Why not maybe take the plunge and perhaps get a quad processor pc?
Or perhaps maybe see if there are some DSP cards that would work with the VST plugins your using. I think farming it out in real time is not something thats going to happen for a while. I mean, the latency will definately be a problem....
Harmony Central had an article (old, but still interesting), about a DSP card. And here is some info on a yamaha DSP Farm.
Ribbon Microphones I've seen recently. Kinda cool. The sound is different than most of these newer ones.
I can remember using Wordstar when I was in high school. It was lame......
And I KNOW someone who has one of those Edison wax things. Not the recorder kind, but the playback. It's on some sorta metal. Sounds real nice........ --
Pretty cool to know that we're still finding stuff when we thought there would be nothing.
However, what about things like that existing outside of Pluto's orbit? Perhaps something like that could explain comets and maybe extinction of some creatures, and big impacts every couple of thousand years.....
I downloaded Netscape 6. It was slower on my Windows 2000 (Please Please no flames) than 4.7. But I liked a lot of the features. I'm willing to wait a sec or two longer for it to load.
After reading some of the stuff here, I download Mozilla. I like it even better. Seems a little faster.
I don't use IE 5.5. My experience with it seems to crash my Windows system more often than not.........
Last version of exchange I used was 5.5. One thing that it lacked that we wanted was the ability to have like a journal for each user on a contact. IE:, if you talked to Joe User on 11/28, and someone else talked to Joe User on 11/20, and there were some notes about the conversation that would be cool. The way Exchange 5.5 worked, to my memory, was that you could do this, but you couldn't share it with everyone...........
Probably the best thing would be to make it a real groupware program, where you could publish/share just about everything......
When I was an MIS for a company, we installed Microsoft exchange. Yes, it only runs on NT. It was probably the ONLY piece of software I have ever feared. I was SOOOOO scared about the potential of it crashing. I did backups everyday of it and the Oracle database we were running. I was NOT concerned about Oracle crashing. Oracle stuff NEVER caused me problems. Exchange however, was a nightmare. Registry keys, POP mail not working sometimes. Service Packs screwing things up. I can't tell you how many times I went to technet to get support. The exchange server crashed a number of times. Recovery took hours. It was not nice.
Since leaving that company, and doing my own thing (including hosting sites myself), I use sendmail and IMAP on Unix machines. You can easily use Outlook or whatever and get pretty much the same functions. When I was using NT 4 and Exchange 5.5, there were a number of things it couldn't do that would have been nice. But, I think you can get most all of what you want from using other sources.........
I've been using the VBR Lame Encoder 3.99 Alpha for a couple of weeks and I love it. It's fast, and it sounds great. I was using BladeEnc for a while. I have found that Lame sounds better, and using VBR will result in a smaller file than Blade and still sound better.
See, the problem is that your not using Uncle Bill's latest and greatest. ASP would NEVER EVER have allowed those mean nasty hackers to get into your system. And Windows 2000 is 25% faster than Linux.......and it's got that nice GUI......
Being a musician, I would rather see the Recording Industry adopt a different attitude towards this "copy protection". What I would like to see is something like the mobile phone market has. You pay $50 a month, and you can download 500 minutes worth of 128bit MP3 music. If you want more, then it's x amount of money per minute. Their site or whatever would have EVERYTHING in their library online, and low quality samples of stuff so you can hear it before you buy.
I think it is stupid and wasteful to spend the money to protect something which you can't really protect. Is the RIAA going to require little doggles on soundcards that prevent people from hooking up stuff other than speakers?
I think if the RIAA has a subscription plan, they could potentially make even more money, and if you take it to the next step, offering to burn custom CDs that have the tracks that YOU want on them for a fee, I think they could really be "with it" and finally entered the technology age........
Actually, I don't think this guy knows what he's talking about. Having worked in an NT environment for a few years, then switching to a Unix environment (FreeBSD and Linux), I have to say it is SOOO much easier to track down problems with Unix than with NT. Also, the same hardware performs better on Unix too since you don't have that 60-100megs of graphical crap loading up before it starts.
I also think it's true about security too. If there is something open in Unix, it is easy to fix, or get answers on how to fix it. On NT, you either have to work around it or wait until a service pack comes out to fix it.
Yeah, galaxy rangers rocked. I think I have some of those episodes taped somewhere........ Perhaps I'll capture them and post them somewhere someday..........
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Or perhaps maybe see if there are some DSP cards that would work with the VST plugins your using. I think farming it out in real time is not something thats going to happen for a while. I mean, the latency will definately be a problem....
Harmony Central had an article (old, but still interesting), about a DSP card. And here is some info on a yamaha DSP Farm.
I think going that route would be better....
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I can remember using Wordstar when I was in high school. It was lame......
And I KNOW someone who has one of those Edison wax things. Not the recorder kind, but the playback. It's on some sorta metal. Sounds real nice........
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However, what about things like that existing outside of Pluto's orbit? Perhaps something like that could explain comets and maybe extinction of some creatures, and big impacts every couple of thousand years.....
After reading some of the stuff here, I download Mozilla. I like it even better. Seems a little faster.
I don't use IE 5.5. My experience with it seems to crash my Windows system more often than not.........
Probably the best thing would be to make it a real groupware program, where you could publish/share just about everything......
wow, it's still alive. I'm impressed. I think I have Citadel source code for my Old Atari ST somewhere around here............
Can we also bring back those BBS systems like Citadel, where people log in a get involved in discussions..........hey......wait a minute.......
Hey, that seems to work for Microsoft, and they are the biggest software company on the planet.
Or if you were running FreeBSD..........but.......then again.........your not listening
Since leaving that company, and doing my own thing (including hosting sites myself), I use sendmail and IMAP on Unix machines. You can easily use Outlook or whatever and get pretty much the same functions. When I was using NT 4 and Exchange 5.5, there were a number of things it couldn't do that would have been nice. But, I think you can get most all of what you want from using other sources.........
I don't like the idea either of being tracked.
I think the artists are going to suffer on this one......again......and the record companies are going to profit......again......
Does this mean that the Slash gurus will come out with Slash 1.0.10 to allow Slash to work with the latest version of MySQL?
Oops, I am using Lame 3.88 Alpha 1
I've been using the VBR Lame Encoder 3.99 Alpha for a couple of weeks and I love it. It's fast, and it sounds great. I was using BladeEnc for a while. I have found that Lame sounds better, and using VBR will result in a smaller file than Blade and still sound better.
Have all computers have linux installed by default! It's free, fast, stable.........
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Great, now I'm not going to be able to sleep at night. It makes my Dual Pentium II machine look bad.
I think it is stupid and wasteful to spend the money to protect something which you can't really protect. Is the RIAA going to require little doggles on soundcards that prevent people from hooking up stuff other than speakers?
I think if the RIAA has a subscription plan, they could potentially make even more money, and if you take it to the next step, offering to burn custom CDs that have the tracks that YOU want on them for a fee, I think they could really be "with it" and finally entered the technology age........
Now that is what I want. Robotech fighters!
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I think that would do it.When are we going to see the Sim's meet Quake?
Or maybe the Sims meet Everquest. Now that would be neat! Maxis should think about it.........
Code is speech and you should be able to copy DVDs that you own and be able to play them on your Linux laptop!
I also think it's true about security too. If there is something open in Unix, it is easy to fix, or get answers on how to fix it. On NT, you either have to work around it or wait until a service pack comes out to fix it.
Yeah, galaxy rangers rocked. I think I have some of those episodes taped somewhere........ Perhaps I'll capture them and post them somewhere someday..........