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  1. Re:A more interesting deathmatch... by MaxwellsSilverHammer · · Score: 1 · on OSX/Win2K Deathmatch

    OH YEAH!!! That would RULE!!!

    "Twn men entah! One man leave! Two men entah! One man leave!!"

    http://www.cam.org/~java/mmax3.htm

  2. Re:Modify your Winamp settings by j-beda · · Score: 1 · on Gracenote Reponds Regarding Roxio Lawsuit
    Even better, just modify your hosts file to redirect all cddb traffic for all applications to the freedb.org servers. If you run a DNS systemse you could do the same.

    C Watson has directions for the Mac, and freedb.org has some instructions for doing the same on other platforms.
    http://www.cam.org/~cwatson/freedb/
    http://www.freedb.org/sections.php?op=viewarticle& artid=46

    And if you are messing about with your hosts file already, you might want to include redirection for various web advertisers to speed up your web browsing.
    http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.s html

    Mac OS X seems to use a different mechanism than the hosts files for most setups, preferring the Netinfo tool. There are some details about it at Mac OS X Hints, but I have not figured it out completely myself.
    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010 328234510985
    Here is another new one just posted on May 15th that I have yet to read and understand.
    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010 515062331512

  3. Re:Do like I did.. by j-beda · · Score: 1 · on Gracenote Sues Roxio Over Switch to Free Song Database
    Those witout DNS servers to muck about with can just modify your hosts file like this example or according to the instructions for Mac OS 9 and never worry about it again. There are also a variety of mirrors that one could point to.

    This also means that all of your applications that would normaly want to use CDDB will use freedb.org without having to change their settings or hack their resources.

    Now does anyone want to let me know how to easily do this with Mac OS X? I can't seem to get the Netinfo utility to do it effectively.

    While you are at it, you might want to play similar tricks with advertising banners and the like. Here's more information.

  4. Yeah, just do it manually by LordNimon · · Score: 2 · on Using Automated CD Duplicators as Mass MP3 Converters?
    I agree with everyone else - the money you'll spend on the CD changer is a complete waste. It would be worthwhile if you wanted to rip thousands of CD's, but you're not going to do that.

    Just get some ripping software that has built-in CDDB access and can spawn an mp3 encoder. An excellent, free pacakge that I use is CD2MP3 PM.
    --

  5. Re:This is brilliant! by platypus · · Score: 1 · on WinLinux 2000

    Well, I have to answer directly, IMO it isn't always a good idea to nmap the server. There is no important information to get anyway.
    One could go to www.four11.com to search for (alternate) email adresses. You could try a zone transfer of the domain, sometimes funnily the names of their machines tell you something.
    Watch the headers of the postings at dejanews (under "view original usenet format"). If you find an interesting post in dejanews, got to altavista and search in their usenet engine for the same message, they show you all headers if you push the "B" (retrive binary attachment, don't ask me...). Then you have normally the nntp-posting host, ergo the provider of the individual if he posted from home.
    Voila, perhaps he has a nice homepage...
    If you find some office documents on some pages, download the and view at the with an editor.
    If you're lucky you get his home adress, telephone number and some porn websites he visited sometimes. Really, I found www.penthouse.com and others in some business documents...
    Does anybody know how to do an _reverse_ whois search, i.e. person-record->domain-records this person owns?
    Oh, and at altavista, try link:domainname, perhaps some staff members or companies have a homepage on which they link to the company you want to check out.

    Some interesting links for this kind of stuff:
    http://www.cotse.com/searchengineref.htm
    The whole site is cool
    and
    http://www.cam.org/~intsci/,
    perhaps a bit old, but most links work...