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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

My 1998 computer came armed with 32MB of RAM  and 4 GB of hard drive.

It was the mutts nuts.

[TheBoy]

My 1998 computer came armed with 32MB of RAM  and 4 GB of hard drive.

It was the mutts nuts.

Not really enough memory to run MS's premier desktop of the time, NT4 Workstation. 64Mb was the norm in "proper" computers then...

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

My 1998 computer came armed with 32MB of RAM  and 4 GB of hard drive.

It was the mutts nuts.

Not really enough memory to run MS's premier desktop of the time, NT4 Workstation. 64Mb was the norm in "proper" computers then...

If memory serves the 'graphics' were a bit shaky.

[TheBoy]

I remember my first 32MB SIMM I bought, £400 cash, dirt cheap (well under half price), because, errr, well, uhmmm, I think the previous owner "borrowed" it from work...

[TheBoy]

And now were slapping in 18 x 32Gb DIMMs (512Gb RAM) in most blades.

[aaronjb]

aaronjb, you mention vc-1, but there is also a MPEG2 licence to do MPEG2 in hardware.

Oops, I think I meant MPEG4.. Definitely MPEG something, and to be fair I only have a couple of those.. most stuff now is H264 which is fine in hardware (or VC1 or MPEG2 for SD stuff). The bug with TVHeadend annoyed me the most, I think.. that and the slowness of the GUI.

[Vamps]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

The abacus was 'state of the art' technology when Lizzie was a girl.

[Vamps]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

The abacus was 'state of the art' technology when Lizzie was a girl.

Couldn't do £sd though........

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

The abacus was 'state of the art' technology when Lizzie was a girl.

Couldn't do £sd though........

Certainly £sd in my day, Mr Vamps.

I'm guessing that the groat was still legal tender in your day.

[Vamps]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

The abacus was 'state of the art' technology when Lizzie was a girl.

Couldn't do £sd though........

Certainly £sd in my day, Mr Vamps.

I'm guessing that the groat was still legal tender in your day.

No need, I simply traded my body for food...........

[Rods2]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

The abacus was 'state of the art' technology when Lizzie was a girl.

Couldn't do £sd though........

Certainly £sd in my day, Mr Vamps.

I'm guessing that the groat was still legal tender in your day.

We know Groats mean nothing to you, where your dovecote is full of gold Doubloons. 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Ah, you need to pop around to mine once I have finished networking the entire house with Cisco switches, network drives/printers, raspberry pi based media centres (kitchen & bathroom) and consoles

My passport drive follows me around when I am mobile and syncs with the network drive when I get home 

Oh dear Guffer, it is like reading a foreign language for me.  Now I know I am primitive. I hope I can one day come back as a five year old to master computer technology - well five year old's have far more of a grasp on it than I ever will / have to!

You and me both Lizzie.

Me too........I hardly ever dare ask a computer question because I will not understand the answer, just like I didn't understand the advice given to you LZ......

The abacus was 'state of the art' technology when Lizzie was a girl.

Now you are not joking Opti!   When I was a small girl it was a case of brain power; reciting times tables until you knew them backwards, and using an abacus for adding up, or taking away in units, tens, hundreds and thousands!  It was not until 1971 that I bought my first electronic Vatman calculator, that I still have, for about £12.  What an advance at the time in the pre-desktop computer age, when banks like Barclay's had (in 1969) just six IBM360's in their main clearing centre in St Swithin's Lane, London!

My A40 also had no computers, nor a radio!!

[Taxi_Driver]

I remember my first 32MB SIMM I bought, £400 cash, dirt cheap (well under half price), because, errr, well, uhmmm, I think the previous owner "borrowed" it from work...

That was cheap, altho maybe after the time i was dealing in 'used' simms.
1MB simms i sold at about £70 ea (used to run an ad in the local rag 1MB simms bought for £50) and had a simm tester just to make sure they wernt fried! Used to sell them all to a pc dealer. I still remember the time the dealer paid me 4k in cash for a particular batch (It was all in fivers lol)

[I_want_an_Omega]

Guffer, what are you going to be using on the RPi's? I trialled one in the bedroom with XBMC on but in the end got fed up of the lack of codec support (I have some stuff that is native MPEG2 so while the RPi supports VC-1 etc with additional codec licenses there was still a significant amount of stuff it b0rked at) and bugs (no HD streaming from the TVHeadend box, for example) and replaced it with a near silent mini PC the same as I have downstairs.. but I'd still like to use the RPi's somewhere for music rather than video (say in the garage, bathroom & kitchen)..

XMBC too, I know about the codec limitations but there are packs you can get which help.  I have been preparing my media collection in to the compatible formats for the last year anyway

I was running XBMC on my Pi, also tried Plex on it, both work but very clunky & slow.

I recently bought a NowTV box for £9.99

https://shop.nowtv.com/

It's basically a Roku box, but WiFi only and a restricted apps (easily got around) for £9.99 including HDMI cable it's a bargin. Sky must be selling these at a loss, so can't see them doing these long term.

I put mine in developer mode and installed Plex on it, now links to my PC for all my Media needs. Works very well, much faster than Pi. Also NowTV box has BBC iPlayer, C5 on Demand, Sky News, Radio, Spotify ect.

NowTV for Movies works quite well too, good stream quality and works well.

Planning on getting another, as this one will go hopefully in my new front room with big tv in a "minimal" tech setup of just TV and that box.

I've just ordered one of these - could you point me in the right direction to do this please when it arrives. I'm assuming that I'd never activate it with Sky at all to do this?

Thanks - Rob