Originally Posted by Rebski

So to take the Tab I would have had to carry a bag of some sort. If I need to carry a bag then why would I restrict myself to a 7” screen? Why not have a 9.7” screen. Bigger screen equals better, right?

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

Hmm... You could consider inotify which has been included in mainline linux kernels since 2.6.13. It basically monitors a FS for changes and has an API for these events.

Here's a script that a user copied that uses inotifywait (an inotify command intended for script use), that waits for a change to a directory tree, then fires a command (or commands):

Code:

 #!/bin/sh
       while inotifywait -e modify -t 120 /my/media/directory; do
         /etc/init.d/ushare reload
       done

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...39&postcount=3

And here's the inotifywait man page:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait

Of course you'd have to install the requisite software, but this should help tremendously!

Here are install instructions:
http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/



Yeah, a bummer. VLC doesn't seem to support DLNA, but perhaps I need to look deeper. It may be offered in some sort of a plugin.

miles@unicron:~$ inotify --help
No command 'inotify' found, did you mean:
Command 'dnotify' from package 'dnotify' (universe)
inotify: command not found
miles@unicron:~$ apt-cache show dnotify
Package: dnotify
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 120
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.18.0-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8)
Filename: pool/universe/d/dnotify/dnotify_0.18.0-2_i386.deb
Size: 24796
MD5sum: 7ab465b4626a893dff1c93d996c47b22
SHA1: b11c89f49f9fe809e696cd58358f763105f26a7b
SHA256: 1126f2a86e7ddb4ac27c4f07dd872ddd86380b9d7251f78f16 fe75bb6be77174
Description: execute a command when the contents of a directory change
dnotify is a simple program based on Linux kernel 2.4.19+'s dnotify
API. dnotify can execute a specified command each time the content
of a specific directory changes. It is run from the command line and
takes two arguments: one or more directories to monitor and a command
to execute whenever a directory has changed. Options control what
events to trigger on: when a file was read in the directory, when one
was created, deleted and so on.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

Here's a post from PC World:
Five Reasons To Ignore the Galaxy Tab and get the iPad
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...html?tk=hp_new

I've included it to provide a counter-perspective on this incredibly biased (my fault, no less) Galaxy Tab thread!

There are some interesting points raised, but nothing that you've likely not heard. Of the credible points of comparison they list: screen-size, battery-life, and iCulture (the very mature iOS eco-system -- though they don't differentiate iPad apps from iPhone/iPod apps).

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

Hey Dan!

dnotify was obseleted by inotify! Using apt-get, you can install inotify using:
apt-get install inotify-tools

The rest is butter -- as they say . I also updated the script in my last post to be a little more relevant to your needs!

Here's the wikipedia article mentioning the dnotify obsolescence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnotify

Let me know how it goes! I'm going to be implementing inotify for a different reason, but it is very interesting tech.

Originally Posted by danramos

I installed that too--I noticed it afterwards. Although.. it seems like dnotify simplified the whole script down to just:

Code:

dnotify -a /home/miles/shows -e sudo /etc/init.d/ushare reload

Not sure why they'd deprecate something THAT much more simpler and efficient.

Edit: Ahh.. read the article, that explains why it was deprecated. I had assumed it was working th way inotify was working. Good show, Cap'n!