I figured that with the tape, it's removable, so I could record on as many of them as I need, especially if I run the recording through the lame mp3 encoder, I could store many hours per tape, and put the tapes in any other system I dig up another of the same type of drive for. I suppose the micro solutions external drives will work if I need them in multiple machines, at least what I heard somewhere. At 02:52 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Brent Harding wrote: >> Oh, I suppose CD burners are like that too, at least mine, the instructions >> say it needs a constant stream of data coming to it via the USB port, so >> recording live might not work, if I let too much silence get in. I wonder >> if buffering programs might work? > >Again you really don't want to try this. There are some packet writting >programs for winblows, but I don't know about Linux. All the same, you >loose a lot of space when using packet writting software. With the size of >a hard drive today I can't understand why you would be concerned about >recording to the drive then transfering to CD. To buy a new drive taht is >so small as to make this a problem would cost more then buying a 20GB >drive with loads of space. > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > >Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
