Thanks for the help and advice everyone. Keep it coming! bukharin;195294 Wrote: > I use dvdrip, which is reasonably easy to use and quite powerful. I'm > pretty sure it can rip the audio directly into AC3 (it lists "Audio AC3 > and PCM passthrough" as one of its features), and I know for sure it can > rip it directly into WAV (on-the-fly). > http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
WAV on the fly sounds awesome! Skipping that intermediate AC3 step is ideal. Diana;195307 Wrote: > Like you, I've no intention of switching to Vista and renting back my > computer from Bill as long as he gives me his permission to use it. It's the DRM issue that has me worried as well as the "new" Vista features being primarily eye candy. > But I'm not sure how I'll manage when MS stops supporting XP (I > understand from the site you referenced in your post that MS is > withdrawing XP from OEMs from early 2008, and may even stop activating > copies of XP sooner. Is that true???) Definitely the OEM support is true. Support may continue for quite a while if Windows 98 is any indication, but the activation thing is a whole other ball of wax. If they stop activation, it doesn't matter if the OS is still supported... bergek;195314 Wrote: > Virtualisation per se doesn't require that much CPU. RAM is definately > required though so the 512MB is way too little if you want to go the VM > route IMHO. OK, thanks for the warning. I wasn't planning on upgrading my RAM for at least 6 months, so I may look at dual-boot instead. > Regarding RAID0 and virtualisation that is only a question of the host > operating system. The virtual machine only gets a virtual physical > harddrive. So as long as the host operating system supports the RAID > configuration you want to use, you should be fine. Although I can't > help to wonder why you would need RAID0. Great info, thanks. I went with RAID 0 because at the time I upgraded, it was obvious that hard drive speed is the overriding bottleneck on performance. At the time, I had money, so I got two of the fastest SATA hard drives then in existence and put them in RAID 0. I'm aware of the failure risk but as it turned out my motherboard failed before the RAID 0 array did. The hard drive speed was blindingly fast but only really apparent when installing large software packages like OpenOffice, where the talkative splash screens whipped by with comical speed. If I was doing it all over again, though, it was probably a waste of money, but now that I have them I'm going to use them. The board supports SATA RAID 0 and Linux does through mdadm. bukharin;195326 Wrote: > Another ripper you might want to check out is Rubyripper: > http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper > > It's a bit rough around the edges, but has better error correction and > logging facilities than grip. Excellent, thanks. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
