Slim Devices Plugin Contest Winners!

[dean]

Hi Everybody,

We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
site:

<http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>

We had a really hard time picking from all the great entries, our
community never ceases to impress us with their great work.

Surf on over and see the entrants and congratulate the winners.

Thanks,

The Slim Devices Team

[Jack Coates]

> Hi Everybody,
>
> We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
> site:
>
> <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
>
> We had a really hard time picking from all the great entries, our
> community never ceases to impress us with their great work.
>
> Surf on over and see the entrants and congratulate the winners.
>
> Thanks,
>
> The Slim Devices Team

Congratulations everyone! Those community service awards are particularly
cool, and very well deserved.

--
Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
"Believe what you're told; there'd be chaos if everyone thought for
themselves." -- Top Dog hotdog stand, Berkeley, CA

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
> site:
>
> <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
>

But the burning question on all our minds is whether Felix chose the
scope or the ibook...

[kdf]

and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml

I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious use in the
next few weeks

-kdf

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
> > site:
> >
> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
> >

[David Jameson]

Not on my machine - this plugin crashes my server (the new 5.3) on Linux.
Sigh,
D




"kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:1095811926.4150c35684a3a (AT) callisto (DOT) deane-freeman.com...
> and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
>
> I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious use in
> the
> next few weeks
>
> -kdf
>
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
>> > Hi Everybody,
>> >
>> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
>> > site:
>> >
>> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
>> >

[Craig Eales]

Can you give some details of the crash - I am running against latest
CVS and have no problems.

Did it used to work before you upgraded the server? If so, then try
using the web interface
to remove and then read the plugin: I remember I had to do this once.

Craig

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:07:38 -0400, David Jameson <david (AT) digiportal (DOT) com> wrote:
> Not on my machine - this plugin crashes my server (the new 5.3) on Linux.
> Sigh,
> D
>
> "kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com> wrote in
> message news:1095811926.4150c35684a3a (AT) callisto (DOT) deane-freeman.com...
>
>
> > and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
> >
> > I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious use in
> > the
> > next few weeks
> >
> > -kdf
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
> >> > Hi Everybody,
> >> >
> >> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
> >> > site:
> >> >
> >> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
> >> >
>
>

[Jules Taplin]

Hehe.

Hitchhikers coming back to the radio. Marvellous!

And there I am trying to work out why the BBC7 parser is falling over...

Should have read the following from the BBC7 pages:

Due to ongoing technical difficulties, we are unable to provide a
comprehensive Listen Again facility. We are working to fix this as soon as
possible, but please bear with us and accept our apologies for any
inconvenience caused.

Arse.

-- Jules

----- Original Message -----
From: "kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com>
To: "Slim Devices Developers" <developers (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Developers] Slim Devices Plugin Contest Winners!


> and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
>
> I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious use in
> the
> next few weeks
>
> -kdf
>
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
>> > Hi Everybody,
>> >
>> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our web
>> > site:
>> >
>> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
>> >
>
>

[David Jameson]

No, I never had it installed before - I only found out about that particular
plugin after it won.
But I have found that quite a few of the plugins out there crash my server -
some work perfectly but quite a few of them just kill the server and I have
to restart it.
I've no details really - I'll navigate to the plugin, push the right-arrow
to initiate it and my squeezeboxes will suddenly announce they've lost
connection to the server. This happend to me with the Email plugin, and one
or two others - I forget which now but it was consistent, I just deleted
them. Others such as SHOUTCAST, the RadioIO Internet Radio, and MaximumEedge
News, work perfectly.
I suspect that there are some assumptions being made in some of those
plugins that may not be true in all environments but I haven't looked at the
code (it's Perl :-)

D



"Craig Eales" <craig.eales (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dc15a8f10409220443420f8fc (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com...
> Can you give some details of the crash - I am running against latest
> CVS and have no problems.
>
> Did it used to work before you upgraded the server? If so, then try
> using the web interface
> to remove and then read the plugin: I remember I had to do this once.
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:07:38 -0400, David Jameson
> <david (AT) digiportal (DOT) com> wrote:
>> Not on my machine - this plugin crashes my server (the new 5.3) on Linux.
>> Sigh,
>> D
>>
>> "kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com> wrote
>> in
>> message
>> news:1095811926.4150c35684a3a (AT) callisto (DOT) deane-freeman.com...
>>
>>
>> > and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
>> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
>> >
>> > I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious use
>> > in
>> > the
>> > next few weeks
>> >
>> > -kdf
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
>> >> > Hi Everybody,
>> >> >
>> >> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our
>> >> > web
>> >> > site:
>> >> >
>> >> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
>> >> >
>>
>>

[Craig Eales]

OK,

lets see if we can locate the problem: (I suspect it the version of
HTML::Parser in your perl distribution).

1) Which linux are you running?
2) How did you install your slim server (rpm or source?)
3) Which version of perl is running (perl -v will tell you)

4) Can you locate the server logfile, and get the final error message
when it goes boom?

Craig

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:09:42 -0400, David Jameson <david (AT) digiportal (DOT) com> wrote:
> No, I never had it installed before - I only found out about that particular
> plugin after it won.
> But I have found that quite a few of the plugins out there crash my server -
> some work perfectly but quite a few of them just kill the server and I have
> to restart it.
> I've no details really - I'll navigate to the plugin, push the right-arrow
> to initiate it and my squeezeboxes will suddenly announce they've lost
> connection to the server. This happend to me with the Email plugin, and one
> or two others - I forget which now but it was consistent, I just deleted
> them. Others such as SHOUTCAST, the RadioIO Internet Radio, and MaximumEedge
> News, work perfectly.
> I suspect that there are some assumptions being made in some of those
> plugins that may not be true in all environments but I haven't looked at the
> code (it's Perl :-)
>
> D
>
> "Craig Eales" <craig.eales (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in
> message news:dc15a8f10409220443420f8fc (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com...
>
>
> > Can you give some details of the crash - I am running against latest
> > CVS and have no problems.
> >
> > Did it used to work before you upgraded the server? If so, then try
> > using the web interface
> > to remove and then read the plugin: I remember I had to do this once.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:07:38 -0400, David Jameson
> > <david (AT) digiportal (DOT) com> wrote:
> >> Not on my machine - this plugin crashes my server (the new 5.3) on Linux.
> >> Sigh,
> >> D
> >>
> >> "kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com> wrote
> >> in
> >> message
> >> news:1095811926.4150c35684a3a (AT) callisto (DOT) deane-freeman.com...
> >>
> >>
> >> > and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
> >> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
> >> >
> >> > I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious use
> >> > in
> >> > the
> >> > next few weeks
> >> >
> >> > -kdf
> >> >
> >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
> >> >> > Hi Everybody,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on our
> >> >> > web
> >> >> > site:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
> >> >> >
> >>
> >>

[David Jameson]

See my follow-on post - I've gotten things working.
D



"Craig Eales" <craig.eales (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dc15a8f1040923053246a3cff1 (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com...
> OK,
>
> lets see if we can locate the problem: (I suspect it the version of
> HTML::Parser in your perl distribution).
>
> 1) Which linux are you running?
> 2) How did you install your slim server (rpm or source?)
> 3) Which version of perl is running (perl -v will tell you)
>
> 4) Can you locate the server logfile, and get the final error message
> when it goes boom?
>
> Craig
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:09:42 -0400, David Jameson
> <david (AT) digiportal (DOT) com> wrote:
>> No, I never had it installed before - I only found out about that
>> particular
>> plugin after it won.
>> But I have found that quite a few of the plugins out there crash my
>> server -
>> some work perfectly but quite a few of them just kill the server and I
>> have
>> to restart it.
>> I've no details really - I'll navigate to the plugin, push the
>> right-arrow
>> to initiate it and my squeezeboxes will suddenly announce they've lost
>> connection to the server. This happend to me with the Email plugin, and
>> one
>> or two others - I forget which now but it was consistent, I just deleted
>> them. Others such as SHOUTCAST, the RadioIO Internet Radio, and
>> MaximumEedge
>> News, work perfectly.
>> I suspect that there are some assumptions being made in some of those
>> plugins that may not be true in all environments but I haven't looked at
>> the
>> code (it's Perl :-)
>>
>> D
>>
>> "Craig Eales" <craig.eales (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote
>> in
>> message
>> news:dc15a8f10409220443420f8fc (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com...
>>
>>
>> > Can you give some details of the crash - I am running against latest
>> > CVS and have no problems.
>> >
>> > Did it used to work before you upgraded the server? If so, then try
>> > using the web interface
>> > to remove and then read the plugin: I remember I had to do this once.
>> >
>> > Craig
>> >
>> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:07:38 -0400, David Jameson
>> > <david (AT) digiportal (DOT) com> wrote:
>> >> Not on my machine - this plugin crashes my server (the new 5.3) on
>> >> Linux.
>> >> Sigh,
>> >> D
>> >>
>> >> "kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com>
>> >> wrote
>> >> in
>> >> message
>> >> news:1095811926.4150c35684a3a (AT) callisto (DOT) deane-freeman.com...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > and now with this starting to make its way through the bbc today:
>> >> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
>> >> >
>> >> > I think the first place winner is going to be seeing some serious
>> >> > use
>> >> > in
>> >> > the
>> >> > next few weeks
>> >> >
>> >> > -kdf
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:18:48AM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi Everybody,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > We've posted the winners of the Slim Devices Plugins Contest on
>> >> >> > our
>> >> >> > web
>> >> >> > site:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > <http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_contest.html>
>> >> >> >
>> >>
>> >>