If you read and subscribe to mp3 blogs, good DRM free music isn't hard to find at all. Many of the bands whose music is featured in mp3 blogs have their songs available in DRM free format on sites like zunior.ca, emusic.com, etc.
Mp3 blogs are the way to go. You can use the excellent songbird software to subscribe to most mp3 blogs and automatically download songs from featured artists. I've really expanded my musical horizons doing this, and discovered all kinds of great indie/small label bands along the way.
I'm suprised that given the number of readers this person has, there is nothing in TFA directing/advising people about the much better non DRM services.
I have been downloading music from audiolunchbox.com and other similar services like magnatune. They are fantastic. Most of the bands I listen to have albums on there. Of course the big RIAA labels artists aren't, but once you get away from the big labels, you'll find a wealth of variety and talent. In fact many semifamous artists have their albums available on these sorts of sites.
The sooner people start using these services, the sooner that the RIAA will get the hint, quit acting like bullies, and start treating its consumers with respect. The only real way to change the RIAA's habits is to quit buying from them. I have, and my music collection has actually improved dramatically with new additions from independent artists I've found. Many of the artists are far better than the big superstar bands the RIAA tries to sell you.
A great way to discover a lot of new bands also is listening to indiefeed.org podcasts. Many (most?) of the artists featured there has music available on audiolunchbox.com.
There's a great video podcast called Chasing Windmills. A fictional episodic series about the lives of a young couple. It feature very true to life writing, and it is filmed and acted very well.
It should provide tangible evidence that videoblogs/videopodcasts don't have to suck. There will be good ones.
To see it, go to http://chasingmills.blogspot.com/
I think the episodes are all worth watching, only two episodes were not so good. The others were all gold.
Why shouldn't they give it to me for free? GNU, and the tidal wave of GPL software available does, and they give me the source code too.
Frankly, programming with GNU stuff has always been more productive anyway, and less likely to keep you "locked in" in the future.
This isn't even related to security. Its just a bug.... lots of apps crash when something happens. Doesn't mean its ok, but it doesn't represent a security issue does it? (Unless I'm missing something...)
The problem with these plans is that there is always a cost to have your stuff certified, so only big/commercial players get their stuff in.
What we need is an equivelent of Linux's apt-get and synaptic, but for installing windows 32 programs. Make repositories for GPL, open source, shareware, commercial software. Obviously commercial software would require purchase but the repository should include all types.
Hmmm... I wonder if I can code this... I'm sure it would at least be doable for Free Software applications...
There is an excellent project called zen linux that is based on debian. www.zenlinux.org
What makes it very special is that it isn't just based on debain but it *is* debian, as in, fully compatible with debian. Compatibily with repositories etc... It just has a far nicer installer and the ability to boot live.
I wish others, such as ubuntu etc, woul track with and work with Debian more closely. having seperate repositories is the biggest problem around.
Maybe just have the sub distro track time when "unstable" is in a very good state, and make a release based on it. Zen has a zen -upgrade command that does something similar, upgrading to the version of every package specified by zen, but doing it from debian repositories.
It is a wonderful system, and although very early in development, it already works amazingly well.
It also has automatic remastering, which means yo can change it in any way, and make a new installer cd using the "zen -remaster" command as root. Then you just burn the iso.
I started contributing once I realized what a great thing that was. Zen could use your help. Maybe with some community support, Zen could even become an official part of debian.
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If you read and subscribe to mp3 blogs, good DRM free music isn't hard to find at all. Many of the bands whose music is featured in mp3 blogs have their songs available in DRM free format on sites like zunior.ca, emusic.com, etc.
Mp3 blogs are the way to go. You can use the excellent songbird software to subscribe to most mp3 blogs and automatically download songs from featured artists. I've really expanded my musical horizons doing this, and discovered all kinds of great indie/small label bands along the way.
http://www.songbirdnest.com/ has a great application freely available to do all this.
I'm suprised that given the number of readers this person has, there is nothing in TFA directing/advising people about the much better non DRM services.
I have been downloading music from audiolunchbox.com and other similar services like magnatune. They are fantastic. Most of the bands I listen to have albums on there. Of course the big RIAA labels artists aren't, but once you get away from the big labels, you'll find a wealth of variety and talent. In fact many semifamous artists have their albums available on these sorts of sites.
The sooner people start using these services, the sooner that the RIAA will get the hint, quit acting like bullies, and start treating its consumers with respect. The only real way to change the RIAA's habits is to quit buying from them. I have, and my music collection has actually improved dramatically with new additions from independent artists I've found. Many of the artists are far better than the big superstar bands the RIAA tries to sell you.
A great way to discover a lot of new bands also is listening to indiefeed.org podcasts. Many (most?) of the artists featured there has music available on audiolunchbox.com.
There's a great video podcast called Chasing Windmills. A fictional episodic series about the lives of a young couple. It feature very true to life writing, and it is filmed and acted very well. It should provide tangible evidence that videoblogs/videopodcasts don't have to suck. There will be good ones. To see it, go to http://chasingmills.blogspot.com/ I think the episodes are all worth watching, only two episodes were not so good. The others were all gold.
Why shouldn't they give it to me for free? GNU, and the tidal wave of GPL software available does, and they give me the source code too. Frankly, programming with GNU stuff has always been more productive anyway, and less likely to keep you "locked in" in the future.
This isn't even related to security. Its just a bug.... lots of apps crash when something happens. Doesn't mean its ok, but it doesn't represent a security issue does it? (Unless I'm missing something...)
The problem with these plans is that there is always a cost to have your stuff certified, so only big/commercial players get their stuff in.
What we need is an equivelent of Linux's apt-get and synaptic, but for installing windows 32 programs. Make repositories for GPL, open source, shareware, commercial software. Obviously commercial software would require purchase but the repository should include all types.
Hmmm... I wonder if I can code this... I'm sure it would at least be doable for Free Software applications...
There is an excellent project called zen linux that is based on debian. www.zenlinux.org
What makes it very special is that it isn't just based on debain but it *is* debian, as in, fully compatible with debian. Compatibily with repositories etc... It just has a far nicer installer and the ability to boot live.
I wish others, such as ubuntu etc, woul track with and work with Debian more closely. having seperate repositories is the biggest problem around.
Maybe just have the sub distro track time when "unstable" is in a very good state, and make a release based on it. Zen has a zen -upgrade command that does something similar, upgrading to the version of every package specified by zen, but doing it from debian repositories.
It is a wonderful system, and although very early in development, it already works amazingly well.
It also has automatic remastering, which means yo can change it in any way, and make a new installer cd using the "zen -remaster" command as root. Then you just burn the iso.
I started contributing once I realized what a great thing that was. Zen could use your help. Maybe with some community support, Zen could even become an official part of debian.