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Stories and comments across the archive that link to zoy.org.

Stories · 7

  1. Defeating Captcha

    It · Security · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the security-through-irritation dept. · 430 comments
    An anonymous reader pointed us at PWNtcha, a package that breaks various on-line captcha algorithms. The site provides numerous examples of easy (Paypal, and an older version of Slashdot make the list) and hard Captcha. It also links various sources explaining why Captcha is a bad idea.

  2. AAHelper, Library for ASCII Games/Apps Released

    Developers · Graphics · · posted by michael · from the a-to-z dept. · 11 comments
    Ravalox writes "AA Helper Library, which is a set of libraries to assist in the development of AA-Lib games/applications, has made its initial release. It currently provides a few graphics primitives and a render-to-frame function so you can get a normal image out of AA-Lib. If like me you are an ascii video fan another helpful ascii library is libcaca which is currently supported in Video Lan Media Player and Mplayer."

  3. AAHelper, Library for ASCII Games/Apps Released

    Developers · Graphics · · posted by michael · from the a-to-z dept. · 11 comments
    Ravalox writes "AA Helper Library, which is a set of libraries to assist in the development of AA-Lib games/applications, has made its initial release. It currently provides a few graphics primitives and a render-to-frame function so you can get a normal image out of AA-Lib. If like me you are an ascii video fan another helpful ascii library is libcaca which is currently supported in Video Lan Media Player and Mplayer."

  4. Color Ascii Art Library

    Developers · Software · · posted by michael · from the news-you-can-use dept. · 186 comments
    thedj_sd writes "As the true slashdot reader you just love ascii art of course. You have toyed around with aalib or maybe you use it all the time to watch your pr0n :) Well VLC media player's senior developer sam was bored some time ago and created libcaca. The Colour AsCii Art library of which he himself says: 'I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that.' But you just can't help looking at that beautiful picture of Stitch, and Doom in coloured ascii is da bomb. It works on dos/windows, Linux and Mac OS X and there is a VLC plugin and SDL backend available."

  5. Is Profiling Useless in Today's World?

    Linux · Linux · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the optimization-shmoptimization dept. · 221 comments
    rngadam writes "gprof doesn't work in Linux multithreaded programs without a workaround that doesn't work that well. It seems that if you want to use profiling, you have to look for alternatives or agree with RedHat's Ulrich Drepper that "gprof is useless in today's world"... Is profiling useless? How do you profile your programs? Is the lack of good profiling tools under Linux leading us in a world of bloated applications and killing Linux adoption by the embedded developers? Or will the adoption of a LinuxThreads replacement solve our problems?"

  6. The DeCSS Haiku

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the now-thats-a-doozy dept. · 195 comments
    xueexueg writes: "Dr. David Touretzky has posted a new piece of DeCSS art here, as well as his response to a threatening letter from the MPAA. Both are triumphantly good, one an epic haiku with the most intelligent and beautiful commentary I've heard in months, the other a response to the MPAA lawyers who evidently told Touretzky that his entire home page is a 'circumvention device.'" Both are good reads. I realize that posting this sort of thing on Slashdot is simply preaching to the choir, but some part of me hopes that in the end we'll still have a freedom of speech, a freedom to reverse engineer, and a freedom to watch the media we purchase. Sure seems less likely these days.

    Comment: 02/25 2:35 PM EST by J : My favorite source for CSSdescramble() is the DVDCCA's own DNS server.

    Do dig ns dvdcca.org to verify that their DNS servers are (as of right now) mercury.hypersurf.com and west.mainstreet.net.

    Then, to pull the gzip'd code straight off their servers, this will work on any vaguely sh-like shell:

    for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org @mercury.hypersurf.com ; done | perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip > myfile.c

    This trick is number nine on zoy.org's 42 ways to get DeCSS. You're actually requesting data which resides on zoy.org's DNS server, but it's being delivered to you by the DVDCCA's DNS server.

  7. 42 ways to Distribute DeCSS

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the show-your-support dept. · 124 comments
    Fabien Penso writes "As you know lots of homepages has been shut down or had troubles because they were distributing DeCSS source code (2600.com, ...). This one explains you other ways to share it. Basic FTP, HTTP, but also NetBIOS, ssh, DNS, IRC, Corba (!), XDMCP, CVS, etc. All the examples are also running on the server so you can get a try while you read it." Mirror early, mirror often ;)