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[David Peeters]

If noise is the problem, go to
www.silentpcreview.com<http://www.silentpcreview.com>they have lots of
information on quieting a loud case.

 On 10/21/05, Mercury Morris <mercury.morris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/05, michel moalem <mmoalem at mail2producer.com> wrote:
> >
> > hi there all
> > i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for
> > the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready.
> > However before i will start takling the problems i encountered running some
> > of the options i would like to know if there is a way if running the mythtv
> > box (either under this distro or another) so that it boots much quicker. I
> > have tried GeeXBox as well and while it is short on many features compare to
> > mythtv it is booting extremly quickly once installed on the HD (well quick
> > enogh for my wife not to nag me about getting a dvd player instead...)
> > so please any advice?
> > cheers
> > michel
> >
>
> Others have suggested that you leave your system on all the time, and
> that's what I did as soon as I got the system up and running in daily
> recording.
>
> But it didn't take long to find that the noise of the computer bothered me
> when I read the paper, listened to the radio, and stuff like that. So, I
> installed nvram-wakeup. Once you have your MythTV system running more or
> less like the VCRs do (come on when it's time to record, record, then shut
> off), it's quite easy to specify how long in advance you want the machine to
> power on.
>
> I have mine set to three (3) minutes, but it could be set to anything (I
> think).
> So, if you know that you want to use your MythTV system around say, 5pm,
> you could set the various parameters and have the system power/boot up
> well in advance. When you sat down at 5pm, the machine would be up and
> running, waiting for whatever pleasure you have in mind.
>
> --
> MM
>
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