Hello
   Since someone else has already brought up the option of utilizing other
OSs and since Linux as well as Mac and Windows have decent software
available I'd like to point out that the magazine (and website) called
"CPU - ComputerPowerUser" has a truly excellent special edition
magazine totally devoted to building some 50 different job-specific
computers.  There are meida servers, entertainment centers, basic file
servers, complete TIVO style systems, music recording, video conversion,
ACAD machines, etc etc etc.  If you can't find this issue at your local
grocery store or other news stand and unless you are aware that CPU puts
out magazines under other subtitles, in this case - SmartComputing, you
might have a difficult time, just go to http://www.computerpoweruser.com to
view the entire copllection of truly excellent engineering and hobbyist
publications or go directly to this issue by clicking on the below quoted
tinyurl.

http://tinyurl.com/av3mu

This magazine and their offshoots enjoys some of the topmost respected
writers in the field of computing for example anand of www.anandtech.com
tech and hardware review site and is not, I repeat NOT windows centric or
any OS centric for that matter.  They seem more concerned with getting the
job done right or with options than with merely acting as if no other OpSys
exists.  They are not heavy into OS/2 but they do mention it and don't act
as if it is a pariah and in fact give it the respect it deserves.  This
particular issue is a keeper as it will be useful for years since it is
about getting a job done with off-the-shelf materials not necessarily the
latest and greatest.  It is also not a paint-by-numbers format.  They
explain the fundamentals behind each system so that you can extrapolate and
customize.  Check it out.

Jimmy


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> Just how much of a genius/guru/geek do you have to be to set up to
> "tape" a TV movie on your computer hard drive?  (And put it from there
> onto tape or DVD)  I'm not interested in watching TV on the computer or
> any of that, just temporary storage and subsequent minimal (commercials)
> editing.
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> Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2
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