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Skriven 2009-10-02 23:45:42 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Mark Lewis
Ärende: beats the belles of tennessee
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Hey Mark!

> expensive cluster?? gues no one ever heard of beowulf and
> mini-ITX boards running off of DC power supplies?? ;)

Heh, heh.  Not even close.  Heck one of their systems would cause a meltdown of
the DC infrastructure here nevermind the entire cluster.

 MK> How do you manage to load 700 CD's at any given time?

> i've over 8000 tracks in mp3 format taking up just over 45Gig...

Yes but that isn't exactly what was proposed and hence my question. How many
physical CD's can you have mounted at any given time?  Also if each CD were put
onto a drive as a file you'd still be limited to how many can be loop mounted
at any given time.  I believe eight.  As for optical drives, I suppose the
limit would be how many drives you can interface with at any given moment and
the cost effectiveness of that plan.

> the worst part of managing them is making sure the internal
> tags are correct so that the artist, album and other related
> infos are properly available for one to create their
> playlist(s) from...

Right.  I'd also add to the above the creation on the actual mp3's from over
700 CD's in the first place.  Personally I am content not worrying about all
this given I am not in the music business and never did buy many CD's.  I think
I have a half dozen although I don't seem positive I have that many.  Given the
lack of an optical drive at the moment I don't seem to worried about how many I
do have.

> i hate doing a playlist of stuff from the 1980's and
> having some 1990's or 2000's group or song get into the list

Not sure why you say the above.  For my part over 90% of the vinyl here is
before 1980's with the bulk of that being mid to late 60's. Quite a bit of the
rest would be pre mid 70's.

> sure it is better... it is just like having the files on the
> local drive except they are over the wire on another machine

Wouldn't it be better if the drive were locally wired?  Anyhow I would never do
file sharing to a nonUnix system especially if the nonUnix system was where the
shared drive was wired.  Mind you I don't care to do file sharing with a Unix
system so ...

ftp is still the best methinks.

> the idea behind PDFs is that they all print the same...

Same idea with postscript way back when.

> punched and placed into a notebook and we have hardcopy manuals
> to peruse at our pleasure ;)

Yep.  I remember those days.  Mind you most was text back then and the paper
was form fed to a line printer but the reason for doing it was the same, albiet
without the pretty graphics.  Seemed to all work out fine though despite that
particular shortcoming.

> be careful when looking at multi-port NICs...

Very good advice.  Good thing I don't really need one as the only ones that
look appealing these days cost more than I care to pay for something I don't
really need.

> the real question is if your lines can handle the high speeds

Definetly not where I find myself at the moment.  However it might still be
handy to have one just in case the need ever crops up.  Given the cost it
doesn't seem an unreasonable want if it does indeed work.

Life is good,
Maurice

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