Agreed. Wireless is for things that move about. Wired is for things that don't move. I'm looking at LightwaveRF and OpenHAB. Affordable and hackable if that's what you're looking for. Developer sign up is here: http://help.lightwaverf.com/knowledgebase.php?article=15
"Anyone who uses Steam's Big Picture Mode is already intimately acquainted with SteamOS, as they're very similar. SteamOS looks and acts like Big Picture Mode, except it's the basis for the entire hardware system. It's controller-friendly and easy to navigate. The same Steam splash page washes across the screen when it launches, and the same tile-based layout of games and the Steam store are visible at launch. As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom), though you'd never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.
That means it also has the limitations of Steam: SteamOS is not the replacement for Windows 8 you've been waiting for. Beyond basics like browsing the web, there's little in the way of standard OS functions."
"Anyone who uses Steam's Big Picture Mode is already intimately acquainted with SteamOS, as they're very similar. SteamOS looks and acts like Big Picture Mode, except it's the basis for the entire hardware system. It's controller-friendly and easy to navigate. The same Steam splash page washes across the screen when it launches, and the same tile-based layout of games and the Steam store are visible at launch. As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom), though you'd never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.
That means it also has the limitations of Steam: SteamOS is not the replacement for Windows 8 you've been waiting for. Beyond basics like browsing the web, there's little in the way of standard OS functions."
Doesn't everybody with that class of media library just use their DLNA server of choice or XBMC or something now? I use Plex, it indexes a bajillion tracks and I just choose what I want to listen to through Bubble on my phone and fling it at the player attached to a sound system:\
He's also lying, unless my knowledge is wildly out of date.
For a very long time my fat-client email provider (Evolution) has supported GMail Mail, Contacts and Calendar. You even just select "Add Google Account" and it does all the tricky stuff for you.
But I stopped using a fat client a long time ago, because why the hell would you even bother? That's just my IMO of course.
So what's he going on about "no longer working with 3rd party clients well" Does he just mean Outlook and EAS?
Oh and the IMAP folders/labels dichotomy. Yes, you'll end up with multiple headers coming down. But deleting, copying and moving just gets translated into label actions. Again, just IMO, does does this really matter?
The guys entitled to his opinion but this one seems a bit stretched.
They do. The ask for a donation when you download the ISO. And guess what? They complained about that too. Very loudly indeed. In summary, there will always be people on forums complaining about everything. They will always be first and loudest. The people who just install it, judge it good enough and put a dollar in the hat don't go on-line to troll about it. Long live Mark, Canonical, Unity and Mir.;)
Ah yes, but Windows never gets past that feeling that it was designed and implemented my many teams of many types over many years and not once did they ever speak to each other.
Although I too hate the Linux ecosystems "tinkerers" attitude.
Luckily for us we have Canonical, which have been developing their OS which has shown consistent improvement for 9 years. Still a long way to go though, but once you get there, well, you're there aren't you?:)
I think Canonical have a decent shot at shipping the first usable phone and tablet OS. And I mean usable in a desktop/laptop replacement way, which Android isn't yet and doesn't seem to be aiming at. Microsoft are also on the case obviously, with Win8 across the board. I hear people aren't loving it so much.
I like the concept of Surface, just not the OS. Roll on Unity 8 + Mir! 8D
I shall name them Cross Over OSes. OSes that are designed to provide a consistent and useful experience across all platforms, Desktop, Laptop, TV, Phone and Tablet.
Historically Canonical have done a fantastic job of making it easy to put Ubuntu on what you put Ubuntu on. Eventually it will be shipped hardware but I won't be surprised when I see a Windows EXE that auto-flashes your Nexus tablet with Ubuntu 1.x.
1) Maintain consistency with your peers when writing the same software together. 2) Communicating with peers 3) Not making assumptions 4) Not telling me about ad-hoc design/schema changes 5) Estimates 6) Consistency in quality assurance procedures
However it appears that with oversight, training and having the work delegated into manageable quanta, all these problems go away. A lot of it was caused by the heroic one programmer/one product/no design or requirements model. Or "FAD": http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/FrontAhead-Design.aspx:)
If I had to choose one word as What's Hardest and Most Important?
That's not how Amps and Volts work. You could plug a 10amp charger in and it wouldn't do anything bad. However if it was 6V instead of 5V you would (well, may) fry it.
You can't push Amps, the device will only ever pull what it needs. However you can indeed push Volts and fry the thing.
But the voltage is part of the USB standard. 5V. +- approx 0.25V.
So any USB charger works with any USB device. This does, however, not mean that you can't get *bad* USB chargers. But that would have fried the old phone as well.
This really is just vendor lock in of the worst kind. Thankfully, however, vendor lock IN is also vendor lock OUT.:) Apple, you can keep your proprietary connectors.
I also prefer C#, although I've had precious little use for unsigned types. However, when I *have* needed them (dealing with legacy DLLs, etc) then thank god I had them.
Anyway, we better go hide in the corner before they notice us. >.>!
If you get caught, just strip all the UInt32 statements out of your code and pretend it's Java.
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I recommend Plex (I know I know, I read the question)
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 box running that.
Don't generally have any problems with it.
I did have an MKV problem where some encoding option caused it to barf but that was with DLNA clients and the transcoder.
And it does have the advantage that you can get paid support for it at a very reasonable price.
The MKV files that are missing, are they missing on the PMS or just missing in the client?
And is the client DLNA or the native Plex client?
Also, if you have a Samsung smart device you can install the native plex client on there.
I have also had success with the following servers:
miniDLNA (only used for music on an RPi on a boat though)
Serviio (superior DLNA transcoding)
XBMCs built in server (seems to work well)
XBMC has a DLNA server switch you can turn on.
Seemed to work pretty well.
Agreed.
Wireless is for things that move about.
Wired is for things that don't move.
I'm looking at LightwaveRF and OpenHAB.
Affordable and hackable if that's what you're looking for.
Developer sign up is here: http://help.lightwaverf.com/knowledgebase.php?article=15
Whoops, that don't work no more:
https://soundcloud.com/roboj1m/dj-loki-ready-for-war
It is, at least, original.
Tried listening to it recently, it's getting a bit ear bleeding awful.
I liked it when it had some semblance of dub still in it:
https://soundcloud.com/james-neave/dj-loki-ready-for-war
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/valve-steam-machine-hands-on/
"Anyone who uses Steam's Big Picture Mode is already intimately acquainted with SteamOS, as they're very similar. SteamOS looks and acts like Big Picture Mode, except it's the basis for the entire hardware system. It's controller-friendly and easy to navigate. The same Steam splash page washes across the screen when it launches, and the same tile-based layout of games and the Steam store are visible at launch. As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom), though you'd never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.
That means it also has the limitations of Steam: SteamOS is not the replacement for Windows 8 you've been waiting for. Beyond basics like browsing the web, there's little in the way of standard OS functions."
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/valve-steam-machine-hands-on/
"Anyone who uses Steam's Big Picture Mode is already intimately acquainted with SteamOS, as they're very similar. SteamOS looks and acts like Big Picture Mode, except it's the basis for the entire hardware system. It's controller-friendly and easy to navigate. The same Steam splash page washes across the screen when it launches, and the same tile-based layout of games and the Steam store are visible at launch. As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom), though you'd never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.
That means it also has the limitations of Steam: SteamOS is not the replacement for Windows 8 you've been waiting for. Beyond basics like browsing the web, there's little in the way of standard OS functions."
Awful.
*brushes up CV*
More and more the evidence points to pack up, ship out and let rich corps fight over me.
Roll on ARM Radeon SoCs!
Please? It would make an awesome desktop PC.
Doesn't everybody with that class of media library just use their DLNA server of choice or XBMC or something now? :\
I use Plex, it indexes a bajillion tracks and I just choose what I want to listen to through Bubble on my phone and fling it at the player attached to a sound system
You can build these, Ambilight clones for you TV:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/11/04/ambipi-ambilight-clone-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
http://player.vimeo.com/video/30043456
Yes, but that's just the marketing numbers by the manufacturer.
You'll only *really* get 22 TiB 755 GiB 65 MiB 932 KiB
He's also lying, unless my knowledge is wildly out of date.
For a very long time my fat-client email provider (Evolution) has supported GMail Mail, Contacts and Calendar.
You even just select "Add Google Account" and it does all the tricky stuff for you.
But I stopped using a fat client a long time ago, because why the hell would you even bother?
That's just my IMO of course.
So what's he going on about "no longer working with 3rd party clients well"
Does he just mean Outlook and EAS?
Oh and the IMAP folders/labels dichotomy.
Yes, you'll end up with multiple headers coming down.
But deleting, copying and moving just gets translated into label actions.
Again, just IMO, does does this really matter?
The guys entitled to his opinion but this one seems a bit stretched.
They do. ;)
The ask for a donation when you download the ISO.
And guess what?
They complained about that too. Very loudly indeed.
In summary, there will always be people on forums complaining about everything.
They will always be first and loudest.
The people who just install it, judge it good enough and put a dollar in the hat don't go on-line to troll about it.
Long live Mark, Canonical, Unity and Mir.
Oh course they did.
The one that told Adam to eat the apple.
Ah yes, but Windows never gets past that feeling that it was designed and implemented my many teams of many types over many years and not once did they ever speak to each other.
Although I too hate the Linux ecosystems "tinkerers" attitude.
Luckily for us we have Canonical, which have been developing their OS which has shown consistent improvement for 9 years. :)
Still a long way to go though, but once you get there, well, you're there aren't you?
I think Canonical have a decent shot at shipping the first usable phone and tablet OS.
And I mean usable in a desktop/laptop replacement way, which Android isn't yet and doesn't seem to be aiming at.
Microsoft are also on the case obviously, with Win8 across the board.
I hear people aren't loving it so much.
I like the concept of Surface, just not the OS.
Roll on Unity 8 + Mir! 8D
I shall name them Cross Over OSes.
OSes that are designed to provide a consistent and useful experience across all platforms, Desktop, Laptop, TV, Phone and Tablet.
Historically Canonical have done a fantastic job of making it easy to put Ubuntu on what you put Ubuntu on.
Eventually it will be shipped hardware but I won't be surprised when I see a Windows EXE that auto-flashes your Nexus tablet with Ubuntu 1.x.
But does it work with tennis balls?
1) Maintain consistency with your peers when writing the same software together.
2) Communicating with peers
3) Not making assumptions
4) Not telling me about ad-hoc design/schema changes
5) Estimates
6) Consistency in quality assurance procedures
However it appears that with oversight, training and having the work delegated into manageable quanta, all these problems go away. :)
A lot of it was caused by the heroic one programmer/one product/no design or requirements model.
Or "FAD": http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/FrontAhead-Design.aspx
If I had to choose one word as What's Hardest and Most Important?
"Consistency"
They're not proprietary standards.
There is MHL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link
Slimport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyDP#MyDP
And my favourite, miracast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast (although that's wireless)
No, but I bet the tech companies do... ;)
Urgh, that image makes me want to throw up.... 8X
That's not how Amps and Volts work.
You could plug a 10amp charger in and it wouldn't do anything bad.
However if it was 6V instead of 5V you would (well, may) fry it.
You can't push Amps, the device will only ever pull what it needs.
However you can indeed push Volts and fry the thing.
But the voltage is part of the USB standard. 5V. +- approx 0.25V.
So any USB charger works with any USB device.
This does, however, not mean that you can't get *bad* USB chargers.
But that would have fried the old phone as well.
This really is just vendor lock in of the worst kind. :)
Thankfully, however, vendor lock IN is also vendor lock OUT.
Apple, you can keep your proprietary connectors.
Nope, you can charge at 2 amps through USB.
The recent Galaxy phones do for instance.
I also prefer C#, although I've had precious little use for unsigned types.
However, when I *have* needed them (dealing with legacy DLLs, etc) then thank god I had them.
Anyway, we better go hide in the corner before they notice us. >.>!
If you get caught, just strip all the UInt32 statements out of your code and pretend it's Java.
Nobody can tell the difference anyway.