Casper
Casper is our only non-portable computer. We use it for backing up our laptops, serving this website and, whenever I get around to setting it up, serving as our e-mail server. Casper is so named because if its really cool transparent case.
MythTV
Now that we're getting tired of the crappy PVR that the cable company has provided, we've decided to make Casper into a PVR (Personal Video Recorder), aka: a Tivo-clone.
software
Casper runs a fairly normal Debin GNU/Linux setup using the "sarge" (technically, "testing") distribution. This includes Apache2, Exim4 and courier-imap. It also has a few packages from unstable, namely openswan.
Hardware
| Processor: | AMD Athlon MP 2800+ Barton Core 512KB L2 |
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| Motherboard: | Abit KD7A Socket A DDR400 |
| RAM: | 512MB PC3200 DDR400 with copper heatsink |
| Video: | Gigabyte nVideo MX4000 with S-Video TV Out 128MB DDR Video RAM |
| Capture: | Brooktree Corporation Bt848 |
| Sound: | AC97 Compatible with 6.1 channels & SPDIF output |
| Hard Disk: | 180GB ATA133 |
| Ethernet: | onboard VIA-Rhine 10/100Mb |
| Wireless: | Xterasys 802.11g PCI Card (Prism54 chipset) |
| Case: | Transparent Full-Tower with two blue neon lights |
| Cooling: | Spirecoolers WhisperRock IV with Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound |
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