Getting RAID 1

Recent events have proved that hard drives suck sooo… Tell me how to get RAID 1.

You could do it in software or your could get a $50 dollar card that does ATA 100 as well. I would like to go this route since my motherboard only does ATA 33

Next you need a matching hard drive to what you already have. Here’s what I want Maxtor DIMONDMAX + 80GB.

Now… I just need some money….

More on music merging

My mergeing project has gone awry. While I did pick off the easy duplicates (the ones with matching audioSha1’s), I decided it would be better to finish TuneTagger.

TuneTagger (project at sf.net is way out of date) is a music file renaming/tagging utility. It’s greatest feature will be making use of Musicbrainz. Once a track as been id’ed by one person, Musicbrainz remember the sound signature (aka TRM) of the song so the next person that points a Musicbrainz enabled tool at any file that is the same song it will know right away what that song is.

I figure it probably won’t need that many users before you will be able to sort out and rename your music collection without lifting a finger.

At first I was going to use wxPython, but I have gotten to play with pygtk/pygnome and the mozilla wrapper pygme and it looks like that will be an easier route to take with just has much portablity.

Hard Drive Troubles

Wow… what a week for hard drives

1. The hard drive holding /var on k92 (the sever that hosts this) starts kicking out errors, almost exactly one year after installed. Steve, the guy who’s ISP this k92 lives at, had to drive 80 miles to Fry’s just to find they wanted to rip him off, then installed another hard drive that was more trouble than the current one was, until getting a 60 GB that worked. Lot of fun.
2. A 60 GB hard drive that Bob left in my care while in the Peace Core for 2 years makes funny noises as certain times. ASAP I’m going to get another drive and do the hard drive hokeypokey with it (“you put one in, you take one out, you call up maxtor and scream and shout”)
3. Bob’s computer that I’m trying to set up for my wife, Laura (Bob is her brother) has major hard drive problems to the point that I’m not sure if I can recover all his data before I fdisk it (I believe it a “windows has crappy filesystems” problem, not a hardware error.
4. My good buddy zooko just had his laptop hard drive crash, losing a lot of irreplacable data.

I’m thinking …. RAID 1 is the only way to fly, Baby!

Merging music collections

I got a copy of my brother-in-law’s music collection while I was in NY last weekend… all 24 GB’s of it. He and I had a lot of the same stuff so I made a TRM fingerprint of all the files in both of our collections and stuck it in a mysql database. Now I’m writing a tool to grade the duplicates using code from mp3guessenc to discover the encoder used and other mp3 checking tools to see if the file has any errors.

If I could get TuneTagger up and running then I could do it using that. (more on tunetagger later)

As seen in #p2p-hackers

[arma] i think we live in a parallel unauthorized copy of earth. crop circles are the tell-tale signs of break-in.</p>

[arma] (speaking of digital rights management)

[coderman] lol

[tvoj] 34Rth 1z mY w4r3Z!!!!

• tvoj has been reading too much H4×0r Economist

[tvoj] arma: how kn i use UR crop-cirlce algo to h4ck pr0n?

[arma] well, the theory is, the watermarks are indistinguishable while they’re working,

[arma] but since obviously people have been removing watermark-sized pieces of corn fields,

[arma] then pretty soon we’re no longer going to have control over those fields.

[arma] ...the implications for hacking porn should be obvious.

[arma] i can give you a hint, if you need it:

[tvoj] arma: kn U send m3 sum l337 KoRn?

[arma] step 1: place crop circles in porn

[arma] step 3: profit.

[tvoj] U r g3nus.

[tvoj] arma: i tried k0rn pr0n but all i got was bitchslapped with a trout. was this success?

[arma] you must keep trying.

[tvoj] shite h4xx0R1ng iz fuct

[arma] perhaps you should read a book? take a walk?
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