exact, not always good thing to play MP3 songs in a lab or school...
but at home ! :-))
And, I don't download it from Internet ! (to slow with a simple K56Flex
modem, and the quality of some MP3 is low on the Internet) !
I made MP3 myself with my own CD and CD from friends !
I think as it absolutly LEGAL to make a copy of a CD on a cassette tape.
So it would be legal to make a MP3 copy on my computer, for my OWN usage
only (not to put on Internet, and NOT to distribute MP3 copies on CD-R, only
for me)...
I like this, very easy, as a super jukebox !
I will probably make a MP3 / CD machine, only for music, connected to the
Hifi stereo, with LINUX of course.
........
Very interesting the usage you make of a simple 486 machine !
I will try it...
Does this kind of " export DISPLAY=ip of 486:0 "
will also work for digital sound output?
But, really, I must learn some basic in Linux before try this!
I just begin...
:-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 4:10 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [linuxdemo] old hardware with new, MP3
>
>
> > Don't forget the sound...
> >
> > MP3 are really a must now !
> >
> Sound ? I have not used sound on my computer for 2 months.
> Last time was to lisiten to the civ demo movie.
> As for MP3's and schools I don't know many labs where
> it would be a good thing to be playing songs. Besides,
> MP3's can be ilegal due to being copyrighted. Don't
> think many schools do the warez , MP3's . Seams you see
> lots of $$ goto to MS.
>
> > Simply, a 486 is NOT fast enough to play MP3 !
> > The decompression need faster cpu.
>
> What I was suggesting is not running the program on the 486 but
> running the programs on a central server and displaying them on
> 486 machines.
>
> to do this, get on your 486, start up X
> type xhost ipof computer to start app on
> telnet to the ip login
> export DISPLAY=ip of 486:0
> netscape
> etc
>
> I don't even have another wm other then twm installed on my
> 486 so I runn fvwm2 right from the command line. For all things
> it is not much slower then the penitum right beside it.
>
> Charles Verge
>
> >
> > If you make a Linux demo, to end-user, with a Window manager, I'm sure
> that
> > somebody will ask "And what about sound ? CD and MP3 ?"
> > Of course, no problem with CD, but.. MP3 !
> >
> > I think the minimum to work correctly with a Window manager and sound,
> even
> > with Linux, is a Pentium 120 (or AMD or Cyrix) with 32 Mb !
> >
> > Yes, in text mode... but who will switch to Linux, to stay in text mode
> only
> > ?
> >
> > Don't confuse people... Don't say that you can run Linux on a 486, or
> 386
> > with 16Mb... exactly like Windows on a P200 with 64 Mb !!!
> >
> > Yes, Linux is great, and faster than Window$...
> > ... but a minimum hardware is needed if we want new Linux users HAPPY !
> >
> > For school, it can be different! They don't play MP3 at school... but
> for
> > home use...
> >
> > Didier
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Charles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 12:03 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [linuxdemo] old hardware with new.
> > >
> > >
> > > It is silly to expect to run a wm like gnome on a 486.
> > > wordperfect and netscape 3.04 runs great on the 486
> > > with 16 megs of ram and not swap. (I was really short on disk space
> > > 6 megs free now)
> > >
> > > Remeber this is for schools, where some places would be lucky
> > > to have a pentuim. Let alone a P II.
> > >
> > > Then again for my uses I don't find a 486 good enough for
> > > a web server for me.
> > >
> > > But think about it, if you had to use a 486 DX 66 with 16 megs
> > > ram 200 meg hd. Which would you chose a windows 95 / 98
> > > or linux running as a X termial?
> > >
> > > I have tried Corel wp7 for windows and netscape 3.04 on this
> > > config. And it REALLY sucks. Where as running it off another computer
> > > is ALOT faster.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I wouldn't be very happy using it as my primary machine. Could be
> that
> > > > I'm spoiled with running Gnome / E on a PII-450. ;)
> > > >
> > > > However, using that same 486 machine as web server would be fine.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Software Engineer http://www.visionary.com/
> > > > Visionary Systems Ltd. http://pop.visionary.com/~dave/
>
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