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Skriven 2006-04-17 18:10:16 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: new guy in Linux
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-> Apr 17 16:26 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

->  WC> I window shop specifications on the internet first, a good candidate
->  WC> appears to be a Belkins card offering available at Comp USA.

-> Could be.  Promise and ULi ones seem to have some problems wrt ide
interfaces,
-> especially newer ones.

->  WC> Yeah, not really happy with longevity here but for bulk static 
->  WC> storage
->  WC> they're hard to beat.

-> I doubt that.  A good hd beats them hands down everytime on all aspects of
-> storage/archiving/retrieval/whatever.  Even a hd on usb is vastly more
reliable
-> then either a CD or DVD could ever hope to be in terms of reliablity.  
   
If I had USB 2.0 or 2.1 which I don't and the upgrade cards I've looked
at say nothing about supporting Linux.  

OH yeah, solved my DVD audio glitch problem with another application,
VideoLan which can play from a LAN or DVD.
The audio glitch isn't present in that application and it allows
all sortsd of customization like aspect ratio and much much more.
Full screen and a good reason to collapse the tool bar
at the bottom of the screen :-)

-> As for
-> convenience, I'd suggest flash disks are vastly better, albiet a tad more
-> expensive, especially for read/writing although there is a limit to writes. 
-> For sure for longevity flash disks are VASTLY superior.  Also for the price
of
-> a burner a decent sized flash disk can be had.

->  ->> For sure.  You just need to work out the actual streaming part.  :-)

->  WC> If I trip over a discarded unit with SFX power supply I'll revive the
->  WC> H.P., still have a 64 and 32 Meg DIMM for it.

-> I think the neighbour might have one.  Beats me if it works or not and
-> considering the age I wouldn't count on it.  Wouldn't be worth the shipping
-> cost.
                                         
Nope, I'll fall over one in the trash one day.
Most boxes aren't built like this Gateway.

->  ->> My neighbour did a little experiment with apache that worked across 
->  ->> the board with mp3's.  I imagine it could work with mpegs too.

->  WC> I went to Charles Angelich's Dosghost web site and ran some
->  WC> streaming MP3's with no difficulty with Konqueror and an audio
->  WC> application.

-> Sounds good.  I'd say the Gateway could handle high resolution movies if
-> properly formatted.  mpeg4 with mp3 stereo sound works great here.  However
I
-> still need to test that on a 350 k6-2 with a Matrox g200 pci card using
mga_vid
-> on the console before I am happy that it is completely doable and desirable.

-> ;-)
                                          
I've got it going in GUI with fine performance, console mode will
require more RTFM and HowTos.

-> Offhand I think it is and will try it as soon as I get my hands on a few
needed
-> items wrt a super-7 motherboards (unused) I happen to have handy.  I was
-> thinking of building a cluster with them using ide flash disks instead of
-> harddrives.  I have to find a proper power supply for that as well but
getting
-> one going should be doable for this particular experiment.

They're making power supplies up to and over 500 watts these days.
Think I saw one at 650W.

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