The old ones suck, but the newer ones from Sony are nice, they have the fake tape tensioner to keep newer decks from constantly flipping the tape and the sound quality is very good. At any rate, the route I have taken is the only one available for being able to use all 3 media forms.
When I went to buy a new deck for my car, I considered the options. I knew that affordable cd/mp3 players (portable) were just around the corner. I also had a portable cd player. With a good quality Sony tape deck I could handle any format with a little adapter and some batteries and the player of my choice. If I chose a cd deck, I couldn't play many comps I'd made from mp3s and vinyl. The only logical choice was cassette, and I'm glad I did it.
Rather than being strapped to only cds, I now have a portable cd/mp3 player in my car. 3 formats, lots of music, good quality. As long as the cassette player's heads stay clean, the mp3 audio is as good as the mp3 encoding quality.
In this day and age, cassette players are STILL a good idea.
The quality loss is an analog problem, not a digital one. 1's and 0's don't magically disappear time after time, and I'm sure there's plenty of redundancy built in to help with this. Ask anyone with a DAT if their master being played 1000 times has changed sound quality.
We're talking about the telnet server, not the telnet client. It's present by default, however, telnet SERVER isn't. I give them props for this and also for encouraging people to stay out of the root account on the desktop (makes the desktop red, no icons, etc.).
There have been many jfs's to choose from starting with 7.2. 7.2 included Reiser (journaling), 8/8.1 included Reiser, Ext3, SGI's JFS, etc. Guess you should've hit mandrakeuser or mandrakeforum before you assumed it was missing. That or hit expert during the install and chosen your partition types...
While Cooker is being stabilized right now, I have a strong feeling kde3 will be part of the final release. A beta is a beta after all...one of the hallmarks of Mandrake 8.1 was kde 2.2.1 (or was it 2.1.x?). At any rate, each of their releases usually reflects the current cutting edge of KDE as long as other packages are equally new.
Don't expect a beta preview iso to contain every new package that the final will have.
You're right about the name, but wrong about it having nothing to do with Enlightenment. Enlightenment uses it as the default sound server, on Mandrake at least.
You obviously didn't try very hard to fix it. All you had to do was boot from the install cd, choose rescue, fsck your partitions, and get back to work. You can thank ext2 for that crap, Reiserfs doesn't have these problems.
The problem with this is that esd is started only when GNOME/KDE start.
Not true. ESD is the Enlightenment sound daemon, therefore it only starts when Enlightenment does. Running esd under arts (kde's sound server) is as easy as typing artsdsp esd -trust. Pretty easy actually.
Sounds like a typical female boss. To gain respect, they believe they have to be hard-asses. Your situation matches one I had about 4 years ago at the Glamour Shots world Hq. I was pretty much the lead guy in the digital department, and had a female boss. She busted my ass on a daily basis, gave me entirely too much work (because I was the best) and generally hated my guts. Funny how everytime something critical and time-sensitive came in, she handed it straight to me.
That's hardly mandrake remote admin, and it's not installed by default. In fact the installer warns you that installing certain server elements opens you to cracking.
Webmin can be very secure...you can have it reject requests from any ip range or only accept connections from localhost. The only login it accepts by default is root, and only if your password is encrypted. Plus it's running over ssl. I don't see what the problem is.
It's not a single-user system by any definition. Maybe out of the box it is, but the second someone discovers it online, it's gonna be cracked and become a multi-user system. No password for root? Why not just hand them a shotgun and say 'aim squarely at feet'.
True, but consider having to dig up streets all over a metroplex or through a downtown area. It's all relative, and overall, wireless is cheaper and easier to implement. Here in Dallas there are wireless radio retransmitters on almost every light post. Look carefully around your area, you may notice these little dudes also.
"One of the things about Linux that drives even "Power User" Windows 9x users nuts is the enforced accounts and pw stuff in Linux (or Win2K, for that matter)."
Yeah, sacrifice security for ease-of-use. Brilliant.
Ever try to wire a house, a building, a metroplex? It's horribly expensive and fraught with licensing, deals with the city/builder, permits, yada yada.
With wireless, you throw up an antenna and a power source, and go on about your business.
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There's nothing evil about it. The coder of Mplayer was a jackass when he 'discovered' gcc 2.96's "problems" and put it into his build script. He later retracted but it's still in the code.
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Yeah, it's kinda related, but most floppy drives suck and most floppies are cheapo Taiwanese that aren't meant to last.
When's the last time you saw a giant tape spool in a mainframe facility? Or a tape backup used on servers? Thought so...
The old ones suck, but the newer ones from Sony are nice, they have the fake tape tensioner to keep newer decks from constantly flipping the tape and the sound quality is very good. At any rate, the route I have taken is the only one available for being able to use all 3 media forms.
This is offtopic but deal with it.
When I went to buy a new deck for my car, I considered the options. I knew that affordable cd/mp3 players (portable) were just around the corner. I also had a portable cd player. With a good quality Sony tape deck I could handle any format with a little adapter and some batteries and the player of my choice. If I chose a cd deck, I couldn't play many comps I'd made from mp3s and vinyl. The only logical choice was cassette, and I'm glad I did it.
Rather than being strapped to only cds, I now have a portable cd/mp3 player in my car. 3 formats, lots of music, good quality. As long as the cassette player's heads stay clean, the mp3 audio is as good as the mp3 encoding quality.
In this day and age, cassette players are STILL a good idea.
The quality loss is an analog problem, not a digital one. 1's and 0's don't magically disappear time after time, and I'm sure there's plenty of redundancy built in to help with this. Ask anyone with a DAT if their master being played 1000 times has changed sound quality.
Unless you're lucky enough to say "first post!" forget about hitting their site. Slashdotting is evil.
Do they have lots of avalanches there?
1 week 1 day? Incredible! Guess that puts my firewall, apache server, and samba servers uptimes (93 days, they're all new) to shame!
Moderator who made this previous post offtopic: you sir, are an idiot. Go ahead and mod me down now...that post was a reference to the latest worm.
We're talking about the telnet server, not the telnet client. It's present by default, however, telnet SERVER isn't. I give them props for this and also for encouraging people to stay out of the root account on the desktop (makes the desktop red, no icons, etc.).
There have been many jfs's to choose from starting with 7.2. 7.2 included Reiser (journaling), 8/8.1 included Reiser, Ext3, SGI's JFS, etc. Guess you should've hit mandrakeuser or mandrakeforum before you assumed it was missing. That or hit expert during the install and chosen your partition types...
While Cooker is being stabilized right now, I have a strong feeling kde3 will be part of the final release. A beta is a beta after all...one of the hallmarks of Mandrake 8.1 was kde 2.2.1 (or was it 2.1.x?). At any rate, each of their releases usually reflects the current cutting edge of KDE as long as other packages are equally new.
Don't expect a beta preview iso to contain every new package that the final will have.
You're right about the name, but wrong about it having nothing to do with Enlightenment. Enlightenment uses it as the default sound server, on Mandrake at least.
You obviously didn't try very hard to fix it. All you had to do was boot from the install cd, choose rescue, fsck your partitions, and get back to work. You can thank ext2 for that crap, Reiserfs doesn't have these problems.
The problem with this is that esd is started only when GNOME/KDE start.
Not true. ESD is the Enlightenment sound daemon, therefore it only starts when Enlightenment does. Running esd under arts (kde's sound server) is as easy as typing artsdsp esd -trust. Pretty easy actually.
Nobody in their right mind should be using telnet anymore anyway..can you say plaintext root password? I knew you could.
Time to check your facts. 8.1 shipped with 2.96 AND 3.0x, and I imagine 8.2 will do the same.
Just wait until they start airing the Blipverts!
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Sounds like a typical female boss. To gain respect, they believe they have to be hard-asses. Your situation matches one I had about 4 years ago at the Glamour Shots world Hq. I was pretty much the lead guy in the digital department, and had a female boss. She busted my ass on a daily basis, gave me entirely too much work (because I was the best) and generally hated my guts. Funny how everytime something critical and time-sensitive came in, she handed it straight to me.
Female bosses, in my experience, suck BAD.
That's hardly mandrake remote admin, and it's not installed by default. In fact the installer warns you that installing certain server elements opens you to cracking.
Webmin can be very secure...you can have it reject requests from any ip range or only accept connections from localhost. The only login it accepts by default is root, and only if your password is encrypted. Plus it's running over ssl. I don't see what the problem is.
And what better arbiter of the EM spectrum than this kook?
It's not a single-user system by any definition. Maybe out of the box it is, but the second someone discovers it online, it's gonna be cracked and become a multi-user system. No password for root? Why not just hand them a shotgun and say 'aim squarely at feet'.
THINK BEFORE POSTING.
True, but consider having to dig up streets all over a metroplex or through a downtown area. It's all relative, and overall, wireless is cheaper and easier to implement. Here in Dallas there are wireless radio retransmitters on almost every light post. Look carefully around your area, you may notice these little dudes also.
"One of the things about Linux that drives even "Power User" Windows 9x users nuts is the enforced accounts and pw stuff in Linux (or Win2K, for that matter)."
Yeah, sacrifice security for ease-of-use. Brilliant.
Ever try to wire a house, a building, a metroplex? It's horribly expensive and fraught with licensing, deals with the city/builder, permits, yada yada.
With wireless, you throw up an antenna and a power source, and go on about your business.
There's nothing evil about it. The coder of Mplayer was a jackass when he 'discovered' gcc 2.96's "problems" and put it into his build script. He later retracted but it's still in the code.
./configure --ignore-gcc-checking --with-gui
That'll get you rocking.