Monthly Archives: May 2004

Quote from Eric Raymond’s response (to be used in our knowl. reuse paper)?

Software is not composed of interchangeable parts that can be hodded from one project to another like a load of bricks. Context and interfaces are everything; unless it has been packaged into a library specifically intended to move, moving software between projects is more like an organ transplant, with utmost care needed to resect vessels and nerves. The kind of massive theft you are implying is not just contingently rare, it is necessarily rare because it is next to impossible.

Web radios & other music sources

Web radios:

Selling Music:

  • Mindawn (sells music: $0.99/10 minutes Ogg Vorbis format, $1.24/10 minutes FLAC format, $6.99/album Ogg Vorbis format)
  • Magnatune (try before you buy, pay as much as you think its worth)

Update: slight formatting updates in Feb 2010. I really should be updating this list again.

Web Radios

* http://soma.fm groovy sounds. I like it a lot
* http://radioparadise.com more mainstream rock, pop, oldies. Very nice
* http://www.dradio.de/aod/html/ Onlinearchiv des Deutschlandfunk
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/ BBC radio on demand online archive
* http://www.progrock.com/ Progrssive rock online radio

Web radios with taste correlation (to play what the user likes)
* http://www.last.fm/
* http://irate.sourceforge.net/
* http://gnomoradio.org/

Non-evil music downloads
* http://magnatune.com shareware model shop
* http://www.novatune.de/ Fair trade shop
* http://www.mindawn.com/ listen 3 times before buying. Download in ogg or flac file format
* http://allofmp3.com cheap russian web shop
* http://weblisten.com spanish(?) web shop with time based download flat rates. Never tried so far.

Spam

I get spammed by some person in Austria using Jeff as sender name.
He sends 4 different sex spam mails (however, strangely enough not containing any link) about 80 times per day. This is so weird.
I already send a complain to abuse at utaonline.at, but have not received a reply. I am really pissed about this. >:( >:(

SIP phones

I signed up for an account with sipgate.de. I received a free phone number in Hamburg, Germany which can be called and which can be forwarded to any SIP phone around the world. I can also call conventional telefones for under 2 Eurocents/Minute. Sounds cool. My SIP phone number is 4317754@sipgate.net.