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 i
bobkoure;370346 Wrote:
> I'm -assuming- all Firefox users know about NoScript(?)
Nope. Care to elaborate?
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the
default skin could be asking so much that it's overloading the server,
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mething about IE6
and the default skin don't play well together.
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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
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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
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t. It happily let me order it, even
though I live in Canada, but I'm sure this would have failed somehow in
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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.
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owing 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
gt; President and Chief Executive Officer
>
From: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/about/&cl=ca,en
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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ot living up to my responsibilities as a
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They don't call it the bleeding edge for nuthin' :-)
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ile 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 i
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.
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etwork 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.
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 troubl
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?
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So it could be wrong. And I've never looked at the 7 code
to see if the issues are still the same.
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Jim, I know the used SB2s would be a better choice, but they seem to be
scarce on the ground.
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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.
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Hi:
Sorry if this has been asked before. I searched unsuccessfully.
Is it still possible to buy wired only SB3s?
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or those words descended from
Latin. In that sense, Latin isn't dead, because it lives onward (at
least parts of it do) in English.
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clearly the server has sent the data.
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On further research, I was likely wrong to use forae as the plural. It
would be fora.
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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!
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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.
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> 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.
He's just not an EU-ian :D
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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 occu
but the price is there now. The price will
take care of itself with time.
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t 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.
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Oh. I guess we -in the Americas- don't say -over the top- much, so that
didn't occur to me.
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I first read it as OOT (out of touch), then realized that's not what it
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multi-core processors or whatever architecture their heart desired. But
that wouldn't be a mass-market feature.
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nstrained not to) comment on
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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
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fools announcement.
http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press_kronos.html
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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.
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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 a
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 $700. :-)
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So, Mark, what's 400 Euros in real money these days?
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I)
Size: 13 x 14 x 3,5 cm, only 400-550 Gramm
external network part (?) 12 V
I'd continue but I have to go to supper now. There are 2 or 3
variations, different processors, slighly different housings, etc.
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We want to run slimserver on a smaller computer. We (or at least I)
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mortslim;196482 Wrote:
> well, what about just adding an ipod port onto the squeezebox? that way
> you cut out the need for a separate computer altogether.
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> (there have been adjudictions confirming this).
I think Michael means judgements or rulings.
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Yeah, the american press made a big deal of that at the time. It wasn't
really such an important mistake.
But it truly would be an easy mistake to translate "Ich werde ein
Hamburger bekommen" as "I would like to become a hamburger&q
No kidding. My favorite is
-"I would like to become a hamburger"-
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ModelCitizen;177353 Wrote:
> It should be ready for you by then I'd have thought.
> MC
Good point, ModelCitizen. That should give Micro$oft enough time to
blunt the worst of the bleeding edge of it.
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ation. 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.
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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.
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That really needed it (laptops).
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"gave up the ghost" is a proper english expression.
But thanks. I didn't know the expression existed in German too.
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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 f
lts, is it with SB1s, SB2s or SB3s?
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operate all wirelessly than the other 2 categories, almost a majority on
it's own. Woulda never thunk it.
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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.
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> electricity.
>
> In 2005, approximately 71% of OPG's electricity production was derived
> from hydroelectric and nuclear sources
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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.
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Sorry.
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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.
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Beann50;167202 Wrote:
> I was more concerned with temperature extremes for the whole setup
In NC? You don't have temperature extremes! lol
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How did you arrange for the electronics to weather the starter surge?
That's usually a bigger electrical noise challenge for power supplies
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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?
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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
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The SB1s have a totally different hardware architecture at the lowest
level, the MP3 decoder is hardware, not software, so likely no such fix
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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.
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n the "old world" for me.
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If they only work at 10Mb, then the SB will happily use them.
The SB will use the highest rate it can negotiate.
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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).
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otally controlled themselves. Hell of a big step for a
little company.
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hey, 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.
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ake 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
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> I have no car. But a bicycle.
Ah, yes, but is it a Porche bicycle?
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ah, sorry, misunderstood. Yes, PST on goods imported from the US.
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Mark Lanctot;148275 Wrote:
> I love paying TWO taxes on something that wasn't even made in this
> country.
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t - 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.
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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
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se 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
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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
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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.
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7;s going to go, then you of necessity also
think there is nothing unique or different about either Slim or
Logitech. Do you?
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