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The action of copying music track(s) off of a music CD, and also possibly converting them into some form of compressed file, typically MP3.
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Rip - Ryan wrote: Thanks for the excellent advice. I had a vague feeling that there's a lot more to doing DSL than obtaining a "dry pair" and two capable modems.Depends on where you are and what you want to do. I ran data over 48Ffour-wire lines for years and if you luck out, you can get very goodperformance (I only ran 56K leased-line modems, but this was a decadeago when that was mindbogglingly fast stuff).Your first job is to get the two modems working together over afour-wire link on the desk. Build a crossover cable assembly and getall the stuff configured so that you know it routes properly.Then get a four-wire circuit or two parallel alarm circuits, and hookit up. If you can, it would be a good idea to do sweep tests on thelines first and make sure the frequency response is reasonably flat,but if it isn't there won't be anything you can do about it anyway, soit might not be worth bothering with.Finding the person at the telco who can sell you loop circuits canalso sometimes be an adventure. Ask the engineer at the local radiostation who the radio loop guys at the business office are. If youjust call the business office they will often have no clue what youwant. I've thought about some sort of wireless, but unfortunately I don't have line of sight. I've also considered the VPN over broadband Internet option (probably have to revisit that one). It's just that both locations are pretty close to the CO (1 mile, and 2000 feet), so the Cringely article really got my hopes up.Try it. It's not expensive. Sometimes it works great, sometimes itdoes not. Sometimes it works great for years and then the telcochanges configurations and it suddenly does not. Sometimes thereisn't copper in the ground and all lines between the facilities areserved over SLC-56es and so you cannot get a dry copper circuit.But I have used it and I have liked it, and I still had a leased linerunning 56k over a pair of dry pairs from an ISP's local facility, aslate as 1999 when the ISP got bought out and dumped all their olderand weirder customers.--scott--"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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