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I have a rocking entertainment center a real nice computer center and about 30 gig's worth of legal MP3's that I converted from Vinyl and Cassettes along with all of the CD's I own for one rocking music collection. I used to use a real to real Teac tape deck to play hours upon hours of music. But sometimes I
Many of you may not be aware but a court battle has been on-going between 2600 Magazine/Web Site about there posting/linking of the now widely distributed and posted DeCSS DVD de-coding program that was developed by a tennager in Europe. 2600 has decided not to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court. I am sad to see
My kids are young enough that I am not sweating the college thing quite yet. But being like most of us working stiff's I will be encouraging my children to apply for all of the grants and scholarships that they can get there hands on. I received a e-mail today from a friend that actually a free search engine that
Nice to see what our friends across the Altlantic think are award winning Journalism sites and stories. Some of the award sites are non-english but most have a english version [Source NetMedia]
I will have to give the music swapping stories a break but this one was the latest in a series that have seemed to make this topic the front runner of news out there month after month. Wired has a new story about another file sharing utility that will or does have the music industry fuming at the mouth. For
There is a well known movement that will not only bring you open source software it will also bring you open source products such as OpenCola. I think the idea is a great one and is probably the first of many products we will see. [Source Alternet]
This site is making the rounds in all of the major tech newsletters and for the geek at heart you are going to love this one. Similar sites exist but the way they link with Google which has one of the most complete search engines and I think you will like what they have done. [TouchGraph]
If you want to be sure that no one has slipped a keystroke capture program onto your system, check out SpyCop, available online at www.spycop.com. It scours your system, looking for secret keystroke-logging software.
I really did not want to read the article although it does not surprise me. The RIAA has or did consider taking individual MP3 file traders to court. Wired has the full story. My suspicion is that it is only going to get worse. [Source Wired Full Story]
I found a very detailed listing of about 400 web hosting sites along with space allowed along with info about ftp access, cgi availability, banner info, language, etc. http://htindex.tripod.com/
If you want ot Stream some audio to your friends and family and have a limited dial-up connection a new software package called streammer may allow you to do just that. I have not had time to play with it but it is accomplished via a relay of the data from one source to another. Check Streamer out and let
I found a FAQ on Palladium and TCPA it has some very good info on the "Trusted Computing Platform" that Microsoft wants to build their Palladium system on (to prevent all kinds of data piracy.) [FAQ]
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