Posted on 02/11/2014 4:52:32 AM PST by ShadowAce
Grr.. just got about 350+ error messages on my Beethoven music folder :p
Just got rid of Aud.. guess it’s not KDE friendly.. will install Clementine.. skips, but at least I get no errors.. although, it still skips ::/
BTW, can someone explain to me how this website thinks people would pay this much for a USB stick? You can walk into some Walgreens and get more memory for $10 these days.
http://store.usbwatches.net/by-memory-size—1gb.html
weird
Did you install the plugins packages as well? Without those, it won’t play mp3s
having serious issues.. may have to do with permissions.. no idea why NOW though.. just lost about 1 terra of music :/
Here in Japan, prices are usually inflated... but WOW, that is for stupid peeps.. just bought 64 gig USB for roughly $8..
not sure what the prob is.. think I will have to find my external DVD writer and RE-do my music.. almost all is shot.. all getting errors now (with exception to a couple of Journey songs)..
:/
Haven’t had to use DVD for 4+ years.. hmm..
That is an awesome price for 64 gig
If you’re using Fedora or RHEL or something based off of it, try http://atrpms.net/.
Not quite good enough for Fedora yet :/ (K)ubunta atm :/ ..lol.. haven’t had to use ‘wget’ for a couple of years.. am moving back in that direction though.. Thank you anyway :D
for some reason, all but the 2 Journey song folders are all empty.. even using hidden/sudo... too many HDs (teansfers).. something bad obviously happened in the transfer :/
wiping all music directories now... (btw, I DO have my original Music folder.. but it is on an encrypted that I have NOT been able to get back since upgrade from Mint 15 - 16 :p (and it has music that is NOT around anymore.. is/was a collection since about when I started saving music back in the 80’s :/)
Did you have a HDD crash and have to reboot? May have had a corrupted inode somewhere.
Yes.. had a power outage about a month ago..and I know that is what screwed it all up.. still trying to figure out how to get encrypted back.. may have to do with the MTB... but scared to mess with that.
btw, doing good on getting some music back.. torrents coming in about 2-5 albums a minute.. not the way I want it to happen, but without a cd/dvd drive, not much choice :p
also, can’t remember all of the stuff I had with all of the music groups between 1950-1988 (or so.. :/))...
btw.. running 12 HDs atm :/
all new downloads to torrent directoy are coming through 5x5... no errors..
This is 1 time I respect WinBlows :p
Perhaps the one with the most desktop users.
I personally need stability, since I’m developing stuff, so I go with CentOS.
But the trade off is in things like browser. There are only certain versions of Firefox that CentOS is certified with.
Now with HTML5 rolling out, my Firefox is looking a bit long in the tooth (they crank out new versions like mad).
There are basic plugins, mostly the one you care about is watching videos, and I’m running out of time with my Firefox version. But I can only upgrade to a Firefox version that is certified to work with my CentOS 5.
And checking it all out takes time, so I don’t bother for long stretches (years). Then finally I’ll go and poke around and find out what the latest things are and plan and execute an upgrade.
I can’t be without a browser completely, of course, and I hate to lose functionality that I have. If one just jumps in and starts upgrading willy nilly one can get into a bad position where functionality is lost, since frequently things get broken by new development. Then one has to either go through trying to get back to the old working versions of things, or wait until developers get around to fixing the broken functionality.
CentOS 6 is just coming out, so I’m not too crazy on going to that yet, it’s too new.
All this actually effects every distro. It’s be over a decade since I used suse; I don’t know any details of other distros. But even so I’d hesitate to call any distro - or any operating system, for that matter - “simple”, to the point of just slap it in and go start connecting to the world without exploring the whole installation and knowing what I’ve got running and how it’s configured.
Users who are concerned about fast video performance to the point where they want to actually use the video chip in their computer... need to do some digging to find out if their chip is supported and then verify that it is being used. Otherwise, like me and my Dell, graphics display will all be done in software, i.e., only use the CPU insteading of gaining performance by offloading graphics processing to the video acceleration hardware. Mine works fast enough for me, i.e., I can see videos, I just don’t crank up the resolution because I don’t want my CPU running at more than 20% for extended periods of time. I’m more concerned with making my PC last, i.e., avoiding overheating.
I always start from the “top down”, i.e., I make a list of what I (or the user) wants to actually do. From this I get what applications then are needed, from there keep working down to the details, i.e., lower layers of software, hardware, etc.
Just general browsing, email, office, an off the shelf PC has plenty of power, it’s just the security that is the big concern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmap
is a key tool; it supports various platforms.
Regardless of one’s linux distro, there will be services/daemons running; to be secure one must avoid leaving service “doors” open, in addition to practicing safe browsing and safe email use. Safe/paranoid admin practices are far preferable to installing any kind of anti-virus software (which people then typically implicitly trust to handle everything and stop thinking about security).
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