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Squeezebox for kids bedrooms

Paul Westbrook | 07 January, 2008 23:25

Tonight, I was sitting downstairs working on the computer, listening to the baby monitor.  Then the CD in baby's room started to skip, and it woke her up.  This made me think about this post that I wrote a while ago.

The kids have a tendency to scratch CDs and break CD and tape players (cassettes can not be played in one of their radios any more).  I started to think of the ideal solution.  I like the way that the SqueezeBox is able to play my whole colection of music, and I am able to control it remotely (to turn it off after the kids go to sleep, or turn down the volume). And that is without the media being damaged.

SoundBridge Radio The one problem with the SqueezeBox is that it doesn't have built-in speakers.  Ideally Logitech would come out with a SqueezeBox that integrates speakers and an amplifier.  Something like the Roku SoundBridge Radio would be great. Unfortunately the SoundBridge Radio doesn't support the latest version of  SlimServer.

 

 

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Bill Gates' last day

Paul Westbrook | 07 January, 2008 22:44

This is a pretty funny video from Bill Gate's CES keynote address


Bill Gates Last Day Of Work - Watch more free videos

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Nuvi 680 update

Paul Westbrook | 07 January, 2008 20:25

I have been using the Garmin Nuvi 680 for a while now, and I do like it.  There are some things that I don't like about it. 

  1. You can't specify a number destinations and have the Nuvi calculate the best route to all of them.  You can only specify a destination and a single "via point"
  2. You can't specify a road to avoid when routing.  For example, there is no way for you to specify that you want to avoid a particular highway on your route
  3. The traffic alerts do not indicate the time that they were last updated.  It is impossible for you to determine how likely a alert is to still be a problem.
  4. The microphone on the unit, when mounted on the dash is near the windshield.  So, when it is raining out side, it is hard for the other person on the line to hear you.

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Switched back to Gnome

Paul Westbrook | 07 January, 2008 02:51

I have decided to switch back to Gnome from KDE.  I personally like the interface of KDE better, but there were two things that weren't working.

  1. KDE's built WebDAV client doesn't allow the clients to be mounted with write access, so I had to manually mount the server on the command line.
  2. The sound on the internal speakers on laptop was extremely quiet.
Both of these problems don't happen for me in Gnome.

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