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  1. Re:It's surprising to me too! on TiVoToGo For iPods and PSPs · · Score: 1

    This experience is not typical... many people see avg download speeds around 2MB/s, and upload speeds around 1MB/s. There are many people whose tivos perform as poorly as yours does, though... not sure what the reason is behind the variance.

  2. Re:Smalltalk on HP Fires Father of OOP · · Score: 1

    What does B&D stand for?

  3. Re:O/T: Getting started? on Linux For Cell Processor Workstation · · Score: 1

    I've been looking at getting this kit, or waiting for this kit to become available. There are plenty of Verilog tutorials out on the web. Not sure of any good sites for teaching digital design... you might want to try MIT's OpenCourseWare for 6.111.

  4. Re:25 TB? That's nothing. on Simulated Universe · · Score: 1
    From the article:
    By applying sophisticated modelling techniques to the 25 Terabytes (25 million Megabytes) of stored output...
    So it does appear that they are referring to 25 terabytes of storage, not RAM.
  5. not that complicated on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 4, Informative

    about 20 mins worth of programming, and i'm not that smart. it ends up taking you to this page.

  6. Re:The One Missing Feature on Rio Reveals iPod Mini Slayer · · Score: 1

    well, the first part is the problem. itunes and its brethren won't make a cd image - they look for a cd burner. So i need a driver that will present itself as a burner to itunes, but then just goes and creates a cd image.

  7. Re:The One Missing Feature on Rio Reveals iPod Mini Slayer · · Score: 1

    anyone know of virtual cd-burner software for windows? i've been looking for a while but haven't been able to find anything.

  8. Re:Bittorrent clients on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The stock bittorrent also comes with btdownloadheadless.py. When I'm not actively logged into my linux box, i ssh in, run "nohup btdownloadheadless.py", then logout. Periodically log back in to look at nohup.out and see how it's doing.

  9. obsimp on Mike Melvill Chosen To Fly SpaceShipOne · · Score: 1

    How doth the hero strong and brave,
    A celestial path in the heavens pave!

    <silence...>

    Uh, go, Mike Melvill, go.

  10. Re:Fuck them. on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 1

    note that the beastie boys do, in fact, have their own record label.

  11. Re:The first song I'm getting on McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    mcnuggets, tasty golden french fries, regular or larger size, big big breakfast, ...
    that's where my memory taps out.

  12. Re:What's the equivalent for movies? on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 1

    For MMS streaming, I use SDP (a windows utility). You can do it on unix too... i believe the name of the utility is mmsclient. iirc, it's bundled now with mplayer or one of the other common unix media players.

  13. Re:AAC is pretty decent [OT] on AAC Chosen For DVD-ROM Section Of DVD Audio Discs · · Score: 1

    you want m3u2sburner. It's still not a interface, but much better than openmd or real one. basically, it's a bit of a hack that convert your mp3 files to wav, then uses daemon tools to present the collection of wav files as a cd for simple burner so you can bypass all the drm nonsense.

  14. Re:No, more likely on Feds Reject Eolas Browser Plug-In Patent · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in hearing exactly what complaints you have about the lemelson-mit inventor's program. Got any links?

  15. Re:They had good reasons to shut them down, indeed on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, it turns out you are right, cit & foonet are one and the same. http://www.easynetworknyc.com/foonet/

  16. Re:As usual... on Sun and Eclipse Squabble · · Score: 1

    days late? the article you point to was posted all of 12 hours ago...

  17. Re:My personal opinion on Update on Alan Cox's Sabbatical · · Score: 1

    this is rated funny, but it's mostly true. i do want to point out that bush ii is actually taller than schwarzenegger... bush is 6', schwarzenegger is like 5'10" or so (though he claims to be 6'2")

  18. Re:DO NOT Mod parent DOWN on SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users · · Score: 1

    the parent is not referring to quotes from the main article, but from a salon article linked to from its parent. The quotes are accurate. So do not mod the comment down.

  19. Re:No more music hardware technology updates... on Gateway Portable MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    would "this player does not support ogg vorbis" count?

  20. MIT is trying something like this on Universities Mull Official Role In Music Distribution · · Score: 2, Informative

    ok, i confess i didn't read the article, but a recent mit project seems related: LAMP FAQ (scroll down a bit). offering cds over cable with an internet based request system. still in beta right now.

  21. louder is better for compression formats, too on Is Louder Better? · · Score: 1

    i remember reading that the wma format boosts the volume of recordings by 3db, and was doing better than mp3 and other formats in some tests. when they altered the code to make the mp3 encoder boost volume by the same amount, wma suddenly didn't look so hot.

    if you want to hear really bad production on what should have been a great cd, check out "songs for the deaf" by queens of the stone age. the dynamic range has been compressed so much it's really ridiculous.

  22. phrohibit?? on DALnet For Chatting, Not File Sharing · · Score: 5, Funny

    someone's too used to typing "ph33r" on DALnet...

  23. Re:Wow... on More NerdCore Science Fiction From Cory Doctorow · · Score: 1

    aren't you the guy who wrote that series of articles about counting cards at casinos? that was fantastic stuff, i'll have to check this piece out too.

  24. Re:Alternatives? on ISP Chief on Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is: ESMTP. Provides a framework for extending SMTP, including allowing for username/password authentication. Wrap it with SSL/TLS and you're good to go. Most of the popular MTA's (sendmail, postfix, qmail) either have built-in support or patches available, and many popular MUA's (outlook/oe, mozilla, evolution) support it as well.

  25. Re:xbox bias? on XBOX Media Player 2.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, there was already a story about both the broadq and snapstream software available for tivo.