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digestIT 2004

I’m always needing to check the integrity of ISOs and other large downloads; I use md5sum on Linux – and now a new tool on Windows.

digestIT 2004 is a free (beer not speech) tool for calculating the md5 and sha-1 checksums of files.

There is also an interesting project – the Antares Project – which seems to move the integrity checking game a lot further. FIPS-140-2 certification too. That’s interesting.

Pandora Townhall

A week late posting this – sorry.

For those that haven’t heard it – Pandora is an online music player – that plays music that you like and other music similar in style to it.

We’ve been wowed by it for over 15 months.

So late last week I read on the Pandora Blog that Tim – a founder of Pandora – was going to

be in SLC for a public ‘Town Hall Meeting’ – we decided to turn up.

I’ll let Grania add her comments too – but it was fascinating hearing about the business and the music side of Pandora; especially the level of detail, training and consistency of breaking down the genes of a piece of music. I think Grania was almost ready to move to Oakland, CA to train for the Classical analyst role.