One thing I've thought of - What's to stop you from buying songs from the Apple music store, burning them to normal *audio* CDs, then re-ripping them to AAC or MP3 without the associated copy protection?
Sure, you'll lose a bit of quality, but that would seem to be the way to do it.. Did this for a friend who bought an audiobook from audible.com, and wanted it as un-protected MP3s.. Had him burn an audio CD, then ripped it back to MP3..
After doing extensive research on the subject, and looking at tons of stuff that was available, I ended up plunking down $250 last November on a Sharper Image Ionic Breeze, the "Compact" Quadra version.
It hasnt completely reduced dust in our hosehold (we have unstained, un-sealed concrete floors, which are the #1 culprit, plus three cats), but its done an incredible job of keeping nicotine stains off everything in the computer room (my wife smokes). I put it next to her desk, and clean the "blades" every 3-4 days with a handi-wipe.
Definitely worth the money, but they're not the perfect solution for everyone. I'll probably be buying a refurbished full-size version from their online store or eBay soon (I dont see paying full retail price again).
Beware of stuff that is just negative ion/ozone generators - TOO MUCH ozone can be *really* bad for your health. The Ionic Breeze units put out a TINY amount (your laser printer, for example, probably puts out 10x as much), and the amount it puts out is well under federal health and safety standards.
by John Ringo (in order): "A Hymn Before Battle" "When the Devil Dances" "Gust Front"
and by Kage Baker (again, in order): "In the Garden of Iden" "Sky Coyote" "Mendoza in Hollywood" (unfortunately, the fourth, "Graveyard Game", is
out of print; I'd kill for a copy!)
I'm also reading Cory Doctorow's stuff.
Last night, I read (online) "The Metamorphasis of Prime Intellect", by Roger Williams. <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/">yo u can find it here.</a>.
In the episode he yells "FAAGS!" and everyone walks on down the road. Then, two of the kids go back to play Harry Potter with the kids they passed, and Cartman grumbles "harry butthole pussy potter!".
What do you do about it? You dont. Use the college high-speed access for education, not trading music and warez. Its their network, they have the right to restrict access to/from it as neccessary to allow proper use (according to their terms and conditions).
If you dont like it, get an off-campus apartment and cablemodem/DSL.
(Young whippersnapapers these days; when *I* was in college I was *GRATEFUL* to have a 1200/2400 baud dialup, text-only, to the VAX...) 8-)
Maybe Lance Bass from N'Sync can afford this, since he doesnt seem to be able to pay his bill to the Russians on time... He can sit in the chair and make rocket noises...
Yeah, what Sean said - USB (1.0) is *slow*. When I've got 2.6G of MP3s to copy to a device, ~1megabyte/sec is too slow.
Plus, the Nomad tends to crash both itself and iTunes (requiring a reboot of the Nomad, and force quit/restart of iTunes) if I try to copy more than 10-15 songs by highlighting them and drag/dropping. I've updated the firmware on the Nomad, but it hasnt helped.
If I had bought the Nomad, I would have bought an iPod instead. 8-) But, it was a gift....
"Casady & Greene, Inc. ceased publication of SoundJam MP on June 1, 2001 at the request of its developers. We believe that SoundJam MP will continue to give our customers long and useful service, and, in keeping with our philosophy of putting our customers first, Casady & Greene will continue to offer tech support to SoundJam MP owners. The SoundJam development team is now working for Apple on their popular iTunes jukebox software, and will continue to work on exciting and innovative products for Mac use"
iTunes is actually just SoundJam MP. Apple licensed it and modified the look/functionality a bit. So, just get SoundJam MP for Windows (if it exists).
I was very happy about this - I run OS X fulltime, and was recently given one of the original Creative Nomad 6G MP3 jukeboxes. The bundled software was SoundJam MP, but for OS9. I hooked up the Nomad (USB, ugh), fired up iTunes, and it recognized it right away and I could drag/drop MP3s from my library to it.
>"Prakash drew inspiration for the company from the sci-fi novel A Fire Upon The Deep, by Stanford computer science professor, >Vernon Ving, who wrote about a router the size of a planet "that could filter spam," Prakash said. "
Even on machines we *dont* have support contracts on (e.g., on a "time and materials" basis), our rep has always said "So, got all the media you need?" and so forth. I think the only people who *really* care about enforcing licenses at Sun are the people who are *selling* the licenses. Everyone else takes the attitude of "Even if its not officially license for that machine, at least its not a Windows-based server".
I havent seen anyone mention yet that there is no actual license enforcement in Solaris 8/9; there's nothing to keep you from buying Solaris 9 and installing it on a machine with any number of CPUs. Sure, you're breaking license terms, but its not going to ask you for license keys or stop working.
I've worked in a number of large Solaris shops, and never ONCE has a Sun sales droid or FE/SE asked about licenses. We spend $$$ on systems and support contracts; they dont bicker about petty things like per-CPU licenses for the operating system.
I've got some reader reports about the Sol9 licensing issue on my web site, SunHELP.
You wont be getting any BeBox parts, I can almost guarantee you that. I had a BeBox back in '98 that was missing the plastic "diffuser cover" from one of the LED CPU meters, and *nobody* (not even
people @ Be, who were very helpful in looking) had spare parts. Emails from people @Be indicated that most all of their people had switched to BeOS/Intel, and there were no spare parts for the BeBoxen left - and this was 1998.
I cant beleive that nobody has mentioned Dale Brown's excellent book from a few years ago,
"Flight of the Old Dog", about a re-worked and updated B-52, called the
"Megafortress". Basically, they turned a B-52 into one HUGE *stealth bomber*, with updated electronics, weapons, carbon fiber wings, etc.
A great book, and worth checking out, as well as the sequels.
Probably CHARON-11, or its "brother", CHARON-VAX. Neat full-quality emulators for the older platforms, and they have hobbyist versions available to play with.
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One thing I've thought of -
What's to stop you from buying songs from the Apple music store, burning them to normal *audio* CDs, then re-ripping them to AAC or MP3 without the associated copy protection?
Sure, you'll lose a bit of quality, but that would seem to be the way to do it.. Did this for a friend who bought an audiobook from audible.com, and wanted it as un-protected MP3s.. Had him burn an audio CD, then ripped it back to MP3..
After doing extensive research on the subject, and looking at tons of stuff that was available, I ended up plunking down $250 last November on a Sharper Image Ionic Breeze, the "Compact" Quadra version.
It hasnt completely reduced dust in our hosehold (we have unstained, un-sealed concrete floors, which are the #1 culprit, plus three cats), but its done an incredible job of keeping nicotine stains off everything in the computer room (my wife smokes). I put it next to her desk, and clean the "blades" every 3-4 days with a handi-wipe.
Definitely worth the money, but they're not the perfect solution for everyone. I'll probably be buying a refurbished full-size version from their online store or eBay soon (I dont see paying full retail price again).
Beware of stuff that is just negative ion/ozone generators - TOO MUCH ozone can be *really* bad for your health. The Ionic Breeze units put out a TINY amount (your laser printer, for example, probably puts out 10x as much), and the amount it puts out is well under federal health and safety standards.
I've been reading lately:
o u can find it here.</a>.
by John Ringo (in order):
"A Hymn Before Battle"
"When the Devil Dances"
"Gust Front"
and by Kage Baker (again, in order):
"In the Garden of Iden"
"Sky Coyote"
"Mendoza in Hollywood"
(unfortunately, the fourth, "Graveyard Game", is
out of print; I'd kill for a copy!)
I'm also reading Cory Doctorow's stuff.
Last night, I read (online) "The Metamorphasis of
Prime Intellect", by Roger Williams. <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/">y
It comes preinstalled on Macs that *do not* have the internal DVD-ROM as well; it was on my new dual-867 G4 purchased on Christmas Eve.
Wont work unless you have an internal (connected to the IDE bus) DVD-ROM drive, though.
Its just more of Theo whining. If he wants the info, he should sign the NDA and have a nice cup of shut the fuck up.
In the episode he yells "FAAGS!" and everyone walks on down the road. Then, two of the kids go back to play Harry Potter with the kids they passed, and Cartman grumbles "harry butthole pussy potter!".
BEST EPISODE EVAR.
What do you do about it? You dont. Use the college high-speed access for education, not trading music and warez. Its their network, they have the right to restrict access to/from it as neccessary to allow proper use (according to their terms and conditions).
If you dont like it, get an off-campus apartment and cablemodem/DSL.
(Young whippersnapapers these days; when *I* was in college I was *GRATEFUL* to have a 1200/2400 baud dialup, text-only, to the VAX...) 8-)
Maybe Lance Bass from N'Sync can afford this, since he doesnt seem to be able to pay his bill to the Russians on time... He can sit in the chair and make rocket noises...
Looks like alt.wesley-crusher.die.die.die finally achieved its goal. 8-)
Yeah, what Sean said - USB (1.0) is *slow*. When I've got 2.6G of MP3s to copy to a device, ~1megabyte/sec is too slow.
Plus, the Nomad tends to crash both itself and iTunes (requiring a reboot of the Nomad, and force quit/restart of iTunes) if I try to copy more than 10-15 songs by highlighting them and drag/dropping. I've updated the firmware on the Nomad, but it hasnt helped.
If I had bought the Nomad, I would have bought an iPod instead. 8-) But, it was a gift....
Whoops, I just checked (www.soundjam.com):
"Casady & Greene, Inc. ceased publication of SoundJam MP on June 1, 2001 at the request of its developers. We believe that SoundJam MP will continue to give our customers long and useful service, and, in keeping with our philosophy of putting our customers first, Casady & Greene will continue to offer tech support to SoundJam MP owners. The SoundJam development team is now working for Apple on their popular iTunes jukebox software, and will continue to work on exciting and innovative products for Mac use"
iTunes is actually just SoundJam MP. Apple licensed it and modified the look/functionality a bit. So, just get SoundJam MP for Windows (if it exists).
I was very happy about this - I run OS X fulltime, and was recently given one of the original Creative Nomad 6G MP3 jukeboxes. The bundled software was SoundJam MP, but for OS9. I hooked up the Nomad (USB, ugh), fired up iTunes, and it recognized it right away and I could drag/drop MP3s from my library to it.
Exactly. The mod chips werent the problem, the fact that he was selling pirated games and advertising mod chips that made them playable, was.
If you read the article, he was also selling a line of 417 different *pirated games*.
If he didnt know *that* was illegal, he's full of it.
Yes, but can we trust the software update to software update? 8-)
>"Prakash drew inspiration for the company from the sci-fi novel A Fire Upon The Deep, by Stanford computer science professor,
>Vernon Ving, who wrote about a router the size of a planet "that could filter spam," Prakash said. "
Wow, I bet Vernor Vinge is happy about that one!
Even on machines we *dont* have support contracts on (e.g., on a "time and materials" basis), our rep has always said "So, got all the media you need?" and so forth. I think the only people who *really* care about enforcing licenses at Sun are the people who are *selling* the licenses. Everyone else takes the attitude of "Even if its not officially license for that machine, at least its not a Windows-based server".
I've worked in a number of large Solaris shops, and never ONCE has a Sun sales droid or FE/SE asked about licenses. We spend $$$ on systems and support contracts; they dont bicker about petty things like per-CPU licenses for the operating system.
I've got some reader reports about the Sol9 licensing issue on my web site, SunHELP.
I keep telling our head admin that we need to go back and relabel our Alpha servers ilke this:
DIGITAL logo (crossed out)
COMPAQ logo (crossed out)
HP logo (in crayon)
Heck, I've gotten enough enjoyment and such from reading Slashdot over the past few years, thats its worth it to me. Just paid my $20.
Heck, I have a G4 Cube I'll swap for one. 8-)
the clients, or the desktops?
You wont be getting any BeBox parts, I can almost guarantee you that. I had a BeBox back in '98 that was missing the plastic "diffuser cover" from one of the LED CPU meters, and *nobody* (not even
people @ Be, who were very helpful in looking) had spare parts. Emails from people @Be indicated that most all of their people had switched to BeOS/Intel, and there were no spare parts for the BeBoxen left - and this was 1998.
I cant beleive that nobody has mentioned Dale Brown's excellent book from a few years ago, "Flight of the Old Dog", about a re-worked and updated B-52, called the "Megafortress". Basically, they turned a B-52 into one HUGE *stealth bomber*, with updated electronics, weapons, carbon fiber wings, etc. A great book, and worth checking out, as well as the sequels.
Probably CHARON-11, or its "brother", CHARON-VAX. Neat full-quality emulators for the older platforms, and they have hobbyist versions available to play with.