Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
SilverRS8 wrote: The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons; 1. everybody has IE installed I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g. the GNU/Linux OS)! ;-) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?
snarlydwarf wrote: With debian, yes, you should do an uninstall and then an install because the package name changed. Thanks for this. Of course, on Debian 'uninstall' is not so simple. Just doing aptitude remove slimserver will leave the configuration files; is this OK? Or do you need to get rid of the config files, too, with aptitude purge slimserver, and start completely from scratch? (Commands prefaced with 'sudo' for Ubuntu users.) TIA ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?
bobharp wrote: My upgrade was relatively smooth. I renamed the old directory (/usr/share/slimserver/) after the update to squeezecenter. I updated the wiki. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DebianPackage Presumably you added the bits at the end about having to do more than just the basic apt-get from the repository in the form of having to install libexpat1-dev separately, having to configure perl manually, etc? Is it reasonable to suppose that this is a temporary fix, and will not be necessary for installing the final release? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?
bobharp wrote: I just added: -or for the development release (currently SlimServer 7.0a1)- apt-get remove --purge slimserver apt-get update apt-get install squeezecenter I doubt that a purge is necessary. I did not have to configure perl or install libexpat1-dev. That's good! And really simple. Thanks for the confirmation. [If the process is now that simple, I do hope there's some way of tidying up the wiki so that it's less confusing. I guess many of us have had the experience of being led astray by HowTos and wikis that haven't been cleaned up for years, and have layers of obsolete, misleading and conflicting instructions. They get to be like a fridge in a student house - everyone puts stuff in, but no one feels they can chuck rotting stuff out, 'cos it's not theirs! Are there wiki management rules about this? (Couldn't find any advice on this in the wiki! ;-) )] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?
funkstar wrote: If someone makes a bad change to the Wiki, can it not be rolled back to the previous change? I amways thought this was one of the features of Wikis, they have a bhuilt in versiion management system. Or does that depend on the Wiki backend software? The problem is not so much bad changes as once-correct material that has become obsolete. For all sorts of reasons (many of them genuine) they stay in the pages, undeleted, and lie in wait for the innocent and unwary. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?
Michael Herger wrote: It should not be necessary to uninstall _completely_. If you don't uninstall, the Windows installer will do it for you. But don't throw away your settings: they will be migrated. What's the right procedure for debian-type distros? Do you need to uninstall before upgrade? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Price Difference
kdf wrote: snip ... my recent need for a hard drive in the UK lead me to a very nice supply of computer parts Name? URL? Yours, Hopeful UK Dweller ;-) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Uh Oh
Mitch Harding wrote: I would buy the SB regardless of the label, provided it's the same SB inside. The hardware is only part of the story. A very important part, but still a part. Just out of interest, does anyone know what kind of licence the SqueezeCentre Software is released under? GPL-3??? ;-) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Uh Oh
simonjedrake wrote: Makes sense from a Microsoft business stratergy to get into esential hardware that every PC user has to have, i.e Mice, Keyboards, Video camera's, etc. Cannot imagine that a Squeezebox will fall into this category... Well, sadly, the guys at The Reg can. This is their immediate (and scary) thought... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/10/ms_wants_logitech/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] XP installation: Cannot specify network drive for Music Folder
ppmoore wrote: I'm trying to install slimserver on XP. The installation works when I specify a local path on the PC for the music folder. However, when I specify a network drive (\\Sblan\music), or a network drive mapped to a local drive (X:\music), it doesn't work. IIRC, don't you have to use the full UNC format: \\DriveIPAddress\Folder So instead of the name Sblan, you'd have 192.168.1.20 or whatever it is. (Should confess I haven't used WinXP for ages, so I may be misremembering this!) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
snarlydwarf wrote: Diana Artemis;251734 Wrote: ... Are you talking about a CD-Rom based SqueezeCentre? Yes, hence CD-Rom based servers. Thanks. I wasn't sure whether you might be referring to some sort of 'live CD' distro - a sort of ClarkConnect-on-a-disc! Now there's an idea! ;-) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
snarlydwarf wrote: Look on the bottom left corner of most of their pages (ie, go to 'small business desktop' and then look at the left under 'Shopping Alternatives'. I can't see this on the Dell pages here (UK). But the link for the 'Dell Outlet' in UK is http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=ukl=ens=dfo~ck=bt Like you, I don't find the prices that impressive - though if you keep a regular eye on the site there are occasional very good deals. (UK buyers should notice that the prices do NOT include VAT and delivery.) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
snarlydwarf wrote: big snip Use one of those with a copy of one of the CD-Rom based servers (I think there is one based on Debian Linux and one based one FreeBSD) Snarly Sorry to butt in on this thread, but I was interested in this bit of advice, and not sure what you meant exactly. Are you talking about a CD-Rom based SqueezeCentre? (Like Michael Herger's SlimCD?) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
