atrocity wrote: > pfarrell;326488 Wrote: >> This whole discussion is silly. A typical PC these days has 2GB. Bloat >> doesn't matter. > > "Doesn't matter" is awfully broad. It might not matter to a lot of > people who aren't trying to do a lot of things at the same time, but it > certainly matters to some of us.
If you want to do lots of things at once, get an adequate platform. In absolute sense, you are correct, my statement was a tad excessively broad. But it came in the context of this idiotic thread. Folk who use a SqueezeBox tend to have a lot of music, so they have to have a lot of disk drives. $400 for a couple of disk drives will buy space for a lot of songs. Most spent $300 per SqueezeBox, plus amps, speakers, etc. It is silly to not spend $400 to get the server, or to upgrade the server to match it. I just bought a quad processor Penyrn system from Gateway with 3GB DDR2 667 memory and a 500 GB disk for $550. Its quiet and way faster than SC needs. > hell of a lot more reliably. Is it because I was asking too much of it > or is it because stuff that *should* have played nicely together didn't > due to unreasonable demands? I really don't know, but I think it's > worth thinking considering. In these days of nearly free computers, I wouldn't waste 20 seconds considering it. Just get a decent configuration. As you say, SC runs great on Linux with wimpy systems. So get one. Free your Windoze box to do Windows things. I have three squeezeboxen, a transporter and a Duet. I don't think its excessive to spend $300 on a server to support the music. And, this thread is silly because the code exists and is open source. If you want it in scala, python, D, scheme, etc, go write it. But its not going to be moved from Perl to YourFavoriteLanguge. Perl does the job and its simply not cost effective to even seriously discuss this as a "problem" when $100 worth of hardware will solve it. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
