It's a TAPCO mixer (a Mackie company?). If we had a bigger budget, I'd have picked a real Mackie :)
We use it mostly as a powerful and high quality portable PA system for music and voice (hence the wireless headset mic). The Sun Ray lets us stream internet radio or other music available on the network with minimal power usage. The large LCD monitor lets people use it to give presentations, or a small group could watch a movie (they would hook up a laptop of course). The Sun 24" monitors are S-PVA, which makes them super-wide viewing angle; good for both of those purposes. Otherwise it functions as a handy mobile kiosk too, and we did use once to get a drumroll sound effect during a conference luncheon. We are actually looking to make it easily convertible to record sound; Sun Rays record audio fairly well we've found, although we haven't really tested it over the wireless yet :) Besides its "practical" uses, sometimes we just wheel it around the halls during special times of the year for fun. The other thing you don't see in the picture is that there is a "sister" cart. We have another wireless transmitter that we got a guitar plug for, except we plug it into the mixer so there can be two carts separated by a good distance that are blasting in sync. Using x11vnc allows us to control the Sun Ray remotely if we're really blasting and can't walk near it, and the serial port on the Ray lets us monitor the UPS too. Watch out for your 500 watts…our 200 watt kit is enough to occasionally make the security staff upset, although the students and even teachers love it! If you've got a Sun Ray 1 series…play with the bass adjustments in utsettings, with and without external speakers. I was pleasantly surprised the first time I did. Hope this isn't getting too off topic here! William From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? I know those monitors :-) the speakers on the uwave Alesis Monitor 1's :-) very nice and what is that an Alesis USB mixer, Mackie or Behriger??? What on earth to you do with?? Definitely not sound recording I hope.... lol Actually having said that when I am more setup and don't live with my parents I will probably stick the Ray into my Soundcraft Notepad mixer and use my JBL Control 1's and/or Spirit Absolute 4P monitors with it..... give or take about 500 watts of audio power all getting produced by a Ray... aaaah the possibilities are endless!!!! P.s. Sun you see you have some young enthusiastic students around, how about hiring us for something??? You make the Rays rock, we'll make em take the roof off :-P Kaya -----Original Message----- From: William Yang <[email protected]> To: 'SunRay-Users mailing list' <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 12:41 am Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? Speaking of playing music… <http://www.tjhsst.edu/admin/livedoc/index.php/Image:SunRay_Music_Cart.JPG> http://www.tjhsst.edu/admin/livedoc/index.php/Image:SunRay_Music_Cart.JPG Not the best picture of it, but if you look around carefully, you see a UPS on the very bottom, 2x100 watt speakers on the middle shelf, and a wireless bridge in the gap between the monitor stand and the Sun Ray (I won't list the more obvious things in the picture :) ). It'll last a couple hours unplugged, at a decent volume, too. William From: <mailto:sunray-users-boun...@filibeto.%20%20org> [email protected] [ <mailto:[email protected]?> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:07 PM To: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? Not sure as a student if I'm valid to comment here or if I qualify but I use a Sun Ray 1 in my test lab at home coupled to a 40" widescreen HD TV..... ok so resolution is 1280x1024 no the full whack of 1900x1600 the TV can produce but still it does the trick and the Enterprise 420R server I have it linked to is fine for browsing basic web pages and sending email. The system runs on SXCE build 116 and actually as a matter of fact even is wireless as I have 3 3Com wireless access points in a point-to-mutlipoint bridge over 802.11g network running WPA2 encryption. I can even play music back using Rhythmbox with no effort at all :-) The only place the Sun Ray lacks is video playback but then having 4x450MHz processors doesn't do any justice either. To see the picture: <http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html> http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html All I know is that these make the coolest user systems and definitely something I will hook up over WAN for my family if I manage to make enough $$$ to buy a better server and a few Sun Ray 270 DTU's to run over IPsec VPN tunnels so that notebooks can also access the remote network too. Actually since the E420r along with a few Netra T105's were my first Sun's and the Ray my first glimpse into Solaris on a desktop I think that it has taught me so much and the fact that I would love to work somewhere that had these either for me to help admin or work on to build someone else's network to use these. Just need better video playback on them, perhaps even HD video one day but absolutely awsome devices. Why doesn't Sun go into the laptop market either??? If there's something that I'd really like is to get a Sun notebook!!! It's also a bit of a pity that Sun stopped doing multi processor desktops too otherwise that would have been cool also, to have dual or quad system busses rather then this dual or quad core nonsense all being fed by a single buss blah. Well just my perspective anyway, I hope I see many more of these things when I start work properly otherwise I duno life wouldn't be the same I think knowing that there are so many great things out there and possibilities but being stuck in a place that just doesn't see them.... could be worse though as a to be UNIX and Cisco engineer I could be put a pot full of Windows machines.... yuk!!!! 0ARegards, Kaya -----Original Message----- From: Lars Tunkrans < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> To: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Cc: SunRay-Users mailing list < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 11:40 pm Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? Kent Peacock wrote: > On 07/21/09 13:20, Lars Tunkrans wrote: >> >> Seems like some sort of 10-year anniversary is inplace soon >> then ? !!!!!! >> >> Must be the only thin client architecture on the planet that has >> lasted >> for 10 years ! >> Why dont you guys dig some old first generation SunRays out of a >> closet >> somewhwere and make >> a movie of a gen.1 sunray and the present sunray running VDI side >> by side >> > > What do you mean "dig some old first=2 0generation Sun Rays (two words, > > please) out of a closet". They're still in use all around Sun. > > Kent > > Yes I know the 1G Sun Ray and the older model 102 Sun Ray is still in use. You are saying that the Sun Ray 102 was the first production model ? I still think a demo movie should be made and I dont have a model 102. Maybe I can find one at Sun :-) //Lars _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users> http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _____ An Excellent Credit Score is 750. <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221823310x1201398722/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%25%20%2026bcd=JulyExcfooterNO62> See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users> http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _____ An Excellent Credit Score is 750. <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221823310x1201398722/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=JulyExcfooterNO62> See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps!
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