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MP3.com Archive Not Lost (1.7 Million Songs Saved)
macdaddypunk writes "We all remember last December's grim news: MP3.com closed its doors, warning thousands of musicians that 'all your content will be deleted from our servers.' However, as the Wall Street Journal reports today, most of the original MP3.com archive was never deleted! Two companies, GarageBand and Trusonic, claiming to have a legitimate copy of the archive, are now enabling former MP3.com artists to visit www.MP3isBack.com and recover their MP3.com music, instantly re-generating their artist pages with just a few clicks. Trusonic, itself a Vivendi spin-out, focuses on licensing music to retailers for in-store airplay. GarageBand, like a HOTorNOT for music, offers free mp3 downloads and claims to host the definitive charts of independent music."
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It's come to my attention that people are always complaining about not being able to find their files on most OSes. But Unix seems to confound people to no end, which makes absolutely no sense since it is VERY WELL logically structured. Unlike Windows which is just a fucking mess. The Unix philosophy behind filing your data is all about standard locations for the different types of programs, configs and data you might have on your systems. If adhered to, you can go to any Unix system and easily locate files. However, I will argue that it needs some reorganizing for today's applications. And NO "My Documents" is a stupid fucking idea for morons with the intelligence of a slime mold!!! That will NEVER happen on any systems I administer. So now, I give you how I lay out my systems these days:
First level designations in a path:
00 in the first level of the path is the root user's personal directory
01 in the first level of the path is the designation for the "applications" directory
02 in the first level of the path is the "documents" directory
03 in the first level of the path is the "users" directory (equivalent to the stupid "home" designation used by troglodytes)
Note: in directories of type 03 in the first level of the path, the second directory is just the user's id number
Second level designations in a path:
01 in the second level of the path is always the "OpenOffice.org" application directory
02 in the second level of the path is always the "Mozilla" application director
01a in the second level of the path is always "Textual" documents
/01/01 - Open Office.org resides here.
/01/02 - Mozilla resides here
/02-00/01a/ - root's textual docs live here
/02/01a/01 - the first user's textual docs live here
/02/01a/02 - the second user's textual docs live here
/00/mbox - root's mail is here
/03/500/mbox - the first user's mail is here
/03/501/mbox - the second user's mail is here
This is a much easier setup once you get used to it as it makes it VERY easy to find stuff. It also makes scripting possible for searching for files and working with files in a character based setting. I don't allow my users to use anything other than three character numeric file names. I haven't heard a word out of them since I implemented this system. In general, they seem to be pleased since they no longer have to think hard about where their docs are. The docs are always within easy reach, and as an operator, my life has become considerably easier. More time to play Nethack... So get it though your heads you fucking idiots!!! Long file names based on alpha characters are nothing but a big pain in the ass. Get used to the coming paradigm of numeric filenames. It's WAY easier. Fucking idiot amateurs.
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I'm baffled as to how you were modded up so fast for this comment.
This is Slashdot you fucking n00b! As insightful and informative as your comment was, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was modded down by the same people who modded up Captain Oblivious's post.
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