I also had a similar idea, to keep track of kids (and possibly parents) at shopping malls. At the time, a friend and I couldn't think of a way to get components small enough to make it work. A watch isn't a bad idea, compared to the clip-on device we were thinking about.
Never heard of RadioLover. I used MacAmp before iTunes came along (even registered it!), and I still use it, since the latest I can install on my machine is iTunes 2, and it dies whenever I try to encode something (lucky me I encoded all my cds on an iBook when I had it.)
I was looking at MacAmp the other day, and suddenly a particular part of the interface jumped out at me - a button labeled "Record". Well, wouldn't you know it, I could record streaming audio with it! It records everything as a single, non-segmented.mp3, but I drop that in Toast, and it converts the.mp3 to.aif and I can burn an audio cd in a few minutes.
It's not as nice as StationRipper (which I just found about two days ago), which separates out the songs and includes the track IDs, but separating the tracks isn't so handy when your stream plays station IDs and bumpers and ads for their hosting provider, and does crossfades between tracks.
Dunno if anyone else noticed this, but wireless networking is now STANDARD in the Powerbook line, while you have to spend the extra $100 to get the AirEx card in the iBooks.
I have phone numbers in my whois that don't go to my home phone - they go to The Telemarketer's Nightmare because I sas sick of credit card and health insurance salesmen calling me trying to sell me stuff because they scraped my home number from my whois info. While not *my* number, they ARE valid phone numbers. Everything else in my whois info is legit, so I can be contacted by email or snail mail.
I just signed up for a trial AOL account a few days ago to test it's web browser... anyone know the details on when you needed to be an AOLer to get in on this?
I've got two kids - I'm constantly exposed to a myriad of germs. It's the solid materials IN the keyboard that get to me:p
The other day, I noticed that the spaces between my keys were getting a little dark, so I wedged a sheet of paper in between two rows to scrape out some of the grunge (computer room's in the basement, with the laundry room on the other side of the wall - too much lint dust for my tastes). I had to dig out the screwdrivers and pop off the key covers, because the paper started getting stuck trying to dig out the grunge. I had to strip off most of the keys to get the job done, because some of the grungeballs got wedged under the keys and made typing really spongey.
Anyone know if they fixed this problem yet? I know that back when I was still using osx (way back in the days of 10.2), sometimes you could empty the trash and *lose* free space, while copying / downloading / duping files would *increase* free space.
If you're happy spending $100 a month for a DSL connection that's only 2x as fast as dial-up (like what's available to me, 24k from the CO), then sure.
So I helped my neighbor set up a domain name for their new business. I put myself in as the technical contact. Phone solicitors snarfed my phone number from the whois information and started calling ME trying to sell me stuff for my NEIGHBOR's business. (I'm also getting snail mail for them as well.) So, to at least cut down on the phone calls, I changed the tech contact in the whois to the following number:
617-861-9507
"The Telemarketer's Nightmare", from the fine folks that brought you "The Rejection Hotline".
Now, it's not really MY phone number, but it IS the phone I want them to have, since I don't want them calling me. My email and home address are valid, so I can still be contacted... just not while I'm sitting down to eat dinner with my family. It's a real phone number, and it doesn't mislead anyone - the message tells someone that I don't want them calling me.
I don't have a cell-phone, so I don't even use one to talk to people.
My car is strictly a "get from point A to point B" device, though. Just me, my car, and a pile of old cassette tapes. No CD, no DVD, no XM, no GPS, just AM/FM/cassette goodness.
and I sent it in to be fixed. I dropped it off at the only authorized Apple service center in the area on Wednesday, and got it back Friday afternoon - and yes, they shipped it back to Apple to get it fixed, and yes, they sent me back the same iBook (unless part of their service involves putting all the same dings and chips in a new machine so it looks like the old one). They said it was a problem with the motherboard.
In other words... yeah, the fix is to send it back to Apple to have them take care of it. That's what warranties are all about.
When my son was first born, my Mountain Dew habit went from a few cans a day to a few 2 liters a day (plus a few cans from the school vending machine, plus a Big Gulp on the way home...). After that, I got a job where one of the perks was a soda fountain - all the Pepsi / Coke products you could guzzle, at no charge! Geek heaven, it was... until I realized that not only was I an unbearable bastard on the weekends as I came down off of my buzz, but I'd put on another ten pounds. (My wife later informed me that she was getting ready to leave me, and take the kid with her, because of my non-caffinated attitude problem.)
So after sitting down and thinking about it one day and figuing out that I could cut over 1000(!) calories a day out of my diet by quitting the Dew, and make myself an easier person to be around on top of it, I quit. No coming down gradually, no easing off, I just stopped. In the middle of the week, at that. I made sure to warn those around me about it, to keep them clear of me, and I also made sure to replace the Dew with water - LOTS of water, since I got 90% of my daily fluids from that yellow nectar.
Holy flurking shnitt, did I have a doozy of a headache! Lasted me two days! But by the weekend, I was in pretty good shape. I made a few mistakes after that... like drinking it again about a week after I'd "quit". I got right back on the train with the very first drink; killer headache the next day. It took a few trips like that before I realized I couldn't touch the stuff AT ALL for a LONG time after I'd quit.
So now, 2+ years later, I can hardly stand the taste of Dew - something I thought I'd never say:) I can have the occasional cola and suffer no ill effects the next day. Moderation is the key once you cut the ties. A little taste isn't going to kill you, but I know that if I put down a 2 liter in one sitting, I'd be back on that train again.
Just quit the stuff cold turkey. Your body, and the people around you, will thank you for it.
"Doctor Blair, Doctor Blair... Doctor Hamilton, Doctor J. Hamilton..."
Listen for it in hospital scenes - I heard it in an episode of Arthur that my daughter was watching the other day when someone was in a hospital, it's in a Queensryche song off of Mindcrime, I've heard it on various soaps that the wife watches...
(random groups selected from the family music library...)
Dio: ITMS - three full release albums from Dio (including an album from '96 that I'd never heard about) - no hits from his stints in Deep Purple or Black Sabbath, oddly enough, or any Dio albums as old as what I own WMMS - a "Very Best of Dio" album, and two compilation albums with a track from Dio
Iron Maiden: ITMS - twenty-four albums (including several duplicated "special edition" albums - assuming to be edited) WMMS - also twenty-four albums, but you can see "remastered" and "limited edition remastered" for most of the album names, so the total number of availble albums is lower than at ITMS
Manowar: ITMS - three albums WMMS - Amazingly enough, one album: "Fighting The World". which is also on ITMS
Duran Duran: ITMS - eight full albums, one partial album ITMS also has the only album relased by Arcadia, which was several of the D^2 boys post-band split WMMS - five albums, as well as several compilation album hits WMMS also carries the Arcadia album
Kate Bush: ITMS - four albums, plus one hit on a compilation WMMS - four albums, plus hits on three compilations / soundtracks - wow, Kate Bush is in GTA: Vice City? Who knew?
ABBA (hey, they're the wife's LPs, not mine!): ITMS - fourteen albums WMMS - twenty(!) albums - though the same caveat about "remastered" applies, there were a few albums that ITMS didn't have listed
And, just for testing's sake (and since I'm on a roll), a few things not in the house:
Slayer: ITMS - eight albums, and one hit from a NASCAR album(?) WMMS - two compilation hits - the NASCAR one, and a soundtrack from WCW
Spike Jones: ITMS - three full albums, and three compilation hits WMMS - one album, and three compilation hits
Wu-Tang Clan: ITMS - three full and apparently one partial album, three hits for compliations and soundtracks; slightly less than half of the ITMS tracks were labeled "explicit" WMMS - three albums and one compilation hit, all labeled "edited", none "explicit"
John Denver: ITMS - fifteen full albums, three partial WMMS - umm, a lot - they listed 485 tracks, spread out over 10 screens; I couldn't find an easy way to list all the albums, or even all the tracks on one screen, like you can do with ITMS, so I stopped comparing sites at this point....
So, WMMS beats out ITMS for performers like ABBA and John Denver, while ITMS excels at... most other stuff. Feel free to continue to compare / contrast... I'm going to bed:)
...it ought to be awfully easy to filter spam if it must contain some text (and a link?) about how to opt-out. As long as it's clear what is spam and what is not spam, then the probably is almost completely solved...
Sure, that would be the solution...
if spammers gave a rat's ass about the law in the first place.
Spammers are liars. Spammers are thieves. Spammers are already violating the laws in over 27 US states, as well as several other countries. What makes you think that they're suddenly going to change their ways and abide by a law that's designed to be all but unenforceable (citizens can't sue, only ISPs or state AGs)?
Case in point: last week, I created a mail alias for my university account, and used it for an "unsubscribe" link in a spam that I received. (Also known as "opting out", even though that alias wasn't opted IN to anything in the first place.) Today, that alias got it's first spam.
I'm actually surprised that it took so long. The site spamvertized is in.to, DNS and hosting is in.ch, and NO info kicks back from SamSpade about who registered the domain (if anyone can dig up info on beam.to, I'd appreciate it).
Do you really think that a spammer like this is going to suddenly identify himself just because the US passed an anti-spam law?
Right now, on a good cable connection, it takes about 30-45 minutes to download a good quality mpeg4 version movie (at 700Kbs).
Well, for starters, good luck getting a 700K connection on throttled cable connections, and second - what good does offering movies that take a half hour to download at ludicrous speed(tm) do for the rest of the world (like the 80% or so in the States) that still have to use dialup? It might take those people 10 minutes just to download an mp3 - you think they're gonna sit around all night waiting to download a movie?
I've been looking for a *nix to run on an old 7200 that I got for free, and was about to settle on Debian. YDL hadn't even occured to me, since I didn't think it went that far back. Now that I know that YDL will run on my old box, I'm snarfing it down and seeing what will happen.
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A shame they couldn't actually put him away as a spammer, though.
I also had a similar idea, to keep track of kids (and possibly parents) at shopping malls. At the time, a friend and I couldn't think of a way to get components small enough to make it work. A watch isn't a bad idea, compared to the clip-on device we were thinking about.
I tried stream ripping using RadioLover on a Mac.
.mp3, but I drop that in Toast, and it converts the .mp3 to .aif and I can burn an audio cd in a few minutes.
Never heard of RadioLover. I used MacAmp before iTunes came along (even registered it!), and I still use it, since the latest I can install on my machine is iTunes 2, and it dies whenever I try to encode something (lucky me I encoded all my cds on an iBook when I had it.)
I was looking at MacAmp the other day, and suddenly a particular part of the interface jumped out at me - a button labeled "Record". Well, wouldn't you know it, I could record streaming audio with it! It records everything as a single, non-segmented
It's not as nice as StationRipper (which I just found about two days ago), which separates out the songs and includes the track IDs, but separating the tracks isn't so handy when your stream plays station IDs and bumpers and ads for their hosting provider, and does crossfades between tracks.
Providing any of these folks resurrect their accounts:
Kim Justice (wrote Megatokyo-inspired songs).
Rick Richards (audio available here).
Prototype (audio available here as well).
Dunno if anyone else noticed this, but wireless networking is now STANDARD in the Powerbook line, while you have to spend the extra $100 to get the AirEx card in the iBooks.
I have phone numbers in my whois that don't go to my home phone - they go to The Telemarketer's Nightmare because I sas sick of credit card and health insurance salesmen calling me trying to sell me stuff because they scraped my home number from my whois info. While not *my* number, they ARE valid phone numbers. Everything else in my whois info is legit, so I can be contacted by email or snail mail.
I just signed up for a trial AOL account a few days ago to test it's web browser... anyone know the details on when you needed to be an AOLer to get in on this?
I've got two kids - I'm constantly exposed to a myriad of germs. It's the solid materials IN the keyboard that get to me :p
The other day, I noticed that the spaces between my keys were getting a little dark, so I wedged a sheet of paper in between two rows to scrape out some of the grunge (computer room's in the basement, with the laundry room on the other side of the wall - too much lint dust for my tastes). I had to dig out the screwdrivers and pop off the key covers, because the paper started getting stuck trying to dig out the grunge. I had to strip off most of the keys to get the job done, because some of the grungeballs got wedged under the keys and made typing really spongey.
Anyone know if they fixed this problem yet? I know that back when I was still using osx (way back in the days of 10.2), sometimes you could empty the trash and *lose* free space, while copying / downloading / duping files would *increase* free space.
As the position I've held for the last 8 months is "unemployed", I'd be changing positions with unmitigated glee.
Wonder what it'll cost to get a line run up to Ann Arbor / Ypsi from Cincy? :)
If you have phone lines you can use DSL.
If you're happy spending $100 a month for a DSL connection that's only 2x as fast as dial-up (like what's available to me, 24k from the CO), then sure.
The BBC would be all over them like white on rice.
:)
Heck, they oughta just call it "Rassilon" and at least get some more press out of it
So I helped my neighbor set up a domain name for their new business. I put myself in as the technical contact. Phone solicitors snarfed my phone number from the whois information and started calling ME trying to sell me stuff for my NEIGHBOR's business. (I'm also getting snail mail for them as well.) So, to at least cut down on the phone calls, I changed the tech contact in the whois to the following number:
617-861-9507
"The Telemarketer's Nightmare", from the fine folks that brought you "The Rejection Hotline".
Now, it's not really MY phone number, but it IS the phone I want them to have, since I don't want them calling me. My email and home address are valid, so I can still be contacted... just not while I'm sitting down to eat dinner with my family. It's a real phone number, and it doesn't mislead anyone - the message tells someone that I don't want them calling me.
I've got you one better, Prof:
I don't have a cell-phone, so I don't even use one to talk to people.
My car is strictly a "get from point A to point B" device, though. Just me, my car, and a pile of old cassette tapes. No CD, no DVD, no XM, no GPS, just AM/FM/cassette goodness.
and I sent it in to be fixed. I dropped it off at the only authorized Apple service center in the area on Wednesday, and got it back Friday afternoon - and yes, they shipped it back to Apple to get it fixed, and yes, they sent me back the same iBook (unless part of their service involves putting all the same dings and chips in a new machine so it looks like the old one). They said it was a problem with the motherboard.
In other words... yeah, the fix is to send it back to Apple to have them take care of it. That's what warranties are all about.
who would buy 1/4 the capacity of a regular ipod for only $50 less?
The person that was going to buy that 256 meg Rio doodad for $199, perhaps...
Until CAN_SPAM goes into effect...
...can get their case thrown out of court, like what happened this week.
You mean, like back on January 1st?
Virginia (where AOL is based) has one of the more agressive anti-spam laws in the country and AOL...
That's how you beat it.
:) I can have the occasional cola and suffer no ill effects the next day. Moderation is the key once you cut the ties. A little taste isn't going to kill you, but I know that if I put down a 2 liter in one sitting, I'd be back on that train again.
When my son was first born, my Mountain Dew habit went from a few cans a day to a few 2 liters a day (plus a few cans from the school vending machine, plus a Big Gulp on the way home...). After that, I got a job where one of the perks was a soda fountain - all the Pepsi / Coke products you could guzzle, at no charge! Geek heaven, it was... until I realized that not only was I an unbearable bastard on the weekends as I came down off of my buzz, but I'd put on another ten pounds. (My wife later informed me that she was getting ready to leave me, and take the kid with her, because of my non-caffinated attitude problem.)
So after sitting down and thinking about it one day and figuing out that I could cut over 1000(!) calories a day out of my diet by quitting the Dew, and make myself an easier person to be around on top of it, I quit. No coming down gradually, no easing off, I just stopped. In the middle of the week, at that. I made sure to warn those around me about it, to keep them clear of me, and I also made sure to replace the Dew with water - LOTS of water, since I got 90% of my daily fluids from that yellow nectar.
Holy flurking shnitt, did I have a doozy of a headache! Lasted me two days! But by the weekend, I was in pretty good shape. I made a few mistakes after that... like drinking it again about a week after I'd "quit". I got right back on the train with the very first drink; killer headache the next day. It took a few trips like that before I realized I couldn't touch the stuff AT ALL for a LONG time after I'd quit.
So now, 2+ years later, I can hardly stand the taste of Dew - something I thought I'd never say
Just quit the stuff cold turkey. Your body, and the people around you, will thank you for it.
"Doctor Blair, Doctor Blair... Doctor Hamilton, Doctor J. Hamilton..."
Listen for it in hospital scenes - I heard it in an episode of Arthur that my daughter was watching the other day when someone was in a hospital, it's in a Queensryche song off of Mindcrime, I've heard it on various soaps that the wife watches...
(random groups selected from the family music library...)
....
:)
Dio:
ITMS - three full release albums from Dio (including an album from '96 that I'd never heard about) - no hits from his stints in Deep Purple or Black Sabbath, oddly enough, or any Dio albums as old as what I own
WMMS - a "Very Best of Dio" album, and two compilation albums with a track from Dio
Iron Maiden:
ITMS - twenty-four albums (including several duplicated "special edition" albums - assuming to be edited)
WMMS - also twenty-four albums, but you can see "remastered" and "limited edition remastered" for most of the album names, so the total number of availble albums is lower than at ITMS
Manowar:
ITMS - three albums
WMMS - Amazingly enough, one album: "Fighting The World". which is also on ITMS
Duran Duran:
ITMS - eight full albums, one partial album
ITMS also has the only album relased by Arcadia, which was several of the D^2 boys post-band split
WMMS - five albums, as well as several compilation album hits
WMMS also carries the Arcadia album
Kate Bush:
ITMS - four albums, plus one hit on a compilation
WMMS - four albums, plus hits on three compilations / soundtracks - wow, Kate Bush is in GTA: Vice City? Who knew?
ABBA (hey, they're the wife's LPs, not mine!):
ITMS - fourteen albums
WMMS - twenty(!) albums - though the same caveat about "remastered" applies, there were a few albums that ITMS didn't have listed
And, just for testing's sake (and since I'm on a roll), a few things not in the house:
Slayer:
ITMS - eight albums, and one hit from a NASCAR album(?)
WMMS - two compilation hits - the NASCAR one, and a soundtrack from WCW
Spike Jones:
ITMS - three full albums, and three compilation hits
WMMS - one album, and three compilation hits
Wu-Tang Clan:
ITMS - three full and apparently one partial album, three hits for compliations and soundtracks; slightly less than half of the ITMS tracks were labeled "explicit"
WMMS - three albums and one compilation hit, all labeled "edited", none "explicit"
John Denver:
ITMS - fifteen full albums, three partial
WMMS - umm, a lot - they listed 485 tracks, spread out over 10 screens; I couldn't find an easy way to list all the albums, or even all the tracks on one screen, like you can do with ITMS, so I stopped comparing sites at this point
So, WMMS beats out ITMS for performers like ABBA and John Denver, while ITMS excels at... most other stuff. Feel free to continue to compare / contrast... I'm going to bed
...it ought to be awfully easy to filter spam if it must contain some text (and a link?) about how to opt-out. As long as it's clear what is spam and what is not spam, then the probably is almost completely solved...
.to, DNS and hosting is in .ch, and NO info kicks back from SamSpade about who registered the domain (if anyone can dig up info on beam.to, I'd appreciate it).
Sure, that would be the solution...
if spammers gave a rat's ass about the law in the first place.
Spammers are liars. Spammers are thieves. Spammers are already violating the laws in over 27 US states, as well as several other countries. What makes you think that they're suddenly going to change their ways and abide by a law that's designed to be all but unenforceable (citizens can't sue, only ISPs or state AGs)?
Case in point: last week, I created a mail alias for my university account, and used it for an "unsubscribe" link in a spam that I received. (Also known as "opting out", even though that alias wasn't opted IN to anything in the first place.) Today, that alias got it's first spam.
I'm actually surprised that it took so long. The site spamvertized is in
Do you really think that a spammer like this is going to suddenly identify himself just because the US passed an anti-spam law?
Right now, on a good cable connection, it takes about 30-45 minutes to download a good quality mpeg4 version movie (at 700Kbs).
Well, for starters, good luck getting a 700K connection on throttled cable connections, and second - what good does offering movies that take a half hour to download at ludicrous speed(tm) do for the rest of the world (like the 80% or so in the States) that still have to use dialup? It might take those people 10 minutes just to download an mp3 - you think they're gonna sit around all night waiting to download a movie?
Hmm... I'll have to keep that in mind the next time I order DSL for this place (if there is a next time).
I've been looking for a *nix to run on an old 7200 that I got for free, and was about to settle on Debian. YDL hadn't even occured to me, since I didn't think it went that far back. Now that I know that YDL will run on my old box, I'm snarfing it down and seeing what will happen.