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  1. Re:i bet by cgenman · · Score: 4, Informative · on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge

    Try Hymm. There are mac and windows variants, as well as Java.

    Or you can burn to CD, rip from CD, with no extra software required.

    Or buy iTunes music through the Sharp Musique app, an iTunes store interface that simply skips the tawdry part where they encrypt and DRM the file.

    Or use the older stuff, like QTFairUse, VLC Media Player, and PlayFair.

  2. Re:Touche by nsayer · · Score: 1 · on Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way
    When they first released Airport Express, it was unavailable for Titanium powerbooks, but it was possible to hack the Airport Express driver so that it would work with a Linksys card stuck in the cardbus slot. My site wound up getting mentioned on The Screen Savers.

    The site has languished since Apple stopped preventing the driver from working without hackery. But that's the best use I've found for the Cardbus slot so far.

  3. Re:Lniux/Windows users wll always genuflect to x86 by pammon · · Score: 1 · on TiVo to Aim for PC Desktop

    >Because I can run down to Frys and for ~the price of a cute
    > little mini-me-too, I can build a 2.5 Ghz 64 bit box/
    > 120G HD/512M ram/

    I call bull. A 2.5 GHz Athlon 64 processor alone costs about what a Mac Mini costs, let alone all the other stuff.

    > Wide choice of video cards that could
    > actually push HD video to my TV, and run MythTV.

    The high end Mac Mini can do 720p HD TV. See http://www.osxhax.com/archives/000063.html

  4. Re:Abuse of moderation detected by cgenman · · Score: 1 · on Apple to Buy TiVo?

    Other people have discovered otherwise.

    You were probably modded Flamebait for the apple spiting people thing. Or the overall tone.

    I do have to wonder why everyone immediately says that's a HDTV connector. It's a higher end monitor connector, that HDTV also uses. But nearly every vid card out there these days also has one, and many even ship with one of those 10 dollar VGA converters.

  5. Make it a perl script by nsayer · · Score: 2, Informative · on How to Get Music Off Your iPod
    For a while, Apple was trying to keep folks with 3rd party 802.11g cards from using them with AppleAirPort2.kext, their AirPort Extreme driver. It started when I discovered that you could use their original AirPort Express driver with a Linksys WPC54G simply by changing some stuff in the Info.plist file. Apple responded by locking non-Apple hardware out in the driver - they were checking the PCI device ID against a fixed string in the driver and puking if it wasn't correct. Simply changing the string they were checking against was sufficient to make things work again. So what I did was write a perl script to make the whole patch process totally droolproof and post it at OSXHax. Every month or so Apple would release an updated driver (this was early on when 802.11g wasn't yet finalized), and I'd have to change the perl script to find the new location of the string. Finally, Apple gave up. And now if you plug a Buffalo or older Linksys 802.11g cardbus card into an older Powerbook, you too can have AirPort Express just like owners of new PowerBooks do. Only now, you don't have to actually do anything.

    So I encourage... someone... to turn the binary patching stuff into a nice, easy perl script. :-)

  6. Re:Why? by MoneyT · · Score: 2, Informative · on Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows

    Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format

    When I want to do that, I copy the file over to my windows computer, change the name from .m4p to .m4a, and QT for windows glady plays the file.

    click for more info

    Or I could likewise use a program like Audio Hijack and take the digital sound from my computer and rencode it as m4a

    I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over.

    As opposed to say, having to repurchase all of your CDs if your house burns down? I thought we were all past the point where we never made backups of our systems.

    Certainly though, you've drunk Apple's cool-aid with respect to AAC having acceptable sound quality, despite strong evidence that it's only *marginally* better than MP3 at low bit rates (which ITMS files are).

    Relevant to DRM because....?

  7. read the article? by evacuate_the_bull · · Score: 2, Funny · on Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music

    In case you're curious, the filename is 07 Double Dutch Bus.m4p and it is 3,391,504 bytes long or 3.2 MB

    it's probably an .m4p

    but not for long ;)

  8. Re:OS X PCMCIA card by ubiquitin · · Score: 1 · on Linksys Ships Dual-band, Tri-standard A+G Wireless

    A few weeks ago, CompUSA was selling the Linksys 802.11g card that works in the TiBook for $60. I'm using it right now, along with the driver hack here and I like it not only for the 802.11g but for the fact that it increases signal strength relative to the internal TiBook airport card by about a factor of 2 or 3. It uses the same BroadCom chipset that Apple calls "Airport Extreme" and Buffalo and D-Link also make cards which use this chip as well.