Tom, I saw that the other day. It looks very exciting.
Imagine, with just a little interface work we'll be at the point where a laptop-type device will be *really* useful in automobiles. It could replace or greatly enhance dedicated entertainment systems (wouldn't it be great to be able to access your entire collection over a broadband connection?) and GPS/Nav systems (with the added benefit of having them up-to-date, interactive and made more useful by the addition of real-time traffic data.) Heck, shouldn't there be a system whereby one can quickly send out a notice of an accident or a traffic slowdown that will instantly pop up on the moving maps of other similarly-equipped drivers? Or perhaps one could automatically upload telemetry data that'd be aggregated and processed to generate maps that display traffic speed for everyone, and that data would be used to compute course changes if more efficient routes were available? The possibilities are endless, and boggle the mind. W/r/t the how-to, I'd suggest that three things be addressed in a step-by-step manner. 1) Finding, downloading, installing and setting up the SSH server on an XP system. There's a lot of command-line stuff that's not very clear to your typical GUI-user. A small example - the "-l" flag sure looks like "- ONE". If you're not messing with this stuff every day, that little issue could shut you down completely. Also, I believe that the accounts/password transfer examples are written for an NT system - the steps don't line up exactly for XP. 2) Configuring a (typical) firewall for access. You witnessed my struggles here, which could be avoided by a simple picture (or clear examples like "put 22 in the box for forwarding port".) Typical users would even struggle to determine the IP address of the machine running the slimserver - it might help to lay out a way to find that information easily (is that obtainable in some way other than resetting a SB and walking through the setup manually?) 3) Configuring softsqueeze to access the slimserver. A screenshot would be nice, but even a box-by-box walkthrough would be helpful. The biggest problem from my perspective was that every resource I found for setting up SSH and/or the softsqueeze assumed that one had a strong working knowledge of UNIX, and therefore skipped over, or gave very cursory treatment to, steps that would be obvious to someone with that background. As always, just my $.02. Best, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas B. Malsbury Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:10 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: FW: [slim] Re: Problems/Frustration with Softsqueeze/SSH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Tom, > >Thanks for your help. I managed to get it working - I think the final >key was forwarding to port 22 of the SSH server. > >My system is using EVDO (wireless broadband) on a laptop, which enables >me to access my music collection almost anywhere within my hometown >(and quite a few other towns too). I'm excited about the ability to >stream music anywere (like my car, for instance). Sound quality seems great so far. > >Tom > > You might be interested in an EVDO project that I saw all over the tech blogs yesterday. http://moro.fbrtech.com/~tora/EVDO/index.html Almost makes me want to go out and sign up for the service just to be able to build on of these ;) Glad to here you got SoftSqueeze up and running. If you wouldn't mind giving some feedback on the SSH-How-to so I can make them clearer for any future users that would be great. Tom Malsbury _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
