I have been thinking about taking on a little "ongoing project" and I'm looking for opinions as to if this is a worthwhile idea to spend my time on.
My past is as a MCSE senior IT consultant. One of my specialties was the large scale automation of pc rollout's to corporate size clients including automated O/S deployment. I'm speaking of hands off don't have to do a thing Windows, drivers, codecs, applications, security settings, desktop perferences. Anything you can think of I can script or use deployment tools and old school tricks to get done to where building a new HTPC would take every newbie absolutely no effort at all. Not even a keystroke.
I could maintain a web site with the current "bang for the buck" HTPC power system approved parts that the automation would work for and keep it updated. Also maintaining a list of where the parts are available and the latest sales or whatever as I find them or as they are posted to the web site by others.
I could give all my scripting away free, not sell any parts, not ask for anything up front and just hope for donations from satisfied users to cover time and expenses of the endevour.
Would this be against forum rules to post about here?
Would this have a chance of getting enough donations to even break even?
How many would be interested at this time?
Any other suggestions?
mce2005 and one for vista ultimate? With Mymovies all set up and codecs just perfect and already set to not have stupid problems like stutter and so forth and so on? All set up for every file format, hd-dvd, blueray, with all the bugs already worked out. I can do everything but input your zip code and if you have cable or etc for EPG guide data. All without breaking any laws for distributing any software or codecs illegally but only scripting their download / or install?
What would you all want from something like this if you are interested?
Troy
My past is as a MCSE senior IT consultant. One of my specialties was the large scale automation of pc rollout's to corporate size clients including automated O/S deployment. I'm speaking of hands off don't have to do a thing Windows, drivers, codecs, applications, security settings, desktop perferences. Anything you can think of I can script or use deployment tools and old school tricks to get done to where building a new HTPC would take every newbie absolutely no effort at all. Not even a keystroke.
I could maintain a web site with the current "bang for the buck" HTPC power system approved parts that the automation would work for and keep it updated. Also maintaining a list of where the parts are available and the latest sales or whatever as I find them or as they are posted to the web site by others.
I could give all my scripting away free, not sell any parts, not ask for anything up front and just hope for donations from satisfied users to cover time and expenses of the endevour.
Would this be against forum rules to post about here?
Would this have a chance of getting enough donations to even break even?
How many would be interested at this time?
Any other suggestions?
mce2005 and one for vista ultimate? With Mymovies all set up and codecs just perfect and already set to not have stupid problems like stutter and so forth and so on? All set up for every file format, hd-dvd, blueray, with all the bugs already worked out. I can do everything but input your zip code and if you have cable or etc for EPG guide data. All without breaking any laws for distributing any software or codecs illegally but only scripting their download / or install?
What would you all want from something like this if you are interested?
Troy