Archives for January 2006

O’Reilly Asterisk Book Available For Free Download

VoipSpeak – O’Reilly Asterisk Book Available For Free Download

> O’Reilly Media’s latest book, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, written by Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, and Leif Madsen is the most complete book on the Asterisk PBX system to date. The new book, announced at Astricon 2005 covers many of the new features of Asterisk [...]

Holophonic MP3s

Cereni – Holophonic is a backwards compatible holophonic MP3, which is full 3D surround sound. Quite impressive, when you listen to it in headphones. Sound coming from above and below as well as the normal surround directions.

MP3 Surround

Two track mind for MP3 Surround | The Register

> Having seemingly failed to persuade the digital music world to upgrade to MP3 Pro, the format’s founder, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, is trying again, this time with MP3 Surround, a multi-channel implementation of the hugely popular music codec.

It’s also backwards compatible, and free for [...]

TZInfo in Rails 1.0

I finally got around to timezone-ifying my project management webapp (yeah, I know, who hasn’t written their own clone of Basecamp? ), and found some great instructions for adding TZInfo to your app. Only problem was that after logging in and viewing the first page, all further requests just timed out or returned [...]

Sony settles ‘rootkit’ class action lawsuit | CNET News.com

Sony settles ‘rootkit’ class action lawsuit | CNET News.com

> Sony BMG has struck a deal with the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit over copy-restriction software it used in music CDs, according to a settlement document filed at a New York court Wednesday.

If you were affected by the Sony BMG rootkit, you could get either [...]

How the RIAA sues John Doe

p2pnet.net – the original daily p2p and digital media news site

> The bizarre sue ‘em all marketing scheme perpetrated by Organized Music’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has gone mainstream and OM’s owners, Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI, are on the verge of a blistering PR disaster equally as [...]

French allow P2P

Bloomberg.com: Europe

> Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — The French Parliament voted last night to allow free sharing of music and movies on the Internet, setting up a conflict with both the French government and with media companies.

Woot! Time to relocate?