Which brings me to this question:
I gave a speed-read through the IPod articles (I and II), and was disappointed by the lack of info. What I would REALLY like in a 1 GB MP3 player, besides support for Ogg (which I initially didn't believe could, or will, or should, work on a portable), is one that is OS agnostic (i.e. installation consists of hooking up said USB or FireWire cable, OS sees device as hard drive, lock and load songs, unplug, play).
Now that type of information would get me excited.
I use Alcohol 120% myself for my LAN party system. Not only does it allow me to store the original disks as backups (and therefore keep them minty-fresh longer), I also don't have to remember my extensive library of multi-player games when a large hard drive will contain my library already. Heck, in several cases the disk images on my hard drive run far better than the original disks did. Go figure.
I run Mandrake 10.0 on a PIII 500 box, bought new, then recycled many times (used to run Windows 98SE, then BeOS) into a new case, and configured with these specs:
PIII 500 on ASUS MB (damn, forgot the model)
ATI Radeon VIVO (now known as a 7200)
128 MB EDO DIMM
40 GB DeskStar Hard drive (I think that's the size)
Sound Blaster Live! Value audio
3Com 3C905 10/100 NIC
Creative Labs' 6X DVD Drive...and a few other things (I guess I rambled a little there.....)
Runs very smooth with GNOME 2.4, Mozilla 1.6, OpenOffice, and some games to keep me happy. Haven't got DVDs to work under Totem yet, but once I get the codec that problem should be solved.
Out of curiousity, I tried Windows 2000 ( a faster and more "stable" NT variant than XP, I found out) on this setup.
I won't print the results here, for those of you with a delicate sense of nature might be deeply offended.
Enough said.
...Or like a cigarette company publishing a report that says smoking is good for you becase it calms your nerves.....
Or aids in your digestion. Hah, I remember an old color (comic) newspaper ad selling Camel cigarettes, supposedly promoted by a famous figure skater. A friend of mine and I were rooting out an old barn attic, to use for a "hideout" (still in high school, then), when we stumbled upon that.
Man, we had a laugh.......
I wonder if that inspired Gartner's FUD? Let's face it, folks, Gartner has lost an awful lot of credibility, this early in the century.
I read that article. Pointing out that the architecture of the XBox is similiar to a PC, a couple of guys worked on compiling Linux on the XBox, but just as a "can it be done" query, and not as a Linux workstation of any standing (they blame lack of driver support, and info, for the XBox for this).
Sure, it can Linux, but.......
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Which brings me to this question: I gave a speed-read through the IPod articles (I and II), and was disappointed by the lack of info. What I would REALLY like in a 1 GB MP3 player, besides support for Ogg (which I initially didn't believe could, or will, or should, work on a portable), is one that is OS agnostic (i.e. installation consists of hooking up said USB or FireWire cable, OS sees device as hard drive, lock and load songs, unplug, play). Now that type of information would get me excited.
I use Alcohol 120% myself for my LAN party system. Not only does it allow me to store the original disks as backups (and therefore keep them minty-fresh longer), I also don't have to remember my extensive library of multi-player games when a large hard drive will contain my library already. Heck, in several cases the disk images on my hard drive run far better than the original disks did. Go figure.
I run Mandrake 10.0 on a PIII 500 box, bought new, then recycled many times (used to run Windows 98SE, then BeOS) into a new case, and configured with these specs: PIII 500 on ASUS MB (damn, forgot the model) ATI Radeon VIVO (now known as a 7200) 128 MB EDO DIMM 40 GB DeskStar Hard drive (I think that's the size) Sound Blaster Live! Value audio 3Com 3C905 10/100 NIC Creative Labs' 6X DVD Drive ...and a few other things (I guess I rambled a little there.....)
Runs very smooth with GNOME 2.4, Mozilla 1.6, OpenOffice, and some games to keep me happy. Haven't got DVDs to work under Totem yet, but once I get the codec that problem should be solved.
Out of curiousity, I tried Windows 2000 ( a faster and more "stable" NT variant than XP, I found out) on this setup.
I won't print the results here, for those of you with a delicate sense of nature might be deeply offended.
Enough said.
...Or like a cigarette company publishing a report that says smoking is good for you becase it calms your nerves.....
Or aids in your digestion. Hah, I remember an old color (comic) newspaper ad selling Camel cigarettes, supposedly promoted by a famous figure skater. A friend of mine and I were rooting out an old barn attic, to use for a "hideout" (still in high school, then), when we stumbled upon that.
Man, we had a laugh.......
I wonder if that inspired Gartner's FUD? Let's face it, folks, Gartner has lost an awful lot of credibility, this early in the century.
I read that article. Pointing out that the architecture of the XBox is similiar to a PC, a couple of guys worked on compiling Linux on the XBox, but just as a "can it be done" query, and not as a Linux workstation of any standing (they blame lack of driver support, and info, for the XBox for this).
Sure, it can Linux, but.......