You could get something like this:<br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260022">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260022</a><br><br>I thought Viewsonic had a device like this a few years ago, but I can't seem to find out anything about it. Not sure how good "KWorld" is, but it might be worth looking into.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a pair of 17" LCD monitors with no specific use as they've been<br>
replaced by a single widescreen monitor. The monitors support VGA and<br>
DVI inputs (no HDCP though). I was thinking that they are a good size<br>
for a bedroom TV. The most obvious (to me anyway) way to use them as a<br>
TV would be to hook up a small computer with a TV tuner card. I could<br>
even put a DVD drive in the machine and have a DVD player too. But, i'd<br>
rather not have so much hardware hanging off of them. Any ideas for a<br>
better way to go about this?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
And speaking of old hardware, it is my sad duty to report that the<br>
computer-in-a-box that i once brought to a CIALUG meeting many moons<br>
ago has been taken out of service. The machine still works, is still<br>
silent[*], and is still in the cardboard box. The box originally held<br>
analog audio tapes from Drake's Educational Media Department, a<br>
department that hasn't even existed for several years. The computer was<br>
built with cast-off parts from the University of Minnesota Law School,<br>
from when i worked there in the summer of 1998. The computer is an AMD<br>
486-133MHz (yes, a 133 MHz 486!) with 24 MB RAM, a pair of 3com 3c509b<br>
ethernet cards, no hard disk, and runs entirely from a floppy. Since<br>
the floppy drive sits directly atop the motherboard, it is loosely<br>
encased in an anti-static bag.<br>
<br>
If anyone is interested in the machine, let me know. It does just fine<br>
at routing a 10 Mbit connection, the only problem with it being that<br>
the CMOS battery has long since departed this Earth and so on power<br>
failure the machine needs to be retold what millennium it is and that<br>
it has a floppy drive. Also, i discarded the outer case for the power<br>
supply (to make sure heat could still rise out of it after the cooling<br>
fan was disabled to make it silent), so don't touch the high voltage<br>
circuits when it is plugged in.<br>
<br>
It runs Coyote Linux. Since it doesn't run any services, it has seemed<br>
reasonably secure despite running very old and outdated software. I<br>
don't remember what kernel it has, whether it is a 2.0 or a 2.2 series,<br>
but it is something old enough to be small enough to fit on a floppy<br>
and still have space for some admin utilities.<br>
<br>
The 486 has now been replaced with a machine that is smaller, faster,<br>
and cheaper (as in it uses less electricity) running OpenBSD from an<br>
industrial flash-based storage device.<br>
<br>
[*] Silent except for a *very* faint and very high-pitched whine that<br>
i suspect comes from some component in the power supply. It is so<br>
high-pitched that i could hear it when i got the machine, but now<br>
enough years have passed that i cannot.<br>
<br>
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Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University<br>
Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tim<br><br><br>