Re: [slim] So when's the fire sale, Logitech?

2012-08-30 Thread syburgh
Still have a few SB3s and a Boom procured from Circuit City's closing sale for cheap. Should be set for awhile... syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slim

Re: [slim] Hardware advice sought..

2011-07-21 Thread syburgh
t; they just become read-only. Storing swap and hibernation files on SSD makes me queasy, but I do it anyway because they are not terrifically expensive -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.

Re: [slim] Whs 2011

2011-07-21 Thread syburgh
Just did -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88862 ___ di

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2011-03-10 Thread syburgh
cannot be used to pay in this seller's currency." regardless of which credit card I try. Any suggestions? Am in US -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=142

Re: [slim] SB3 Display Brightness

2010-02-15 Thread syburgh
e dimmed in any noticeable way yet. Good luck! -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh

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

2009-08-26 Thread syburgh
andynormancx;452011 Wrote: > Have you not seen the discussion on the upcoming Squeezebox Touch player > ? Haven't been trawling these forums closely enough. If it lives up to expectations I've my wallet at the read

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

2009-08-26 Thread syburgh
h as a Boom, and I might even be persuaded to pay some sort of subscription fee for radio and ongoing SC updates (if this is what it would take to get better quality SC releases). My $0.02. More selfishly, can we have an officially supported iPod Touch interface and a modern (meaning fast &

Re: [slim] I am leaving Logitech!

2009-06-08 Thread syburgh
Want to add my thanks for a terrific product -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Anyone using an SB2 or SB3 as a wireless bridge to a PC?

2009-05-15 Thread syburgh
PC running m0n0wall. It's quite usable and performant, but has a lot of the same characteristics as a laptop connected to a wireless network in an urban environment. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimd

Re: [slim] Anyone using an SB2 or SB3 as a wireless bridge to a PC?

2009-01-24 Thread syburgh
It's OK for web browsing, but not for continuous high traffic (interruptions when using VOIP or p2p for hours at a time in the form of the player occasionally rebooting itself). Works fine with music streaming or not. -- sy

Re: [slim] SB3 Bridge

2009-01-15 Thread syburgh
Like 'this' (http://blog.syburgh.com/2007/07/08/use-squeezebox-as-wireless-bridge/)? -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.

Re: [slim] NYTimes - Cisco to enter the Home Digital Entertainment Market

2009-01-08 Thread syburgh
standpoint! -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57371 ___

Re: [slim] Found Local Store With Good Deal on Duets

2008-12-19 Thread syburgh
Any Booms at YDI? -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Does SC run smoothly on an Asus eee Box?

2008-11-04 Thread syburgh
6.5.4 interface didn't have album art and seemed faster). They seem to be improving the web interface's latency with 7.2.1, and I hope to see further enhancement over time. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: ht

Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1

2008-10-28 Thread syburgh
syburgh;354442 Wrote: > bump, no 7.2.1 at > http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/ Fixed now. Thanks! -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View

Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1

2008-10-28 Thread syburgh
/repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/ -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdev

Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1

2008-10-27 Thread syburgh
7.2.1 is also not yet available in the squeezecenter-stable YUM repository (http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/) for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS. YUM still says 7.2 is most recent as of Mon Oct 27 12:14:59 UTC 2008 -- syburgh

Re: [slim] Just curious: when/why did you get your first Slim/Logitech player?

2008-10-18 Thread syburgh
management and flexible metadata will make it into some future SC release... -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] which protocol and port for WOL

2008-10-17 Thread syburgh
to your server (wireless, wired, and any routers involved)? How is the laptop connected to the server? -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread:

Re: [slim] IPv6 Support

2008-10-15 Thread syburgh
rised if most users were still reliant on the SB3/Boom/Receiver/etc. players other than for nostalgia by the time IPv6 was necessary to have a good user experience. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimd

Re: [slim] My wish for a new product

2008-10-09 Thread syburgh
e is simply not a large enough market for such a device (or a preference for players with more in-built functionality, Roku-style). If the "success" of WHS and the original NSLU2 are any indication, the market for such a device is

Re: [slim] Big libraries?

2008-09-26 Thread syburgh
grossly overpowered for the 1TB of FLAC files and several players it serves. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimde

Re: [slim] FF & Rewind using 7.2 ROCKS

2008-09-17 Thread syburgh
ot perfect (or even good, in some cases), it does seem to have become something of a de facto standard by which others are judged for many potential users (as with Windows 95 UI sets expectations for many PC users). -

Re: [slim] SB3 and Wake On LAN

2008-08-21 Thread syburgh
roblem for me). If none of this is applicable to you, try connecting the PC and SB3 together directly using a patch cord and see if you can wake the PC using the SB3 (will need to assign IP addresses to both manually). This will isolat

Re: [slim] SB3 and Wake On LAN

2008-08-20 Thread syburgh
server, or if there is a network bridge between the server and the players (i.e. the SB3 sends the magic packet to the bridge MAC address, not the server MAC address). -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] shutting off at a specific time

2008-07-03 Thread syburgh
ic.com/html/docs/cli-api.html#power) where is the SB MAC address) Maybe there is a plugin that also does this? -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Enabling Wake On Lan

2008-06-24 Thread syburgh
ate whether the router is the issue by temporarily connecting SB to wired segment on router to test WOL. If it works then the server is fine and the router is the issue. Good luck! BTW: Static IP vs DHCP will not change this situatio

Re: [slim] SB has brought my network to its knees

2008-06-24 Thread syburgh
Sounds very abnormal-- hard to encounter capacity issues with a single SB. Are you sure the patch cable are good? -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread:

[slim] Register Duet Review

2008-06-23 Thread syburgh
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/23/review_logitech_squeezebox_duet/ -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.

Re: [slim] Slightly OT - RAID corruption

2008-06-15 Thread syburgh
much less likely -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48881 _

Re: [slim] Survey: What's your listening to fiddling ratio?

2008-06-11 Thread syburgh
nt to outsource SC in the future and expect there will be a $20 VPS with cheap storage (or hosted SC service) by the time I am in the market for this again. (I hope) Nobody buys SB/Duet systems for the pleasure of installing and maintaining a local SC instance

Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Now Available

2008-05-16 Thread syburgh
Release Yum repository not updated yet (still 7.0): http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/ -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Several plugins does not work on SlimNAS

2008-05-12 Thread syburgh
TrackStat works with SlimServer 6.5.1 on SlimNAS -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Energy saving thoughts and tips

2008-04-25 Thread syburgh
larger IO demands (e.g. DB, mail spool, etc.) than a single user SqueezeCenter. Something like a cheap Xen VM (e.g. Slicehost) for $20/month would probably be good if it had the necessary storage... Not a great idea to run SC7 open to the public Internet, but many home routers support VPN... -

Re: [slim] SBC wake up computer

2008-03-24 Thread syburgh
Vote for enhancement '#5378' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5378), maybe scheduled for SC 7.1 -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View th

Re: [slim] New York Times Article on Digital Music

2008-02-21 Thread syburgh
that kind of time for ~$1/CD), so the (infrequently used) ability of the device to rip audio is less than it may initially appear. Would rather buy a few rooms worth SD or Sonos equipment for the same price... Will avoid ranting on this as this audience is already converted :)

Re: [slim] Power on-->Wake on lan-->Power on again - Why?

2008-02-16 Thread syburgh
.cgi?id=4782). This would resolve the issue of SB3 switching off after sending WOL, no? -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevi

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-02-05 Thread syburgh
They might ask you what percentage of customers are willing to figure this out. :) Great to hear it's working -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this th

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-01-30 Thread syburgh
The two NICs you mentioned are both Realtek based (8111B and 8169S), so despite different branding it is quite possible they have drivers with similar deficiencies. Might want to try a *non*-Realtek NIC. -- syburgh

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-01-23 Thread syburgh
can't confirm that the Intel gigabit NIC drivers work as expected with SB3, but would be surprised if it did not. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this th

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-01-20 Thread syburgh
Linksys EG1032 v3 'appears ' (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-January/016388.html) to be another Realtek chip, RTL8169S -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/me

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-01-20 Thread syburgh
n the changelog. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41129 ___

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-01-20 Thread syburgh
times if unicast WOL is enabled, seemingly due to traffic from SB3s. Configuring the NIC to wake *only* on magic packets completely resolved my problems. Have no direct experience with this, but hopefully this helps -- syburgh --

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2008-01-20 Thread syburgh
server and WOL works great. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Want to be able to run the SBR with the SB3 remote?

2008-01-14 Thread syburgh
for FreeNAS/SlimNAS... -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42229

Re: [slim] Want to be able to run the SBR with the SB3 remote?

2008-01-14 Thread syburgh
* love to have IR-Blaster capability in the SBR to switch on said receiver, but there does not appear to be a headphone jack on the SBR so it may not be possible. -- syburgh syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] Filtering out duplicate tracks?

2008-01-07 Thread syburgh
s easy to merge FLAC and MP3 files to replicate your current layout if you must have things arranged as you do now: just copy one on top of the other, or better yet, just symlinks. No one best way to do this, but hopefully this helps