If you have access to a Windows box check out MP3Tag from http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
It's by far the best tool I've found for fixing up metadata. Want to rename a folder full of music based on tags? No problem! Album art? Lots of sources to get it and many more added in his forums. This tool is awesome, sorry I don't think there's a version for Linux...
Yeah, except he, like me and others, has a collection of CDs that's over 400+. On top of that if you trust any completely automated process to choose metadata and artwork then you're as stupid as you are arrogant. He likely doesn't want this process to stretch out for ages and he wants to be able to feed his machine CDs at a fairly rapid pace with fast enough ripping that he's not twiddling thumbs in between waiting on it. I do this now with two drives in my system (one of which sucks for ripping) for friends with small collections. In the past when I ripped my collection I used two additional machines for a total of 6 drives just to speed things along. All I had to do was swap CDs like a monkey and check the album art and songs against the various album jackets. My office was a mess for maybe a week - not the 6 months you're silly process would take to rip a large volume of CDs like this.
Actually CDs do degrade. I've been buying them since they first came out and I can look at some of my CDs - stored in their cases inside a temp reasonable crate inside my home - and see the oxidation beginning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
CDs can also be very fragile depending upon the process that made them. Older CDs that have a very thing LABEL side are the worst. Drop one of those puppies and then shine it up the the light to see the pinpricks or light coming through the damaged areas. The label side is the most fragile side of a CD and some of them take very little effort to screw up.
Given a choice I prefer to keep my CDs around but also digitize them at very high bitrates. If nothing I can always source rips from someone else and use the physical media to prove ownership if it comes to it. I prefer my media online, not on fragile CDs.
As for ripping, I've still been using Lite On hardware without too much issue. I do find that BD drives SUCK for ripping but normal DVD writers work just fine. Lite On even used to have their hardware optimized for ripping but I believe they have begun to sell out and am all ears if there's another company out there making decent drives. Honestly I'd be surprised if there was with the kinds of crap most companies seem to make...
Honestly? I think this is a real shame! A month or so ago I took some friends tv shopping. After going through Costco and ogling the tvs we we t to a shop that was selling these Mistu sets, I'd been hoping to show them a good PJ honestly. I was stunned at how good these things looked and the cost of an 83inch unit was incredible compared to the 60 and 70 inch LCD we'd already looked at. They weren't all that thick and I was very surprised at how far to the side I could stand and still get a terrific picture! I specifically tested this having experienced problems with this with other DLP. In the end I was truly impressed but my friends just couldn't make up their mind and there was no sale made. Now that I'm hearing this I'm glad they waffled but I truly think that had others gotten a good look at these they would've sold better. Well that and less pushy sales guys, the one we had at The Big Screen Store was an ass...
Hrm, anyone using that service that can speak to it? Might be interesting as a secondary usenet service and I could probably gen up a single bitcoin a month easily enough
Hosting most likely....
Unless of course a stolen phone called YOU. Or perhaps the new owner of the phone didn't realize it was stolen. Lots of possibilities. I'll admit though that I'm also having a tough time finding a problem with this scenario...
In IE it doesn't clear anything but the cache that YOU can see. There are a number
Also, the "secure" browsing that IE does? It caches things normally and then deletes them when you close the browser. It's far from "secure". In fact I'm not even sure it's a secure delete that's done. FireFox does this better, I assume Chrome does as well since of the three it handles security the best despite being based on WebKit.
What's so hard to understand about new evidence surfacing that throws doubt on her innocence? A forensic examiner apparently only pulled the browsing history for IE and failed to recognize that a second browser was installed. The browsing history for that browser has now been examined and on the day that this child disappeared there were searches regarding methods for killing someone. Why is importance of THAT so hard to understand?
DNA isn't the be all end all for a conviction either. It's quite possible to find DNA at a crime scene and NOT have it belong to a killer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
We have to be very careful about being lazy when a new tool is introduced as it very well may NOT prove what we think it does. Investigation still has to be done by investigators that have a clue. Sadly it looks like they used an amateur for this investigation.
Frankly, the fact that they failed to recognize more than one browser was on this machine and in use is criminal in and of itself. Whoever did the forensic examination of this machine was an idiot and ought to be fired! they could easily have imaged the workstation, run the image, and explored it to figure out what was and wasn't in use. This could just as easily have been evidence to exonerate someone that was missed, this is disgusting!
Yes, went back and reread it and spotted what I'd missed - mentioned it below. The mention of the lighter threw me, I didn't understand why that was important. However since it was apparently being sold in that town around that time it was used as evidence that the person who commited the crime was likely local and thus supported the DNA requests.
Ever done a CAPTCHA? Yup, may of those support an OCR effort...
At this point, unless he has confessed, it appears that the DNA is the only linkage...
No, the DNA on her body is ALSO mentioned. They mentioned the lighter up front though and I missed the part about DNA also matching on her body. Apparently the fact that the lighter was sold locally led them to believe that the person was a local who did this - hence the mass DNA gathering. It would have been helpful had they spelled that out a little more clearly IMO but they DID mention a DNA match on her body that I missed...
Crap, you're right!
"The decision to launch the dna appeal came after De Vries in May broadcast information about a Playboy cigarette lighter found in Vaatstra's bag which contains dna traces that match the traces found on the schoolgirl's body."
I missed the last part. Why is the lighter even mentioned?
Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
