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Shuttle's cube computers

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 20:26

Shuttle CubesEngadget has a post about Shuttle's new cube computers. These look pretty nice. It looks like there is room for two 3.5" drives and one 5.25" drive.

Since Shuttle isn't sellling them, I wonder what the prices will be. Also I wonder how loud the internal fan is. I just wish that Shuttle would come out with a convection cooled computer. I would definitely buy one of those.

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Squeezebox

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 20:03

SqueezeboxThe Squeezebox looks like a very cool device. It plays MP3, WMA, AAC, Apple Lossless, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC or uncompressed audio on your home stereo. It has a LCD display to display the menu for selecting songs, as well as the currently playing track. There is a 802.11 wireless version and there is a ethernet version.

One of the best things about this, compared to the other devices of this type, is that the server is open source. There is quite a lot of development on this. Also this sever can be used for streaming to a computer.

It looks like the wired version starts at $199

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Network Storage Device

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 18:53

Linksys Network Storage LinkA while ago, I seriously looked into buying a Network Attached Storage device. I was having problems getting DSL to my house, so I was thinking about moving the server offsite. The only problem with doing this is that currently all of our music is stored on it.

When I looked at the NAS out there they were too expensive. Here is a 80 Gb NAS and print server, for $500. I didn't think that it was worth it, since you can get a computer for that price.

Today I just saw this interesting product. Linksys has their Network Storage Link. The really cool thing about this device is that it is only $80. Here is a review of it. With this, you can attach one or two USB 1 or USB 2 hard drives and put them on your network. It looks like that it uses samba to make the the drives available on the network. Also there is web based administration for the user and permissions. Also, It looks like there is read only access to the files, from the web server.

I wonder if it would be possible to use this device for some of those home mp3 players that get the files from samba shares. I assume that those devices will just use a certain named mount point.

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Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 08:31

http://www.westbrooks.org

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Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 08:30

http://www.kulick.com/blog/

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