I wrote to them and they replied saying something like, "we would like to support linux but current contracts with prevent us from doing so. we are currently looking into the legal issues, and if possible we will consider writing a driver." IOW, "we're not supporting it now, and probally never will." Sigma has said that their next board will support linux. Their current one can't because the css/decryption is done in software and they are worried us big bad linux haxorz will be able to crack css, oops we already did.
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Actually I think the dxr3 *IS* a Hollywood+. I forget the exact model number though.
True, not expensive for a company, I meant for a windows hacker who wanted to write his own driver. Basically, if the company doesn't release windows drivers there is little chance of someone writing their own driver unless they already happen to have a copy of the DDK. Not to mention I don't think you can legally port a GPL'd driver to windows because of the DDK.
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I've heard the dxr3 is MUCH better, but I've never seen it.
Someone from the windows community with microsoft's Driver Developement Kit, which IIRC is VERY expensive.
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The drivers are going to be GPL'd so you could port it to whatever OS you wanted to. From what I understand the linux drivers will be released soon, sure you can't buy the card yet, but for the first time we might have drivers for linux before the hardware exists.
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The dxr2 has an absolutely awful monitor display. I've seen software mpeg2 decoders that made the s-video tv output look like crap. I've heard the dxr3 looks a lot better.
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Already happened. I forget the URL but someone managed to disassemble the instructions for CSS authentication. From what I understand it has since been converted to C. Now they are working on cracking the encryption on the MPEG stream itself. I think AC3 could pose a serious problem though, as IIRC AC3 is patented while CSS is not (there already is an AC3 library for Linux though). For movies that contain a standard PCM track that wouldn't be a problem, but how many actually do?
Could Pinky and The Brain become a reality? I dunno about you, but if I see a big headed mouse walking on it's hind legs down the street, I'm gonna run.
Well I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals the kids wouldn't buy them.
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I'm wondering if you'll be able to disable macrovision or the region encoding on the board. I really hope you will be able to. Also, does anyone know anything about the on screen performance of this card? Does it produce a high quality image, or is it remnicant of the dxr2's image.
Right now you could make a copy of a CSS encrypted DVD. The problem is the cost of the media, IIRC dvd-ram discs go for about $50 a pop. It would simply be cheaper to buy the movie from some place like www.dvdexpress.com for about $20. Now when the encryption is cracked you might see people converting the MPEG2 streams to MPEG1 and creating VCDs off of DVDs.
Liebert: n. A large commercial air conditioner used in a lot of server rooms / computer labs. My high school had one for the computer lab. We kinda made it our pet. Yes we were dorks. It was just fun to see the "high humidity" light go on and hear liebert kick into action.
Yah because RedHat is evil, because they're making money off of Linux and contributing some of that money back to the community. Imagine the nerve of them, highering people like Alan Cox to work on Linux full time. I mean, what do they think that will do to the kernel if Alan gets to spend his entire work day maintaining the stable kernel, and working on the other projects he's involved in. Sheesh! And the money they put into gnome, we didn't need that. Real coders just eat("/dev/food"); they don't need actual nurishment(sp).
Yarg, stupid trolls. I know a lot of you hate RedHat because they're the "Microsoft of Linux" but what specifically have they done that's so bad? So many people just hate them because they're becoming big, it's probally the same reason you hate microsoft, and gap clothes. It's just being anti-trendy trendy. Saying, "I hate that just because it's popular," is no better (worse imho) than saying, "I love that just because it's popular." Hate RedHat because you don't like their actual bussiness practices (not some rumor started by a guy who went off on a polite request from amazon), hate them because you think their distro is buggy and low quality. I personally have 3 redhat boxes at home, my router runs redhat 5.1, and has never had any problems, my desktop runs 5.2 and only has problems with X crashing, but that's because the X server isn't 100% stable and wasn't provided by redhat anyway. My laptop runs 6.0, and I'm considering putting debian on it just because i wanna try it out. I have yet to have a problem with any of these boxes though. The only time the router goes down is when we lose power, or if i just turn it off during a thunder storm.
Please show me where that email says that redhat initiated this? For all we know amazon is just trying to cover it's own ass just incase redhat's lawyers get bored. Or maybe a customer complained. Or maybe aliens took over their brains and forced them to dance around. All we know is that amazon asked someone to stop using redhat's trademarks, which IMHO is NOT a bad thing. Besides redhat denies all of this, and unlike some of the more conspiricy minded, I believe them.
Yah, so all of those linux coder types who they highered just so they can work on linux full time will have to go find other jobs and only work on linux in their free time. I'm sure that will be good for linux in general. And for the trademark: who cares? It's their trademark, it's their logo, they own it. If you wanna sell something redhat put money into and give them nothing in return, fine, but call it "Dirty Linux" or something along those lines, that's 100% legal.
Ok, so this comment is marked (0, Flamebait). The next comment, which says almost exactly the same thing, just different wording is (2, Funny). Go figure, and for some reason, rob's scripts have given me a default score of 2. Guess I'm just really magical or something.
www.junkbuster.com, I think it's opensource. Anyhoo, it was designed to filter banner adds and popup windows, but it could probally be used to filter said content.
IIRC the kernel shipped w/ RedHat 4.2 (had to be something in 2.x right?) had some potential jiffy wrap around bugs that occured at 465 days or so on intel. I think the problems have been fixed by now, I just hope they've tested these systems or else they might get it hard in a little while. Although the bugs weren't always serious, afaik the only reported problem was uptime reporting 0days of uptime after 465 days.
Also, Linux did not get SMP support earlier this year. It got BETTER SMP support, but it had it prior to this. Or maybe I'm mistaken and the company I worked for last year just imagined that they had a dual ppro-180 running linux (which did report both cpus). Other than a few nits I think it was an excellent article overall. I really love the part about linux saving them adminning time and cost. Especially since microsoft is spewing FUD about how Linux might cost less upfront but requires more money do admin.
Few things, first you can use tar to extract a single file w/o gunziping. If you're using GNU tar just tar -zxf blarg.tgz file_you_want_to_extract. Second, the method of compression has nothing to do with being able to store multiple files. PKZip is essentially just tar and gzip rolled into one product. The compression algorithm just takes a big chunk of data and makes it smaller, it doesn't care what info is stored in that data.
Hrm...last time I got a ticket, I signed the thing, plead not guilty, went to court, was found not guilty in under 30 seconds (a minute if you count the lecture from the judge about being careful), and went home. All before about 10am. Sure I had to wait about 2 months before the trial happened, but during that two months I was not inconvienced in the slightest bit.
Why has mitnick become a god in the (h,cr)acking community? He had no skill. He could social engineer, but IMHO social engineering isn't that great of a skill.
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I wrote to them and they replied saying something like, "we would like to support linux but current contracts with prevent us from doing so. we are currently looking into the legal issues, and if possible we will consider writing a driver." IOW, "we're not supporting it now, and probally never will." Sigma has said that their next board will support linux. Their current one can't because the css/decryption is done in software and they are worried us big bad linux haxorz will be able to crack css, oops we already did.
Actually I think the dxr3 *IS* a Hollywood+. I forget the exact model number though.
True, not expensive for a company, I meant for a windows hacker who wanted to write his own driver. Basically, if the company doesn't release windows drivers there is little chance of someone writing their own driver unless they already happen to have a copy of the DDK. Not to mention I don't think you can legally port a GPL'd driver to windows because of the DDK.
I've heard the dxr3 is MUCH better, but I've never seen it.
Someone from the windows community with microsoft's Driver Developement Kit, which IIRC is VERY expensive.
The drivers are going to be GPL'd so you could port it to whatever OS you wanted to. From what I understand the linux drivers will be released soon, sure you can't buy the card yet, but for the first time we might have drivers for linux before the hardware exists.
The dxr2 has an absolutely awful monitor display. I've seen software mpeg2 decoders that made the s-video tv output look like crap. I've heard the dxr3 looks a lot better.
Already happened. I forget the URL but someone managed to disassemble the instructions for CSS authentication. From what I understand it has since been converted to C. Now they are working on cracking the encryption on the MPEG stream itself. I think AC3 could pose a serious problem though, as IIRC AC3 is patented while CSS is not (there already is an AC3 library for Linux though). For movies that contain a standard PCM track that wouldn't be a problem, but how many actually do?
Could Pinky and The Brain become a reality? I dunno about you, but if I see a big headed mouse walking on it's hind legs down the street, I'm gonna run.
Well I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals the kids wouldn't buy them.
I'm wondering if you'll be able to disable macrovision or the region encoding on the board. I really hope you will be able to. Also, does anyone know anything about the on screen performance of this card? Does it produce a high quality image, or is it remnicant of the dxr2's image.
Right now you could make a copy of a CSS encrypted DVD. The problem is the cost of the media, IIRC dvd-ram discs go for about $50 a pop. It would simply be cheaper to buy the movie from some place like www.dvdexpress.com for about $20. Now when the encryption is cracked you might see people converting the MPEG2 streams to MPEG1 and creating VCDs off of DVDs.
Liebert: n. A large commercial air conditioner used in a lot of server rooms / computer labs. My high school had one for the computer lab. We kinda made it our pet. Yes we were dorks. It was just fun to see the "high humidity" light go on and hear liebert kick into action.
Yah because RedHat is evil, because they're making money off of Linux and contributing some of that money back to the community. Imagine the nerve of them, highering people like Alan Cox to work on Linux full time. I mean, what do they think that will do to the kernel if Alan gets to spend his entire work day maintaining the stable kernel, and working on the other projects he's involved in. Sheesh! And the money they put into gnome, we didn't need that. Real coders just eat("/dev/food"); they don't need actual nurishment(sp).
Yarg, stupid trolls. I know a lot of you hate RedHat because they're the "Microsoft of Linux" but what specifically have they done that's so bad? So many people just hate them because they're becoming big, it's probally the same reason you hate microsoft, and gap clothes. It's just being anti-trendy trendy. Saying, "I hate that just because it's popular," is no better (worse imho) than saying, "I love that just because it's popular." Hate RedHat because you don't like their actual bussiness practices (not some rumor started by a guy who went off on a polite request from amazon), hate them because you think their distro is buggy and low quality. I personally have 3 redhat boxes at home, my router runs redhat 5.1, and has never had any problems, my desktop runs 5.2 and only has problems with X crashing, but that's because the X server isn't 100% stable and wasn't provided by redhat anyway. My laptop runs 6.0, and I'm considering putting debian on it just because i wanna try it out. I have yet to have a problem with any of these boxes though. The only time the router goes down is when we lose power, or if i just turn it off during a thunder storm.
Please show me where that email says that redhat initiated this? For all we know amazon is just trying to cover it's own ass just incase redhat's lawyers get bored. Or maybe a customer complained. Or maybe aliens took over their brains and forced them to dance around. All we know is that amazon asked someone to stop using redhat's trademarks, which IMHO is NOT a bad thing. Besides redhat denies all of this, and unlike some of the more conspiricy minded, I believe them.
Yah, so all of those linux coder types who they highered just so they can work on linux full time will have to go find other jobs and only work on linux in their free time. I'm sure that will be good for linux in general. And for the trademark: who cares? It's their trademark, it's their logo, they own it. If you wanna sell something redhat put money into and give them nothing in return, fine, but call it "Dirty Linux" or something along those lines, that's 100% legal.
Ok, so this comment is marked (0, Flamebait). The next comment, which says almost exactly the same thing, just different wording is (2, Funny). Go figure, and for some reason, rob's scripts have given me a default score of 2. Guess I'm just really magical or something.
www.junkbuster.com, I think it's opensource. Anyhoo, it was designed to filter banner adds and popup windows, but it could probally be used to filter said content.
IIRC the kernel shipped w/ RedHat 4.2 (had to be something in 2.x right?) had some potential jiffy wrap around bugs that occured at 465 days or so on intel. I think the problems have been fixed by now, I just hope they've tested these systems or else they might get it hard in a little while. Although the bugs weren't always serious, afaik the only reported problem was uptime reporting 0days of uptime after 465 days.
Also, Linux did not get SMP support earlier this year. It got BETTER SMP support, but it had it prior to this. Or maybe I'm mistaken and the company I worked for last year just imagined that they had a dual ppro-180 running linux (which did report both cpus). Other than a few nits I think it was an excellent article overall. I really love the part about linux saving them adminning time and cost. Especially since microsoft is spewing FUD about how Linux might cost less upfront but requires more money do admin.
Few things, first you can use tar to extract a single file w/o gunziping. If you're using GNU tar just tar -zxf blarg.tgz file_you_want_to_extract. Second, the method of compression has nothing to do with being able to store multiple files. PKZip is essentially just tar and gzip rolled into one product. The compression algorithm just takes a big chunk of data and makes it smaller, it doesn't care what info is stored in that data.
Hrm...last time I got a ticket, I signed the thing, plead not guilty, went to court, was found not guilty in under 30 seconds (a minute if you count the lecture from the judge about being careful), and went home. All before about 10am. Sure I had to wait about 2 months before the trial happened, but during that two months I was not inconvienced in the slightest bit.
I think sublime put it best, "Even though he now takes it in the behind, I have no sympathy for men of his kind."
I do not know of this football of which you speak.
Why has mitnick become a god in the (h,cr)acking community? He had no skill. He could social engineer, but IMHO social engineering isn't that great of a skill.
Mitnick waived his right to a speedy trial. It's his own damned fault he was in jail for so long.