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This is a major privacy issue.

http://www.cynikal.net/users/baptista/papers/Root_Server_Privacy_Complaint.pdf

also check out

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/05/dud_queries_swamp_us_internet/

Most of the hits on the roots are generated by other root servers outside the IANA / ICANN / Verisign root server complex.

The important data of interest to commerce is in the .com TLD server logs. I'm not sure if the root data is of any value.

well ... that my two cents for today

regards
joe baptista

The UnifiedRoot is an attempt to revive the Public-Root i.e. see www.public-root.com and www.inaic.com. I am the founder of the Public-Root and by default the business principles subscribed too by the UnifedRoot. I declare the people behind the UnifiedRoot as fraudulent and associated with criminals. A good history of the UnifiedRoot and it's association with the Public-Root is unfortunately only available in Turkish. urkey was a country which subscribed to the Public-Root system, until my investigation closed the show down. The UnifiedRoot is an attempt by the commercial end to go it alone - good details on this unfortunately are only available in Turkish. There has not been an english language publication which has exposed this. But for those of you who read Turkish the story can be found at: http://www.cihansalim.net/blog/index.htm Search for UNIDT, Public-Root, P-R, and UnifiedRoot for more details. Documents supporting my claims the companies and people behind this have committed fraud can be found at: http://www.cynikal.net/~baptista/P-R/ The Public-Root/UnifiedRoot was a great idea until a few people destryed it due to the usual human frailties - greed being the primary one. Also the UnifiedRoot claims to be open, transparent, representative and bottom up. Those are just marketing words without much substance. Joe Baptista

Here is the page you're looking for. Interstingly I just noticed there's some firmware from the 816 which is a few months old and might be useable by 815 people, I'll have to look more carefully. As for the old stuff he had back in 2003...works? Yes and no. I had some minor problems- for example, the Finder no longer remembered that I wanted it to ignore blank CD/DVD media(it asks you, and you have the option of always sticking to that option, and it can be changed later in the Control Panels) and would ask me -every time-, which got to be annoying.

Second, it didn't really seem to double anything. Burn times with CDROMs didn't change at all, despite a supposed move from 8x to 16x, and Toast's time estimation was all messed up; it would be grossly optimistic, which was very suspicious. Further- the drive would change speeds, seemed like it was writing at constant-disk-surface-speed(I forget the abbreviation), not constant disk RPMs...and maybe even switching between 8x and 16x.

These experiences were with a rev 1 17" TiBook. Yes, the mechanism is supposedly the same, yes the firmware "worked", but to be honest, I don't think it provided anywhere near the doubling of write speeds that were promised. Since you can flash the firmware back and forth, I may do some more "time trials", since yes- burning at 1x for a DVD is PAINFULLY slow.

Here you go!

http://superdrive.cynikal.net/

more info on mac dvd firmware is available from here:

http://xvi.rpc1.org/

It is here I did it months ago and have seen zero problems.

Oh, well... I bought my new powerbook 45 days ago, but anyway there are good news for us two, even though they don't come from apple.

Here's an end of your stinkin' DVD regions for ya!

See here -- it's GOT to be silent.

Also, ever hear of that new lampy thing called an 'iMac'?? Yeah, they're silent.

Thanks for pointing it out. The problem was I tried to remember it from the top of my head (which was up my ass at the time). its a fucking JPG not a gif !!! OOOps

Minor correction:
I believe what you meant to say was Remove your small shit encrusted head from your ass first, anonymous shitbag.

Link it properly, or don't bother.