Hi loyal readers, I’m doing a little background research for an article on music downloads, and as a result, need some people to fill out a survey. The goal of the survey is to get a little background on people’s attitudes, plus a comparison of differences in attitudes between old people (me) and young people [...]

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My email address shows up in a lot of public places, including domain registration records, hundreds of USENET posts, magazine articles, and various web sites. As a result, it has been harvested by every spammer known to mankind, and I get a lot of bad email. This includes more than just spam. I show up [...]

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I thought Yahoo! Music Unlimited was going to be the next great thing – until I started using the service. Buggy software and brick wall support lines soon showed me that sometimes a bargain is not all it is cracked up to be. Fortunately, a white knight rode up to the rescue: Visa’s disputed charge system.

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Dr. Dobb’s Portal August, 2006 Article on DDJ site Over the years I’ve spent quite a bit of time and money experimenting with the best ways to implement networked music and video in my home. Back in 2004 I showed you how to build a home video jukebox, albeit with a few compromises. Today you [...]

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My modest proposal could make the U.S. the first country to make a sensible adjustment of Intellectual Property laws to deal with realities in the 21st century.

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An article written with Charlie Munro discussing ways to convert some extra hard drive space into a jukebox filled with hundreds of CDs.

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