The Sound of Urchin supports both "tape trading" and the free distribution of everything but their latest work (CD) online.
At first I thought that seemed naive... the songs are gonna get shared, but then it occured to me that the average time it takes to get a "non-hugely popular" track seeded to a P2P network is far less than the amount of time that most new CD's have on a national distributors (Best Buy etc...) store shelf.
Actually I remember something very similar to "air drumsticks" made way back in the day. They were made as childrens toys, but they were basically a set of plastic drumsticks that snapped as you "hit" a beat into the air. I say snapped because they were terrible quality junk, but the idea was there.
Your idea could be completely different of course:)
I get these PC-Chips 810 LMR all on-board (video/audio/lan/modem) mobo's. They aren't great, but they're cheap and they work for Win9x/NT/2000 and Linux (Mandrake 8.0 works just fine). I stocked up our company's testing department with them, and now a client wants an XP compatible product developed. "No problem." we say.
No problem except that the SIS900 ethernet controller on the 810 doesn't have an XP driver. Networking is a must for the project we're developing. I've got five identical test machines that I can't put XP on. There's a spending freeze till the end of the year thanks to the crappy economy and I have to rob production machines to build an XP compatible box. Doh!
You'll note of course that this isn't so much XP's fault as mine for relying on one hardware config for testing.
This guy is great. I remember peacefire.org from back in the day. He helped me fight a censorware install at the schools at which I was teaching. I wonder if he is still selling those groovy t-shirts.
I use Soundforge to tear the audio from the CD. Always burn before encoding to mp3. I use EZ CD Creator for burning. In the case of particularly noisy LPs (or 45s) edit the wav in Soundforge before burning. Surface noise is hard to deal with but "pops" look like big spikes in the wav file. Simply take the pencil tool and level them out. It removes the pop (and kills the eq on that spot but it's so short the listener would be hard pressed to notice).
Now for the time element. After getting my process down, I now spend less than one minute per song including CD burning (but excluding recording time of course).
You could of course mail me the records and I'd be happy to tear them for you and send you back CD's (providing I get to add the vinyl to my collection;)
I'm assuming that they do come up some way to penetrate my firewall. I'm no guru so I wouldn't know what was possible. I run the exact config you describe in the second sentence, and I figured they were gonna use some fragmented packet scan or something that can sneak through.
Ok so lets say they give me some kind of CAT router that allows them to see the machines behind my Linux based firewall. They are going to see exactly one more box -- another firewall that will route the rest of the traffic onto my network. It's a sort of CAT to NAT bridge. To the CAT router it will look like one device. To my network it will look like a gateway. Has it been written yet... well, ok no, but it'll take about a day after the introduction of the CAT device for it the routing software to hit the streets.
Yep barely could. Probably had something to do with the nineteen backgrounded daemons, no RAM, and that wretched 16 bit OS I was running at the time. Mouse movement would cause a stutter in the audio. Copying a file would shut the whole thing up until the file was copied. I'm not saying it was a well configured machine. I was just so impressed by BE's multimedia prowess.
For the record I usually smoke the compressed shit you can get for $30 a quarter around here.
I believe also there's the mp3 stuff. I remember reading that Be licensed the format from the Fraunhofer Institute. I'm not sure what the state of that code is or whether patent issues would get in the way.
Got to admit though the first time I saw that mp3 was the default audio format for Be though I was impressed. I couldn't believe that my 166 which could barely play an mp3 in Windows was playing an mp3 while I encoded another one.
Anyone else remember when l0pht.com used to be the place to find information on Windows vulnerabilities? I see that @stake is one of the 5 security companies announcing this anti-information coalition.
Heh, security through obscurity! That's a good idea that has always worked for Microsoft;)
I started at a small business that needed help with all kinds of different technical areas and then pushed them towards open source OSen as a cost cutting measure. I then moved on to teach high school and then back to a software company that needed hardware/network support.
Perhaps a lateral move inside your education organization from teaching to system administration would be a good idea. I know that in Illinois techies who are also certified teachers are in great demand. I know several classroom teachers who became school district "technical coordinators" at great benefit to their wallets and stress levels. I suspect that you all ready spend some of your time answering less technically savvy teachers' questions. You might as well get paid for it.
Micah
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"and its representatives were level-headed enough during discussions of the Anti-Terrorism Act to offer an amendment that specifically gives copyholders this right to be intruders"
Anyone know the status of this amendment? Did it get tacked onto the bill that passed a few days ago?
On the Who is Sci-Fi? page at scifi.com, you can suggest a celeb for an I am Sci-Fi commercial. I'm getting tired of spamming Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and CmdrTaco from slashdot.org into the form myself. Perhaps y'all could help, and we can get Taco his commercial:)
They're looking for ppl who are "Progressive. High Tech. Exciting. Futuristic. Cutting Edge" That sounds about right. Of course never having met Slashdot's fearless leader, I wouldn't know.
It only takes three seconds to pop his name into the form.
Wouldn't you like to know you helped CmdrTaco complete "the ultimate goal of any human being"?
mcSey921
Free your source and the mass will follow.
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The Sound of Urchin supports both "tape trading" and the free distribution of everything but their latest work (CD) online.
At first I thought that seemed naive... the songs are gonna get shared, but then it occured to me that the average time it takes to get a "non-hugely popular" track seeded to a P2P network is far less than the amount of time that most new CD's have on a national distributors (Best Buy etc...) store shelf.
Isn't the FCC gonna be on their ass?
http://www.grammy.com/news/industry/0425riaa.html
Actually I remember something very similar to "air drumsticks" made way back in the day. They were made as childrens toys, but they were basically a set of plastic drumsticks that snapped as you "hit" a beat into the air. I say snapped because they were terrible quality junk, but the idea was there.
Your idea could be completely different of course:)
I get these PC-Chips 810 LMR all on-board (video/audio/lan/modem) mobo's. They aren't great, but they're cheap and they work for Win9x/NT/2000 and Linux (Mandrake 8.0 works just fine). I stocked up our company's testing department with them, and now a client wants an XP compatible product developed. "No problem." we say.
No problem except that the SIS900 ethernet controller on the 810 doesn't have an XP driver. Networking is a must for the project we're developing. I've got five identical test machines that I can't put XP on. There's a spending freeze till the end of the year thanks to the crappy economy and I have to rob production machines to build an XP compatible box. Doh!
You'll note of course that this isn't so much XP's fault as mine for relying on one hardware config for testing.
'Course a frickin' SIS900 driver would be nice.
This guy is great. I remember peacefire.org from back in the day. He helped me fight a censorware install at the schools at which I was teaching. I wonder if he is still selling those groovy t-shirts.
I use Soundforge to tear the audio from the CD. Always burn before encoding to mp3. I use EZ CD Creator for burning. In the case of particularly noisy LPs (or 45s) edit the wav in Soundforge before burning. Surface noise is hard to deal with but "pops" look like big spikes in the wav file. Simply take the pencil tool and level them out. It removes the pop (and kills the eq on that spot but it's so short the listener would be hard pressed to notice).
Now for the time element. After getting my process down, I now spend less than one minute per song including CD burning (but excluding recording time of course).
You could of course mail me the records and I'd be happy to tear them for you and send you back CD's (providing I get to add the vinyl to my collection;)
The EFF has the Open Music License which is sort of GPL for music license.
I'm assuming that they do come up some way to penetrate my firewall. I'm no guru so I wouldn't know what was possible. I run the exact config you describe in the second sentence, and I figured they were gonna use some fragmented packet scan or something that can sneak through.
Ok so lets say they give me some kind of CAT router that allows them to see the machines behind my Linux based firewall. They are going to see exactly one more box -- another firewall that will route the rest of the traffic onto my network. It's a sort of CAT to NAT bridge. To the CAT router it will look like one device. To my network it will look like a gateway. Has it been written yet... well, ok no, but it'll take about a day after the introduction of the CAT device for it the routing software to hit the streets.
PS isn't penetrating my firewall illegal?
mcsey
For the record I usually smoke the compressed shit you can get for $30 a quarter around here.
I believe also there's the mp3 stuff. I remember reading that Be licensed the format from the Fraunhofer Institute. I'm not sure what the state of that code is or whether patent issues would get in the way.
Got to admit though the first time I saw that mp3 was the default audio format for Be though I was impressed. I couldn't believe that my 166 which could barely play an mp3 in Windows was playing an mp3 while I encoded another one.
Anyone else remember when l0pht.com used to be the place to find information on Windows vulnerabilities? I see that @stake is one of the 5 security companies announcing this anti-information coalition.
Heh, security through obscurity! That's a good idea that has always worked for Microsoft;)
Perhaps a lateral move inside your education organization from teaching to system administration would be a good idea. I know that in Illinois techies who are also certified teachers are in great demand. I know several classroom teachers who became school district "technical coordinators" at great benefit to their wallets and stress levels. I suspect that you all ready spend some of your time answering less technically savvy teachers' questions. You might as well get paid for it.
Micah
Anyone know the status of this amendment? Did it get tacked onto the bill that passed a few days ago?
They're looking for ppl who are "Progressive. High Tech. Exciting. Futuristic. Cutting Edge" That sounds about right. Of course never having met Slashdot's fearless leader, I wouldn't know.
It only takes three seconds to pop his name into the form. Wouldn't you like to know you helped CmdrTaco complete "the ultimate goal of any human being"?
mcSey921
Free your source and the mass will follow.