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Entries from September 2007

Amazon MP3 Music Store … Linux?

September 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If you haven’t already heard Amazon has opened a DRM-free MP3 based music store. Good times, music that you own rather than rent. Not to mention you can play it on anything that supports the MP3 format. Anywho, currently it seems that linux users can only download single songs rather than whole albums since they [...]

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Tags: Linux · Music · Uncategorized

CFS.

September 27th, 2007 · No Comments

CFS is the new Completely Fair Scheduler for the linux kernel. It is pretty slick from what I gather. Luckily it was just backported to older versions of the kernel. They backported to version 2.6.22 which happens to be the version of the kernel that the latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon release will have as its [...]

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Tour of America?

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

VeloNews has this press release about a North Carolina company that wants to start a grand tour in the US.
In its release, the company said it expects the race will be “the largest spectator event in the history of U.S. sports, covering approximately 4000 miles (more than 6000 km) from the Atlantic Ocean to [...]

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Tags: Cycling · Uncategorized

Hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorne for Sega.

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZBSdorJcIg

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A World Without Net Neutrality.

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I found this post on BoingBoing about what an ISP might charge for if Net Neutrality is removed. I think it is fairly true to life and as Cory on BoingBoing says, turns “the Internet back into cable TV, where access to anything except MPAA content costs extra and is walled off from [...]

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