Macworld is reporting that MySpace will use ‘audio fingerprinting’ technology to automatically identify copyright infringing material at the point at which it is uploaded.
The system is provided by Gracenote, and appears to be a mixture of ID3 tag recognition and audio waveform matching.
Of course, there are many valid reasons to upload material that the system may tag as infringing, such as parody or critical review. It’ll be impossible for any blogger to add clips of songs to a music review now.
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I’ve been playing around over the weekend with speeding up this website a little. It runs on a virtual server with not much RAM, so it’s important that I keep the number of Apache processes as low as possible.
I’ve installed lighttpd another IP to serve static content such as images and stylesheets. This means that I won’t have the overhead of Apache to serve up all the little bits of content that don’t require PHP.
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Nokia’s E-Series phones have a few codes you can key in to access various hidden features:
- *#06# - Show the serial number (IMEI)
- *#0000# - Show the software version
- *#7370# - Factory reset (the default lock code is 12345)
- *#62209526# - Show the WLAN MAC address
- *#2820# - Show the bluetooth address
Also, if the phone won’t boot and hangs on the startup screen (white background, blue Nokia logo), you can initiate a factory reset by holding *, 3 and the green button.
Some or all of these seem to work for other S60 devices too, eg: N80.
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Ubuntu 6.10 ‘Edgy Eft’ was released today. It’s available for Intel x86, AMD64, UltraSPARC T1 and PowerPC architectures.
You can get a copy from the download pages, or via their Shipit service.
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The great open source browser, Firefox, has reached a new milestone with the release of version 2.0.
I’ve been using it for the last day or so and I’m impressed. There’s a spell checker for forms, which makes writing blog posts like this much nicer, there are also new tools for reporting phishing sites and sites that aren’t compatible with Firefox, so that the Firefox team can check them out.
Also, tab handling has been improved. There’s now a menu entry that shows recently closed tabs, which is very useful. I’m always closing tabs I didn’t mean to.
It’s not a ground-breaking release, but a nice incremental update that keeps Firefox comfortable ahead of the competition.
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Moller International are auctioning a prototype of their M400X VTOL flying car.
Current bidding is up to $2,501,500.00, which is a bit out of my price range. The bidders questions and answers are hilarious!
Q: Does it come with a Flux Capacitor or similar?
A: The M400X prototype is powered by eight, internal combustion rotary engines…
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