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Remember last time I talked about organizing your (huge) mp3 collection ?

My first concern was not to get powned when installing a new system or media application. I was thinking about all "those fancy rating and stars" you put using iTunes or similar software and you'll likely to lose if you change application (for example, the brand new Songbird 1.0).

I chose the "phisical way": along with correct and coherent mp3 tagging, I moved (actually, copied) all my favorited songs in a new directory. So, now I have my "music" dir along with a "music_favorites" dir. I also tagged every favorited track with "Favorites" in the field "Composer": doing that way I didnt lose anything important to me (that field is not relevant for my collection) and I can still use the fancy features of media manager applications. I also noted (later) the iPod let you browse your music using the "Composer" tag field.

I'm done with this task: after listening to my whole mp3 collection, I picked up the best tracks, tagged and copied in that "music_favorites" folder.

Amarok now tells me the "music" directory contains 6110 tracks (2 weeks and 5 days) and the "music_favorites" 1981 tracks (6 days 7 hours).

32,42%. cool.

What's going on?

I was just looking for a tool to monitor directory (and be notified if something there changes, like a new torrent completed) and...
searching "watch directory" doesnt return any item.
I was already by Uncle_Google and I thought "well, let me try different keywords"

I searched with a "watch folder" and... voila' !
Oh gosh... the old school is dying with that.

Some time ago the NYTimes wrote about Obama's addition to mobile email, powered by his Blackberry. The reporter wrote actually about the issues the Secret Service is going into because of that: the point is that RIM's software for the Blackberry is closed-source and god-only-knows (along with RIM) how does it work.

[ "Addiction", CC-licensed picture by hirefrank ]

Questions like "Who's reading my emails?", "Who can shut off remotely my phone?" or "Am I really sure my emails aren't forwarded to some hidden email account tied to some al-Qaida agent?" are just dumb-paranoid questions for all of us but not for the a President. Well, The President.

So, Fabrizio came up with a smart proposal to the white collars in the Secret Service: use open source software to power Obama's mobile email!

That's the only way you can really be sure there is no trap in the software code you're using. Doing this way, you can note if some line states:

if (user == "Barack Obama") send_email_to("Silvio Berlusconi")

:)

And at the end of the day, are you really sure protecting your own private comunications is important just for Obama?

Think about that.

Now that Youtube will host only kittens videos, gotta turn to something else. :)

Dato che le volte precedenti ho avuto fortuna (per la moto, per la PSP e, sembra, per l'IBM Z50), ci provo ancora.

Metto in vendita il mio Nintendo DS Lite nero, completo di tre giochi: New Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart DS e Animal Crossing: Wild World. Se qualcuno non vuole i giochi se ne puo' parlare. Se qualcuno vuole la M3 Simply da 1GB per usare le immagini dei giochi su file .nds, me lo faccia sapere.

Il prezzo e' di 130 Euro compreso di giochi e spedizione esclusa. Senza giochi, parliamone! Con M3 Simply, parliamone ancora!

Qui sotto metto solo la prima foto del DS: tutto il resto dopo il salto.