[Hudlug] better PC specs

[Michael Weaver]

Maybe I wasn't clear when I spoke about graphics.
I think what I said about the graphics was I don't display many
pictures or manipulate them not that I don't use graphics as in the
GUI.
The files are Mp3 format.
I am not sure if they can be downloaded from the website of the chap
who produces these reviews.
Could I perhaps use the standard FTP application that comes with Linux
from a terminal to access websites so I could maybe ftp to
www.digitaldarragh.com and use the get command to grab the file like I
would if I were uploading a page or a file to my website at geocities?
It was the latest one for installing Firefox and updating Orca I was
having problems playing.

On 24/08/07, Jim Jackson <jj at franjam.org.uk> wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, michaelweaver wrote:
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> > I think I deffinately need better PC specs for what I do.
> > I have just been trying to listen to some audio guides someone has
> > produced for using Linux with speech and they crash halfway through the
> > recording in Internet Explorer, Firefox in Windows and even Firefox in
> > Linux.
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> I doubt you'd have a problem with half a gig of memory - that's loads for
> sound - unless you are doing intensive studio type stuff.
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> Are the guides mp3 files? If so down load them to your local machine
> and use a command line player like mpg321 (mpg123 etc) to play them.
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> 6 years I to played/created sound stuff on a P166 with 64M of ram.
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> > I thought it was a disk space problem until I tried listening to these
> > tutorials in Firefox in Linux but now I am wondering if it really is a
> > RAM issue and that hearing audio tutorials with two programmes open ie
> > Evolution and Firefox is causing this problem where the recording stopps
> > halfway through which is really annoying.
> > Obviously it is proving how low spec my desktop PC is and that my use is
> > outstripping my system requirements.
> > It is ironic because dad once said I don't need much system memory or
> > disk space as I don't use graphics
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> But you are - you are running a window manager and graphic applications
> like firefox and evolution. You'd be non-graphics if you didn't start X,
> and used a text only mailer like mutt or pine, and a text only web
> browser like lynx. It perfectly feasible to do and it would all run
> on a linux box with as little as 32M RAM and as low a spec as a P166.
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> Jim
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