Hello Lindsay, On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 08:30 +1000, Lindsay Sprinter wrote:
Six or seven years ago I did a great deal of research on music, sound, systems, speakers, computers and compressed music formats. this was over a period of 4 months. A __GREAT__ deal of comparison testing was done. all this was in order to find out the best way and limitations of compressed music on computers in order to do the best in digitising my record collection. This was very enlightening and showed a lot of people did not understand what was happening.
That does sound very interesting
I would like to respond to some of the points brought up by Craig and others but I feel I definitely now I am no longer allowed to do this. If/when this whole mess is cleared up........................ sigh :-(.
There is a valid reason to do, on LUV-MAIN, that of the codecs, and licencing issues, that is Linux related. There will also be more general material, for context. As to absolute permission, it is a matter of judgement, and making relevant, or so I understand from what the committee have said. Just make the material relevant. As to your dial up access, I too am not on any broadband, I use an analog modem. What is ridiculous is that I am less than 1.5 km from the base of the mobile phone tower where my phone line terminates and connects via fiber. I curse the "concentrator" technology that means that ADSL is not available. Where I do have a minor advantage, is that the speeds are more reasonable. I am also giving serious thought to WAN technologies, both the interconnection/communication and the nodes, for some rural areas where a local community cooperative telco might provide a serious improvement to access. Digium and their efforts are in the picture, they make extensive use of Linux.
Sadly Lindsay
Regards, Mark Trickett