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Quote (Set @ Nov. 10 2004,14:20)

That one looked *really* cool. Too bad that it cost almost twice the money I pay for my Creative One. Oh well. My entire legal mp3 collection (I never download music) goes onto my Creative, and I will get a usb hard drive, so I don't really need the mp3 player to be supported in dsl.

yeah, you could have gotten any of iRiver's products, they are all 100% supported by linux.

To me the extra money to have to deal with M$ just a little bit less, as well as better sound, is worth the price.

-J.P.

Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ Nov. 10 2004,15:33)

Quote (Set @ Nov. 10 2004,14:20)

Being on a student bugdet, $200 extra for a device I'm mainly going to use for playing mp3, is not worth it. That Creative player is the mp3 player on the market with 20 gb for the lowest price.

As for sound. Creative is superior to all. At least in the pc / electronic thing that is cool part of the market.

So. How do you think dsl will run on this laptop?

I *really* like Firefox. But I might be hoping too much? 333 mhz is not a lot today. What do you think?

This laptop will mainly excist to impress people new to linux and to provide me with some simple, but important features when I'm on vacation.

- Downloading a lot of stuff from Bittorrent, ftp, and eDonkey
- Giving me the ability to surf the web (firefox or firefox alike browser)
- Reading mail
- Previewing movies (to see if the free and non-pirated movies I've downloaded are what they say they are)
- irc and IM (aMSN and xchat)
- mp3

This mean, that, the worst workload this laptop will have is running eDonkey client, bittorrent client, mp3/video player, irc client, msn clien, and a browser. at once.

Is expecting such a tiny laptop to run this, too much to hope?

The laptop ain't gonna be my main computer. More like a survival and downloading tool in the vacations. I am on a heavily firewalled net connection in my dorm, even ftp is closed. But my desktop computer kick some serious ass, though ;) AMD XP 3200+, 1 gb ram. Just to mention some key specs

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, good advices, and kind words. Feels good to come here.

- Set

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My entire legal mp3 collection (I never download music)

Oh no.. The RIAA has ingrained itself upon the mindset of Amerika !

You don't REALLY think your doing the ARTISTS a favor by
BUYING PRODUCT from the MAJOR LABEL INDUSTRIES,
rather than simply contacting the artist yourself, do you ?

Send then a cup of coffee, or a individual size bag of chips, and you'll be
donating more to their cause than they get from your $12.99 CD purchase..
The CD , with artwork ( what you get of it these days ) and packaging,
costs about 20-30 cents to make..
( That may be high, as you can BUY your own blank discs and boxes for LESS )
The artists get less than that per disc sold ..
PLUS, they have to cover ALL THE EXPENSES before they truly
get ONE DIME ( advances get paid back as well ) of EARNED INCOME ..

What happened to the Concerts and "Album Sides" on the radio..
We use to get "qued" by the disc jocks on air to "get your tape player ready"
Remember the "King Biscuit Flower Hour" , or "Friday Nght Album Hour"
where thay would play the entire disc, not just THE HITS ..

We recorded EVERYTHING off the radio, or another tape, or from vinyl to tape
for the car.. There was never any problem. ever.. EVER...

Comedy Shows, Public Radio, Interviews, all sorts o' stuff..
( If you remember the "Ellis Deagh Talk Show" , you are permanently fscked up )

The ALBUM COVERS were more in demand than the VINYL ..

It all went to hell when the idea was to make m o n e y selling CD's ,
and not the IMAGE, or the BAND, or the LIFESTYLE ..
( often times , the merchandise is sold directly by the artists , which is GOOD )

Now, I had loads and loads of "store bought USED records"
"Pawn Shop 8-tracks" and "Garage Sale" tapes.
So, don't give me the scoop about the artists losing money crap,
They weren't losing a penny from my actions..

Then I'd make my "Own Distro" of stuff, and pass it around to my buddies..
It was what everyone did.. it was NO PROBLEM ..

Why don't you just borrow a friends?
( Don't you do that now anyway with CD's DVD's VHS from your friends and family? )

Maybe you goto your local B.Buster outlet, or mom&pop video store.
Rent it for a night, rip it, and return it.. What's the difference?
You don't think the ARTIST is gonna see any of that rental cash, do you?
The PRODUCT was paid for after the first 10 or so rentals, so
WHY CAN THEY MAKE MONEY LEGALLY OFF OTHER ARTISTS TALENT,
with no compensation towards the artists, and yet you get in "trouble" for
making yourself a "copy" ? when your the 100th guy or gal to rent it ??

What's up with THAT... that's WACKED !!

Even now, you could record the radio, if they would play a WHOLE SONG...

Set up a streamripper, log into your favorite internet radio station, go to bed.
Wake up, bust that big fat mp3 up into 50-100 pcs, and burn it !

All you did was record some FREE RADIO !!

Next is the MPAA , with their load of bull and their lawyers..
Movies are makin more FAT MONEY RE-RELEASING old sh*t than you can believe.
you can't imagine what I read in the trade journals..
Next will be "blue ray" , and we get to BUY some MORE of the SAME STUFF!
AGAIN !!

{soap box mode - OFF}

You would be "supporting" the artists much more if you were to
send a donation to their website, fan club, personal promotions, etc.
Just like you do with Linux.. feed the ARTIST , not the RIAA money machine..
Or, show your support by s h a r i n g their music with new listeners ..
Just like you do with Linux..

73
ke4nt

I'm both a radio operator, and a music industry professional..
And I wholeheartedly support the efforts of fellow musicians everywhere.
Independent Music Rules ! Keep It Free - Keep It Real - FREE RADIO !

I wuv you ke4nt1, you think just like I do on that!!

RIAA and M$ can suck by ***-edit-***

Brian
AwPhuch

[quote=ke4nt1,Nov. 16 2004,02:56][/quote]
ke4nt1

Do you have a problem with me supporting the bands I like?

Neither Iced Earth, Kreator, Ram-Zet or any other band I know does accept money just for money from the fans.

I actually enjoy having cd's, but I can't carry them around all the time. RIAA and those people I don't give a rat's ass about.

And just for the record... I'm not american. What make you belive that?
I am getting yelled at for not downloading music. Get real man. Who get the money does matter. Someone took the effort to get the damn cd's into the store.

As for radio. You do know that the artist get paid so that the radio stations can broadcast their songs?

My favorite band, Iced Earth lost their vocalist because he couldn't make a living on the music. There was no donation button on their site saying "Give Matt food and rent money so he can afford to spend a month in the studio".

Besides. Before the band start distrubuting music all by themselves, no-one buying the cd's does actually matter. The mp3's you download does breed from a cd, you know?

Don't you think there is a slight difference in between digital copies that does not get bad with time and the tapes from the 80s?

But this is it. I'm leaving the dsl community. no matter what I say in here, it's wrong. First my wonderings about DooM 3 being possible to install on dsl, now this.

Good luck to you all.

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