Re: your mail

["Scott D. Yelich" <scott () SPY ORG>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, John R. Dennison wrote:
> > Anyway, the whole vuln-* twist of this is the issue of programs wanting
> > to access the net -- say on a reboot/login.  Does anyone have any
> > example of unix based programs wanting to do this?  Alternatively, does
> > anyone have an example of an mp3 player for winblows that doesn't turn
> > music into a RAP song because it can't play continuously? :->
>       UNIX: bind, sendmail, apache, etc - these, among a large group
>       of other system daemons, require DNS to start properly in most
>       cases.

Oh, I see.. and you don't see any difference between needing to look up
a hostname and reporting back information to offsite data collectors
(and the like)?

>       MP3 - winamp has not given me a 'stutter' problem since I got a
>       fast box and a decent DMA'd disk controller.

You'd think that a machine that's 500MHZ and has 128MB ram could play an
mp3 without skipping when the mouse is moved.  Personally, I haven't
checked -- but it would be neat if there was an option to load the
entire mp3 into RAM for playback...