psm0110 Wrote: > Is there a place to download 6.1? http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/SlimServer_v6.1.1/
There are a variety to chose from, depending on what OS you're using. psm0110 Wrote: > I am sorely disappointed by some of the harsh comments about the > software working fine for most people.Me too. psm0110 Wrote: > I suppose if the websites I create work for 85% of visitors my clients > should just disregard the 15% of lost customers?I'm not sure logic applies > here. The first couple of times I made suggestions here, I too found great hostility. I'm not sure why. My suggestions were, as an outsider, reasonable. I later found out that some of what I was suggesting was between impractical and impossible given the strategic directions SLIM had taken (to abandon a poorly thought out and poorly implemented interface I had in my ignorance chosen to use in favour of a more complete one). But a calmer response would have been nicer. >From a distance now, looking back, better documentation would have avoided the problem. When I made the decision, the interface I avoided had fewer features and said it was intended for home automation systems. Since I wasn't building anything like that, I left it alone. Nothing in the documentation said that the interface I chose was depricated and scheduled for no more development, and the home automation interface was the way to go (AFAIK still true as of 6.2, guys). In point of fact, I left the forums at that point determined never to come back. I did come back, because at the heart of this project is some good hardware that I can use for a project I'm working on, some good software, only some of the features I use, somem good people whose efforts are going more or less in the same direction as I am, and because no one else is doing what I want to do and can't accomplish on my own. Oh, and because I like to listen to music :-). My parents and grandparents danced and there was always music around. When I was a pre-teen someone gave me a broken transistor radio and said "if you can fix it, it's yours". It had been dropped and had a broken solder trace. I bridged the solder gap, and listened to 1050 CHUM with an earpiece on the way to and from junior high school. This is just the 40 year later extension of that fun I had listening to music. I think what's not obvious to people when they first come here, and what perhaps needs to be better explained to the newcomer, is that most people on this list are not part of Slim Devices, don't speak for Slim Devices, and may in fact not know what they're talking about. Also their opinions vary all over the map. Since it is an open software project, some people on this list are Slim employees, some people are not but are very involved (i.e. they write and contribute code), some are merely ego involved, etc. And all linear combinations are possible. And perhaps non-linear as well. This is not to excuse bad behaviour, but it may go some distance toward explaining it. I guess you have 2 options - put your shields up and put up with the occasional bout of bad temper and rudeness in order to have something that seems relatively unusual in the hardware world at this point, or not. It's unfortunate, but one of the problems with open software projects is ... openness. Same is true of democracy, I guess. Everyone gets a vote. Man that's too much philosophy for the first cup of coffee.... sorry about being so long. -- Michaelwagner _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
