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DIY linux-based MP3 player Appliance

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-do-it-yourself dept.

An anonymous reader submitted "LinuxDevices.com has just published an interesting how-to article about converting a GCT-Allwell set-top box into a linux-based TV set-top MP3 player. As a helpful aside it does useful things like email and web browsing through your TV. Looks like a fun project. A related article shows how to turn the same set top box into a router."

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  1. Re:Someone forgot the closing italics tag.... by schtum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or a closing quotaton mark.

  2. Re:In regards to the Italics Tag by cymen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I didn't even notice he forgot the [/i]. Come on now... Lets bitch about something useful today. If you have been reading /. for years, even months, you should expect these types of errors on a regular basis. Instead of finding fault perhaps you should look at the beauty of human error. After all it is the subtle differences in an artists technique that enlivens art. Look for the errors and celebrate them as proof that our dear /. crew has not been replaced by robots.

    If you'd rather bitch feel free but I think there are much better things to bitch about like the unintentional duplicate stories. This reminds me of usenet where flames about spelling pretty much mark the man.

  3. His point by wiredog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is that a missing shouldn't happen in a pay site. Especially as frequently as it does here. Admittedly, when I saw it, I had to double-check the author to see that it wasn't Timothy. He's the most common offender there. Taco usually just demonstrates that US public schools can't teach spelling.

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    1. Re:His point by cymen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Personally I find it funny just because some people are so uptight they can't handle a missing . This site has been a pay site all along. Maybe you and I didn't pay for it but someone did. Just because /. is going to offer a pay version without ads doesn't suddenly mean they will have mounds of income to invest in spelling assistants.

      What I wonder is if the editors edit the stories in little textarea boxes like we do. If so I'm not surprised at all with the error rates. Now that /. has migrated to the new slashcode perhaps it is time for them to look at how editing is done. A simple parser for missing tags, a spell checker, an URL checker (in case of multiple stories), etc... For all the time we spend here and the number of people working on /. the slow speed of change is rather depressing.

      So in the end maybe I agree with you guys. But I still think you are weenies for getting excited over a missing tags and spelling errors...

    2. Re:His point by ctrimble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      One way of looking at this is that it's not simply a matter of slashcode getting updated, but CmdrTaco & the lot upgrading their skills. If they're going to be hackers and keep upgrading slashcode and that's it, fine, they don't have to know how to spell, close tags, etc. On the other hand, if they're going to call themselves editors, then, perhaps, they should learn the editing trade. And mostly (for the purposes of slashdot) it's simply a matter of reviewing what you do before hitting the submit button. Nobody's asking them to carry a copy of Fowler's English and The Chicago Manual of Style wherever they go, much less use them. What it comes down to is coders code and editors edit. I've seen coding here, but I haven't seen much in the way of editing.

  4. "Her" point by Georgia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot has editors, right?

    What, per say, do these people do?

    BTW - the italics tag STILL hasn't been closed.

    Try making a comment w/o a closing italics flag. The /. system closes it for you. Why can't the articles borrow the same code?

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