I donated some money a while back when I downloaded mandrake 8.1. As a consequence I was made a member of their club. I didn't have to do anything beyond donate the money.
So now they have a drive for people to subscribe to the club in order to get money from donations. However, since I am already in the club, and I do not want to donate the $60 a year for the lowest donation bracket, I was looking for another way to donate. (I'm a cheap student.)
Last time I donated I had the ability to say "I want my money to be applied towards project X," where project X was things like i18n, KDE, etc. I haven't been able to find a place on their web pages where I can donate in this same way, an amount that I want to. Can somebody point me to where I can donate without re-signing up for their club?
The ogg format supports 255 channels. Now, here I am guessing, but I don't think that the current encoder will encode more than 2 channels. The encoder is not the format standard.
Use Grip in linux. With windows--I don't know. Maybe someone will make a Razor-Ogg. That shouldn't be too hard for someone to alter RazorLame to work with ogg. (If I was smart or at least had programming skill, I might try it.)
I use Grip under Linux. In this case it is just the same as ripping to mp3. All a 1 step process. Grip can get the cddb info and put that into the name of the file. (No 'id3'-like information storing, afaik. That is all post-encoding, and time consuming.) But it is all a 1-click thing. Well, maybe a few clicks, but all one process. No need to rip to wav's and then separately encode to ogg.
My question is when will my Rio Volt handle ogg? Am I going to asphyxiate waiting for that to happen?
One problem with this attitude is that a large part of the speedup of the disk drives we use is due to the increases in density. Without being able to increase density, that leaves disk designers two areas to increase: read head movement speed, and disk rotation speed.
Now, I am not dissin' those of you out there who like loud computers (my slot a athlon with alpha heatsink is like niagra falls), but disk drives can only rotate so fast before the sound becomes too much.
Of course, everyone realizes that theh 30 million lines of code are not all new lines of code when compared to the 6.x release. Many of those lines of code have been around for quite a while. The $1 billion number must also include some of the development cost for 6.x
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I donated some money a while back when I downloaded mandrake 8.1. As a consequence I was made a member of their club. I didn't have to do anything beyond donate the money.
So now they have a drive for people to subscribe to the club in order to get money from donations. However, since I am already in the club, and I do not want to donate the $60 a year for the lowest donation bracket, I was looking for another way to donate. (I'm a cheap student.)
Last time I donated I had the ability to say "I want my money to be applied towards project X," where project X was things like i18n, KDE, etc. I haven't been able to find a place on their web pages where I can donate in this same way, an amount that I want to. Can somebody point me to where I can donate without re-signing up for their club?
Thanks.
The ogg format supports 255 channels. Now, here I am guessing, but I don't think that the current encoder will encode more than 2 channels. The encoder is not the format standard.
Use Grip in linux. With windows--I don't know. Maybe someone will make a Razor-Ogg. That shouldn't be too hard for someone to alter RazorLame to work with ogg. (If I was smart or at least had programming skill, I might try it.)
I use Grip under Linux. In this case it is just the same as ripping to mp3. All a 1 step process. Grip can get the cddb info and put that into the name of the file. (No 'id3'-like information storing, afaik. That is all post-encoding, and time consuming.) But it is all a 1-click thing. Well, maybe a few clicks, but all one process. No need to rip to wav's and then separately encode to ogg. My question is when will my Rio Volt handle ogg? Am I going to asphyxiate waiting for that to happen?
One problem with this attitude is that a large part of the speedup of the disk drives we use is due to the increases in density. Without being able to increase density, that leaves disk designers two areas to increase: read head movement speed, and disk rotation speed. Now, I am not dissin' those of you out there who like loud computers (my slot a athlon with alpha heatsink is like niagra falls), but disk drives can only rotate so fast before the sound becomes too much.
Of course, everyone realizes that theh 30 million lines of code are not all new lines of code when compared to the 6.x release. Many of those lines of code have been around for quite a while. The $1 billion number must also include some of the development cost for 6.x