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  1. Re:More insidious on DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    Quick question...is it possible to convert an mp3 to mp3-in-ogg...that is, Ogg MP3, without transcoding the audio data to Vorbis?

    One nice thing I'd love to do is have my existing encodes re-containered with decent tagging, but all I could find were transcoders.

  2. Re:More insidious on DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But they won't say it like that. It will most likely be "Would you like your music files protected against unauthorised access?" with an explanation about how you paid to get them (micropayments/napster/yadda yadda) and other people are dirty freeloaders.

    They seem to be quite good at brainwashing the average user...

  3. Re:You can't have it both ways ... on Young Programmer, Stop Advocating Free Software! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (All my opinion...)

    Companies that require someone to do something specifically for them may look to see what any prospective candidates have done before; if they can see your OSS on your web page when you submit your CV this is easy (assuming they have someone able to interpret this properly).

    OSS is good for where a lot of people decide "hey, this is a good idea". The "boring" corporate tasks don't have the interest value, so you need to balance it out with something else of value, i.e. money.

  4. Re:Talk about your odd couple. on MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    Perfectly possible, and seems as if this kind of situation was perhaps an intended use of Reply-to. Unfortunately I've had issues when people with broken mailers hit reply, and it goes to the From address. Either that or when they need to send me something in future, they look at the From address and retype it, when that address may no longer exist (I use a forwarding service for my domain, I don't trust the reliability of my DSL even though it *has* been up 88 days now).

    I use my router as a relay now *anyway*, so it's not much of a point to me any more (it looks up the MX record directly).

  5. Re:Arrogant Americans on One more G4 for the PowerBook? · · Score: 1

    I think the humour was lost there somehow :)

  6. Re:Radiation from Monitors on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Prolonged viewing of a CRT at 60Hz will probably cause discomfort due to the flickering long before any magnetic effects become significant.

  7. Re:A beautiful female crytpographer? on Digital Fortress · · Score: 1

    My point is that smart women can be beautiful, or beautiful women can be smart, however you want to look at it. But they still don't want to date *you*...

    In Soviet Rus......nah.

  8. Re:Lack of Public Roads on Brazil Takes Lead in All-Digital Cinema Projection · · Score: 1

    Wasn't a trick. 1.6mb was the standard for ADFS HDD discs, and was it the Amiga that could get 1.8? Atari? One of those, anyway.

    Unless you're referring to FAT12 discs, in which case you lose so much of the available space to inefficiencies.

  9. Re:Costs on Brazil Takes Lead in All-Digital Cinema Projection · · Score: 1

    DVDs are only at about 720xsomething resolution, someone's DVD copied to DivX may be less, since they're anticipating it being viewed on a screen.

    DivX and XviD are MPEG-4 as well, same as WMV9. Higher-resolution source, and throw a few more gigabytes at it, and DivX/XviD will do you fine.

  10. Re:Drivers on ATI PCI-Express Devices Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linux 2.6 + XFree86 4.3

    Enable the "radeon" DRI driver in the kernel, use "radeon" in your XF86Config, and all is good. If you want to stick with 2.4, *disable* all DRI support in-kernel, and grab the DRI project R200 drivers.

  11. Re:New plugin announcement! on Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    That's still the BSOD. You just didn't see it because XP defaults to "Automatically reboot" when one occurs.

    System Properties->Advanced, and turn it off. Next time it happens, you'll see it.

  12. Re:This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. on Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't need to.

    It's a text file, and I assume the server sent text/plain as its type. Worked fine in Firefox, I thought maybe the OP meant "IE" when they said a standard browser, so I checked in IE6. Looked fine there as well.

    At about 12 words per line, it's even easy to read as well, so I have no idea what they're whining about :)

  13. Re:Nope - permission issue on Is Open Source Fertile Ground for Foul Play? · · Score: 1

    Shift-right-click Windows Explorer in the start menu, select Run As. Run as Administrator, you get a nice explorer window.

    Everything you run from there acts as Administrator.

  14. Re:VoIP and tech jobs on Free World Dialup Under The Gun Again · · Score: 1

    The WWW was a Briton working in Switzerland.

  15. Re:This is [browser] war... on Designing Websites - What Browser to Code For? · · Score: 1

    Eventually they'll decide, "hey, everything's going slow" and hopefully complain to whoever "made their internet" (probably AOL or MS).

  16. Re:TGZ is a package format on Building A Better Package Manager · · Score: 1

    The reason you ended up needing GTK for vi, is that you had it enabled in your USE flags, hence it tried to install gvim, which requires GTK.

  17. Re:Not keen on the name on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 1

    WatchGuard already cornered the name Firebox for their series of firewall/VPN devices.

  18. Re:To be a programmer without ever... on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1

    It's spelt carburettor over here.

  19. Re:DMCA? on Super DMCA Bill In Tennessee · · Score: 1

    I may be confused about how Cable internet operates, but surely you get a maximum amount of bandwidth you can use, and if you connected 10 devices via NAT to that connection, you'd still only manage to get up to that limit, and no further?

  20. Re:If I had a dollar on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 1

    Some parts of KDE have one come up automatically, but I still need to investigate how to extend this to other programs; there may be a list somewhere. I expect Win-R, then "kdesu command" will do the trick.

  21. Re:More SCO code. on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 1

    Probably just as well I didn't bother reading the article, if their English writing style is as crap as their C. There's a fair few things missing from that code.

    And no whining from anyone about implicit int, I'm talking C99; implicit types were a bad idea even when they were allowed.

  22. Re:PEI on Experiences with DirecWay Satellite Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    I do it regularly from work over a 600ms latency link. In an ssh session, normally takes about 1s for a single typed character to echo back. I get used to it, but it tends to promote typos that I don't catch until later :(

  23. Re:Databank Watches... on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 1

    The Timex software on the Windows 95 CD was always fun to watch :)

  24. Re:Domain names? on Slashback: MyCrowzOft, Inundation, Taxation · · Score: 1

    I thought she was called Melinda.

  25. Re:Why not C/C++? on Teaching Kids to Make Games? · · Score: 1

    Ironic considering your signature's non-standard-ness.