Is anyone aware of a LUG in the Las Vegas area? Thanks, Max --- plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote: > Send PLUG-discuss mailing list submissions to > plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > You can reach the person managing the list at > plug-discuss-owner@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PLUG-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: acquiring digital music (KevinO) > 2. Re: cdrecord - was Re: dd anyone? (Vaughn > Treude) > 3. Re: too many choices (distros) (Siri Amrit > Kaur) > 4. POP from gmail using fetchmail (Lynn David > Newton) > 5. Re: too many choices (distros) (Siri Amrit > Kaur) > 6. Re: POP from gmail using fetchmail (Jeremy C. > Reed) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:07:02 -0700 > From: KevinO > Subject: Re: acquiring digital music > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > Message-ID: <434567C6.3010008@kevino.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > One could argue that iTunes, Sony SonicStage, etc. > is just another form of > > vendor lockin. > > > > I like the philosophy of John Buckman at Magnatune > ( > > http://www.magnatune.com/info/why). They offer a > wide variety of music and > > you can download in many different formats > including ogg and flac. > > > Yep, wav format too if you have to bandwidth. > > Another happy customer, > - -- > KevinO > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDRWfFI3MJ/OwKti0RAgpgAKCUksDFL+VwNbmdtZ2lWuccvTXttwCfVcEi > msjNW04io2Wm1W8EPpd5rTo= > =QWcU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:17:05 -0700 > From: Vaughn Treude > Subject: Re: cdrecord - was Re: dd anyone? > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > Message-ID: > <1128622624.17558.249.camel@nakota.nakota.com> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:34, Austin Godber wrote: > > Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > I've been also having a bit of trouble making > CD's on my Ubuntu system. > > > The CD burner GUI that came with it works fine > except that I can't > > > figure out how to do an ISO with it. Of course > the cdrecord tool > > > doesn't work because it can't see the device. I > may have to get this > > > Gnome-Bake program. > > > > Hi Vaughn, > > Did you read: > > /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup > > or the Debian README in the same directory? These > should help get you > > going. > > > > Also did you try specifying ATAPI when you do > scanbus: > > cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI: > > > > This shows my IDE DVD burner just fine in Ubuntu > install (5.04 I think). > > That does work, on both Debian and Mandrake. > Thanks! Guess I should > have RTFM. > > Vaughn > > > > > Austin > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:15:21 -0700 > From: Siri Amrit Kaur > Subject: Re: too many choices (distros) > To: Micah DesJardins , Main PLUG > discussion list > > Message-ID: > <200510061115.21744.tigerflag@tigerflag.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 03:39 pm Micah > DesJardins kindly wrote: > > As much as we keep talking about the differences, > the reality is > > (for me at least) that there really aren't that > many big > > differences: > > > > Basically you're looking at .deb distros, .rpm > distros, or source > > distros. Beyond that it's all about the distro > philosophy, the > > relative "speed" of the project's distribution > cycle, > > community/third party support and what it is > you're looking for in > > a distribution. > > > > Anybody else feel the same? (or differently?) > > > > Micah > > There's also a difference in init systems- how the > system launches > it's applications and services. Slackware and it's > derivatives use > the BSD-style init system. Most other Linuxes use > the SysV-init. > > I started with Mandrake 8.0. Tried a lot of > different distros because > I wanted to learn. It wasn't until my second try of > Slackware that I > really started learning much. Slack uses the > BSD-style init system. I > find it much simpler to understand than SysV. I've > tried and tried to > understand how to turn something on or off in a SysV > system, and > people in this list have tried to help me, but I > just don't get it. I > don't know if I like Slack's setup because it was > the first one I > learned, or I learned it because it's just simpler > than SysV. Being > able to understand and tweak the init system can be > an important > thing to consider. > > Siri Amrit > > > ------------------------------ > === message truncated === __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss