[Hudlug] better PC specs

[Jim Jackson]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Michael Weaver wrote:

> 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.

Where are they? Can you give a URL for the mp3's? I couldn't find any
audio tutorials on www.digitaldarragh.com - maybe I didn't look hard
enough.

> 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?

check out the wget command program - it can download all sorts of web
stuff.

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, michaelweaver wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 6 years I to played/created sound stuff on a P166 with 64M of ram.
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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