except the phatbox/music keg is a car player that needs a compatible head unit to operate--and i think the original poster is looking for a portable in the iPod sense.
i'd love to see an iPod-like (and sized) flac player. 10 gigs would suit me fine.
laugh now. but bill and ted will have their revenge: - digital television, brought to you through your xbox2. - advertising overlays on your shows every three minutes that you can only get rid of by pressing a special key combo on your xbox controller
what's scary is that you could almost see something like this happening. how fucked up is that?
which isn't to say that they might not all be overpriced, but apple's certainly isn't any more expensive than the alternatives on the market that i'm aware of.
yeah i wondered this too. on the other hand, have you actually tried working on one those SXGA+ or UXGA 15" laptop screens (i haven't)? sounds awfully scrunched to me.
i mean, i never would have run higher than SXGA on a 17" (15.x" effective:P) CRT, let alone 1600x1200. and i don't know anyone who did either.
what? can't hear you over the roar of my ss50 :P
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And a number of ppl on that forum have complained about the noise--the SV24 was loud, but the SS50 is even louder:P
Apparently the excessive noise is die in large part to the crappy PSU fan, but
And incidentally, for the crowd that thinks undervolting the fan or using a low rpm fan is the solution, note that at 26'c ambient, the CPU already measures >50'c (more figures on page three of the above link).
I wonder if this technology would be extended to the private consumer level?
That's exactly what i'm wondering. most of the posts seem to be about entrapment--I haven't seen anyone mention how to build one of these yourself. the article mentions it was done with ~$3k worth of equipment in the car and about that much again at the station. Here's the company that they used to outfit the gear.
What would be the technical hurdles in implementing this yourself? How would you transmit (not receive) your location? Hook up a gps receiver to a laptop with a cellular modem (isn't there a better way?)? And how would you implement a remote kill switch?
yeah, and i got to page 9 of 10 before their server stopped responding:P just ten more seconds and i would have finished loading the last page. f*ing slashdotters:P
anyway, here's page nine for those of you who only got to page 8. this is the "gripes"/shortcomings page. maybe someone can post pg. 10:P
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The Sound Card
Abit chose to use VIA's next gen onboard 5.1 sound card, dubbed "Avance". It looks good on paper, being a 5.1 AC97 sound chip, with digital capabilities. Abit certainly makes use of some of the digital capabilities by putting a TOSlink Out adapter on the board, allowing you to make a digital connection to an external decoder for movies, or to a digital set of speakers. TOSlink In looks like it might be an option, but wasn't on our board.
I have noticed that more and more board manufacturers are shying away from VIA's onboard sound as their integrated option, and going for third party options such as those by C-Media or even Creative Labs. There may be many reasons for this, and I think I may have found a few of them...
First off, let's have a quick look at performance, using ZD's Audio WinBench 99. We are only looking at the 44 kHz tests, and only those using 32 hardware voices; basically the most demanding situations possible.
Test A - DirectSound 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static, 32 Voices Test B - DirectSound 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming, 32 Voices Test C - DirectSound 3D 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static, 32 Voices Test D - DirectSound 3D 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming, 32 Voices
Remember on this test, Lower = better. Now I am not going to go nuts and say this will give seriously hinder your performance, in fact I went through some game benchmarks with sound turned off and on, and performance differences were negligible. However it is worth noting that in the most stressful situations, the VIA onboard sound isn't quite up to the task compared to a solution like C-Media, which Shuttle has recently switched to.
One more nasty issue I have with the sound card regards, I think, the drivers. During testing, we used a Philips MMS306 5.1 speaker set. We connected the speakers to the jacks just like on any sound card, and the sounds seemed to be coming from the wrong speakers... I used the alternate setting, using Line-In for the Centre/Woofer channel, and Line-Out for the Rear channels, and everything worked fine. It seems kind of silly that Abit ditched a parallel port to make room for some speaker outputs that are completely useless.
The Layout
If you have a keen eye, you might have noticed a glaring issue with the layout design of the board... I saved this for the rant page...
That's right, the 'clip' end, where you would normally try to install the heatsink, is on the TOP of the board. When installed in a regular sized case, such as 17" or 18", it will likely be impossible to install or uninstall a heatsink - you will need to take the motherboard right out of the case if you don't have a full removable tray!
I have seen a few boards do this before, and it always seems to be a mistake... I have no idea why Abit would consciously choose to design their board like this - it seems to go right against their usual support for the hardware community...
If your other eye is just as keen as the first one, perhaps you noticed this:
That's right, the memory slots are extremely close to the AGP slot, making ram installation pretty difficult with a video card installed. This is a very minor concern however, and I am not going to make much noise about this. After all, you could easily use DIMM3 and/or DIMM4 if you only have one or two stick of memory (of course even these will likely be blocked by a GeForce 4 Ti4400 or Ti4600, but then again, most memory slots will be in all likelihood). Also, most boards with 4 DIMMs tend to have this problem. It may be worth mentioning that the Shuttle AK35GTR doesn't have this problem though...
With those rather minor gripes out of the way, let's get to the final conclusion!
how would you even go about implementing the gps?
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also, in the interim, anyone know about how to hook up a gps receiver to a laptop a la cryptonomicon?
that is, without having to resort to windows-only software that the gps mfr supplies, but rather have programmatic access to the receiver's info via serial/usb/etc?
even better, a gps receiver that allows all that and is tiny enough that it could actually be used regularly and unobtrusively w/ a laptop.
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OMFG.
Other areas (England) that chose to ban guns almost completely have seen a horrific increase in the rate of violent crime and murder.
And then you claim: "Look at the facts and you will see the light".
Since you didn't actually cite any actual statistics, were you hoping we'd just take your word for it? I'll show you mine, what have you got to show?
Well, it took about two minutes to find data via Google, and here are the facts: according to the US Department of Justice/FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the U.S. in 1997 there were an estimated 18,210 homicides. Or, a rate of 6.8 per 100,000 population.
In the U.K. in 1997, there were 640 homicides. Or, a rate of 1.24 per 100,000 population.
Next time, heed your own advice and look at the facts before spouting your useless drivel.
actually that's not correct. it didn't support it prior to late last year, but any newly mfg'ed 240T will. i've even read a report of one user sending his earlier rev monitor back to samsung who replaced the board for free.
really, the issue is finding a card that supports better than 1600x1200 via dvi.
there's another korean company which makes a monitor very similar to the 240T (same glass, different electronics, pivot but no remote) from a company called wide.
this also is a 1900x1200 native lcd with multiple inputs. i think they still bundle a geforce2mx that does 1900x1200 via dvi.
This reminded me of a chain mail that makes its rounds every so often, sometimes as a pro-life argument:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?
If you answered yes, congratulations, you just killed Beethoven!
Anyway, genetic pre-screening *is* a slippery slope. There wouldn't be such fierce continuing debate if there weren't compelling arguments and thought experiments in favor of screening. I'm not sure how I stand on the issue. My first inclination is to come up with a list of things that can legitimately be screened for. I'm just not sure how you prevent such a list (which I assume would start out with very widely agreed upon horrible hereditary diseases) from eventually including eye color, height, breast size, etc.
from the faq: "We also plan a detection system that will automatically stop the vehicle if there is an obstacle in the guideway."
Oh that's a nice feature to plan for;) I suppose the original plan was to add big nerf-style bumpers instead so that at 25mph the unobservant kiddies would just bounce off gently:P
heh, i just noticed this one: "What about vandalism? We hope that the system will be a source of pride to the community it serves so that vandalism incidents will be limited."
In _some_ communities, *vandalism* is a source of pride, so "vandalism incidents will be frequent, persistent and guaranteed":P There's a reason why this is debuting in wales and not nyc, eh?
you know what? tradenable is gone. of course you wouldn't know that just from glancing over their website, but if you actually try to register or use their service, you'll see this:
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I found this out a couple months ago when I wanted to buy a multi-thousand dollar projector for work on ebay a couple months ago. I thought it was kind of lame that eBay was still linking to tradenable given that they were no longer offering escrow services.
Not a lot of people understand/trust escrow. tradenable was great because it was effectively endorsed by eBay. Anyone know a good online replacement for tradenable? Anyway, the tired moral of the story is still caveat emptor!
what exactly was wrong with APACI? i haven't been following apache2 so this is the first mention i've heard of it. the docs just say now apache2 looks more like other open source projects in the install process. is that the sole benefit?
as someone else posted, i don't think lcd's defeat tempest monitoring. it may change the interpretation of the monitoring, but what would there be about lcd's that would defaet tempest monitoring? maybe passive matrix displays are more difficult than active?
anyway, it's not like lcds don't cause any electrical interference--they're still fcc class b devices for the most part right?
hey and plus, that whole tempest-ish scene in cryptonomicon wouldn't have been possible if laptop lcd's were van eck phreak proof;)
I don't believe it's been random (as you described) for awhile, if ever. Well, the initial placement (say if 25 widget manufacturers advertisers simultaneously place ads to fall under searches for widgets), is an equal rotation, but for awhile now, the practice has been to place ads with higher "click-thru" rates over time higher.
So if the Widgets R Us' ad is getting the most click-thrus by users looking for widgets, then their ad would start appearing at the top of the list.
It's a sort of ad-relevance ranking that fit pretty well with the general google page-rank method I think.
I'm not opposed to google allowing ppl to pay more for better ad placement in that right column--i don't feel like it interferes, misleads, blah blah blah etc. with the quality of my searches. the right column of ads is clearly distinct from the search results. it's not like they're allowing ads to masquerade as search results.
Renting does make some sense. You said:
"Some games, like Counterstrike and Q3, I could play online for years. Some games I finish in a week or two and then un-install. Those games I would rent."
You're making the assumption that you'll have a choice in which games you get to own vs. rent. Imagine the day when all Quake/Counterstrike/Diablo servers charge $5.00/hr. Even if companies like Microsoft chose to offer both a rent and an own option, you're assumming that Microsoft wouldn't increase the cost of owning as an option, to make the renting more attractive.
Renting everyday software sounds like a pain in the ass to me. I think it would inhibit the likelihood that you'd just sit around and play with it, feel free to just use it, walk away and come back to it--because you'd feel like you're wasting money. Or you feel like your wasting money by not using it enough. I hate when I have lot of unused minuted left over at the end of the month on my cell phone. On the other hand, I don't dare get a lower monthly plan, because undoubtedly the very next month, I'd go over, costing me a mint per minute. (incidentally, my friend who consulted for wireless company, evaluating rate plans told me that the rate plans are specifically geared to confuse and gouge customers--they make a ton of money on ppl having the "wrong" plan). There's a reason for the general prejudice against rent vs. own.
I'm not arguing that there aren't good applications for renting. But I also don't think that in general, it's going to actually benefit consumers.
As for the very common photoshop example: if you're the kind of person who needs photoshop for a day, you're probably a) not the kind of person who is savvy enough to really use it, and b) should probably just use ms paint or the copy of photoshop LE that came with your $100 scanner. Or, you could just use the Gimp:P
the whole thing w/ the phatbox is it works with your existing head unit (if it's on the compatibility list). so it just looks like a standard multichanger to the head unit. except of course, you have 10-30gbs of music on hand, with no swapping discs. actually, just look at this page for an explanation.
if you've got a single-disc loader up front, then you get the best of both worlds. and i know some folks have tried (successfully?) to keep a cd-changer in the loop too.
i actually think it's pretty bad-ass. yes, it's pricey, but bad-ass. and mp3, wav, and (soon) flac support =)
The folks at PhatNoise worked a deal with Kenwood to get these out this month. Music Keg. Hmm. A big, heavy, potbellied, silver container that you tap for music? Well, I don't like this new name, but the PhatBox is very cool.
Ogg support is great, but what I was especially excited to hear was that one of the devs at phatnoise (Brendan) recently got flac working with the PhatBox/Music Keg:
> So the Phatbox now plays FLAC files. Although, it's not yet in the
> standard firmware download from the web page, and encoding is not yet
> included in the capabilities of the Phatnoise Music Manager software.
> (Although I hope to get the Windows software guys to include the
> ability
> to at least include.flac files in playlists soon and adding the
> player
> to the standard firmware distribution should be easy).
Now if we could just get a portable iPod-like device to work with flac....
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except the phatbox/music keg is a car player that needs a compatible head unit to operate--and i think the original poster is looking for a portable in the iPod sense.
i'd love to see an iPod-like (and sized) flac player. 10 gigs would suit me fine.
laugh now.
but bill and ted will have their revenge:
- digital television, brought to you through your xbox2.
- advertising overlays on your shows every three minutes that you can only get rid of by pressing a special key combo on your xbox controller
what's scary is that you could almost see something like this happening. how fucked up is that?
- Dr. Bott's DVIator is $149.00
- Gefen's DVI-to-ADC converter is $199.00 (and ugly)
which isn't to say that they might not all be overpriced, but apple's certainly isn't any more expensive than the alternatives on the market that i'm aware of.i get your point, however, it's different strokes for different folks: if i had to choose between a dvi or vga port, i'd pick the dvi + dongle.
;)
and actually, a lot of the dlp and some of the lcd projectors i've seen lately, especially the portable xga type, have dvi inputs.
and if you're presenting in big rooms with av closets, well, they'll probably also have s-video connects too, which the tibook's got too.
besides, with dvi, now you can plug the tibook into your 23" acd--with the additional $150 adapter
what sucks are those stupid mini-vga's. and putting an adc instead of dvi (or vga for that matter) would have been an awful decision too).
yeah i wondered this too. on the other hand, have you actually tried working on one those SXGA+ or UXGA 15" laptop screens (i haven't)? sounds awfully scrunched to me.
:P) CRT, let alone 1600x1200. and i don't know anyone who did either.
i mean, i never would have run higher than SXGA on a 17" (15.x" effective
One person measured the SS50 at 56dba:
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Viahardware Small Form Factor & Quiet PCs Forum
And a number of ppl on that forum have complained about the noise--the SV24 was loud, but the SS50 is even louder
Apparently the excessive noise is die in large part to the crappy PSU fan, but
And incidentally, for the crowd that thinks undervolting the fan or using a low rpm fan is the solution, note that at 26'c ambient, the CPU already measures >50'c (more figures on page three of the above link).
That's exactly what i'm wondering. most of the posts seem to be about entrapment--I haven't seen anyone mention how to build one of these yourself. the article mentions it was done with ~$3k worth of equipment in the car and about that much again at the station. Here's the company that they used to outfit the gear.
What would be the technical hurdles in implementing this yourself? How would you transmit (not receive) your location? Hook up a gps receiver to a laptop with a cellular modem (isn't there a better way?)? And how would you implement a remote kill switch?
- ibm research
/. article
Strikingly similar in concept.just in case i get get you to suck on your toe, try these ;)
- sheer hyprocrisy and most hypocritical
- the same, but on usenet
yeah, and i got to page 9 of 10 before their server stopped responding :P :P
:P
just ten more seconds and i would have finished loading the last page. f*ing slashdotters
anyway, here's page nine for those of you who only got to page 8. this is the "gripes"/shortcomings page. maybe someone can post pg. 10
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The Sound Card
Abit chose to use VIA's next gen onboard 5.1 sound card, dubbed "Avance". It looks good on paper, being a 5.1 AC97 sound chip, with digital capabilities. Abit certainly makes use of some of the digital capabilities by putting a TOSlink Out adapter on the board, allowing you to make a digital connection to an external decoder for movies, or to a digital set of speakers. TOSlink In looks like it might be an option, but wasn't on our board.
I have noticed that more and more board manufacturers are shying away from VIA's onboard sound as their integrated option, and going for third party options such as those by C-Media or even Creative Labs. There may be many reasons for this, and I think I may have found a few of them...
First off, let's have a quick look at performance, using ZD's Audio WinBench 99. We are only looking at the 44 kHz tests, and only those using 32 hardware voices; basically the most demanding situations possible.
Test A - DirectSound 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static, 32 Voices
Test B - DirectSound 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming, 32 Voices
Test C - DirectSound 3D 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static, 32 Voices
Test D - DirectSound 3D 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming, 32 Voices
Remember on this test, Lower = better. Now I am not going to go nuts and say this will give seriously hinder your performance, in fact I went through some game benchmarks with sound turned off and on, and performance differences were negligible. However it is worth noting that in the most stressful situations, the VIA onboard sound isn't quite up to the task compared to a solution like C-Media, which Shuttle has recently switched to.
One more nasty issue I have with the sound card regards, I think, the drivers. During testing, we used a Philips MMS306 5.1 speaker set. We connected the speakers to the jacks just like on any sound card, and the sounds seemed to be coming from the wrong speakers... I used the alternate setting, using Line-In for the Centre/Woofer channel, and Line-Out for the Rear channels, and everything worked fine. It seems kind of silly that Abit ditched a parallel port to make room for some speaker outputs that are completely useless.
The Layout
If you have a keen eye, you might have noticed a glaring issue with the layout design of the board... I saved this for the rant page...
That's right, the 'clip' end, where you would normally try to install the heatsink, is on the TOP of the board. When installed in a regular sized case, such as 17" or 18", it will likely be impossible to install or uninstall a heatsink - you will need to take the motherboard right out of the case if you don't have a full removable tray!
I have seen a few boards do this before, and it always seems to be a mistake... I have no idea why Abit would consciously choose to design their board like this - it seems to go right against their usual support for the hardware community...
If your other eye is just as keen as the first one, perhaps you noticed this:
That's right, the memory slots are extremely close to the AGP slot, making ram installation pretty difficult with a video card installed. This is a very minor concern however, and I am not going to make much noise about this. After all, you could easily use DIMM3 and/or DIMM4 if you only have one or two stick of memory (of course even these will likely be blocked by a GeForce 4 Ti4400 or Ti4600, but then again, most memory slots will be in all likelihood). Also, most boards with 4 DIMMs tend to have this problem. It may be worth mentioning that the Shuttle AK35GTR doesn't have this problem though...
With those rather minor gripes out of the way, let's get to the final conclusion!
also, in the interim, anyone know about how to hook up a gps receiver to a laptop a la cryptonomicon?
that is, without having to resort to windows-only software that the gps mfr supplies, but rather have programmatic access to the receiver's info via serial/usb/etc?
even better, a gps receiver that allows all that and is tiny enough that it could actually be used regularly and unobtrusively w/ a laptop.
Other areas (England) that chose to ban guns almost completely have seen a horrific increase in the rate of violent crime and murder.
And then you claim: "Look at the facts and you will see the light".
Since you didn't actually cite any actual statistics, were you hoping we'd just take your word for it? I'll show you mine, what have you got to show?
Well, it took about two minutes to find data via Google, and here are the facts: according to the US Department of Justice/FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the U.S. in 1997 there were an estimated 18,210 homicides. Or, a rate of 6.8 per 100,000 population.
In the U.K. in 1997, there were 640 homicides. Or, a rate of 1.24 per 100,000 population.
Next time, heed your own advice and look at the facts before spouting your useless drivel.
References:
visit the WideScreen Wiki
You'll have to navigate around a bit, but you'll find pretty much everything about hooking up apple lcd's to pc's there.
actually that's not correct. it didn't support it prior to late last year, but any newly mfg'ed 240T will. i've even read a report of one user sending his earlier rev monitor back to samsung who replaced the board for free.
really, the issue is finding a card that supports better than 1600x1200 via dvi.
there's another korean company which makes a monitor very similar to the 240T (same glass, different electronics, pivot but no remote) from a company called wide.
this also is a 1900x1200 native lcd with multiple inputs. i think they still bundle a geforce2mx that does 1900x1200 via dvi.
this fan has already had some discussion on the various case/cooling forums:
amdmb
ars
from the faq:
;) :P
:P There's a reason why this is debuting in wales and not nyc, eh?
"We also plan a detection system that will automatically stop the vehicle if there is an obstacle in the guideway."
Oh that's a nice feature to plan for
I suppose the original plan was to add big nerf-style bumpers instead so that at 25mph the unobservant kiddies would just bounce off gently
heh, i just noticed this one:
"What about vandalism?
We hope that the system will be a source of pride to the community it serves so that vandalism incidents will be limited."
In _some_ communities, *vandalism* is a source of pride, so "vandalism incidents will be frequent, persistent and guaranteed"
Not a lot of people understand/trust escrow. tradenable was great because it was effectively endorsed by eBay. Anyone know a good online replacement for tradenable? Anyway, the tired moral of the story is still caveat emptor!
what exactly was wrong with APACI? i haven't been following apache2 so this is the first mention i've heard of it. the docs just say now apache2 looks more like other open source projects in the install process. is that the sole benefit?
as someone else posted, i don't think lcd's defeat tempest monitoring. it may change the interpretation of the monitoring, but what would there be about lcd's that would defaet tempest monitoring? maybe passive matrix displays are more difficult than active?
;)
anyway, it's not like lcds don't cause any electrical interference--they're still fcc class b devices for the most part right?
hey and plus, that whole tempest-ish scene in cryptonomicon wouldn't have been possible if laptop lcd's were van eck phreak proof
ah such bad form, replying to my own post, but here:
i just found this google faq about ad positioning, too.
I don't believe it's been random (as you described) for awhile, if ever. Well, the initial placement (say if 25 widget manufacturers advertisers simultaneously place ads to fall under searches for widgets), is an equal rotation, but for awhile now, the practice has been to place ads with higher "click-thru" rates over time higher.
So if the Widgets R Us' ad is getting the most click-thrus by users looking for widgets, then their ad would start appearing at the top of the list.
It's a sort of ad-relevance ranking that fit pretty well with the general google page-rank method I think.
I'm not opposed to google allowing ppl to pay more for better ad placement in that right column--i don't feel like it interferes, misleads, blah blah blah etc. with the quality of my searches. the right column of ads is clearly distinct from the search results. it's not like they're allowing ads to masquerade as search results.
Renting does make some sense. You said:
:P
"Some games, like Counterstrike and Q3, I could play online for years. Some games I finish in a week or two and then un-install. Those games I would rent."
You're making the assumption that you'll have a choice in which games you get to own vs. rent. Imagine the day when all Quake/Counterstrike/Diablo servers charge $5.00/hr. Even if companies like Microsoft chose to offer both a rent and an own option, you're assumming that Microsoft wouldn't increase the cost of owning as an option, to make the renting more attractive.
Renting everyday software sounds like a pain in the ass to me. I think it would inhibit the likelihood that you'd just sit around and play with it, feel free to just use it, walk away and come back to it--because you'd feel like you're wasting money. Or you feel like your wasting money by not using it enough. I hate when I have lot of unused minuted left over at the end of the month on my cell phone. On the other hand, I don't dare get a lower monthly plan, because undoubtedly the very next month, I'd go over, costing me a mint per minute. (incidentally, my friend who consulted for wireless company, evaluating rate plans told me that the rate plans are specifically geared to confuse and gouge customers--they make a ton of money on ppl having the "wrong" plan). There's a reason for the general prejudice against rent vs. own.
I'm not arguing that there aren't good applications for renting. But I also don't think that in general, it's going to actually benefit consumers.
As for the very common photoshop example: if you're the kind of person who needs photoshop for a day, you're probably a) not the kind of person who is savvy enough to really use it, and b) should probably just use ms paint or the copy of photoshop LE that came with your $100 scanner. Or, you could just use the Gimp
the whole thing w/ the phatbox is it works with your existing head unit (if it's on the compatibility list). so it just looks like a standard multichanger to the head unit. except of course, you have 10-30gbs of music on hand, with no swapping discs. actually, just look at this page for an explanation.
if you've got a single-disc loader up front, then you get the best of both worlds. and i know some folks have tried (successfully?) to keep a cd-changer in the loop too.
i actually think it's pretty bad-ass. yes, it's pricey, but bad-ass. and mp3, wav, and (soon) flac support =)
The folks at PhatNoise worked a deal with Kenwood to get these out this month. Music Keg. Hmm. A big, heavy, potbellied, silver container that you tap for music? Well, I don't like this new name, but the PhatBox is very cool.
.flac files in playlists soon and adding the
Ogg support is great, but what I was especially excited to hear was that one of the devs at phatnoise (Brendan) recently got flac working with the PhatBox/Music Keg:
> So the Phatbox now plays FLAC files. Although, it's not yet in the
> standard firmware download from the web page, and encoding is not yet
> included in the capabilities of the Phatnoise Music Manager software.
> (Although I hope to get the Windows software guys to include the
> ability
> to at least include
> player
> to the standard firmware distribution should be easy).
Now if we could just get a portable iPod-like device to work with flac....