Damnit, Wes, you made me hop over to my RHL box to find 587. Apparently Bill isn't into that kind of thing. I'll put money down, though, that you had to look at the list at least once. (And that's 513/TCP, by the way, since 42 already cleared up the 513/UDP question.)
Domain Name: computerexhaust.com Registrar: DOMAINSITE.COM, INC.
Registrant:
ONeill, Don oneilldon@sbcglobal.net
Computer Security Specialists
2002 Missouri Street
Unit #2
San Diego, CA 92109
US
Phone: 858-774-5942
Fax:
I work at a computer store, and we sell a model RC-8139C (God only knows who assembles them) with, amazingly enough, an 8139 as its main IC.
Our cost from our distributor is something like C$7 each (purdy little cardboard box included), and we sell them for C$11.
The next step up is the DFE-528, at about C$25 retail.
After that, it's the 3C905TX-M (with the newer BGA IC), at something like C$58 retail. We had three in stock in August '02, and we had three in stock -- the same three -- today.
All of that probably has something to do with why the 8139 is nearly everywhere you look...
Aha! I hate to poke holes in your story, Lawrence, but long, long ago, I recall you posting something in reply to a remark about your ex-sig stating that it was a zipper injury (or somesuch) that necessitated the procedure.
Almost every single one of those items are the same regardless if you have 20GB of storage or 1TB of storage. I know this because I have a fileserver with six 120GB drives forming a RAID 5 array, and other than needing more than one controller due to the number of drives involved, everything else is the same.
So don't tell me that you need more license seats because you have more storage available. I call bullshit.
I let out a yelp when I got to puts it on the broken machine, formats and loads windows on it*
One of the things that really chaps my ass, more than anything else, is people asking my advice (and they do so specifically because of my experience in whichever field they're inquiring about), patiently listening to what I have to say, asking intelligent questions... then doing something completely or mostly against my recommendations.
More often than not, something ends up going wrong that would/could not have occurred had they followed my advice in the first place, and then I hear about it.
It sucks the last drop of willpower from my soul to hold myself back from saying "I told you so!" and charging them a stupidity fee. It's tempting to do so even to friends, if/when I get sucked into the resulting mess. [Hear that, Jared?:P]
* Linux zealots: For a more warm-and-cozy feeling, disregard the first eight words of this quote.
Can you give more information about CSS - there was nothing on that page that even hinted at it.
Who's key do you use? (there are a fixed number) Is the CSS authoring implemented in software or hardware? Why do they not even mention CSS on the page?
It is not possible to write a CSS key to a General DVD-R (the regular type used with most DVD-R units such as the DVR-A04) since the area the key would be written in (an area similar to the pregroove on a CD-R) is not writable on a General DVD-R.
Authoring DVD-R discs, however, can have anything written to them, including CSS keys. This is accomplished using software such as Scenarist (proof of CSS here, under DVD-Video Specification Support).
However, this doesn't entirely stop piracy -- even though all DVD-R discs are all single-layer (so if you're mastering a dual-layer DVD, you have to write the final layout to tape to send to the mastering/replication facility), you can copy single-layer CSS-encrypted DVDs just fine with General blanks by decrypting the content first, then creating a new UDF 1.02 layout in software such as Nero and placing the freshly-decrypted files into the VIDEO_TS folder in the layout, then burning it. I know this works, because I've done it with a single-layer DVD I own as a proof-of-concept.
Theoretically you could duplicate a dual-layer DVD by decrypting it, then extracting the MPEG2 data from the VOB, recompressing it at a lower bitrate so the finished product will be less than 4400MB, then creating new VOBs and burning those. It would be a pig of a job, but theoretically quite possible. (Why bother, though? Just turn it into an SVCD or something similar.)
It's just a higher quality write... all I've seen, including the one you reference, write at 1x speed.
This is not correct.
It is not possible to write a CSS key to a General DVD-R (the regular type used with most DVD-R units such as the DVR-A04) since the area the key would be written in (an area similar to the pregroove on a CD-R) is not writable on a General DVD-R.
Authoring DVD-R discs, however, can have anything written to them, including CSS keys. This is accomplished using software such as Scenarist (proof of CSS here, under DVD-Video Specification Support).
I'll say it this way... there is no consumer device in existance that will give you a DVD with CSS protections like the kind Hollywood gets to use.
Wrong. They're not cheap (and nor are the blanks), so it's hardly a "consumer-grade" unit, but there are no restrictions on purchasing or ownership, so anyone can own one.
Slashdot Mirror
Here it is (PDF page 7). Not yet final, but might as well be.
*sigh*...
I very nearly sprayed Coca-Cola all over my VX900, which would have been a hell of a mess to clean up.
:)
Mod parent up. This is the funniest one-liner I've heard in a long, long time.
Good work.
Damnit, Wes, you made me hop over to my RHL box to find 587. Apparently Bill isn't into that kind of thing. I'll put money down, though, that you had to look at the list at least once. (And that's 513/TCP, by the way, since 42 already cleared up the 513/UDP question.)
:)
Nice work, though.
Take it up with Mr. ONeill [sic], then!
Domain Name: computerexhaust.com
Registrar: DOMAINSITE.COM, INC.
Registrant:
ONeill, Don oneilldon@sbcglobal.net
Computer Security Specialists
2002 Missouri Street
Unit #2
San Diego, CA 92109
US
Phone: 858-774-5942
Fax:
Holy flying fuck, that's sleazy! Do you have a screenshot? I'd love to see exactly how bad it is...
Man I feel like I'm leaving feedback on ebay now.
Perhaps, but you seem to be missing what is unfortunately considered by many to be a required component of a feedback comment:
AAAAA+++++++!!!!!!!
I work at a computer store, and we sell a model RC-8139C (God only knows who assembles them) with, amazingly enough, an 8139 as its main IC.
Our cost from our distributor is something like C$7 each (purdy little cardboard box included), and we sell them for C$11.
The next step up is the DFE-528, at about C$25 retail.
After that, it's the 3C905TX-M (with the newer BGA IC), at something like C$58 retail. We had three in stock in August '02, and we had three in stock -- the same three -- today.
All of that probably has something to do with why the 8139 is nearly everywhere you look...
Aha! I hate to poke holes in your story, Lawrence, but long, long ago, I recall you posting something in reply to a remark about your ex-sig stating that it was a zipper injury (or somesuch) that necessitated the procedure.
:P
So which was it, huh?
Likewise, from corporate and personal perspectives, the Love Calculator is [right on the money|pretty accurate|crazy|WTF?].
This sets a huge red flag for me:
July 15, 2002
golden-escrow.co.uk changes it's payment methods. Transactions are to be paid only
by e-gold or Western Union.
That reeks of pure fraud...
Almost every single one of those items are the same regardless if you have 20GB of storage or 1TB of storage. I know this because I have a fileserver with six 120GB drives forming a RAID 5 array, and other than needing more than one controller due to the number of drives involved, everything else is the same.
So don't tell me that you need more license seats because you have more storage available. I call bullshit.
Thanks to the new 802.11b wireless tree networks, we'll all have ample notice to resue him...
Didn't you mean spanning tree? *rimshot*
Thanks! I'll be here all day! Try the fish. Tip your waitress!
They have responded by ordering several large nets.
Furthermore, said nets will be delivered by cargo vessel underneath bags of cement.
Have you ever tried to grep three boxes of greenstripe?
Not a pretty sight, let me tell you...
And the number 1 answer:
:)
1) Rounded up from 6.9 billionths of a processor cycle
*sigh* I'm so disappointed! That should have read:
1) My Pentium rounded up from 6.9 billionths of a processor cycle, FDIV style
Kids these days...
Oh. My. God.
:P]
I let out a yelp when I got to
puts it on the broken machine, formats and loads windows on it *
One of the things that really chaps my ass, more than anything else, is people asking my advice (and they do so specifically because of my experience in whichever field they're inquiring about), patiently listening to what I have to say, asking intelligent questions... then doing something completely or mostly against my recommendations.
More often than not, something ends up going wrong that would/could not have occurred had they followed my advice in the first place, and then I hear about it.
It sucks the last drop of willpower from my soul to hold myself back from saying "I told you so!" and charging them a stupidity fee. It's tempting to do so even to friends, if/when I get sucked into the resulting mess. [Hear that, Jared?
* Linux zealots: For a more warm-and-cozy feeling, disregard the first eight words of this quote.
Oh, I forgot to mention:
Frost Pist!
Frist Psot... and not posting anonymously, because I've got the balls to do so.
I give you a gift:
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BTW, being Explorer unseparable from Windows, avoiding Explorer is avoiding Windows. Am I right, Bill?
Absolutely! Stay tuned to see. Video at 11! [snicker]
Love,
Bill
apprenti-dictateur à la noix de coco
Apprentice coconut dictator?!
Why are the lips an organ, but the skin isn't?
The skin is an organ -- in fact, it's recognized as the largest organ of the human body. (Insert dirty joke here.)
Can you give more information about CSS - there was nothing on that page that even hinted at it.
Who's key do you use? (there are a fixed number) Is the CSS authoring implemented in software or hardware? Why do they not even mention CSS on the page?
It is not possible to write a CSS key to a General DVD-R (the regular type used with most DVD-R units such as the DVR-A04) since the area the key would be written in (an area similar to the pregroove on a CD-R) is not writable on a General DVD-R.
Authoring DVD-R discs, however, can have anything written to them, including CSS keys. This is accomplished using software such as Scenarist (proof of CSS here, under DVD-Video Specification Support).
However, this doesn't entirely stop piracy -- even though all DVD-R discs are all single-layer (so if you're mastering a dual-layer DVD, you have to write the final layout to tape to send to the mastering/replication facility), you can copy single-layer CSS-encrypted DVDs just fine with General blanks by decrypting the content first, then creating a new UDF 1.02 layout in software such as Nero and placing the freshly-decrypted files into the VIDEO_TS folder in the layout, then burning it. I know this works, because I've done it with a single-layer DVD I own as a proof-of-concept.
Theoretically you could duplicate a dual-layer DVD by decrypting it, then extracting the MPEG2 data from the VOB, recompressing it at a lower bitrate so the finished product will be less than 4400MB, then creating new VOBs and burning those. It would be a pig of a job, but theoretically quite possible. (Why bother, though? Just turn it into an SVCD or something similar.)
Authoring drive != CSS protection
It's just a higher quality write... all I've seen, including the one you reference, write at 1x speed.
This is not correct.
It is not possible to write a CSS key to a General DVD-R (the regular type used with most DVD-R units such as the DVR-A04) since the area the key would be written in (an area similar to the pregroove on a CD-R) is not writable on a General DVD-R.
Authoring DVD-R discs, however, can have anything written to them, including CSS keys. This is accomplished using software such as Scenarist (proof of CSS here, under DVD-Video Specification Support).
I'll say it this way... there is no consumer device in existance that will give you a DVD with CSS protections like the kind Hollywood gets to use.
Wrong. They're not cheap (and nor are the blanks), so it's hardly a "consumer-grade" unit, but there are no restrictions on purchasing or ownership, so anyone can own one.