If you do alot of format switching like this, I'd definately consider flac or another lossless format, as you wouldn't need to bother re-ripping 1500 cds. Sure, it requires more space, but it was painful enough just ripping my modest collection of 120 or so audio cds. With this method converting to the codec de jour should be no problem.
I can appreciate the appeal of building a massive system from commodity hardware, but it states that the entire system was $435,000. After some rough calculations, a smilar system using apple xserve-RAIDs would run around $300,000, or $135k less before host computer costs, and would most likely be much easier to maintain. Plus, five racks of xserves would look pretty bitchin':P
Could it be possible that the RIAA is actually feeling the effect of these financial losses due to 'piracy'? I'm sure they're not exactly broke but with they way they've begun suing people..
The poster got the figures wrong. Since AOL's user base has been declining, that leaves them with 10 users, meaning 100,000,000 spam emails a day. That seems about right...
Ignore the above, it was posted before I actually saw a picture of the thing. I'd buy one if it had a M68k under the hood and its storage was measured in kilobytes. The design is simply amazing, and it has enough blinken lights for the worst of sci-fi B movies. Wow.
Firewire 800 on a server? Why? The only possible use for that I could see would be a cheap[ish] interface to an external drive cluster, but if you can afford an Xserve, why not go scsi? Nevermind that the Xserve RAID is designed to be just that, a large, semi-low priced drive cluster...
When I first read the title I assumed they were delevering the service over the powerlines themselves. This was of great intrest to me as I live 20 miles from the nearest [small] town. From the article they push the content over the usage monitoring lines. Alas, no broadband for this country folk.
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Yeah man, you'd need at least fiddy (50) cent.
If you do alot of format switching like this, I'd definately consider flac or another lossless format, as you wouldn't need to bother re-ripping 1500 cds. Sure, it requires more space, but it was painful enough just ripping my modest collection of 120 or so audio cds. With this method converting to the codec de jour should be no problem.
I can appreciate the appeal of building a massive system from commodity hardware, but it states that the entire system was $435,000. After some rough calculations, a smilar system using apple xserve-RAIDs would run around $300,000, or $135k less before host computer costs, and would most likely be much easier to maintain. Plus, five racks of xserves would look pretty bitchin' :P
Could it be possible that the RIAA is actually feeling the effect of these financial losses due to 'piracy'? I'm sure they're not exactly broke but with they way they've begun suing people..
The poster got the figures wrong. Since AOL's user base has been declining, that leaves them with 10 users, meaning 100,000,000 spam emails a day. That seems about right...
Sounds interesting, but who will build it? Lindows has enough problems without worrying about hardware..
Ignore the above, it was posted before I actually saw a picture of the thing. I'd buy one if it had a M68k under the hood and its storage was measured in kilobytes. The design is simply amazing, and it has enough blinken lights for the worst of sci-fi B movies. Wow.
Firewire 800 on a server? Why? The only possible use for that I could see would be a cheap[ish] interface to an external drive cluster, but if you can afford an Xserve, why not go scsi? Nevermind that the Xserve RAID is designed to be just that, a large, semi-low priced drive cluster...
When I first read the title I assumed they were delevering the service over the powerlines themselves. This was of great intrest to me as I live 20 miles from the nearest [small] town. From the article they push the content over the usage monitoring lines. Alas, no broadband for this country folk.