[slinkelist] WishLists

[Mike Macgirvin]

Mike Kropp wrote:

> > Maybe we could kill two birds with one stone. I mentioned earlier that
> > it'd be nice to have the "now playing" exported to file for those of us
> > unable to setup active-x/com (for various technical reasons) and get the
> > info via RPC. I'd still like that, so what if "now playing" was a
> > program which just read from that file in a separate program? Then we
> > could use the same program from networked computers and just access the
> > file share without the COM setup issues.
> >
> 
> You can do this now.  Just write a small program that runs on the CDJ
> machine and talks to CDJ via its automation interface.  You can write the
> file with whatever info you want to take from CDJ at whatever interval you
> choose.

Yes, I know that - but it requires setting up the automation interface,
which in turn requires an NT domain controller on my local net so that I
can still share printers/files etc. with the slink-e machine (win98),
which I do today without NT. It's the latter step I take issue with.
Right now I operate a strictly peer-to-peer network where one machine
doesn't care if another is down. Adding an NT domain controller to the
mix requires network dependancies I don't care for, especially since I
don't run Windows exclusively and would like to see my Linux boxes
participate in any voluntary file sharing I create.  Putting NT/win2000
on the slink-e machine is likewise a non-starter because neither of
these OS's currently support the full range of software which I require
for other uses (MIDI, IPsec, digital camera, etc.) . This box has to be
win98 and it cannot rely on NT. Someday Microsoft may make it all work
painlessly on an NT derivative but that isn't the case today.