a crank’s progress

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads:
Symphony 9 will be broadcast on Thursday 30th June, and available to download from Friday 1st July to Thursday 7th July.
The mp3 files should be available now. Remember, you only have seven days to get these.
[composed and posted with ecto]

Following up on my pondering, I went with an enclosure for the 120 Gb drive, so the total for a portable backup store comes out to about US$80 (the enclosure was $19 but s&h was $15: feh).
Now the next gap to fill is some memory for the aging iMac SE. It needs 8ns PC100 SDRAM, [...]

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads:
Symphony 8 will be broadcast on Wednesday 29th June, and available to download from Thursday 30th June to Wednesday 6th July.
The mp3 files should be available now. Remember, you only have seven days to get these.
[composed and posted with ecto]

No, not a confession. I was just catching up on my feeds and learned that a tempest had boiled out of its teapot and been stuffed back in by the time I woke up. Seems someone accused Apple of inserting DRM into user-contributed podcasts, when in fact they didn’t understand that AAC (Advanced Audio Content) [...]

The 120 Gb drive I picked up on eBay the other week arrived today. But it doesn’t look like I’ll be using it anytime soon. I was planning on replacing the internal 12 Gb drive in my aging G3/G4 Blue & White with an 80 Gb drive and then adding the 120 as an external [...]

It looks like iTunes doesn’t grok the way I handle my music library. I have the library stored on a system with more disk space and then automount the share. The mount point is then symlinked to my ~/Music directory.
It doesn’t see any of it. My iPod is now empty was well as a result [...]

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads:
Symphony 7 will be broadcast on Tuesday 28th June, and available to download from Wednesday 29th June to Tuesday 5th July.
The mp3 files should be available now. Remember, you only have seven days to get these.
[composed and posted with ecto]

Ben Hammersley reminds us that the internets don’t care about the Supreme Court.
The curse of the missing clause:
Declaring filesharing illegal across the net because it’s illegal in the US is like declaring the web broken because it’s censored in China. All it means is that people in the US wanting to write filesharing apps and [...]

I had occasion to help a friend troubleshoot a broken Comcast connection today: turns out he has dead hardware so they’ll send a technician over there for him. It occurred to me that I should take another look at my new networking provider . . .

Well, OK, then. I’m happy.

This now spans the last seven days: when it was just the current day, updated hourly, it didn’t reveal much.
zeitgeist:

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