Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-06 Thread ModelCitizen
kdf;357213 Wrote: On 5-Nov-08, Something that keeps annoying me is that there is no way to skip the firmware updates on the controller Turn off the software updates settings in server settings. That should stop the auto updates. -kdf Something a bit less permanent than this solution

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread Peter
squeeze_box wrote: ... u know what, it is laughable but when i think back... it does feel slow the way the dots are moving... speeding it up will probably get ppl to think the search itself is fast, just the amount of data pool is too big thus taking time... whereas slow dots will imply slow

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread squeeze_box
lol honestly, language is meant to be used to communicate, so if obama types color without u in it :_P it still goes around as color... same goes with the caps, it's no where close to missing commas and stops lol :D cheer up dude :D -- squeeze_box

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread maggior
squeeze_box;356871 Wrote: goes to show how people are not machines, or rather, machines that are subject to easy manipulation :D Back when I was involved with some GUI work, we called this type of thing ETM, or Entertain The Monkey. It started out as little cute animated graphics like

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread Zaragon
Having been both developer, user and helpdesk support it is amazing what people think. People like to be told that something is happening and the faster they are told the more they think it's happening. We have many times proved that slowing down a long process to give status updates make the

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread bklaas
FYI, starting with r3285, and thus coincident with the first 7.3 firmware pushed out to users with the fast spinny, firmware downloads should run about 30 seconds faster. MAGIC! #!/ben -- bklaas Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread squeeze_box
Zaragon;357098 Wrote: Having been both developer, user and helpdesk support it is amazing what people think. ...space ...saver ...lines :D Used to impress them significantly more than the big VAX machines and several microvaxes that were doing the real work that all the RS232 devices

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread mikeselectricstuff
All we need now is some work on the appallingly slow 'please wait' time on controller wakeup... -- mikeselectricstuff mikeselectricstuff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16264 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread Peter
mikeselectricstuff wrote: All we need now is some work on the appallingly slow 'please wait' time on controller wakeup... What we really need is some kind of SqueezeMan. A cartoon character not unlike the infamous MS Clippy that can wake up, stretch a little, get out of bed, take a shower

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-05 Thread kdf
On 5-Nov-08, Something that keeps annoying me is that there is no way to skip the firmware updates on the controller Turn off the software updates settings in server settings. That should stop the auto updates. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list

[slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-04 Thread JJZolx
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9898 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54675

Re: [slim] Humorous bug of the day

2008-11-04 Thread squeeze_box
... u know what, it is laughable but when i think back... it does feel slow the way the dots are moving... speeding it up will probably get ppl to think the search itself is fast, just the amount of data pool is too big thus taking time... whereas slow dots will imply slow device... irregardless