[ale] OT: media box

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Sun Nov 29 10:23:06 EST 2015


I built a new system using a microatx board and a 2.5" SSD drive.  I 
haven't deployed it yet because it keeps crashing.  It takes a few days, 
maybe a week to die.  I can't see anything in the logs but that's not 
unusual.  Does anyone have any pointers as how to trap the problem?  I'm 
guessing it's a kernel crash.  It's running stock Debian 8, 64 bit, 
kernel 2.6.32.

CPU is a 4 core, Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  J1900  @ 1.99GHz with 4 Gb 
memory.  I'm running memtest now.

Thanks,
Jim.

On 11/25/2015 10:03 AM, Preston wrote:
> It's hard to beat Kodi on a Raspberry Pi II. May not be exactly what
> you're looking for, but look on YouTube for some vids. I'm close to
> replacing my Patriot Box Office with one for my movie room.
>
> Preston
>
> On 11/25/2015 8:24 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> We have discuss did in he past but lets go one more time. What would you
>> get for media box at home? I had different dedicated media players and
>> now I have windows PC which is no longer capable with running my kids
>> games :) While the E8400 CPU is capable of running 1080p content and the
>> box itself is relatively low noise for a desktop, still the box is huge
>> and power consumption is also factor.
>>
>> So I'm thinking of going green of sort.
>>
>> I have one multimedia android 4.0.4 box which has Ethernet and WiFi.
>> WiFi sucks big time and cannot hold connection. Also some apps works
>> fine some does not when playing multimedia content.
>>
>> Idea is to get one of very small factor PC. I was looking at Zotac mini
>> PC forms.
>>
>> Which one would you pick. Brand, form factor, CPU/GPU, even running OS ?
>>
>>
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