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Users / Re: Learn about networking (hard and software)

« on: November 23, 2008, 08:30:05 pm »

Ahhhhhhhhhh! I see said the blind man to his deaf horse.

I am over thinking it.  I thought I needed to set things up (switch, MD ethernet card etc).  If I understand now I dont need to set anything up just PNP.
Doh!

Thanks for that.

Cheers
Chipppy

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Users / Re: gigabyte MoBo with Nvidia 7800 chipset for HYbrid

« on: November 23, 2008, 12:32:55 pm »

Takeing your comments into account i was thinking of using either a Gigabyte MoBo with AMD2+ socket and a Dual Core 3100. 
MoBo wise would you recommend a NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI or NVIDIA GeForce 8200 chipset. 
I am trying to future proof my Hybrid a little, but in the end once I get my head around the networking thing the hybrid will run our home plamsa and network to everything else.
The AMD and Gigabyte things is just a personal preference, but I am willing to change for a better deal, including less pain on the setup side of things.

I am looking at setting up a Hybrid and I have a huge amount of home video (read 3TB at last count, yes I know I am a little carmera happy with my three kids)  So number of HDD that I can plug onboard is a bit of a thing here.  The more the better.  I am after a full size MoBo with at least 6 HDD ports (prefer 8 though).

As always the money thing is a little difficult so if I can future proof a little, keep the complexity down (Im a newbie), and ballance that all with the low budget.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Chad

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Users / Re: Learn about networking (hard and software)

« on: November 23, 2008, 12:22:30 pm »

Thanks for the heads up.
I thinkI need to put more explianation into the how-dum-a-guide bit.
I know what a switch/hub is but how to install one and set it up I dont know.
Also what is ips, subnet mask, Qos etc.  This is the sort of level that I looking to understand.  I have some bits and pieces (little understanding) but no where near enough.
I see that you say there are plenty of guides. Is there specific guides that you would recommend as a beggineers guide to setting up a network (probably more hardware based then software, as it sounds like LinuxMCE does most of the software side of things.

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Users / Learn about networking (hard and software)

« on: November 22, 2008, 02:40:22 pm »

Hello peoples

Does anyone know a good step-by-step guide for setting up networking.
I am a newbie to the setting up of networking both hardware and software.  I would love to read through a good, easy, network setup for dummies guide.  I am in the process of setting up a standalone hybrid as my intro to Linux and LinuxMCE.  One I get that up and working I want to start setting up the networking side of things but I have a lot to learn.

I am one of those people that writes himself a step-by-step guide for everything I do on the computer.  do you think that would be helpfully in the Wiki once I have got it sorted?  It will take me a couple of months though.

Cheers
chipppy

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Installation issues / Re: Diffrent DVDs?

« on: November 20, 2008, 04:48:56 pm »

Do a search in the USERs forum under 'Which LMCE to download' I asked the same question and got some really helpfull feedback.

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Users / Re: HELP: Cannot download LMCE

« on: November 20, 2008, 10:23:30 am »

Thanks for the help.  To answer a few question in the above
I am in Western Australia. 
My home connection is 512k but limited to a max of 2 GB download per month (welcome to crappy Aussie ISP's that cost $35 per month)
I am using my work computer for the download to get over the download limt issue.
My work down load rate is 56kbs (note this is download rate not connection speed)  my burst is 1Mbs.  So the download under firefox is takeing a couple of days.  I am limited by the satellite connection bandwidth.

I shall try to download Azureus and install and see if I can get a beter download rate.

Thanks again for all the help people.

Cheers
chipppy

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Users / Which LMCE to download

« on: November 18, 2008, 08:52:33 pm »

Which LMCE is best to download and what is the difference.

I can download anyamount of data so the file size is not an issue here.  I am new and building a Hybrid from scratch.  This will also be my first Linux project so I an trying to eliminate as many traps as possible at the from end to try and make it as good experience as possible for my first time.

Which one is best to download out of the DVD versions
DVD or DVD-DL and what is the difference?

What does the *****-rc1 *****-rc2 mean?  Is the two files (part A and part B) and therefroe 2 DVD's that I need to create? 
Or is it two different versions?  If yes then which would be the best for me to use?

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Users / Re: HELP: Cannot download LMCE

« on: November 18, 2008, 08:41:14 pm »

How do I use the torrents?

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Users / Re: HELP: Cannot download LMCE

« on: November 18, 2008, 05:11:56 pm »

I can download and install from the internet so does anyone recommend a good download manager that I can download for free.
I will try Firefox in the mean time as a first step. 

Cheers
Chipppy

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Users / Re: gigabyte MoBo with Nvidia 7800 chipset for HYbrid

« on: November 18, 2008, 04:09:35 pm »

Thanks.

Will this onboard graphics be enough to do the output to my plasma or CRT TV do you think?

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Users / HELP: Cannot download LMCE

« on: November 18, 2008, 04:08:16 pm »

Good Morning

I am trying to download LinuxMCE at work due to not having enough download size at home.  I can only download 2GB at home so I want to use an XP machine at work to download the 2 DVD.iso's, while on nightshift
I have started the downloads a couple of time and directed XP to save the DVD.iso to my documents/downloads
Nothing appears in that folder. 
As the download speed at work is only 56kbs, the total download will take a few nights to complete.  I came back the next night to start the download again and it starts from scratch and still nothing in the downloads folder.
I am using the Australian Mirror (http://linuxmce.ihas.com.au/) but I can use any other if it a mirror related issue.


Can anyone help me out here.  How do I get XP to shown the DVD'iso file?  This is so I can trqansfer it to me USB drive to take home later
Also how do I get it to continue on the next night from where it left off the night before?

Cheers
chipppy

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Users / gigabyte MoBo with Nvidia 7800 chipset for HYbrid

« on: November 17, 2008, 05:47:06 pm »

I am looking at setting up a hybrid and I see that gigabyte MoBo's (eg GA-M750SLI-DS4) have the Nvidia  chipset for onboard.  Is this good enough to do the UI2 and output graphics to my Plasma?  Or do I need to get a Geforce graphics card?  Or do I not understand the whole Nvidia chipset nit properly?

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Users / Re: hard drive sizes for the core

« on: November 15, 2008, 07:12:51 pm »

RAID 5 is a good idea in the long run but becareful not to get to big a drives, or you could start running into the bit failure rate problem with RAID 5 (search for something like: raid 5 2009.  ZNET has a good article that explains it all.)
Personally I would use 500GB drives and this should help to stay away from this problem.  Personally I back up to a 1TB USB drive that sits in my cupboard every now and then for all my must keep files.  (pitcures of the kids etc)

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Users / Re: Australian LMCE users.....

« on: November 09, 2008, 02:16:46 am »

Hey peoples
A couple of things to mention here, because I am a Aussie licensed electrican.  I am not trying to be a kill joy but I thought it important that you know

First please be very carefull when playing with electricity.  It hurts, a lot.  Too often it kills.  Make sure that you isolate all the relevant circuits before working on them.  If in doubt call an electrican

Secondly if you install some electrical bits that dont meet the relevant Australian Standards into your house and that causes a fire, and burn the house down.  Your insurance company will try really hard to use that as an excuss to not payout.  They usually win those fight because you now have no house and therefor no money and they have very big buckets of it.

So please think very carefully before using equipment that dosent meet the relevant australian standards, especially when it comes to electricity.  Sorry for the killjoy thing but I would hate to hear that someone
has go hurt

cheers
chipppy

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Users / Re: Hybrid minimum requirments

« on: November 07, 2008, 12:01:14 pm »

Thanks for the great reply.

One question though.  Why so much processor power.  I can run movies through my pressent 1.8GHz chip.  Why step it up to dual 2.5GHz chipsets?

Just wondering

Cheers
Chipppy