Text 12432, 123 rader
Skriven 2009-02-16 20:29:33 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 12424 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: the band played on
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Hello Maurice.

14 Feb 09 16:13, you wrote to me:

 >> Well, the only faults DOS had, where it could not multi-task, was
 >> not multi-user, and it's extremely limited memory usage ability
 >> ... 640k, never was enough ...

 MK> Minor.  You just scratched the surface of DOS's flaws.  Harware issues
 MK> aside, DOS was never able to look after itself which made it totally
 MK> useless imho.  That is my first rule of thumb.  When I was forced to
 MK> use it I put onboard DJGPP to assist in correcting that HUGE flaw.
 MK> Also I avoided the need for M$'s version of that so-called OS.
 MK> Calling it an OS is extremely kind methinks.

Well, if it had those abilities, the others, could have been "fixed" :-)
Tho I doudt the end result would have been as good as Linux/FreeBSD ... <VVBG>
But it would have made it a useable OS, if not a good one ...

 >> that really appealed to me, was scalable fonts

 MK> Understood.  That hsd become important to me as I got older and my
 MK> eyes started showing their age.  However it wasn't really an issue
 MK> given that this is doable with the linux console framebuffer and a
 MK> decent graphics card.  I can read this no problem but I may have to up
 MK> the ante soon and start using the sun12x24 font at bootup.  I know
 MK> that works with matroxfb.

My eyes are also showing their age, currently have the problem that while 
sitting at my "computer table" I am too close too the monitor for my eyes with 
glasses on, and it I take then off, I have a very limited time period, during 
which my eyes can read the screen, before they start bluring, and the monitor 
is already pushed hard up against the wall ... :-((

Am on the look out for a decent LCD monitor ... , as I'll be able to push that 
far enough back, and then some to accomodate my eyes/glasses

 >> get the Kinal patented "heave ho" function

 MK> Amen!  No computer should be without it.  That and a working delete
 MK> key is all anyone really needs.  <BFEG>

:-))

 >> If I could get something like "mc" for viewing graphics

 MK> I had that working once by having it farm out anything with graphic
 MK> extensions to fbi.  Same with pdf's except to the wrapper fbgs. I
 MK> currrently have that all working with links, both the graphical and
 MK> text versions, as well as farming out movie extentions to mplayer. No
 MK> GUI whatsoever although I have that working the same in the one GUI
 MK> based partition (bootable) left standing at the moment.  I have to
 MK> update it with some of the keepers on my current console only default
 MK> boot development thingy and see if these fixes will tweak some of the
 MK> apps there into working properly.  I have doubts but it is worth a
 MK> shot just to see.

Right'o ... <grin>

 >> otherwise, flac, encoding is used ...

 MK> Right.  I am planning to experiment with both flac and libsndfile in
 MK> the very near future.  One step at a time.  I already have a
 MK> hotswappable sata drive I plan to use for this idea.  Definetly will
 MK> need the space.

Hard drives have been dying way to reqularly here recently ... , tho most have 
been old 6gig and 20gig HDD,s, but there demise has seriously limited my 
experimentaly ability here ... :-((

 >> A very capable library that is ... , does not do mp3 tho,
 >> tho there is lame for that ...

 MK> Right.  However will have to keep the sample rate to 48kHz max and/or
 MK> resample the original down to a lower sample rate.  Piping the output
 MK> to lame will solve that and keep the storage space as minimalized as
 MK> one could expect if high quality uncompressed originals are the goal,
 MK> which I think it is.

LAME will keep storage space minimalized, but loose quality ... , FLAC will 
save some disc space, and the original source ... , if the flac encoder is 
coded properly, one should be able to encode a *.wav file, and then decode it, 
and compare it to the original *.wav file, and not find any differences ...

 >> libsndfile can handle 8/16/24 bit PCM encoded FLAC files ... , or
 >> so the webpage says ... :-)

 MK> I read that too.  Also libsndfile can handle 32-bit ones as well. This
 MK> could be significant in the right situation.

 >> Must get to play with it and ecasound sometime

 MK> For sure!!!  Don't forget about hotswapping a sata drive.  That also
 MK> will assist greatly in this particular endevour.  The Sil3114 based
 MK> one you mentioned will work fine depite the lack of the port
 MK> multiplier compatibility.

No, not forgetting the hotswapping of sata drives, I need to buy some drives 
sometime, and an external case or two, but a new computer is in the plans for 
next month, will see how that works out ...

Think it is time I buy myself something for a change ...

 >> Yeah, well, that has more outputs/inputs than I can usefully use

 MK> Same here but what the heck.  You just never know for sure.  Mind you
 MK> I could say the same about the Audiofile 192.  Same thing with the
 MK> Revolution 7.1.

The Audiofile 192 only has 2 balanced input/outputs and 2 normal input/outputs 
and does stereo only ...

 >> I consider it mission critical, as music listening at a quality
 >> level higher than most appreciate, is one of my major "hobbies"

 MK> Amen again!  I couldn't agree with you more on this.

<VBHG> YEP!!

Russell

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