Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #806

2000-11-08 Thread J. van de Griek
James Jarvie wrote: Rat, thanks for the reply. Well, if you're willing to go the Linux/FreeBSD route, you can use cdrecord, cdrdao, or xcdroast. Can't do that...I don't know anything about Linux. Have to stick with what I know, since I have precious little time to play as it is.

Re: MD: Speeding

2000-11-07 Thread J. van de Griek
las wrote: "J. van de Griek" wrote: See, the problem in this situation is that the actual problem itself can be anywhere in either the burner, the media, the player, or in a combination of any of them... Hopefully, more and more drives will start coming out with

Re: MD: Speeding

2000-11-07 Thread J. van de Griek
PrinceGaz a ecri: From: "J. van de Griek" [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the burning device is of mediocre quality, or the media isn't all that, chances of burn errors or poorly readable result discs are higher. And that is probably what the originator of this thread meant. So, in t

Re: MD: Speeding

2000-11-06 Thread J. van de Griek
Mike Burger wrote: The one thing that I didn't see noted, yet, is that if you're burning CDs for use in regular CD players, it doesn't matter how fast your burner can run...you still need to burn the CD at 1x for a regular CD player to read them. You didn;t see that noted because it's

Re: MD: Speeding

2000-11-06 Thread J. van de Griek
Jeanmougin schrieb: I tought that when you burnt a CDR at speeds over 1x or 2x, u had more read errors. Well, that would be a problem with the CD burner, not with the player. If the burning device is of mediocre quality, or the media isn't all that, chances of burn errors or poorly readable

Re: MD: Hertz

2000-10-31 Thread J. van de Griek
las wrote: Stainless Steel Rat wrote: One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other unit of measure that we use. That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many

Re: MD: Hertz

2000-10-28 Thread J. van de Griek
sherryl wrote: The number of valves can make a difference. I have an old 1990 Pontiac Grand AM that has a quad four engine (16 valves in four cylinders) that will out perform many 6 cylinder cars. I doubt it will outperform my 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera (3.2l flat six)... :-))) You have a

Re: MD: Hertz

2000-10-27 Thread J. van de Griek
las wrote: Stainless Steel Rat wrote: Not like there is anything to convert. 1 Hertz = 1 cycle/second. They just gave the unit of measurement a name (like Newton, Watt, etc). But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and give it a name that tells you nothing.

Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread J. van de Griek
J. Coon wrote: Michael Stouffs wrote: Please, STOP commenting our habits, you are *offending*. You look like my 14 yr old cousin who *absolutely* has to be right and *absolutely* won't admit he's wrong/partially wrong/a tad wrong/just a little bit wrong no matter what. You have

MD: MiniDisc.org down?

2000-09-26 Thread J. van de Griek
WTF!? When did this happen? Everytime I try to access MiniDisc.org, I get a 404... Did I miss some announcement, or is this a temporary thing? ,xtG .tsooJ -- Joost van de Griek Applications Developer Yacht ICT http://www.yachtgroup.com/

Re: MD: setting folders and filters in Outlook Express/Eudora/Netscape

2000-09-25 Thread J. van de Griek
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Here's some advice for you: - Click this

Re: MD: We're gonna change !

2000-09-24 Thread J. van de Griek
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 23 Sep 2000 | Peter, I don't think that you should stop posting here. If there are | many people who object to what you are doing, lets hear from them. I'm one. No matter how you disguse it, unsolicited commercial advertising

Re: MD: Minidisco problems

2000-09-11 Thread J. van de Griek
J. Coon wrote: That is good advice Peter, I have had to do the same thing when a different company shipped something standard and it was supposed to be Over Night. When I didn't get the merchandize, I called them and it had been misrouted by UPS, and I wouldn't get it for another two

Re: MD: Dentists V Artists (Was Napster)

2000-09-08 Thread J. van de Griek
las wrote: "Gordon, Richard" wrote: Maybe eh - but not as much pain though as listening to RB music.. Rhythm and Blues is a very generic term. Unless you hate all rock and only listen to Classical music, I'm sure there are some songs that would qualify as as R B, that you never even

Re: MD: Napster article

2000-09-07 Thread J. van de Griek
las wrote: Larry, I completely agree with most of what you wrote about valuable professions not being paid what they're actually worth. Dan, if I gave the impression that artists should not be paid for their work, that is not what I meant to say. But do artists deserve the payments that

Re: MD: CD-DA

2000-08-23 Thread J. van de Griek
James S. Lee wrote: Stainless Steel Rat wrote: snip But they are proportional to the "input" that stamped out the medium. It just so happens that what was stamped out a pattern of ones and zeros. snip Are you saying that the depth of the burn is proportional to the intensity of the

Re: MD: md adverts

2000-08-21 Thread J. van de Griek
J. Coon wrote: oh.. btw. i agree with princegaz'sss comments backing up pierre.. never apologise for your english.. it's many, many times better than my french! His English is readable and he gets his point across. What more can you ask? About the only French I know is "Are you

MD: How to get a free MD recorder...

2000-08-18 Thread J. van de Griek
The other day I recieved my company's new gift catalog, you know, a small booklet with a list of things you can choose as presents for bringing in a new employee. And lo and behold, there it was, one of the gifts: a Sony portable MiniDisc recorder, MZ-R55. Wow. Strange thing is, they classified

Re: MD: Mavica CD-R

2000-08-13 Thread J. van de Griek
On 13-08-2000 21:23, Taky Cheung wrote: And why did SONY make their new Mavica use an entirely new 3-inch CD-R? The capacity is approximately the same as a standard MD -- and the CD-R is even a little larger, I think. The write speed can't be faster than an MD (both generally go up to 4X

Re: MD: What up with MD

2000-08-06 Thread J. van de Griek
On 06-08-2000 07:15, las wrote: MD could still be a big thing if a) People were educated. b) They started to fill music stores with prerecorded MDs that were selling for the price of cassettes, not CDs. c) They started offering recorders and players at realistic and competitive prices.

Re: MD: Revolutionary?

2000-07-25 Thread J. van de Griek
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * Alexander Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 23 Jul 2000 | Oh no, I _like_ the clamshell mechanism ! Those Sharp portables | look so damn ugly (hey, just my personal opinion). Just for the sake of argument, how does the unit's appearance affect its recording

Re: MD: I'm a mew to portable MD recorders, I want to buy a good portable MD recorder, anyone have any suggestions?

2000-07-12 Thread J. van de Griek
mutt2004 wrote: I've been looking to buy a MD portable recorder for quite a while but I never had enough, but now I do. What is the newest models out now? Top dogs at the moment are the Sharp MD-MT831/832 and the Sony MR-Z90/91. Which is the best brand and model? Both are fine.

Re: MD: Data storage through byte-tone conversion?

2000-07-06 Thread J. van de Griek
Jack Swindell wrote: I had posted some musings about this on usenet a couple of weeks ago as well. Maybe there are enough of us thinking about this now to make something happen. I agree, if not directly a practical thing, this might turn out to be a good (and fun) brain exercise.

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread J. van de Griek
Francisco J. Montilla wrote: [snipperdesnap] I have a JA20ES w/ 2 outputs (TOSLink/Coax) and 3 inputs (2TOSLink/Coax) and I use it as a "digital patching matrix", and yes, you have to press the record button (try it w/o a MD :) so that it acts as a -AD DA- or AD-DA converter. I also have a