RE: To HomeVision or not to HomeVision

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Saves me asking you whether you still want that spare P133 motherboard of
mine....

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doogie Brodie [mailto:doogiebrodie@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 January 2001 15:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] To HomeVision or not to HomeVision
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> >But there's the small matter of having a spare PC to
> dedicate to it :-)
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> Until a couple of days ago, I only had one PC (an old 233MMX)
> .... it ran
> HomeSeer 24/7 and was used for email (mine and SWMBO's), web
> browsing, word
> processing etc, playing games (Sims and Grand Theft Auto -
> about all it can
> manage!) Unfortunately whenever it was thinking hard about
> email or a game,
> HomeSeer would take ages to switch lights on.
>
> Now, that I liberated some old PCs from work, I have a P75
> sitting in the
> corner with 16MB of RAM which runs Win 95 and Homeseer just
> great, with only
> X10 related delays. (I didn't install MS Agent in this one, partly for
> speed, partly because no sound card!)
>
> So as long as you're not maxing your processor, you don't
> _NEED_ a dedicated
> PC ;->
>
> (This is half in answer to Mark H's email that came afterwards!)
>
> (You should see the fun the MS Agent Genie has trying to pop
> up and announce
> something while in the middle of Sims... it takes about 5
> minutes to get
> through a 5 second speech!)
>
> Cheers...
>
> Doogie
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