My Hardware

Are you wondering what kind of hardware I am using? Yes, so here is the full list of all the hardware I use with links to their manufacturers' web sites. You will see nothing extraordinary here but just one or two nice devices. My Pentium 4 is my main system and the other is mostly used for application and networking tests. I use the Windows XP's Remote Desktop Connection on my laptop to remotely take control of my main system over my wireless (Wi-Fi) network.

My development system with Samsung 21.3" LCD, Natural keyboard, Fingerprint reader and Siemens phone

My Development System

Giga-Byte GZ-XX1CA-SNS "Triton" (Silver) Box
Giga-Byte GA-P35-DQ6 motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz processor
ASUS Silent Square cooler
Artic Silver 5 thermal compound
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
2 * Crucial Ballistix 1GB PC8500 DDR2-SDRAM memory
2 * Western Digital Caviar SE16 320 GB SATA2 hard-drives
2 * RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-168SK-B trayless SATA2 mobile racks
2 * ASUS DRW-1814BLT SATA DVD-recorders
Scythe Kama Bay SCKB-1000BK 5" Bay System Cooler (device cooling, bezel hidden)
Sapphire X1950XT 512MB GDDR3 Dual-DVI (VIVO) PCIe graphic card
LiteOn Hybrid (DVB-T/Analog) dual TV tuner card (prototype from Microsoft MCE group)
Lian-Li CR-33 (Silver) 50-in-1 USB 2.0 card reader
Samsung SyncMaster 213T Monitor
Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver
Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision
Celestron NexImage
Plantronics .Audio 60 headset
Microsoft Natural MultiMedia PS/2 keyboard
Microsoft IntelliEye Explorer USB
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader USB
Wacom Graphire 3 Classic USB

Hewlett-Packard Scanjet 7400C Flatbed Scanner
Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4000 Laser Printer
Neuf Box 4 Internet Access Device
US-Robotics Courier V.Everything V.90 & x2 faxmodem
APC Smart-UPS 1000 Uninterruptible Power Supply

My Laptop

Dell Inspiron 8200
Intel Pentium 4 Mobile 1.8 GHz processor with 512 MB RDRAM
IBM 15" UGA TFT screen
Hitachi 40 GB hard-drive
HL-DT-ST CD-RW / DVD GCC-4240N combo-drive
Texas Instrument IEEE1394 host controller
Actiontec MD56ORD V.92 MDC modem
nVidia GeForce4 440 Go display adapter
3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet controller
2nd internal battery

Sony CMR-PC3 USB color camera
Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Notebook Adapter with SpeedBooster

The Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop.

My HP Laserjet 4000 Laser Printer.

My Test System

Giga-Byte GZ-XX1CA-SNS "Triton" (Silver) Box
Giga-Byte GA-P35-DQ6 motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.6GHz processor
ASUS Silent Square cooler
Artic Silver 5 thermal compound
2 * Crucial Tracer 1GB PC6400 DDR2-SDRAM memory
2 * Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 80GB SATA hard-drives
2 * RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-168SK-B trayless SATA2 mobile racks
2 * Plextor PX-712SA SATA DVD-recorders
Scythe Kama Bay SCKB-1000BK 5" Bay System Cooler (device cooling, bezel hidden)
Giga-Byte GV-RX60X128V graphic card (based on ATI Radeon X600)
Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000
Hauppauge WinTV PVR150 Personal Video Recorder
Samsung SyncMaster 191T Monitor
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro PS2 w/ USB hub
Microsoft IntelliEye Explorer USB

Audio/Visual Devices

Canon MVX4i miniDV camcorder
Nikon D70 Digital Camera with Nikkor 18-70mm + Hama UV HMCT filter + Nikon SB-600 speedlight
Siemens Gigaset 3035 telephone + Gigaset 3000 comfort handset

Celestron C6N Advanced GT telescope

Echostar DVR-7000 HDD Viaccess DVB-S receiver w/ Triax 4-LNB unique dish
Sagem PVR 6280T DVB-T receiver
Samsung SV-DVD640 VCR and DVD player
Sony KV-28FX60B Trinitron Widescreen Television
Technics ST-X930/RS-X911/SU-X911 stereo

Technysound TSX5 audio mixer*

*Connections

the A/V outputs of the DVR-7000, the PVR6280T and the SV-DVD640 devices are plugged to a 3-to-1 A/V switch.
the video output of the switch is linked to the video input of my GV-RX60X128V graphic card.
the audio output of the switch is connected to the audio mixer.
the FM tuner and the outputs of the soundcards of both my computers are also linked to the audio mixer.
the master output of the mixer is connected to the AUX input of the amplifier of my stereo
the recording output of the mixer is connected to the audio input of the sound card of my main PC.