[Episode 2x08: MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, or MIDI?]

I like mp3 for all my music but I think that AAC has better sound quality. 8)

[Microsoft is going to support suse linux]

Microsoft finally realized windows sucks too?

[How to encrypt myspace.com usernames and passwords?]

Theres nothing like giving a chick your myspace instead of your digits.

[Spare system questions.]

You don't really need a monitor with freeBSD, apart from the initial install. Just make sure you enable SSH at install time and then use Putty to login from your main machine. It makes a great little system that way, and you can get a suprising amount learnt by using SSH on a headless system. In "the real world" your not going to have monitors on server or appliance boxes so its a good learning expirence to get used to it like that.

Then you can run your NAS, FTP, maybe a little webserver as well... stuff like that. I'm mainly recommending this to you as your machine seems to powerful to waste on a stand alone NAS, and without a monitor for it your not going to be running it as a Linux Desktop. Why FreeBSD? Its just (IMHO) a little more logical and easier to learn than linux, and you can do more with it in a shorter space of time than with a comparable linux install. IMHO.

I like those ideas, but o don't know how i can fit stepmania into that.

Im sure it can be done and i should try to, but i dont have much experience with any other OS besides Os X and windows.

If someone is willing to help me out im willing to give it a try.

EDIT: oh, and thanks for all the suggestion!

EDIT2: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 last night and i cant get kdm to come up and i dont know how to do all the things you suggested...

[Spare system questions.]

Without a spare monitor to go long with it... its kinda pointless.. :(

[Spare system questions.]

Recently I traded a mobo and cpu for a dell dimension 2400, but im not sure what to do with it.

Specs

- Pentium 4 2.6ghz

- 512mb ram

- 200gb hdd (added)

I wanted to turn it into a nas...but it seems like a waste.. so i wanted to put stepmania on it.

Does anyone have any suggestions for something to do with it or how i can reach my goal of a "Stepmania NAS". :)

[School network? worth your time?]

Our high school uses a community college for some of it computer classes..and when i go there, they let me bring my laptop and i dont have to use a login or anything. All i do is plug in a cat5 and im on the network.

I just don't know what I can do yet. :roll: