communiqué covered the hardware and operating system I used on my custom DVR or media PC. This final installment about building my DVR will cover the software I used and configured to create the DVR functionality. You can probably look forward to one final communiqué about my media PC to wrap things up and to show off some pictures of the final configuration.
Software
When looking into Linux software…
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 –
In the first part of this communiqué series I discussed some of the overall motivation I had for this project, and what hardware I chose to use. If you are thinking about setting up a computer for a DVR, or complete media center (which is what I did), it is a good place to get some suggestions for hardware. However, right now I am going to discuss how I chose the operating system for my media PC, and some useful information about setting it up.…
Monday, November 14, 2005 –
This summer I took it on myself to set up an alternative to the standard tube-based television setup that included a DVD player, cable box, VCR and receiver. Not owning anything other than a receiver, I did not want to invest money in such bulky and uncustomizable hardware. I also wanted to be able to watch DVDs at DVD resolution (720x480 vs. 640x480) and I wanted better color reproduction than most TVs had to offer. I ended up building a custom…
Saturday, November 12, 2005 –
Dave Tufts, iMarc's director of technology will be featured on Worcester radio program, WPI Venture Forum
WPI Venture Forum airs on WTAG, 580AM between 5pm and 7pm on Saturdays. The program is a "talk show of entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs".
Mr. Tufts will be the featured guest during the first hour (5pm-6pm) on Saturday November 12, 2005. He will discuss the process of growing a web development…
Thursday, November 10, 2005 –
I'll admit it. I'm in love with FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is a Unix operating system that runs especially well on generic Intel-compatible hardware.
FreeBSD doesn't do anything special. In fact, anything I can do on my favorite OS, you can do on yours. So, what's so great about FreeBSD? It just works. In fact, it always works. It never stops working. After using FreeBSD on all my web servers for the past 6 years, I really appreciate how little time I…
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 –
I love open source software. Free software is nice, but OSS really takes the cake.
Since I started here at iMarc I have had a lot more exposure to open source software than ever before. Mostly this is due to the fact that our servers run on 100% open source software. Currentlly all of our production web servers run FreeBSD (4.x and 5.x ) for their OS, along with Apache, MySQL and PHP. We also run a file server on Fedora Core 4, set up with Samba…
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 –
The IE Tab extension for Firefox is simple fantastic. It lets you view both IE and Firefox all from the comfort of your Firefox window.
If you're still using 1.0.x, read the directions carefully as there is something extra you'll need to download first.
IE Tab for Firefox
By: Fred LeBlanc
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 –
I've done a great deal of reading, studying, and discussing usability for the Web, and while I've adapted a lot of my design and code practices to accommodate what people tell me is best, I have to draw the line somewhere.
This is the beginning of the resistance.
Welcome to the Fred Rebellion.
1. 800 x 600
The belief that most of the people in the world have at least this as their screen resolution, and using the principles of…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 –
Walk with us down memory lane, at http://old.imarc.net
We set up this site to "showcase" all the old versions of iMarc.net. No, we're not necessarily proud of that 1997 site design, but it's worth showing for a couple reasons:
We've been around for a long time - The sites from 1997 and 1998 are about 85 years old in "web years"
We've been making websites for a long time
It's interesting to see how styles have changed
This…
By: Will Bond
Visitors
3 comments