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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:50:06 -0800 From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Radio Cards, Radio Shack Dan Martinez wrote: > What You Really Want (tm) is a separate radio/stereo that can be > controlled by your computer. Serial or USB would be good. Ethernet > would be better. Sean Perry showed me a little usb radio antenna the other day. It looks just like an antenna, but it actually has the tuner built in too. Linux supports it in 2.4 kernels I think. Rather snazzy, and makes me wish my desktop box had usb.. === Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:05:19 -0800 (PST) From: Aaron T Porter <atporter@primate.net> To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Cc: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Radio Cards, Radio Shack On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Sean Perry showed me a little usb radio antenna the other day. It looks > just like an antenna, but it actually has the tuner built in too. Linux > supports it in 2.4 kernels I think. Rather snazzy, and makes me wish my > desktop box had usb.. I think D-Link makes these. They do look neat. I don't know about anyone else, but for me it's rather useless. All of my favorite stations now broadcast in either MP3 or Real anyway (add to that the fact that my zip code starts with a 9 and all my favorite stations have call signs starting with a W...). === Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:00:11 -0800 From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> To: Rafael <raffi@linwin.com> Cc: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>, svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Radio Cards, Radio Shack --UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:22:29AM -0800, Rafael wrote: > At least one model of Haupauge radio/TV card for example works fine with > 233 MHz Pentium PC, running Linux of course. The card comes with remote > control (silly idea?) Not at all. I use LIRC to execute shell commands when I press buttons on my Hauppage remote control. This means that I can lie in bed and have complete control over XMMS, including volume, stop/play/pause, and prev/next track. I set up some buttons to cycle virtual desktops, and another to lock the screen. If I wanted to, I could also set up the pointing device as a remote control. It's quite cool; it makes my computer an ultimate stereo system. ===