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Comment Re:Related: ripping CDs to FLAC/CUE properly on Li (Score 1) 550

by neiljt (#35470466) Attached to: Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC
I use Windows and Linux (servers) -- mainly so I can choose the best tools in either world. Linux provides a CIFS file system accessible from Windows. I use EAC to rip my CDs to wav format, and Linux to enclode to flac.

Incidentally, this doesn't so far seem to be a particularly informed thread, though opinions abound! Sure, not everyone can tell the difference between mp3 (or any other lossy format) & flac representations of a particular recording. For those who can't, the choice is simple: go with mp3 & save the space! For those who can, the choice is almost as simple: if you can afford the space, go with flac and enjoy the greater sound spectrum!

My point is, just because you can't see or hear something does not mean it is isn't there. Though that sounds a bit religious, for which I apologise.
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IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

Posted by samzenpus from the bad-idea dept.
aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

Submission + - VOIP@Home 1

Submitted by neiljt
neiljt writes: Struggling with current home infrastructure (noisy phone lines, crappy wi-fi), I am resigned to re-cabling the house for ethernet, and to the usual fight with BT ("favourite" UK telco) to get them to come out and fix the line quality. At the same time, my traditional phone extension lines are also past their best and it occurred to me this would be a good time to consider IP telephony. Basic setup here is a bunch of windows workstations plugged into a LAN, with CentOS servers available. Oh, and 4 telephones currently disconnected. Ideally, I'd like to avoid re-cabling dedicated phone lines in the house. What I'd like to have is the option to use IP phones on my LAN, leveraging the ethernet cabling. That would be either hardware IP phones that plug into an ethernet drop, soft-phones (using USB mike/headsets), or wi-fi phones. Has anyone any first-hand experience of attempting a project like this? Is it possible to set up without additional hardware (except the phones of course)? What software should I consider, and what should I avoid? Are there any particularly outstanding VOIP providers I should consider (UK, specifically), and for the benefit of those in other locations, what points in general, other than price, should I be taking into account? What advice can you offer?

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