Category Archives: Music Stuff
New server
The new server is working great–it’s got plenty of power and has been rock-solid stable. I ended up with Debian on it, and I’m a lot happier now that I’m running testing instead of stable (for instance, I have FLAC … Continue reading
A new angle
After my trials and tribulations with the Thecus, I realized I needed a real solution. People on the Slim Devices forums had talked about mini-ITX boards with Via processors as low-power, high-performance solutions. Basically I want a real math coprocessor … Continue reading
Disk problems
It was bound to happen–I was copying my music files over from my main Kurobox disk to the backup USB drive and noticed a few i/o errors. I dismounted the /datafiles/ file system and tried to do an fsck which … Continue reading
last.fm
I finally downloaded the SlimScrobbler plugin and started using my last.fm account. I have been using the NowPlaying plugin, but that’s not nearly Web 2.0 enough on its own. So if you use last.fm go ahead and friend me and … Continue reading
CD Storage revisited
I last posted about what to do with my CDs now that I’m running out of room in the family room for them. I had thought about binders, but realized I wanted all the cover art including the back covers. … Continue reading
What to do?
I haven’t put a CD in my CD/DVD player now for about a year. My CDs are still in racks in the family room. It’s been mutually agreed that I will be removing them, but I”m not sure how. I … Continue reading
The ultimate portable device
I’m thinking about my next gadget purchase, and outlining the things I’d like to be able to do: I would like a new portable music player. Right now my 60GB Nomad Zen doesn’t have enough room for everything I own … Continue reading
Logi-slim
Logitech bought Slim Devices last week. It’s hard to say what this means as of yet–except they’re keeping Slim Devices as a wholly-owned subsidiary so they should function about as they did before, with better access to manufacturing and distribution … Continue reading
Kitchen speakers and cable management
I had several projects over the last few days. I talked about them a while ago. One was taking my trusty 1″ spade bit and drilling a new hole between the living room and family room. I had a hole, … Continue reading
SlimServer 6.5 beta
I decided this weekend it was time to upgrade to SlimServer 6.5 beta. Took a couple of false starts–I had converted 6.3 to run with MySQL, and 6.5 does it by default, and comes with it’s own MySQL instance to … Continue reading