Re: [slim] Time for a speculation thread...

2011-03-01 Thread Pat Farrell
uld love to see a touch screen Controller. But that would have to be essentially a Touch with batteries. I'm not seeing how it could cost the $100 that fancy remotes seem to get these days. With the Logitech Review, you get the video streamer and cool remote for $300, so that sets an upper bound

Re: [slim] Time for a speculation thread...

2011-02-28 Thread Pat Farrell
eo and Hulu/Netflix. While I think the Touch is very cool, at $300 retail, its a niche product. I don't think Logitech is interested in niche products. But I don't have any special insight into this. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___

Re: [slim] How to disable WOL from squeezebox?

2011-02-13 Thread Pat Farrell
On 02/13/2011 10:44 PM, bulletmark wrote: > As another long time developer: Why are you questioning a reasonable > user request? Silly rabbit, you don't let developers decide such questions, that is what product management is for. -- Pat Farrell http://www.p

Re: [slim] IPv6 Support

2011-02-04 Thread Pat Farrell
o be rolled out. Andy confirmed that the modern devices will get IPv6 support in the future, the old ones, Classic, Transporter, etc. will never see it. I don't expect this to be a problem for 99% of the customers. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___

Re: [slim] IPv6 Support

2011-02-04 Thread Pat Farrell
rs, because they will get to sell tons of new routers, "cable modems" etc. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Spotify (officially) on SqueezeboxServer?

2011-01-11 Thread Pat Farrell
d by my explicit generalization that the big labels (and the RIAA which cares only about the big labels) care only about money, music be damned. Pat -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Spotify (officially) on SqueezeboxServer?

2011-01-10 Thread Pat Farrell
osers, grips or recording engineers. The record labels are interested only in getting money for their product. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] GPG keys for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2010-12-12 Thread Pat Farrell
be > there? I think they should be there. Pat - -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNBYuSAAoJEGvh9MmoicenzxIIALQTQ79KaaCWi3Y3bhdSuT7q IDApnS

Re: [slim] Hail Mary time for Logitech with its Google TV?

2010-12-09 Thread Pat Farrell
ces. Your choice will be "That > Which Is Profitable". Independence is out the window: if it can't get > a million views it's not worth it. > > It will be Radio of the 80's all over again, except marketed as choice. Yes, but we ha

Re: [slim] Don't forget the switch

2010-11-06 Thread Pat Farrell
ve had an Ethernet network in my house since the early 1990s, and these were the first hub or switches that I've ever seen fail. But it can and does happen. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.

Re: [slim] slimp3 and squeezebox 1 FLAC question

2010-10-05 Thread Pat Farrell
d had buffers at least twice as big. This effectively gave the SB2 four times the buffer space, so WiFi usage was a lot more reliable. Since the SB1 could not do anything without a server, and the server automatically handled flac files, one could say that the SB1 music system worked fine on flac

Re: [slim] Classic/Boom Discontinued - Why?

2010-10-05 Thread Pat Farrell
ears of its life, Tower Record made all of their profit on the in-store poster placements, and placement at the listening kiosks. The prices in retail stores have to be as low as the mailorder shops. They need the shelving fees to keep the lights on and pay for rent. -- Pat Farrell http://www.p

Re: [slim] The Orb

2010-09-24 Thread Pat Farrell
TV sets with some with 3D. Fat chance. I buy a new TV every 10 to 15 years, whether I need it or not. IMHO, 3D TV is purely a marketing fad. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com h

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 1

2010-08-13 Thread Pat Farrell
s over wifi problematic. The SB1 can not talk to MySqeezeBox.com, etc. Its too "slim" From a practical point of view, the SB-1, and SB-1g are too limited to be used in modern systems. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mail

Re: [slim] New Boom on the Horizon?

2010-08-11 Thread Pat Farrell
now or can't say. Logitech continues the tradition of most electronic firms; they never comment on future products. They only announce products when they are in the warehouses and ready to sell. (The Touch was a special case exception to that rule). So its pointless to speculate, those that kn

Re: [slim] New Boom on the Horizon?

2010-08-09 Thread Pat Farrell
en the prices for touchscreens down to levels that could not have been imagined when the Touch was first created. Pat -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] New Boom on the Horizon?

2010-08-09 Thread Pat Farrell
aits sang, you gotta move these refrigerators, gotta move these color TVs -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] UPS recommendations for my Vortexbox Appliance

2010-08-03 Thread Pat Farrell
an inexpensive PC, suitable to use as a music server. It may make more sense to just have a backup copy of your music and assume that the server is expendable. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Where are your LPs?

2010-07-30 Thread Pat Farrell
s get transferred. As for storage, they sit on the same shelf in the basement that they have been on for 25+ years. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Which NAS?

2010-07-29 Thread Pat Farrell
, its silly not to just put in a gig stick. You don't need anything special for video, the cheap on-board video that fairly cheap motherboards is fine. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/> http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discu

Re: [slim] Editing FLAC files

2010-07-16 Thread Pat Farrell
Sure. What audio editor do you normally use? What OS? etc? But the easiest approach may be to convert the flac files to .WAV/pcm and use any audio editor program. Then just re-compress to flac. This will lose tags, but for a small number of files it may be easier. -- Pat Farrell http://www.

Re: [slim] Firmware 15

2010-06-16 Thread Pat Farrell
On 06/16/2010 07:06 PM, ROBBIE BURNS wrote: > Why Why is it nonsense? Do you really expect an answer? @snarly gave you the God's honest truth. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.

Re: [slim] what about a "touch" oriented skin

2010-06-08 Thread Pat Farrell
ld design and make it bigger. But that gains nothing from the device's abilities. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] what about a "touch" oriented skin

2010-06-08 Thread Pat Farrell
amazingly fine resolution. Which means that designs expecting other small screens, will be teeny tiny on the iPhone 4. Too small to read. Sometimes limited resolution is good. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailin

Re: [slim] how to replace transporter screen

2010-06-04 Thread Pat Farrell
SB2 and SB3/Classic. I assume that actually doing the swap is mostly mechanical with a cable or two. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Help me get 500 ft away from router

2010-06-04 Thread Pat Farrell
8B, since that is what 99% of all commercial patch cables use. Image of how to do it properly. http://www.pfarrell.com/misc/rj45_patch.gif -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimde

Re: [slim] Help me get 500 ft away from router

2010-06-04 Thread Pat Farrell
On 06/04/2010 01:57 PM, leif wrote: > If my cat5e 300 + foot ethernet cable gets cut will I be able to splice > it back together? The precise answer is "maybe" So put it in a conduit. Or just be prepared to replace it, its only about $40 of cable. -- Pat Farrell http://

Re: [slim] VortexBox 1.4 released today

2010-06-04 Thread Pat Farrell
Or VortexBox software can be run on nearly any computer, even a old PC that your company is throwing into the trash. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Help me get 500 ft away from router

2010-06-02 Thread Pat Farrell
tions use ~100mHz, so a 500 foot cable is pretty much a big assed antenna. At RF frequencies, everything is very weird. At high RF frequencies, even the pros make weird predictions. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mai

Re: [slim] Long ethernet cable network integrity?

2010-05-31 Thread Pat Farrell
eet, or worse, over 100 meters is serious. There is no way to answer in general if you can use WiFi longer than 100 meters without trying it. And if it works today, it may not work tomorrow, say if your neighbor puts a WiFi in that conflicts with yours. Stop being rude, and go back to your original t

Re: [slim] Long ethernet cable network integrity?

2010-05-31 Thread Pat Farrell
ave to strip off some of the insulation on the individual strands, not the whole cable, but the 8 fine wires inside. If each of the 8 is one piece, its solid. If each is made up of 20 or more very fine wires, its stranded. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___

Re: [slim] What backup software

2010-05-23 Thread Pat Farrell
Millwood wrote: > If you run a unix variant (linux) there are lots of choices. I run a > raid 1 system so I have two copies n two disks on my server. Raid is not backup. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list d

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread Pat Farrell
orted FLAC decoding locally, so you sent only 50% as many bytes, and second, it had twice the memory buffer, so you had a net gain for four times the buffer for FLAC. Even today, MP3 is a lot easier on marginal WiFi setups than FLAC. -- Pat Farrell http

Re: [slim] Bye bye to Boom and Transporter....

2010-05-16 Thread Pat Farrell
7;t been ugraded in five years. These forum threads are pathetic. The old slims are no longer new. They won't be made better. All new effort is going into the new platform. The kind is dead, long live the king. What a bunch of whiny children. -- Pat Farrell

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-16 Thread Pat Farrell
thing guise of expertise. I'm surprized that Jim is part of the problem, I tend to agree with @kdf, these forums, especially general, audiophile, touch and boom are all whine and no signal. I was thinking it was kinda nice when the mailing lists were br

Re: [slim] Test - please don't ignore...

2010-05-10 Thread Pat Farrell
> anybody receiving this mail? The forum gateway seems to be down, but does the > mailing list still work? Nope, nobody here. And you can't get there from here anyway. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing l

Re: [slim] Networking

2010-05-01 Thread Pat Farrell
the house. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Radio v. Boom????

2010-04-21 Thread Pat Farrell
of their kin near them. You start out with just one, and soon, you have a second and a third and Which is why I've bought three SB1, a Transporter, Duet, Boom, Radio, and Touch, and have talked a half dozen friends to start their own flocks of SqueezeBoxen. -- Pat Farrell http://ww

Re: [slim] Serious question about current quality

2010-04-17 Thread Pat Farrell
lassic replacement, where you never touch it, and use it from far away. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Serious question about current quality

2010-04-16 Thread Pat Farrell
space constrained, you may prefer the Radio. Its no secret that the Radio firmware is a release 1.0 product, and while its been out for some time, 99% of the engineering effort has gone to the Touch. Thus there are some known issues with the Radio. I expect them to get fixed fairly so

Re: [slim] Radio v. Boom????

2010-04-13 Thread Pat Farrell
oom or the Radio All just IMHO, trust your own ears. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] 802.11N Wireless Support

2010-04-11 Thread Pat Farrell
reat goal. And in a few years, when all the chips do both bands, bonding, etc for $0.05 each, it will be part of the product line for Logitech and everyone else. > Those early adopter geeks seem to have quite some purchasing > power... Geeks use having the latest and greatest as a proxy f

Re: [slim] 802.11N Wireless Support

2010-04-11 Thread Pat Farrell
ally a matter of when the "spec" part is finished, but rather its when do the chip makers ramp up production so that the support chips are in large enough volume to be inexpensive. Its one thing for early adopter geeks to want to by the first 802.11n router, its another thing for Log

Re: [slim] 802.11N Wireless Support

2010-04-10 Thread Pat Farrell
et is that if you are waiting until then, you will be waiting until the product after the Touch is available. BTW: There is zero need for 11n for audio wireless. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.sli

Re: [slim] Squeezebox & Unbuntu not recognising music folder

2010-03-31 Thread Pat Farrell
rlying OS. Or as it is said more properly, Its not a bug, its a feature. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Problems with squeezebox classic

2010-03-30 Thread Pat Farrell
cards, especially the WiFi card. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Logitech

2010-03-21 Thread Pat Farrell
arly someone seriously underestimated the time and effort it would take to bring it to market. Which is why they are living in a hut in Siberia. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Proper scoring for troll postings, per seanadams

2010-03-18 Thread Pat Farrell
ion, unreachable. Most common trolls seem to get 2/10 or 3/10, some rise to 5/10. The judges are fair, but not generous. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Proper scoring for troll postings, per seanadams

2010-03-18 Thread Pat Farrell
seudoscience, it gets more from the judges. If it uses well established nonsense such as jitter, it gets some, etc. The best score is 10/10, for perfect execution, creativity, and freshness. Note, a 1/10 is still troll food, just not as perfect. -- Pat Farrell http://www.

Re: [slim] Logitech

2010-03-17 Thread Pat Farrell
ech corporate management. But I don't expect that Logitech will change. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox phased out

2010-03-14 Thread Pat Farrell
upported. Even the slimp3 still works. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox phased out

2010-03-13 Thread Pat Farrell
ook at the French/German and other sections of the forum. They exist even though they get very little traffic. Forum sections are cheap. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox phased out

2010-03-13 Thread Pat Farrell
th00ht wrote: > So honestly, when will the Squeezebox Classic be phased out and not > supported anymore? Er, the Squeezebox 1 and Slmp3 are still supported. What are you really asking? -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailin

Re: [slim] Display flickering on SB3

2010-03-06 Thread Pat Farrell
mr-b wrote: > Is this characteristic of the display and/or PSU failing? or possible characteristic of a failing display -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.

Re: [slim] logitech selling policy

2010-02-23 Thread Pat Farrell
er. You can keep making a handful of Transporters. You can not keep making thousands of Classics -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] 7.4.2 and SB1 not playing flac

2010-02-19 Thread Pat Farrell
h smaller buffer, so WiFi dropouts are frequent when sending transcoded streams. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Does Sound Card on Computer Matter?

2010-02-14 Thread Pat Farrell
sawdin wrote: > If yes, doesn't that mean my > soundcard has no effect on the quality of what I hear when using a SB > product? Yes, the sound card has zero impact. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailin

Re: [slim] Anyone have over 100,000 tracks in their library?

2010-02-14 Thread Pat Farrell
forgot I already had. I think I've bought about 10. I used to keep a printout of my collection from SlimServer when I went to Tower Records. I still probably buy 20 to 30 CDs a year. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ __

Re: [slim] Anyone have over 100,000 tracks in their library?

2010-02-13 Thread Pat Farrell
ale. What kinds of music are these? How do you manage the library? -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Good omen???

2010-01-18 Thread Pat Farrell
eganders wrote: > andyg;507814 Wrote: >> Yeah I hate to burst your bubble but Touch is still a few months away. > > Q: Is v.7.5 on a similar schedule? I believe that they are tied at the hip. I could be wrong on this. -- Pat Farrell http://w

Re: [slim] SB Employees MIA

2010-01-10 Thread Pat Farrell
an its warranted, useful, or valuable. Let alone true. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] boxee box and sbs

2010-01-10 Thread Pat Farrell
eded terabytes of disk? -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] SB Employees MIA

2010-01-10 Thread Pat Farrell
rom him until/when/if the Radio gets work on its sound/digital filters, etc. More specifically, I would not expect to see Caleb talking about the Touch's sound, since it doesn't have speakers, it doesn't make a lot of sound. Nor would I expect him to chime in on mySB.com or similar

Re: [slim] Forum problems?

2010-01-08 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: > I think there are just intermittent problems. There are clearly problems. I agree that they seem intermittent. Chrome vs FF seems to make no difference to my usage, its just flakey. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.

Re: [slim] Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ?

2010-01-08 Thread Pat Farrell
e user experience, music and other media in their car. They are doing this for a reason. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Best way to sell my Squeezebox v1?

2010-01-05 Thread Pat Farrell
ich gives them four times the buffer. It makes a huge difference. For MP3 files, its not an issue. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: > Not a chance in a billion. Pessimist. I say its more like one in a million. Still pretty low. -- ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Sonos marketing? What does this mean?

2009-12-27 Thread Pat Farrell
ers, @m1abrams is right, they expect and require analog signals. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Best of Luck - moving on...

2009-12-23 Thread Pat Farrell
enty miles, then entering the park and driving back twenty miles. Plus, the horses knew the way home, so if they had one or two too many, the horse would get them home. Even better, now DUI while riding. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ disc

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-20 Thread Pat Farrell
urope long before it came to the US. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] SOX would make 16/48 out of 24/96 instead of 24/48

2009-12-13 Thread Pat Farrell
rom 96 to 44.1 is more complex, but there is a chance that the Classic/SB3 can process 48kHz natively. So there is no need to bother going to 44.1 Obviously if you are doing FFTs to try to use digital transformation, then you will use a ton of CPU power -- Pat Farrell h

[slim] SOX would make 16/48 out of 24/96 instead of 24/48

2009-12-13 Thread Pat Farrell
ncate them all to 16 bits using a shift-right by eight instruction. Converting 24/96 to 16/44.1 or even 24/44.1 is a different matter completely. Doing it "right" is not just simple division. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ disc

Re: [slim] Any possibility for 24/96 support on the SB3?

2009-12-13 Thread Pat Farrell
s thread. The SB3/Classic is done. Its never going to do anything more than it does today. The Server may do fancy stuff in the future, but its not going to be enhanced. The future is the Touch. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss m

Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes

2009-12-13 Thread Pat Farrell
x27;s law provides. Apple is on the third generation of the iPhone since January 9, 2007. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes

2009-12-13 Thread Pat Farrell
bruce wrote: > running on a computer somewhere on the network, then that would truly be > a big step forward. Its really, a big step forward. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.co

Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes

2009-12-13 Thread Pat Farrell
new name on a SB3, and the SB3 is just a new plastic package on the SB2. Its really old. Its ancient, almost prehistoric, in computer peripheral times. The underlying technology of the Classic/SB3/SB2 is nearly too old to contemplate. Sure, its dirt cheap, but so is a Pentium 4 computer.

Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes

2009-12-12 Thread Pat Farrell
t could raise some concerns. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes

2009-12-12 Thread Pat Farrell
xpensive and has been End-of-life'd by its manufacturer. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Brick Potential?

2009-12-08 Thread Pat Farrell
ol new features will slow down or perhaps stop. So if you like what it does today, you are fine forever. If you bought it because of what it may do sometime in the future, you are a lot more optimistic than I am. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarre

Re: [slim] Brick Potential?

2009-12-07 Thread Pat Farrell
like MySql, Sun bought MySql, and Oracle is trying to buy Sun (and MySql) and there are already forks off by the open source folks. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdev

Re: [slim] Apple acquires lala.com... What's Stevo's next move?

2009-12-07 Thread Pat Farrell
ver the Internet. Now, its not even a blip, and streaming video is commonplace. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Apple acquires lala.com... What's Stevo's next move?

2009-12-07 Thread Pat Farrell
tamanaco wrote: > What do you think?... Am I dreaming here? More like a nightmare for me. I don't want my music packaged and controlled by the borg. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.

Re: [slim] Brick Potential?

2009-12-06 Thread Pat Farrell
since its perl, you have all the source when you install the software. Logitech could follow the big banks or excite.com into the ether, and my server will keep running. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list d

Re: [slim] Is This Normal?

2009-12-05 Thread Pat Farrell
e Receiver, Boom, and other things are not in the living room. Seems normal enough to me. @havoc1 you can always give some to friends and family, that is what I did with my SB1 and SB1-G units. I didn't want the wive to think that I was obsessive about SqueezeBoxen. -- Pat Farre

Re: [slim] outside speakers--work with sqeezebox radio??

2009-12-03 Thread Pat Farrell
ered speakers or anything these into it. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
ghts made no sense. The Feds can say you must offer the part for sale, but they can't say that a person driving a 10 year old car will decide it makes sense to buy it. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.s

Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
in our homes every three years. Toasters, > refrigerators, phones (oh wait we already do) radio alarm clocks, > etc... Yep, and automobiles are not that far behind. I had a car that was totalled because the headlights burned out. The replacement HID units were $1000 each, two were the list pric

Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
ut nearly all of them as inexpensive as a Transporter do today. Any ten year old computer is pretty much gone. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
heir prices are being driven by volume down quickly. It will be a lot easier for Logitech to make and sell Touch units at lower prices than they could with the Classic. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list dis

Re: [slim] Squeezebox without remote

2009-11-29 Thread Pat Farrell
ow the remote and buy the guy a pint. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.

2009-11-27 Thread Pat Farrell
n or so operating systems, as I have, going from one to the next is really not that big of a deal. Sure, the commands are different, but the concepts are universal. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.

2009-11-27 Thread Pat Farrell
it as the SqueezeBoxServer? Either with Windows or with Linux? There is nothing that says your server has to be the same OS as what you use on a daily basis. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Will There Be a Logitech Open House in MV This Year?

2009-11-25 Thread Pat Farrell
andyg wrote: > The MV office will be closing early next year, everyone is moving to the > Logitech HQ in Fremont. No wonder Dean and Sean left the company, who wants to commute to Fremont :-) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http:/

Re: [slim] Help me put toghether HW and SW for my server!

2009-11-17 Thread Pat Farrell
in the Ubuntu forums. You technically don't need the GUI, but I find it very useful during setup, and a lot easier to approach if you are used to Windows or OS-X. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevic

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Static IPs?

2009-11-15 Thread Pat Farrell
en if there is a tool, how often do you need to run it? every power blip? The DHCP server solution is once and forever done. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Static IPs?

2009-11-15 Thread Pat Farrell
o set the address manually on the > Duet Receiver (does anyone have a guide?). I have had a Duet Receiver from the earliest days that it was released, and I have no clue if there is a menu anywhere to set that. I just have my DHCP server assign the same address to my Receiver based on its m

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Static IPs?

2009-11-15 Thread Pat Farrell
ces on the network claiming to be the same IP address, its very bad. The normal model is to find the thing on your network that is serving up DCHP addresses, and go there and force it to assign the address you want. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.

Re: [slim] Server control from remote PC?

2009-11-15 Thread Pat Farrell
ong string of hex characters). -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Server control from remote PC?

2009-11-15 Thread Pat Farrell
tp://192.168.1.4:9000 Get that to work, and then we will address how to use names. There are lots of ways to set that up, but details depend on a lot of stuff, so lets get the basics working first -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ dis

Re: [slim] My SB3 display has died after 2 years.

2009-11-12 Thread Pat Farrell
nd once the Touch is really shipping, the value of an SB3 is going to crater. Lots of current consumer mass market electronics are like toasters: buy them, when the break, buy another. Even expensive LCD HDTVs have no serviceable parts. -- Pat Farrell http:/

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