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Why DRM cannot work

Cory Doctorow (of boingboing fame) wrote a nice column where he explains why DRM (Digital Rights Management) will never work. The article is intended to explain to non-technical people why DRM is impossible. It also explains why DRM only hurts

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HowTo replaygain your entire collection

Every time I need to do this, I forget where I found it. This information is copied from here. Vorbis ogg: vorbisgain -arfs * mp3 (using mp3gain): find -type d -exec sh -c "mp3gain \"{}\"/*.mp3" \; mp4 and mp3: find

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My own encryption key

Thanks to all kind of funny laws in the US of A I can now call myself the owner of the following 128 bit integer: 41 D5 77 97 FA B1 7B F9 3F D8 B9 06 DF 74 37

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Usb sound card, alsa and udev

Found the following information on Joeys blog: If you’re like me and had to buy a usb sound card since the laptop’s onboard soundcard creates too much noise, and would like to have that card used by default when it’s

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Bogus agreements.

READ CAREFULLY. By reading this article, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies

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