I wouldn't change the tags if 95+% of the MP3s I download didn't have a title of "Artist - Title" and the rest blank. Or really off caps. Or bad spelling. If I find a file with the artist correctly spelled in the artist field, and the title correctly spelled in the title field, and any other details not messed up, I'm happy and I don't change it.
IIRC this has been done before, Napster did it after mere filename filters were bypassed through intentional typos and the like, and they needed something stronger. I wonder if their solution compared the full file or just a portion of it, though - that might screw it up for our uses.
"and also hurts you because nobody downloads from you, therefore you have a lesser rating to download from other people as a result"
Not really. I've got over 30GB of files shared, not just music, and there's never any shortage of people wanting my files - my main eMule queue is 2295 users long at the moment.
It's really hard to checksum MP3s, though. First thing I do after downloading an MP3 is change the ID3 tags to my liking, which changes the file, and generally makes it unique, with only one source, me.
Blank CDs? Use CD-RWs. They don't work with most CD players, but they'll work fine for this purpose.
Degrades the quality of the music? Well, yes, but if you plan on playing the songs on most non-iTunes players, you are going to have to reencode to MP3 sooner or later.
"Also, The product specs mention "no risk to existing data on hard drives". Does that mean no hard-drive access or no hard-drive partitioning?"
Probably something like knoppix - it mounts HDs read-only by default, and won't write a damn thing, or let anything else write, unless you use a simple thingy to remount it R/W
True, it's better than FTP, but it takes time to set up a tinyurl redirect (that's what it is, IIRC?). There should be some way to stop AOL's seemingly random blocking, possibly with the legal system.
And I'm not a troll. I just hate using workarounds, especially ones that take up just as much time as, for example, reading the page.
I was referring to the upgrade cards I've seen. They allow use of a new (eg G4) CPU with an old mobo (ie G3), PSU and RAM (along with every other piece of hardware in the system).
I'm pretty sure Mac CPU upgrades include more than just the CPU. Chipset, etc, all the stuff you'd need to buy if you upgraded an AXP. You know, motherboard, possibly RAM, PSU, etc...
Does anyone have a script to run wget, DL the ierequired.htm page, while identifying itself as Mozilla 1.4, delete ierequired.htm, and repeat? I can't seem to get anything I type to work.
Meh. People can still say whatever they want in their homes, or in (most of) public. Just the people who work for the government can't say it at work. At least that's how I see it.
Apparently you did not look close enough: "government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites" The French are free to use whatever word they want.
Alienware resells Cleo (?) laptops, just like Sager and a few other manufacturers. Sager notebooks are the same quality, and $600 less in the case I configured. The exact model is the Sager 5670 (that alienware sells as the Area 51m). The support from powernotebooks.com, one of Sager's resellers, is really amazing.
I have, in one pile on top of my main PC's case, a KVM, ADSL modem, and router, piled on top of each other. The modem and router were generating enough heat to kill the stability of the modem. Simple solution: I took the heatsink from my old, dead PC - standard heatsink from a 633MHz Celeron - and put it, vertically, between the modem and the router. It probably isn't very efficient, but it works.
I live in Kingston, ON, use Internet Kingston - I pay $44.95CDN a month. I have never hit a cap, and it's not unusual for me to download multiple gigabytes in a day. I also run various servers including HTTP. My download speed is 1Mb/s down, which I have hit many times, and 128kb/s, which tends to kill my download once I'm uploading more than 10KB/s.
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Why does it have to be XP? Any version of NT (including 2000 and XP) can do that, along with every other modern operating system.
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I wouldn't change the tags if 95+% of the MP3s I download didn't have a title of "Artist - Title" and the rest blank. Or really off caps. Or bad spelling. If I find a file with the artist correctly spelled in the artist field, and the title correctly spelled in the title field, and any other details not messed up, I'm happy and I don't change it.
IIRC this has been done before, Napster did it after mere filename filters were bypassed through intentional typos and the like, and they needed something stronger. I wonder if their solution compared the full file or just a portion of it, though - that might screw it up for our uses.
Food for thought.
"and also hurts you because nobody downloads from you, therefore you have a lesser rating to download from other people as a result"
Not really. I've got over 30GB of files shared, not just music, and there's never any shortage of people wanting my files - my main eMule queue is 2295 users long at the moment.
It's really hard to checksum MP3s, though. First thing I do after downloading an MP3 is change the ID3 tags to my liking, which changes the file, and generally makes it unique, with only one source, me.
Wastes time? True.
Blank CDs? Use CD-RWs. They don't work with most CD players, but they'll work fine for this purpose.
Degrades the quality of the music? Well, yes, but if you plan on playing the songs on most non-iTunes players, you are going to have to reencode to MP3 sooner or later.
"Also, The product specs mention "no risk to existing data on hard drives". Does that mean no hard-drive access or no hard-drive partitioning?"
Probably something like knoppix - it mounts HDs read-only by default, and won't write a damn thing, or let anything else write, unless you use a simple thingy to remount it R/W
True, it's better than FTP, but it takes time to set up a tinyurl redirect (that's what it is, IIRC?). There should be some way to stop AOL's seemingly random blocking, possibly with the legal system.
And I'm not a troll. I just hate using workarounds, especially ones that take up just as much time as, for example, reading the page.
Does anyone care? Workarounds aren't a real solution.
I was referring to the upgrade cards I've seen. They allow use of a new (eg G4) CPU with an old mobo (ie G3), PSU and RAM (along with every other piece of hardware in the system).
I'm pretty sure Mac CPU upgrades include more than just the CPU. Chipset, etc, all the stuff you'd need to buy if you upgraded an AXP. You know, motherboard, possibly RAM, PSU, etc...
And the GameCube isn't even a cube!
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Go read it.
I remember reading about such a mouse, with a joystick scroll type thingy in the middle, many years ago. Old news.
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Does anyone have a script to run wget, DL the ierequired.htm page, while identifying itself as Mozilla 1.4, delete ierequired.htm, and repeat? I can't seem to get anything I type to work.
Meh. People can still say whatever they want in their homes, or in (most of) public. Just the people who work for the government can't say it at work. At least that's how I see it.
Apparently you did not look close enough:
"government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites"
The French are free to use whatever word they want.
My favorite: nobodies@home.com
Also: fyou@your.ass
or does this resemble cuecat quite a lot?
Alienware resells Cleo (?) laptops, just like Sager and a few other manufacturers. Sager notebooks are the same quality, and $600 less in the case I configured. The exact model is the Sager 5670 (that alienware sells as the Area 51m). The support from powernotebooks.com, one of Sager's resellers, is really amazing.
sager: sagernotebook.com
powernotebooks: powernotebooks.com
No one gives a shit about EULAs anymore. People will use VNC regardless of what MS says.
I have, in one pile on top of my main PC's case, a KVM, ADSL modem, and router, piled on top of each other. The modem and router were generating enough heat to kill the stability of the modem. Simple solution: I took the heatsink from my old, dead PC - standard heatsink from a 633MHz Celeron - and put it, vertically, between the modem and the router. It probably isn't very efficient, but it works.
crappy webcam photo of it: http://edwards.servehttp.com:969/heatsink.jpg
FYI, the modem is an Alcatel SpeedTouch Home, and the router is an SMC Barricade 7004ABR.
I live in Kingston, ON, use Internet Kingston - I pay $44.95CDN a month. I have never hit a cap, and it's not unusual for me to download multiple gigabytes in a day. I also run various servers including HTTP. My download speed is 1Mb/s down, which I have hit many times, and 128kb/s, which tends to kill my download once I'm uploading more than 10KB/s.