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Here's the tie breaker.

I've listened to my iPod on my JE Labs 300B tube amp. Why should you be impressed? Because the JEL is much higher resolution than the average transistor amp, and so it delivers a louder version of what you hear on headphones across a full soundstage. And 128 kbit AAC sounds better than even my 192 kbit minimum HQ VBR recordings on MP3. Just listen to the resolution phase of a cymbal hit with somebody singing over it...there's no stereo washing, no audible squaring of the signal. Personally, I don't rip at 128kbit even with AAC...I use 192 kbit minimum, just to deliver as much breathing room as possible to the compiler.

Which is why I got a 30 gig iPod and not a Zen. That, and the smaller size, better battery life, cool retro Mac SE font, simple navigation, iTunes/MusicMatch integration, tough seamless touch controls (great for use at the gym...no need to worry about my sweat ruining expensive hardware), note reader and backlight which matches my car's interior lights. These things (specially the battery life) are well worth the $100 price difference and size drop.

Of course, you might be one of these assholes who needs everything cheap and hackable. I have one here at work who over the years has at spent least $1000 on mp3 players from Rios to Apex DVD players to that dumb Nomad keychain player and was apalled that I just wanted to use the thing as an mp3 player. When I mentioned I sold my Toshiba e740 with wireless and a gig of flash memory, for way less than it was worth to buy this thing, I thought he was going to hit me with his Archos jukebox. And that thing weighs like 5 pounds!

I was hoping that this "news" would be exactly what you said but sad enough its not. Its not even a big thing since i can do all that with my pc already.

Btw, the HDs come shipped with the Linuxkit, and you can use any other custom HD as long as you have the Network adaptor.
Sounds strange? Heres why...the adapter connects the HD to the proprierty ps2 port.

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Actually, to factor a 50-digit composite number on modern hardware would take under a minute. Go to http://indigo.ie/~mscott/ for a program that does it; the link for a precompiled Windows version is on the bottom of the page.

JBoss Enhydra Jakarta Jetty jUDDI pUDDIng Resin

Just pick a project and start contributing ;-)

Ar mo ghabháil dom siar chun Droichead Uí Mhórdha, and
Ag gabháil dom sior chun Droichead Uí Mhóradha.
are the first lines of the song according to Here and here.

It seems odd that the song name would be put in there as the rest of the text of the message seems to be words chosen randomly (Probably for their letters, not their meaning).

Currently I'm guessing that the image is something you have to cut out and then after aligning the text properly and running the cut-out over the page and putting the yellow square over a certain letter then the arrows will point to 4 letters of the message. Something just needs to determine the alignment of the text.

Or something to that effect....

the lyrics to the song mentioned in the crest can be found here . Now if only someone could translate them for us:)

• http://indigo.ie/~lyda/css/
• http://mmadb.no/hwplus/
• ftp://wodin.eburg.com/pub/cvs/dvd
• http://www.darkworks.org/DeCSS.zip
• http://www.fansubs.net/dvd/software/
• http://www.geocities.com/freelinuxdvd/
• http://members.xoom.com/freelinuxdv d/index.html
  
  
• http:// slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/27/194216&mode=t hread&threshold=-1: Slashdot story about the DVD CCA action. Lots of links to restraining order and other mirrors.
• http://slashdot.org/com ments.pl?sid=99/12/27/194216&cid=757: Yeah, Slashdot comments can contain code too
• http://slashdot.org/com ments.pl?sid=99/12/27/194216&cid=191 (oops, most links in that article won't work. Scroll down to comment 232 on same page for fix).
• cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.on.openprojects.net:/cvs/li vid -z3 co css-auth
  That's a CVS command to pull css-auth from the anonymous CVS repository.
• http://atlas.csd.net/~cgadd/dvd.htm
• ftp://ftp.u-net.net/local/DeCSS.zip
• http://www.ultradrive.com/download_ software.htm
• http://www.kallisti.de/dvd/index.html (With lots of background info)