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Autobiography

Charles Gaudette is the Wikipedia user name for Charles C. Gaudette, a Wikipedian since Monday 23 May 2005 and a registered MythTV.org editor since Monday 26 June 2006.

Surprise, Arizona, USA is his home with wife Jacqueline and baby girl. It is also his workplace. He provides on-site computer help to the Senior Citizens (age 50 and over) in the Northwest Phoenix Valley.

Charles is the principle partner in Gaudette-Net, LLC. His experience with personal computers dates back to the 1970s Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. Later in the 1980s, still in high school, he was the Computer Literacy Teacher for the Bridgeport Connecticut Boys and Girls Club of America. In the early 1990s he studied computer science at Western Michigan University.

MythTV setup

This is not a mature setup yet, expect changes.

Backend

• Dell Dimension 8100
  • Intel P4 @ 1.5GHz CPU
  • 512MB RDRAM
  • RAID-0 (Striped)
    • 2×80GB Hitachi DeskStar ATA-133
    • (partition info to follow)
  • Samsung DVD-ROM drive
  • ATI Rage Pro 128 video card
  • pcHDTV 5500 tuner card
  • STB (Brooktree) analog tuner card
  • Miro (Brooktree) video-in for security camera
  • Creative Labs Sound Blaster sound card
  • on-board 3Com 10/100 Ethernet NIC
• Fedora Core 6
• PS/2 keyboard
• PS/2 mouse
• Planar 15-inch LCD (built-in speakers)

Frontend

• IBM NetVista 6350-2SU
  • Intel P4 @ 1.6GHz
  • 768MB SDRAM @ 133MHz
  • Hard drive
    • 60GB Hitachi DeskStar ATA-133
    • (partition info to follow)
  • Samsung DVD-ROM drive
  • ATI RADEON 9000 Pro 128MB (VGA, DVI, TV)
  • Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live CT-4780
  • 3Com 3C905C-TX-M 10/100 Ethernet NIC
• Fedora Core 6
• PS/2 keyboard
• PS/2 mouse
• Sony amplifier with 5.1 surround-sound
• Television