Re: [slim] I am leaving Logitech!
Kyle wrote: > I wonder if Sean has ever considered reacquiring his old company, as > Michael Dell is trying to do on a much larger scale? Would Logitech > sell back to the original owners and allow them to take up where they > left off? I had the same thought. Dell succeeded. I wonder if Sean is even interested. Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63759 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which Web Browser do you use
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56180 Question: Which Browser do you use? - Firefox 2.x - Firefox 3.x - Internet Explorer 6.x - Internet Explorer 7.x - AOL Browser - Opera (any version) - Safari (any version) - Google Chrome (BETA) - Internet Explorer 8 (BETA) - Other bobkoure;370346 Wrote: > I'm -assuming- all Firefox users know about NoScript(?) Nope. Care to elaborate? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56180 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
I think the problem with the client side software is the ajax/java stuff. I'm guessing some web browsers don't implement it very efficiently. I commented on the same thing in the beta period. I'm told IE is the worst, and some other browsers handle things better. To compare and contrast, switch for a bit to the "classic" skin. It's plain and ordinary, but fast. So it's not likely the server side that's slowing things down, meaning it's probably the client side. It's an imcomplete answer, to be sure, because the ajax/java stuff in the default skin could be asking so much that it's overloading the server, but it's a comparison point. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
bobkoure;332614 Wrote: > A lot of this stuff seems to be forgotten now that we're running > machines that make Z80 and 8088 based systems look less than pitiful... Thank god I'm not the only older person on the forum today. I remember Z80s like they were only yesterday. Somewhere in a box I think I still have one In any case, back on topic, I'd like to reinforce the suggestion someone else made further back. Switch to the classic skin from the default one. On my machine, no slouch (1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, W2K, IE6), it made all the difference in the world. I was told something about IE6 and the default skin don't play well together. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
Dingostrategy;332608 Wrote: > even purchasing a new SB3 involved a trip to the distributers home, > chai, phone calls, delivery on a bicycle. And I thought the distribution channels in Canada were slow and tedious :D -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
simbo;332594 Wrote: > That's weird. When I type this into Babelfish it says "We're keeping the > ones we've been sent for ourselves. You're gonna have to wait." lol! I knew there was a reason I never trusted Babelfish. Never get the same result twice. When I typed it into Babelfish, it said "Poisson d'Avril!" -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
Well, the intent is the same, but no, a closer translation would be "this product is, at the moment, not shippable from this e-shop" Which is effectively what it was saying yesterday when it told me the list of places it could ship it to was null, just a little more explicit. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
Yes, guys, I knew it was Dutch. That's why I said I speak German, but I can puzzle this out. If it was German, I wouldn't have put the disclaimer in. If you speak English, French & German (I do), then you can puzzle out most Dutch words by recognizing their roots. I don't get the grammar worth a damn, and it's harder to understand the spoken words for me, but even that I can do at times. In any case, the important point, which seems to have been missed, is that the list of places you can have it shipped to is null. So I don't think you could actually buy it. It happily let me order it, even though I live in Canada, but I'm sure this would have failed somehow in checkout. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
I speak a bit of German, so I can guess at what the following means. When you click on "where can I have this product sent to", it says Dit toestel is beschikbaar in volgende winkels en kan aan huis geleverd worden vanaf Donderdag 28/08/2008 followed by an empty list of places where it can be delivered to. I think it says This item can be sent to the following areas and can be delivered to your house after Thursday, August 28th. I tried putting it in my cart and it did it, and charged me 4.9 Euros shipping. I'm sure it won't want to send me one in Kanada, not for that price. :D So it seems pretty confused, and I'm guessing you can't really order this thing, whatever it is. By the way, it's listed in the loudspeakers category ... > Keeping a lid on this is turning out to be harder than putting a > Champagne cork back in the bottle!! With the proper tools, you can put a champagne cork back in the bottle. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
If it's a **really** old alarm clock, you know, steel with bells, you could melt it. At current steel prices, it's value as scrap is probably higher than its utility value. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
Ben Sandee;332336 Wrote: > But the streaming media division (formerly SlimDevices) is still based > in CA and is arguably 'american' in mindset. Perhaps. Personally, I find that, while Slim was very american in some ways (mostly the good ways), I've stuck with them because they're very unamerican in other ways. Good ways that they are american: * entrepreneurship: company was started more or less in a garage with a wire-wrapped prototype (the sliMP3). Good ways that they are not american: * open source * open box - they always snap pictures and post them, showing us what's inside the box so we don't have to disassemble them - although I did disassemble my SB1s and SB3s - haven't opened up a Duet receiver yet. * open forums, open to suggestions about improvements * sense of humour - announcements that turn out to be april fools jokes. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
gurgel2;332308 Wrote: > imho this is such an american set of mind.. waste energy and materials > having to have tons of devices for every single purpose. KEEP UP THE > CONSUMPTION AND WASTE OTHERWISE THE EARTH WONT PERISH. Shame on you > logitech. While it's fun to bash americans (I know I've done it too), Logitech is not american. Your humble opinion still needs some humility. You should have done some research first. > Founded > 1981 — Apples, Switzerland > > Executives > Guerrino De Luca > Chairman of the Board > > Gerald P. Quindlen > President and Chief Executive Officer > From: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/about/&cl=ca,en -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
Howard Passman;330560 Wrote: > I like to use "Good Morning" by the Beatles. The rooster never fails > me. > > Howard That's a good choice. I've used it a few times too. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Squeezebox Boom?
simbo;327089 Wrote: > I believe at last we have an SD product that could -genuinely- be sold > at PC World (or Best Buy, whatever) without any niggling guilt of > having sold something beyond the buyer's technical capability. Funny you should mention that. Today I opened the tigerdirect catalogue that came in the mail, and you can now buy a Duet from tigerdirect, in store or online. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Du-vorce sales
The product launch announcement, back in January, indicated that you could do this. I understand a short delay while they fulfill orders for complete Duets, but it's been a while now. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/172/4180&countryid=19&languageid=1 -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47028 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Should crossfading work with synchronised players?
The posting I made 2006-01-26, 18:00 is still, I believe, technically correct. Cross-fading synched players requires a different synch method, which in turn requires (or so they said back then) a different network time base. I don't believe I saw network time base in the feature list for 7, and it's a complex addition to the protocol, not something they could just toss in casually. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20369 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moderating the forums
Experience shows that, as the audience grows, you're going to have to contend with a more diverse audience, some of whom have less than stellar motivations. As a result, you're going to have to put up with trolls and flamebait. It might be wise to come up with a strategy now, ahead of the next incident. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43454 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
There are already forum sections in French, Spanish and German. I'm sure a dutch one could also be added if there was enough interest. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moderating the forums
Kurt;270502 Wrote: > With these rules in place the Audiophile forum will be shutdown in about > 20 minutes. This goes a long distance towards explaining why I stopped reading it eons ago. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43454 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
I've participated in another beta test situation, many years ago, and it was quite different and secretive. I find the Slim openness quite refreshing. For Betas that don't require special hardware, basically anyone can participate. If you don't have the skills, you probably shouldn't, but no one stops you from contributing, to the level that you are able. Personally, I find this a good thing. I'm not doing a whole lot of participating at the moment, because of family illness and change-of-work pressure, and yet there's no one hounding me and saying I'm not living up to my responsibilities as a beta tester. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
They don't call it the bleeding edge for nuthin' :-) -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
dean blackketter;263820 Wrote: > An earlier design used a 6.8v power supply, and there were some > prototypes made that used that voltage. > > The final design uses 9V. > > -dean > Dean: Does that relate to the peak-to-peak voltage out? I seem to recall you saying a while ago that the SB3s could use a high voltage rail from the display, but the display-less receiver couldn't do that. Interestingly enough, the sticker on my receiver says 9Vt, but the wall wart is a 6.8 Vt. Is this going to work (I haven't even plugged it in yet!). -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
I'm not sure where the idea came from that it is a 9Vt power supply. Mine says 6.8Vt on it. Hmm...the specs say 9Vt, 550ma min, but I got a 6.8V, 500ma supply. Maybe someone shipped me the wrong thing -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
I'm not a big user of the RF blaster (no user at all of the feature, actually), but I do use the headphone jack a lot. If there's no jack for the RF blaster, there's no jack for the headphones either. Now, to me at least, that does seem like a substantial change from the SB3. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
WndrMke;262815 Wrote: > Slimserver 6.5.4 running on a ReadyNAS NV, [...] If I buy the SB Duet > and plug the receiver into my router will that allow the SB Controller > to interface with the SB's? There are 2 parts to this answer: 1. the SB receiver can set up a local ad-hoc network for the controller to run on. So can either of the SB3s. You might chose one or the other, depending on where you are most often going to use the controller and where the various SBs are. 2. the Duet requires Slimserver 7. Can the ReadyNAS run 7? I don't know the answer. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
Michael Herger;262361 Wrote: > Every phone features a browser nowadays. There seems to be a use case. > I'm using it all the time. My blackberry has a browser. It seems to be the next best thing to useless. The controller screen is of about the same size (I didn't put them side by side yet). I can't imagine, except for very specific purposes, web sites designed for display on the controller, etc, it would be worth much (certainly not if any effort was involved in writing the browser). Perhaps there's one we can port without too much trouble -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
Michael Herger;254883 Wrote: > That said we would be very happy if somebody was able to implement a web > browser for it :-). > Michael On that little screen? What's the point? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is / can Slimserver use iNotify?
I'm so sorry. I seem to have posted in entirely the wrong thread. I'm not sure where my mind was ... sorry. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is / can Slimserver use iNotify?
I wouldn't be quick to assume the problem can be fixed in a plug-in. It goes quite deep. IIRC, sychronized players are only loosely synchronized. They each fill their own buffers, and play at their own speed (set by the clock crystal or some derivitive thereof). Sychronization code in the server stops them all (or at least lets them run dry) and only restarts them when the slowest one is finished. So the pause between tracks is needed for synchronized play. Any attempt at removing it (cross-fade, gapless play) breaks synchronized play. The solution, back in R6, was expected to come from a network time signal that all players played to. But I don't think that got into 7. Without it, (or the pause between songs) synchronized players would unsynch within a few songs and sound awful. That is my recollection, although it's a year old and it is 6:30AM in my time zone. So it could be wrong. And I've never looked at the 7 code to see if the issues are still the same. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] A satisfying crunch
Don't feed the trolls. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wired Only SB3s?
Jim, I know the used SB2s would be a better choice, but they seem to be scarce on the ground. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38656 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wired Only SB3s?
Hmm...ok, can I disable the radiator? I want to build a pair of SB3s into a case with some other electronics, and don't want the damn things radiating. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38656 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wired Only SB3s?
Hi: Sorry if this has been asked before. I searched unsuccessfully. Is it still possible to buy wired only SB3s? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38656 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
nicketynick;220008 Wrote: > I can't believe (well, I can.) that the bunch of gear-heads that > hang around here, and the chief of them all (Sean), also seem to be a > bunch of dead linguists on the side. In my day (gosh, that makes me sound old), English was part of the curriculum, even for gearheads. It was called a rounded education, back in the day. And proper plurals in English (at least, as it was taught in Canada) involved using the foreign plural forms for foreign words, even though the word was being used in English. So Latin plurals became English plurals for those words descended from Latin. In that sense, Latin isn't dead, because it lives onward (at least parts of it do) in English. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Feature request: more sophisticated xfade
oreillymj;220729 Wrote: > in the current Slimserver model track 2 of a playlist does not start > streaming to the SB until track 1 has finished playing. Sorry, that's incorrect. Or rather, it was correct for SB1s (and probably SLiMP3s) but is not correct for SB2 or above. You can cross-fade up to (10 seconds I think) and it's done in the client, so clearly the server has sent the data. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19735 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
On further research, I was likely wrong to use forae as the plural. It would be fora. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural#Irregular_plurals_from_Latin_and_Greek -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
slimkid;219791 Wrote: > So how would you properly say the following: "I can't live for a day > without this 'forum'", and then " I can't live for a day without > visiting this 'forum'" ? Both are already correct. Both are singular, and forum is the correct singular form. Or else I'm missing your point somehow. > And more importantly, do you say it that way in everyday speach[sic], or > how many poeple[sic] you hear doing it? If you're asking me how I say the plural of forum, I actually say "fora", since I don't know how to pronounce "forae". I only took latin for 1 year and it was 35 years ago. I've forgotten a thing or two. But look at the top of this page. The header is >Slim Devices : Community : Forums > User Forums > General Discussion > > Logitech being absolutely OTT ?! "Forums" is wrong. Sorry. No one says datums, as in "I got the newest datums on sales of new products today". We say "I got the newest data". So why do we say forums? Referendums? How many other people do I hear saying "fora"? Admittedly, not many, more's the pity. Worse, I hear people who are supposed to be our examples, TV announcers, political commentators, saying "referendums" all the time around election time. Yeesh! -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
Forum is a latin word. I was taught in school to use the latin plurals. Ergo the plural of forum is not forums but fora (or in some cases, I don't remember my Latin grammar, forae). Just like the plural of datum is data, the plural of referendum is referenda. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
> Isn't it usual for electronics to be more expensive when you buy them > directly from the manufaturer? > Peter One of the nice things about Slim was that they didn't play that game. No longer, I guess. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
He's just not an EU-ian :D -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
autopilot;219459 Wrote: > "OTT" is quite a common saying here in the UK :) We here in Canada have many phrases that are very british in origin. But that's not one of them. I've heard the expression, but only rarely, so it didn't occur to me. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Interest in developing a low complixity SS
It seems if Slim bundled a sufficiently powerful NAS with the software at a reasonable price, that would solve the non-geek problem. Many people just want an appliance that works. I think even most geeks can appreciate the idea of one server, many clients, one per room. The technology to do all but the price is there now. The price will take care of itself with time. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Interest in developing a low complixity SS
But you've just explained (very well in fact) why it isn't. As soon as you build the server into hardware, you're stuck with the limits of the hardware at the time your unit was built. Worse, with the Audiotron (and probably with most units) you're stuck with the hardware at the time your unit was architected and designed. Which is several years from start of project to working unit. Several years in hardware terms these days is an enormous length of time. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
Oh. I guess we -in the Americas- don't say -over the top- much, so that didn't occur to me. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
I first read it as OOT (out of touch), then realized that's not what it said. OTW would be off the wall. But I have no idea what OTT means. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Interest in developing a low complixity SS
Something I don't think got mentioned in this thread ... many of us owned a fat (or at least fatter than an SB) mp3 player - the Audiotron. While there were many reasons why it failed, it's fatness (and the consequent slowness by the time it got to market) was one of the reasons. By having only the essential parts on the slim client and having the rest on more easily upgradeable server hardware, the slim approach takes advantage of your ability (or at least a geeks desire) to buy a new computer next year and get a faster client as well. It is clear this works less well for non-geeks. But even most of them can replace a laptop with a faster laptop or a desktop with a faster one, move the songs database over and install Slimserver. The parts about making SlimServer more modular are probably worth considering, so that geeks could run Slimserver on gumstix farms or multi-core processors or whatever architecture their heart desired. But that wouldn't be a mass-market feature. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!
vrobin;219286 Wrote: > The silence of slimdevices employees on the question is astonishing... > is this holiday time or does that mean something? Both. This is a traditional North American vacation time. But in addition, one of the things that was most certainly lost when Logitech acquired Slim was the squat management hierarchy. In Slim's time, the guy who set the prices also read these forae. You can be relatively certain that (a) the people who set Logitech prices don't read these forae, and (b) the people who do read and post here are not able to (may in fact be constrained not to) comment on Logitech pricing decisions. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Turtle Radio goes the way of all good things
For those few Audiotron fans left on the planet, you should know that Turtle Radio is being killed off. More info here: http://support.turtlebeach.com/site/kb_ftp/114.asp -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezbox and other new breed of music server solutions
The knob is a great feature. If you doubt that, look at last years april fools announcement. http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press_kronos.html -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezbox and other new breed of music server solutions
Really? I don't have a transporter (too poor), but on my Audiotron and on a VCR I had once that had a knob on the remote, they were the most often used controls on the whole setup. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezbox and other new breed of music server solutions
Oh, no, don't drop the knob! -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezbox and other new breed of music server solutions
That's all well and good, but no one is really in any serious way packaging a one-stop-shopping squeezebox "box". The ones I've seen so far are as expensive as the olive. Is the Olive proprietary? I've never really looked at it. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezbox and other new breed of music server solutions
But the biggest impediment to mass acceptance is the fact that a squeezebox needs a geek. Judging by the olive prices, lack of a geek costs about $700. :-) -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How's this for a small SlimServer?
Thanks. When I lived in Europe, the Euro was only a dream. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How's this for a small SlimServer?
So, Mark, what's 400 Euros in real money these days? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How's this for a small SlimServer?
For those that don't Deutsch sprechen, this says: DT166LX - miniPC2 or Thin Client With this extremely low-power (2-6W), absolutely quiet and light (400g without hard disk, 550 with) pc or thin client, you can do everything, office work, Internet, email, etc. Then there's a bit I don't get the point of. You can even attach it to the back of a monitor. It has a solid Aluminum housing. Supports video resolutions up to 1920x1440 (at 85 Hz)! miniPC: The miniPC runs all Office applications under windows XP, either Home or Professional version. It uses a 2.5" notebook hard drive. Or you can get it with some kind of embedded Windows XP. The embedded XP can run all applications and you never have to turn it off. Applications that do a lot of reading and writing, for instance, Office, don't work so well this way and you should have a normal hard disk (well, duh!) Thin Client: As a thin client, there's no hard disk. The operating system is on a flashROM chip. In this configuration there are no moving parts. This gives you 100% noise free operation and no turnon time. In this configuration it can also boot up Linus (over a network I think). There's a list of linux stuff supplied with the thin client that I'll leave out because thin client won't run Slimserver anyways. Technical stuff. AMD Geode LX-800 (500 MHz), equivalent to Pentium 800 MHz - 1 GHz Notebook hard disk or flashROM No fan or noise. Extremely low power. 4W without HD, 8W with. Windows XP or XPembedded or WinCE 4 x USB 2.0, Stereo in/out, VGA (1920x1440) Realtek Sound (18-bit Fullduplex) ALC203 Realtek Ethernet (100 Mbps) RTL8139DL wide range of input voltages (?): 5,5V-19V gestecktes RAM Modul (DDR) (I think this means socketed) optional WLAN (miniPCI) Size: 13 x 14 x 3,5 cm, only 400-550 Gramm external network part (?) 12 V I'd continue but I have to go to supper now. There are 2 or 3 variations, different processors, slighly different housings, etc. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How's this for a small SlimServer?
We want to run slimserver on a smaller computer. We (or at least I) don't want an iPod. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How's this for a small SlimServer?
mortslim;196482 Wrote: > well, what about just adding an ipod port onto the squeezebox? that way > you cut out the need for a separate computer altogether. Sorry, I don't see how this helps anything. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is there a lawyer in the house?
Michael Herger;194122 Wrote: > (there have been adjudictions confirming this). I think Michael means judgements or rulings. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34366 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How's this for a small SlimServer?
But not available yet. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] V3 now dead
Yeah, the american press made a big deal of that at the time. It wasn't really such an important mistake. But it truly would be an easy mistake to translate "Ich werde ein Hamburger bekommen" as "I would like to become a hamburger". -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32404 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] V3 now dead
No kidding. My favorite is -"I would like to become a hamburger"- -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32404 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for the truth
ModelCitizen;177353 Wrote: > It should be ready for you by then I'd have thought. > MC Good point, ModelCitizen. That should give Micro$oft enough time to blunt the worst of the bleeding edge of it. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32366 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PC + SB3 + Wireless Speakers - possible?
The SB3 has no amplifier (beyond the headphones amp). However, some wireless speakers take the headphone jack and use that. So it may be no amplifier is necessary. I echo the sentiments about wireless speakers. They're low-fi. If that's all you want, great. We run them in one installation. But they hiss and pop and growl as people walk around the room. Luckily, in that setting, it's background noise to the people listening, not music. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32379 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] "I want a Squeezebox boombox"
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17185 Question: Who wants a Squeezebox Boombox? - I'm interested. - No, thanks. By the way, Ur(s)us, this isn't what's usually considered a squeezebox boombox. Most people imagine, in that category, something with a handle you can carry around your house. So, speakers on board, batteries on board, wireless SB3. At least, that's what it means to me. Now that Logitech owns Slim, they likely have the resources to do that. Whether they have the desire is another story. In the past, Slim never pre-announced anything (except on April Fools day). Whether Logitech will change this policy is anyone's guess. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17185 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] "I want a Squeezebox boombox"
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17185 Question: Who wants a Squeezebox Boombox? - I'm interested. - No, thanks. I use an SB3 and powered speakers on my computer desk. Now, they're nice powered speakers, with a subwoofer, not what you'd want in a kitchen, but the sound quality is quite good. FWIW, the SBs can drive the line out and headphone jacks at the same time, so you can drive headphone loads like powered speakers at the same time as a line out without worrying about overloading anything. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17185 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for the truth
I only started using XP recently. On a very small number of computers. That really needed it (laptops). So I think I'll be ready for Vista around 2009 :-) -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32366 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] V3 now dead
"gave up the ghost" is a proper english expression. But thanks. I didn't know the expression existed in German too. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32404 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless adamslim;175040 Wrote: > I do live an a flat, so signal strength should be good. There are > several other wifis nearby though. Not being a brit, I'm not sure of the subtleties of "flat", but I thought that was just an apartment. I live in an apartment. It's 18 stories high, and adjacent to 2 others of about the same size. There's a community college across the street. Between the 3 apartment buildings and the college, there are at least 5 strong wifi zones in the area and another 5 or so that drift in and out on the winds. Not an ideal situation. And yet, apartments where you don't own the walls are exactly what wifi is for, aren't they? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless I'm curious. For those using wireless, are they SB1s, SB2s or SB3s? The reason I ask is, my wireless SB1 has yet to stay connected more than a day or so. Ever. It's kind of a pain for me, a techy. I imagine it would be totally offputting to a newbie. Are others getting better results? Or do people just learn to live with it? If you are getting better results, is it with SB1s, SB2s or SB3s? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless Well, I must say, you could blow me over with these results. More people operate all wirelessly than the other 2 categories, almost a majority on it's own. Woulda never thunk it. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
Our daughter has a curious one-way effect on instant-on televisions. She walks into a room, the TV comes on. The effect is not symettric, though - when she walks out of the room, the TV never goes off again. Drives me absolutely nuts. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
If the point was to generate heat, I'd agree with you. But the point was, we keep these devices on for utility. They "waste" a certain amount of power when on standby. The claim was made that this isn't totally wasted, because it generates heat, so the "waste" is at least partially offset by lowered other heat costs. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
Paul_B;172729 Wrote: > Most electricity isn't nuclear, most power is fossil fuel. This is highly dependent on where you live. Where I live: > Ontario Power Generation operates 64 hydroelectric, 5 fossil and 3 > nuclear stations producing more than 22,000 megawatts of much needed > electricity. > > In 2005, approximately 71% of OPG's electricity production was derived > from hydroelectric and nuclear sources -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless I am probably (in)famous for my anti-wireless rants. None-the-less, I must admit to a small hypocracy. I have 1 wireless unit (I don't own my own walls, I rent). The wireless unit is by far the most unreliable of the squeezeboxes. Ironically, an audio streamer needs better reliability than, say, a wireless laptop computer. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: When does 30 day satisfaction guarantee timeframe start?
Sorry. You were replying to a posting of mine from 2005. I didn't know you had already written them. I didn't see that anywhere. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17513 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: When does 30 day satisfaction guarantee timeframe start?
This is not the support mechanism for Slim Devices, and you can't count on them to see postings or answer here. There's a support email address. Use it. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17513 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Ultimate In-Car System
Beann50;167202 Wrote: > I was more concerned with temperature extremes for the whole setup In NC? You don't have temperature extremes! lol -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Ultimate In-Car System
How did you arrange for the electronics to weather the starter surge? That's usually a bigger electrical noise challenge for power supplies than the running engine noise. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Ultimate In-Car System
I get why you ran the linkstation off an inverter, but why the SB2? Wouldn't a simple 5V (or is it 6V) regulator be simpler? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: what's the buzz?
ModelCitizen;166231 Wrote: > I'm looking forward to composting the tree. Wins the award as the most novel solution to a ground loop so far this year :-) -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gapless mp3 playback when is it going to be fixed??
The SB1s have a totally different hardware architecture at the lowest level, the MP3 decoder is hardware, not software, so likely no such fix is possible on the older hardware. That excludes sliMP3s too. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
So that eliminates me, because the hassles of getting it here are not worth it. But it might open up the option to others, on the Brittanic Isles, or perhaps on the Continent. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
Sometimes these things go better if you say where you are. There's an option in your profile to say your location, but you haven't filled it out. No one can guess where you might be, other than the fact that you bought it in pounds. I guess that means somewhere across the atlantic in the "old world" for me. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Limiting Ethernet speed to 10 Mbps
If they only work at 10Mb, then the SB will happily use them. The SB will use the highest rate it can negotiate. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16981 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stop this Various Artists Madness !
See my note above. There's also a change in how files with both V1 and V2 tags are handled (especially when some info was supplied by one, some by the other). -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28780 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
docbee;148401 Wrote: > since the really great idea of a slimp3 years ago the innovation has not > been at a noticeable high level On the contrary, between the SB1 and the SB2 they completely redid everything inside, going from an MP3 chip they bought off the shelf to something they totally controlled themselves. Hell of a big step for a little company. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
CardinalFang;148379 Wrote: > you're just being insulting. No insult to you, Cardinal, intended. Sorry if it was taken that way. However, there is an insult going on here. The real insult that I see is the insult to the principals in the merger. Most in this thread have assumed that they, who have known about this for 2 days now, know more about the outcome and its inevitability than those who have planned this merger for weeks or months. That, to my eyes, is insulting. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?
Mark Norton;148341 Wrote: > The whole point of this thread is to point out to people working with > Open Source that you are being taken for a ride if you do not receive > commercial recompense for your efforts. That was your point in starting the thread. You're welcome to make your point. And you're welcome to your feelings. Not everyone shares the viewpoint, or the feelings. I share the sentiment of others. This is feeling more and more like a troll. I've just unsubscribed. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?
Michael Herger;148347 Wrote: > I have no car. But a bicycle. Ah, yes, but is it a Porche bicycle? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?
ah, sorry, misunderstood. Yes, PST on goods imported from the US. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?
Mark Lanctot;148275 Wrote: > I love paying TWO taxes on something that wasn't even made in this > country. Why 2? There should have been no US tax. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?
bklaas;148202 Wrote: > Firefox (open-source) vs. IE (proprietary) > Wikipedia (open-source) vs. Encylopedia Brittanica/Encarta/Whatever > (proprietary) I know that's the canonical comparison, but it has a bit of a problem (IMHO). Firefox, I believe, still goes through testing cycles. And the number of people who can actually update the code is somewhat limited, and the people are vetted. Same was true for Slimserver. Wikipedia, OTOH, seems to be freely postable by (almost) anyone, with negligable screening. Which is why they've had some problems with data defacement - people who muck with the biographies of others, etc. This isn't an open source argument, exactly, but just pointing out a flaw at the edges of open-ness. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
konut;148335 Wrote: > I've read the 27 pages(probably 28 by the time I post this) Only 7 pages now. Did someone move 20 pages somewhere else? Or is page size different for different users? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
CardinalFang;148316 Wrote: > People like to talk about stuff. That doesn't make it pathetic No, but the whining does. Face it. We don't know what's going to happen. Logitech is a specific company, at this specific point in time, with these specific leaders, subject to these specific market trends and forces. Same for SD. That combination of factors makes this takeover fairly unique. To claim that you know, as a certainty, that this is going to be a disaster, is whining. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
funkstar;148296 Wrote: > None of us know the details of the deal SlimDevices have done with > Logitech, so we don't know how SD will operate in the future. Right. And until we know that, if we ever know that, this is all just uninformed electrons flapping in the breeze. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
According to the late breaking news crawler on the San Francisco Chronicle web site, a large cruise missile with the *Logitech* logo was just sighted in the air, headed south towards Mountain View. Come on, you guys! -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
Sean and Julien have both already commented and responded to several comments here. But the flood of responses here probably make it difficult to respond to them all at once. It's not like they have no other business to take care of in this acquisition. Like talking to their own staff, etc. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
CardinalFang;148110 Wrote: > Things beyond your and your company's control can affect what happens The same statement, exactly, would have been true before Logitech bought SD. The marketplace could change, someone could bring out a slim-killer, one of the principals could be caught in an earthquake, California as a whole could fall into the sea, etc, etc, etc. Consider it a statement of intent. While Sean is in a position of influence, this is what he intends to do. If, for some reason I can't imagine, the courts forced Slim to close the source, they'd pretty much have to. He can't anticipate that, and so wouldn't write it here. I think there's an awful lot of (perhaps self-serving) speculation going on here. In another thread, I wrote: If, having seen the introduction, you think you know the whole story of Slim and Logitech and where it's going to go, then you of necessity also think there is nothing unique or different about either Slim or Logitech. Do you? It applies here too. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
Well said, Ben. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
