Is anyone aware of a LUG in the Las Vegas area?
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> 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
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:07:02 -0700
> From: KevinO <kevin@kevino.org>
> Subject: Re: acquiring digital music
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> > 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
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:17:05 -0700
> From: Vaughn Treude <vltreude@deru.com>
> Subject: Re: cdrecord - was Re: dd anyone?
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> 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
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:15:21 -0700
> From: Siri Amrit Kaur <tigerflag@tigerflag.com>
> Subject: Re: too many choices (distros)
> To: Micah DesJardins <micahdj@gmail.com>, Main PLUG
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> 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
>
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