I find EAC to be fantastic for ripping CDs. Also, it works nicely out of the box with oggenc.
Purists would say that it is not exactly free because the guy who wrote it asks for a postcard if you use it. As good as free as far as I am concerned.
A few years back I collected a 680 MB HDD made by Micropolis in 1988. I was using it in a firewall machine (mounted in a CD bay) until a couple of months back when it started making grinding noises. That's around 15 years of nearly continuous service - the drive was being used as/tmp on a SGI Indigo until it was retired and I collected it.
I hate to think how much it would have cost back when it was new - the quality of everything from the chasis to the circuit boards is awesome!
I read your comment at the same time as another browser window was opening with the list, and then was suprised to see bands such as UB40, U2 G&R and Van Halen. I bet songs from these appeal to over 25's as well as under 25's.
Maybe another pattern can be found in the networks that the RIAA is targetting... frequented by under 25's maybe? That way they get more bang from their search $$.
I have just used StarOffice and Gimp to write a 40 minute presentation with heaps of graphics. If you push StarOffice hard enough then it does fall over, but the recovery files are always up to date so I haven't lost anything yet.
The only flaws I found with the presentation package is that 1) This is minor but you can't change the colour of equations (if you could its beyond me!) 2) Under Linux you can't embed any video formats - you can under the Windows version (I'm using 5.2) - so I have to play the avi file I wanted through another package before starting the presentation.
As for all the comments (other threads mainly) about anti aliased fonts, I use SuSE 6.3 with XFree86 3.3.5, StarOffice 5.2 on a 1024x768 screen and I don't have any problems with blocky fonts. I don't state this to get flamed for my allegence to SuSE, but I don't have any problems there must be a way around it. Everything looks fine though a video projector too.
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I find EAC to be fantastic for ripping CDs. Also, it works nicely out of the box with oggenc.
Purists would say that it is not exactly free because the guy who wrote it asks for a postcard if you use it. As good as free as far as I am concerned.
A few years back I collected a 680 MB HDD made by Micropolis in 1988. I was using it in a firewall machine (mounted in a CD bay) until a couple of months back when it started making grinding noises. That's around 15 years of nearly continuous service - the drive was being used as /tmp on a SGI Indigo until it was retired and I collected it.
I hate to think how much it would have cost back when it was new - the quality of everything from the chasis to the circuit boards is awesome!
I read your comment at the same time as another browser window was opening with the list, and then was suprised to see bands such as UB40, U2 G&R and Van Halen. I bet songs from these appeal to over 25's as well as under 25's.
... frequented by under 25's maybe? That way they get more bang from their search $$.
Maybe another pattern can be found in the networks that the RIAA is targetting
LyX is coming pretty close to this. I use it for all nearly all my LaTeX documents. You still need some base LaTeX to get the most out of it.
I have just used StarOffice and Gimp to write a 40 minute presentation with heaps of graphics. If you push StarOffice hard enough then it does fall over, but the recovery files are always up to date so I haven't lost anything yet.
The only flaws I found with the presentation package is that
1) This is minor but you can't change the colour of equations (if you could its beyond me!)
2) Under Linux you can't embed any video formats - you can under the Windows version (I'm using 5.2) - so I have to play the avi file I wanted through another package before starting the presentation.
As for all the comments (other threads mainly) about anti aliased fonts, I use SuSE 6.3 with XFree86 3.3.5, StarOffice 5.2 on a 1024x768 screen and I don't have any problems with blocky fonts. I don't state this to get flamed for my allegence to SuSE, but I don't have any problems there must be a way around it. Everything looks fine though a video projector too.