zhennian - Slashdot User

Comment SPAM? (Score 1) 2

by zhennian on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:20AM (#56593904) Attached to: YouTube creators on Strike - Slingshot Channel

How did this story get marked as SPAM?

Comment Re:Squeezebox solution (Score 1) 118

by zhennian on Monday November 13, 2017 @08:17AM (#55539481) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can You Convert Old iPods Into A Home Music-Streaming Solution?

Thanks for this helpful suggestion, I should have specified that the iPod Touches in question are Gen2 MC and MB models and Apple ceased ISO support at 4.2.1, so I was frustratingly close to an iPeng / Squeezebox solution.

Comment Re:Squeezebox - Useful Advice (Score 1) 118

by zhennian on Monday November 13, 2017 @08:06AM (#55539461) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can You Convert Old iPods Into A Home Music-Streaming Solution?

Thank you for this suggestion, also made by a few others, including use of iPeng Classic. Unfortunately the MC/MB G2 iPod Touches that I have won't even run the oldest available Squeezebox client or iPeng. Even after trying a whited00r flash. I guess Apple do a very good job of making their old (but still functional) hardware obsolete as soon as possible.

Submission + - Question - Old iPods into House-wide Audio 1

Submitted by zhennian on Saturday November 11, 2017 @04:19AM

zhennian writes: I don't want to spend $100 per unit to get a house-wide music playing system and was hoping that with 3 old iPods I might be able to put together a centrally managed house-wide audio system. Ideally it would be possible to control what is playing from a central web interface using an app on an IOS or Android device. With the iPods already plugged into docking stations and on the home wifi network, I assume it should be possible. A search of the Apple app store didn't bring up much and forking out $AUS400 for a Sonos One or equivalent seems wasted when I've already purchased iPod docks. Can anyone recommend an App that will still be compatible with old (ie. 2007) iPods and might do this?

Comment Software Tools (Score 4, Informative) 102

by zhennian on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:54AM (#48109295) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Capture the Flag Training

I went looking for some open-source software to facilitate multi-team cyber training. There didn't seem to be much around so I wrote this set of python scripts to provide some basic CTF-like training - http://sourceforge.net/project.... You still have to set up all the servers and networking, but this lets you set up new tokens and keep score.

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