User:Antone
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Master Backend
- ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Mainboard
- AMD Duron Applebred 1.8 GHz
- 2 X Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE (Fed by 2 Dish Network SD receivers with 2 serial IR blasters wired in parallel)
- 512 MB PC266 RAM
- 1 x 60 GB Samsung SpinPoint IDE HD (15 GB for root partition)
- 1 x 250 GB Western Digital Caviar IDE HD [music etc. partition]
- 2 x 250 GB Western Digital Caviar SATA HD (MD RAID0) [Video partition]
- Conexant HCF PCI modem [for on-screen Caller ID]
- Fedora Core 6, custom 2.6.20 kernel
Main Frontend
- Gigabyte GA-7DX+ Mainboard
- AMD Athlon XP 1800+
- 512 MB PC266 RAM
- 250 GB Western Digital Caviar IDE HD
- SoundBlaster Live! Value (outputting SPDIF to Yamaha 5.1 DTS/DD Surround receiver)
- MSI GeForce FX5200 128MB (outputting 480i Component Out to 32" Toshiba SD Tube TV)
- Microsoft MCE remote + receiver (actually a really good remote)
- Fedora Core 6
Second Frontend
- Xbox, running Xebian 1.14
Major props to
- Isaac and all the MythTV developers
- Jarod Wilson for his excellent guide that got me to give Linux a shot
- Axel Thimm for all his work at ATRPMS
- the IVTV and LIRC teams
- The folks at the Fedora Project, GNU, and KDE
- Tribune Media for letting Myth users download via Zap2It
- The generous MythTV users who take the time to give back
About me
- I've been using MythTV as my home media network since October 2005. MythTV also gave me my first in-depth experience with Linux. With about 95% uptime, even my wife likes (tolerates) Myth now!
- I'm a full-time employee at Rochester Institute of Technology in the Sponsored Research Services office
- I'm involved with my local neighborhood association, The 19th Ward Community Association of Rochester, NY
- I've dabbled in graphic design, website, and web application development for 11 years, and am growing a small IT consulting business specializing in Open Source solutions for non-profits and small businesses: commonkind.com