Learned much. Never really knew anything.

The following link says that the yellow sculpture in Denver was designed by the same artist who designed the version in this video. A taller copy was commissioned and completed in 1986. Based on the age of the video, the version in the video must be the original which was built in Mexico City for the 1968 Olympics.

http://www.denverdesign.com/about/

I have had a ReadyNAS device for a little under a year and I think it is fantastic, for the most part. I bought a bare-bones version and originally installed two 400GB drives. Since then I have added a third drive (750GB) which the system used to hot-expand my drive space. I have also had to replace one drive that began to fail prematurely. It worked beautifully.

I have all of my CDs ripped to the drive, all of my digital photos stored on the drive, all of my computers are backed up nightly to the drive and most of my documents are stored there as well. With a gigabit switch and gigabit NICs, everything is quick and smooth.

I have two SlimDevices SqueezeBoxes in my house which are synced to play the same music at the same time (for parties). They connect wirelessly over an 802.11g network. I have had no problems streaming music to both of those devices while simultaneously streaming video to a PC on the local network.

The only problem I have had is which the SlimServer software user interface. Though the music streams fine and the software is very responsive to the SqueezeBoxes, the user interface for configuring the SqueezeBoxes and creating playlists is very, very slow. Building a playlist using the GUI is painful, and there are no good alternatives. iTunes will not export m3u files, and I have not been able to get any m3u exporting utilities to work (though I haven't tried any commercial versions yet). Even if I did get them to work, however, the paths in the m3u file would be wrong and would need to be modified to a syntax that the SlimServer could understand. The resolution to this problem doesn't seem like it would be hard for someone to code over a weekend, but the languages I know wouldn't be useful to most people running on Windows systems.