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...spacious to store my entire collection. Creative Labs claims the average CD collection is much smaller than mine, between 80 and 120 CDs, and the Nomad certainly has space for that. The rest of my bulky medley is now squatting happily on my computer's hard drive; I just swap tracks as necessary...
Within the Houses and first-year dorms, at least, Davis says he suspects there is plenty of roaming going on when students want to relocate their computers within their suite. If suite-mates decide to swap rooms mid-way through the year, for example, they no longer need to wait a day or two to reconnect to the network...
...pedal steel is the kind of specialized area of interest that is perfectly suited to the Internet, and the Steel Guitar Forum is a collegial environment where players from all over the world exchange information, swap stories and try to help each other decipher licks. It's an incredible resource: Someone will post a query about how to play a particular passage, and the forum's participants will descend on it like a pack of wolves, each trying to top the other with the accuracy of their transcriptions, so that often within minutes it will have been stripped bare like...
...that discussion that led to last week's audacious partnership between Napster, the 18-month-old music swap shop that has spawned a following of 38 million file-sharing enthusiasts, and Bertelsmann, the German behemoth that began 150 years ago as a religious-hymnal publisher. No matter how it benefits (or maybe damages) both sides, the deal vaults the global entertainment industry into a new arena, where the game will be played by the freewheeling rules of the Internet, not the dictates of a handful of media barons. "Peer-to-peer file sharing is the future of media distribution," says...
Napster and Gnutella let users swap data from one PC--or "peer"--to another, without going through a central server. Here's how they work...