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Entries from November 2003

QtFairUse: Cracking iTunes’ DRM

November 24th, 2003 · Comments Off

As long as there are locks out there that people say are un-crackable, thousands of idle minds will stop at nothing until they can say they cracked it….
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If the sound plays through your speakers, it must exist in decrypted form somewhere in your computer’s data path. If it exists in decrypted form, you can tap [...]

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Tritton’s new network drive

November 24th, 2003 · Comments Off

I’ve been looking at getting another network attached blob of disk..  This looks like it might be a winner…. 
A new 120GB hard drive with an Ethernet from Tritton that connects to router so that the files on it can be accessed by all of the users on the network. The TRI-NAS120P also has a USB [...]

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The sight of Phil in a towel

November 24th, 2003 · Comments Off

 Vegitales folks will get that, but it seems that my last post caused MT to go bezerk!!!  After doing some fancy footwork, I have restored everything to its proper place.
 
Note to self: No more talking about naked stuff as it hurts the movabletype. J

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QtFairUse: Cracking iTunes’ DRM

November 24th, 2003 · Comments Off

As long as there are locks out there that people say are un-crackable, thousands of idle minds will stop at nothing until they can say they cracked it….
<snip> 
If the sound plays through your speakers, it must exist in decrypted form somewhere in your computer’s data path. If it exists in decrypted form, you can tap [...]

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Tritton’s new network drive

November 24th, 2003 · Comments Off

I’ve been looking at getting another network attached blob of disk..  This looks like it might be a winner…. 
A new 120GB hard drive with an Ethernet from Tritton that connects to router so that the files on it can be accessed by all of the users on the network. The TRI-NAS120P also has a USB [...]

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Conference calls: excuse for nudity and websurfi

November 21st, 2003 · Comments Off

One more try:  For those of you at SOI, I was *ALWAYS* dressed for my con calls… Really, I was! 
An international survey reveals that nudity and inattention are astonishingly common among particpants in conference calls:
So what are they doing instead? Twenty-nine percent of British workers say they doodle, while 22 percent of Germans surf the [...]

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Blogstipated

November 18th, 2003 · Comments Off

It’s been a while but I am still here.  I have finally gotten my home media center server (Not the MS OS) running.  I feel it has reached the level of completeness that I can at least talk about it.
 
I have an older 700Mhz Duron machine that is running windows XP.
I installed a GeForce NVidia [...]

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Exchange 2003 Move Mailbox

November 12th, 2003 · Comments Off

First off, let me say WOW.  I am so happy to see this in the mainstream client.  Having said that I should also add: “About time!”  Some of us, Thanks Mr. Odom, have been able to do this for quite some time now. J
 
It looks like it *was* a good idea after all. 
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Two New Exchange Articles

November 11th, 2003 · Comments Off

This sounds neat!  I know a few of you out there are messing with E2k3 so check these out. 
Two new useful articles have been published over at www.msexchange.org.
First, Jakub Synoradzki gives a run-through of the new improvements in Exchange 2003. This article details new features such as the Recovery Storage Group, Query-Based Distribution Lists, etc.
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Thanks Technodaddy!

November 7th, 2003 · Comments Off

I’ve started using slimp3 quite a bit now thanks to a phone call with the great TechnoDaddy.  Check it out on http://www.slimdevices.com and you will find out what I am talking about.  I haven’t gotten a device yet, but I am able to stream the music to my laptop quite well.  The kids can all [...]

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