Agreed, but by the time you have found a case and all the other bits, £120 for the microserver (with 3 years on site warranty) seems a really really good deal. one evening a week I feel dirty cos it uses 40W at idle, but wife has to be able to use it as well, so all in all money bl**dy well spent. Biggest gripe is I cannot hibernate using the power button.
Well the lipstick on a pig which is the Internet of Things is my current day job. I despair at some of the **** poor implementations thrown out there by hipsters (who don't know better) and bigcorp(tm) (who should know better). But that is a 4 beer discussion down the pub.
And don't get me started on the need for a 32bit CPU and 1MB RAM for something we used to do on an 8bit platform...
P.S. we all owe Torvalds and Stallman a huge debt of gratitude for saving us from UNIX on one side and windows on the other. But both of them are, as far as I can tell, insane.
I love linux, except for audio.. lol (Although my Sony HAP - Z1ES actually runs linux)
Some day maybe..
Some day maybe..
As far as I am concerned, I reinvented the Sony HAP thing on a budget. A standalone player with its own storage and user interface.
If I costed the time that I spent on it, I would have been better off buying the Sony, except that they didn't release it until after I had finished. 🙂
If I costed the time that I spent on it, I would have been better off buying the Sony, except that they didn't release it until after I had finished. 🙂
They do make solid budget stuff but nope. In the sin bin for sony with me.
After what Sony done to Michael Jackson I'm not buying another Sony product again.
I got into Sony Minidisc players for about 2 years but the crippling of its digital interface was the thing that made me stop using it after 2006 (by 2006 other more useful portable players were around).
Now I use a Sony Walkman from 1998 if I want toons on the go. You can't get more open-interface than a low power FM transmitter transmitting a foobar playlist to a Walkman. Or from HQ Cassette. And it has great freq response with good runtime from 2x AA Eneloops.
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I used an IRiver IHP-120 with the Rockbox firmware for years. Kind of the MP3 equivalent of the Sony Pro Walkman. I am thinking of dusting it off again, since the audio and battery life on my new Android phone turned out so dismal.
<offtopic> I love my sansa clip with rockbox for when out and about.</offtopic>
Given I have MPD working well now, my big issue is affordable/usable front ends. you can hook an RPi or equivalent up easily, but it still need a user interface. Don't want to have to spend £200 just on a tablet to act as the touch screen for it or have to have my laptop fired up all the time
Given I have MPD working well now, my big issue is affordable/usable front ends. you can hook an RPi or equivalent up easily, but it still need a user interface. Don't want to have to spend £200 just on a tablet to act as the touch screen for it or have to have my laptop fired up all the time
I used the ncmpc front end and built a custom control panel for it with 9 buttons and a rotary encoder. To drive the control panel I used some open source code called "pikeyd" originally meant for connecting arcade machine buttons to the RPi. The display is a 3.5" TFT running off the RPi's composite video output. Doesn't look pretty but it works. 🙂
For my next version I used the same front end, but connected the HDMI port to my TV. By using libcec-daemon instead of pikeyd, I got the TV remote to control it.
For my next version I used the same front end, but connected the HDMI port to my TV. By using libcec-daemon instead of pikeyd, I got the TV remote to control it.
Guess I'm curious, what exactly did Sony do to Michael Jackson?
In any event the HAP-Z1ES would not, could not be considered a budget component given what it costs; it is however a good deal given the level of performance.
The one annoying quirk it has is that it ignores the track order in the file tag and presents and plays the files based on how they are named. I finally figured out that all HD downloads include a track # as the first characters in the file name, and that some newer CD rippers like CDex do as well. Problem solved although renaming the files is a bit of a pita. This also circumvents the common database issue when more than one cut has the same name like "interlude" etc.
In any event the HAP-Z1ES would not, could not be considered a budget component given what it costs; it is however a good deal given the level of performance.
The one annoying quirk it has is that it ignores the track order in the file tag and presents and plays the files based on how they are named. I finally figured out that all HD downloads include a track # as the first characters in the file name, and that some newer CD rippers like CDex do as well. Problem solved although renaming the files is a bit of a pita. This also circumvents the common database issue when more than one cut has the same name like "interlude" etc.
I have odd requirements. I don't want to have the TV on, and I don't use playlists, so I want to be able to scroll through my collection or search for something. I have a web version of MPC running so I can access MPC from a browser, but the 2 tablets I use for streaming in other parts of the house annoyingly will not support double click. I may just have to wade through someone elses perl to work out how to change that. I have no iStuff or Android currently, but could possibly side load DroidMPD on my phone.
I like Puppy Linux..😀
And muppy..I used to like SUSE..however it went commercial.
Linux can be fun..😕..well sometimes..😀
Regards
M. Gregg
And muppy..I used to like SUSE..however it went commercial.
Linux can be fun..😕..well sometimes..😀
Regards
M. Gregg
ok well sideloaded droidmpd onto the phone today and suddenly linux is wonderful again. get sonuslike ease of use, but can use my hardware, my way. 🙂
MJ wanted to take away the song rights (to his catalog) from Sony. Sony refused and went to battle with him with an army of lawyers, they bankrupted him and then defaced his name (not a single court case has ever had a guilty verdict), The only court that MJ was convicted in was the court of the Media and even though the courts decided that MJ was innocent of all charges they continued to release the **** storm of "he must be guilty".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzKBnx_4ho
WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHAEL?: IT WASN'T MICHAEL JACKSON THEY WANTED, IT WAS THE SONY/ATV BEATLES CATALOGUE!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony/ATV_Music_Publishing#Merger
The lyrics chime a little bit with the truth actually.
Little known fact is that MJ owned the music catalog rights to The Beatles and Elvis.
Sir Paul McCartney set to win back rights to Beatles back catalogue | Daily Mail Online
How Michael Jackson Bought The Beatles Catalogue And Turned It Into A Billion Dollar Music Empire | Celebrity Net Worth
The comeback tour was supposed to save MJ from bankruptcy but the media wouldn't lay off the story of Pedoism despite the courts saying he was innocent.
Have a guess who owns the rights to that music now?
Michael Jackson's Mijac Music Catalog Moves to Sony/ATV | Billboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwm-t7SMug
The whole death surrounding MJ and the accusations of child abuse (in a house full of CCTV cameras) takes on a whole new light when you take into consideration that there is just one person standing in the way of a company and many billions of dollars + whatever they make off of the music rights in the future.
I'm just saying, that a guy who was about to go on a worldwide tour doesn't just keel over and die, and the drug concoction that he had in his system at the time of death would've made Ozzy Osbourne blush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony/ATV_Music_Publishing
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MJ's manager believes that he was knocked off too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBC_srIagw
And then there is:
Explosive fraud lawsuit names Michael Jackson?s estate, Sony Music, Eddie Cascio, James Porte over controversial songs released in 2010!
I agree that MJ is a bit creepy to say the least, but that doesn't mean that he was a kiddie fiddler or that he was a bad person especially considering that the courts found him not guilty, twice. I suspected something was going on when I first saw the CCTV footage of what happened in Neverland and saw somebody else trying to pretend to be MJ, since then I've been researching into it.
Its even worse when you try and talk about it with others. They look at you funny. 🙂
Oh yeah the rest of the Jackson family are still waiting for the money from their part of the Catalogue.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/michael-jackson-death-trial-family-2333443
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...s-Michael-Jacksons-estate-over-royalties.html
The doctor gave him free access to any cocaine/heroin source he wanted, strong pain killers and sleeping pills and he wasn't negligent!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBC_srIagw
And then there is:
Explosive fraud lawsuit names Michael Jackson?s estate, Sony Music, Eddie Cascio, James Porte over controversial songs released in 2010!
I agree that MJ is a bit creepy to say the least, but that doesn't mean that he was a kiddie fiddler or that he was a bad person especially considering that the courts found him not guilty, twice. I suspected something was going on when I first saw the CCTV footage of what happened in Neverland and saw somebody else trying to pretend to be MJ, since then I've been researching into it.
Its even worse when you try and talk about it with others. They look at you funny. 🙂
Oh yeah the rest of the Jackson family are still waiting for the money from their part of the Catalogue.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/michael-jackson-death-trial-family-2333443
http://www.mtv.com/news/1641946/michael-jacksons-estate-has-generated-1-billion-since-his-death/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...s-Michael-Jacksons-estate-over-royalties.html
NOT negligent!?
The doctor gave him free access to any cocaine/heroin source he wanted, strong pain killers and sleeping pills and he wasn't negligent!?
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Back on LInux, Do you like Windoz?
At least Linux is honest.
I remember when usoft products had code to detect if they were running under DrDOS, and would cause errors or shut down if if it was. Talk about violation of antitrust laws...
U-soft got away with it because they had the right politicians their pockets.
Even the EU only slapped u-soft on the wrist when it was obvious they were violating the law.
So they got away with antitrust violations, screwed the consumer and BG eases his mind by donating money to worthy causes.
Screw u-soft.
I'll take Linux and all it's issues any day over Windoze eight.
90%+ of the market is not a monopoly?
BS!
At least Linux is honest.
I remember when usoft products had code to detect if they were running under DrDOS, and would cause errors or shut down if if it was. Talk about violation of antitrust laws...
U-soft got away with it because they had the right politicians their pockets.
Even the EU only slapped u-soft on the wrist when it was obvious they were violating the law.
So they got away with antitrust violations, screwed the consumer and BG eases his mind by donating money to worthy causes.
Screw u-soft.
I'll take Linux and all it's issues any day over Windoze eight.
90%+ of the market is not a monopoly?
BS!
I've been using unix now for around 22 years. One of the things I loved about unix was that although as a whole it was complex, at a component level it was very simple. That was a core philosophy with the original linux. In reality every thing was a file and if you knew how to deal with a file then you could work out anything else.
The man system (especially man -k) meant anything you needed to find out about, you could find. Google didn't exist when I started using unix, man was your friend.
However it seems that the current linux developers (and it would seem some flavours of unix as well) have moved to a "more complex is more cool" model. The original philosopy of keep it simple seems to have gone out the window, and been replaced with the thinking that the more incredibly complex you make it, the more in awe of your incredible programming abilities everyone will be.
Take open ldap as an example. what could previously be done with one simple text config file now requires 10's (or even 100's) of complex XML files distributed over a wide number of locations. It has all been done in the name of scalability, because the original system supposedly wasn't scalable. If that is the case, why is it possible to run a command which will convert from the new way back to the old way (or vice versa)??
If you are frustrated with debian/ubuntu (I know as a traditional unix guy I find ubuntu quite a challenge) You may want to have a look at Centos.
I find it frustrating in that I used to be able to pick up new stuff in linux / unix in a few days tops. These days some of the stuff you almost have to spend months and become a specialist in just that area. If it was giving some major advantage I wouldn't be so critical of it. But when the only purpose seems to be to obfuscate, confuse, and show how smart the developers are, I find it difficult to be anything but critical.
Note that a large part of my job is unix administration, and I use linux fairly extensively.
Tony.
The man system (especially man -k) meant anything you needed to find out about, you could find. Google didn't exist when I started using unix, man was your friend.
However it seems that the current linux developers (and it would seem some flavours of unix as well) have moved to a "more complex is more cool" model. The original philosopy of keep it simple seems to have gone out the window, and been replaced with the thinking that the more incredibly complex you make it, the more in awe of your incredible programming abilities everyone will be.
Take open ldap as an example. what could previously be done with one simple text config file now requires 10's (or even 100's) of complex XML files distributed over a wide number of locations. It has all been done in the name of scalability, because the original system supposedly wasn't scalable. If that is the case, why is it possible to run a command which will convert from the new way back to the old way (or vice versa)??
If you are frustrated with debian/ubuntu (I know as a traditional unix guy I find ubuntu quite a challenge) You may want to have a look at Centos.
I find it frustrating in that I used to be able to pick up new stuff in linux / unix in a few days tops. These days some of the stuff you almost have to spend months and become a specialist in just that area. If it was giving some major advantage I wouldn't be so critical of it. But when the only purpose seems to be to obfuscate, confuse, and show how smart the developers are, I find it difficult to be anything but critical.
Note that a large part of my job is unix administration, and I use linux fairly extensively.
Tony.
Meh, it's still better than Windows.
At this rate, by the time Windows 12 rolls around, the user interface will have devolved to six large brightly colored tiles on your touch-screen. Four that take you to affiliated shopping websites, one that lets you check the current weather in your present location, and another that shows you pretty pictures of ponies and unicorns.
The "Ultimate" edition will have two extra tiles - one that takes you to a Microsoft approved cooking channel and another that starts a "DoodlePad" application (intended for power users only) that lets you scribble on your touch-screen with a stylus.
Of course if you don't have a touch-screen, you'll be completely screwed as support for legacy devices like mouse and keyboard will have been long since discontinued.
Oh, and there'll be no way to shut it down. After all, why would anybody want to shut down Windows? Besides which, it's busy with updates and other important "background processes" you don't need to know about. Even the power button will be disabled.
Any attempt at forcefully shutting it down (e.g. by removing the battery) will result in the system being so badly corrupted that you'll have to re-install Windows (after paying for a fresh license of course). Oh wait, current versions of Windows already do that.🙁
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