On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was only trying out Amarok.
What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid. audacious seems almost completely better to me > I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the > fact that the server is "pingable" really doesn't provide useful > information in this particular case. yeah, but it is a lot more likely that the server would be down than that it's just misconfigured. servers go down all the time; they are generally seldom administered. so it seems to me a ping is a good first step in testing access to these servers. im guessing CDDB does use IP, so if icmp can get through, so can tcp (udp,or any other protocols encapsulated in ip). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
