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    • DVD Ripping Utilities
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      In support of my latest project, building a Windows Media Server, I needed to find a DVD ripping utility that could decrypt but still keep the discs in their original format (i, e; no compression). There are several reasons why I chose this route for ripping:SATA hard drives are currently available in up to 1.5TB capacities at a price point of roughly ten cents per gigabyte. When this much space can be had for such a small investment, it's hard to justify the increased processing time, let...

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    • Gmail Has Themes!
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      For those of you who use Google's online mail, the Google folks are currently in the process of rolling out a great new theme feature. Although custom themes have been available in the past from various 3rd party vendors, Google's constant updates to Gmail's underlying structure resulted in frequent style-sheet breakages. With the addition of Google's own custom Gmail Themes, these breakages are no longer an issue because the bulk of the themes are developed internally. Plus, there are quite a...

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    • Happy Turkey Day!
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      Just wanted to wish everyone out there a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

    • RAIDCore: A Brief History

      In case you missed it, Byte and Switch has posted a follow-up article to the ongoing Ciprico bankruptcy proceedings. So, like a never-ending game of hot potato, it now appears that Dot Hill will be picking up the RAIDCore torch and carrying it forward. This is great news for people like me since I've been using RAIDCore-based controllers since the technology was first developed.Pursuant to bankruptcy proceedings Dot Hill Systems was the winning bidder to acquire all of Ciprico's rights to its...

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    • Cats and Burgers
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      In case you've been missing out on the fun of LOLcats, I'd like to bring your attention to www.icanhascheezburger.com. Even if you don't understand the captions, you're bound to laugh at some of the pictures.

    • Web Browser Requirements

      To all our current members, According to official news presented by the Firefox development team, Firefox version 2.0.0.x will only be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. Since this is their official notice of support termination for Firefox version 2, I will be following suit. If you have not done so already, please download and install Firefox 3 some time before the end of the year. Similarly, Internet Explorer version 8 is out in beta form at the moment...

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    • Streaming Video
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      It looks like I'll soon be able to offer the option of streaming video files for those who may be interested. The only thing to keep in mind is that any videos uploaded would need to be copyright-free. I don't have any code in place yet to do this so it may be a few months before you see something. But at the moment this looks very feasible and should be a nice option for those of you with broadband connections.

    • At Least I'm Consistent
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      In the spirit of continuing my knack for e-mail-related fiascoes, I finally managed to get the new content notifications working and set up to run this weekend. After checking to ensure that all the code was correct, I uploaded the script and set it to run on a weekly basis.Now who could have predicted that I would choose the one day and time of the year where the clock would officially hit the same hour twice in a single day, to send out the first mailings from the site? Everyone but me...

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