Roman,
> <snip> > Hell no. I consider it a therapeutic way for me to stick it to the
> phone
> > company.
>
> ??? Sorry, I guess I am a bit unexperienced at English sarcasm, so
> please tell me in a way someone like me can understand ;-)
It was a bad joke .... not worth retelling :)
> Might be, but who wants to have different distros for servers
> (Debian), desktop work (RedHat, MDK, Corel) and gaming (probably MDK
> and I don't know more) ?
Depends on your perspective. The typical home user wants something like
Mandrake which has a pretty large bag of tricks. A sysadmin on the other hand
may like using TurboLinux for his/her clustering solution, eServer for a thin
client, and eDesktop for the employees desktops. More to the point of that
thread .... I think that a lot of the dirstros just don't update fast enough to
stay on top of all the developments in video/sound drivers and X. Therefore,
they aren't really lending themselves as fully to the gaming market as say a
Mandrake which tends to have a new version rather frequently.
> > Grip can rip, cddb, and then encode for free. I always encode my
> > personal cd's at 320 in the belief that quality is most important.
> > Some of my friends complain about it, but hard drives are expected
> > to be about $100 for 100gb next summer, and I also have a cd-r, so
> > why not go for the best sound.
>
> Erm, if quality is most important, then why do you make MP3s and don't
> just let it be raw wav or something ?
I've done several "taste tests" with a number of people and have yet to find
someone who can tell the difference between the 320bit mp3 and the .wav file.
Of course, a guy with an oscilloscope may do better ;-)
Given that I think the quality of the 320bit mp3 is indestinguishable from the
.wav file or cd, the compression is rather nice. A typically 50mb wav file
compresses down to about 10mb at 320 which means I can burn anywhere from four
to six cs's onto a single cdr.
> <snip>
> Take a look. It's worth it. After you try it, you won't understand how
> someone can work with Explorer or My Computer.
Actually, I don't need WC to be baffled by the use of windows. :P
WC looks to be a very full featured utility and would appear to be much better
then explorer. Perhaps MS should buyout the makers of WC and then incorporate
it into the os instead of as an alternative to explorer. It actually reminds me
of an older dos utility called gold???? something or rather.
> <snip>
> Yep, but HOW... To access my regular drive I have to go up (home), up
> (/), mnt, dos_hda5 to get to my stuff. I know I could do it somehow
> with ln, but in WC you have a dir hotlist, you just press ctrl-d and
> choose one of your fav. dirs to go to, and you're there. Of course I
> could cd or something, but this is just so easy.
>
Well, you address having to move from /home to /mnt/dos_hda5 in one of two ways
that I can think of off the top of my head. First, you could create a symbolic
line in your /home pointing to the dos partition. Second, you could just move
the dos partition or files into /home and then access them there when using WC.
> BTW: WC also handles tar.gz archives ;-)
That is actually a really nice feature .... about time some of the windows
programmers started supporting tar and gzip.
> <snip>
> > file compare -- again, not sure if you mean a something like a md5
> > check or just comparing dates and sizes.
>
> Comparing contents of two files and showing you the differences.
This sounds a lot like a hexeditor which may explain why it isn't present in
kfm. As a sysadmin, I don't think I would want to have a file manager that gave
users the ability to peer inside of sensitive files and the opportunity to crack
passwords. This would be doubly dangerous in windows where none of the files
are off limits.
> <snip>
> :-) I guess I am not what you would call a true guru. I am a spoiled
> newbie used to the ease and power of WC and looking for something
> similar in Linux, which would neither stop me from using a terminal
> nor the GUI.
Then Xemacs if for you .... and as a bonus you'll be able to use it in both
Windows and Linux.
> <snip>
> :-) Hehe, and that's what the difference between WC and the Linux file
> managers I've seen is. In WC you press shift-F6 and just type the new
> name, then enter. No properties, no nothing like that. And shift-F6 is
> even faster than "mv oldname" IMHO ;-)
Well, you had to select the file/directory that you wanted to move somehow ...
which means that you either had to tab over to it, or use the arrows, or use the
mouse to select it and then do the key sequence. We'll race sometime :)
> <snip>
> OK man, this seems to become a "WC against the rest of the world"
> discussion ;-)... still, give it a try, try not to be bothered by the
> initial 1-2-3 nag and see for yourself, then you can tell me what you
> think of it. Give yourself a bit of time with configuring it before
> using it fully and see how you like it.
I'll give it a shot when I have a bit more time; however, I'm using Linux about
90% of the time. I figure that by the end of the year Windows may not exist on
my systems except in a very very limited form to play a few games and a couple
of other applications, ie mpg4 until it is released for other systems.
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Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4
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