The machine involved in my office PC, Windows XP. I just let it autoupdate routinely. No idea exactly where this started happening.

Windows patches as listed in "Add or Remove Programs"

• Windows NT Messaging
• Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q329834
• Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q329048
• Windows XP Service Pack 1

Windows XP Post-SP1 Hotfixes Is there a better place to look for these?

Hardware:

• Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-116
• Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A

I usually rip using the CD-R, usually in dBpowerAMP.

Some Windows XP laptops are coming in this month. I'll see if they can rip before/after updating. If so, Microsoft can be blamed. And that's what it's all about!

If I learn more I'll report it somewhere & link it from here.

N.P.: David Cross Exiles, violinist leveraging his 70s King Crimson membership. Adequate wanque-prog with hardish (c.f. 70s Crimson as metal) parts and acoustic breaks for woodwinds & violin (midway 'tween Kenny G & Canterbury). I imagine Cross wishes he could just have the acoustic. Guest spot by (among others) Robert Fripp. As a Fripp completist I'm kinda satisfied with this, but I wouldn't need it otherwise. Best record I've yet heard on Cleopatra (not counting their Purple Pyramid sublabel).

here: ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/iso/

Mandrake's main server isn't listing /pub at the moment.

Downloading now. If all goes well, I'll try it tomorrow morning.

• 2002-09-23 19:42:23 Cage estate paid for silence (articles,music)

Mike Batt and The John Cage Trust have settled out of court. The case was over whether Batt had infringed on the infamous Cage piece 4'33" (composed entirely of rests) by having a silent track ("humorously" credited to Cage) on his album.

Reported on Slashdot here. Batt's take here.

Well, the main reason is that you can assign a modifier to posts. (such as +2 to friends -2 to foes)

Unfortunately others can view whose "friends" & "foes" lists they're on (under "fans" and "freaks"). Some narcissistic personality (1)[ ?] type has been downmodding my every post (-1: Overrated) since he found himself in my foes list.

It would be a pretty good feature, but as implemented it enables more damage to the moderation system.

Maybe one could argue that people who create a Foes list lack sufficient judgement to moderate.

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1. I throw this phrase around too much to mean "inappropriate, intense or uncontrollable anger in reaction to minor stimuli" -- basicly borderline personality disorder without the suicide attempts (which would be an improvement). What I hate most about internet is how destructive it allows such people to be.

• submitted Friday, 07 June 2002 -- since I was an Anonymous Coward, I can't see the status, but I doubt it's still pending

Got a phonemail message this morning asking if we needed to take the agency website down. The CDC is extending the 1992 requirements for HIV educational materials (Section 5, subsections 3 & 4) to now include websites published by organizations receiving CDC funding, even in situations where the site in question is not CDC-funded.

Formerly the requirement only applied to materials purchased or distributed with CDC funds -- they may not "promote" sexual activity (heterosexual or homosexual) or injection drug use, and must be locally acceptable. The chilling effect on written AIDS Education materials is widely believed to have hampered prevention efforts in the US.

"Community Standards" in the form of Program Review Panels will now be required to audit information published on the web by any CDC-funded organization, at the risk of losing funding. Very few AIDS service organizations will risk losing funding over speech issues as they are occupied with providing direct services to clients.

Bold and italics as in the original fax, links and brackets are my enhancements:

April 29, 2002

[name and title removed]
Procurement and Grants Office

Dear CDC Funding Recipient:

This letter is in follow-up to our reminder of the requirement that all HIV educational materials supported with CDC funds must be approved in advance by your Program Review Panel (reference letter dated August 23, 2001, from John L. Williams). As provided in the guidelines published in the Federal Register on June 15, 1992, the term "HIV educational materials" includes written materials (e.g. pamphlets, brochures, fliers), audio visual materials (e.g., motion pictures and video tapes), and pictorials (e.g. posters and similar educational materials using photographs, slides, drawings, or paintings). When the requirements were developed for community-based review of AIDS materials, the Internet and the World Wide Web were not used by the general public as a major source of information as it is today. Because of the prominence of the web in the information environment, materials placed on the web can be accessed by anyone with Internet capabilities. Recognizing this information environment, it is necessary to notify Internet web users of the nature of information they may be encountering on a website containing HIV/AIDS-related materials funded through CDC grants/cooperative agreements.

For all current and future CDC awards and/or modifications, we require that a web page notice be used by funding recipients who maintain websites to alert individuals who may be searching or browsing the web, this web page notice will apply to (1) those recipient websites funded in whole or part with CDC funds that contain HIV/AIDS educational information subject to the CDC guidelines referenced above; and (2) those recipient websites containing HIV/AIDS educational information subject to the CDC guidelines referenced above, even if the website itself is not funded by the CDC. Proposed language for the recipient to use for the web site notice is enclosed.

You will be receiving a revised notice of grant award within the next two weeks, which will incorporate this web notice responsibility and constitute your agreement to comply with this and other requirements explained on Content of AIDS-Related Written Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, Survey Instruments, and Educational Sessions , published in the Federal Register on June 15, 1992. Included in the revised notice of grant award will be a certification that should be signed and returned to the Procurement and Grants Office. Not complying with these requirements will result in restrictions or disallowances of funds related to the use of the unapproved materials and related staff activities. You can obtain a copy of these guidelines from the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/forminfo.htm.

If applicable, the placement of this notice on your website should be completed no later than June 14, 2002. Please contact your Grants Management Specialist with any questions about this new requirement or your grant.

Sincerely ...[snip]

Republicans in Congress have targeted prevention materials (link reprints an expired LA Times article), and the Bush Administration's opposition to sex education while favoring "Abstinence-only" programs is much documented.

In case you're wondering what a sex-positive presentation might look like, here's one website not targeted at the Abstinence Community (you've clicked on links worse than this, but not for the timid anyway), from the AIDS Committee of Toronto.

1. attempt to post this failed. Reported error at SourceForge.
2. attempt seemed successful, but entry not found in "My Journal", perhaps because I entered Journal Topic as "Music" instead of "User Journal". I wonder where that submission went.
3. current attempt, with Journal Topic as "User Journal"

I haven't added a Journal entry in months, so here's a useless one. I've never specified the "Journal Topic" as anything but the default ("User Journal"), so I don't know where this is going to come out.

~/shared/Miles Davis/[1975] Get Up With It/Miles Davis - Get Up With It disc 1 - 04 - Rated X.ogg

• ARTIST=Miles Davis
• TITLE=Rated X
• ALBUM=Get Up With It - Disc 1
• GENRE=Jazz+Funk
• YEAR=2000
• TRACK=4
• ORGANIZATION=Hemisphere Teledildonics, Inc.

The "TRACK" tag is incorrect; in the Ogg Vorbis comment header spec recommendations it's called TRACKNUMBER, which is what WinAMP looks for (the "Track:" field is blank when I view properties in WinAMP). I need to report this to Illustrate, who make dbPowerAMP, the Windows app I use to rip CDs.

The "ORGANIZATION" (sic) tag is my own. Vorbis lets you make any tag you like, text strings only. I've entered tags for "LYRICS" and "URL". People have contacted me trying to figure out how to play .ogg files having done a web search on "Hemisphere Teledildonics, Inc.", with predictable results. I think "ORGANISATION" (spelled correctly) was one of the proposed standard tags in an earlier Vorbis spec, but I might be mis-remembering an unofficial practice.

"YEAR" according to the Vorbis spec is intended to for year of recording issue, not of the performance itself.

The ID3v1 "GENRE" list is famously inadequate.

... so I'm entering this one to see if the problem is still occurring. It's possible the journal failed during one of my KDE/Mozilla crashes.