<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 26, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 26, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Brian Wood wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>For you tinkerers out there:<br><br>Nielsen is now apparently making their nacat (Nielsen Audio Code <br>Analysis Tool) software available. It used to require a dongle to <br>work, and no longer does.<br><br>This is the system Nielsen uses to, among other things, "measure DVR <br>viewing". You should see data on most channels these days.<br><br>Just thought somebody out there might be interested.<br><br>Note: I do not believe that downloading or using this software is <br>illegal or immoral, but I am not an attorney or a clergyman. Please <br>make your own decision on this.<br><br><a href="http://www.nielseninternet.com/nacat/">http://www.nielseninternet.com/nacat/</a><br><br>beww<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>None of the computers in my house know what to do with a file named <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">SetupNACAT1-4.exe</span></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote>Yeah, I know. Sorry. I have a copy of W****** running under vmware so I'm going to try it out.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Vmware is free, and you may have a derivative Windows license due to purchasing a machine.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Wonder what Wine would think of it?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's possible that in the future this data might be used to catch last-minute schedule changes, or automatically extend a recording event if the program goes overtime, but I'm just passing along the information I received.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>beww</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>