I also was playing around with this last week. (thanks to another news site) I like it but found a few probblems with it...
Wallpaper looks really bad affter it has been put on a spheer... Drop down menus didn't drop down... Some icons didn't end up on the desktop... Links/shortcuts on the desktop didn't work...
With all that said I still have to say that I like it and with new releaces it might really become something worth useing.
I have all ready seen it... does any one remember minidisc?... it started as a data disk before sony started to put music on it and it died... it not to long ago started to come back with mp3 files on the disks this time... and on another note they look alot alike...
Minidisc
This is really not a new thing but it is nice to see that it is starting to come out in to the open. If you have not all ready heard it you should listen to the audio form the "Low Bandwidth Access to the Internet" panel that was at H2K back in 2000. They talked about how most of the web sites are not assessable by screen readers and I am sure that it has not got any better over the last 2 years. Any way if you want to hear it it is still on the H2K website. http://www.h2k.net/panels.html#lowb
Would it not be possible to get it to play ogg? I believe that after all of the SliMp3 is just a dumb term and has all of the work done for it on the computer that is its server and isn't the server program for it open source? I am really not sure and have not read much more than the Tom's Hardware review for this unite but how I see it is all of the decoding is done by the server application on your computer and then sent to the SliMp3. The SliMp3 is just an interface between you computer and the speakers with a nice screen. So assuming that I have not missed and facts here and you really want your SliMp3 to play ogg why don't you do it? Go learn how ogg decompression works and get the server program to support ogg. I mean if you want something done do it your self.
It is not exactly what you want for but you should give it a look... http://www.slimdevices.com/
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Yes but I think that you are missing something here. When you buy your 300$ computer all it really is is a barebones so you also have to get a P4, ram and some kind of storage be it a hard drive that you boot to ram when you start then dump the ram back to the hard drive when you shutdown or you buy a ide to flash converter and set it up on a flash card you are still going to end up spending much more than you would going the other way.
Yes but what happens when you don't have to work?... Somehow I don't think that ever thing will just become "free" as in Star Trek. It will be strange when the only ppl with money is manual labor and thought is worth nothing more than a wafer of silicon.
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Two posts and the server has all ready gone down in flames...
I also was playing around with this last week. (thanks to another news site) I like it but found a few probblems with it...
Wallpaper looks really bad affter it has been put on a spheer...
Drop down menus didn't drop down...
Some icons didn't end up on the desktop...
Links/shortcuts on the desktop didn't work...
With all that said I still have to say that I like it and with new releaces it might really become something worth useing.
I have all ready seen it... does any one remember minidisc?... it started as a data disk before sony started to put music on it and it died... it not to long ago started to come back with mp3 files on the disks this time... and on another note they look alot alike... Minidisc
Yes go to Dynamism.com
Yes this is old I know that it has been out for like 6 months...
This is really not a new thing but it is nice to see that it is starting to come out in to the open. If you have not all ready heard it you should listen to the audio form the "Low Bandwidth Access to the Internet" panel that was at H2K back in 2000. They talked about how most of the web sites are not assessable by screen readers and I am sure that it has not got any better over the last 2 years. Any way if you want to hear it it is still on the H2K website. http://www.h2k.net/panels.html#lowb
Would it not be possible to get it to play ogg? I believe that after all of the SliMp3 is just a dumb term and has all of the work done for it on the computer that is its server and isn't the server program for it open source? I am really not sure and have not read much more than the Tom's Hardware review for this unite but how I see it is all of the decoding is done by the server application on your computer and then sent to the SliMp3. The SliMp3 is just an interface between you computer and the speakers with a nice screen. So assuming that I have not missed and facts here and you really want your SliMp3 to play ogg why don't you do it? Go learn how ogg decompression works and get the server program to support ogg. I mean if you want something done do it your self.
It is not exactly what you want for but you should give it a look... http://www.slimdevices.com/
Yes but I think that you are missing something here. When you buy your 300$ computer all it really is is a barebones so you also have to get a P4, ram and some kind of storage be it a hard drive that you boot to ram when you start then dump the ram back to the hard drive when you shutdown or you buy a ide to flash converter and set it up on a flash card you are still going to end up spending much more than you would going the other way.
They have all of the shuttle mini-barebones at directron... and they even have the new one with 1 pci and 1 agp slot.
Yes but what happens when you don't have to work?... Somehow I don't think that ever thing will just become "free" as in Star Trek. It will be strange when the only ppl with money is manual labor and thought is worth nothing more than a wafer of silicon.
Are you talking about a luggable computer?