Pascal Hibon wrote: > > Hope you don't mind me laying out how I see these issues (don't want to > be smart but I just want to get the discussion going since I believe it > is rather important)
Of course, you carry on. Pascal Hibon wrote: > > This is one of these areas where one makes a difference when designing > user friendly systems. You can't ask the user to make sure for his > network to be available when LMS decides to scan. A regular user will > have no idea of the impact of a "network not to be available" to the > system at critical times. It is LMS who should check if the "network > resource" is available. The whole squeezebox thing always had, and still has the reputation, of "geeky". That the owner/user needs to be a little "geeky" to use it. That's still the case. We haven't done anything to change that with CSOS or the WB. (Yet!) Pascal Hibon wrote: > > I pretty confident there must be an easy way in the code to check if > that particular resource is available. It uses tcp/ip, so why not just > "ping" the server or do I approach it a bit too simplistic? Things are not always as simple or obvious as they might seem. I hear what you are saying and it requires a little thought. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
