The lack of playback of Blu-ray movies has stopped me from installing a Linux distribution on my HTPC. However, according to a blog post from The Media Viking, this is now possible. It is still a bit cumbersome, but it seems better than the old recipe. I have personally not tested it yet, but I …
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I have earlier written about the first two stages (1 and 2) of my living-room-gaming-PC project. I am quite confident that this is not the last update either as the project continues to evolve. After installing a new video adapter with a fan making more noise than a 747 jet engine I had to do …
A long while back I wrote about the first step of building a HTPC/Gaming rig for the living room. The PC has since then gone through a couple of changes and had a couple of problems. Video Adapter and TV The first problem I had with the old configuration was that when I connected it …
After installing Windows Vista on the HTPC/gaming PC I have set up for the living room I have run into several problems (which reminds me that I have to write about them later). However, I was able to solve a quite trivial one thanks to sleep.exe by Gammadyne Corporation. This simple little program simply puts …
The case After selecting a case for my new living room computer I had to buy some more parts to piece together a running PC. The case I selected was the Lian Li PC-C32, in black. Overall I am satisfied with the case. It is fairly spacious, it looks good, it was pretty easy to …