Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread Pascal Hibon
Memories... I never owned an Apple II but they had them at school for the IT classes. VisiCalc also brings back some memories. My first computer was ZX80.because of the Z80 processor inside. I learned assembler on that thing. Later upgraded to a 'bigger' ZX Spectrum machine of course.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread Julf
JackOfAll wrote: vi.. Real men use emacs! ;) Old farts, (like me), use joe and fondly reminisce about computing in the 80's and 90's. Anyone else remember Wordstar? No, real men remember that EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes And Continuously Swapping, and few of us had that much RAM (or

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread Julf
JohnSwenson wrote: My first computer was an 8080 based homebrew monster. I spent a month wire wrapping that thing after school. I had an OLD Tecktronix tube based scope I used to debug it. The first incarnation just had the infamous switches and lights, but it WAS a computer! 8080s were

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
garym wrote: my first computer was an Apple ][. Still have it. That's probably worth a dollar or two now. JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread Squeezemenicely
I wonder after reading this in the first post (squeezeboxserver service disabled by default), can one simply enable the squeezebox server and what is the performance like? Search etc., fast? Will it harm playback in any way? The spdif on the wandboard, is it good - as in jitterfree etc. Sorry,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
COMMUNITY-SQUEEZE-WEB-1-47.20130427GIT6EDA763 Having dragged the conversation off-topic, this is something I said I'd do a while back, but can't remember who asked me now. I want tomcat to remain on port 8080 for the time being, rather than moving it to port 80, but I do get the point that it is

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
I have got a pro web developer on-board for the whole of next week, to do a website design. Forgetting about photos for a moment, we still need some more content. It's down to me to write some detail, dealing with eg. how to use the software repo, (for non ARM Wandboard users). I know writing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread garym
JackOfAll wrote: That's probably worth a dollar or two now. Re the Apple II. I've got it hanging on my office wall (as a bit of art!). Fond memories of the thing: I wrote my master's thesis, PhD dissertation, and first published paper on it. And I had to hack it to be able to have upper

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-27 Thread Squeezemenicely
Since I did not want to hijack the new thread, with my questions - I thought this nearly dead thread might be the perfect place: I own a Schiit Bifrost Dac (without usb) and love it, meanwhile it is connected to my Touch via optical. Using Triode's plugin I could then also connect it via usb.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread castalla
garym wrote: Re the Apple II. I've got it hanging on my office wall (as a bit of art!). Fond memories of the thing: I wrote my master's thesis, PhD dissertation, and first published paper on it. And I had to hack it to be able to have upper lower case. No harddrive.programs and data

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread ralphy
JackOfAll wrote: After this upgrade, (which adds a forwarding index page and mod_proxy apache config), if you enable and start httpd (Apache), you can access the web-gui via just the ip address. Downsides, apart from 5MB memory locked out by httpd process, none. You could use iptables to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
ralphy wrote: You could use iptables to redirect all port 80 requests to 8080. Yes, I could have achieved the desired result with iptables. But although the recent kitchen sink test kernel has all the netfilter baggage as modules, the default RC3 kernel image doesn't. I wanted this to work,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
Squeezemenicely wrote: I own a Schiit Bifrost Dac (without usb) and love it, meanwhile it is connected to my Touch via optical. Schiit is now offering a new USB board as an upgrade: Quote from their website Gen 2 USB Upgrade For Bifrost and Gungnir This new USB input card for

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
Squeezemenicely wrote: I wonder after reading this in the first post (squeezeboxserver service disabled by default), can one simply enable the squeezebox server and what is the performance like? Search etc., fast? If you have been running LMS on the Pi, you will immediately notice the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread erland
JackOfAll wrote: Maybe a one page history of the SqueezeBox, product history, etc. etc. SlimDevices - Logitech - CommunitySqueeze. You have probably already seen it, but if you don't get anything else there is always the wikipedia page you can take som info from regarding history:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread erland
JackOfAll wrote: I have got a pro web developer on-board for the whole of next week, to do a website design. Forgetting about photos for a moment, we still need some more content. It's down to me to write some detail, dealing with eg. how to use the software repo, (for non ARM Wandboard

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-27 Thread Squeezemenicely
JackOfAll wrote: Can you do a little research yourself? Are people successfully using USB DAC's with the CM6631A under Linux? Or wait for Triode to jump in and hopefully give you a better answer than I can. Thanks for your reply! As for my own research, there is one user here who has the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-27 Thread Triode
Squeezemenicely wrote: Thanks for your reply! As for my own research, there is one user here who has the Bifrost with usb and wrote months ago that he had problems with it in combination with EDO - but has not posted since - so it might have been solved. I asked him via PM and am waiting

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
erland wrote: I'm going to ask stupid question regarding this. To be clear, the website design includes the web site layout and branding, wiki, forum, blog, bug reporting, (and the layout/branding of all those components so it looks like a single coherent site rather than the usual open-source

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread erland
JackOfAll wrote: With regard to your comment about me being an intermediate step, that is not a role I want. And is why I have been working on and discussing a build system where the non-technical can make a change to a doc file or translation, push a single button on the website, causing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread Stoker
JackOfAll wrote: I have got a pro web developer on-board for the whole of next week, to do a website design. Forgetting about photos for a moment, we still need some more content. It's down to me to write some detail, dealing with eg. how to use the software repo, (for non ARM Wandboard

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread dasmueller
Nice job ! dasmueller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 ___ unix mailing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread castalla
Stoker wrote: Hi JackOfAll got my Wandboard earlier this week, but didn't have time until today to play with it. I got it working, so far only using wired ethernet, in about half an hour (most of that time was just waiting for windows to uncompress and copy the image!). It's now been playing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread Stoker
castalla wrote: My only point is that some routers are hopeless at displaying what's connected. There's a nice free utility called Netscan (for Windows) which displays all devices on the network - might be useful? Good idea, will try out Netscan and add it to document. --ian

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread JackOfAll
Stoker wrote: I've knocked together a quick start guide, aimed at Windows users. It currently only goes as far as getting a basic wired player working, but it's a start! . If you think the guide is useful as it is please feel free to use it on the web site. I can provide plain text,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2013-04-27 Thread Shutdown
Hello, At this point i am still using the Touch... But some day it will stop working and Squeezelite looks very promising. I would like to start experimenting with it and i am searching for a hardware device that is suitable for squeezelite and is capable of High-res audio and is small, cool and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2013-04-27 Thread castalla
Shutdown wrote: Hello, At this point i am still using the Touch... But some day it will stop working and Squeezelite looks very promising. I would like to start experimenting with it and i am searching for a hardware device that is suitable for squeezelite and is capable of High-res audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread kesey
Very nicely done Stoker. That is a very clear Quick Start Guide. The photos and screen-grabs add a lot to the legibility and clarity. The guide will be great for anyone who wants to get his Wandboard up and running fast, without having to learn the esoterics. Just in case you haven't seen it,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-27 Thread dsdreamer
@JackOfAll, I currently have my Wandboard hooked up to an old Dell 19 1280x1024 LCD monitor, so I am successfully using Jivelite with its HDSkin-1280-1024. I am also using a FLIRC adapter with an existing Logitech Touch remote (thanks to Triode's CommunitySqueeze Flirc Configuration.fcfg file).