Re: Something funny in Mail

2002-07-15 Thread Peter
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Peter wrote: > >> After that command proceeds as expected. So it's no bother I now > >> just wonder how that happens. Both Albert and Jim are friends of mine. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Look into your '.mailrc' in your home-directory; it's probarly > > containing

Re: OGG vs. MP3

2002-07-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:44 AM 7/15/02 -0400, Matthew Stapleton wrote: >What is the benefit of using OGG over MP3? Is it merely that one is open >source while the other is not? That's one important consideration. It's a bit more than "Open Source", though (and I must object, at least in passing, to the dismissive

OGG vs. MP3

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Stapleton
What is the benefit of using OGG over MP3? Is it merely that one is open source while the other is not? Matthew Stapleton To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. -SK - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: CDDA ->MP3 Conversion

2002-07-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:14 AM 7/15/02 -0400, Matthew Stapleton wrote: >How might one go about ripping a CD into OGG files? [old stuff deleted] The actual ripping part is the same as with MP3; you use an app that converts the CD tracks into WAV files. The change is at the next step, compressing the WAV files int

Re: CDDA ->MP3 Conversion

2002-07-15 Thread Petre Bandac
www.xiph.org slackware > 8.0 has a package oggutils which does the job HTH, petre On Monday 15 July 2002 15:02, Matthew Stapleton wrote using one of his keyboards: > Excuse my ignorance but what is "ogg"? Is it a new sound format? > > -MS > > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:28:01 -0700 [EMAI

Re: CDDA ->MP3 Conversion

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Stapleton
How might one go about ripping a CD into OGG files? -MS On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:02:49 -0400 Matthew Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Excuse my ignorance but what is "ogg"? Is it a new sound format? > > -MS > > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:28:01 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike > Castle) > w

Re: CDDA ->MP3 Conversion

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Stapleton
Excuse my ignorance but what is "ogg"? Is it a new sound format? -MS On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:28:01 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Matthew Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >cdda2wav and BladeEnc seemed to work well for me. > > You may al

Re: Who's using my files?

2002-07-15 Thread Paul Furness
Thanks, everyone. The best tool in the end has turned out to be 'lsof' which does, indeed, ship with many current distros. P. On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 11:49, Paul Furness wrote: > Good morning / afternoon / night (delete as appropriate for your > timezone) > > > I have a very basic problem

Wanted: A good external USB/Firewire CD-RW compatible with Linux?

2002-07-15 Thread Ola Theander
Dear subscribers. I try to find a good external CD-RW unit with either an USB or Firewire interface that works well with Linux. Unfortunately the resellers I've contacted didn't know very much about the Linux compability of their devices. Therefore I turn to you, all good subscribers, to see if I