Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?

2008-01-16 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?

2008-01-16 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?

2008-01-16 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?

2008-01-16 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Release 7.0 advantages? and when?

2008-01-15 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Price Difference

2008-01-14 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Uh Oh

2008-01-10 Thread Diana Artemis
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?

Re: [slim] Uh Oh

2008-01-10 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] XP installation: Cannot specify network drive for Music Folder

2008-01-04 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.

2007-12-27 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.

2007-12-27 Thread Diana Artemis
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

Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.

2007-12-26 Thread Diana Artemis
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