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The Proxomitron will prevent that (and a lot of other ad annoyances as well).

Friend, if you want to judge another nation by it's atrocities, you'd damn well better be sure that your own nation has a clean slate...

Indeed, the Nietzscheans are too regimented and survival-oriented. Nietzsche was concerned about a full range of emotion, an overwhelming feeling (be it positive or negative) for everything and anything, that the Nietzscheans lack.

They really should be called 'The Social Darwinists' or something. Concern about the survival of one's species is not the be-all and end-all of Nietzsche.

--Nick
http://ident.cjb.net

xqz2 aimhack

This cheat has worked in counterstrike for god knows how long. The latest versions are also immune to punkbuster. I don't use it, but I like to know what's available to my enemy. Even if only to help spot the cheaters.

Oh, and I'm using Opera to post this, which is also an excellent browser for Windows - always fast and usually stable. Its main advantage to all other browsers is its killer UI with mouse gesture recognition, lots of hotkeys, excellent bookmark management etc.

Also, if you filter JavaScripts and animated GIFs using a local proxy like Proxomitron, even Netscape 4.7 becomes rock stable (I can use it for days without a single crash). Really, if you don't want to use IE, don't use it.

There is already a massive effort underway for Dr. Who. Nearly all available who is capped and available in digital formats. See The DW Archive site for more information. P.S. The preferred format is EPISODIC!

I'm lazy and just use proxomitron. It's very flexible, but windows only.

Also makes a good /. killfile:}

I've NEVER purchased anything on the Internet via a banner ad. I think I've clicked on maybe ten or twelve banner ads over the course of my entire online life, and most of those were back in the mid-90's, when many ads actually lead you to interesting sites without trying to track you, spy on you, or steal your personal information. These days, I rarely see banner ads, and I never see those from the major ad networks. I've fiddled with various blocking tools over the last year or two. My favorite has been The Proxomitron but with my cable modem, the real-time processing of most web pages makes the speed of my browsing unbearably slow. I finally settled on using the Windows hosts file to block most known ad servers, and Edexter to serve up fake images so Netscape doesn't crap out trying to download a nonexistant banner ad on every page I visit. It doesn't catch everything, and it doesn't block the other annoyances that The Proxomitron can be programmed to catch, but it also doesn't affect the speed of my browser.

See http://www.smartin-designs.com/ for a great prewritten hosts file and plenty of advice for using it. If you do use the hosts file to block banners, be sure to use eDexter as well, especially if you use Netscape.

DennyK

It's being worked on..... http://winxplite.cjb.net

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which will bollix up many kinds of firewalls.

The fourth diagram on the "How Does Aves Work?" page shows this clearly.

An example: my home firewall sees an HTTP request go out to pc.john.avesnet.net, for which (according to the explanation) a DNS lookup gets an IP address [1.2.3.4]. [1.2.3.4] is actually the IP of an "AVES waypoint" host. The waypoint processes my original HTTP request, and sends it along to the actual machine behind some NATbox (which has an IP of [5.6.7.8]) somewhere, which replies to my browser. But the reply doesn't originate from [1.2.3.4], which is where my firewall is looking for a reply to the original query -- instead, it arrives with a source IP of [5.6.7.8], which is the IP of the NATbox behind which pc.john.avesnet.net actually sits. To my firewall, this looks like an incoming connection attempt that is unrelated to any outgoing traffic, so it gets DROPped on the floor.

So, far from requiring no upgrades on the part of the end-browser, this scheme will require anyone with a firewall or a NATbox (such as my P90 running ipchains, or a linksys BEFSR41, or some other cablemodem/DSL access sharing device) to understand the protocol and deploy mechanisms for handling it.

http://pcep465.cjb.net

Check it out... there are some cool pictures on this site.

PS: Please don't mod this up... only reason it isn't anonymous is so people will see it as a reply.

Can anyone comment on where people who need an unique domain name, but don't have a organization are supposed to go??

How does a subdomain of .cjb.net not fit your needs?

There is already a strong theory, supported by experiments, of quantum teleportation of individual particles. Their quantum state (except the position) is preserved exactly: the original state is destroyed, because it has to be quantum mechanically observed by a part of the system, but it is reproduced exactly at the other. So you cannot copy particles, in addition the transmission is limited by the speed of light, which makes this philosophically sound. In principle this allows teleportation of any quantum mechanical system such as Capt. Kirk, but so far only elementary particles have been used. Moreover, it is not exactly clear whether consciousness obeys QM; wouldn't that suck if your body was teleported but not your mind. (Very funny Scotty, now beam down my memories ;-)

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• Trying 64.156.174.76...
  Connected to arcadeathome.efront.com.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  GET / HTTP/1.0
  Referer: http://mamedk.cjb.net/
  
  HTTP/1.1 302 Found
  Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:21:20 GMT
  Server: Apache/1.3.12
  X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1
  Location: http://goatse.cx/
  Connection: close
  Content-Type: text/html
  

What about support for Virtual Boy games?! This is Nintendo's chance to get back the fans it alienated by cancelling the much-maligned system. Just look at the Hordes clamouring to have it brought back (well, come to think of it, all these people have probably gone blind by now, never mind...)

These things are what allow projects like xine and LiViD to exist with a relative lack of legal molestation.

xine doesn't include CSS support by default. You can get a version of Xine with libcss support at the Xine resource page (along with a DXR3-enabled version, if you have that card). OMS links to libcss as well. So neither program actually includes it, but they link to it. As well, LiVid developer Matt Pavlovich was charged under the DMCA in California court for distributing DeCSS - strange, since he isn't a California citizen, and he was really (as far as I can tell) distributing css-auth, the non-ripper version of the CSS decryption scheme.

The DMCA itself is strictly an AMERICAN law and has no jurisdiction * anywhere * else in the world.

What worries me is that DMCA-like laws may be quietly pushed into force in other nations, like my own, which tends to bend over for any large US entity that tries to lean on it. In Canada, it would be even worse; we have no system of "fair use" up here, only a very strictly defined system known as "fair dealing", which basically says the copyright holder can set whatever limits they want on use of their work, and anything else in infringement. Just posessing DeCSS/css-auth could be very quickly made illegal up here.

I use this feature with the Proxomitron, a proxy that greps incoming HTML for bad stuff and replaces it with good stuff. I now have my copy looking for web bugs, and modifying the HTML to eliminate them. Specifically, I have it searching for IMG tags that include height and width components that are both five pixels or less. Instead of removing the image (which would cause severe image alignment problems) I simply replaced the SRC= with SRC=.\black.gif, which is just a small black image that gets stretched to fit the requested space. Extra benefit: no waiting for the HTTP connection to the web bug server! The local .GIF loads instantly.

John

renaming text files does not work

Have you ever used Wrapster?

Seems to me that in every discussion concerning banner ads, there's always someone who suggests that I am the spawn of Satan for daring to use an ad blocker, and therefore depriving good, honest, useful websites of the revenue they need to survive. Its interesting to see someone involved with the ad business say that I'm doing advertisers a favour by blocking their ads 'cos I wouldn't have responded anyway. Saves them bandwidth and saves them money, too. Not everyone's unhappy ;-)

As for the "ad karma".. well, as the Cowboy Neal interview showed, Slashdot karma is a game, no matter how much the editors don't want it to be. If "ad karma" engendered the same feelings, hey, I'd almost be tempted to turn off the filter for OSDN sites to I could play too!

1. Use Netscape 4.7x
2. Use The Proxomitron to filter ads (if it doesn't do it out of the box, write your own filter for it!)
3. "Uninstall" Netscape's Flash plugin. There is no automatic uninstaller, but all you have to do to disable the plugin is rename the npswf32.dll file in your Plugins directory to npswf32.old or something else. If you really really really have to see a Flash animation, use IE or something... ;) The Web looks a *lot* nicer without Flash, BTW...

DennyK

Since when did Blizzard own all rights to the word "diablo"?

Surely the thread earlier today concerning banner ads made in abundantly clear that most technically savvy net users (ie, the people who might be interested in your open source project) either
(a) Have Junkbuster or Proxomitron or some such filter blocking out banners, or..
(b) Have highly-trained eyes which skip straight over any banner as if it wasn't there.

We don't want to see banner ads for your project on Slashdot. We don't want to see banner ads for Slashdot on your web page. We won't see those ads because Proxomitron doesn't care whether a banner is for BZFlag or Punch-The-Monkey, they all get blocked. I suggest you seek other techniques for getting your project known to people who might be interested in it. Sorry !!

Download, mirror, maybe even use to watch movies on Linux and BSD.

I tried xine, and it has messages flying by about some demux error.

That's my fault - I'm the Xine documentation guy and I'm still hacking my SGML. The reason for the demux error is you live in the United States, where the legality of non MPAA licensed DVD players is undertain. Therefore, the version of xine you downloaded off sourceforge is not able to work with the content scrambling system used on most DVDs.

Those of us that live elsewhere in the world can download binary packages and source from non-US countries

Delete all of your phone numbers (after memorizing them), and then use your PDA just to play games.

I'm the founder of an online Wheel of Time community, the Netland White Tower, which has existed since 1997. Because we're all volunteers, everyone in charge has a large interest in the community, and I think that's partly how we've been able to be successful. In the end, I think solid, interested leadership will matter much more than any tips a book could give.

-- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration

All it would take is usage of the standard Win32 network APIs, which wouldn't be that hard. A CompactFlash 802.11 card should be out soon, and CF wired Ethernet has been avaiable for some time now, so the network layer is available as well.

I've been a hard-core Palm fanatic for some time now (I'm the developer of DopeWars for PalmOS), but only recently have I realized that the Pocket PC really gives developers a lot more functionality and CPU power to work with. The Palm platform is so extremely limited...

The first -- annoying flashy grpahics that are distracting? Perfect. You saw them. If only for one second to drag the scrollbar down far enough to ignore them, they caught your eye. They're like the horrible local TV ads for a home improvement center. They have a hick banjo theme, their volume levels are twice that of the surrounding program, and the announcer is so excited about the value of one-coat paint that you want to throw a brick through your TV. But they catch you, and that's their point.

Second, if you have a page that displays the banner ad at the top for a few seconds before finishing the page, you have the equivalent of a commercial. What if dubbleclick decided to not transmit the last byte of their banner ads until a five second pause had elapsed? You'd see their banner for five seconds before the connection was released and freed up to go grab further graphics. For all I know, this might be what they're doing today (not that the Proxomitron lets me see this evil behavior, however...)

John

The nature of banner ads on the internet has always made them invisible to most readers. When the commercials come on, TV viewers hit the mute buttons, VCR viewers hit their fast forward buttons, and ReplayTV viewers hit Quick Skip. The world has learned (for the most part) to tune out the easily identifiable advertising. On the internet, it's even easier. At least with a TV, you pay attention to enough of the ads to know when you've returned to your show. Not so with a banner ad. It takes a miniscule amount of effort to read them, and their size/shape/color makes them instantly identifiable as something to be ignored. Even filter programs can identify them and eliminate them quite accurately (hurray for the Proxomitron!)

So, given that, what are the advertisers going to do now? Some will fold up their tents. The smarter ones will adapt. One of the cleverest approaches I've seen was on a mapping site. Midway through the printed instructions was the location of a WalMart store that we would be passing. I suspect advertising will have to take a more active role in content in order to command money. Think old-tyme TV shows, brought to you by Alpo; or more likely, the Truman Show (with Yummy Mocha Cocoa.) Who knows, even corporate shills who work for big corporations like Target might be asked to plop advertising links in the middle of their usenet posts or Slashdot discussions.

Advertisers will find a way, but it'll take more effort than they've given it so far.

John

OS could also use the mpeg1-layer2 format, which isnt too bad and close to mp3, that im sure can be 'tweeked' to be an mp2+ (better than mp3)

This is exactly what the mpegplus project tried to do. Extend MP2 into something better. But it seems some of Fraunhofer's MP2 patents hadn't yet expired; other posts suggest that the project has been shot down.

Before I rip your bung-hole a wee bit, let me give you some acronyms, abbreviations, and slang regarding who I am ... E-6 in less than six, item 11 has three nuke NECs(MOSs), item 12c > 8 yrs, item 12g > 3 yrs, item, item 13 has 8 awards, item 24 = Honorable, item 26 = KBK, item 27 = RE-R1

Read "Conduct Unbecoming" for details on military fuckjobs. Primary focus is on fags/dykes in the military but it gives you a feel for how awful military life can be.

Visit this website for some details on military work Fun Time Navy

Also visit FTN

Also visit Soldiers For The Truth for a current event perspective of what is wrong with the current military after eight-years of pathetic Clinton-Gore leadership (i.e. WAR-CRIMES)

Here is a VERY SHORT list of what I saw during my approx nine-years in the Navy, making me "Glad I'm now a civilian":

incompetant medical care (told to return to serving food as a recruit with an active case of pink eye and broncitis)

co-worker almost made blind by contaminated and expired navy-issued eye medication - ends up with EXTENDED shore duty and eventual medical discharge

sorry ... I can't talk about the whole ANTHRAX thing ... I escaped in '98

tricked into investing in US Savings Bonds vice Index Funds (read "Random Walk Down Wall Street")

obviously ill co-worker forced to stand vice sitting on floor while waiting in line to see a health tech (note: you are LUCKY if you get to see a nurse or a doctor ... sure glad Clinton-Gore Health Care got defeated ... wouldn't want to force a dog through government health care)

ship-wide food poisoning due to no soap in bathroom adjacent to kitchen

over 48 hours with no sleep or food

even though I am white I began to appreciate how American blacks felt under slavery because I was an Enlisted person

received medal for going to Somilia - was 4 miles offshore (hot showers, hot food, TV, Air Conditioning, clean sheets, ....) while the Army died due to the Clinton-Gore failure to send M1A1s and AC-130s to support the troops

Maintain a questioning attitude

Could this be applied to Big Gulps perhaps????

It kills: pop-ups, browser-resizing, web-bugs, cookies, and in general mucks around with the HTML just as much as you please.

DISCLAIMER: I have no relationship to the Proxomitron other than that of a satisfied customer. It was even worth suffering through a Shonen Knife disc (don't ask.)

John

SUE ME!

Some of this may not apply to you, I just wanted to give you a good place to start looking.

garc

"MACHINA II/the Friends & Enemies of Modern Music" is the pumpkins' final album, the followup to "MACHINA/the Machines of God". It is a limited pressing of only 25 (twenty-five) copies on hand-cut, hand-numbered, non-lacquered acetate (aka vinyl, aka records), consisting of 3 10" EPs and a double 12" LP, 5 discs & 25 songs total. The 25 copies were given to close friends of the band, a few of whom happen to be online, and whom were instructed to circulate the new material as quickly as possible, since the band plans on playing some of the new material on the European tour.

For more detailed info, see: SPFC

Since there were only 25 copies on vinyl, unless you were one of the lucky 25, you can't get the original pressing. But since the band instructed some of the recipients to circulate and distribute the material, you will be able to get copies of it- consider it an "official bootleg". Currently, the only source available is mp3. Since none of the 3 known online recipients had access to an ultra-high-end audiophile turntable (the tube kind that cost thousands), one of them used what they had and made mp3s so that the new songs could be distributed immediately. There are plenty of web/ftp sites and mirrors hosting the new songs, as well as people sharing files via napster, AIM, etc. Look around a bit, the info has been posted in many places many times.

Virgin was not interested in releasing a followup to Machina, so rather than pack up their gear and go home, they recorded and released it themselves. It will not and cannot be officially released on CD, as their contract with Virgin includes a non-compete clause, which prevents them from releasing anything Virgin holds rights to under another label for 1 year. Since the material was partially recorded while still under the Virgin contract, they are legally prohibited from releasing it on another label or in any other way.

To download, or for more information, go to Machina2

"MACHINA II/the Friends & Enemies of Modern Music" is the pumpkins' final album, the followup to "MACHINA/the Machines of God". It is a limited pressing of only 25 (twenty-five) copies on hand-cut, hand-numbered, non-lacquered acetate (aka vinyl, aka records), consisting of 3 10" EPs and a double 12" LP, 5 discs & 25 songs total. The 25 copies were given to close friends of the band, a few of whom happen to be online, and whom were instructed to circulate the new material as quickly as possible, since the band plans on playing some of the new material on the European tour.

For more detailed info, see: SPFC

Since there were only 25 copies on vinyl, unless you were one of the lucky 25, you can't get the original pressing. But since the band instructed some of the recipients to circulate and distribute the material, you will be able to get copies of it- consider it an "official bootleg". Currently, the only source available is mp3. Since none of the 3 known online recipients had access to an ultra-high-end audiophile turntable (the tube kind that cost thousands), one of them used what they had and made mp3s so that the new songs could be distributed immediately. There are plenty of web/ftp sites and mirrors hosting the new songs, as well as people sharing files via napster, AIM, etc. Look around a bit, the info has been posted in many places many times.

Virgin was not interested in releasing a followup to Machina, so rather than pack up their gear and go home, they recorded and released it themselves. It will not and cannot be officially released on CD, as their contract with Virgin includes a non-compete clause, which prevents them from releasing anything Virgin holds rights to under another label for 1 year. Since the material was partially recorded while still under the Virgin contract, they are legally prohibited from releasing it on another label or in any other way.

To download, or for more information, go to Machina2

Windows
Good:
Php Coder - builtin interpreter and function reference
EditPlus
Bad:
MPS PHP Editor
Indifferent:
HTML-Kit
Unix

*strike*code warrior*strike*Latte*strike*Glimmer

- this is the best notepad-style (with tabs for multiple files) Unix text editor - extensible, with adjustable background images, etc., scriptable in Python
[note the syntax highlighting file is suboptimal -

should be

Crossplatform
Emacs
Vim (PHP highlighting not very good)

But basically my personal recommendations:
syntax highlighting good, all else redundant

So choose the best editor out there; there's not much else you can do with PHP - it's not WYSIWYG suitable, and the functions are so high level, things *like* dialog editors are redundant. As for ftp, I strongly recommend that if you're on Unix, you install your system's PHP & Apache packages, and on Windows install PHP Triad, an integrated MySQL/PHP/Apache installer. This way you don't have to worry about FTP till you're finished [just a warning: always make sure your local PHP is *older* (or the same) as the one on the web server - v3, apart from having fewer functions, also has a lot of weird and undocumented bugs and misfeatures - e.g., you get errors if you call something $file (or class file); in v4 you can instantiate

class classname {
// No constructor
}

with $object=new classname();
but v3 only allows brackets when the class has a constructor.

Here's how I work:

editor w/syntax highlighting, editing files direct - so much nicer than FTP, and without the FTP problems
browser window set to PHP manual (locally, for speed)
browser set to view PHP pages (Opera is good for this purpose because of its MDI (hint: use 4 and 5 to tab between windows), which generally sucks, but is good in this case cos you don't have to open lots of windows)

Here's some links for you interested:
Assembly demoparty
tAAt demogroup (the authors of LeGorso)
General demoscene news and stuff
Site dedicated to scenenews and game/demo development

Those should keep you guys busy for a while ;)
- Mik\tAAt

You're absolutely right. There are even fewer bands who have actually given out free albums, or hit songs. Korn released "Falling Away From Me" for free on their site, but they're nothing like the Smashing Pumpkins' last album which was released for free in its entirety over the web. The story is that the Pumpkins had a bad deal with Virgin Records, got pissed, and put their songs into 4 vynil disks----and then gave 21 copies to friends, and told them to distribute them as they like.

I found an int erview with Michael Connelly which is one of the creators, writers, and consulting producers of Level9. In the interview, he explains why he decided to write a TV show, because he is known as a novel writer. There are also some cool links on the bottom of the page, which include a mailing list, so you can get the lastest news about Level9

Hiya,
Theres already a host of such brilliant sites around, probably the best i've ever come across was run by Fravia who unfortunately has decided to close it down, if you are very lucky you may be able to find one of the mirrors still alive. In its place he has created a great site which deals largely with search engines and searching the web as well as many other interesting topics. He still has a few links to reverse engineering stuff however. You can find his site here .
Some other sites which are up there with Fravia's site include:
Mammon's Site
Crackz r.e site here and here
The Sandman's code reversing for newbies.
Greythorne the Technomancer's
These are just a few of the many out there however imho they are the best i have come across.
Cheers, VI

• Total Eclipse -- Excellent Group releasing all kinds of electronic music (searchable by style)
• rohformat -- IMHO the best minimal techno group out there. Try release #12 or #4.
• ZAAG -- they say: "group specialising in noise inspired music. Zaag means 'saw' in Dutch, and i guess that kinda explains why we're called that way (ever thought about the beautiful noises a saw can create?)." Ever wondered what JPG files sound like ? Try release #7 or #17.
• SLiCE -- Some nice acid techno/trance. Try "Love at first Sight" or "303 years ahead" in the XM/MOD section.
• tanith.org -- Tanith is a german Techno DJ, playing several different styles (minimal techno, breakbeat, 2step). You can download some DJ sets from his homepage (including playlists).

Obviously, any patent suit is just going to hurt both parties, but it seems like Akamai is the "good guys" in this case. According to Digital Forecast, Akamai was in business a long time before Digital Island, so it seems they have a pretty legitimate claim to the concept here. After all, they were first...

Heh, I've always wondered about the original region controls on the older models, there's basically a jumper which reads "do not remove or the drive will lock to region of the first disc it reads." Did the MPAA demand that OEMs set the drive region using this, or is it just for crazy masochists who *enjoy* being locked in to such things. Anyways, I got a Pioneer DVD-302 from hitechcafe for $45 a little while ago. It's only 2.6x DVD, but its Ultra-SCSI and slot load, and it rips damn well and quick. The combination of the unlocked drive (some can be unlocked with new firmare) and cinemaster+dvd genie (here) allow you complete freedom, at least in windows.

I believe that Digital Forecast posted them; check the "New Software Releases" category.

...I have never found a site that I can only view with IE...

Walter Charles Beckett is a fairly well-known pro-IP advocate; he was in the news as an "expert" in the field for a little while back when the RIAA got its short-lived injunction against Napster. I think he's written a couple of articles at Digital Forecast; in any case, he's a kook and his opinions shouldn't receive nearly the amount of attention that they do ;).

I've been using Proxomitron in Windows for some time know. It can parse HTTP headers as well as content. I prefer it to firewall-based solutions since I can bypass the filtering with just a click in the system tray.

For Mac, you can use iCab (as mentioned but not named in the article). To add filtering to any Mac browser, there's WebFree(68k) or WebWasher(PPC)

But if you really want to kill 100% of annoying banner ads, use Lynx, w3m, links, or (Mac only) WannaBe^2.