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Skriven 2009-08-16 15:49:00 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Russell Tiedt
Ärende: in his own little room again
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Hey Russell!

> All and very well, but how does one take the darn thing
> apart

Near as I could figure, you don't.  If you need to boot anything other then the
crippleware Asus decided to embed onto the onboard flash disk then hit escape
on bootup with a drive attached to one of the usb ports and it should show up
on the list.  Choose that and hit enter and it should boot.

Piece of cake.  :-)

> So that you can choose the music you want to listen too,

Usually the server takes care of that, near as I can tell.  If we're talking
about streaming from an ftp server then having a list available of what is on
the server could easily be generated from a text file and then farmed out to
mplayer to play it.

I don't understand why you want to complicate this other than you've been
suckered by the web people who are stuck with crappy GUI stuff to make all this
possible using basic scripting, bash in your case.

> relaxing and enjoying your selection

Right.  Piece of cake.  Stick to the basics and it is a done deal. Why confuse
this issue?

> and they all are users of MS WINXP

The fools.  I certainly wouldn't follow their advice.

 MK> been the most rewarding but usually when I stick to pure
 MK> console based c only type stuff.

> That does have merit, up to a point

I have yet to reach the limits of that point.  If you're looking to cripple it
ala MS then follow the likes of the Ubuntu crowd and you're there already.


> Yeah, well, you have not ventured onto this playing field yet,

Yes I have, ages ago.  That is why I know that it is a complete waste of time. 
Trust me, all that won't last forever.  Next MS upgrade will kill most of it
and they'll be left scrambling trying to salvage their pirateware.  Fido is a
prime example of what happens when so-called standards are based on shoddy
programs such as pkzip and message headers with anything funky in them such as
16 bit integers that don't offer anything as far as the messages within the
packets are concerned. That is a shiney example of why never to listen to those
types of people when it comes to a computer and what is possible following the
basics.

> stay away from SQL databases as long as possible

Then do so.  Quit putting on stuff that relies on it and everything will work
out.

BTW I see Douglas has an interm release.  I notice it he is advertising a ftp
server is encorporated.  Interesting eh?  Not sure where he got the idea to do
that but it doesn't surprise me any.  Didn't see anything about SQL type crap. 
<EG>

Life is good,
Maurice

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