Posts by Lowres

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

Why bye bye? its all BS in the press.

All the media are presenting the mp3 licensing comming to an end as the death of MP3.

1. MP3 can not die, its not a living thing. MP3 will be available as it always has been, now more freely.

2. The only people who want rid of MP3 are the music industry, they have to try and get their DRM in there some how.

Watch Apple be the first to no longer support MP3's on their devices. AAC being perfect for them, their invention and DRM compatable. Apple never supported FLAC why? Because they are w*nkers when it comes to protecting their iTunes..

Its all marketing BS!

Natty Narwahl: Ubuntu marine mammal not fully evolved

You should have reviewed Slackware 13.37

You should have reviewed Slackware 13.37 Scott. Just out and as good as ever.

Server vendors and the dead hand of commoditisation

But would it be commodity?

Right so you take a $3,000 server, then stick in a $15,000 PCIe card its hardly commodity anymore. is it?

Lots of fast SSD/RAM that can be used in this way and written to a lot more frequently than a disk would be is bloody expensive.

Then there are also the requirements for redundancy that play a part. You loose the IO card you loose the data....