I reccomend trying slackware, install a basic system without X etc., then reboot after installation using the CD, at the boot prompt type "vmlinuz root=/dev/hdaX load_ramdisk=0 initrd=" where "X" is your / partition. Go get the new LILO from freshmeat, run the installer and then LILO, and you should have next to no problems booting with a solid, command-line system. The folks at comp.os.slackware (I forget the exact name) are very helpful, laid back individuals who will almost always point you to the exact problem you're having. The system you wind up with will be 10X more secure than the magazine-rack Redhat you're currently trying to use (nothing against RH, but keep in mind that they are working towards being a general purpose, desktop distro. Slack still has the hobbyist in mind, and doesn't try to make things more convenient, which I find helpful.) Also it will be a little more difficult at first using only the command line, however by the time your done you'll not only have a solid simple system, but the know-how to maintain it (not to mention that feeling of accomplishment!)
For partitioning, I'd reccomend using "cfdisk" (mush more like the dos fdisk you're used to). Try a 1 gig partition for / a 500 meg for swap and maybe a partition or two for/home and/usr or/usr/local (conventional wisdom that if your root partition gets toasted you can reinstall and still have your user's apps and personal files) optional. Redhat and some of the based-on-RH get around the lilo problem by putting like a 10 meg partition at the beginning of the drive as/boot, although I've had much better luck just doing it the old-fashioned / way (no boot partition), as make bzlilo installs freshly compiled kernels neater that way.
Anyway, just my two cents of advocacy:-) People may feel free to correct any factual errors or mistakes in my instructions, however flames will be ignored.
Basically I was talking about pop musicians, as they are the ones who will probably move to online distribution well before classical and 'serious'(non-top40) artists. They are the ones currently getting screwed the most by their labels, and I imagine that in the near future quite a few up-and-comings will eschew the major labels and opt for grassroots instead, now that it's becoming apparent that a whole new worldwide medium exists. Eventually the radio stations will have to start including this music in their shows (the sooner the better) and the sheer amount of music out there will cause the cream to rise.
I agree that online is not a good medium for lengthy works (yet). Of course I downloaded "Thick As a Brick" from Jethro Tull a month or so back, and listened to it as a complete work for the first time (amazing what not having to get up and change album sides will do for you). It took about 10 minutes on my t-3 at the college. Hopefully the next format for digital music will sound better out of a stereo, and that by that time bandwidth won't be as big of an issue. As for the Ring, usually that's performed over a period of several days at a festival, correct? I could imagine getting all 20 hours overnight on a cablemodem and mp3. I would even not mind if it took a week of overnights at 56k if the company could garauntee resumable downloads:)
Either way I think it had better be a good shift, or people simply won't buy it.
I also hate to admit that I've never heard any of Britany Spears material.
You're not missing much. The problem with Britney isn't that she's had a boob-job, been deprived of a normal childhood, made to look years older and pranced around onstage like a performing animal...it's the fact that a few years down the road she'll finally realize that her fame, and subsequent dissapearance from American culture had nothing to do with her, or any amount of talent she may posess. It has to do with the fact that she was manipulated by a lot of people who milked her for the cash cow that she is, took the money and ran to reinvest it into the next pop-icon.
Oh and I originally meant to say that by not listening to her you haven't missed much. Overrated.
CD's are digital, true, and I'll also agree that vinyl sounds much better, however the differences between an LP and a CD are much less noticeable than between a CD and an mp3 encoded off that CD. Not only do you now have sampled audio, but you have sampled, compressed audio. Ick.
Q.Since when has music needed to be packaged as an Album? A.Since there were albums.
Before albums it was piano rolls, then sheet-music with musicians packaging the songs themselves, regardless of how the creator of said work intended it.
Popular music will simply undergo another paradigm shift to accomodate the current vehicle. I lean more with you than VAXMAN, BTW. I think that from now on the artists who, and the record makers who are forcing them to release crap are going to have to start thinking a little more about making each performance special. Just like the 'good old days'.
Actually, I used napster to flush out my computer sound-events with Brak, from space-ghost. I couldn't find anything useful on their content-less webpage.
The quote at the bottom especially. I somehow don't think that Steve Came up with this editorial simply so that they could sit on some website (reproduced completely without his permission, as the link you produced earlier says, that *was* you with the link, right?) and not be read.
Obviously at least one other person has been paying attention to the issue (or experienced it firsthand), and uses a cribbed example to bring it to national attention. I say good for her. She uses it in the way it was intended to be used, to highlight the fact that the artists are currently getting screwed, not to defend the RIAA from evil music pirates.
If anyone in this whole situation stands to get royally fucked, it is the artists. Period. The Recording industry isn't looking out for them (I don't recall the Albini article going into quite that amount of depth, he is a producer, right?) and are trying to put artists into almost a position of slaves (perhaps a bad reference to make in the US, however the shoe seems to fit).
Anyway, are *you* concerned more about the artists, Um...Lucas, or are you merely concerned with showing your moral superiority over the dot-communists here on/.? I would think in the case of the former you could get over petty trivialities and recognize that Courtney is actually doing a very good thing by reusing this example. Either way, what she did may be plagiarism, perhaps even infringe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpiracy!, however it's essentially no different than putting those same words up verbatim on a website without the author's permission. Oh, except people besides some geeks who read a non-mainstream website might be exposed to it. Horror!
If the scenario you describe ever happens it will fork. Alan or someone else will assume the control position and things will continue otherwise much as they have before.
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The Cmdr taco troll mentioned having disks 'blowfished'. Anyone have anymore info on this?
top. Gtop if you have it installed, gives you neat little slice-charts of how much memory each running program is using. Of course that's in Linux.
I reccomend trying slackware, install a basic system without X etc., then reboot after installation using the CD, at the boot prompt type
/home and /usr or /usr/local (conventional wisdom that if your root partition gets toasted you can reinstall and still have your user's apps and personal files) optional. Redhat and some of the based-on-RH get around the lilo problem by putting like a 10 meg partition at the beginning of the drive as /boot, although I've had much better luck just doing it the old-fashioned / way (no boot partition), as make bzlilo installs freshly compiled kernels neater that way.
:-) People may feel free to correct any factual errors or mistakes in my instructions, however flames will be ignored.
"vmlinuz root=/dev/hdaX load_ramdisk=0 initrd=" where "X" is your / partition. Go get the new LILO from freshmeat, run the installer and then LILO, and you should have next to no problems booting with a solid, command-line system. The folks at comp.os.slackware (I forget the exact name) are very helpful, laid back individuals who will almost always point you to the exact problem you're having. The system you wind up with will be 10X more secure than the magazine-rack Redhat you're currently trying to use (nothing against RH, but keep in mind that they are working towards being a general purpose, desktop distro. Slack still has the hobbyist in mind, and doesn't try to make things more convenient, which I find helpful.) Also it will be a little more difficult at first using only the command line, however by the time your done you'll not only have a solid simple system, but the know-how to maintain it (not to mention that feeling of accomplishment!)
For partitioning, I'd reccomend using "cfdisk" (mush more like the dos fdisk you're used to). Try a 1 gig partition for / a 500 meg for swap and maybe a partition or two for
Anyway, just my two cents of advocacy
Basically I was talking about pop musicians, as they are the ones who will probably move to online distribution well before classical and 'serious'(non-top40) artists. They are the ones currently getting screwed the most by their labels, and I imagine that in the near future quite a few up-and-comings will eschew the major labels and opt for grassroots instead, now that it's becoming apparent that a whole new worldwide medium exists. Eventually the radio stations will have to start including this music in their shows (the sooner the better) and the sheer amount of music out there will cause the cream to rise.
:)
I agree that online is not a good medium for lengthy works (yet). Of course I downloaded "Thick As a Brick" from Jethro Tull a month or so back, and listened to it as a complete work for the first time (amazing what not having to get up and change album sides will do for you). It took about 10 minutes on my t-3 at the college. Hopefully the next format for digital music will sound better out of a stereo, and that by that time bandwidth won't be as big of an issue. As for the Ring, usually that's performed over a period of several days at a festival, correct? I could imagine getting all 20 hours overnight on a cablemodem and mp3. I would even not mind if it took a week of overnights at 56k if the company could garauntee resumable downloads
Either way I think it had better be a good shift, or people simply won't buy it.
I also hate to admit that I've never heard any of Britany Spears material.
You're not missing much. The problem with Britney isn't that she's had a boob-job, been deprived of a normal childhood, made to look years older and pranced around onstage like a performing animal...it's the fact that a few years down the road she'll finally realize that her fame, and subsequent dissapearance from American culture had nothing to do with her, or any amount of talent she may posess. It has to do with the fact that she was manipulated by a lot of people who milked her for the cash cow that she is, took the money and ran to reinvest it into the next pop-icon.
Oh and I originally meant to say that by not listening to her you haven't missed much. Overrated.
CD's are digital, true, and I'll also agree that vinyl sounds much better, however the differences between an LP and a CD are much less noticeable than between a CD and an mp3 encoded off that CD. Not only do you now have sampled audio, but you have sampled, compressed audio. Ick.
I fear this, too. It's a legitimate risk.
I think you're both wrong in this instance.
Q.Since when has music needed to be packaged as an Album?
A.Since there were albums.
Before albums it was piano rolls, then sheet-music with musicians packaging the songs themselves, regardless of how the creator of said work intended it.
Popular music will simply undergo another paradigm shift to accomodate the current vehicle. I lean more with you than VAXMAN, BTW. I think that from now on the artists who, and the record makers who are forcing them to release crap are going to have to start thinking a little more about making each performance special. Just like the 'good old days'.
Oh and good point about the lovers/leeches.
Actually, I used napster to flush out my computer sound-events with Brak, from space-ghost. I couldn't find anything useful on their content-less webpage.
The quote at the bottom especially. I somehow don't think that Steve Came up with this editorial simply so that they could sit on some website (reproduced completely without his permission, as the link you produced earlier says, that *was* you with the link, right?) and not be read.
/.? I would think in the case of the former you could get over petty trivialities and recognize that Courtney is actually doing a very good thing by reusing this example. Either way, what she did may be plagiarism, perhaps even infringe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpiracy!, however it's essentially no different than putting those same words up verbatim on a website without the author's permission. Oh, except people besides some geeks who read a non-mainstream website might be exposed to it. Horror!
Obviously at least one other person has been paying attention to the issue (or experienced it firsthand), and uses a cribbed example to bring it to national attention. I say good for her. She uses it in the way it was intended to be used, to highlight the fact that the artists are currently getting screwed, not to defend the RIAA from evil music pirates.
If anyone in this whole situation stands to get royally fucked, it is the artists. Period. The Recording industry isn't looking out for them (I don't recall the Albini article going into quite that amount of depth, he is a producer, right?) and are trying to put artists into almost a position of slaves (perhaps a bad reference to make in the US, however the shoe seems to fit).
Anyway, are *you* concerned more about the artists, Um...Lucas, or are you merely concerned with showing your moral superiority over the dot-communists here on
If the scenario you describe ever happens it will fork. Alan or someone else will assume the control position and things will continue otherwise much as they have before.
It looks like he was just trolling. Looks like you were just trolled.
A monitor with a blue screen?