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  • EACCUESheets – 4 types of EAC CUE sheets
  • GapSettings – tutorial to use EAC to extract and burn exact CD copies

    • The proper way to do things? Looks like exporting a non-compliant CUE list, FLACing from EAC, and then batch LAME-encoding on the server end (the hardest thing is doing the metadata transferring). Hmm, can EAC just output a batch-file output?

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  • No end in sight to dollar’s descent – of course you won’t see these kind of headlines in CNN/Money, back to Wal-Mart citizens, nothing to see here
  • Rubin Gets Shrill = latest Krugman Op-ed

    In a paper presented over the weekend at the meeting of the American Economic Association, Mr. Rubin and his co-authors Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution and Allan Sinai of Decision Economics argue along lines that will be familiar to regular readers of this column…

    “Substantial ongoing deficits,” they warn, “may severely and adversely affect expectations and confidence, which in turn can generate a self-reinforcing negative cycle among the underlying fiscal deficit, financial markets, and the real economy. . . . The potential costs and fallout from such fiscal and financial disarray provide perhaps the strongest motivation for avoiding substantial, ongoing budget deficits.” In other words, do cry for us, Argentina: we may be heading down the same road.

  • My So-Called Blog – Emily Nussbaum writes a long feature on teenagers and online journalling

    J.’s sense of private and public was filled with these kinds of contradictions: he wanted his posts to be read, and feared that people would read them, and hoped that people would read them, and didn’t care if people read them. He wanted to be included while priding himself on his outsider status. And while he sometimes wrote messages that were explicitly public — announcing a band practice, for instance — he also had his own stringent notions of etiquette. His crush had an online journal, but J. had never read it; that would be too intrusive, he explained.

  • Two Against One – high-school bi-sexual love triangle ends in a murder. TV movie material for sure
  • RipDigital – will rip your CD’s for ~$1/CD. OK if you don’t have any neighborhood kids you can pay to rip your music I suppose.
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Weekend project: figure out the best way to rip/encode the rest of my CD collection. At this point, I’m thinking that instead of using MAREO w/ EAC (encoding on my WinXP Athlon XP 1800) I should take advantage of my mostly idle (current uptime load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00)Xeon 2.4GHz processor and try to find a good way to encode w/ that. I’ll be doing FLAC, hopefully with a way of retaining in/out points, and then a compact lossy format for the iPod and streaming.

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Last November, I found out that sysctl was reporting that my Powerbook was running at 2/3rd speed. After fiddling it with a while, I finally gave up because 1) the speed kept resetting, and 2) because Xbench didn’t report anything funky (similar CPU score either way).

Reading the ‘What is Mac OS X?’ writeup inspired me to do some Open Firmware digging and figure out what was going on. So, went about booting in, and connecting via telnet (very cool, see also telnet downloading) and got some perplexing numbers:

name                    PowerPC,G4
cpu-version             80010303
state                   running
clock-frequency         1fca0554
bus-frequency           07ef4594
config-bus-frequency    07e8fe70
timebase-frequency      01fbd165
l2cr                    80000000
force-reduced-speed     00000001
min-clock-frequency     032d4b20
max-clock-frequency     33ad5ec0
processor-to-bus-ratio*200000008
rounded-clock-frequency 1fb5ad00
recalced-clock-frequency1fbd1650

According to the Open Firmware, the current clock-speed *is* running at 533MHz, however XBench CPU results are exactly in line with what’s expected (I get a score of ~104). Weird, no? (actually, the weirdest part is the force-reduced-speed, that shouldn’t be one, maybe I’ll muck w/ this over the weekend.

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