Folks, since I've only heard from 1 person who expressed interest in the
Home Appliance topic, I think we ought to shelve it since it's very close
to the holidays--maybe when there is more interest.
Brian
"Dale E. Martin" <dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/17/2004 01:13:52
PM:
> > I just spoke to Dale. Dec 20th is a OK.
>
> Actually, I spoke to my wife about it just now and she reminded me that
we
> have friends in from out of town that evening, so that's not going to
work
> for me. I'd say we could try January but we've got baby #3 due on Jan
> 22nd, so I don't think I want to plan on that either. Sorry!
>
> > As background, Chris and I were talking about PVRs and I mentioned
that I
> > was streaming audio through the house using the Homepod and I asked
him
> > if he heard of the Squeezebox. Since Chris hadn't seen it, I wondered
> > how many others hadn't seen it. Since the Homepod runs Java (IBM's
J9)
> > and uses Java to talk to a server that serves up music (Firmware and
Gloo
> > and Application are all open source) and the emulator for the
Squeezebox
> > (for plugin development) runs on Java and since Christmas/Hannukah are
> > right around the corner, the idea was born.
>
> The squeezebox itself uses an open source server called "slimserver"
which
> is implemented in perl. So while not Java, it's still a pretty neat
> system:
> http://www.slimdevices.com/
>
> As Brian mentioned, there's a client/emulator that is in Java as well.
And
> in fact you can install the server and then run the soft client to play
> with the system and see what you think.
>
> Anyways, sorry for the confusion on my end!
>
> Take care,
> Dale
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