Posts by Peter D'Hoye 132 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Aug 2006
I still have one of those jazpiper 32MB players that came out around the same time. Unusable since I no longer have a parallel port...
And while I'm typing this here: Many people have an old (but not that old) mp3 player they do not use anymore, but which they could give new life by loading Rockbox on it.
Rockbox is an alternative firmware that runs on many 'old' and newer players.
Get it (and check if your player is supported) on http://www.rockbox.org/
If it needs a special cable or a dongle to work, it simply isn't there. And in the case of ethernet it is much more so because you have to pay extra. So you might as well write that the Eee has bluetooth because you can plug a cheap dongle in...
As for mini-DVI: required another cable to use. So scrap it from the list...
End result: if you want to connect/use the macair, you need another bag that is much larger and heavier than the macair itself just to put in the extra stuff (read: ethernet dongle, usb hub, mini-DVI cable,...)
The GPS inaccuracy is mostly due to variance the system introduces unless you are military. So your calculation is totally off. Between two readings separated by one second, the signal will bump about around 10 meters. GPS devices know that so they do a lot of averaging before presenting the data.
My GPS in the car gives stable readings to the point that I trust it to have at least 0.5kmh accuracy.
The trouble is that my GPS and many other commercial car systems do not offer any logging that can be used in court as evidence.
1) use Apple-tv in stead of the Squeezebox? You really don't care for quality at all? Oh wait, you bought from iTunes, that explains it all....
2) This hardware trick seems to be what it is, a trick. Nowhere near a solution.
3) Until Apple stops selling consumer lock-in crap, I'm not buying any of it. Would have been nice if you could run slimserver on the apple-tv to feed the squeezebox.
*goes listening to some more music (ripped from CD) using his squeezebox*
I recently bought a DVD and wanted a backup copy because of the endusers (kids), and found that none of my systemes was able to read it, giving cyclic redundancy check errors. The DVD plays fine on our DVD player, so I can only guess it's another copy control trick.
Now I shall have to get myself an illegal copy from the 'net to use as working copy. Maybe this is what they want consumers to do?
Embedded developers can safely ignore the above article ;)
And other developers maybe too... Maybe optimisation is a waste of time if the code was written efficiently, but telling users to buy a faster PC because you can't code efficiently is not the way to go.
So it's not that black/white as the article puts it.
The story of Chandler being such a slow resource hog sounds familiar.
I'm the proud owner of a very nice piece of hardware, namely a SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 (streaming network audio player). It needs it own server software, which is written in... perl.
As I write this, this is what the stuff is consuming:
slim.exe 75.888KB
mysqld.exe 18.316KB
That's right, 94.204KB to play a bunch of (legal) mp3''s and other fileformats. Let me correct that. It's in sleep mode right now, it's not supposed to do anything!
So you're advising to transcode from one lossy format to another, thereby reducing the crappy itunes quality even more. Yuck!
Just face it: if you buy from itunes, you're stuck with itunes and ipod. Call me oldfashioned, but I still buy CD's and rip them myself (they're no longer protected anyway)
Why not run RockBox on your mp3 player (if it's supported)?
(recording works on some Archos, iriver and iaudio players, ipod recording is just around the corner).
Rockbox has following recording features:
- live peakmeters with
- configurable dB scale
- on the fly gain adjust
- pre-recording (never miss the beginning of the set)
- record as WAV/AIFF/WV/MP3 (many bitrates and frequencies)
- split into new file based on time
- split into new file based on filesize
- split into new file by keypress
- ...
see http://www.rockbox.org/
Best of all it's free. No need to carry the extra hardware too.
Unless I overlooked it, you missed a common bug that often isn't catched before software is released.
When casting from float to integer, C/C++ and most other languages will truncate. So 3.80 becomes 3
Everybody knows you need to add 0.5 before casting but still this is a very common bug I often see...
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