How can I bulk rename files in itunes according to data contained in a separate file?
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posted by jlowen
on Nov 12, 2009 -
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I'm a Kiwi who travels to Australia (usually Melbourne twice a year for a week or so). I'm currently using a Telecom NZ Nokia e71 phone. If I use data roaming it will cost me $8 NZ per megabyte.
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posted by chairish
on Nov 6, 2009 -
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Statistics question: is it possible to test sets of cumulative data for significant differences in rate?
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posted by rollick
on Nov 4, 2009 -
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I would like to be able to monitor my own bandwidth usage/data transfer rates on my laptop, whilst using an o2 mobile broadband dongle. Difficulty: Linux.
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posted by Petrot
on Nov 3, 2009 -
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After problems with my old laptop Apple sent me a free replacement, whats the best way to migrate my data, eliminate personal info but leave potential problems intact?
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posted by UMDirector
on Oct 30, 2009 -
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I need some suggestions for data analysis and displaying trending information. At the moment I'm doing this with a huge amount of Excel pivote tables. The goal is to highlight increasing trends and top hitters in some sort of (semi)automated way. The catch is that the data is pretty deep. For example, say I have a metric for "server rebooted for unknown reason"(which, by the way, is one of 50 things measured)...I'd like to also see the break down by server type and then by, say, location and then to see it by week.
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posted by Spumante
on Oct 26, 2009 -
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I need cool data visualizations to project. Any recommendations?
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posted by k8t
on Oct 19, 2009 -
11 answers
Article or book that discusses common characteristics of scientific fraud or misconduct?
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posted by Mapes
on Oct 15, 2009 -
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Damaged harddrive-- need to recover one particular file, but due to the damage, only perhaps 30% of the file is intact. What tools are available to just pull that 30% back?
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posted by Static Vagabond
on Oct 15, 2009 -
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How to privately share a large set of files with a large club? Having trouble getting bittorrent to work.
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posted by vegetableagony
on Oct 13, 2009 -
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I bought some dried goji berries from my local asian market. They taste/look/smell similar to every other dried goji berry I've tried. However, according to the nutrition information on the package, they are different from other goji berries...
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posted by skjønn
on Oct 2, 2009 -
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Satellite photos: what interesting features can be seen or measured in them (or other aerial photos), and where can I get a supply of images?
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posted by k.
on Sep 30, 2009 -
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What is the best free way to securely wipe the hard drive of a PC (XP, I think) before re-selling it? Free means no purchase of software or hardware, if at all possible. If it helps, there are two laptops that need to be wiped, so one could wipe the other if there's some nifty way to do that. Any ideas would be much-appreciated.
posted by Dasein
on Sep 26, 2009 -
8 answers
Why is my iPhone is transmitting data OUT on a daily basis without my knowledge?
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posted by nineRED
on Sep 25, 2009 -
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Looking for airport passenger data. More specifically, monthly deplaned (inbound) passenger data for Miami, Orlando and Tampa from 1975 to 2008.
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posted by dunderwood
on Sep 1, 2009 -
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Is there a real-time US market data feed better (or at least as good and less expensive) than Yahoo Finance's Market Tracker?
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posted by nj_subgenius
on Aug 31, 2009 -
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How do I delete old data on a MotoRazr Maxx cell phone which was formerly on Verizon, and set it up as an extra for someone who uses Alltel?
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posted by cuddles.mcsnuggy
on Aug 21, 2009 -
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Lots of interrelated data, little idea of how to analyze it. What method or type of software is best for collecting complex information for future analysis?
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posted by newlyminted
on Aug 20, 2009 -
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I am in the hospital using the AT&T non-smartphone unlimited data plan like it is going out of style. My only link to the outside, and I have been transferring a lot of data... a LOT of data.
Sooooo.... at what point does Ma Bell flip out, and how does this manifest?
posted by juliewhite
on Aug 10, 2009 -
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I have about 100 gigabytes of MP3 files on my iPod that have been passaged through several iPods and failing laptop hard drives, and about 10% of the tracks have become corrupted and have little audible glitches in them. That's really annoying. Does this kind of damage leave behind some kind of tell-tale signature that I could get my computer to search for and give me a list of tracks that need re-ripping? Is there some kind of Mac (or at a pinch other OS) program that can identify the dodgy tracks? Or do I just need to spend however many hundred hours listening with pen and paper at hand?
posted by nowonmai
on Aug 5, 2009 -
8 answers
I have some friends collecting movie & music data for the month of August - what are some innovative/interesting things I can do with the results?
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posted by troika
on Aug 3, 2009 -
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FileSystemHelp: I really messed up while installing Windows 7. I wasn't paying attention and marked my secondary drive for deletion (clicked on the drive, clicked delete). I then realized that this was my 1TB drive, with all of my files and pictures on it.
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posted by B(oYo)BIES
on Aug 2, 2009 -
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I need real-time data of the number of people searching different sets of keywords on the internet in a particular location.
Some examples:
The number of people searching for jobs and jobs related information at that given time(preferably also a particular place as in country or city)
The number of people searching for marriage and dating related information.
What is the best and cheapest way to get this data? The more real time, the better. Searches on Google would probably be the best given their dominance in the search market, but even other sources would be alright, like Twitter.
posted by tusharj
on Jul 22, 2009 -
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Do I need to insure my web business? I am setting up a to-do list + calendar web application that holds users' data. Do I need to insure against data loss, or down time? Or can I put all that in a EULA (e.g., [web application] will not be responsible for any data loss, down time, data corruption etc)?
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posted by tomargue
on Jul 12, 2009 -
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500GB internal SeaGate hard drive disappears from Windows, Linux, and the BIOS. What can I try before I pay to have the data recovered?
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posted by Avenger50
on Jul 3, 2009 -
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A desktop, a laptop, an external hard drive, an iPhone, and me. How should I sync my iPhone?
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posted by doift
on Jun 29, 2009 -
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I'm looking for a way to graphically represent data that is basically "yes" or "no".
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posted by nitor
on Jun 13, 2009 -
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Computer has "disk read error press ctrl + alt + delete" problem. I would like to get the data off it, and put it on a new computer. Is this something I can get fixed and then get the data off of it? Or do I need to pay out the nose for a data recovery person?
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posted by dios
on Jun 9, 2009 -
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Help me devise an Edward Tufte-approved visual system for tracking my life/health/happiness! Portable, layered, colorful, graph-like but illustrated...
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posted by soviet sleepover
on May 18, 2009 -
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In the distant past the megabyte and gigabyte were honorable quantities of storage and we referred to them by their full names; now they are too familiar, and we call them "meg" and "gig." Has a common spoken abbreviation already emerged for the
terabyte? Or must we wait until TBs are readily available in larger multiples before the linguistic hivemind of digital humanity collectively determines the spoken shorthand? Sysadmins and data center pros--you know best. What do you call 10,000,000,000,000 bytes?
posted by lucius
on May 17, 2009 -
24 answers
Is there any way to extract/copy the automation data (e.g. volume, panning in real audio or midi) from a music sequencer so that it can be displayed and analyzed as numerical data in another programme? Is there an indirect way to do the same thing by tracing the line in a graphics programme?
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posted by leibniz
on May 14, 2009 -
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Tomorrow I'll list my ACER Aspire 3680 for sale on eBay. I want to be as sure as I can that there the lucky buyer has as little chance as possible of seeing passwords/pics/personal info. Normally, I would just format and do a clean install of XP. But I've moved house and my install disk is one of 19 packing cases stored 2500km away, so that option is out. I've listed what I've already done after the jump, but I'm hoping a more tech-savvy mefite might spot a hole in my erasure efforts.
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posted by t0astie
on May 6, 2009 -
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How do I understand floodplain maps? Just how high does the river near my house need to get before my house floods?
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posted by jlowen
on Apr 30, 2009 -
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Where can I get a free dataset of ZIP codes and their corresponding county FIPS codes?
posted by chrisalbon
on Apr 29, 2009 -
6 answers
