I had the same problem. Do you know what they tell you if you ask them how to fix it? They tell you you have to reinstall windows! And on top of that you can then never install a useful tool unless you want to reinstall again to play Doom.
Screw that. I downloaded the no-cd crack and everything works great now. Plus I know never to buy a game published by activision again. Good work guys!
using socio-economic data rather than athletic performance... methodology using [...] past performance
Don't you see a flaw there?
You can cook up socio-ecomonic statistics to prove anything you want about how evil, or oppressed, or unfair anything you'd like is.
When they pull this shit with religion it's called "numerology", but when they do it with somebody's favorite political issue it's called statistics. Let's use your example as an example:
They were 96% accurate in their predictions for the 2000 Games, including correctly guessing 97 total and 37 gold medals for the USA.
What's the statistical value of a data set with a sample size of 1? Whenever anybody says they can predict the future statistically, call bullshit.
Forget comvincing them to snitch.. These fourth graders likely know nothing about modding their Xbox.... Until the ferret comes along and tells them about it.
This will work just like the D.A.R.E. program. I still remember my little sister, having never heard of drugs before, suddenly wanting to try smoking up because she heard about it at school. Now we'll have kids learning they can get games for free at an earlier age, courtesy of the BSA.
Heh. With my crappy on-board video controller it takes about a second just to finish changing the background color. My 486 scrolled directory listings faster than this thing... Damn you computer!
The motherboard wasn't signifigantly more expensive than other high end boards. As for the MPs, there's a BIOS setting to disable the check for the MP version of the processor, and then everything just works.
When is the last time intel every helped you with something?
The manufacturer of the motherboard supports this setup. That's good enough for me. It's not like I went and soldered a wire between my processors like you used to have to do with slot A celerons.
For the price of a 3.0 ghz P4, you could get 2 Athlon XP 3000+ cpus, and still have a few bucks left over.
I'd rather have two real CPUs than something that performs like 2 CPUs in some cases and performs like half a CPU in others. Especially if both options have the same price tag.
It started as a bounty, yes. But after somebody had succeeded they placed this $1000 price on it. That changed things a bit. It's no longer a group of people offering a certain amount of money for something, but a developer asking for the money to release something.
Don't like the way they handled it? uhhh too bad. Do it yourself next time and you wont need to worry about it.
I could care less about it in either way. I was just pointing out that it's unlikely that there's enough there to even be worried about a legal challenge. This type of stuff doesn't enable any copyright infringement. This just boots the box. All the recordings are still encrypted. If anybody needs to be worried it's the people who are developing the software to prevent that encryption and (illegally) redistribute raw, unencrypted DirecTV data streams. People have been doing that for years though, and nobody has sued them yet. The whole "give to EFF so we won't be repressed" thing seems like a scam to me, since nobody is repressing them.
Have you read anything at DealDatabase? The "developers" there are mostly people who hack together a collection of real work done by other people. I bet this hack is some one-liner exploit that gets just enough data past the Tivo boot-time checks to make one of the existing hacks feasible. Those existing hacks are mainly pasted together work from people you've all heard of like Andrew Tridgell and Donald Becker that was done and dumped after they had what they wanted, or was written for other purposes entirely.
Then they say smug shit like this:
HD TeAm doesn't need the $ and if anybody else were smart/experienced enough something similiar would allready be public
What they really mean is that if anybody else cared enough, or had as much free time on their hands as they do, something like this would already be public.
Underclocking and undervolting doesn't give you the boost to full performance automatically and on demand. Plus, I like the fact that I'm running everything within the specs. The box this server replaced had an uptime of over 400 days. I want my production server to be stable. The whole machine cost under $500, and the processor was only $77 so I can't bring myself to complain about the price.
My server (with a smaller by far RAID) used to be a dual athlon too. I got tired of paying for the electricity, so I switched it to a Athlon-M 2500+ and setup all the powersaving stuff. (It took ages to find a desktop board with a PowerNow capable BIOS and voltage regulator...) Kernel compiles are a little slower, but 90% of the time (even streaming data at 100mbit) the processor stays in it's low power mode. What once took 350watts now takes 70. Highly recommended.
I agree with you. I'm just saying that it's worse than you imply. It may be your right to play from a disc image instead of the CD, but that has nothing to do with you not being able to play the game; You probably wouldn't be able to play it anyway simply because you have the capability to use images...
More like "Too strong to even allow you to play the game as they intended".
I have a feeling thse problems come from publishers slapping the protections on after the developer is done with the game. I find it hard to believe that game developers would rape their own content like that.
When I purchase a new game, the first thing I'll do is rip it to an ISO image so I can store the original CDs somewhere safe.
Which is why you probably haven't noticed that the copy protection probably wouldn't let you play the game just for having software that gives you that capability on your computer. What you're doing isn't normal, but normal users are getting fucked too.
...means more games that I have to uninstall my CD-R software to play, I have some choice words for them as to where they can stick it.
The most recent game purchase I made was Thief 3. One of my friends can play his pirated version just fine, but with my legit copy I have to uninstall the two CD-R utilities I have, and manually delete any reference of them from the registry before the game will load. Otherwise it pops up a dialog that says "Conflict with emulation software detected".
I can't return the game because it's open, and the tech support responce was to reinstall windows if I continued to have problems.
Gah! Is this really the way they encourage more people to be paying customers?
But we aren't talking about ease of upgrades, we are talking about transfer of content. I can upgrade my HD without a torx driver.
Sorry, I was unlear. Adding a hard drive was the upgrade I chose because that's what I cared about. If I cared about being a media packrat and storing tons of data that I'll probably never use again I would have chosen that option in the menu and plugged a NIC in rather than (or in addition to) upgrading the drive. The real point was that mofiying a TiVo to do what you wish instead of what it does out of the box has become as easy or easier than setting up a DIY box.
Now if Dishnetwork and DirectTV would supply the needed daughter cards/access cards to digital satellite PCI PVR cards we wouldn't be able to argue about the "re-encoding digital content" issue. (you can use those cards in Europe with subscription satellite services, but not here, from what I understand)
Is anybody trying to get MythTV working on actual TiVo hardware? The DirecTV TiVo units are series 2 hardware with old series 1 software. It's quite underutilized and shows it's age. It would be cool if you could leverage the TiVo hardware with a DIY software platform. After all, it's got all the required hardware for recording the sattelite stream already.
With that said the DirectTV deals with Tivo (which are they still being offered? Didnt't DTV and tivo have a bitter divorce quite publiclly last month?)
They sold their shares in the company. They didn't terminate their contracts. You can still go to BestBuy and get one essentially for free with a new installation and for $39 with an additional contractual commitment for existing customers. If you ask me, the contract thing is a bonus. DirecTV doesn't raise your rates until the end of your contract term, so not only do you get a cheap DVR, but you lock in your current pricing.
But out of the box without modification (software or hardware) you can't get the content off your DTV tivo box, which is the point of this article.
None of said modification is any more difficult than setting up a MythTv box. In fact, most mods involve simply plugging the disk drive into a computer and booting a CD that does the modification for you. Replacing my TiVo's drive with a 200Gb unit involved about 10 minutes of user interaction, and most of that was removing and replacing the screws. When I upgraded my first TiVo (before MythTV was even around) there was hex editing and drive unlock hacks and all sorts of ugliness, but these days TiVo upgrades are easy enough that anybody with a torx screwdriver can do it.
I'm not trying to troll. I have high hopes for DIY solutions in the future. For now, though, it seems like a real TiVo is the best thing out there if you've got sattelite.
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Plus there wasn't even styrofoam in the 3rd gen packaging. Mine had molded plastic spacers. This guy is a hack!
I had the same problem. Do you know what they tell you if you ask them how to fix it? They tell you you have to reinstall windows! And on top of that you can then never install a useful tool unless you want to reinstall again to play Doom.
Screw that. I downloaded the no-cd crack and everything works great now. Plus I know never to buy a game published by activision again. Good work guys!
Or you could just, you know, wait for winter to cool the lake back down.
using socio-economic data rather than athletic performance ... methodology using [...] past performance
Don't you see a flaw there?
You can cook up socio-ecomonic statistics to prove anything you want about how evil, or oppressed, or unfair anything you'd like is.
When they pull this shit with religion it's called "numerology", but when they do it with somebody's favorite political issue it's called statistics. Let's use your example as an example:
They were 96% accurate in their predictions for the 2000 Games, including correctly guessing 97 total and 37 gold medals for the USA.
What's the statistical value of a data set with a sample size of 1? Whenever anybody says they can predict the future statistically, call bullshit.
That's hilarious.
Plus now we have solid proof that even the editors don't read the story before posting!
Not only a dupe, but a link to the original story is listed on the referenced page.
Wow.
Forget comvincing them to snitch.. These fourth graders likely know nothing about modding their Xbox.... Until the ferret comes along and tells them about it.
This will work just like the D.A.R.E. program. I still remember my little sister, having never heard of drugs before, suddenly wanting to try smoking up because she heard about it at school. Now we'll have kids learning they can get games for free at an earlier age, courtesy of the BSA.
Heh. With my crappy on-board video controller it takes about a second just to finish changing the background color. My 486 scrolled directory listings faster than this thing... Damn you computer!
The motherboard wasn't signifigantly more expensive than other high end boards. As for the MPs, there's a BIOS setting to disable the check for the MP version of the processor, and then everything just works.
When is the last time intel every helped you with something?
The manufacturer of the motherboard supports this setup. That's good enough for me. It's not like I went and soldered a wire between my processors like you used to have to do with slot A celerons.
The two XPs seem to be working fine in the computer I'm posting this from...
For the price of a 3.0 ghz P4, you could get 2 Athlon XP 3000+ cpus, and still have a few bucks left over.
I'd rather have two real CPUs than something that performs like 2 CPUs in some cases and performs like half a CPU in others. Especially if both options have the same price tag.
Are you counting fan failure as failure of the whole supply, or do you just buy crappy power supplies?
Any given IDE hard drive has about a 7-10% chance of failing in a given year. A properly cooled power supply will last practically forever.
It started as a bounty, yes. But after somebody had succeeded they placed this $1000 price on it. That changed things a bit. It's no longer a group of people offering a certain amount of money for something, but a developer asking for the money to release something.
Don't like the way they handled it? uhhh too bad. Do it yourself next time and you wont need to worry about it.
I could care less about it in either way. I was just pointing out that it's unlikely that there's enough there to even be worried about a legal challenge. This type of stuff doesn't enable any copyright infringement. This just boots the box. All the recordings are still encrypted. If anybody needs to be worried it's the people who are developing the software to prevent that encryption and (illegally) redistribute raw, unencrypted DirecTV data streams. People have been doing that for years though, and nobody has sued them yet. The whole "give to EFF so we won't be repressed" thing seems like a scam to me, since nobody is repressing them.
Heh.
You assume that there's "code".
Have you read anything at DealDatabase? The "developers" there are mostly people who hack together a collection of real work done by other people. I bet this hack is some one-liner exploit that gets just enough data past the Tivo boot-time checks to make one of the existing hacks feasible. Those existing hacks are mainly pasted together work from people you've all heard of like Andrew Tridgell and Donald Becker that was done and dumped after they had what they wanted, or was written for other purposes entirely.
Then they say smug shit like this:
HD TeAm doesn't need the $ and if anybody else were smart/experienced enough something similiar would allready be public
What they really mean is that if anybody else cared enough, or had as much free time on their hands as they do, something like this would already be public.
Underclocking and undervolting doesn't give you the boost to full performance automatically and on demand. Plus, I like the fact that I'm running everything within the specs. The box this server replaced had an uptime of over 400 days. I want my production server to be stable. The whole machine cost under $500, and the processor was only $77 so I can't bring myself to complain about the price.
It's a Shuttle MK40VN. Any Via KM400 board with an AMI bios instead of an Award BIOS should work though.
My server (with a smaller by far RAID) used to be a dual athlon too. I got tired of paying for the electricity, so I switched it to a Athlon-M 2500+ and setup all the powersaving stuff. (It took ages to find a desktop board with a PowerNow capable BIOS and voltage regulator...) Kernel compiles are a little slower, but 90% of the time (even streaming data at 100mbit) the processor stays in it's low power mode. What once took 350watts now takes 70. Highly recommended.
I agree with you. I'm just saying that it's worse than you imply. It may be your right to play from a disc image instead of the CD, but that has nothing to do with you not being able to play the game; You probably wouldn't be able to play it anyway simply because you have the capability to use images...
"just-strong-enough-to-be-annoying" copy protection
More like "Too strong to even allow you to play the game as they intended".
I have a feeling thse problems come from publishers slapping the protections on after the developer is done with the game. I find it hard to believe that game developers would rape their own content like that.
When I purchase a new game, the first thing I'll do is rip it to an ISO image so I can store the original CDs somewhere safe.
Which is why you probably haven't noticed that the copy protection probably wouldn't let you play the game just for having software that gives you that capability on your computer. What you're doing isn't normal, but normal users are getting fucked too.
...means more games that I have to uninstall my CD-R software to play, I have some choice words for them as to where they can stick it.
The most recent game purchase I made was Thief 3. One of my friends can play his pirated version just fine, but with my legit copy I have to uninstall the two CD-R utilities I have, and manually delete any reference of them from the registry before the game will load. Otherwise it pops up a dialog that says "Conflict with emulation software detected".
I can't return the game because it's open, and the tech support responce was to reinstall windows if I continued to have problems.
Gah! Is this really the way they encourage more people to be paying customers?
But we aren't talking about ease of upgrades, we are talking about transfer of content. I can upgrade my HD without a torx driver.
Sorry, I was unlear. Adding a hard drive was the upgrade I chose because that's what I cared about. If I cared about being a media packrat and storing tons of data that I'll probably never use again I would have chosen that option in the menu and plugged a NIC in rather than (or in addition to) upgrading the drive. The real point was that mofiying a TiVo to do what you wish instead of what it does out of the box has become as easy or easier than setting up a DIY box.
Oh, I forgot one thing....
Now if Dishnetwork and DirectTV would supply the needed daughter cards/access cards to digital satellite PCI PVR cards we wouldn't be able to argue about the "re-encoding digital content" issue. (you can use those cards in Europe with subscription satellite services, but not here, from what I understand)
Is anybody trying to get MythTV working on actual TiVo hardware? The DirecTV TiVo units are series 2 hardware with old series 1 software. It's quite underutilized and shows it's age. It would be cool if you could leverage the TiVo hardware with a DIY software platform. After all, it's got all the required hardware for recording the sattelite stream already.
I'll play your game rogue...
Huh?
With that said the DirectTV deals with Tivo (which are they still being offered? Didnt't DTV and tivo have a bitter divorce quite publiclly last month?)
They sold their shares in the company. They didn't terminate their contracts. You can still go to BestBuy and get one essentially for free with a new installation and for $39 with an additional contractual commitment for existing customers. If you ask me, the contract thing is a bonus. DirecTV doesn't raise your rates until the end of your contract term, so not only do you get a cheap DVR, but you lock in your current pricing.
But out of the box without modification (software or hardware) you can't get the content off your DTV tivo box, which is the point of this article.
None of said modification is any more difficult than setting up a MythTv box. In fact, most mods involve simply plugging the disk drive into a computer and booting a CD that does the modification for you. Replacing my TiVo's drive with a 200Gb unit involved about 10 minutes of user interaction, and most of that was removing and replacing the screws. When I upgraded my first TiVo (before MythTV was even around) there was hex editing and drive unlock hacks and all sorts of ugliness, but these days TiVo upgrades are easy enough that anybody with a torx screwdriver can do it.
I'm not trying to troll. I have high hopes for DIY solutions in the future. For now, though, it seems like a real TiVo is the best thing out there if you've got sattelite.