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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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NoiseDesign - Aug 20, 2007 10:11:39 pm PDT #2473 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

The only used Mac laptop that I've got right now is my 17" Powerbook G4. It's a 1.33 GHz 17". I believe it currently has 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive.


esse - Aug 20, 2007 11:09:20 pm PDT #2474 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Heh. That's definitely more than my 15" G4 Powerbook with 20 gigabites of ram and 550 mHz processor. The fact that it's running 10.4.9 still impresses me.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2007 4:37:11 am PDT #2475 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Maybe the IR sensor is partially blocked, and the wall bounces it to the sensor perfectly. Maybe DVD/Tivo/Cable box is too close and doing same?

Apparently the sensor is right on the front of the TV, so who knows.


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2007 6:55:33 am PDT #2476 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

Toshiba owners I know tend to be pretty happy with their machines, so that would be my pick in that price range.


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2007 8:42:03 am PDT #2477 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aha.

EMI's files, as sold by Apple, come with the buyer's name and e-mail address embedded in the file's header, where it can be easily read.

Well, I only bought the one. Not sure if I'll continue. Although the one DRM-free song I bought is probably the one I'd be most embarassed by having my name attached to, it being a Spice Girls number and all.


DCJensen - Aug 21, 2007 12:11:19 pm PDT #2478 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

I can't imagine it was very long after the DRM-free watermarked media were available before some sort of stripping program was on the 'net.


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2007 12:36:06 pm PDT #2479 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can't be arsed, for now.


Juliebird - Aug 21, 2007 12:38:07 pm PDT #2480 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Are there any ill-consequences of using purportedly "legal" DRM stripping?


Consuela - Aug 21, 2007 8:39:52 pm PDT #2481 of 25496
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

ita, I'm led to understand that all songs bought from iTunes have that information in the metadata. Not just the DRM-free ones.


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2007 9:43:44 pm PDT #2482 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm led to understand that all songs bought from iTunes have that information in the metadata.

Yup. That's how they know whose file it originally was. But those files never went anywhere (what with being unusable and all), so I didn't mind. Not that I'm going to send my copies of the DRM-free music blazing across the internet, but the more portable the file gets the less I want my personal info in it.