[dba-Tech] netbook as a home music server

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 15:32:24 CDT 2011


We're already there, Stu. Not that I can afford it or have need for it, but
we're already there, and in the interim we have multi-GB SSDs...so the
platform evolves to:

1) local HD
2) external HD with mirror enabling Instant Restore

<whine>
A brand-new box ought to automagically create a bare-bones bootup CD.
At a user-determined point (e.g after having installed apps a1, a2, a3,
etc.) IOW, I need to have a mirror of what the system looked like 10 minutes
ago, in case I made a foolish decision in the past 10 minutes. This is not
an unlikely result. There are so many things to get wrong that I can pretty
much guarantee that Im g. You see? This software has prevented me from
sending my message.

Earth to Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the Forked-Up Message,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> Just the time involves in ripping about a thousand CDs.
>
>
> I can remember when we described data storage capacity in KiloBytes.  Now,
> it seems that
> Megabytes is being replaced by  TeraBytes as the standard unit.  How long
> before we start
> referring to it in PetaBytes :-)
>
>
> --
> Stuart
>
>
> On 12 Oct 2011 at 14:13, Peter Brawley wrote:
>
> > Why not just rip CDs to FLACs onto a music server, and point & click
> > when we want to hear 'em? Seems to me a wee $300 NetBook with a .25TB
> > drive and HDMI could hold about a thousand CDs in lossless FLAC form
> > and deliver the material digitally straight to the HDMI input in our
> > receiver with better quality than most CD players costing three times
> > that much. Anybody have an idea what might be wrong with this setup?
> >
>
>
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