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emusic.com is a legal music download service with its catalog on line. So I went browsing (looking for both artist names and track names). First I searched for "Arvo" (Part, but his surname has an a-umlaut and isn't always represented properly), a living composer best known for extremely...

Reminds me of another profound discovery that Google made. (Yes, I know it doesn't quite work any more. You'll be able to tell anyway.)

One more: I'm sure Madonna will be able to get cheese on her next whopper thanks to Clocker's legal download of "Material Girl".

I *do* make good money. Good enough, anyway. I also buy CDs. Lots and lots and lots of them. Usually 20 or 30 a month (lately more like 15, but SACDs cost substantially more and there are fewer issues every month anyway.) Except that no one gets rich from classical music sales anyway. To begin...

3.94 million people are using FastTrack right now. D'you think these for-pay services will attract even a tenth of that? IIRC, BMG's last attempt to market for-pay Napster ended up with something less than 20,000 subscribers. I'll take my (in theory, since I'm not sharing any music from RIAA...

IIRC the Windows license agreement absolves Microsoft of damages or responsibility in the event of negative consequences from the use of its software.

I think as long as there's a reasonably common source for free downloads, none of the for-pay services will really be widely adopted. The only issue is how spectacular the failure will be. As I type this, Kazaa Lite tells me there are 3,824,002 people logged on.

Honestly, I'm not writing fiction, and I didn't write that to entertain others. I'm not realy worried about what anyone thinks of the prose. It's very real, and representative of my unique experience. Possibly illustrative of the dichotomy of my personality and of relationships with others. Amy...

I think that's what Bertelsmann thought the last time they tried to relaunch Naptser as a fee-based service.

Texas is a unique combination of rule by special interest. It has the weakest executive branch in the union, GS's aforementioned limitations on legislative sessions, and some very large businesses that are very interested in carving out their own special businessman's fiefdom inside the USA. For...

Texas is a unique combination of rule by special interest. It has the weakest executive branch in the union, GS's aforementioned limitations on legislative sessions, and some very large businesses that are very interested in carving out their own special businessman's fiefdom inside the USA. For...

Among George Bush's failures in his unelected tenure as president is the proud accomplishment of a net loss of 3 million jobs over the 3 years of his administration. The last executive to preside over a net loss of jobs during the course of his administration was Herbert Hoover, whose term...

Uninstalling ATI drivers has traditionally NOT been easy. There's an uninstall utility that's been on ATI's site forever, but to be honest, I've heard of it not doing a complete job. In response I say both "Who cares about 10 extra lines in the registry?" but some misbegotten nvidia-likers...

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Providence. The summer before my junior year of college, I spent a great deal of time with Amy. In my mind, we had established the "rules" as being "just friends"; we spent EVERY summer together, and had for five years. That summer, after work, I'd swing by her house, pick her up, and we'd go...

Wow. Pretty bad when the normally even-handed Mark is making such partisan comments. Just the same, I agree completely. Early today, George Bush said that he "wouldn't leave security of America in the hands of a madman." All I could think when I heard that was, "Well, why doesn't George just...

You might also want to check to make sure that such recordings are legal within your county/state/province/whatever. In Indiana, recording phone conversations without consent is legal. In nearby Illinois, it's not.

If we really wanted a colo box I'd donate money or hardware to the cause. I usually have enough crap sitting around for a spare machine or three anyway.

VPU recovery looks like a happy thing, as does TV overscan support, but the known issues indicate that 3.8 introduces bugs into Half-Life and Quake3. I don't think gamers will like that very much.

Shamelessly lifted from Slashdot. Maybe higher and higher wattage chips are still possible after all.

DM8s are low-profile drives. That's certainly not a DM8. Maxtor has a history of OEMing drives to companies that rebadge them. I have a couple of Staples-brand DM9+ drives at home, too.

blake, I'd beat myself to death with a soup spoon if I didn't know to change change channels on an AP that's exhibiting interference problems. These are mixed clients as it is - Centrino-base notebooks (or that one iBook) with 802.11B integrated. The APs have had to be set in autospeed mode. I...

Mostly PCMCIA or integrated. One of the sites has a machine with a PCI NIC. Client PCs are all running 2000... except one machine that's using OS X (e.g. it ain't a software problem). I did site surveys as I did my installation - these are offices that are well-covered and have good signal...

I know a couple folks here have them (Linksys' G AP, WRT54G) Has anyone run across "frequent disconnect" issues with this device? I have a couple of clients with APs that I've had to replace because their NICs "lose" their AP periodically. One of them is complaining about this now on his...

She's not even very good with VB. It's kind of scary. Fortunately, it's not a complicated program, either.

The developer I'm working with isn't smart enough to use mysql. In fact, she doesn't know SQL at all.

I don't think the problems we have are that severe. Certainly not as bad as those on our first provider. I've actually been the "on site guy" for companies with colo'd equipment. Granted, it was a very different experience (36 servers, 168 disk drives, SAN hardware, etc) based on scale, but...

I really don't think Dell is bulletproof on the low end. Dell machines have IMO been going steadily downhill in terms of quality for the last couple of years at least, and their support at the moment is at an all-time low. It's bad. Really bad. Like "We only hire the Indians that have cleft...

SR? Did you maybe mean SF? I think I'd rather have dedicated than colocated. Unless one of us lived very near the host, anyway.

Doesn't appear to help. For a business, I'd probably just buy an extra AP or something, but I'm thinking I'll save money if I buy a USB adaptor instead. I pretty much only deal with Linksys at this point. All antennas are removable.

A lot of Onkyo's high-end consumer HT receivers can do that, too.

2 and 3, somewhere. I'll have to find the disc.

See, that's what I'm trying to avoid. :)

Pradeep is sub-28.8, jtr. Whatever you have, I assure you that you're doing better than he is. I'm presently on a mission to redline this service for as long as humanly possible. Handruin: Games-wise, I got ahold of some newer stuff not too long ago. UT2003 is the only thing that looks like a...

I've noticed that USB 802.11 adaptors work A LOT better for desktop PCs. I have two desktop machines I had planned to connect via 802.11A to my wired network, but I can't get decent signal strength (that's "2 bars" and frequent drops for both) for BOTH of them in anyplace I can put my AP...

Uninstalling NAV can screw up all sorts of stuff. Never HEARD of it screwing up an internet connection but I think the standard things to try are in order: Run a repair on the network connection. Delete the connection Delete the hardware in device manager Use netsh to reset TCP/IP on XP.

My ISP only has one service plan, EdwardK, "Up to 1.5MBit up/128kbit down". They more-or-less rely on the distance factor to sort out bandwidth. I don't have any cap for up or download. Yet. And Verizon is one of the ISPs fighting RIAA to keep customer info private. re: Games, I don't have...

Subject says it all. If anyone sees one, can y'all drop me a line?

At a certain point, I no longer care. Now that I'm used to copying DVDs instead of dealing with encoding, I WANT TO COPY DVDS. This is worth a great deal of money to me.

w00t!

I'd like it known that I came here before I went out in search of the 10 years worth of porno that I've been waiting until I got broadband service to download.

Does anyone actively recycle computer parts? The kind of recycling that's done for end-of-life parts, not "I swapped my old video card into one of my older computers." Dell and HP both have recycling services. Of course, if you visit their sites, you REALLY have to poke around to find anything...

Anyone else get a real sinking feeling as they read that? Damned shame.

I just outfitted a classroom with Sony dual format drives. <sob> Oh well. Any word on availability of the *GOOD* drives?

There's always Linux, Jan.

A score of 7 EQ really makes it seem like there's something wrong there, doesn't it? It's not like I'm an unfeeling sociopath or anything... There's just a very large gap between "the people I care about" and "all the filler people." Amy always said I was extremely sensitive toward her. I...

I don't know the answer to that question, jtr.

Fushigi, I think Comcast has largely moved or is moving to a 3Mbps downstream service.

It's just that they'd never seen a pair of boobs that big before, Howell. You really ought to stap those things down or something. :D

My scores were 7 for EQ and 62 for SQ. I did it by hand.