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The leaders of national governments, even third-world governments, are not stupid. (Note: being corrupt is not the same as being stupid.)
A national leader who listens to the BSA lobby with this will be able to see through it for what it is.
Those leaders may decide to tighten IP laws anyway for a number reasons: kickbacks from American and European industry members, threats of tariffs or sanctions, pressure from internal industry, etc., etc. It's not going to happen because of heavy-handed, rather obvious efforts like this study.
I ran Yellow Dog 2.3 for a long time on my Apple PowerMac 9600/200MP.
It was a good, solid OS, though I haven't used it since I rolled my own LFS-style. It was very similar to the Redhat 7.2 distro I have running on a workstation at work. It blew away OS 7.5 (which came on the 9600) and OS 9 (which is the highest version the 9600 can run).
For people wondering why do this when OS X is so pretty: I'd say Yellow Dog is an excellent solution to pre-Blue & White PowerMac OS needs. OS X won't run on most systems made before that and even B&Ws, original iMacs, and iBooks system will run faster with Yellow-Dog than OS X.
Also, Yellow Dog runs on many PowerPC platforms other than Apple. It's a breath of fresh air to pick up a non-wintel platform on eBay for a couple bucks and be able to run such a powerful, modern operating system.
isn't that people are marketing this stuff in their blog. It is Dr. Pepper providing gear for their efforts.
Most people walk around happy to sport logos everywhere: their t-shirts, shoes, cars, computers (or computer components). They actually pay for the privilege. Why anyone would be surprised or upset about the tables being turned, I don't understand.
Product placement in our entertainment is everywhere and will become even more prevelent as traditional marketing becomes less effective. I view blogs as primarily entertainment and was frankly expecting this.
BTW, anyone see the Ford Focus car chase in Alias? I had to turn it off when they zoomed in for a lingering shot on the Focus' logo. Blech.
What keeps America or Britain or Germany or Russia or China ticking?
Not in the literal "atomic clock" sense. How is it that America's government is still functioning when a majority of its "democratic" populace didn't vote for its leader? Judging by the past few weeks/years of protests, the other countries don't really care for their "elected" leaders either.
How can so few people hold so much sway over so many people?
Mayber I should take more PoliSci courses (just a poor CompSci major typing here!), but that the human populace can function at all, given the variety of personalities and prejudices, I consider a miracle.
In fact, I think that Venezuala is one country that is acting the way things are supposed to go!
This isn't going to show what's popular in our Culture. It's going to show what's popular in the web logging sub-culture.
I doubt there's that much of an overlap that the latter is an indicator for the former.
Google's Zeitgeist is a much better tool since it's analyzing what the general web populace is looking for. I think that would be a more accurate indicator of current web culture trends.
Still, neither are good indicators for our culture as a whole since they only reflect the interests of those who have ready access to a computer. The Zeitgeist is getting better all the time as more and more come online.
Side scrollers for Playstation
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Tomba! and its sequals are fantastic side scrollers on the Playstation platform.
They can be a little hard to find, even on eBay, but they are totally worth it. Tomba! is definetly in my top 20 on the Playstation.
I'm very tempted by this. My current PDA is the original 2MB Handspring Visor which my life has come to depend upon. I'm in the market for a replacement because I'm running out of room for my appointments, contacts, and notes.
My requirements for my new PDA are that it supports compact flash (I have tons of these cards for my and my wife's mp3 players, digital camera, and removable storage for her iBook), have more than 2MB memory (at least 8mb), have a battery life that will get me through an 8-5 workday (~3-4 hours of use before recharge), and have a usability that is at least close to that of the Palm platform (everything just works very quickly).
My wishlist items include built-in or available Wi-Fi, twice my required battery life, and a built-in MP3 player (one-less digital lifestyle device).
I think these are reasonable expectations for a modern PDA. I speculate many, many PDA owners and potential PDA owners would agree with these.
My choice up until I read this review was the Toshiba e740. It's tiny & light, accepts compact flash, has more than 2mb memory, has acceptable battery life, comes with built-in Wi-Fi (that can very easily be switched between my home and work setups), and can play MP3s.
This review made me think twice, but I'll still be buying the Toshiba when my company's next buying cycle comes around. Why?
The Zaurus gets some credentials for running on linux and having a sweet form-factor with a usable, built-on keyboard. The Pocket PC operating system is much closer to just working than the Linux version (though Pocket PC doesn't work well with my Linux & Mac desktops at home). I can get the Toshiba brand new for half the price of the Zaurus. The Zaurus doesn't offer anything to make up for the price difference. The cool form-factor is moot because the Toshiba is smaller and lighter.
Nothing else in the market comes close to the e740 except for this Zaurus. The e704 was released last June! I can't believe making a good PDA is so hard. Are there really that few EE's, embedded system programmers, and UI engineer's that it takes a company 3/4ths of a year to come up with a close, but ultimately inferior product?
Man, I love strategy games. I wish there were more turn-based strategy games on PC and consoles.
Advance Wars on the Gameboy Advance absolutely kicks ass. Other than that the genre has been pretty dead for the past few years. I've always liked turn based strategy.
I played Warcraft II and Command & Conquer pretty heavy when they first came out. But after them the genre stagnated and I haven't played any since.
Booksense is an association of independent booksellers in the US. It publishes a monthly list called the "Booksense 76" which features the top 76 books recommended by its members.
It's a great source for finding new works and authors regardless of genre. I've never been dissapointed by their recommendations. If you want to branch out to new forms of literature you could do worse than grabbing a copy of the current #1 on the list, regardless of what it is or who it is by.
If you do want to focus just on Science Fiction & Fantasy they have a Top 10 list and a Rediscovered Authors list you should check out.
I faced a similar problem of hitting a wall of advancement and went back to school. I'm attending a real state university where I'm upgrading my Computer Information Systems associate degree to a Computer Science bachelor degree (with both math and business administration as minors).
Real universities will have fully stocked computer labs. Many are Microsoft or Cisco affiliated training partners so if you want to get the enterprise software (Exchange, IIS, MOM) or have a lab full of nice Catalyst routers to play with they are the place to go.
Most human resources people will perk up at an accredited university on a resume than someplace like Learning Tree or Global Knowledge.
Windows Policy Editor was used for the 9x/Me series.
Starting with Windows 2000, admins have access to "Group Policy". Essentially, any user interface setting -- and most system settings -- can be controlled via this either on the local machine or remotely.
Group Policy kicks ass. You can completely lock down a machine so that cmd.exe doesn't work no matter what and the only.exe's that do work are the ones you specify. You can let the user specify their Display preferences, but nothing else. Or everything except the Display preferences. The point is, Linux has nothing to compare with this.
The fact is, under Windows 2000 (and XP), administrators have never had an easier time setting up, controlling, troubleshooting, and fixing a user's desktop. If Linux had anything to easier to compare to this I'd be using it (admins being essentially lazy).
At length, I've evaluated Redhat, Suse, Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X. (At length means ~40 hours on each setting up desktops and administrative consoles and testing things out.)
I have many Redhat machines running on servers at work. I have a Yellow Dog machine running my web site and email and OpenBSD running my router at home.
The FACT is no one has a better way to administrate and trouble-shoot end-user desktops than Microsoft right now.
Get a $30-$50 home safe to keep onsite backups in. Most are fireproof for about 45 minutes. They are usually also waterproof. I don't know how well they'd stand up to your house colapsing on them.
Get a safe deposit box at your bank to keep offsite backups in. Most banks offer these to their members for free or a reasonable rate -- much cheaper than mailing tapes or disks. I keep my monthly backups there. Once a month rides the line between "current enough" and "so often it's annoying so I don't do it like I should".
With all we now understand about biology, and with the incredible advances working with "stuff" on the molecular scale, how long until we are really building single-celled organisms from scratch?
What they are doing here looks like its not totally from scratch. They are taking an already existing shell and then putting some other stuff in there and seeing if it comes to life.
This is very cool, but really a stepping stone to "life from scratch". How long? 5 years, 10?
I guess I'm the only person here who doesn't think the Segway has been overhyped.
This is an incredible product that realistically could change have a big impact on the way cities are planned and the way lives are lived.
The grumps who are wailing "what about us poor schmoes on the sidewalks" haven't taken a close look at the thing or thought about it very hard.
Barelling down the sidewalk at 17mph is like running full-bore. Whether you are traveling that speed on foot or on a seque it is still poor social ettiquette. People don't drive their cars 80mph down 25mph residential streets. Why will they start to careen down sidewalks?
I could see cities bolstering their bike-police force. It's no problem for a reasonably healthly person to bike at least 17mph. They'll help enforce safe sidewalk laws.
Well, that's looking at the social aspects of the machine.
Looking at it as a geek I'm in total-fucking-awe of what they've done. They've simulated the inner-ear for all intents and purposes. The machine is rugged, polution free (ignoring manufacturing wastes), and it is really reasonably priced. I'm willing to bet in a year or so these will be available for ~$2000. That's only slightly higher than the price of a decent road, mountain, or commuter bike.
I saw Dean Kamen a couple weeks back. He was up in North Dakota for one of our Technology Conferences. He focused more on his pet project of more, better science and math education but he did have a seque along. I came away convinced the seque could be a year-round commuter vehicle in our larger cities. If it's good enough for North Dakota in the winter it's damn well good enough for the rest of the country year round.
To me, $15 is very reasonable for music of this quality.
BTW, a couple other cool things about CD Baby is they are an all Open Source shop: no Microsoft with OpenBSD, MySQL, PHP, and Apache running the website. They have a great privacy policy, and treat your CC# like every business should. Check 'em out.
I got an iBook for my wife. It's an early Dual USB with a 500MHz G3, 128MB RAM, and only a regular CD-ROM. I have it running OS 9.1 until my copy of OS X 10.2 arrives. (I'm setting up wireless this weekend).
I didn't mean to, but I've fallen in love with the thing. I have a PII 266 running Windows 2000 as my main machine and a P120 running Redhat 7.2 as my network server at home. At work I'm a sysadmin with several GHz+ machines running various systems.
It certainly knocks the socks off any of the IBM, Dell, and Gateway laptops we have at work. My wife loves it as a desktop replacement even though the screen is a little small.
I can't even really explain why the iBook is so much better. The aesthetic is certainly part of it: the machine looks beautiful. But it is also nice to use. I don't fight with it to get things set up. Software installation is so easy I just about shit my pants while reinstalling the OS and installing Office. As a whole it just feels better than Win32 or Linux. OS9 and Office 2k1 "feel" smoother and better than Windows and Office 2k.
I definetly don't notice the 500MHz as being too slow and haven't heard any complaints from my wife. It's great for the games she plays on it, and definetly more than enough for photo editing, tune ripping and mixing, and the web browsing she does. Having a faster, newer model would be nice, but I don't think not having a G4 is limiting by any means.
So my wife is happy she has her own computer to use, and that it is so much better to use than Windows 2000 was. I've fallen in love with Apple, and my next machine will probably be a PowerMac tower to replace my Windows box or a Xserve to replace my RedHat box.
It's the best record store I've found anywhere. It's full of independent artists in every genre you could want. They have a sweet feature where you search for a band you like, say Limp Bizkit or POD, and it gives you independent artists like Stink!#Bug or Burning Edge. All the albums for sale have at least half of their tracks available to listen to before you buy.
If you aren't happy you can send your CD back for a full refund.
They even have a wide selection of jazz and classical performances.
I guess the artists get a pretty fat percentage of the profits from the CD. Much more than they would get if they were signed with a major label.
I'm not affiliated with CD Baby in anyway except as a very happy customer. Super happy. Happy happy happy. I've never been so happy about my relationship with a business.
If you are like me, you love music but don't support the rape of artists by major labels. CD Baby is the best place I've found to satisfy my cravings for great tunes. All of the CDs I've purchased from them played on my computer just fine, and ripped to ogg with no problems.
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My Red Exclamation Mark has been lighting up much more frequently in the past couple months than my Automatic Update Icon.
Just an observation.
You can buy the book directly from the publisher ($34.95): http://www.sitepoint.com/books/
The home page of SitePoint has a lot of articles on planning, designing, and coding (client- and server-side) for the web.
There's even a picture of the pretty-boy author.
The leaders of national governments, even third-world governments, are not stupid. (Note: being corrupt is not the same as being stupid.)
A national leader who listens to the BSA lobby with this will be able to see through it for what it is.
Those leaders may decide to tighten IP laws anyway for a number reasons: kickbacks from American and European industry members, threats of tariffs or sanctions, pressure from internal industry, etc., etc. It's not going to happen because of heavy-handed, rather obvious efforts like this study.
April Fools Day is not a license to get stoned before noon.
Absolutely. #1 in my DVD collection's "Underappreciated Personal Favorite" stack.
The whole film feels tight, like one wrong word or a sideways glance and everything goes BOOM!
The soundtrack is excellent, the fight-scenes are original, and the acting is fun and superb.
BTW, #2 in that stack is Ronin. The car chases through France are jaw-dropping.
What issue exists with running as root on a PDA? It seems like a non-issue to me.
I mean it's a PDA: personal digital assistant. It's not like it's a multi-user workstation or an network server. Why wouldn't I just run as root?
I ran Yellow Dog 2.3 for a long time on my Apple PowerMac 9600/200MP.
It was a good, solid OS, though I haven't used it since I rolled my own LFS-style. It was very similar to the Redhat 7.2 distro I have running on a workstation at work. It blew away OS 7.5 (which came on the 9600) and OS 9 (which is the highest version the 9600 can run).
For people wondering why do this when OS X is so pretty: I'd say Yellow Dog is an excellent solution to pre-Blue & White PowerMac OS needs. OS X won't run on most systems made before that and even B&Ws, original iMacs, and iBooks system will run faster with Yellow-Dog than OS X.
Also, Yellow Dog runs on many PowerPC platforms other than Apple. It's a breath of fresh air to pick up a non-wintel platform on eBay for a couple bucks and be able to run such a powerful, modern operating system.
It's definitive, not definite.
Good god.
Safari desparately needs tabs because moving between open, maximized windows is so clunky in OSX.
isn't that people are marketing this stuff in their blog. It is Dr. Pepper providing gear for their efforts.
Most people walk around happy to sport logos everywhere: their t-shirts, shoes, cars, computers (or computer components). They actually pay for the privilege. Why anyone would be surprised or upset about the tables being turned, I don't understand.
Product placement in our entertainment is everywhere and will become even more prevelent as traditional marketing becomes less effective. I view blogs as primarily entertainment and was frankly expecting this.
BTW, anyone see the Ford Focus car chase in Alias? I had to turn it off when they zoomed in for a lingering shot on the Focus' logo. Blech.
What keeps America or Britain or Germany or Russia or China ticking?
Not in the literal "atomic clock" sense. How is it that America's government is still functioning when a majority of its "democratic" populace didn't vote for its leader? Judging by the past few weeks/years of protests, the other countries don't really care for their "elected" leaders either.
How can so few people hold so much sway over so many people?
Mayber I should take more PoliSci courses (just a poor CompSci major typing here!), but that the human populace can function at all, given the variety of personalities and prejudices, I consider a miracle.
In fact, I think that Venezuala is one country that is acting the way things are supposed to go!
Did anyone else think the article was about Islam's holy city suffering urban sprawl after first reading the title?
Maybe it's just me...
This isn't going to show what's popular in our Culture. It's going to show what's popular in the web logging sub-culture.
I doubt there's that much of an overlap that the latter is an indicator for the former.
Google's Zeitgeist is a much better tool since it's analyzing what the general web populace is looking for. I think that would be a more accurate indicator of current web culture trends.
Still, neither are good indicators for our culture as a whole since they only reflect the interests of those who have ready access to a computer. The Zeitgeist is getting better all the time as more and more come online.
Tomba! and its sequals are fantastic side scrollers on the Playstation platform.
They can be a little hard to find, even on eBay, but they are totally worth it. Tomba! is definetly in my top 20 on the Playstation.
I'm very tempted by this. My current PDA is the original 2MB Handspring Visor which my life has come to depend upon. I'm in the market for a replacement because I'm running out of room for my appointments, contacts, and notes.
My requirements for my new PDA are that it supports compact flash (I have tons of these cards for my and my wife's mp3 players, digital camera, and removable storage for her iBook), have more than 2MB memory (at least 8mb), have a battery life that will get me through an 8-5 workday (~3-4 hours of use before recharge), and have a usability that is at least close to that of the Palm platform (everything just works very quickly).
My wishlist items include built-in or available Wi-Fi, twice my required battery life, and a built-in MP3 player (one-less digital lifestyle device).
I think these are reasonable expectations for a modern PDA. I speculate many, many PDA owners and potential PDA owners would agree with these.
My choice up until I read this review was the Toshiba e740. It's tiny & light, accepts compact flash, has more than 2mb memory, has acceptable battery life, comes with built-in Wi-Fi (that can very easily be switched between my home and work setups), and can play MP3s.
This review made me think twice, but I'll still be buying the Toshiba when my company's next buying cycle comes around. Why?
The Zaurus gets some credentials for running on linux and having a sweet form-factor with a usable, built-on keyboard. The Pocket PC operating system is much closer to just working than the Linux version (though Pocket PC doesn't work well with my Linux & Mac desktops at home). I can get the Toshiba brand new for half the price of the Zaurus. The Zaurus doesn't offer anything to make up for the price difference. The cool form-factor is moot because the Toshiba is smaller and lighter.
Nothing else in the market comes close to the e740 except for this Zaurus. The e704 was released last June! I can't believe making a good PDA is so hard. Are there really that few EE's, embedded system programmers, and UI engineer's that it takes a company 3/4ths of a year to come up with a close, but ultimately inferior product?
Nice try Sharp. Try harder next time.
Man, I love strategy games. I wish there were more turn-based strategy games on PC and consoles.
Advance Wars on the Gameboy Advance absolutely kicks ass. Other than that the genre has been pretty dead for the past few years. I've always liked turn based strategy.
I played Warcraft II and Command & Conquer pretty heavy when they first came out. But after them the genre stagnated and I haven't played any since.
I'm looking forward to this.
Booksense is an association of independent booksellers in the US. It publishes a monthly list called the "Booksense 76" which features the top 76 books recommended by its members.
It's a great source for finding new works and authors regardless of genre. I've never been dissapointed by their recommendations. If you want to branch out to new forms of literature you could do worse than grabbing a copy of the current #1 on the list, regardless of what it is or who it is by.
If you do want to focus just on Science Fiction & Fantasy they have a Top 10 list and a Rediscovered Authors list you should check out.
I faced a similar problem of hitting a wall of advancement and went back to school. I'm attending a real state university where I'm upgrading my Computer Information Systems associate degree to a Computer Science bachelor degree (with both math and business administration as minors).
Real universities will have fully stocked computer labs. Many are Microsoft or Cisco affiliated training partners so if you want to get the enterprise software (Exchange, IIS, MOM) or have a lab full of nice Catalyst routers to play with they are the place to go.
Most human resources people will perk up at an accredited university on a resume than someplace like Learning Tree or Global Knowledge.
Windows Policy Editor was used for the 9x/Me series.
.exe's that do work are the ones you specify. You can let the user specify their Display preferences, but nothing else. Or everything except the Display preferences. The point is, Linux has nothing to compare with this.
Starting with Windows 2000, admins have access to "Group Policy". Essentially, any user interface setting -- and most system settings -- can be controlled via this either on the local machine or remotely.
Group Policy kicks ass. You can completely lock down a machine so that cmd.exe doesn't work no matter what and the only
The fact is, under Windows 2000 (and XP), administrators have never had an easier time setting up, controlling, troubleshooting, and fixing a user's desktop. If Linux had anything to easier to compare to this I'd be using it (admins being essentially lazy).
At length, I've evaluated Redhat, Suse, Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X. (At length means ~40 hours on each setting up desktops and administrative consoles and testing things out.)
I have many Redhat machines running on servers at work. I have a Yellow Dog machine running my web site and email and OpenBSD running my router at home.
The FACT is no one has a better way to administrate and trouble-shoot end-user desktops than Microsoft right now.
Get a $30-$50 home safe to keep onsite backups in. Most are fireproof for about 45 minutes. They are usually also waterproof. I don't know how well they'd stand up to your house colapsing on them.
Get a safe deposit box at your bank to keep offsite backups in. Most banks offer these to their members for free or a reasonable rate -- much cheaper than mailing tapes or disks. I keep my monthly backups there. Once a month rides the line between "current enough" and "so often it's annoying so I don't do it like I should".
With all we now understand about biology, and with the incredible advances working with "stuff" on the molecular scale, how long until we are really building single-celled organisms from scratch?
What they are doing here looks like its not totally from scratch. They are taking an already existing shell and then putting some other stuff in there and seeing if it comes to life.
This is very cool, but really a stepping stone to "life from scratch". How long? 5 years, 10?
I guess I'm the only person here who doesn't think the Segway has been overhyped.
This is an incredible product that realistically could change have a big impact on the way cities are planned and the way lives are lived.
The grumps who are wailing "what about us poor schmoes on the sidewalks" haven't taken a close look at the thing or thought about it very hard.
Barelling down the sidewalk at 17mph is like running full-bore. Whether you are traveling that speed on foot or on a seque it is still poor social ettiquette. People don't drive their cars 80mph down 25mph residential streets. Why will they start to careen down sidewalks?
I could see cities bolstering their bike-police force. It's no problem for a reasonably healthly person to bike at least 17mph. They'll help enforce safe sidewalk laws.
Well, that's looking at the social aspects of the machine.
Looking at it as a geek I'm in total-fucking-awe of what they've done. They've simulated the inner-ear for all intents and purposes. The machine is rugged, polution free (ignoring manufacturing wastes), and it is really reasonably priced. I'm willing to bet in a year or so these will be available for ~$2000. That's only slightly higher than the price of a decent road, mountain, or commuter bike.
I saw Dean Kamen a couple weeks back. He was up in North Dakota for one of our Technology Conferences. He focused more on his pet project of more, better science and math education but he did have a seque along. I came away convinced the seque could be a year-round commuter vehicle in our larger cities. If it's good enough for North Dakota in the winter it's damn well good enough for the rest of the country year round.
To me, $15 is very reasonable for music of this quality.
BTW, a couple other cool things about CD Baby is they are an all Open Source shop: no Microsoft with OpenBSD, MySQL, PHP, and Apache running the website. They have a great privacy policy, and treat your CC# like every business should. Check 'em out.
I got an iBook for my wife. It's an early Dual USB with a 500MHz G3, 128MB RAM, and only a regular CD-ROM. I have it running OS 9.1 until my copy of OS X 10.2 arrives. (I'm setting up wireless this weekend).
I didn't mean to, but I've fallen in love with the thing. I have a PII 266 running Windows 2000 as my main machine and a P120 running Redhat 7.2 as my network server at home. At work I'm a sysadmin with several GHz+ machines running various systems.
It certainly knocks the socks off any of the IBM, Dell, and Gateway laptops we have at work. My wife loves it as a desktop replacement even though the screen is a little small.
I can't even really explain why the iBook is so much better. The aesthetic is certainly part of it: the machine looks beautiful. But it is also nice to use. I don't fight with it to get things set up. Software installation is so easy I just about shit my pants while reinstalling the OS and installing Office. As a whole it just feels better than Win32 or Linux. OS9 and Office 2k1 "feel" smoother and better than Windows and Office 2k.
I definetly don't notice the 500MHz as being too slow and haven't heard any complaints from my wife. It's great for the games she plays on it, and definetly more than enough for photo editing, tune ripping and mixing, and the web browsing she does. Having a faster, newer model would be nice, but I don't think not having a G4 is limiting by any means.
So my wife is happy she has her own computer to use, and that it is so much better to use than Windows 2000 was. I've fallen in love with Apple, and my next machine will probably be a PowerMac tower to replace my Windows box or a Xserve to replace my RedHat box.
I'd like to point everyone to cdbaby.com.
It's the best record store I've found anywhere. It's full of independent artists in every genre you could want. They have a sweet feature where you search for a band you like, say Limp Bizkit or POD, and it gives you independent artists like Stink!#Bug or Burning Edge. All the albums for sale have at least half of their tracks available to listen to before you buy.
If you aren't happy you can send your CD back for a full refund.
They even have a wide selection of jazz and classical performances.
I guess the artists get a pretty fat percentage of the profits from the CD. Much more than they would get if they were signed with a major label.
I'm not affiliated with CD Baby in anyway except as a very happy customer. Super happy. Happy happy happy. I've never been so happy about my relationship with a business.
If you are like me, you love music but don't support the rape of artists by major labels. CD Baby is the best place I've found to satisfy my cravings for great tunes. All of the CDs I've purchased from them played on my computer just fine, and ripped to ogg with no problems.