Re: [slim] Transporter wheel is acting strange

2007-01-21 Thread Jacob Potter
Does the not-getting-registered glitch happen when the knob is in the same physical position each time? (Try putting a piece of a sticky note on it so you can keep track of where it is.) If so it's probably a bad knob. Try emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: Apple Iphone= Idiotphone?

2007-01-10 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/10/07, ModelCitizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is true (and I realise it's open to question) it's criminal considering the unbelievably and extremely crap battery Apple put in the third generation iPod. 500 UK Pounds for a music player that played good quality mp3s for only two hours

Re: [slim] Re: Why, Oh Why?

2007-01-04 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/4/07, adamslim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The London policy with mail is normally: if it's cheap, send it on to an inconvenient place for pickup; if it's expensive, leave it on the doorstep with a big sign saying 'steal me'... UPS and FedEx do that too. They won't deliver $5 worth of

Re: [slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off

2006-12-27 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/26/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this also true for the lossless codec (which is what we're talking about here)? Apple Lossless is closed, but I didn't see Eric mention that anywhere... This ENTIRE CD plays this way... it was ripped using iTunes AAC @ 256kbps VBR, as I've done

Re: [slim] Slimserver ports and protocols

2006-12-27 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/27/06, Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question regarding the networking of slimserver: I found many threads that mention opening up ports 9000 and 3483 on UDP (datagrams) and TCP (packets). What is the function of these ports, individually? I guess I want to know so I keep the

Re: [slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off

2006-12-26 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/25/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you should convert your Apple codec encoded files to something less proprietary (flac, ogg) and next time think twice before committing to a commercial company that keeps it's formats secret just to lock you in. AAC is not secret, nor is it

Re: Re: [slim] Re: Ideas for Squeezebox 4

2006-12-13 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/13/06, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I played with it at their open house last week, didn't like it as much as I thought I would. The big thing is that I frequently do more than one thing at once -- so I was talking with Jez and playing with the knob, and when I'd hit the end of a

Re: Re: [slim] Rewriting slimserver in another language, are you interested ?

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/5/06, Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't necessarily think that slimserver needs writing in a different language. However, I'd like to see it broken up into blackbox modules so each bit could easily be replaced with a different implementation. Absolutely 100% agreed there.

Re: [slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7

2006-12-03 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/3/06, Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, Perl and Java are usually compiled into byte code that is peephole optimized using JIT techniques. I'm pretty sure Perl isn't JIT compiled. Java, .NET, and ActionScript 3 are, Python can be with Psyco (on 32-bit x86), and I think Perl 6

Re: [slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/26/06, Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious as to how you derived this conclusion that linking against GPL shared libraries makes your application GPL as well? If that's the case, shouldn't TiVo's entire application suite be GPL'ed since they link against the GPL licensed stdlib?

Re: [slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?

2006-10-20 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/20/06, Mark Norton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. No, the point of this thread is for you to point out that you

Re: [slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?

2006-10-20 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/20/06, Mark Norton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MySQL? Oh, please...! The MySQL decision and implementation were both done by Slim Devices employees, not outside contributors, and would likely have been the same whether SlimServer was open-source or not. I think this is a troll thread. -

Re: [slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!

2006-10-19 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/19/06, Jetlag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. DRM - I don't own and iPod or Zune because of it (nor do I use iTunes, Rhapsody, etc as I refuse to pay $1 for a lossy crappy sounding MP3 song | Your opinion may be different). I don't illegally trade or sell my music, but once I buy a CD, I

Re: [slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix

2006-10-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/2/06, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sadly, it's almost never the request itself that fails. It is the filling in of data. For instance, if $() fails, the process just stops. Mostly this is a case of tempalte toolkit [% IF %] blocks that wipe out a div id in some cases. This is why I

Re: [slim] Native ogg with 6.5

2006-09-20 Thread Jacob Potter
On 9/20/06, bmccall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is native ogg going to be available in slim 6.5 only in 2 3 and not in 1? If so, why are we who supported you early and requested ogg long before slim 2 being neglected? I don't think it's neglect so much as that the hardware just isn't capable of

Re: Re: [slim] Re: Portrait of Slim Devicess on Gigaom.com

2006-09-08 Thread Jacob Potter
On 9/8/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's nothing. I invented the SliMP3/SqueezeBox over in 2001. I was just waiting for the Slim Devices guys to get the implementation started: The first entry on the news page (http://www.slimdevices.com/au_old_news.html), June 2001, says that The

Re: [slim] Re: Next Release for Beta Slimserver- What New Features ?

2006-09-04 Thread Jacob Potter
I'm fairly sure it'll be September 18, corresponding with the Transporter shipping. - Jacob On 8/27/06, MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kdf, when do you expect 6.5 to come out? october? december? best guess is fine, just curious. and will it be 6.5, or 6.5.x ...something like that?

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!

2006-08-15 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/15/06, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after saying that the quality of the code was such that it had to have been written by an intern. I think the implication is clear. As an intern myself (although not at Slim Devices!), I resent that implication. :) - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!

2006-08-15 Thread Jacob Potter
Er, that slight against interns... maybe implication isn't quite the right word. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Turn radio off when SB is switched off by IR remote?

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/10/06, m1abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SB is very much a dumb client, and the server does most of the work. When you issue a IR command ANY IR command that command gets sent to the server directly and the server issues a command back to the client as to what it should do. That's not

Re: [slim] Write down your slim box NOT NAS

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob Potter
My SlimServer is also my main desktop: - Athlon 64 X2 4600+ - Scythe SCNJ-1000 heatsink - Yate Loon D12SL-12 fan in top of case; speed-controlled via motherboard - GeForce 7800GT - Zalman ZM80D-HP / ZM80D-IK1 heatsink - Yate Loon D12SL-12 fan, blowing across heatsink; wired to 5 volts -

Re: [slim] Problem with SliMP3 player

2006-08-06 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/6/06, Heimiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, when I press the brightness button during startup of SliMP3, I get into bootloader mode just fine. (what's this for anyway?) Anyone any idea, what-so-ever, what's going on? Any way i can re-flash the SliMP3 player, to see if that helps the

Re: [slim] Re: Nintendo DS Lite Browser as Interface

2006-08-04 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/4/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Development materials for a cartridge are on the order of several hundred thousand dollars... Development materials for a skin, though, are very cheap :) There are conflicting reports as to whether the version of Opera on the DS supports

Re: [slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??

2006-08-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/2/06, rhyzome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't doubt the Transporter will work for some, but equally I think a Mac Mini or a silenced MITX machine + RME Fireface 400 will give equally good audio results combined with a higher degree of flexibility - for significantly less money, if the

Re: [slim] Re: My recipe for a cheap Slimserver

2006-08-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/1/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ultimate would be one that's fanless. I'm almost there, so close! Drives need cooling too - more than CPUs, really. A processor can run happily at 60 C, but more than 40-45 for a drive is pushing it. You'll want some substantial heatsinking

Re: [slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??

2006-08-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/2/06, radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say yourself that the La Scala is better than the mini, it's simply my opinion that whilst the mini may well be -good enough- (and probably would be for me, given the rest of my system) I'd be amazed if it were -as good- as the Transporter - or even

Re: [slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??

2006-07-24 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/24/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bag|---cat This is not, in fact, the first time the word Transporter has been seen here; see the thread entitled SB4 and/or a high-end

Re: [slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??

2006-07-24 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/24/06, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:20PM EDT, it's on the Slim web site in all it's glory. And it has a *knob*! And RS-232 hmm. Wonder if it would be possible to hack RS232 into an SB2 :) - Jacob ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??

2006-07-24 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/24/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if this means any new capabilities for the SB3? Maybe yes, maybe no - the Transporter doesn't have the same CPU as the SB3. The specs for the Transporter list a 325 MIPS, 8-way multithreaded processor. The Ubicom 3023 in the SB3 is

Re: [slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??

2006-07-24 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/24/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should remember, the SB3 is not a discontinued product at all, Transporter will sell beside it for the high-end market, so we can still look forward to new SB2/3 features and fixes. There's even some experimental work in 6.5 to improve

Re: [slim] lightning

2006-07-15 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/15/06, vain4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to make a long story short lighting hit the house i live in and fried some electrical equipment i have. my squeezebox was one of the victims. do you think i can send it back to slim to be repaired? Here's my guess: If you're lucky, only the power

Re: [slim] Does wireless bridge affect sound quality ?

2006-07-12 Thread Jacob Potter
It shouldn't. If you use up too much bandwidth there's a risk that you'll get dropouts, but there won't be any subtle degredation. Keep in mind that wireless is a shared medium, though; even if you get a separate card for the computer, it'll still chew up the available bandwidth. - Jacob On

Re: [slim] Re: Stereophile's visit to Sonos

2006-07-11 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/11/06, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fuzzyT Wrote: Proposition: Flash isn't Evil. (or Good.) It's just a technology. (snip) In this case, flash doesn't make poorly coded, inappropriate interfaces, people do. I know Flash/the gun/the radar detector didn't have a mind of it's

Re: [slim] Re: Stereophile's visit to Sonos

2006-07-09 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/9/06, funkstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EDIT: another down side of Flash is that any developer wanting to contribute to its development will need a licenced copy. also who knows how this will work with the SlimDevices SVN code base. I'm guessing you would have to check out the latest

Re: [slim] Re: NAS Storage for dummys

2006-07-09 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/9/06, Pale Blue Ego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about one of these $75 Linux systems? Check out RetroBox... you can get a pretty decent system (600 MHz Celeron and 512mb of RAM) for $50. - Jacob ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Feature request and discussion: Flash/Ajax/... for UI

2006-07-09 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/9/06, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oddly enough, the second one has already happened, which is a good sign that the folks driving the bus really do have an eye on the road. My hope is that SlimServer 7.0 will use the Catalyst framework for the web interface. Easily-customizable

Re: [slim] Feature request and discussion: Flash/Ajax/... for UI

2006-07-09 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/9/06, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hear you, I've done a little bit of Javascript development too. Wrote it with Firefox and Venkman, it completely failed in Opera and MSIE. I was able to get a single version to work for Opera and all Mozilla branches, but nothing could be done

Re: [slim] Re: Dead remote or...?

2006-07-05 Thread Jacob Potter
On 7/4/06, snarlydwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I recall, the display and IR receiver are on a daughter board, connected with ribbon cable to the main board. It is possible this was partially dislodged in transit and heating/cooling cycles pushed it out just enough to make it not work.

Re: [slim] Re: SB3 crash

2006-06-21 Thread Jacob Potter
On 6/21/06, seanadams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting I guess that debunks my theory, so I'll pull at straws here: can you correllate it to an obvious electrical transient, eg lightnighg, or fridge, dryer, AC, or pool pump starting up? The reason this is so tricky to identify is that

Re: [slim] Re: Rescan crashing PC

2006-06-14 Thread Jacob Potter
On 6/13/06, Khuli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overheating is a possibilty.. Sandra said the cpu was 54C when it was just idling. Not sure I believe it as it didn't feel that hot.. but could be a symtom. Probably overheating, then; if it's 54 C at idle, it'll be much, much hotter under load. Can

Re: [slim] Re: NAS Device

2006-06-10 Thread Jacob Potter
On 6/9/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but it wouldn't be fanless... Is fanless really necessary? My fairly high-end desktop has just three ~800rpm Yate Loon fans, and the hard drive (Samsung) is a bit louder than they are when active. It's not truly silent unless there are no

Re: [slim] Rhapsody support coming very soon? WAS Re: [Slim-Checkins]

2006-06-06 Thread Jacob Potter
On 6/6/06, andyg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rhapsody doesn't support that. I imagine it would be next to impossible to navigate such a large library. You can only browse and play things you've added with the + icon, in addition to Rhapsody Radio and any playlists you've added. How does this

Re: [slim] Rhapsody support coming very soon? WAS Re: [Slim-Checkins]

2006-06-05 Thread Jacob Potter
On 6/5/06, funkstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also not the first time big updates have been spotted in SVN before they were announced. The SB3 leaked that way too :) And the graphical version of the SB1. I don't remember if the SB2 did or not. - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: How many streams at the same time ?

2006-06-04 Thread Jacob Potter
On 6/4/06, Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because Ethernet uses Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance to control traffic. No Ethernet can deliver its rated speed, even getting 50% of its rated speed is hard if not impossible if there is any sharing of the network. And

Re: [slim] Possible to disable wireless in SB3 wireless model?

2006-05-17 Thread Jacob Potter
On 5/17/06, twynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone confirm if it is possible to entirely disable the wireless radio in this model if it should interfere with the video receiver? When you run the unit in wired mode, the wireless card is completely powered down. - Jacob

Re: [slim] HD-DVD to SQ3...?

2006-05-11 Thread Jacob Potter
On 5/11/06, TheSaint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just hooked up a Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player to my TV. Now, since the DVD player has a LAN port I was thinking if there's any way I could connect it to my SQ3, via a LAN cable, so it could connect to the internet for updates and such? I take

Re: [slim] Re: How much longer for a really slim SlimServer?

2006-05-07 Thread Jacob Potter
On 5/7/06, nicketynick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but now you're sliding away from low power and quiet, key criteria for a slim Slimserver! But I'm beginning to resign myself to the fact that its about the best that can be done (for now). Quiet?

Re: [slim] Exbrowse3 still under development??

2006-05-07 Thread Jacob Potter
On 5/7/06, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default2 and ExBrowse3 need updating by the author. No kidding :) Sorry... both school and work have been interfering in the past months. I haven't abandoned it, and both skins will be fully functional by 6.5 release. (Heck, I have tomorrow off.. I'll

Re: [slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-28 Thread Jacob Potter
On 4/28/06, tonymuffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blow it out yours Do you honestly expect useful assistance at this point? Considering how abusive you've been, neither us forum members nor Slim Devices have any obligation to help you. ___

Re: [slim] Re: France Vs Apple

2006-04-28 Thread Jacob Potter
On 4/28/06, bigjules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some guy in Melbourne, Australia had written an open source decoder for ALAC with Apple's DRM.. Surely it isn't hard to put this in as a transcoder for slimserver. Only without DRM. Anyway, Apple doesn't sell songs in ALAC (lossless),

Re: [slim] A Silly Poll

2006-04-12 Thread Jacob Potter
Looks like I'm the youngest, at 17... came for the code/development side of things, but I've found myself becoming a bit of an audiophile as well. - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Multi-Zone Whole-House Audio System

2006-04-09 Thread Jacob Potter
I would suggest using squeezeslave rather than SoftSqueeze; it's not graphical, but it is more reliable and lightweight. Also, an $8 sound card probably won't sound very good... - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Network Activity

2006-04-07 Thread Jacob Potter
On 4/7/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If all 4 are streaming WAV at 1440 KB/s, with extra bandwidth requirements for control pushing each stream to say 1600 KB/s for a total of 6400 KB/s, that's not inconsequential but it could easily be handled by a gigabit network with plenty of

Re: [slim] Re: How was this made?

2006-04-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 4/2/06, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html, css, template toolkit and some skins are now using ajax. AJAX is just a buzzword, though, referring to a combination of HTML, Javascript, and some sort of data format (usually XML or JSON). - Jacob ___

Re: [slim] Re: Nedd to worry about display burn in?

2006-04-02 Thread Jacob Potter
My SliMP3 is around 4 years old and shows no burn-in whatsoever. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Product Announcement: K.R.O.N.O.S

2006-04-01 Thread Jacob Potter
On 4/1/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW that factory technician Wang seems to be involved in all of Slim's cutting-edge projects - here is is with the Slim Devices Dorku (TM) Tubular Music Player: http://www.slimdevices.com/images/tech.jpg Looks like he's been promoted to senior

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 not connecting with WPA and AES

2006-03-31 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/30/06, jcyr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple. I bought the SB2 instead of the Roku based on their advertized support of WPA2/AES. I feel the product was, and continues to be, misrepresented. The Roku only supports 802.11b and WEP - no WPA, let alone WPA2... - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: CNET network media player list

2006-03-30 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/30/06, radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's some kind of clone. The crappy knockoff kind. Think Sorny or Panafonics. http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press_dorku.html Dean summarized it nicely: The Dorku's innovative software is based on some really exciting stuff we downloaded from the

Re: [slim] Re: CNET network media player list

2006-03-30 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/30/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lastly, it's great if they're compatible. Can RS SB devices run off the same slimserver? Sort of. It can be done, provided that the server version and the phase of the moon is right, but nobody will help you with it - Roku won't, because it's not

Re: [slim] Re: MP3Gain Problem

2006-03-29 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/29/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT: I see the 65 535 number a lot when computers screw up. For example, my very old printer driver always thinks print jobs are 65 535 pages long (thankfully it doesn't actually use that many pages!) This is also the maximum number of rows in

Re: [slim] Re: Apple vs Apple

2006-03-28 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/28/06, funkstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do believe that Apple Computer have, in the past, sold physical media delivering pre-recorded content.. I could be wrong, but didn't the special edition black and red U2 iPod come with their new album pre-loaded onto it? I'm pretty sure an iPod

Re: [slim] Re: SB3/media servers - way of the future?

2006-03-26 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/26/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, it doesn't matter what I think...because Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to put a media PC in every home. There will be millions, possibly billions, spent on marketing - it's seen as the next major growth area for PCs now that

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 = dead

2006-03-26 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/26/06, snarlydwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voltage hurts, current kills :) (10k volts from a car spark coil won't kill you... but.. ow. 12v from the car battery, though, with a ton of amps behind it, will kill you.) E = IR: It's not just a good idea, it's the law!

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc

2006-03-23 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/23/06, gharris999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All told, it's a little hard to get excited about this hardware. Since clever folks are now booting Windows XP on Intel mac minis, could linux be far behind? It's been done. http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: Power over Ethernet

2006-03-10 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/10/06, jonheal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I wasn't talking about real Power Over Ethernet (PoE). I was describing jury-rigging something that just piggy-backed on that last length of cable between the switch and the SqueezeBox. I think the real PoE systems are sort of standardized

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 + ssh-tunnel

2006-03-10 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/10/06, m1abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slim does not use http to stream music to the slimdevice clients. And I would not call http low overhead since it is TCP and TCP has a good bit of overhead native to it. Slim I believe uses its own custom TCP protocol to stream music to the

Re: [slim] Re: Whats the deal with integrated MP3 players..

2006-03-08 Thread Jacob Potter
On 3/8/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the manufacturer were to install the same Ubicom IP3023 processor and Xilinx CPLD that Slim uses in the Squeezebox, I would guess that Slim could just provide them with a modified firmware image. http://www.seanadams.com/ip3k/cpu_module/ -

Re: [slim] Re: FAQs on Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Jacob Potter
TCP 3483 - SB1/2/3 control (display, remote, stream control) UDP 3483 - SB1/2/3 discovery, SLIMP3 everything (including audio) TCP 9000 - SB1/2/3 audio, Web interface TCP 9090 - CLI, used by some third-party stuff (Moose, Crestron/AMX automation) - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: Crashing SLIMP3

2006-02-28 Thread Jacob Potter
On 2/28/06, eflukx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know the if real sourcecode (or binary) for the PIC uController have been made available?? (So i can flash a new controller) The source is in Subversion, see http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/slimp3/firmware/ . Note the license

Re: [slim] SS on Infrant REadyNAS NV

2006-02-27 Thread Jacob Potter
On 2/27/06, rkeeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Can I have 2 SlimServers running at the same time? -If so, how do I select which one to use via the SB interface? Provided that they are on two different systems (a PC and a NAS, for example), yes. The SB2/SB3 will give you the option to select

Re: [slim] Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread Jacob Potter
I'm using an Antec P180 with a Seasonic power supply and a Scythe SCNJ-1000 fanless CPU heatsink. It's incredibly quiet - to the point that the hum from my old stereo reciever sometimes drowns out the computer itself. I've got 3 case fans (besides the power supply), all running at 5 volts. The

Re: [slim] Re: SB 2 vs 3 differences

2006-02-10 Thread Jacob Potter
On 2/10/06, rudholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SB3's display is a very pale cyan, significantly whiter than the SB2's display, which has a distinct green color to it. The SB2's display seems a bit brighter than the SB3's though. I think this might just be a matter of the SB3 having a

Re: [slim] Re: MusicGiants

2006-01-22 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/22/06, nelamvr6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management software to make sure all the music you have is fast, safe and protected. Yeah, I'm sure that's why they use it. They're only looking out for us! Well, they don't specify who they're

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver Webinterface over a PSP ( Playstation Portable )

2006-01-18 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/18/06, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a thing a web will hardly be able to do. While AJAX could give you the impression to do so, I doubt the PSP's browser is able to use this technology. And the Handheld skin does not use it anyway. The PSP does have Javascript; I don't

Re: [slim] Re: Handheld as UI for SlimServer

2006-01-17 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/17/06, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is the 770 programmed? It's a linux box, right? Yep, it uses GTK+ and X just like any other Linux system. There's a cross-development environment, so you can build apps on a PC pretty easily without having the hardware itself.

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2006-01-11 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/11/06, bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ABSOLUTELY. There is a closer example-- the ExBrowse3 skin for slimserver already uses AJAX/DHTML/DOM to do just that. I've been browsing through that code and have that feature as a TO-DO. While programming web pages in this manner is decidedly more

Re: [slim] Capitol releases A CD insert to make Sony blush!

2006-01-03 Thread Jacob Potter
On 1/3/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just goes to show that the record companies don't care for their customers at all, but most people knew that already. At this point, one is better off just downloading the music from AllOfMP3 and buying a T-shirt from the artist. It's morally a

Re: [slim] skin with forward / rewind - jump to song position

2005-12-25 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/25/05, eurale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using ExBrowse3 at the moment ... ExBrowse3 will be able to jump to a given point in the song in 6.5. It should be easy to put that functionality in 6.2, but I believe the 6.2 development is for bug fixes only now. - Jacob

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

2005-12-21 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/21/05, CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Discuss. Any help on this would be extremely grateful. In one word: interface. If all you want to do is pipe music from place to place, you could just get a really long cable; but that doesn't get you all the searching, browsing, and control

Re: [slim] Re: Native AAC Support

2005-12-16 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/16/05, seanadams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW if you ever need to use ANY lossless format (Flac, Apple, WMA) or any non-mainstream/emerging format, you will be very glad you chose Squeezebox. :) For more reasons than one, considering the AC'97 chip in the Tubular Music Player... -

Re: Re: [slim] Re: Smooth AJAX interface blows away any slimserver skin I've seen

2005-12-13 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/13/05, ron thigpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of course, you could say the same thing about Apache/modPERL, and that would seem to be a much more likely scenario. I remember hearing something about moving to mod_perl and Catalyst (MVC framework) for 7.0, keeping Template Toolkit for the

Re: [slim] Re: Did The Boys At Slim Do A Bad Thing By Being So Customer Friendly?

2005-12-06 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/6/05, enduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Conspiracy? I think so.You just published on a public forum my private order number. Part of which also looked like my phone number. You have no right -- and certainly no place -- doing such things. If I am suspicious of someone who has shown me

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-12-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/2/05, bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I get my grubby paws on this gadget, I am hoping to start some involved discussions on using the 770 with Slimserver. I'm anticipating diving into some development for it...probably starting with a custom 770 skin. Something like this?

Re: [slim] Re: AllofMP3.com

2005-11-30 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/30/05, gjrhine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then you have weigh your compunctions against the prospects of having a rootkit deposited on your hard drive. Kinda sad when a shady Russian company deserves more trust than Sony, isn't it? - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: 6.2.x seg faults -- help requested to narrow down the problem

2005-11-22 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/22/05, kevine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm chalking this one up as a hardware fault that only seems to pop up under longer periods of heavy I/O load (or some obscure config/kernel issue on old AMD K6 hardware). I think compilation seg faults are usually a symptom of bad RAM... have you

Re: [slim] Sleep - Shut Down, - - - Alarm - Start Up, Possible?

2005-11-19 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/19/05, Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked the local electric rates. They get about 5 cents ($0.05) per kilowatt hour. On a low end PC, with a two hundred watt power supply, this is a penny per hour, assuming that the monitor has gone off/sleep without use. Most PCs

Re: [slim] Sleep - Shut Down, - - - Alarm - Start Up, Possible?

2005-11-19 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/19/05, Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is lower than I expected, for a serious system. I was surprised too. I'm using a cheap Radio Shack clamp meter, but I tried it on a 40W table lamp and it read just over 0.3 A as expected. Any idea how much difference actively driving two

Re: [slim] Exbrowse3

2005-11-08 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/8/05, gandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry keep asking this but never get a reply - I LOVE the album review and biography plugins and I think that Exbrowse3 could be best of the skins (for me) but i can't find out where those plugins appear in the skin - I can see them under plugins but

Re: [slim] Re: Swapping wireless card? (repost)

2005-11-08 Thread Jacob Potter
Speaking of cards... My late-beta SB2 has the Mini-PCI connector, and I've been wondering if it would be possible to upgrade it to wireless. Might there be any left-over SB2 card/antenna assemblies available? - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] ExBrowse3 updating problem

2005-11-05 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/5/05, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ExBrowse versions 2 and 3 have always been a little dodgy about updating the web interface, but now (slimserver-2005_11_04-1) it seems to have given up entirely; I have to select a different player in order to see the web interface catch up to

Re: [slim] ExBrowse3 updating problem

2005-11-05 Thread Jacob Potter
On 11/5/05, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SuSE 10.0, MozillaFirefox-1.0.7-0.1, and yes, interesting stuff in JavaScript Console: Very odd... I haven't been able to reproduce that, but I'll see what I can find. - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [slim] Re: default2 interface

2005-10-28 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/28/05, Howard Darwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: string has no properties Source File: http:\\mserve1:9000/html/home.js Sorry, Default2 is broken in 6.2. I've already fixed it for 6.2.1. Default2 is based on an older version of ExBrowse2; it'll be resynced with the ExBrowse3 code

Re: [slim] Re: Is it me or is the web interface getting slower on every new release?

2005-10-28 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/28/05, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I can make sense of all of Jacobs work, I'm hoping to find the time to make a fishbone2 using the ajax tools (and maybe skin inheritance once implemented in 6.5) I'm definitely waiting for the skin inheritance feature before putting up Default3;

Re: [slim] Error: strings has no properties, No Sound also

2005-10-27 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/26/05, spillai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just downloaded and ran the SlimServer 6.2.1 version. Receving the a javascript error on both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Gotcha, found the problem. It's fixed in the 6.5 tree, and should be in 6.2.1 soon. - Jacob

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2

2005-10-25 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/25/05, seanadams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completely different layout and mechanicals. I'll post pics next week. Is the processor board/module different too, or just the main PCB? - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Before i buy, i need a couple of important questions answering please :)

2005-10-07 Thread Jacob Potter
On 10/7/05, dangerous_dom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a very important feature for me, as i have many mixed danced music CD's, live gigs and Audio books. Why oh why do manufactures overlook this essential feature so often? Even the almighly iPod can't do it. So, does the SB2 support it

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver inside Squeezebox?

2005-09-03 Thread Jacob Potter
On 9/3/05, jth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be the easiest way for Windows users, but not necessarily the easiest way for other operating systems. Each product from Slim Devices has gotten increasingly sophisticated on the inside - I'm sure the possibility of running slimserver on the

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-02 Thread Jacob Potter
On 9/2/05, Michel Fombellida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why not Crossfeed :-) I'd say that would be a bit too easy to confuse with crossfade (as in song transitions). But really, as long as it's not called SlimDSP X-TREME-HeadphoneMAGIC 2000++,(*cough*X-Fi*cough*), I won't mind. :) -

Re: [slim] Re: Tweaks to ExBrowse2 for better 800x600 display

2005-08-16 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/16/05, Yannzola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob, et al. Any chance these changes (or something similiar) might be included in the next iteration of ExBrowse2? Yep, they'll be in the rewrite (Real Soon Now, probably hitting trunk sometime this week). Thanks! Unfortunately, relatively

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Jacob Potter
On 8/16/05, MrC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was that comment necessary and useful? One could make the case that the not my idea of release notes comment wasn't necessary either :) I'll whip up a script to generate a nice pretty HTML log out of the SVN checkins. It's a pretty reasonable request;

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