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Dreambox 8000
Ins and outs of SD cards and CF cards
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<blockquote data-quote="Dog's dinner" data-source="post: 783711" data-attributes="member: 362627"><p>Thanks to Topper and Tivù for replying. The dreambox people have indeed published a manual, but since the first couple of days of ownership, it hasn't really helped, apart from actually installing a hard drive and plugging it in. Most of the instructions, which seem at first glance pretty logical and comprehensive, seem on closer inspection to have been written for another device entirely, not the dm8000. The translater also gives the impression of either not speaking German or not speaking English, or both. I know I'm supposed to be grateful for small mercies, but after the first few mercies, there are no more to be had from that quarter, certainly nothing in the league of the problems I've been having over the past year. </p><p></p><p>As to being an expert, I've never felt more like an arch idiot. My greatest problem is finding understandable literature for non-Linux speakers. But what's out there is either garbled and incomprehensible, or written for the initiated and incomprehensible. Having said that, I've been toying with an idea about writing up (or down) my life with a Dreambox, from the word go, to the word stop. Funny thing is, all the other myriad devices in my house work a treat (Oppo bluray player, Onkyo multichannel receiver, three computers, nice Panasonic plasma). Only the dreambox manages to throw up such a constant, never-ending stream of problems. Whether it's the software, hardware, me or the combination of all three, I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dog's dinner, post: 783711, member: 362627"] Thanks to Topper and Tivù for replying. The dreambox people have indeed published a manual, but since the first couple of days of ownership, it hasn't really helped, apart from actually installing a hard drive and plugging it in. Most of the instructions, which seem at first glance pretty logical and comprehensive, seem on closer inspection to have been written for another device entirely, not the dm8000. The translater also gives the impression of either not speaking German or not speaking English, or both. I know I'm supposed to be grateful for small mercies, but after the first few mercies, there are no more to be had from that quarter, certainly nothing in the league of the problems I've been having over the past year. As to being an expert, I've never felt more like an arch idiot. My greatest problem is finding understandable literature for non-Linux speakers. But what's out there is either garbled and incomprehensible, or written for the initiated and incomprehensible. Having said that, I've been toying with an idea about writing up (or down) my life with a Dreambox, from the word go, to the word stop. Funny thing is, all the other myriad devices in my house work a treat (Oppo bluray player, Onkyo multichannel receiver, three computers, nice Panasonic plasma). Only the dreambox manages to throw up such a constant, never-ending stream of problems. Whether it's the software, hardware, me or the combination of all three, I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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