On Friday 18 March 2005 12:25, Rod Engelsman wrote: > Nicu Buculei wrote: > > I don't think we should care about > > anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps > > uncompressed Wav > > You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute > presentation in Powerpoint format with voice-over.
I would love to see this preso. I will be glad to pay for the shipping, if you could burn it to a CD. Rod, I really think that you should consider getting a Linspire computer with Linspire 5.0. You are more a sophisticated end user than I am, but I do know from reading your posts that you probably would not call yourself a script hacker. That is exactly what Linspire is for. If you are open to testing it, I will see about geting one for you. I would consider purchasing your CNR membership, if needed. The only problem for you, though, is that I recall that you are on dial up, because you live in a remote area of Kansas. I will brainstorm with the Linspire guys and see if there is a recommended solution for you. I think that you will be really impressed with Linspire 5.0. SuSE or Xandros or Mepis or Knoppix are okay for intermediate users, but for end users like you and I, Linspire really is the best solution if you have more complex stuff like audio that you need to do. SuSE, Mepis and Knoppix are getting there, but they are still lagging behind Linspire. Linspire is actually kind of what Christensen would call an up-market migration by a disruptive technology. Linspire is actually a low-end disruption, because for not much money, you get tons and tons of free software. Okay, that same software could also be obtained for free over the Internet, but Linspire is for more demanding customers who aren't able to do that for themselves, and so Linspire sells the service of providing you with an out-of-the-box plug-and-play experience which really does rival what you would see on Apple or Windows. And all for not much money. You should also go to Sub300.com, because they have really good prices there for total out-of-the-box Linspire solutions. The weakness of the Linspire solution is the need to have a high speed connection, but the Linspire community is really as tight as this OOo community, and I'm sure that if you spent some time on their forums, you would find someone there who is willing to brainstorm a solution for you. > Personally, I > could give a flying fig whether it's in rm, wav, Ogg Vorbis, mp3 > or whatever. The fact is that right now -- before the end of the > semester at least -- I have to create this presentation. What is your time deadline on that? > > I would prefer to do as much of this using free software in Linux > as I can. As it stands that won't be possible. I will likely have > to boot into XP (I'm running dual boot with FC3), create the > presentation in Powerpoint, and see what I can do with > PresenterOne. Probably end up with 2 or 3 of those files because > of the 15 minute limitation. > > I understand your political point, but arguing over how to do > this and be as "pure" as possible is just going to slow the whole > exercise down to a crawl and force people like me to use Windows > even longer. +1 Now you no longer have to use Windows. I think that if we could get you into a decent Linspire 5.0 box, you would be amazed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
