I wonder if this OpenELEC is capable of digital music output through the USB port, to an external DAC, like regular desktop Linux does.
That would be a killer feature.

Yup, been there, done that... no generation X or Y around here :-)

Also, the age of BBSes and 2400baud modems !

Ia, thanks a lot for this tip, I'm sure I'd never heard of this before !

I remember seeing geeks with such tag-overloaded addresses ages ago, in the pre-Internet days, although the syntax was a bit more involved. The goal was the same, it relied on a special feature in good old Sendmail I believe...

Glad to be of help. Just one thing though : if you want FlexRAID to be of any interest to you, you will need at least three drives. Technically it is possible to use it (or RAID1) with two, but in that case you will essentially be mirroring (duplicating) your data, so you won't gain anything capacit...

If you're not clear on what LTSP, LFS, NFS and KVM can do for you, it's safe to assume you can leave them aside for the time being, until you feel more comfortable with Linux and want to get your feet wet. FlexRAID is another matter. It's less well known than all the rest, confidential even at this ...

I'm not sure the two are 100% related. I seldom use VNC and always leave it the way you describe. I still do get 'zombie' notices once in a while when logging in through ssh. Most times just one, occasionally up to four. My guess is that FlexRaid produces some of those, too. They seem harmless enoug...

I can confirm that. Moreover, in most cases the directory tree on the share seems to stay cached on the client side after the drive spins down, so you can still browse through the folders without waking the drive (unless you actually open a file of course).

Glad to be of help. A simple fix, but tough to track down :-)

Note: as a bonus, I've just verified that this now even survives a reboot :-)

Hi, me again... After a long period of making do with this situation, yesterday I got irritated again and engaged in a more stubborn Google session than I previously had. Delving through page after page of vague forum postings, I finally chanced upon a useful hint -- not an explanation, exactly, but...