Check out Squeezebox Duet combo which consists of a Controller (Wifi remote control) and a Receiver (small black player box that can also connect via Wifi). The central library can be installed on a Windows/Linux box and the software is written in Perl and open source - heck, everything is Linux powered, remote control included.
I think that you can use a single remote to control multiple players and it might even be able to auto connect to the nearest player automatically (not sure, I only have one).
It isn't very sophisticated or slick (the remote doesn't have a nice feel, the wheel isn't very smooth), but it's cheap.
Sure, not exercising and participating in (dangerous) sports activities won't get you many injuries, now will it?/waiting for an operation for a fractured clavicle, cycling accident, BMI ~21:)
For C# /.NET code, Windows Mobile is the answer. Developing for it from Visual Studio is really simple, almost like for desktop Windows Forms apps, it supports remote debugging via USB and it has a emulator with many device profiles (different display and keyboard configurations).
Onboard sound is disabled. But I might try to move Audigy a PCI slot up or down or manually set an IRQ. The last time I was messing with this was on a Pentium 200... *sigh*
I did run Memtest86+, messed with RAM settings, downclocked RAM, upvolted it, moved sticks around and out (2x1Gb). No effects at all.
Yes, I do have dual core drivers and the optimizer. These fixed issues with some applications (for instance stuff that works with ASIO - low latency audio drivers).
If you have an nVidia 3D card, try their "Clear Sailing" demo. In case that I leave the affinity set to both CPUs, it stutters like hell. Yes, with the drivers and optimizer and everything...
I'm not using 64 bit Windows. Freshly reinstalled plain XP Pro SP2 for this box.
Hot CPU ran fine for a few hours today, no problems. nVidia's stress testing for 3D/CPU/HD ran fine for 8 hours.
Clearly, these are some weird, specific BIOS-drivers-OS interaction issues. IMHO, nothing should be able to shutdown the computer in an instant (just like pulling the cord). At least give me a BSOD, damnit...
Hopefully they'll fix this stuff with BIOS or driver revisions. It's just that these problems are so weird that I have no clue to who I should report them. MSI? Nvidia? Microsoft? How to reproduce this stuff? Eh...
I jumped for AM2 since it was basically the same price with faster RAM and idiot-proof CPU cooler installation. I crushed an Athlon 1800+ with a big Zalman some years ago, so... Oh heck.:)
Socket 939 is the previous generation of chipsets, with nVidia that's nForce 4, AM2 uses nForce 5xx with DDR2 RAM.
There are users with similiar reports on Asus/MSI forums with those boards, so I'm definitely not alone.
Just a little tasting of the nature of the new boards: Windows installation or Windows XP itself would BSOD unless the CPU was underclocked from 2GHz to 1GHz. A newer version of BIOS fixed that.
I've been runing Abit's MB with nForce 2 on a 2500+ proc for a few years before, and that was rock solid. The box is in storage right now, it might get revived... Heh.
I've just assembled my first SMP box, an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3800+. Running Windows XP (gaming, video, audio) it is the most unstable thing ever.
Playing a simple MIDI file thru Audigy 2 shuts down the whole computer in a minute or so. Changing game's affinity to just one CPU mid-game shuts down the computer. File copying with the onboard NIC (nForce 570) shuts down the computer - Intel PCI NIC somewhat fixed this.
I somehow blame Microsoft for all this. I doubt that drivers are being written for good SMP support and then such systems suffer with weird system kabooms.
Hopefully Vista 64 bit will fix this stuff. Of course, somewhere in 2009, when we get stable 64 bit drivers and rebuild the whole hardware 3 times till then...
Is it just me? Unstable SMP on Windows XP with games/audio production stuff?
IB is actually the most simple and cheap DIY solution if you have an appropriate pair of rooms. Also, it gives the best bass sound reproduction, better than the usual box/horn designs.
A great DIY/Pro horn subwoofer design is the LAB subwoofer. "A bit" big, but with great sensitivy.
A mobile phone operator (in Europe) showed something better a year ago on a local tradeshow: you could drive real RC cars on a little track with your phone. There were 4 cars, 4 numbers to dial... Fun.
These people should watch South Park, episode 313.
MARK:...public schools may be a bit lacking in education, but it's the main place where children learn all of their social skills. You can't teach a child social skills; they have to learn them themselves, and the only place to do that is on the playground, in the cafeteria, and so on...
The joys of jumping around in a blue T-shirt with "BLUE ARMY" - "CHURCH 13" and another fruitcake with a brown one "ROJO" - "LOPEZ 1010" and no-one knowing what the hell this is all about... Wonderful. =)
(We need to sharpen our ghost impersonation/Spanish skills, tho.)
...go play Live For Speed. Version S1 was just released. If you want the full game, you download the expansion to the demo (or just the full game), pay online (~$20) and get a key to unlock the game. This allows you to race online, the website collects statistics,...
In a word: awesome. Force feedback is the best, bar none (and yes, I'm using a M$ wheel - the only decent thing they made).
Hell yeah... Roll track 9, Focus, fire up a powerful subwoofer (not that $100 computer shit) and watch the house shaking:) Incredible 25-40Hz mayhem, non-stop.
I can't wait what Reznor will cook up for Doom 3... The leaked alpha has freakin' crazy sound effects! No music in the alpha, tho...:/
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Yes, I've watched this movie several hundred times now
I'm sorry.
Check out Squeezebox Duet combo which consists of a Controller (Wifi remote control) and a Receiver (small black player box that can also connect via Wifi). The central library can be installed on a Windows/Linux box and the software is written in Perl and open source - heck, everything is Linux powered, remote control included.
I think that you can use a single remote to control multiple players and it might even be able to auto connect to the nearest player automatically (not sure, I only have one).
It isn't very sophisticated or slick (the remote doesn't have a nice feel, the wheel isn't very smooth), but it's cheap.
Sure, not exercising and participating in (dangerous) sports activities won't get you many injuries, now will it? /waiting for an operation for a fractured clavicle, cycling accident, BMI ~21 :)
For C# / .NET code, Windows Mobile is the answer. Developing for it from Visual Studio is really simple, almost like for desktop Windows Forms apps, it supports remote debugging via USB and it has a emulator with many device profiles (different display and keyboard configurations).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx
As for WM phones, HTC or Asus (a bit cheaper, I have a P750) make solid ones.
If the line does go down, we go play office basketball. Okay, even if it doesn't break down, we play it, but still...
My issue is with the computer shutting down entirely and I have this option disabled - doesn't do anything.
MSI have supposedly found these bugs and are working on it. Forum link.
Thanks. I'll try it out.
:)
Out of curiosity, which gaming and bundled with ASIO drivers audio cards work well with SMP? What about X-Fi?
I might even try out the onboard sound on the nForce chipset - I only use the SPDIF interface to the receiver anyways.
Computer shuts down with specific usage, the current big issue for me is hardware MIDI playback. It will shut down in an instant.
It handles stress tests and burn-in test and intense gaming stuff just fine. PSU is a brand new 550W...
This isn't a case of a bad PSU.
Onboard sound is disabled. But I might try to move Audigy a PCI slot up or down or manually set an IRQ. The last time I was messing with this was on a Pentium 200... *sigh*
:)
I did run Memtest86+, messed with RAM settings, downclocked RAM, upvolted it, moved sticks around and out (2x1Gb). No effects at all.
Yes, I do have dual core drivers and the optimizer. These fixed issues with some applications (for instance stuff that works with ASIO - low latency audio drivers).
If you have an nVidia 3D card, try their "Clear Sailing" demo. In case that I leave the affinity set to both CPUs, it stutters like hell. Yes, with the drivers and optimizer and everything...
I'm not using 64 bit Windows. Freshly reinstalled plain XP Pro SP2 for this box.
Hot CPU ran fine for a few hours today, no problems. nVidia's stress testing for 3D/CPU/HD ran fine for 8 hours.
Clearly, these are some weird, specific BIOS-drivers-OS interaction issues. IMHO, nothing should be able to shutdown the computer in an instant (just like pulling the cord). At least give me a BSOD, damnit...
Hopefully they'll fix this stuff with BIOS or driver revisions. It's just that these problems are so weird that I have no clue to who I should report them. MSI? Nvidia? Microsoft? How to reproduce this stuff? Eh...
I jumped for AM2 since it was basically the same price with faster RAM and idiot-proof CPU cooler installation. I crushed an Athlon 1800+ with a big Zalman some years ago, so... Oh heck.
Socket 939 is the previous generation of chipsets, with nVidia that's nForce 4, AM2 uses nForce 5xx with DDR2 RAM.
There are users with similiar reports on Asus/MSI forums with those boards, so I'm definitely not alone.
Just a little tasting of the nature of the new boards: Windows installation or Windows XP itself would BSOD unless the CPU was underclocked from 2GHz to 1GHz. A newer version of BIOS fixed that.
I've been runing Abit's MB with nForce 2 on a 2500+ proc for a few years before, and that was rock solid. The box is in storage right now, it might get revived... Heh.
I've just assembled my first SMP box, an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3800+. Running Windows XP (gaming, video, audio) it is the most unstable thing ever.
Playing a simple MIDI file thru Audigy 2 shuts down the whole computer in a minute or so. Changing game's affinity to just one CPU mid-game shuts down the computer. File copying with the onboard NIC (nForce 570) shuts down the computer - Intel PCI NIC somewhat fixed this.
I somehow blame Microsoft for all this. I doubt that drivers are being written for good SMP support and then such systems suffer with weird system kabooms.
Hopefully Vista 64 bit will fix this stuff. Of course, somewhere in 2009, when we get stable 64 bit drivers and rebuild the whole hardware 3 times till then...
Is it just me? Unstable SMP on Windows XP with games/audio production stuff?
...for this lock would be Mike Portnoy. :)
So, the first screenshot is when you are sober and the second one is when you are on acid?
Check these Infinite Baffle designs, especially this one.
IB is actually the most simple and cheap DIY solution if you have an appropriate pair of rooms. Also, it gives the best bass sound reproduction, better than the usual box/horn designs.
A great DIY/Pro horn subwoofer design is the LAB subwoofer. "A bit" big, but with great sensitivy.
Slashdot's "summary": "Pictured above, a robot meteorological station continues to monitor surface conditions over the ice-sealed lake."
:)
So Einstein's head was/is a metereological station? Dind't know that...
A mobile phone operator (in Europe) showed something better a year ago on a local tradeshow: you could drive real RC cars on a little track with your phone. There were 4 cars, 4 numbers to dial... Fun.
Hell, does this thing leak ink like crazy every 28 days?
These people should watch South Park, episode 313.
...public schools may be a bit lacking in education, but it's the main place where children learn all of their social skills. You can't teach a child social skills; they have to learn them themselves, and the only place to do that is on the playground, in the cafeteria, and so on...
MARK:
The joys of jumping around in a blue T-shirt with "BLUE ARMY" - "CHURCH 13" and another fruitcake with a brown one "ROJO" - "LOPEZ 1010" and no-one knowing what the hell this is all about... Wonderful. =)
(We need to sharpen our ghost impersonation/Spanish skills, tho.)
I just hope that these new chips won't resample everything to some native, internal processing frequency, like AC97 does to 48KHz.
Otherwise, just give me HDMI compatible soundcards/DVD(-A) players and surround receivers, and I'll be happy. =)
Hey, is that whiny wannabe-soldier included in the price? I need someone to reload my gatling gun... :)
Extremely Stupid Assholes.
...go play Live For Speed. Version S1 was just released. If you want the full game, you download the expansion to the demo (or just the full game), pay online (~$20) and get a key to unlock the game. This allows you to race online, the website collects statistics,...
In a word: awesome. Force feedback is the best, bar none (and yes, I'm using a M$ wheel - the only decent thing they made).
Sheesh, could this possibly be
Hell yeah... Roll track 9, Focus, fire up a powerful subwoofer (not that $100 computer shit) and watch the house shaking :) Incredible 25-40Hz mayhem, non-stop.
:/
I can't wait what Reznor will cook up for Doom 3... The leaked alpha has freakin' crazy sound effects! No music in the alpha, tho...