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Army of Darkness... by hoegg · 2001-06-16 18:29 · Score: 3 · on Duke's All Out of Gum

From what I remember, I think a lot of the sounds in Duke Nukem 3D came from Army of Darkness, which is a fun pseudo-horror movie from the 80s.

So, I found a manuscript on some poor schmuck's fan page that I hope you people don't slashdot into weblivion. Grep away, folks!

By the way, Army of Darkness was actually the third in a trilogy including Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 (info here) so feel free to get cool samples from those too.

And for the real geeks, episode 107 from the first season of South Park is a take off on the first Evil Dead.

Army of Darkness... by hoegg · 2001-06-16 18:29 · Score: 3 · on Duke's All Out of Gum

From what I remember, I think a lot of the sounds in Duke Nukem 3D came from Army of Darkness, which is a fun pseudo-horror movie from the 80s.

So, I found a manuscript on some poor schmuck's fan page that I hope you people don't slashdot into weblivion. Grep away, folks!

By the way, Army of Darkness was actually the third in a trilogy including Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 (info here) so feel free to get cool samples from those too.

And for the real geeks, episode 107 from the first season of South Park is a take off on the first Evil Dead.

Website and mailinglist by pyretic22 · 2001-06-03 23:55 · Score: 1 · on Building Quieter Computers

Check out this very complete and up to date website. And also the mailinglist

Re:Noise pollution by Howie · 2001-05-10 19:19 · Score: 4 · on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer

Have a look at quietpc.com. I've just finished sorting out my 1Ghz Tbird to get it down to an acceptable temperature and noise level. They do silent/quiet PSUs approved by AMD, fans, drive enclosures and other bits. The noisiest thing in my PC now is the 25mm fan in the back of my CDR, which sounds like it's about to fail - Papst have just announced a quiet 25mm fan, but it's not actually available yet.

Also try http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html for more lots of info regarding 'Silent PCs', TCO99, and what manufacturers can help you.

Geeks Don't Appreciate History by FatHogByTheAss · 2001-03-18 04:19 · Score: 1 · on Enemy At The Gates

I havn't seen the movie, but it's based on real events acted out by real people.

One of the great "sniper battles" in history occured at Stalingrad. The Russian sniper, Vasili Zaitsev, had been killing German soldiers by the bucket load (over 100 kills at the time.) The Germans brought in their best, Koenig. Koenig was the chief insturctor at Germany's sniper school. Those are all facts.

You can read an excerpt from Zaitsev's memoirs that discusses the final exchange of fire.

The Russians often used females as snipers. The Chechens still do.

I don't know about the movie, but the story is a great one worth telling, silly love story asside.

--

Re:Really quiet computers by steveha · 2001-01-24 09:15 · Score: 1 · on Cooling Hardware With Microfans

I recently bought a 30 GB IBM DeskStar [...] and, sure, it's quiet. But it's not silent.

Yes, it's never going to be silent. IBM may claim it's the quietest drive around, but I'll bet the Quantum lct15 is actually the quietest.

I built one computer using an lct10 (the predecessor of the lct15) and then put the drive in a SilentDrive acoustical jacket. That computer uses a K6-III with an extra-quiet cooling fan, and an extra-quiet power supply fan, and a video card with no cooling fan at all. It is pretty darn close to a silent computer.

P.S. While searching for the URL that goes with SilentDrive, I stumbled across a pretty good page about really quiet PCs.

steveha

silence? by vla1den · 2001-01-23 04:22 · Score: 1 · on Cooling Hardware With Microfans

I'm not so sure about silencing -- if you need to put 1000 of them they might became to be quite noisy. Here is what I came up recently looking for a silent computer solution:

Molex Thermal Acoustic Products
Directron: silent components
The Silent PC
Quiet PC (UK)
Shut that damn thing up!

Microfans won't reduce the noise by mairas · 2001-01-22 22:38 · Score: 1 · on Cooling Hardware With Microfans

I doubt those microfans really would reduce the noise generated by the fans. First of all, the efficiency of air cooling is determined mainly by the volume velocity of the airflow, and you'll still have to blow the same amount of air with the microfan technology -- with fans with no aerodynamic/acoustic design. Size of the fan does matter, though. Usually bigger is better (quieter). Blade noise is easier to handle with big, slowly rotating blades. Microfans seem to move into opposite direction, suggesting they might be even noisier than conventional fans.

There are ways to get rid of the noise, though. This site is a good starting point for screwing that silencer on your PC. Particularly, there was an interesting link to a Korean company, which is going to introduce a free-flow refridgeration system for computers. With that, you can throw away every (except the power source) fan from your computer. Hopefully it'll work as well as they tell.

Order mp3-player, get fish. by eddy · 2001-01-03 14:21 · Score: 1 · on Boogie Bass Hacked

A friend of mine ordered an mp3-player from toga but recieved this stupid singing fish instead.

Needless to say, said company hasn't been contactable. No phone. No email. Just a void.

The package recieved was even marked as to indicate it contained the player. Of course, he paid by CC, so they drew the money for the mp3-player and sent a singing fish. Makes one wonder...

End of Consumer Information Message

Re:Open Source Chess Programs by TetsuoShima · 2000-11-02 14:28 · Score: 1 · on Kasparov King No More

The SSDF autoplays games between computer programs. Among the group in the top 13, on the same hardware, Crafty (whose source is available, although under what license I do not know) places at the bottom. I'm not sure as to the availability of the source to other chess programs.

Re:Ahhhh come ON! by Demona · 2000-09-08 09:47 · Score: 2 · on Trailer For First Person Shooter Documentary

Try to look on the bright side; at least it isn't streaming only, so you don't have to use ASF Recorder. Dunno if they've put any self-destructs or other "encryption" in it, but a quick run through UnFuck should take care of that.

Re:Not yet... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-08-30 00:26 · Score: 3 · on More Threats From The MPAA

Re:DeCSS = 1st amendment by BlueUnderwear · 2000-07-18 03:36 · Score: 2 · on Linux Supported DVD-RW Coming Soon

Still, do you think there's many people mirroring DeCSS in Zimbabwe?

Who talked about Zimbabwe? There are other countries besides the US and Zimbabwe: Austria, the Christmas Islands, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israrel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Nieu, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, The United Kingdom, just to name a few

you can't deny that the US is a significant portion of the west.

However, lately, Europe has rediscovered its self esteem, and doesn't hesitate to occasionnally give the finger to the US (see recent Echelon investigation, and some recent crypto decisions).

Re:Corel Tries Hard (-1, Taunting) by Skeezix · 2000-04-11 02:12 · Score: 1 · on Corel Buys MetaCreations' Graphical Tools

:) I'm glad you like it. There are actually several references to the name, "Skeezix," such as the Gasoline Alley character, and the character from the game, "Uncle Wiggily." I first heard reference to this in a song by Tourniquet called "The Skeezix Dilemma".
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Keep in mind- Intel is a moving target too by LinuxParanoid · 2000-04-04 21:59 · Score: 4 · on 1.4-1.6 GHz Alphas

This is good news for Alpha, but the delivery date will leave them under substantial pressure this fall and even after the new Alphas come out for two reasons:

Intel's Willamette will be out in Q3 running at 1.1 GHz to at least 1.4 GHz, coming pretty close or equal to these Alphas on megahertz, and likely on SPECint (integer and branching performance where Intel typically lags Alpha by 5-50%.) The proper comparison is current -products-to-current-products or future-at-dateX to future-at-dateX products, not current-to-future.
Alpha's pre-eminence in floating point is about to drop sharply due to Itanium and Willamette products from Intel with substantially improved floating point (many more fp execution units). Alpha has traditionally provided 3x the floating point of Intel. About 3-4 years ago, Intel realized that floating point was useful for the mass market (3D games) and the workstation space they were starting to enter, and these two processor cores are the first to reflect significant prioritization of floating point from Intel (SSE in Pentium III was a minor modification of a existing core design.)
- While Intel has kept this mostly under wraps, some details have leaked out indicating that Willamette/Foster (Foster is the "Xeon" version of Willamette) will have equal or better floating point than Itanium, and Itanium's floating point has been publicly characterized in things like Kenneth's Intel roadmap. Note that the existence of only 8 registers on IA32 designs like Willamette probably substantially restrains performance on real apps. Intel will add 144 new SSE2 instructions according to Sharky and eliminate the switch time previously required when going from regular fp to SSE instructions. The memory bandwidth gap between Alpha and Intel will also narrow with Willamette/Itanium.)

Net: Intel may be about to catch up a significant amount on floating point, a historic Alpha differentiator, and Intel clock rates and integer/branch performance definitely keep pace at the 1-2 GHz levels.

--LP

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-19 02:42 · Score: 0 · on Corel Draw 9 for Linux Needs Beta Testers

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Jan 19, 12:13am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

We apologize for the length of time between updates. This list has gotten quite large and thus more difficult to maintain.

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-16 07:10 · Score: 0 · on New DVD Lawsuits Filed by the MPAA (UPDATED)

Note: This mirror list has been copied from http://www.humpin.org/decss/, on January 2nd 2000 13:13 GMT

Mirrors since 28-Dec-99 added by me.
To my main DVD page (containing list of lists of mirrors) Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Fri, Dec 31, 8:18pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Yes, and he listens to the STRANGLERS too! by Skip666Kent · 1999-10-24 23:51 · Score: 1 · on New Sandman Book and Signing

He mentioned the album Black and White in one of his short prose stories. I knew then that he was a Man to be Trusted. I've been hooked on his writing ever since. Comic book virtually disappeared for me after he left Sandman. His novels are excellent. He is one of those rare writers who sets out to 'delight, excite and amaze' his audience, and he succeeds brilliantly.

I just wish he was a little more prolific.

I love it when people talk out their ass...... by J4 · 1999-08-25 23:33 · Score: 2 · on Illegal File Formats?

Fraunhofers patent is on _their_ algorithm that can be used to create mp3.
I don't violate any license from them by having mp3 files.
If I use a piece of software that uses Fraunhofers _algorithm_ to encode an mp3, _then_ I owe them a royalty.
There are encoders that do _not_ use Fraunhofers algo, for example Blade.

IANAL but I believe it's not a criminal
offense, violating someone's patent. Using
these formats in ways that violate patents
isn't illegal, you will just get your ass sued
off. There's no file format that can land you
in jail.

Sheesh.... Okay, so you don't know but you think it might be alright.
Thanks for clearing that up.

I never thought I'd see this question on /.
And whats with the definitions of stuff in the headlines?

Re:It's codec which matters by edelbrp · 1999-08-22 04:59 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

From my understanding, there is only one encoded solution to any input audio (bit rate, stereo, and commenting options dependant, of course). I.e., if the resulting MP3 differs from the 'Fraunhofer' encoder, then the MP3 is corrupt, by definition (but may still be playable by an MP3 player). Most encoders, I'd like to add, are *not* true MPEG 1 layer 3 compliant (like Xing?), especially all those free ones under Windows. They do this to make encoding faster and/or avoid paying licensing fees required when using Fraunhofer's algorithm. (Special exceptions/conditions exist with BladeEnc which make it a rare freeware Fraunhofer encoder.)

BTW-The ISO encoder algorithm *IS* the 'Fraunhofer' method. (Yes, you can patent an ISO standard.) Dig through the MPEG sites, Fraunhofer's site, and Tord's BladeEnc site for more info.

What sounds like the issue here is what pre-processing is done prior to encoding. From my understanding, some of the 'quick' encoders (like Xing) throw away data to give it less to process, and hense, make it go faster. As long as you are encoding directly from a raw ripped track, I don't see how it would matter which encoder was used as long as it is using the ISO/Fraunhofer algorithm and no preprocessing (decimation).

--Phil

Re:It's codec which matters by edelbrp · 1999-08-22 04:59 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

From my understanding, there is only one encoded solution to any input audio (bit rate, stereo, and commenting options dependant, of course). I.e., if the resulting MP3 differs from the 'Fraunhofer' encoder, then the MP3 is corrupt, by definition (but may still be playable by an MP3 player). Most encoders, I'd like to add, are *not* true MPEG 1 layer 3 compliant (like Xing?), especially all those free ones under Windows. They do this to make encoding faster and/or avoid paying licensing fees required when using Fraunhofer's algorithm. (Special exceptions/conditions exist with BladeEnc which make it a rare freeware Fraunhofer encoder.)

BTW-The ISO encoder algorithm *IS* the 'Fraunhofer' method. (Yes, you can patent an ISO standard.) Dig through the MPEG sites, Fraunhofer's site, and Tord's BladeEnc site for more info.

What sounds like the issue here is what pre-processing is done prior to encoding. From my understanding, some of the 'quick' encoders (like Xing) throw away data to give it less to process, and hense, make it go faster. As long as you are encoding directly from a raw ripped track, I don't see how it would matter which encoder was used as long as it is using the ISO/Fraunhofer algorithm and no preprocessing (decimation).

--Phil

Ensuring Quality MP3 Audio Quality by edelbrp · 1999-08-22 02:23 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

A couple quick comments re: mp3s and ripping. I like to think I'm a bit of a stereophile, and I've found that most things in the commercial audio market are hype, and that most people which buy the high-end stuff can sometimes have a difficult time telling the difference between mono and stereo, let alone quality differences! ;') So, if you are only interested in quality, then read on. With that said, I've tried hard to hear the difference between a well ripped and encoded MP3 (128kb) and the original CD track (on a decent transport and DAC). I can just barely hear a difference.

Where the pitfalls come from is what is used to rip and encode the MP3's. For the best digital extraction from the CD, CD-Paranoia is the best I've found which doesn't produce those click..click..click sounds like heard when using crappy rippers (it can even recover scratched and damaged audio CD's, too!). For MPEG-layerIII encoding, make sure to use something which produces an exact bit equavelent to Fraunhofer's output like BladeEnc. Lastly, reproduction is very important, too! Use something which produces correct quality reconstruction like MPG123.

You may have noticed that these are all command-line progs. I stay away from the eye-candy stuff unless I know the underlying engine really is quality. But, only those packages mentioned above are really known to be quality(, but they do have some third-party GUI front-ends if you are into that).

Happy Listening!

o
{:')
o

--Phil

BTW- For best possible audio, look into audio-DVD's. They are quite impressive when mastered correctly! There isn't much of a music selection available yet, though.

Bladeenc, L3enc, LAME & frontends by Anonymous Coward · 1999-08-21 15:01 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

If you want a high bitrate of 160k you should probably use bladeenc. I just read the speed section of the homepage. On the other hand L3enc works well with lower bitrates (120k). Since I like small & good stuff I would naturally go for l3enc. But there is also LAME which is a patch to the ISO mp3 encoder source, allows VBR (variable bitrate encoding) and is 5 times faster than the original. You might want to try some batch frontends that provide CDDB acess to ease your work. Check out at freshmeat, I've seen lots of those.

Bladeenc, L3enc, LAME & frontends by Anonymous Coward · 1999-08-21 14:56 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

If you want a high bitrate of 160k you should probably use bladeenc. I just read the speed section of the homepage. On the other hand L3enc work well for a lower bitrate (120k). Since I like small & good stuff I would naturally go for l3enc. But there is also LAME which is a patch to the ISO mp3 encoder source, allows VBR (variable bitrate encoding) and is 5 times faster than the original. You might want to try some batch frontends that provide CDDB acess to ease your work. Check out at freshmeat, I've seen lots of those.

I would have to say bladeenc by Chutzpah · 1999-08-21 05:13 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

I have been using bladeenc for quite awhile now, and the sound quality is great, and it is the fastest encoder available on any platform.

If anyone wants it, here's a URL... by Anonymous Coward · 1999-08-18 04:46 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked

It's Windows-only... But ah well. http://pluto.spaceports.com/~cosmo/un fuck.zip or http://home.swipnet.se/mp3/unfuck.exe.

Re:Obviously LEGO is not an American company ... by Demona · 1999-07-27 00:17 · Score: 1 · on Lego Allowing Open-Source OS

Are all American companies, therefore, run by stupid or evil people? Just wondering about the unspoken implications of your statement.

I downloaded SimLego, the 3D Lego modeler for my wife back when we were still in the Windows world; it'd be lovely to have a Linux version of this fun little app. AFAIK, the author has never been hassled by the company.

(The best companies PR machines know how to make any publicity good publicity, and how to create publicity out of even the smallest reference to their product or service. Every time they find a reference to it, they put out a press release reminding everyone how loved and widespread it obviously must be. The anti-rumor mill "spin doctors" trolling the net for negative/false information about their companies should remember it cuts both ways; treat your fans/loyal users with the respect they deserve, and you'll make new ones; alienate them, and you're dead in the water 'til the sharks come.)

oooold stuff! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-01-27 03:01 · Score: 0 · on BikeBrain - PalmPilot Based Bike computer

Here you find program and information about how to do this yourself. Pretty cool/geeky stuff. If only the Pilot had better case... _jon

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