Someone posed a question about how to speed-up CD Ripping on a mailing list which I’m on, so I decided it might be of some use to post my response here on the devnulled blogorator.

Several sources on the web make various conflicting claims about encodings and the iPod sound quality. Therefore I’ve started my own “research” to get a better clue. The following links will give you factual information of the iPod, and share my opinion about its sound quality. I’ve also included related information and links to the [...]

I just read a message about the newly posted 1G DSM Engine Primer, which is essentially a page which has all of the visible parts of a 1G DSM labeled with descriptions. Very nice! There are certainly a few things I’m not familiar with in the engine bay of my Talon as I’m [...]

I just posted some links at Matt Liotta’s blog in comments to some various spam solutions I had came across before for Movable Type, so I figured I should post them here as well since it took me a bit to find them again after coming across them a few weeks ago, and I’m sure [...]

Java, the software developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s as a universal operating system for Internet applications, gave NASA a low-cost and easy-to-use option for running Spirit, the robotic rover that rolled onto the planet’s surface on Thursday in search of signs of water and life.

That’s hot. Apparently you can also download a [...]

Normally I wouldn’t post such a “normal” news story, but this accident looks like a scene out of Grand Theft Auto

The tanker was curling around the overpass on southbound Interstate 895 about 2:45 p.m. when it jackknifed, flipped down an embankment and landed in the northbound I-95 lanes, police and witnesses said.
Unable to stop in [...]

Instead, the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much as five hours per week compared with Net abstainers, the study added.

See? Geeks are people too. I [...]

Franken said his contract with Progress Media would last just one year, after which time both sides would reassess how things were going. He also said he very much wanted to do the show during a presidential election year.
“I’m interested in doing what I can to affect this election,” Franken said. “I’ve thinking about what’s [...]

I’m currently working on something which uses GnuPG, an OpenPGP client for encryption. I also use the WinPT GUI for key management because it’s easier and faster than doing it by command line. I had problems encrypting a file to a recipient using their public key, and kept getting this error back from [...]

Looks like NASA released the first color, panoramic photo of Mars, supposedly color adjusted to how it would look to the human eye. Check out the photo (700 KB) for yourself.