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	Karel Jansens	2008-09-04 , 15:24
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Originally Posted by tso

heh, i recently toyed with the idea of using a beagleboard to build some kind of voip video phone that one could hook up to a normal tv without knowing much about computers.

My plan (more like "dream" at this point, what with all the delays and other trouble) was to have a small, low power, always on client pc (originally a Linutop, but I'm inclining toward a Beagle) in every major room (like kitchen, livingroom and bedrooms) attached to either a bigscreen tv or big computer monitors.

The central server would basically be a beefed-up NAS (with RAID! I just lost 250 GB of material to a collapsed disc), as the client pcs could take care of basic stuff like Internet access and productivity apps.

If I ever get to Thailand, I'll be sure to document the setup and how it turns out.

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