Last night went and saw Gangs of New York. Good. Recommended. darkho and I were curious about its level of historical accuracy.
Went to a wedding today, macgyver and his S.O. Congratulations to them (if I haven’t said that enough yet) and I hope they’re quite happy together. We had a good time at the wedding… and thank you for making it so short. The newlyweds and some of the wedding party came back to our place tonight for more punch and pie.
Had a debate today with introvert on the best Win32 CDDA extraction tool. I was behind EAC and he was rooting for CDex. The end result was no ground given by either side. We actually both pretty much conceded that either was just fine (other rippers probably are not, at least not on Win32 — unless euphorik was right and someone has done a port of cdparanoia). Use whatever works for you. CDex has the ability to skip the intermediate WAV file when encoding. Someone ran a test on some damaged CDs between EAC and CDex; the only interesting point I was really able to pick out was that EAC reported errors whereas CDex did not report them, leaving some errors in the resulting WAV files. That’s pretty bad, but the CD was pretty fucked up too. I think the ripping time was pretty long for CDex, so that probably should have tipped you off that something was up right there. Still, a false positive result from a ripping program would be worse than a false negative. Also, WRT some hardware combinations and compatibility, as well as OS compatibility in some cases, I read some testimonies of EAC working where CDex would not. While I’m betting EAC actually has more settings to be checked than CDex, I think I’ll still be recommending EAC first, since I’m thinking it’ll work for more people. OTOH, CDex is open source where EAC is not. Also, I read an rumor that CDex supposedly incorporates some of the same techniques (and I hope code) from cdparanoia. I like cdparanoia enough to make that a definite point for CDex. Still, for now, EAC for me.
But who uses Windows anyway? Right?
I need to do some coding, but I think I’m going to bed in about 20m. Maybe I’ll read. Maybe I’ll set up Snort. I want to set up some IDS stuff. I want to set up Nagios and lots of other things, but I need more machine formatted/installed at work. O, how I long for a genie to insert CDs and things like that at work.