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      • icepick-away
        icepick-away is now known as icepick
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      • kyleboon
        kyleboon is now known as kyleboon|sleep
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      • ruaok
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      • phidauex
        shall they come or shall they go
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      • ruaok
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      • ruaok
        I've never looked so
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      • ruaok
        'respectable' before. What happened?
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      • phidauex
        What the hell is that? a resume?
      • 2003-05-02 12227, 2003

      • phidauex
        a newspaper article?
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      • ruaok
        as the url suggest, is Internet Magazine
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      • ruaok
        June issue.
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      • ruaok
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      • ruaok
        that's the cover page.
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      • phidauex
        duh, InternetMagazine
      • 2003-05-02 12245, 2003

      • ruaok
        That's me flapping my gums about MB.
      • 2003-05-02 12245, 2003

      • phidauex
        Internet + Magazine
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      • phidauex
        sweet
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      • phidauex
        I like how its all kanji plus random english words "GNU GPL"
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      • phidauex
        "XING"
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      • phidauex
        "MusicBrainz URL"
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      • ruaok
        GraceNote
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      • ruaok
        CDDB
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      • ruaok
        yup.
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      • phidauex
        is that you bitching about how cddb became evil? ;)
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      • ruaok
        How could you tell?
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      • phidauex
        or maybe more gentle criticism of the methods used for their business?
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      • phidauex
        ;)
      • 2003-05-02 12233, 2003

      • phidauex
        the other day someone came onto the audioscrobbler channel asking if we were going to, and i quote "go all gracenote on us"
      • 2003-05-02 12235, 2003

      • phidauex
        ;)
      • 2003-05-02 12239, 2003

      • phidauex
        i got a kick out of that
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      • ruaok
        common question.
      • 2003-05-02 12217, 2003

      • phidauex
        naturally
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      • phidauex
        people don't like being strung along and then have the price jacked up once they are addicted
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      • phidauex
        i certainly dislike it.
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      • phidauex
        i used to submit hella CDs to gracenote
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      • ruaok
        people don't like being lied to...
      • 2003-05-02 12200, 2003

      • ruaok
        you and me both.
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      • ruaok
        that's is why I started this whole mess.
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      • phidauex
        but now its all about musicbrainz
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      • phidauex
        freedb was a great placeholder, to keep data safe until something could be done with it, but it never struck me as a 'solution'
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      • ruaok
        :-)
      • 2003-05-02 12255, 2003

      • ruaok
        anyway, I'm going to relax for a little while
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      • phidauex
        right on, i've been relaxing for a while now
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      • djce
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      • phidauex
        morning dj
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      • djce yawns
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      • djce
        morning!
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      • phidauex
        getting ready for a hard day at work?
      • 2003-05-02 12226, 2003

      • phidauex
        its a friday at least
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      • djce
        nope! long weekend for me. No work until next Thursday.
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      • phidauex
        what are you doing up so early then? habit?
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      • djce
        yah, I'm rubbish at sleeping in.
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      • phidauex
        my friend is the same way. He can pass out on my couch at 3 am drunk as a skunk, and still his circadian rhythm wakes him up a 7:30am
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      • djce
        I'm such a sad git I'm even tailing one of my favourite log files at work.
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      • phidauex
        i however, can sleep up to 20 hours in a single stretch if my schedule allows
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      • phidauex
        i wake up having to pee like crazy however
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      • phidauex
        no shame in tailing your favorite log :)
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      • djce
        I'll try not to let it get out of hand, or I'll end up tailing all of them :-)
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      • ruaok
        no work til thursday? Nice.
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      • phidauex
        do you have plans?
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      • phidauex
        or is it just 'dj time'
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      • djce
        My wife's birthday is coming up, so we'll generally just be dossing about and doing not a lot.
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      • djce
        You know, just go out for the day and have a nice time.
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      • phidauex
        cool, its good to take time for that :)
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      • phidauex
        my girlfriend's birthday was last week, but she is just about to graduate with her master's (two weeks away!) and so she is so busy we didn't even get to go out to dinner :(
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      • djce
        Plus it's the Snooker World Championship Final weekend, so there's some TV to watch.
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      • phidauex
        but we have some dossing about time scheduled for after graduation though
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      • phidauex
        snooker eh? i've never played that, though i watched someone play it once
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      • djce
        Oh yeah, and I've got a branch to try and finish off ;-)
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      • phidauex
        :)
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      • ruaok
        djce: do you read your powernet mail when you're not there?
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      • ruaok
        I assumed you'd be going to work...
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      • phidauex
        if he's tailing the logs, i bet he's reading the mail ;)
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      • ruaok
        prolly right.
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      • djce
        nope, too much like hard work to do that.
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      • djce
        That requires setting up ssh tunnels and stuff, and I can't be arsed.
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      • ruaok
        ok. I'll forward the mail in q to the right addy.
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      • djce
        But then again, now you've mentioned it, I probably will :-)
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      • ruaok
        Damn you. :-)
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      • djce
        send it to me at home to be sure though.
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      • ruaok
        I won't bother waking the laptop for this.
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      • ruaok
        The q was:
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      • ruaok
        Can we tell from our logs how many people request mb tagger downloads last month?
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      • ruaok
        /usage tells me the ones that were downloaded from us.
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      • ruaok
        can we tell from the logs how many people we sent to the mirrors?
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      • djce
        as long as the logs go back far enough, then yes.
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      • ruaok
        I'd like to setup some metrics to track our tagger downloads and our donations.
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      • phidauex
        to see if your nag screen helps ;)
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      • ruaok
        I'm tinkering with excel trying to figure out how long it might take to become self sufficient.
      • 2003-05-02 12237, 2003

      • ruaok
        It did.
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      • djce
        something like: grep /selectmirror/pub/musicbrainz/tagger-blah-blah.exe or something.
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      • ruaok
        I tossed out a tagger release, and left for .jp and etech without hyping the tagger, and we got $160 in donations.
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      • phidauex
        excellent
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      • ruaok
        I wonder how that changes when we do hype the tagger.
      • 2003-05-02 12236, 2003

      • ruaok
        How long until I can live off that? That is the question I want to answer.
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      • djce
        grep "GET /ftpmirror/pub/musicbrainz/mbtagger-setup-"
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      • ruaok
        thx
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      • phidauex
        how are you willing to live, is the real question, ruaok ;)
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      • phidauex
        160 a month could keep you alive, if you lowered your standards a bit
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      • phidauex
        er, a lot
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      • djce
        ruaok already has low standards ;-)
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      • ruaok
        Yeah, but the debt I've racked up working MB is not going away. :-(
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      • ruaok
        djce: you're right.
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      • ruaok
        I eat a lot of home made bread -- its cheap.
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      • djce
        some people would pay extra for that!
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      • ruaok
        But I'm shooting for $2000/month income -- that is $24k/year. Barely above poverty level.
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      • phidauex
        what?
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      • phidauex
        lol
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      • phidauex
        i make 8 bucks an hour working half time
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      • phidauex
        i felt like a goddamn king when i was making 24k doing AV support
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      • ruaok
        :-(
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      • phidauex
        i didn't know what to do with all the money ;)
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      • phidauex
        i used to live in a van, ruaok ;)
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      • ruaok
        dude.
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      • ruaok
        I have certain standards...
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      • phidauex
        i understand though, california is a different animal too :)
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      • ruaok
        A depenable car, decent food.
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      • phidauex
        i pay about a third what i'd pay in california for similar rent
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      • djce
        all those personal trainers don't come cheap either ;-)
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      • ruaok
        :-)
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      • ruaok
        Plus I pay two rents -- one for the office and one for home.
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      • ruaok
        Back in 99 when I worked for EMusic, those were the times.
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      • phidauex
        you are right, if i were living in california, i think about 20k-22k would be about as little as i'd want to make to be comfortable
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      • ruaok
        Yup.
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      • ruaok
        $20k is the official poverty line in CA.
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      • phidauex
        when i actually was living in california i made less than that by a good margin, but i lived in an abandoned warehouse, so it wasn't so bad :D
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      • phidauex
        those were the day
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      • ruaok
        I've been really lucky.
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      • ruaok
        To say the least.
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      • phidauex
        you've got mad skillz
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      • phidauex
        thats part of it
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      • ruaok
        thx
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      • phidauex
        at the time, i had some skillz, and a lot of impulse ;)
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      • phidauex
        i had a great time, and i wouldn't trade the experiences for anything, but i'm glad i'm not so 'hey lets move across the country for no reason and squat in a warehouse'
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      • ruaok
        The .jp article is already generting some interest. :-)
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      • phidauex
        it looks interesting, i wish i could read it
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      • phidauex
        i like the pictures
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      • ruaok