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Hard drive issues by hardburn · 2000-09-19 21:24 · Score: 1 · on Linux Powered Robots

Not sure if this was mentioned already, but:

it just strikes me that things like hard drives don't respond well to axes and chain saw blades

Well, you could put some armor around your hard drive, but that might take up a lot of weight. You might also ditch the hard drive entirely, boot from a floppy drive and load everything into a RAM disk. Or you could even get rid of all magnetic media and boot the entire system using an embeded EPROM(s).

Floppy -> RAM disk system seems to the the cheapist and easyist if you can find enough RAM. Once the system is booted, remove the disk from the drive and put it in a safe place. Its too bad you can't remove the floppy entirely while the system is on. Be sure to have plenty of stand-by floppy drives for a quick replacement, just in case (this shouldn't cost too much, 3.5" floppy drives are cheep).

As for the distro itself, you can either make your own (time consuming, but it will be more custimized), or you can use a pre-build mini-distro. I suggest Small Linux, as it has a very-low memory footprint and already loads itslef into a RAM disk. Its based on a 2.0.x kernel and libc5, but there doesn't seem to be any loadable module support (the programs to load modules aren't there, anyway).

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Re:Not yet... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-08-30 00:26 · Score: 3 · on More Threats From The MPAA

tiny X by jonnystiph · 2000-07-13 22:34 · Score: 1 · on X Windows Must Die!

Here is a site that offers links for tiny X, a little X windows that fits on a floppy. There everyone is happy now, and we can live in a world of 1.4 mgs!

New UI elements right now! by Robert+Paulson · 2000-07-05 07:15 · Score: 1 · on GUI Research - Is it Still Being Done?

Does nobody remember the hyperbolic trees slashdot article? An interesting tool for visualising and navigating hierarchies like www sites and filesystems.

Also, coders of apps where the user tries to get into a rhythm and work quickly ( like desktop environments, GIMP, Starcraft...) should get over to doxpara and check out Associative Key Arrays. They're cool.

I don't think any of the new GUI stuff we're seeing with OS X (for example) takes advantage of the processor power of modern machines in new ways. So what if it's transparent and jiggly!! I want to be able to see more and work faster!

//rp

Re:What we're all wanting to know..... by Andreas+Rueckert · 2000-05-27 19:41 · Score: 1 · on The Few, The Proud, The Geeks

Take a look at
Small Linux: http://smalllinux.netpedia.net
Vector Linux: http://metalab.unc.edu/vectorlinux/
Green Frog Linux: http://members.linuxstart.com/~aus tin/GreenFrog/
muLinux: http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/
ThinLinux: http://www.ThinLinux.org/
But there's at least one additional project to provide a Linux distro to the 3rd world. If I could only recall the name right now... (oldering sucks)

Finally... a story where this is *not* offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-05-19 20:38 · Score: 5 · on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS

and I'm asleep at the keyboard. Doh!

Oh well... here it is.
Add your own, and spread this far and wide:

This announcement brought to you by the DeCSS Polar Bear.

Time for Slashdot to take a stand... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-04-05 03:12 · Score: 4 · on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600

The following is a list of all the mirrors from the 2600 site.

GTK/Gnome sans X by anonymous+cowpie · 2000-03-21 11:33 · Score: 3 · on Trolltech Developing Qt That Doesn't Need X

In a similar vein, the YAX (YAX Ain't X) project aims eventually to build a windowing system on top of svgalib/GGI/fbcon/Mesa/whatever that will support Gnome and GTK apps. There hasn't been a lot of traffic on the list, but the code is progressing, albeit somewhat slowly.

OpenNap already does this by Claude+Debussy · 2000-03-14 00:01 · Score: 5 · on Open Source Napster: Gnutella

the OpenNap server already has these features and its been available for quite some time now, there is even the flexibility to do porn searching just like the software in this story and iMesh (avi's, mpegs, au, etc). Opennap can be found Here. here is a list of the available napster clones excluding the one in the story.

gnap -- gnome napster client

gnome-napster -- gnome napster client

jnap -- java napster client

jnapster -- java napster client

java napster -- java napster client

crapster -- BeOS napster client

gnapster -- gnome napster client

BitchX -- IRC chat client with napster plugin

Knapster -- KDE napster client

BeNapster -- BeOS napster client

Napster for BeOS

Napster for MacOSX

gtk napster -- gtk napster client

amster -- amiga napster client

iNapster -- WWW interface to napster

BWap -- standalone console unix client based on bx-nap plugin for BitchX

These are all open source and free, and will work with Opennap servers (although most right now probably aren't coded to take advantage of the Pr0n search extensions, yet. Give it some time though.

Napster Linux Downloads by EraseMe · 2000-03-04 21:28 · Score: 4 · on Interview With The Creator of Napster on ZDnet

Available Downloads:

OpenNap

Would anyone like to throw some review of the different Napster implementations available for Linux? Or should I just run Napster over VMWare? ;)

EraseMe

Re:Should be interesting... by pb · 2000-01-25 06:02 · Score: 1 · on Lineo 1.0 Eor Embedded x86 Released

:) Yeah, running on a Root disk sucks. The best thing to do is see if you can get it to use some swap. However, if it crashed when you say it did, (at startup, basically) you're probably out of luck.

Which distro did you try to install? Some linux distros, like Small Linux, claim to be able to do what you want.

I've got a 286 that I tried running ELKS on, and... well, it's *really* not ready for prime time. And I wouldn't want to do any real work on minix, either. No, I'd probably run DOS--try to get the Second Reality demo looping on it instead. :)
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.

Mirror from 2600 - probably will be gone soon by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-20 09:36 · Score: 0 · on MPAA Sending Out DMCA Demand Letters

Mirrors

http://www.multimania.com/sxpert/decss/

http://www.posexperts.com.pl/peopl e/wrobell/css/

http://www.koek.net/dvd

http://logical-solutions.com.au/DeCSS.zip

http://www.sarahandcasey.com/decss/

http://www.fsp.com

http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~echerry/dvd

http://people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/s lashdot/

http://www.mafkees.com/dvd

http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/

http://donotsueme.homepage.com

http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/

http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~marsie/

http://dB.org/dvd/

http://dcwi.com/~wench/decss

http://www.capital.net/~mazzic

http://dvdcss.newmail.ru

http://www.subcor.com

http://www.frankw.net/decss

http://danger-island.com/~dav/any.lawyer.who [...]

http://www.fortunecity.com/vi ctorian/parkwood/95/DVD/

http://www.asleep.net/dvd

http://members.xoom.com/NiKeX

http://www.geocit ies.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2819/index.html

http://www.execpc.com/~unicorn/dvdmirr or.htm

http://members.xoom.com/chapter3/Mamma No.htm

http://www.twistedlogic.com/archive/dvd

http://wiw.org/~drz/css/

http://merlinjim.freeservers.com/dvd/

http://www.visi.com/~adept/liberty

http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/deccs

http://www.ct2600.org/2600-DVD.html

http://magic.hurrah.com/~fireball/dvd/

http://homepages.together.net/~ib nzahid/DeCSS.zip

http://www.save2600.8m.com

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dantepsn/

http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/decss

http://members.xoom.com/mxpxguy/dvd/

http://decss.fall0ut.com

http://vedaa.tripod.com/decss.html

http://members.xoom.com/iox

http://www.hackunlimited.com/dvd/

http://hem.fyristorg.com/police/css.htm

http://elknews.netpedia.net/dvd/

http://www.idrive.com/decss/web

http://www.chello.nl/~f.vanwaveren

http://quintessenz.at/q

http://www.clug.com/~vodak/dvd/

http://www.nacs.net/~vodak/dvd/

http://ny2600.iwarp.com

http://www.wpi.edu/~nassar/dvd/

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~castongj

http://www.geocities.com/cold_dvd/

http://www.projectgamma.com/deccs/

http://members.xoom.com/mogreen/decss/

http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip

http://www.angelfire.com/de2/decss/dec ss.htm

http://www.krackdown.com/decss

http://www.ithink.org/dvd/

http://www.fortunecit y.com/skyscraper/motorola/1415/decss.htm

http://chaz.fsgs.com/misc/DvD/

http://www.linuxstart.com/~kv ance/projects/decss.html

http://www.darkkingz.com/DeCSS.zip

http://come.to/intelex

http://ebmedia.net/dvd/

http://www.geocities.com/decss_forever/

http://revolution.3-cities.com/~spack/dv d/

http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/8762/

http://members.xoom.com/s_o_sam/help.html

http://www.vexed.net/CSS/

http://smokering.org

http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz

http://home.rmci.net/bert/fuckthelawyers

http://dlsf.org

http://home.rmci.net/bert/dvd

http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip

http://linux.uci.agh.edu.pl/~outlaw/ decss.html

http://debian.mps.krakow.pl/mirror/css/

http://www.mindspring.com/~stonethrower

http://www.geocitie s.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/6188/index.html

http://matt.frogspace.net/css/

ftp://www.spamshack.net/pub/dcss/

http://werewolf12.cjb.net

http://isupport2600.8m.com

http://imezok.tripod.com/Untitled.txt

http://warpedreality.members.easyspace. com/

http://w1.1634.telia.com/~u163400190 /DeCSS.zip

http://ts1.online.fr/dvd/

http://homepages.go.com/homepage s/4/0/3/403_error/

http://members.xoom.com/maud123/Home/C SS.htm

http://xtreme2k.8k.com/DeCSS

http://hackingdvd.homestead.com

http://www.geocities.com/soho /studios/6752/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/corporatemin dcontrol

http://darklord.darkthrone.com/user s/smith/dvd/

http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip

http://www.twistedlogic.com/archive/dvd

http://www.image.dk/~mbp

http://www.divisionbyzero.com/decss/

http://decss.cx

http://kevins.ne.mediaone.net/~kevins/dv d/

http://friko6.onet.pl/war/mkochano/

http://planeta.clix.pt/DJ_AmAzInG/DVD/

http://noc.res.cmu.edu

http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4ef1890/css/

http://hackingdvd.homestead.com

http://www.uwm.edu/~zachkarp/index.html

http://st-bart.net

http://decss_files.tripod.com

http://wakeupthe.net/dvd/

http://www.angelfire.com/punk/freedom/

http://www.corova.com/dvd/

http://2600.dk/mirrors/css/

http://dvdcrack.homepage.com

http://www.copkiller.org

http://www.worldcity.nl/~frank/dvd

http://members.xoom.com/iamkeenan/master/

http://www.adulation.net/css/

http://homepage.interacces s.com/~mycroft/decss/DeCSS.zip

http://underground.pl/dvd/

http://members.xoom.com/nyc2600

http://zerosoft.hypermart.net/warez/ DVDcrK.txt

http://www.deforest.org/CSS

http://members.xoom.com/freedvdinfo/

http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/3971/

http://24.114.168.235/public/css.htm

http://fairuse.freeservers.com/

http://jupiter.spaceports.com/~decss

http://www.c0ke.com/DVD

http://2600.bigfuc.com

http://www.crosswinds.net/oakland/~ahrendt/Lawyers _are_scu m-sucking_pigs [...]

http://sdf.lonestar.org/~egg/

http://cssalgorithm.8m.com

http://www.duffbrew.com/decss/

http://heavymusic.8m.com

http://www.oblivion.net/~amar/css

http://www.charm.net/~dutch

http://members.tripod.com/ny2600/

http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/ny2600/

go.to/nairos

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/decs s/

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/dvd.htm

http://theannux.homestead.com/decss.html

http://members.aol.com/elktonstalkers/CS S/

http://pages.hotbot.com/edu/silex/mir ror.html

http://budsmoker.com/sites/decss/

http://www.geocities.com/watice2/

http://home.att.net /~phreakonaleash/ccs_mirror--screw_the_feds/

http://DECSS-Baby.tripod.com/

http://decss.cyvoid.net

http://www.azillionmonkeys.c om/qed/recess_for_css.html

http://www.reapers.org

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS

http://www.halma.nl/~bb

http://supportyourlocal2600.homestead.co m/

http://www.angelfire.com/pe/sh3/deccs/

http://www.angelfire.com/el ectronic/icebandits/dvd.html

http://killer.radom.net/~shoggoth/dvd.ht ml

http://www3.50megs.com/dvd4free/

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/a ntigovernment/css.html

http://dbzauctions.tripod.com/decss.zip

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-19 02:42 · Score: 0 · on Corel Draw 9 for Linux Needs Beta Testers

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Jan 19, 12:13am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

We apologize for the length of time between updates. This list has gotten quite large and thus more difficult to maintain.

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-16 07:10 · Score: 0 · on New DVD Lawsuits Filed by the MPAA (UPDATED)

Note: This mirror list has been copied from http://www.humpin.org/decss/, on January 2nd 2000 13:13 GMT

Mirrors since 28-Dec-99 added by me.
To my main DVD page (containing list of lists of mirrors) Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Fri, Dec 31, 8:18pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-29 06:42 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Dec 29, 3:14pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

praya by wtanaka · 1999-12-18 03:58 · Score: 1 · on Unified Instant Messaging Clients?

http://praya.netpedia.net/

Precisely what is slow is an issue... by Christopher+B.+Brown · 1999-11-23 04:07 · Score: 2 · on Interview: Ask the KDE Developers

I am familiar with TAO, and with ILU, and certainly know of MICO and omniORB. I suggest taking a look at the GnuPaghe Project; they went through an ORB selection process, and waffled back and forth between TAO and MICO, leaning back towards MICO because of compile time memory consumption. The finding on TAO was thus: Huge at compile time; I haven't done precise measures, yet it surely eats about 700 Mb while compiling it. This may be an exaggeration on the hugeness of TAO; there have certainly been similar reports on MICO. I've compiled some bits of ORBit code, and found it fairly appalling how 1K of IDL turned into compiled object code a hundred K or so in size; for C++-based stuff to be more lardly is not too much of a surprise. If it takes 128MB of memory to compile Hello, World! that can represent a significant barrier to the widespread adoption of CORBA.

Re:Need resolution and viewing angle.. by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-11 00:20 · Score: 0 · on IBM Selling 20" 2048x1536 LCD

If you've got the video RAM, you can jack up the resolution as high as you want (albeit on a CRT)--the tradeoff is resolution vs. refresh rate.

For example, using kvideogen I got my Matrox Millenium to do 2000x1500 on my 15" AST monitor at 81 HZ Interlaced--didn't look to bad with 100dpi fonts.

Re: BeOS Look and Feel by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-08 02:38 · Score: 0 · on Java on BeOS, supported by Sun

Well, there is one, or at least the beginnings of one. The source for a BeOS Look and Feel is available in the CVS tree for BeKaffe .. e-mail heuermh@shore.net for more information.

See also the BeKaffe home page.

wooohoooo! /me does the java dance by Kartoffel · 1999-11-08 02:36 · Score: 1 · on Java on BeOS, supported by Sun

I am a Linux user and I'm OK, (so don't flame me)
</disclaimer>

It's wonderful to see more and more people taking BeOS seriously. Every OS need a good JVM (even Linux). Let's hope Sun is serious about this.

By the way, "BeKaffe" has been around for awhile now. They are an independent effort working on a Java AWT.

Re:6.0a upgrade fear by Ed+Avis · 1999-10-03 19:23 · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Releases Version 6.1

Anaconda kicks much tail.

Does anyone else notice a pattern here?

Anaconda
Asp and Asp 2
Boa
Bushmaster
Caiman
Cobra (Mk I and Mk III)
Copperhead
Coriolis
Gecko
Krait
Mamba
Python
Sidewinder
Viper 1 and 2
Worm 1 and 2

Nominating companies or applications to match Hognose, Dodo, and Thargoid is left as an exercise to the reader.

Re:Open Inventor by Lars+J · 1999-08-17 16:06 · Score: 1 · on SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes

Does anyone know anything more about Inventor options for Linux? (or care?)

Things are starting to happen. Search Freshmeat. You have at least the two projects Coin (QPL) and Scene (LGPL). Also check out Troll Tech's web site for a Qt-based .iv file viewer called Pryan.

A few things need pointing out. by Neph · 1999-08-04 07:27 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Comparing the GUIs

First of all, let's make the distinction between X and XFree86. A lot of people seem to have the two confused, by complaining for example about X's lack of multihead support, or poor hardware support. This in fact has nothing to do with X, but rather with the features (or lack thereof) available in specific implementations.

Another misconception is that X can't support TrueType fonts, or can only do so kludgily. Not true; you can compile TrueType font support directly into the display server; it becomes no different than PostScript font rendering. Stock XFree86 4.0 is supposed to ship with TT support built-in. Antialiasing (and possibly font hinting, not sure), however, is a real problem.

That being said, I'm no great fan of X myself, in particular the API. Just what I've seen from reading GDK source is monstrous. It's very true that a lot of important features were not provided for in the initial design and had to be "bolted on" afterwards.

Finally, I don't think YAX has been mentioned yet. The idea is similar to Berlin, which has been mentioned, and it's a very interesting project. They've only released an API so far, but it sounds nice: From their description it's actually rather Be-like. An actual implementation is apparently in progress and they're also in the process of porting GTK to it, in order to immediately give it a set of available applications.

Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty

Re:X10 is not a good system by Ricochet · 1999-07-10 22:28 · Score: 1 · on Promotional Freshmeat X10 Firecrackers

I think it makes far more sense to add a small RF carrier to the AC signal and modulate your signal onto that. In fact I am designing such a system and will release the plans under something GPL-like when (if :) I get it working. I am thinking make it an Ethernet-like protocol with lookahead collision avoidance/etc. Something I can run IP on anyways.. But don't hold your breath waiting for it :)

You might be interested in the GNU/Linux Home Automation Project . The goals of the project are to produce GPL'd hardware and software standards for Home Automation. Right now the list is down due to technical problems with the mail list.

--
Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry - ncherry@home.net
http://members.home.net/ncherry - (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lig htsey/52 - (Graphics)

Re:GPL issues by James+Renken · 1999-06-29 11:10 · Score: 1 · on Yahoo/Geocities IP Trouble

You might want to look at the Open Source Web Presence Project.

Geeks To Consumers: We Were Right After All by Effugas · 1999-06-15 20:15 · Score: 5 · on DIVX is dead

An ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure, eh? Check out the press release:

All Divx discs, including those previously purchased by
consumers and those remaining in retailer inventories, can be viewed on
registered players anytime between now and June 30, 2001.

The significance of this cannot be overlooked. This is empirical proof that any system that places consumer property under the access control of a remote body can, will, and just did repossess control of those goods, despite the (promised!) expectations of the customer.

Told you so.

The Geek Community was quite clear on this: DiVX gives corporations excessive control over the viewing habits of customers, and was generally an awful idea. Truly, we have the media outlets and electronic stores--corporations in their own right--to thank for realizing the inevitable result of any technically dependant system such as DiVX and protecting as many consumers as possible from what the Geeks always recognized as Bad Mojo.

What can we learn from this? SDMI--the MP3 competitor--is flat out doomed to fail if it attempts any sort of protection dependant on contacting anyone anywhere for permission to play a song.

After decades of ripping off artists, lets hope they don't move onto ripping off consumers. (Again. Spoiler Signal What?)

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
effugas@best.com

Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.

Small kernel in an old laptop by Fartalot · 1999-06-14 16:58 · Score: 1 · on Minimal X Installation

I have toshiba T2000SXe i386, 40M HD, 1.4M RAM
with a floppy drive. Because the memory is lower than 4 meg I couldn't install Smalllinux, tinyX, or mulinux.
I installed Linux-lite by Paul Gortmaker which could run in a really small size of RAM. Running nicely @ 2 Bogomips. the kernel is 1.0.9 and in /lib is libc.so.4.5.26
Linux lite comes with vi, grep, less, more, setterm along with basic /bin

the HD still have plenty of space left and I want to install mc, fortune, etc. Anyone knows how to install gcc by floppy?

Thank you very much before :)

Small kernel in an old laptop by Fartalot · 1999-06-14 16:58 · Score: 1 · on Minimal X Installation

I have toshiba T2000SXe i386, 40M HD, 1.4M RAM
with a floppy drive. Because the memory is lower than 4 meg I couldn't install Smalllinux, tinyX, or mulinux.
I installed Linux-lite by Paul Gortmaker which could run in a really small size of RAM. Running nicely @ 2 Bogomips. the kernel is 1.0.9 and in /lib is libc.so.4.5.26
Linux lite comes with vi, grep, less, more, setterm along with basic /bin

the HD still have plenty of space left and I want to install mc, fortune, etc. Anyone knows how to install gcc by floppy?

Thank you very much before :)

GQmpeg by DaKrushr · 1999-06-10 23:25 · Score: 3 · on X11AMP changes name to XMMS and gets sponsored

How come nobody seems to know about this great MP3 player?

It's been GPL'd for ages - has really nice skin support (including shaped skins), is fast, doesn't crash, and is just generally cool - and it isn't a copy of a Windows program :).

GQmpeg/GQview

DoxPrint *should* speed migration by Effugas · 1999-05-22 02:56 · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: NT to Linux Migration Costs?

DoxPrint's a middleware tool I wrote to translate Network Neighborhood prints to Novell Netware prints. Should help with any migration attempt, considering you can leave all your (working) Novell print queues as they stand and move your clients to the exact same state they'll be in if you choose to move to another print platform. DoxPrint, with a *tiny* amount of coding(I'll even build it into the next version if you like), can allow one point of access to Netware printers, Samba printers, NT printers, and even Appletalk printers. Check it out, it might help ya.

http://doxpara.netpedia.net/doxprint.html

Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.

Re:DoxPrint: Windows to Netware Gateway by Effugas · 1999-05-19 09:49 · Score: 1 · on Novell to support Linux with NDS

I don't know why DoxPrint was moderated into hiding. I'd say mail Rob, but the poor guy gets enough mail. Whoever trashed the post--go away, censor.

(For those who didn't see the original post, DoxPrint lets you print to Novell printers over the Network Neighborhood, by having a Linux box in the middle translate between windows prints and Novell prints. Check it out, send me feedback, etc. I'll put together a FAQ once I have some Q to FA.)

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://doxpara.netpedia.net

Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.

YAX by Anonymous Coward · 1999-04-14 13:12 · Score: 0 · on Gates: "Linux will have Limited Impact"

Well YAX is more of a "graphical system," but it is definitely alpha. Guess you could include MGR in the list, but all of these systems run on any Unix, so I guess Bill must mean that Unices as a group aren't for serious people.

Open Digita Services & Kodak DC260? by Anonymous Coward · 1999-03-10 02:49 · Score: 0 · on Linux Software for Digital Cameras?

While not exactly an answer to the question, but still goes under the headline... =)

There's an open source project aiming to support cameras with Digita "operating environment" (esp. Kodak DC220 and DC260) on linux, called Open Digita Services.

It looks tempting, and so does the DC260. In fact, I'm gonna get me one of those next week. Anyone out there using one with linux? That stuff is still in early stages according to the web page, but does it work at least for downloading the pics on a slow serial wire?

Rebuttal? Already done.... by Anonymous Coward · 1999-03-04 21:18 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft claims Linux provides weak value

Hmmm,

Dan Kaminsky posted his "Core Competencies" article on 3/2. Is Muth rebutting him? I think they're watching Linux sites more than they admit...

Gadget Obscura by Effugas · 1999-02-07 22:01 · Score: 1 · on Does Dvorak really know what Transmeta is Doing?

Easy to design electronics? Cool.

Everything I use my computer for split into 89437598375 different random devices? Look ma, it's Push 2!

I don't want one box that's a web browser, another that's a music player, another that's a word processor, another that's a network router, another that plays Quake, another that organizes my schedule, another that checks my email, and so on ad infinitum. Jini? Universal Plug and Play? I prefer all my wires *INSIDE* my box(which may or may not be half open). As for wireless, oh yes I can't wait for my wireless Jini enabled stereo system to be hacked from scannerboy and for me to go deaf at 4AM.

You just can't beat security through impossibility.

Every once in a while I get the feeling that half of the fads in Silicon Valley are started when one or two venture capitalists nods their head in understanding. Like a lightning bolt, "Bob Richguy Inc. just dropped a million bucks on that stupid concept" turns into "This is finally how we'll make money on the net".

Well, that million bucks had to go somewhere, so somebody's right.

In this case, I think the VC meeting was some poor schmuck sputtering trying to save his product(who knows what) until he finally--very accidentally--opened his mouth and let the magic words "More types of gadgets = More Units Sold = More Items For The Profit Margin To Multiply = $$$".

Don't believe me? You *KNOW* Push came from "We'll solve the problem of users not wanting to download $500,000 sites by doing it while they sleep, and we'll get a chunk of that $500,000 by finally getting BigCorp some hits!" Nod. Fad. Blink.

This isn't to say that I think Transmeta is going to fail. They won't--I'll flat out go wayyyy out on a limb and say that Transmeta is playing the industry with just a little too much skill to not truly have something up their sleeve. (Not even Microsoft has managed so much good press with so little product.) My honest guess is that they're planning to replace all those tiny custom chips that the semiconductor industry spurts out in mass quantities and replace them with one chip, in various die sizes, that just does everything.

God, Transmeta's good, they've even got me postulating. They've got something. I just hope they don't think that they're going to sell ten gadgets for each app my one PC manages quite well. Beyond every other argument I've already given, nine times out of ten three buttons and an LCD display does not a good user interface make.

Hurm. I'm going to start archiving these posts on my home page.

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
effugas@best.com

Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.

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