HI:
I am the wiki editor of Openmoko (wiki.openmoko.org .)
I would like to invite you to write an introduction page for Quasar Media Player.
This page will help people easily to find all information of Quasar.
And share their ideas with you via wiki page.

Your help will be sincerely appreciated.

Best Regards

Brenda
Openmoko Wiki editor

The PCI-E idea is great. Can you imagine the potential of that silly Mini if they had a few PCI-E slots in there? Video enhancements, eSata, etc.

Basically its like swimming up a river with Apple. They are going to try to stop the tinkering as much as they can. Better to get a simple PC, run OSX86 and XP, each on its own hard drive, and have the best of both worlds for almost no expense. Total freedom with hard drives, video, etc. Back to the real world of computing freedom.

I have the impression that the internal sata port controller doesn’t support port multiplication. Can someone verify this? I’d love to hook up a drive array to a mini.

For that matter would an external sata hub alleviate the problem? Or would it stuff be botched by the internal controller?

And lastly / most extremely.

Since as an early poster noted the PCI-e wireless card might be sacrificed… could it be possible to sub in a modded PCI-e sata card (firmtek or sonnet) that supports port multiplication?

I’m trying to figure out a nice little file server option for my home office. I have a GSpeed hooked up to my main mac, but I’d like to put the drives in a closet (less noise for me) and use gigabit ethernet for my workstations to grab/share files. The 6ft max cable for the eSata is limiting my ability to shove it in a closet as is.

Also, I just got married and I’d like to create a dope little media center for the new wife, videos and music anywhere in the house, you know.

This mini sata thread got me thinking…
I’m going to need to get my hands on a mini now, either way. Refurbs here I come!

-greg

Update: the above seems to be a known bug:

duplicity - Bugs: bug #19998, Incremental Backups Do Not Work On…
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?19998

“This is caused by a ValueError exception in duplicity’s tarfile.py, because it uses int() on strings containing (NUL) characters.
This exception does not happen with Python 2.4, and also is not specific to Ubuntu’s Python 2.5.”

Don’t have Python 2.4 now, so cannot tell..

Then, I needed to understand there are two different sets of keys - one for ssh/scp (which should work passwordless before tryig duplicity), and another - gpg - for encrypting the archives. I also encountered the gpg problem, solved it by installing gnupg, running
$ gpg –gen-key
here noting the comment ‘gpg: key ABABABAB marked as ultimately trusted’
and then running
$ gpg –list-keys
you will see:
.. ————————————–
.. pub 1024D/ABABABAB 2008-10-12
.. uid XX

and then use this ABABABAB key as in

$ duplicity -–encrypt-key ABABABAB -–sign-key ABABABAB “/cygdrive/c/TEMP” scp://user@server.net/bckp

Now, this is all OK - but I have a problem - this does create an archive on the server, but if I execute the exact same command several times in a row without changing files, it always uploads archives with sizes the same as initial one !! Shouldn’t it detect no changes, and transfer 0 bytes?: “If the above is run repeatedly, the first will be a full backup, and subsequent ones will be incremental.” http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html. Same thing happens for specifying –no-encryption instead of encryption and signing keys. (I n00bishly suspect this may have to do something with the Cygwin filesystem…)

Any pointers for this would be great!

Update2: tried http://launchpadlibrarian.net/7933525/duplicity_0.4.2-10.1ubuntu1.1.dsc.diff manually, ran setup.py again, but there seems to be no fix - it still cannot detect increments, not even when trying without encryption, and running:

$ duplicity –verify –no-encryption -v 9 scp://user@server.net/bckp /cygdrive/c/temp/