Slashdot Mirror

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.

css-auth.tar.gz - The code form an open source DVD project.
DeCSS.zip - A Win32 binary for decrypting DVD data streams.

MD5 Sums:

• 5b8347b8b857f8470b8dbd9a905fc194 css-auth.tar.gz d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae DeCSS.zip

Page last updated: Thu, Nov 11, 12:05pm EST

Current Mirrors (41 so far):

http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
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.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://www.xs4all.nl/~predator/ freecss/freecss.html
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's layers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/ Local Mirror: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/crypto.gq.nu


Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them. I don't know who runs which mirrors; I delete their email once I've added their site in order to ensure their annonymity in the event that the DVD consortium's layers start gnawing at my ankles as well.)

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

Here's a site that includes the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civillian Persons in Time of War, in addition to other interesting documents.

Well, maybe not overtly, but check this out:
http://www.bullatoms ci.org/issues/1994/nd94/nd94bulletins.html
http://dilbert.daily.umn. edu/daily/1995/10/03/news/spray/
Those friendly guys in our government lied to us. This is not the only case, I'm sure (and I got tired of trying to separate the wacko (my opinion) sites from the real ones in tracking down coverup info). If our government is willing to do things like this to us and lie about it, why should we believe anything they say about invading our privacy to catch terrorists, etc. Hell, for all I know they only set up this Echelon crap to get around the rules about spying on the public and they are gathering as much dirt on us as they can, just to have in case they want to mess with us. If it exists. :)



-beme

Another site I found a while ago is Phishcast Internet Radio, "Broadcasting Live Phish Shows 24/7" in streaming MP3 (128, 64, or 24 kbits/sec).

.. it's getting popular so be gentle.. :-)

Phishcast

Back in the mid '70s, when I was at CERL, Sherwin Gooch came up to me on the verge of panic. He said something to the effect "We're dead. Software engineering is no longer a profession!"

What rattled his cage was a court case in which the defendant, a software engineer, was held immune to the claims damage by his client. In the opinion, the judge in the case held that software engineering was not an engineering profession in the same class as civil engineers, and that therefore the programmer could not be held liable for damages resulting from his software.

Sherwin was right. It has taken decades for the demand for highly skilled programmers to rebound from the lows they experienced in the late '70s when I was doing systems programming at Control Data Corporation's side of the PLATO project for about $20K/year.

Yes, there are women in open source. Yes, there are female hackers. (And I mean hackers in the true old-guard sense of the word for people who love to write code for its own sake and are very good at it, not people who break into someone else's box.)

Normally I don't go too overboard in the ubergeek oneupsmanship, but I think it's called for here to counter the prevailing winds.

I've been hacking open source since before that phrase was fashionable, we used to just call it "free software". Or even "public domain" if we felt like using big words. Most of it runs on Irix (although some has been ported to Linux) because I got addicted to SGIs when they were the only game in town for fast graphics.

I started playing with computers when I was ten, wrote software on my own time for a while, got my first paying computer job when I was 16. I was the youngest employee at ETA systems, a supercomputer company that's now bankrupt (like all the rest of them). I literally remember when I thought Unix was for wimps, an insane waste of expensive supercomputer cycles. If batch job control was good enough for me, it should be good enough for everybody! (So I did see the light on that one, now I'm a rabid Unix fanatic.)

Got a CS degree at Stanford (while taking quite a few feminist studies classes along the way). Went off to work at The Geometry Center, a research group where developing free software was a major part of our mission. Came back to Stanford to get a PhD in CS. Along the way I adapted some research software for use in a free SGI visualization product.

I am used to almost always being the only or one of the few women in the room. One of the few sports I enjoy doing is kickboxing, which is at least as male dominated. I probably wouldn't have chosen to either start or continue with that if I hadn't built up reserves of confidence from my experiences in CS.

I do believe the low percentage of women in CS is due to cultural conditioning, and that the gender imbalance causes professional difficulties ranging from extreme to subtle. Ellen Spertus has several essays on this (which are worthwhile enough that I'll add yet another pointer to them). In my case most of the difficulties have been subtle, and I've benefitted from many mentors from many people over the years. Most of them have been male, but it's worth pointing out that at my first computer job my boss was female as was hers.

-- Tamara

Also, it might be a good idea to have some kind of "matching" system whereby your taste (in raters or items) is matched to other's so that their opinions can be taken into account. This is somewhat similar a recommendation service I've seen on amazon. I haven't studied GroupLens in detail, but perhaps it has these aspects too.

They have the same policy, its a big reason why I like 'em. To take it a step further, there is the Phishcast. streaming live shows 24 hours a day. A number of these type of streams have shown up (led zep, billy joel, weird al, TMBG, etc) although I would assume most are illegal. Recording companies need to realize that MP3 should be used for "promotion" (get 'em addicted, then jack up the price) and not sold as a product. Who do I call when my fictional $500 MP3 collection disappears when my fictional child accidentally wipes my HD? It just no longer exists, why pay for some that can disappear from reality so easily? The business world hasn't learned (nor has the government) to deal with infinite products

We can produce massive amounts of neutrinos. But it also takes massive amounts of work. I work on a project called MINOS--Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search. We will be shooting a beam of neutrinos (mainly muon type) from Fermilab outside of Chicago to northern Minnesota. At each end, we will look at the flux of each type of neutrino and compare the ratio of types. If the ratio is significantly different than 1, but the overall number of neutrino ratio between detectors is around 1, then this will indicate that neutrinos do indeed have mass. Cool project, but a little beside the point.

Anyway, I've been touring the facilities the last few days, and I can tell you that the accelerator beamline is over 1 mile long, just to reach northern Minnesota. The two detectors, one on each side, will require abou 2,700 tons of steel each (no exaggeration!). So while a neutrino antenna may be able to use different (lower) energies than we are using, I can't imagine that the required equipment would be much different than this. More information can be found at U of Minnesota.

Check out movielens for an example of this technology. (I work for them.) The way it works is that everyone rates as many items as they can, and then the system figures out which comments you're likely to like based on your similarity to other moderators.

My GPG key


Mail me

Seymour Cray's final product involved the fastest switching technology ever activated in a super computer, which was then coupled into a massively parallel computing system. The Cray-3/Super Scalable System had a revolutionary GaAs control processor with potentially tens of millions of computing memory elements. This system (an adaptation of the original GaAs Cray-3) was financed by the NSA. Seymour Cray accepted this funding in a last-ditch effort to save his company and when I visited the Colorado Springs office, I was actually given the impression by one of their executives that they had a working model and would consider commercial sale of the device. Cray Computer Corporation went bankrupt shortly thereafter in the first business failure of Cray's phenomenal career. About a year later, Cray was killed in a jeeping accident. Having cut my teeth on his machines at the CDC/Urbana PLATO project, I knew Cray was unhappy with the direction his technology had been taken by "the spook shops" from before the day he left CDC to found Cray Research on his farm in in Wisconsin.

Recent revelations of RSA's vulnerability come as no surprise. The NSA, despite the fact that it is run by unaccountable bureaucrats embedded in a dough ball of Federal funding, is probably far beyond a cabal of private hackers in their capabilities.

Lest hackers and civil libertarians get the idea that now is the time for civil disobedience in protest of regulations against unlimited key sizes, you should probably be aware that Federal officials are so embolden by their lack of accountability that some of them have slipped up and are explicitly threatening suspects with prisoner gang rape. Given the prevalence of HIV infection in the prison systems, and the efficiency with which the virus is transmitted during gang rape, such threats amount to murderous sexual sadism as punishment for civil disobedience. In one of the most outrageous examples, Assistant U.S. attorney Gordon Zubrod from Harrisburg, PA made the following statement in a broadcast statement to 3 suspects who fled to Canada (this statement was captured for the public record during a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview):

"You're going to be the boyfriend of a very bad man if you wait out your extradition."

If you think the use of murderous sexual sadism against protesters who engage in civil disobedience is unrealistic, or somehow so low risk as to be inconsequential, you should read Torture In The American Gulag before taking any personal risks.

Thinking about this issue, Slashdot really isn't "Open Source Journalism". It is "Open Participation Journalism" which happens to run on open-source software and covers open-source issues. There is a big difference.

Take The Killer List of Videogames (arcade games information database) for example. Open participation? Very. Open source? No. Open participation works for databases and discussions, certainly. (KLOV owns the "open participation" database, but people still contribute. Interesting, no?)

Actually, I'm having a bit of trouble seperating some of the aspects of the two in some respects (aside that open SOURCE refers to source code, obviously). Perhaps these terms don't quite cover the full distinction of differences between, say, Slashdot, and the Linux kernel.

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What the UofM Engineering Department did is a great example of where old hardware goes, and how it's still useful.

Actually, I saw this program in action well before Jurasic Park came out. A friend of mine worked for the Geom center at the U of M. They had a whole bunch of slick SGI boxes, for math and geometry visualization, and most of them had this program where you can fly about over your file system, height showed size, color showed last access. You could spotlight one of them, I think, and see more detail about it. It was a very cool program, but seemed like it was mostly a play thing. If you wanted to get anything done you'd use the command line. :)

Actually, I saw this program in action well before Jurasic Park came out. A friend of mine worked for the Geom center at the U of M. They had a whole bunch of slick SGI boxes, for math and geometry visualization, and most of them had this program where you can fly about over your file system, height showed size, color showed last access. You could spotlight one of them, I think, and see more detail about it. It was a very cool program, but seemed like it was mostly a play thing. If you wanted to get anything done you'd use the command line. :)

Not quite so full-featured as Quicken, but it can import/export Quicken files, does the basic account balancing and report generation and (best of all) it's free software (covered by the GNU GPL).

http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/cbb/

The first IMP installation thirty years ago is described in today's L.A. Times. Nobody took a picture of the start of the ARPANET.

cbb is a personal finance manager that works exceptionally well and can import Quicken files!

http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/cbb/

Best of all, it's GPL'd software!

~AC

set up shout/icecast, let people find you with MP3Spy, broadcast to them and share your music with the world.

If you haven't (and you probably wouldn't if you don't look out a Window) seen it MP3Spy is the coolest piece of software ever.(my new siguote)

Especially now that I found a Phish channel all else is bliss.

http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/

I've brought this up before, but I'm not sure if anyone saw it:

There's a research project called "GroupLens" which automatically rates messages based on the INDIVIDUAL reader's preferences. It rates unread messages by using ratings from other readers that have similar tastes.

In my mind, this approach is much preferrable to active moderation. With active moderation, there's always the potential for abuse... and even in a perfect system, the moderator's preferences may not be my own. Maybe I think long posts are boring, or I only read for the entertainment value of mindless flames. A system like GroupLens would reflect my personal preferences without forcing them on anybody else.

You can see this system in action at the MovieLens web site. For the research, see the GroupLens web site.

Jim

I've brought this up before, but I'm not sure if anyone saw it:

There's a research project called "GroupLens" which automatically rates messages based on the INDIVIDUAL reader's preferences. It rates unread messages by using ratings from other readers that have similar tastes.

In my mind, this approach is much preferrable to active moderation. With active moderation, there's always the potential for abuse... and even in a perfect system, the moderator's preferences may not be my own. Maybe I think long posts are boring, or I only read for the entertainment value of mindless flames. A system like GroupLens would reflect my personal preferences without forcing them on anybody else.

You can see this system in action at the MovieLens web site. For the research, see the GroupLens web site.

Jim

That'll be GroupLens.

The idea is you make all (logged in) users moderators. Everyone can vote. Gone are all the silly rules about giving away that you are a moderator. Gone is the elitism of a handful of moderators. Best, it'll work better, because there is more data available.

In effect, you will be choosing a group of people to act as personal moderators. They are choosen by selecting people with whom you have agreed with in the past.

This isn't my idea, and it isn't new. It was tried on a system called GroupLens, which was integrated into newsreaders like slrn, tin, and gnus. Check out the ps paper by Miller there.

The only downside is it might tax /. too much. Not sure. But I'm even willing to help if it's needed, because I think it's a Good Thing.

So GL uses all GL users as reviewers.

So GL uses all GL users as reviewers.

What you've implemented here sounds like it's on the border of collaborative filtering (which is a totally cool concept). For an example of this, take a look at the GroupLens recommendation system.

Essentially the idea is that if you let everyone rate, abusers become statistically insignificant. Also (with a little extra computational muscle), you can customize your view of ratings by how other people who tend to rate the same way you do rate things.

Trailer 2 is up at
real.extension.umn.edu/starwars

http://www.nts.umn.edu/homer/internet2/
For all of you who are interested.

Battering about the term "Server" to justify the high price tags of new brand name (DEC, Compaq, IBM, Dell, etc) Linux boxes doesn't hold well in my book. I know people who keep thier workstations load peged for weeks at a time doing calculations, rendering, etc. And I see servers that couldn't handle workstations loads that easily handle massive server loads (Alpha box in ND-HECN that has well over 1000 users, but my K6 will outrun for pure CPU power, the CDROM.COM FTP server that holds records for transfer in a day that is a dual PPro, and wouldn't hang for massive rendering or number crunching quite as well as some workstations sitting around my department).

The primary diffrance that "they" are suggesting makes a server a server is RAID, multiple network interfaces, etc... But, at the same time, not all of thier "server" offerings have these features standard (What makes Dell's Linux server a server anyway?).

I think they don't want to do Linux workstations (IMHO) because they fear the "My Big Gulp won't fit in my new 20X Cup Holder" phone calls. Slashdot is a Dual Pentium II 233 for crips sake, and it's a "server," and no one would argue that it's really just a workstation, and not a server.

I guess, in my mind, no one has doubted Linux's ability to be a server for a couple years now, but it seems that's where it ends. And, to me, that's not news. Saving a few thousand dollars on a high end server by choosing Linux insted of DEC-UNIX or AIX on your server may be big news to some people. But it's not big news to the general population, because, more people use PC's/Home Office/Workstations that actually run thier own server. And, today, Linux is make BIG inroads in the workstation market, and that's where it's truely starting to shine. It has always shined as a server. But now that it's shining in the scientific labs doing numbercrunching, theoretical predictions, and data analysis as a WorkStation. Now it's shining in CAD/Rendering/Media arenas as a WorkStation. That's a bigger market. That's bigger news. That's where I would like to see some of the big "brand names" take notice and become active in support.

And, as far as that goes, a "entry level" server would be great to see too. I guess this is happening with Corel's Netwinder, and the Qube... But, I think buisnesses that have 5-20 people in the office could benifit soo much more substantually from Linux than they realize. If there were a commercial solution with ONE server running 10-20 Xterminals (like Mechanical Engineering Dept. at the University of Minnesota has done), That would turn heads, and make news, and prove that the idea of "workstation" vs. "server" is a very blurry line, and you have to think more in terms of "networked solutions" than "My Workstation" and "our company's server." Sometimes the server only needs to be a little 486, and the workstations need to be quad Xeons... but sometimes the workstations only need to be 486's, and the server needs to be the quad Xeons or RS/6000 systems. How can anyone draw such lines as "workstation" and "server" and use that to defend what market and price range they are focusing on?

IMHO Educational institutions should do it the way UofM's Engineering Department did. With an equal budjet, you could server far more users and/or provide better computing power to all users. (considering probably 9 out of 10 workstations usually carry a light load at most times anyway..... but even still....)

Posted by buchur:

if you want to invoke linux from the bootsector of a dos filesystem, you can use syslinux: .

What journalled file systems on UNIX have you been using?

When doing device driver development work for a RAID vendor some time ago under Irix 5.3 running EFS file systems, hourly kernel panics inevitably resulted in trashed file systems about 50% of the time. A short time later, we migrated up to Irix 6.2 and XFS and never ONCE did I lose data.

Even better, XFS could deliver well in excess of the 100 MB/s throughput that the RAIDs provided when doing buffered I/O on large files with large block sizes and just under that when doing direct, non-buffered I/O.

Check out the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering. These folks have done some VERY large file systems with XFS and have extracted some very good performance from it. If memory serves me correctly, I think at one point they built a 1 TB XFS file system.