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    Lossless to ACC conversion

    Hmmm hmmm .... and how to get the converted copies from one user to another? I can think of ways that would be way way way more trouble than it's worth (well, to ME, anyway). I can think of one (make the iTunes folder shared), but that just ends up with both users looking at two copies of...
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    Legal Concern About Music Downloads/Sharing

    Sony has released several CD's formatted in ways that were intended to prevent (what they view as) illegal copying. But since there's no official "prevent copying this disc" function defined for CDs, they had to invent incredibly cute tricks to achieve this, and all of them have had horrible...
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    What applications to use with X11? Suggestions and reviews

    And it might be worth pointing out, at least here in this thread, that NeoOffice does not require or use X11.
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    What applications to use with X11? Suggestions and reviews

    Since around half my keystrokes go to XEmacs "a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system," that's my primary X11 application (but if you're asking what to use with X11, XEmacs is probably not the place to start...). Ethereal, a network tracer, also takes...
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    Legal Concern About Music Downloads/Sharing

    It is, perhaps, pointless to try to make this stuff actually make sense. In a general sort of way, and perhaps more so with some companies than others, the recording industry would like to make you pay as much and as often as they can. There are schemes (re)proposed from time to time to create...
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    Lossless to ACC conversion

    You might want to create a "smart playlist" containing only the pod-able rips ("kind does not contain lossless"), and configure the iPod to download that.
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