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 Tuesday, October 14, 2003
started 10/15/2003; 4:38:40 AM - last post 10/16/2003; 12:09:00 AM
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Doc Searls - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 
10/15/2003; 8:38:40 AM (reads: 4284, responses: 2)
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Sony Opaque UI Help Request 
| | I have a Sony DCR-PC120 Camcorder/Camera. It has Bluetooth. My laptop has Bluetooth. My laptop sees the hardware ID of the camera. Now what? I double-click on it and: nothing. The Sony UI is hopeless. |
| | This should be simple. But... we're dealing with Sony here. Great hardware, horrible software. |
| | Wondering... is it possible that the Camcorder is as DRMmy as my Sony NetMD MiniDisk recorder? That mother has a USB connection that's nearly pointless, since itinsists on recording only in its own proprietary format and seems to have no useful way to get data on and off the damn thing. |
The unconnected life is not worth blogging
| | AKMA just walked by, pausing to share his unwillingness to attend a session without wi-fi. |
DIgitopia
| | Justin Taylor of Novell is up front now. He just talked about a "religious" disagreement between "centralized" and "federated" identity. Also that federation and metadirectory were somehow of a piece. Or of many pieces. I have no idea what he's talking about. Except for directory and metadirectory. But my understanding there hasn't been updated in five years. |
| | Very arcane, this identity shit, from the abstracto-techie world of folks who professionally care about this stuff. I'm glad they're doing it, I guess, but... |
| | It's also dull. I just heard service oriented business solutions coming from the stage. |
| | Translation: It's not about anything interesting. It's about delivering business value. |
| | Now I'm at an RFID session. Interesting stuff. |
| | Connectivity has been bad, on the whole, largely because one attendee has a rogue signal with the same identity as the conference network. This happens at almost every conference I attend.Has to be a better way. |
Giving sleep
| | Finally got in and settled in my hotel room. It's 4am. Makes me wonder what the opposite of "getting" sleep is. |
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lou josephs - Sony MD Help
10/15/2003; 3:39:31 PM (reads: 660, responses: 1)
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My wife uses mine to take notes at class. I can import them into my win2k machine by using the soundcard in from the audio headphone jack. I use the Sony audio software to import the audio and then enhance and edit it. I can then transcode it to real or windows media. The newer md players can import and export files as atrac, which Real Player supports with a dl plug in. I use a long patch cord to do this. Output is nice clean crisp audio.
Looks like I will have to tread carefully in buying a sony PDA. As it's bluetooth and also WIFI.
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Doc Searls - Re: Sony MD Help
10/16/2003; 4:09:00 AM (reads: 886, responses: 0)
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You can do stuff with it using supplied software that works only with Windows. Since I'm a Linux/OS X guy, that doesn't work for me.
What I want is the ability to record in an OPEN format (I don't care how good ATRAC is if it's closed) such as MP3 or OGG, and for the NetMD to behave like the storage device that in fact it is. I should be able to hook it up to my laptop by USB cable and copy over the files. But alas...
Still no hope on the bluetooth front.
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