I have a few DVD players. The two chinese/Korean are region free but the built-in one for my car is not. So I still get DVDs from Europe and HK and I end up transcoding them using Nero Recode (great tool!) It may not be pefect quality but it's good enough for my car. The original R2s ones can still be used on my home theater system. With 2 kids, I'm going to make even more backup. Seems like backing up DVDS is becoming easier. It reminds me at how hard it was to rip cds 6 years ago. Things are changing. I think these region controls are going to help the sales of DVDR drives... It's easier not to worry with my car DVD player and just make a region free DVD... As DVD burner become ubiquitous ($100 for a DVD+=R/W drive) the movie industry has another huge problem on their hand. Checked p2p lately ? they have full DVDR images... scary
In emule, the ipfilter (similar to an uip filter in a fw) will help avoid those issues. As indicated in Slyck p2p developers are working on this issue. The new version of emule has some early work on "only allowing talk to secure client" or something of that effect. There is a really active community out there looking for technical solutions. This is new war. This is amazing all the dev work that went into P2P clients the last couple of years because of the RIAA tactics. First, decentralizing (Kazaa) then hashing, and now well.. we'll see:)
This is a pretty "new" technology. There is not that many resources/ user group about it. I have a Microsoft wireless router (MN-500) and it supports UPNP. I started looking into it and it looks like there are a few cool COM objects that can be used in conjunctions with Advanced XML namespaces to do intersting things programatically. I wonder what kind of security they put into it...? One of the feature/use of UPNP is to traverse and handle NAT properly. The thing that really bug me, is that they keep adding MMSG ports ( I guess they are from MSN messenger) to my static list of redirected ports. Geez, stick with one, don't take 10/20 of my port redirections. All I need is for one of those ports to become easily exploitable and I'm toast ! I can see why it's nice: MY Webcam/ VOIP/ Remote Assistance, all of the features of MSN Messenger on XP (some avail on other versions) just work. I still would like to keep it to a few static, non changing ports. Anybody else experienced that kind of behavior ?
I live in broadband hell. Namely Aurora, Illinois. I'm close enough to the Central Office (12,000 ft) but Ameritech/SBC claims their CO is full (which I think may be true). No problem, they are working on project pronto which is supposed to offer DSL for all the suburban neighborhoods. Notwithstanding the legal issues, they started rolling out project pronto in Illinois this spring. Of course it's completely half-assed and there are no rhyme and reasons to the way they are doing it. So they keep calling me to tell me that DSL is finally available. They send me a DSL modem and they tell me, oups sorry, not yet for you and I send it back. I played that game 3 times. Now I stopped. So technically the remote terminal (the project pronto Fiber to the neighborhood part) is supposed to be up in October for us, but I heard that one before. So I left Ameritech/SBC alltogether and went with another local phone provider (cheaper). As for Cable, it is still not available, as ATT inherited some really crappy and old system from the previous cable company and they haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade yet. (they have the monopoly). So there again, I refuse to use ATT and I have satellite (much better). Of course satellite Internet sucks (pings terrible, no good for VPN) and will probably go bankrupt soon. There are some wireless options but it's all mom and pop and most of them have been known to get our money and run with it. Plus they can't subsidize the cost of HW as much as DSL and cable so the upfront cost is too high for me ($250 to $500) and the monthly cost is also too high. So in the mean time, I just pay $5.95 for cheap dial up access. I still think it's ridiculous. I live in America! People in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, France... everywhere all have DSL but not me... The perverse nature of the capitalist system: No money (not enough) for the big guys and they won't get in... Sad sad..
I think my situation sums up the situation of many many millions of American.
Don Box is not really " a MS.NET engineer". He's the guy behing DevelopMentor. He's an ex C++/Unix guy who uses EMACS. (He admitted it at the.NET intro in chicago).
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I have a few DVD players. ... ...
The two chinese/Korean are region free but the built-in one for my car is not.
So I still get DVDs from Europe and HK and I end up transcoding them using Nero Recode (great tool!)
It may not be pefect quality but it's good enough for my car. The original R2s ones can still be used on my home theater system.
With 2 kids, I'm going to make even more backup.
Seems like backing up DVDS is becoming easier.
It reminds me at how hard it was to rip cds 6 years ago.
Things are changing.
I think these region controls are going to help the sales of DVDR drives...
It's easier not to worry with my car DVD player and just make a region free DVD
As DVD burner become ubiquitous ($100 for a DVD+=R/W drive) the movie industry has another huge problem on their hand.
Checked p2p lately ? they have full DVDR images
scary
In emule, the ipfilter (similar to an uip filter in a fw) will help avoid those issues. :)
As indicated in Slyck p2p developers are working on this issue.
The new version of emule has some early work on "only allowing talk to secure client" or something of that effect.
There is a really active community out there looking for technical solutions.
This is new war.
This is amazing all the dev work that went into P2P clients the last couple of years because of the RIAA tactics.
First, decentralizing (Kazaa) then hashing, and now well.. we'll see
This is a pretty "new" technology. There is not that many resources/ user group about it. ...?
I have a Microsoft wireless router (MN-500) and it supports UPNP.
I started looking into it and it looks like there are a few cool COM objects that can be used in conjunctions with Advanced XML namespaces to do intersting things programatically.
I wonder what kind of security they put into it
One of the feature/use of UPNP is to traverse and handle NAT properly.
The thing that really bug me, is that they keep adding MMSG ports ( I guess they are from MSN messenger) to my static list of redirected ports.
Geez, stick with one, don't take 10/20 of my port redirections.
All I need is for one of those ports to become easily exploitable and I'm toast !
I can see why it's nice:
MY Webcam/ VOIP/ Remote Assistance, all of the features of MSN Messenger on XP (some avail on other versions) just work.
I still would like to keep it to a few static, non changing ports.
Anybody else experienced that kind of behavior ?
Where does NPR broadcast in mp3 ?
All I can see is WMA,QT and Real audio ?
Any pointers ?
I live in broadband hell. ... everywhere all have DSL but not me... ... ..
Namely Aurora, Illinois.
I'm close enough to the Central Office (12,000 ft) but Ameritech/SBC claims their CO is full (which I think may be true).
No problem, they are working on project pronto which is supposed to offer DSL for all the suburban neighborhoods. Notwithstanding the legal issues, they started rolling out project pronto in Illinois this spring. Of course it's completely half-assed and there are no rhyme and reasons to the way they are doing it.
So they keep calling me to tell me that DSL is finally available. They send me a DSL modem and they tell me, oups sorry, not yet for you and I send it back.
I played that game 3 times. Now I stopped.
So technically the remote terminal (the project pronto Fiber to the neighborhood part) is supposed to be up in October for us, but I heard that one before.
So I left Ameritech/SBC alltogether and went with another local phone provider (cheaper).
As for Cable, it is still not available, as ATT inherited some really crappy and old system from the previous cable company and they haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade yet. (they have the monopoly). So there again, I refuse to use ATT and I have satellite (much better).
Of course satellite Internet sucks (pings terrible, no good for VPN) and will probably go bankrupt soon.
There are some wireless options but it's all mom and pop and most of them have been known to get our money and run with it.
Plus they can't subsidize the cost of HW as much as DSL and cable so the upfront cost is too high for me ($250 to $500) and the monthly cost is also too high.
So in the mean time, I just pay $5.95 for cheap dial up access.
I still think it's ridiculous. I live in America!
People in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, France
The perverse nature of the capitalist system:
No money (not enough) for the big guys and they won't get in
Sad sad
I think my situation sums up the situation of many many millions of American.
Just my 2 cents...
Don Box is not really " a MS.NET engineer". .NET intro in chicago).
He's the guy behing DevelopMentor.
He's an ex C++/Unix guy who uses EMACS. (He admitted it at the
Check out http://www.donbox.com