Re: [slim] Custom Squeezebox Visuals

2010-06-15 Thread jonheal
jonheal;553417 Wrote: I should update the description of the project on my web site as I had to put a fair amount of further work into the project to get it reliable. I updated the project article on our web site and added some updated photos, as well. The biggest change is that the frame now

Re: [slim] Custom Squeezebox Visuals

2010-06-07 Thread jonheal
could get them working out of the box. Like I said at the outset, this project was a kluge, and highly tailored to my specific setup. But the source files might give you some ideas anyway. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | DELL

Re: [slim] Custom Squeezebox Visuals

2009-10-21 Thread jonheal
adapter pushes it close to or over the limit. I'm going to look around for a higher amperage 5V supply and see if it behaves more reliably. So, anyone out there planning on attempting a similar project with the Pandigital PAN7000DW, take heed. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

Re: [slim] Custom Squeezebox Visuals

2009-10-17 Thread jonheal
autopilot;473603 Wrote: Wow, that's really excellent. Could be get some more info, photos please :) The link in my post points to more info and photos. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | DELL OptiPlex PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA

[slim] Custom Squeezebox Visuals

2009-10-16 Thread jonheal
+---+ |Filename: sb_status.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8470| +---+ -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

Re: [slim] Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity

2008-02-29 Thread jonheal
version of the firmware from Verizon (which is still three years old, but a year newer than what was on it). I installed the firmware upgrade, and things seem to be more stable. My IP address hasn't changed in 20 hrs. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3

[slim] Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
lose my connection, correct? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

[slim] An Idea For AV Recievers

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
Here's a rhetorical question... How come AV Receivers don't include some kind of visualizer module so you can watch pretty colors on your TV jump around to your music? Or do they? I don't know ... don't have one ... -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3

Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
SilverRS8;273623 Wrote: Would that be a unique selling point? Personally I don't see much use in turning my TV on when I want to listen to music. It just distracts from the actual 'music expierence'. Well ... I'd like it. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
heat up the processors a bit when running visualizations. Does the iPhone do visualizations? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker

Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
is they take a bunch of audio and video inputs and output them to your TV and speakers. Only an option would exist to output to your TV, a video signal modulated by the audio signal from one of the receiver's audio inputs (fed by your Squeeze-thingy of your choice). -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice

Re: [slim] Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
jonheal;273575 Wrote: I'm just starting to research this, so I want to get my facts straight. Lately, it is becoming obvious that keeping a connection with an Internet radio station for more than a short period of time in our household is impossible. This is not a wireless issue -- I'm

Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
Ben Sandee;273686 Wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM, jonheal jonheal.35ibqn1204229401 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: What I was imagining was an AV reeciever that behaves the same way AV receivers behave now, which is they take a bunch of audio and video inputs

Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers

2008-02-28 Thread jonheal
give up ... my thread has been hopelessly hijacked. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Slimserver Database Question

2008-02-23 Thread jonheal
jonheal;269337 Wrote: The main reason I haven't upgraded is that I put together a considerable amount of scripting to link what is going on with the Squeezebox to our web site and I also modified the Perl of a plug-in I use. It looked like upgrading would require much gutting of code

Re: [slim] Slimserver Database Question

2008-02-14 Thread jonheal
for the morbidly curious if and when I get it working. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Can we avoid inflamatory titles?

2008-02-13 Thread jonheal
Mark Lanctot;268957 Wrote: Whatever happened to being polite? Because some folks feel they're above it, and there's probably not a whole lot that can be done about it. There will always be kind, thoughtful types. And there will always be ... other types. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have

[slim] Slimserver Database Question

2008-02-13 Thread jonheal
in the SQLite database. Where is Slimserver grabbing this info when it displays it on the web interface? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY

Re: [slim] Slimserver Database Question

2008-02-13 Thread jonheal
I'm working around the problem by adding orchestra information in the Comments tag, which also appears in the albums table. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2

Re: [slim] Slimserver Database Question

2008-02-13 Thread jonheal
think. Yes, I realize I'm still in the dark ages, Slimerver-wise, but 6.3.1 is serving me well. No complaints. Was the conflict between 6.5.x and anti-virus software ever resolved? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP

Re: [slim] Effect of running apps on SlimServer PC

2007-06-28 Thread jonheal
sluggishness with the remote. Ususally when I first turn on the Squeezebox. On a couple of instances, the sluggishness had become pervasive, and the only way I could fix it was by trashing and rebuilding the database. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired

Re: [slim] Hard drive problems

2007-06-28 Thread jonheal
://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817146601 -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Infinite loop in scanning dirs

2007-06-27 Thread jonheal
erland;211055 Wrote: Can't you just remove the incorrect link file ? Doctor, everytime I hit myself in the head with this hammer, my head hurts. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB

Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox

2007-06-09 Thread jonheal
Well, I think I will bow out of this debate as I realize there isn't much point in arguing over subjective issues. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio

Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox

2007-06-09 Thread jonheal
superior tomorrow, to what they produced today. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox

2007-06-08 Thread jonheal
point. I also like the way the logo is positioned on the aluminum bezel at a point that equates to the proportion of aluminum to plastic on the face of the unit as a whole. I'm sure the whiteness of the logo in the photo is due to camera flash. Good job, Sean and Company!! -- jonheal Jon Heal

Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox

2007-06-08 Thread jonheal
the correct brand of jeans? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox

2007-06-08 Thread jonheal
, in general, tend to be on the large size. Frankly, I think most of the moaning amounts to residual sour grapes over the sale/acquisition. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2

Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox

2007-06-08 Thread jonheal
| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2944| +---+ -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC

Re: [slim] June 1st

2007-06-04 Thread jonheal
What the heck are y'all takin' about all mysterious-like?? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio

Re: [slim] Logitech Customer Support

2007-05-24 Thread jonheal
Explorer works fine on a Mac -- with or without the MS drivers. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio

[slim] Pretty Irked

2007-05-20 Thread jonheal
! -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Pretty Irked

2007-05-20 Thread jonheal
how to get it back to a state that it can at least be reloaded. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio

Re: [slim] Pretty Irked

2007-05-20 Thread jonheal
to recovery. The SB is a true gadget. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: Transporter. �Boom� at power on/off.

2007-05-12 Thread jonheal
. It seems a bit old fashioned that you will have to follow a strict step by step routine in order not to damage your equipment just by turning off the source. Does any of you Slim guys out there have an opinion on this? Best regards Why don't you call Slim support? -- jonheal Jon Heal

Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?

2007-03-19 Thread jonheal
Pat Farrell;188703 Wrote: Since ram is nearly free, I don't see any reason to not put in lots... Please send me your extra free RAM. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus

Re: [slim] my SB starts playing at random times

2007-03-08 Thread jonheal
the location of some slimserver logs It really annoys me!!! The funny thing is, they wouldn't hear any music playing your Squeezebox, of course, and if they were using Softsqueeze, there should be an entry for their player in your prefs file. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

Re: [slim] Windows vs Linux - your OS of choice for SS

2007-03-05 Thread jonheal
: Windows vs Linux - your OS of choice for SS - Windows - Linux Pat Farrell;185504 Wrote: jonheal wrote: I guess that means I'm stupid. no, you seem to have missed All IMHO, of course. and the implied :-), :-P

Re: [slim] Windows vs Linux - your OS of choice for SS

2007-03-04 Thread jonheal
... -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html I guess that means I'm stupid. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY

Re: [slim] Weird Vista problem

2007-03-02 Thread jonheal
haunyack;184736 Wrote: jon, fart-facedness and arse-ness ... I'm not immune as well. Shouldn't have jabbed you about your avatar, really is quite a darling photo. Care to share the identity of that adorable child? Well, the child is not that adorable. It's me. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-03-02 Thread jonheal
a given command. Thanks. I guess you could get the system time before and after running the scan from a batch file. time /T C:\results.txt scanner --wipe --cleanup --d_info --d_server --d_scan \\ip-address\public\music time /T C:\results.txt -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-03-02 Thread jonheal
be interesting to see if the difference is linear with larger collections. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio

Re: [slim] Weird Vista problem

2007-03-01 Thread jonheal
bumpydog;184525 Wrote: Thanks you all for your helpful replies ;o) Hey Mr. Bumpydog, sir, maybe there ain't a whole lot of folks on the forum that have upgraded to Vista, yet. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running

Re: [slim] Weird Vista problem

2007-03-01 Thread jonheal
haunyack;184557 Wrote: How helpful is that, mr. jonheal? Recent photo? bumpydog - welcome. Don't mind the grumpy response from one of the forum regulars. Feel free to post anyway. Some of us don't live in these forums and it may take a day or two in order to recieve a proper response

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-03-01 Thread jonheal
. So you've got a dual-boot PC (Windows/Linux)? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Weird Vista problem

2007-03-01 Thread jonheal
playing. Thanks for the compliments. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Weird Vista problem

2007-03-01 Thread jonheal
misinterpreted your original message and responded like an arse. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-03-01 Thread jonheal
it was standing idle. When I run a scan (from the Windows XP PC), the disk attached to the NSLU2 churns constantly until the scan has completed. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-28 Thread jonheal
issues and not the speed of the NAS. 5mps vs. 40mbs. A factor of nearly 10. The OP's observation of a 20 minute local scan multiplied by a factor of 10 would result in a scan of 3 1/2 hours. 50,000 tracks. That's probably more 500GBs of data to sift through. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-28 Thread jonheal
a portion of a file? I'm just a sorta programmer, but I am only aware of methods of opening an entire file at once. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-28 Thread jonheal
ethernet itself is going to limit data transfers to 6-10MB/s, far slower than your EIDE or SATA bus. I think it takes nearly an hour to scan my ~6000 tracks. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-28 Thread jonheal
for a scan on my system. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-28 Thread jonheal
is on similar times for both OSs. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-28 Thread jonheal
to the disk's directory when the file was last modified. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

2007-02-27 Thread jonheal
on these forums running one flavor of embedded Linux, or another. In which case, they'd all be using SMB from Windows, and experiencing the same issues/problems. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB

Re: [slim] WPA WEP etc...

2007-02-24 Thread jonheal
hotspots and tens of thousands of private unsecured networks? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

Re: [slim] WPA WEP etc...

2007-02-22 Thread jonheal
, and the machines on it, is another matter entirely. Am I wrong in that assumption? And if all your broadcasting is music packets, is it that big of a deal to protect them? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON

Re: [slim] WPA WEP etc...

2007-02-22 Thread jonheal
Peter;182606 Wrote: Mark Lanctot wrote: jonheal;182579 Wrote: Being pretty much an idiot when it comes to networking stuff, please clarify something for me: As I understand it, encrypting your wireless broadcasts (hopefully) prevents an eavesdropper from reading the packets

Re: [slim] Microwave oven causes dropouts

2007-02-07 Thread jonheal
about the health of my gonads!! -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

[slim] Re: Vista Slimserver

2007-01-29 Thread jonheal
via the slimtray icon. I've selected 'Automatically run at system start' from the slimtray icon but this seems to have no effect. Has anyone had a similar issue, and a resolution? Thanks. Anything in the Event log? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor

2007-01-22 Thread jonheal
This is all very humorous. Restrict your driving so that you use SIX gallons less gasoline (maybe, what ... 150 miles?), and you've saved enough energy to run your SqueezeBox full blast for a year. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1

[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor

2007-01-22 Thread jonheal
watts! :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

[slim] Re: Rescan via wondows takes forever

2007-01-20 Thread jonheal
mapping. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects

[slim] Re: Apple Iphone= Idiotphone?

2007-01-10 Thread jonheal
Apple. But... It is a neat looking little machine, and the screen resolution 166 ppi -- that'll make for some amazingly sharp images. P.S. I do have a Mac, by the way. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: Apple Iphone= Idiotphone?

2007-01-10 Thread jonheal
Peter;168948 Wrote: jonheal wrote: In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law were passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I also grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ reach for the torches and pitchforks

[slim] Really Long Digital Coax Cable

2007-01-10 Thread jonheal
Has anyone tried soldering RCA jacks on Cat-5 to make a really long (100ft) digital coax cable? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: web ui poll

2007-01-09 Thread jonheal
on my receiver. I think it cost about $25.00. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: web ui poll

2007-01-09 Thread jonheal
, in which case, I would rate the web UI as not quite that awful. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread

[slim] Re: So where's the All White SB3 ?

2007-01-09 Thread jonheal
I don't think you can anodize aluminum white. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: External Hard Drives -- Most reliable (least likely to fail) brand?

2007-01-08 Thread jonheal
Regarding HDs of different ilks. They're all very reliable. They all break. Take your pick. Keep two sets of everything on different drives. Replace your drives every two or three years. You can't do a whole heck of a lot more than that. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

[slim] Re: on the question of speaker cable

2007-01-05 Thread jonheal
How about stringing coat hangers together? If you're afraid they'll short, wrap 'em with masking tape. That blue stuff looks pretty neat. Here's what I did (halfway down the page): http://www.theheals.org/jon/hi_fi.asp -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: Windows XP: Starting Slimserver as another user?

2007-01-04 Thread jonheal
The account needs some write priviledges. It has to write to the database and the prefs file. I think I granted my special user Modify priviledges to the Cache folder and the slimserver.pref file. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Dean Blackketter

2007-01-04 Thread jonheal
Just curious ... Is Dean on sabatical, or prehaps off to greener pastures? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View

[slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!

2006-12-31 Thread jonheal
on my system: Sevåg, Øystein -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!

2006-12-31 Thread jonheal
Peter;166095 Wrote: jonheal wrote: adamslim;166052 Wrote: Thought it might be that, and indeed it was. I note that my other accented names (such as Bartók, Béla) have the accents in sensible places, so presumably are ascii. So removing the accents in the filename solves

[slim] Re: So that's where all those Silver SB2 cases went...

2006-12-22 Thread jonheal
Ross L;164301 Wrote: Looks kinda like those robotic vacuums. The Slurpbox. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-22 Thread jonheal
everything else) at this point. I reckon I've got a http header problem somewhere, but where?? (Rhetorical question.) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-15 Thread jonheal
At first I thought it didn't need to be, but it appears that port 9000 must also be open to play remotely with SoftSqueeze. You can browse your collection in SoftSqueeze with 9000 closed but hit the play button, and it makey no sound. Drag. :-( -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

[slim] Re: Thinking of buying

2006-12-15 Thread jonheal
solutions are more reliable than what is built into the SB3, but ... -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Thinking of buying

2006-12-15 Thread jonheal
gotta be a good signal reflector! -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-14 Thread jonheal
with high-speed access. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

[slim] Play stopped in the middle of a track

2006-12-14 Thread jonheal
on this issue? SB3 (wired) 6.3.1 Windows XP -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-13 Thread jonheal
the country/world. Well, I own the domain name, but no-ip.com is doing the dynamic dns for me and they're based in Las Vegas, so that's where that comes from. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: A Luddite Wonders ...

2006-12-13 Thread jonheal
It's an interesting psychological phenomenon that one feels that one must provide more justification and reasoning NOT TO upgrade than TO upgrade. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: A Luddite Wonders ...

2006-12-13 Thread jonheal
and steady wins the race, and all that. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Server stops on its own

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
look for red Xs in the Event Log. Maybe your virus scanner is killing MySQL. That appears to be a prevalent problem with 6.5+ (So, you decided not to back off to 6.3.1?) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: Java 6 - don't go there!!

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
for EVERYTHING (except maybe Windows). Rarely, it seems, are they critical, and often, they turn out to bite you in the arse. (I'm thinking of Java and Acrobat, here.) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: A Luddite Wonders ...

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
The response to my query has been somewhat underwhelming. I guess I'll assume that the issues I raised are still issues with 6.5+. I suppose I'll keep chugging along with 6.3.1. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
someone is going to be able to browse my hard drives (Windows) unless I have ports 137, 138, 139 and/or 445 open. What can a nefarious person really do with port 3483? It seems that I actually don't even need 9000 open to use SoftSqueeze. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
, right? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30564

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
through that port, THROUGH Slimserver? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
on in ... if you can. I would rather learn from a friendly source about breaches in our little mote. www.theheals.net ... your passport straight into our basement. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
... once and future GROUND ZERO! -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
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[slim] Re: Ideas for Squeezebox 4

2006-12-12 Thread jonheal
white list feature could also be included to let your SBs at home into the fold automatically. Then, we really could open our music to the Internet, allowing us to connect from work, vacation, etc., without having to worry about every Tom, Dick and Harry mucking about. -- jonheal Jon Heal says

[slim] Re: What does this mean?

2006-12-09 Thread jonheal
://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22096 -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: What does this mean?

2006-12-09 Thread jonheal
, but unplug both the SqueezeBox AND your router for ten minutes before attempting to connect again. Again, I recommend uninstalling everything and backing off to 6.2 before attempting to install 6.3.1. From my experience, the factory reset doesn't do squat. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day

[slim] Re: Can I connect to kpbs.org?

2006-12-09 Thread jonheal
rocket j squirrel;161104 Wrote: Thanks Andy -- I don't quite get what you're suggesting. Scrolling up, down, or sideways, all I get is the pesky commercial. Maybe Slim Devices has contributed insufficiently to National Public Radio. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

[slim] Re: No network connection -- please help

2006-12-09 Thread jonheal
Have you tried a wired connection to the router? Just to be clear, when you tried the factory reset, you plugged the power cord into the SB while you were holding down the + button, right? (Get sick of useless, unhelpful posts in the other thread?) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day

[slim] Re: No network connection -- please help

2006-12-09 Thread jonheal
listening to music. ;-) Kyle, Doesn't your router have ethernet ports? Just plug the SB into one. Forget about listening to music right now, just take the SB and the remote to the router, plug it in and see if you can get a connection. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http

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