Over the past 3 weeks 3 new things have been added to my network
- A new TV
- a new (really an old 2005 PC) "testbank" PC
- a discarded server (dual P4 Xeons)
Many who have families, understand this too, but, something like a "new"TV attracts a lot of attention in your home.
Some of my time has been trying to understand the underpinnings of TV.
This is my first acquaintance of a "Smart-TV". So, yet again, when no one is around (reason: I don't like looking like an old idiot in front of even my family), I must retread myself with technology never seen before.
I've just learned 2 things of significance:
My TV system is running Android (GoogleTV). I understand there is an app for my phone, but, I haven't gotten that far yet.
My TV can be controlled by my voice commands. Thus, they took the liberty to build in a microphone (no camera on this model).
My TV can do something my PUPs cannot do: Read a NTFS "Compressed" filesystem over its USB port.
Yes, this, to me is significant because it provides me a sense of what LAN audience they are playing to. And, where the TV industry is placing their technology direction on. Mainly using Linux to control the TV in a LAN of Microsoft.
Please don't take this as some sort of one-ups-manship by TVs because its not. But, they are taking a very pragmatic approach to type of LAN community they will find when your TV is plugged in.
I really like what they've done. Maybe because its new. And, as all new things are, they are fast at first, but not fast enough over time. 2 weeks ago this system was fast...very fast. Today, I, the human, has adapted and its speed seems slower, even though nothing has been added (the TV has never seen the internet, yet, because its LAN subnet is closed).
But, just the mere fact that someone (ur, thing) in my house takes the time to listen to me, make me happy. I can out of the blue "bark" an order and ... WOW!
I fully understand how Android on this platform is being applied for useful media use. Clever.
I was surprised to see that plugging in an NTFS drive (USB Stick) containing a large Multimedia Folder-subfolders is properly interrogated in the same way Microsoft does. Further, I was even more impressed that it understood an NTFS "compressed" filesystem in the same way my Windows systems do.
Not a bug, but "what is it?"
In comparing this functionality to Puppy, I have never been able to get my PUPs to connect to this USB stick to see its folders. And, I am not sure how best to present the community with information to assist what should be done to access this type of media.
If anyone in the community knows what feedback I need to gather from Puppy so that this community can see this problem,please advise AT THIS FORUM THREAD
Any assistance, here, would benefit all, either directly or indirectly, to the PUPs community.
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