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128k, unfortunately.

You can try. My upload bandwidth is pretty limited. I think I can handle one WAN connection at a time. You just got up, right, JoJo? The structure represented is in facted based on ID3. I just did some tests and it's all ID3. You could dump everything in one big folder and let the program sort...

Part of the reason I say sort-of is that I end up being the person who submits about half the stuff I decide to rip. CDDB doesn't know classical albums very well.

Sorta, I guess. On the FS level, the scheme is Composer or Performer as root folder name, with each album as its own subdirectory. I think that's the default for CDex. CDex also retreives ID3 tags automatically from CDDB, which is what gives me category names like "Classical" and "ska" (WTF is...

I ripped them from the source CDs using CDex and specified the system of organization I prefer. The pop stuff is largely scavenged from "My Shared Folders" on various PCs I've worked on. ID3 tags are pretty much inadequate for classical stuff.

Did quality ever get any better?

Well, let's try it without the l:p. It was working before I turned it on... Incidently, I exposed some pop and jazz tracks as well as classical.

Try it now.

In Winamp - tell it to "Open URL" type http://mercutio.dnsalias.com:9000 in the little box, and it should bring up an empty playlist.

I have a slimserver up and running at http://mercutio.dnsalias.com:9000/ Note that you have to connect to port 9000, and you need to connect with a client capable of accepting an MP3 stream (e.g. winamp). If you'd like to create/adjust the playlist, the login name for the server is mercsmp3s...

Can't talk. Downloading.

Google, knower of all things worthwhile, including the answer to life, the universe and everything, says that the correct compounding of "damn" and "it" is "dammit". Per our earlier discussion. I can just see a Seagate motherboard chipset: It'd have a slow and flakey FSB, mono onboard sound...

What kind of equipment did you use to take that shot?

Yeah, but if I start talking about whose monetary policies are causing that problem and how pissed-off it makes me, Howell will give me a mod-slap. :) Time was, $1US = $2AU Now it's $1US = $1.30AU That's a pretty big change.

It's not IBM's inept marketing. It's IBM's inept management. I fairly believe that more of the smartest folks in IT and engineering work at IBM than anyplace else... and they're stunted by business managers who make Dilbert's Pointy-Haired Boss look like some kind of genius. Especially since IBM...

Behold the power of the Euro (I don't have "C with a line through it" key). I can't ever remember something being cheaper in Europe than in the US, but that Samsung SATA drive appears to be.

That i960 CPU tops out at IIRC 80MHz. The i4 can't be much of a hardware RAID5 controller.

I guess Linux installs really seem like arcane horror to some people.

Yeah. I noticed that. But the port still has to be open. My DSL may be back tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have a few GB of stuff available by then, if anyone's interested.

I'd say that's a question for the ages.

Yes, but as with all things fibre, you won't even get a kiss before you bend over and pay for the cabling.

grok - Innate understanding. Coined by Heinlein in [i]Stranger in a Strange Land[/i.

In my case, those are typos. In your case, the complete abscence of punctuation can only be seen as ignorance or a campaign of deliberately poor use of language. I believe it's the latter but I'll be perfectly happy to proceed under the former assumption.

Fortunately for its., my alma mater has a pretty comprehensive web site for those unschooled in the ways of the English language.

I don't know if anyone saw my post about Slimserver, but this is a remarkably cool program for anyone who has any kind of decent internet connection, effectively letting you (or whomever connects to your server) browse and play anything you've got in your collection. It requires port 9000 to be...

Uh. Yeah. I'll be here growing old while that gets implemented on mainstream system boards. Was that sarcastic enough?

I think perhaps he's naming his own personal steak house. I think perhaps I wouldn't want to eat a steak from a FUBAR'd steak house. Listen its., I know you aren't a native speaker, but JoJo, CougTek, zx, simonstre and ihsan manage alright.

All this and nothing from the Grammar Police.

Could you possibly re-phrase that with a proper sentence structure? You've got the "double quote" down pretty well. Now you just need to work on the , <---comma ; <---semi-colon . <---period Commas are used to seperate lists of nouns and/or adjectives. Semi-colons are used in place of...

So mubs, how do you get the job where you get to do those things?

I have an enormous fear that if I ever stopped working, I wouldn't be able to start again (in part because jobs are hard to come by and in part because of my mental state). I don't take sick time. I don't take vacations. I find something where I get paid and I work. Vacations are for people who...

My typical answer to "How are you today?" is "Dead inside." Now, how happy do you think I am? This has the immediate advantage of causing anyone who tries to stop talking to me, but I'm no less serious for saying it. I've said before that it seems like there really aren't many choices in life...

Gotta say GH has one of the ugliest home pages I've ever seen. Wow. Shield your eyes prior to viewing. So, that's on purpose, right?

Maybe some kind of design work might be challenging. Or security analysis. I don't know. Day-to-day work involving desktops and servers certainly isn't.

Where are these forks supposed to be?

But if it makes anyone feel better, Handy, I run into the same thing all the time. There are a whole bunch of little tiny things I could do to automate or improve my home network and I never got around to actually doing any of them.

The other side to that is that I've been overqualified for every job I've ever had. It's not a big deal, and I like the work that I do, but I've never been someplace where my work has actually been challenging.

My lack of mental health is taking an unfortunately large chunk out of my day. Sorry Tea.

Anyone else ever felt like life is lived on rails?

I believe I am in fact in the running for whitest guy on earth.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower...

60GB of Samsung 5400rpm goodness.

WTF is "bling-bling"?

S*ny's low-end 400 DVD jukebox is only $280 if you wanted to buy it online. It obviously doesn't grok data discs, but with a keyboard input, you CAN just stick a bunch of discs in and label them.

If you login as a non-administrator on that PC, can you add the printer? Have you tried connecting to it with net print? Since these are roaming profiles, have you tried deleting the cached copies from User Profiles in System Properties? Have you run SFC (that comes up a lot from me. It fixes...

Neither Bluetooth nor Wireless USB (it's coming) would be worthwhile, unfortunately, since they're both shared media. I was thinking something more like custom internal cabling + internal SATA or Firewire or SCSI or whatever. Surely there will be multi-drive external SATA enclosures, just as...

A slightly more accessible CD of art songs is probably Long Time Ago, collecting some great American Folk Songs ("I Bought Me a Cat" and the lullaby "All the Little Horses") and Hymns ("At the River" and "Simple Gifts") and Copland's settings of Eight Poems by Emily Dickinson, along with his...

Toad the Wet Sprocket was the name of a band that kept changing its name in a Monty Python routine. It isn't like I made some kind of conscious effort to be different on the matter of music. My brothers have musical tastes that run to mainstream (80s stuff, techno and depresso-alterna-whatever...

At least you didn't say "A Night on Disco Mountain". I was asking a serious question. Try to tell someone that you don't know who xyz top-40 flavor of the month is because you only listen to classical music, and you get a look like you have 3 heads. Try to explain the appeal of, say, a...

Why don't people like classical music?