Subj : Music Sites For Linux
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Prime
Date : Sun Aug 21 2005 12:30 am

  Re: Music Sites For Linux
  By: ROB MCCART to CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT on Fri Aug 19 2005 04:43:00

 > He also seems to be finding really poor support for USB2 devices
 > which often work but are Much slower than the same hardware
 > in Windows XP, especially USB (Thumb?, Key?) drives. It will
 > work poorly with a 17 meg one he has but neither of those distros,
 > or Knoppix, will even think about a 2 gig one he recently bought.

Speaking of USB difficulties...

Using an older version of Knoppix while attempting to salvage a friend's
box from Windoze spy/mal warez, I noticed a great deal of difficulty when
attempting to copy filez to a pocked HD I had. (Yes, I mean filez; he
wanted his pr0n and warez backed-up. :-) ) The peculiear thing... It would
progress in spurts, copying many MBs in moments but then stalling for much
longer. (Eventually, I gave in and copied the data while in his infested
Windoze environment. I _do_ use only Mac and Linux, so I assumed it would
be fairly safe; I seem to have been correct thus far.) When using Windoze,
the drive was much more responsive -- snappier even. It was also behaved 
much better on my PowerBook -- I do need a power USB hub for it to work,
and it is finiky as to which port I use with the PowerBook and the hub,
but it _does_ transfer data at the advertized rate with no inxeplicable lag.
Linux is coming.... ^w here; embrace the penguine....

--
Link of the week:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030423212449/http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/h
atten.swf

---
 þ Synchronet þ iQLand - Home of a disgruntled BOFH!

.