I also feel there's many issues from the underlying core software of SB having web interfaces and similar UI's as the way of controlling the system. Sure, these high-level languages can give a nice user experience, and improve portability and code re-use, but they can also hide information and accessibility. Not a problem when everything works (as my SB system has been, 95% happily for a year or more), but a pain when something goes wrong. This is a different manufacturer, but another of my nightmares this weekend was installing an add-on package on my NAS via its web interface. The installation failed, because of a wget failing, because of a DNS lookup failure. But because of this, other packages wouldn't install either, and the web page for showing what *was* installed also failed with a javascript error. So what should have been a 20sec install took me 2 hours to figure out! And that had to be down by finding in forums how to run the installation manually so I could see the root error.
Mind you, perhaps I'm biased (or old!) - anything Linux and I much prefer a bash shell...! -- ColH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ColH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30377 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78842 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
