[slinkelist] Some questions/thoughts...

[David Ness]

Thanks for the try, but what you suggest doesn't solve the problem.
I have been a VNC user for a long while now, and am _very_ familiar
with it. It _is_, indeed, just as good a product as you suggest.
And, as you suggest, the _price_ is surely right! ($0)

However, it doesn't solve the problem. Moving the images is not 
the problem. I can move them in scores of different ways ranging from
drag-and-drop to simple DOS COPYs.

The `problem' is that one CDJ _must_ be installed on the machine that
talks to the SlinkE (else it can't reach the serial port of that
machine to talk to it) and one CDJ _must_ be installed on the machine
that talks to the Net (else it can't reach the modem that talks to
the Net). VNC can't solve this `problem'. VNC lets you control one
machine from another, but it doesn't, for example, allow one machine
to use the serial port on the other machine.

Other products, WinGate is an example, would allow the CDJ on the
`HiFi Machine' to use my LAN to reach out to the Net. However, this
class of product has proven, in my experience, to be easily open to
outside intrusion and thus _very_ dangerous to run, and as a result
isn't a practical _solution_ either.

So, I'm afraid your answer leaves me in the situation of the traveller
who, when asking `How do I get to London?' is told that it would be
much better to `Go to Newcastle instead, that way you don't need to
know how to get to London.'

Thank you for the information about the `text database' option. Given
your description I won't use it, although I find the fact that the
.mdb has to be converted to use my version of Access leaves me in a
quandry about whether I can `manage' the data in Access and have the
results properly reflected in a CDJ-compatable data base. On the
whole I much prefer text readable data bases, unless the amount of
data managed is _huge_, so I guess the `step forward' into DAO
turns out to be a `step backward' to me, but if that's the way it is,
I guess I better figure out some way around it.

Michael Holopainen wrote:
> 
> 1. use VNC by ORL (it solves the cover & mp3 file & mp3 output problems
> & you only need to install cdj on one computer & you can use    it even
> from unix/linux or/and over internet)
>    OR
>    Drag&Drop the file (mp3 or image) from Network Neighborhood window, I
> have been told that then you get the location in format
> "\\CDJPC\Program Files\nirvis\Images\abba-gold.jpg" so it works over
> network (LAN)
>    Though I'm not 100% sure, I use VNC
>    you can get VNC  FREE!!!! http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/vnc/
>    It's amazing program <1Mb. It hard to explain if you haven't seen it,
> best way to describe it is :
>    When you run vnc_viewer (0,5Mb) from a remote computer and log on to
> the "cdj" computer,
>    is same as plugging the monitor&keyboard&mouse of that remote
> computer to that "cdj" computer.
> 
> 
> 2. Don't use the 'text' property it is a legacy thingie. In old day's
> before cdj library was in database(tm) format, cdj made a text file that
> contained the library. I suppose that this property was kept so people
> that don't want to install ms DAO (data access objet) on their computer
> can still use cdj, and allow people upgrading from old versions to
> import their libraries. Theoretically the database should be better
> (I'll try not say anything about the quality of micro$oft products).
> 
> I agree, both cdj/slinke are just amazing. vnc & cdj/slinke is a killer
> combo.
>