digital-hoax
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Posted: Dec. 19 2006,20:47 |
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Hello,
I'm new to the forum and don't know wether this is the right place, i appologise if it is not.
I am trying to set up an old laptop to work as a "picture frame" like the ones Philips are selling.
The requirements are the following:
1) No input needed at all - boot up to an OS (DSL) without user interaction and
2) Display pictures (probably from a screensaver) from a local folder that is accessible over the internet so I can add new pictures. Alternatively it could connect to a ftp or http server and display pictures from a certain directory.
3) Shutdown in the afternoon every day and boot up in the morning to save energy. It does come with a BIOS that is capable of booting at predefined times every day, so it basically has to shutdown at a certain time, probably only needs the right command to do this, I hope you can help me out on this one easily.
The purpose is to set up the laptop in a case-mod for my parents, and me and my brother want to be able to somehow display pictures we have taken. So we either want to connect to DSL via ssh or DSL has to load the pictures it displays from an internet source that we can change the pictures on. The laptop will have constant access to the internet of course. We don't yet know wether it will have a hdd, so another question would be how to create a boot-image of dsl with all the settings needed to work as described above.
I thank you in advance
Lennert
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