Temporary fix: Open the Hymn'ed song in a hex editor.. Look for "geID" or something with "ID" as the last two characters there. I'm not sure if it's always the same or not. Anyway, change this to "xxID" and save it. Then try the file in iTunes again.
Or wait for a new Hymn to remove the ID entirely.
Or just don't install 4.6. It doesn't add a whole heck of a lot of functionality except for compatibility with that new wireless access point/stereo output thing they've got coming out.
Frankly, this was an *extremely* stupid move by Apple. What's the point? Look, people can crack the DRM, okay. But the programs tried to be nice by leaving the ID in there. The point was to enable fair use, not to enable file sharing. By leaving the ID in there, it makes it extremely easy to figure out who illegally shared their purchased music. People using it for fair use purposes wouldn't be sharing the music, and so they have no worries about the ID being there or not.
This "fix" by Apple just makes it HARDER for them to actually catch anybody sharing music. Because now a new version will be created to remove the ID as well, and thus make files that are indistinguishable from normally ripped and encoded ones. Now somebody shares music, and there's no way to track them down. How STUPID can Apple be? Seriously? This is just freakin' preposterous.
I believe the max bandwidth on bluetooth is 768kbps, or 1 mbps (not sure which).
So if the bluetooth device on your ears was doing the actual decoding, then sure. Plenty of bandwidth. If the iPod was doing the decoding, then you'd get some pretty fierce quality loss. Not big enough of a pipe to send CD quality stereo audio in real time.
However, it's entirely possible to build a bluetooth set of headphones with an MP3/AAC/whatever decoder in it, then use the docking port on the iPod to grab the undecoded songs, and send them via bluetooth. More than a bit pointless, but possible.
Bluejacking is the practice of finding bluetooth enabled devices that are not your own and sending data to them to cause them to do something.
Example given on the site is to create a contact on a Bluetooth enabled cell phone with some text as the name of the contact as 'Hello, you've been bluejacked'. Then do a discovery for other bluetooth devices, find another bluetooth cell phone, and send that contact to it. Guy's phone beeps, it says "hello you've been bluejacked" to him, and he's all confused by that.
It's basically just pranking somebody. In this case, the MP3 player can act as a wireless bluetooth headset. If you did a discovery on your bluetooth phone near somebody with one, you'd likely find it. Assuming they haven't changed the pin (assuming it is changeable), you'd be able to link your phone to their headset and possibly simulate a ring to them. They'd answer, get nothing, and wonder wtf was going on...
It makes devices intended to decrypt that signal illegal. Doesn't that include the devices designed to do exactly that? If you transmit an encrypted signal, then you have to get the people who are supposed to actually legally get that signal a device that can decrypt it.
Thousands and thousands of buses with "/." on top pour into the town. They all dump 50-60 passengers each and the streets suddenly become full. It's so packed that there's rioting in the streets and fighting. Everyone pours out of the buildings to join in the looting, and every building in town goes dark as people make for the exits. The streets are so packed that the/. buses are just plowing through the people in town, leaving bloody corpses strewn in their wake. As the looting continues, people start making off with the foundations of the buildings and, one by one, they start simply collapsing and filling the area with rubble and dust.
After you yank the network cable, the dust slowly clears and all you find is countless corpses, destroyed buildings, and smashed busloads of people from where the buildings fell on them.
There's a difference between being able to tell that a box in the 12345 zipcode rewound to watch an ad again, and that Joe User's box rewound to watch an ad again. However, as so many things in life are, it's all about who you trust.
Tivo has three data collection modes: Opt in, Opt Neutral, Opt Out.
You can Opt-out by calling up Tivo and asking to Opt-out. They send a command down to the box that sets a flag not to send the data anymore. You can verify this flag has been set on your box by turning on backdoors and looking at the system information screen. Or you can believe me or other people who have opted out and seen this happen for themselves. Your call, who do you trust?
Opt-Neutral is the default data sending mode, and it sends data that has been scrubbed of any identifying information other than the zipcode. Actually, it hasn't been "scrubbed", it's simply that that data doesn't get put into the log file in the first place in this mode. This has been verified by Tivo hackers, including myself. Again, who do you trust?
Opt-In sends the tivo serial number in the data file itself, along with adding a whole host of extra info. You can do this by joining http://www.hotline2hollywood.com . This means that all the stuff you watch will be trackable to your box. Not to you personally, mind you. Despite the rumor, there's no camera built into the box behind that "eye" looking thing on the front.
I'm opted-in. Why? Because I don't give a damn if they know what I watch. Hell, I don't care who knows it. It's not critical to me. Maybe they'll realize that I thumbs down all the reality shows and tend to skip crappy commercials. With any luck, this info will filter its way up to the suits and they'll improve the crap currently on TV. Forlorn hope? Probably. Still, it's nice to think that maybe I can make some kind of difference in the shit that's on TV now.
Hah, I didn't even know they offered this sort of a service now. Very, very cool. I signed up to take a quick look at it, and I'll be setting up something to use this sort of thing, I feel sure.
For those not in the know, basically this allows you to create an account with Tribune Media Services (the same place where Tivo gets its guide data from) and be able to download TV Guide data in XML format using SOAP and such. Very nice indeed.
Re:Do not underestimate the power of "Power Cycle"
on
Is Caps Lock Dead?
·
· Score: 1
But since modern computers have the ability to Wake on LAN, Modem, or Alarm, (as well as waking up when you hit the switch on the front panel or even a certain button on some models of keyboard) there is a part of the motherboard that stays awake. And if the problem is a network glitch, it's obvious that the NIC hasn't really been reset if it's got a trickle of current going to it when it's 'off'.
Except that I wouldn't call it "off" in those states... I'd call it in "standby". If it can Wake on LAN or what have you, then it's not "off". Pretty much every motherboard has an "off" mode that cannot Wake on LAN or Modem.. Those settings you see in the BIOS are usually for waking up from standby mode. Standby mode is as you say, the NIC is powered up as is the serial connections and the bios chip. The processor is off, but the RAM is getting current to maintain memory and be able to come instantly on, more or less.
Hehe, the torque converter is actually quite complicated, once you leave the superficious explanations and delve into the wonderful world of hydrodynamics...:)
So, I would give as much credit to Föttinger (the torque converter guy) as to all the other great automotive inventors.
Heh. Never seen that explanation on howstuffworks.com. Still, they're essentially correct. It's only complicated in the details. The concept is simple.. The engine turns one thing which pushes the fluid around which turns the other thing which is connected to the tranny. The hydrodynamics comes into it only when you talk about making it highly efficent. The concept is pretty easy, the devil is just in the details.
Re:Do not underestimate the power of "Power Cycle"
on
Is Caps Lock Dead?
·
· Score: 1
I've lost count of how many times a warm or even Mostly Off boot (often suggested by a Level 1 tech who doesn't understand the 'high tech' distinction any better than users do) did not resolve the problem, but a true 'Power Cycle' (on...off...on is the cycle) did.
If a full power cycle of a PC solves a problem that a "mostly off" boot does not, then it's time to get a new PC, as you have severe hardware issues by that point.
Seriously, your distinction between "mostly off" and a full power cycle makes no sense. If there's no power going to the bios chipset, the RAM, and the processor, then that sucker is freakin' off... And if there is power going to any of those three, then you screwed up somehow by not actually turning it off. The power button on the front of the case should be killing their power at the very minimum.. I know of no machine that is capable of waking from NIC or modem activity from an actual shutdown and/or off state. From standby, sure...
Must be specific to the chipset or boards Dell is using.. I've not attempted it on a Dell, but it definitely doesn't matter on any motherboard I've bought in the last few years.. I tend to build my own instead of buying packaged systems though.
Okay, we have a difference of opinion....using the outstanding GUI of iTunes as a controller...
We certainly do have a difference of opinion. Frankly, I detest the iTunes interface. It's truly one of the most awful interfaces for media playback I have ever seen. It's not very good as a media organization system either, although it's not terrible in that respect. If it wasn't for smart playlists on my iPod, I wouldn't have the thing installed on my machine.
Yeah, he can't be correct. The automatic transmission has undergone continual design changes and improvements over the last 100 years or so. It wasn't really viable for car use until 1940 or so, but since then it's been changed and messed with quite a lot. Hard to do that if you don't understand how it works.
But it's still ingenious in the extreme. The torque convertor isn't too complicated, but the dual planetary gearing system is freakin' incredible, once you grasp what it's doing and how. Whoever first came up with it was a genius of the highest caliber, but it's far from non-understandable.
I have a laptop already. I don't like using it in the living room. I also have a webpad with touchscreen, same deal.
Frankly, I simply dislike computing devices as control systems. If I can't control it from my remote, I don't really want it as part of my media stack. Keyboards and touchscreens are poor interface devices for the home theater, IMO.
If you can show me a really nice fully integrated solution, then perhaps.. But I don't want to surf the web on the TV, and I don't have a need to check my e-mail from the couch. It's not "quaint", it's active dislike of taking the computing into the living room as the solutions I've seen thus far mostly suck.
Granted, the webcasts won't be CD quality, (or 128 kbits/sec [which is still feasible]), but it wouldn't be horrible quality, like FM or anything. You underestimate the power of broadband.
No, you overestimate it. Okay, so 96k isn't bad.. a lot like a radio quality. Especially in newer formats like AAC and using good encoders.
But if everybody and their dog is trying to stream up 96k streams to elsewhere, the network will totally choke on it. Every pipe is oversold. That's how the network works.
There's perhaps 120 cable modem users on my segment. Probably less, considering my area. My old apartment had almost 400 cable modem users on the segment. And while there was a good 25 megabits running down to those 400 users, it wasn't bidirectional and there was only 2 or 3 megabits up. Now, while the cable modems themselves were limited to 256kbits, during peak usage, upstream could drop as low as 64 kbits or so for me. Especially when the jerks were doing P2P.. the traffic generated by eMule/eDonkey can almost be considered a DOS attack...
So while I had 256k upstream, it was not guaranteed to be that fast. The bandwidth was oversold, like all bandwidth everywhere is. You have an upstream cap, but that amount is not dedicated to you and only you. And it will run out with too many people using it for high bandwidth stuff like this.
Yes, most of them do, however I assume you're talking about cable modem/DSL users in the USA? If that's the case maybe you need to change or lobby your provider to increase upstream bandwidth.
I personally have many times that in upstream bandwidth, however, not everybody has my cable company. I've seen faster, I've seen slower. Very frequently I've seen slower, as if you only use the network for surfing and playing games and such, 768k down and 64k-128k up is perfectly fine for most people's current needs. Only us power users really can take advantage of 4meg down and 512k up or something similar.
And don't forget that there's a choke point as well. As cable modems expand, available bandwidth to those cable modems decrease. DSL has a potential huge amount of bandwidth on each line, but every person connected to the CO is sharing a single network pipe or two leading upstream from there. At some point you always reach critical mass.
It's a SHA-1 checksum (which is even more secure than MD5), but you get the checksum for the file, even if it's a trojaned one. The only way to verify is to compare checksums with the file from the original site.
Okay then, SHA1 it is. What I was really meaning was that if the original site posted the magnet links, then this sort of problem wouldn't be there. They can certainly determine what the SHA1 of the file should be.
It's cool, I'll give it that. And if I wanted to be able to send music from my computer to the stereo using iTunes, then it'd be neater. But really, I want to be able to send music from my computer to my stereo while sitting in front of the stereo. My living room system is three rooms away. Why I'd want to sit in the computer room and play music in some other room is beyond me...
If the thing hooked to a TV and displayed a list of songs and then could select and play those songs, then I'd think it was more useful as an audio device in my stack of audio devices.
A wireless AP that plugs directly into the wall is quite cool in and of itself, however.
I like the idea of setting up every card with a fraud PIN. It works fine and spits out cash (to prevent you getting bruises), but also sets off a fraud alert alarm that signals it as fraud and alerts authorities, takes the guy's picture at the ATM, etc, etc. Attempts to catch the guy, in other words. Possibly even spits out special bills with the serial numbers recorded or something. Whatever it takes to get the suckers.
Anyway, then you can give the guy a PIN and though he'll get the cash, you'll get your card reported stolen automatically, the moment he does get it.
So what? If you're the original source, and you're wanting to send out 128kbits/sec, then you have to have 128 kbits/sec of bandwidth to send it out, at least. You may not need to support multiple users with this, but you'll still need to be able to stream at a good chunk of speed. Most cable modem/DSL users don't have that much upstream. So unless this thing reencodes at a lower rate, online streaming radio from these people will still suck.
If more people would start posting magnet links to their files, then you wouldn't have to.. The magnet link contains the MD5 (or whatever it is) checksum and that gets passed right to your P2P program. It can also contain HTTP sources to allow the P2P app to download from your website or several websites while simultaneously checking the P2P networks for sources as well.
Oh, and don't use Kazaa. Not only is it the main network getting checked by the **AA, but the fact of the matter is that Kazaa doesn't verify the integrity of the file and only hashes the first 128k or something like that. The rest of the file could be anything, it's not checked at all. This is why you so often get broken downloads with it.
The problem still exists. If you disable the firewall and disable remote admin, you can still get the remote admin page over the WAN. That, to me, is a bug. Okay, it may be a weird config as they stated, but it's a bug nevertheless.
They also have beta firmware up on that link you posted to fix the problem.
I am actually able to run just one of these through a USB adapter and have both mouse and keyboard work. I have no idea how this happens, it just does.
Because the mouse and keyboard, in the PS2 versions, are fully capable of sharing only one port. So the receiver unit you have is simply putting both signals out both connectors. The only reason there's two connectors on it at all is because some older motherboards have two connectors on them and only read the mouse signals on one and the keyboard signals on the other.
Newer mobo's with PS2 sockets don't much care. Plug a keyboard into the mouse labeled one, for example. Voila, it works. Now try plugging only one of your plugs from this wireless into it. Amazing! Both the keyboard and mouse work! Neat, huh?
The PS2 connector was designed to carry both signals simuntaneously in the first place, it just didn't get implemented totally on some systems. Some really early boards had only the one PS2 socket on them and a little splitter cable that you connected the keyboard and mouse to, to combine them into one signal to give to the motherboard.
Slashdot Mirror
Temporary fix:
Open the Hymn'ed song in a hex editor.. Look for "geID" or something with "ID" as the last two characters there. I'm not sure if it's always the same or not. Anyway, change this to "xxID" and save it. Then try the file in iTunes again.
Or wait for a new Hymn to remove the ID entirely.
Or just don't install 4.6. It doesn't add a whole heck of a lot of functionality except for compatibility with that new wireless access point/stereo output thing they've got coming out.
Frankly, this was an *extremely* stupid move by Apple. What's the point? Look, people can crack the DRM, okay. But the programs tried to be nice by leaving the ID in there. The point was to enable fair use, not to enable file sharing. By leaving the ID in there, it makes it extremely easy to figure out who illegally shared their purchased music. People using it for fair use purposes wouldn't be sharing the music, and so they have no worries about the ID being there or not.
This "fix" by Apple just makes it HARDER for them to actually catch anybody sharing music. Because now a new version will be created to remove the ID as well, and thus make files that are indistinguishable from normally ripped and encoded ones. Now somebody shares music, and there's no way to track them down. How STUPID can Apple be? Seriously? This is just freakin' preposterous.
I believe the max bandwidth on bluetooth is 768kbps, or 1 mbps (not sure which).
So if the bluetooth device on your ears was doing the actual decoding, then sure. Plenty of bandwidth. If the iPod was doing the decoding, then you'd get some pretty fierce quality loss. Not big enough of a pipe to send CD quality stereo audio in real time.
However, it's entirely possible to build a bluetooth set of headphones with an MP3/AAC/whatever decoder in it, then use the docking port on the iPod to grab the undecoded songs, and send them via bluetooth. More than a bit pointless, but possible.
But it should seem pretty self evident.
Bluejacking is the practice of finding bluetooth enabled devices that are not your own and sending data to them to cause them to do something.
Example given on the site is to create a contact on a Bluetooth enabled cell phone with some text as the name of the contact as 'Hello, you've been bluejacked'. Then do a discovery for other bluetooth devices, find another bluetooth cell phone, and send that contact to it. Guy's phone beeps, it says "hello you've been bluejacked" to him, and he's all confused by that.
It's basically just pranking somebody. In this case, the MP3 player can act as a wireless bluetooth headset. If you did a discovery on your bluetooth phone near somebody with one, you'd likely find it. Assuming they haven't changed the pin (assuming it is changeable), you'd be able to link your phone to their headset and possibly simulate a ring to them. They'd answer, get nothing, and wonder wtf was going on...
It makes devices intended to decrypt that signal illegal. Doesn't that include the devices designed to do exactly that? If you transmit an encrypted signal, then you have to get the people who are supposed to actually legally get that signal a device that can decrypt it.
This is so vague that it's ridiculous.
A much better metaphor for the /. effect.
/. buses are just plowing through the people in town, leaving bloody corpses strewn in their wake. As the looting continues, people start making off with the foundations of the buildings and, one by one, they start simply collapsing and filling the area with rubble and dust.
Thousands and thousands of buses with "/." on top pour into the town. They all dump 50-60 passengers each and the streets suddenly become full. It's so packed that there's rioting in the streets and fighting. Everyone pours out of the buildings to join in the looting, and every building in town goes dark as people make for the exits. The streets are so packed that the
After you yank the network cable, the dust slowly clears and all you find is countless corpses, destroyed buildings, and smashed busloads of people from where the buildings fell on them.
If that isn't the perfect metaphor, what is?
There's a difference between being able to tell that a box in the 12345 zipcode rewound to watch an ad again, and that Joe User's box rewound to watch an ad again. However, as so many things in life are, it's all about who you trust.
Tivo has three data collection modes: Opt in, Opt Neutral, Opt Out.
You can Opt-out by calling up Tivo and asking to Opt-out. They send a command down to the box that sets a flag not to send the data anymore. You can verify this flag has been set on your box by turning on backdoors and looking at the system information screen. Or you can believe me or other people who have opted out and seen this happen for themselves. Your call, who do you trust?
Opt-Neutral is the default data sending mode, and it sends data that has been scrubbed of any identifying information other than the zipcode. Actually, it hasn't been "scrubbed", it's simply that that data doesn't get put into the log file in the first place in this mode. This has been verified by Tivo hackers, including myself. Again, who do you trust?
Opt-In sends the tivo serial number in the data file itself, along with adding a whole host of extra info. You can do this by joining http://www.hotline2hollywood.com . This means that all the stuff you watch will be trackable to your box. Not to you personally, mind you. Despite the rumor, there's no camera built into the box behind that "eye" looking thing on the front.
I'm opted-in. Why? Because I don't give a damn if they know what I watch. Hell, I don't care who knows it. It's not critical to me. Maybe they'll realize that I thumbs down all the reality shows and tend to skip crappy commercials. With any luck, this info will filter its way up to the suits and they'll improve the crap currently on TV. Forlorn hope? Probably. Still, it's nice to think that maybe I can make some kind of difference in the shit that's on TV now.
Hah, I didn't even know they offered this sort of a service now. Very, very cool. I signed up to take a quick look at it, and I'll be setting up something to use this sort of thing, I feel sure.
For those not in the know, basically this allows you to create an account with Tribune Media Services (the same place where Tivo gets its guide data from) and be able to download TV Guide data in XML format using SOAP and such. Very nice indeed.
But since modern computers have the ability to Wake on LAN, Modem, or Alarm, (as well as waking up when you hit the switch on the front panel or even a certain button on some models of keyboard) there is a part of the motherboard that stays awake. And if the problem is a network glitch, it's obvious that the NIC hasn't really been reset if it's got a trickle of current going to it when it's 'off'.
Except that I wouldn't call it "off" in those states... I'd call it in "standby". If it can Wake on LAN or what have you, then it's not "off". Pretty much every motherboard has an "off" mode that cannot Wake on LAN or Modem.. Those settings you see in the BIOS are usually for waking up from standby mode. Standby mode is as you say, the NIC is powered up as is the serial connections and the bios chip. The processor is off, but the RAM is getting current to maintain memory and be able to come instantly on, more or less.
Hehe, the torque converter is actually quite complicated, once you leave the superficious explanations and delve into the wonderful world of hydrodynamics... :)
So, I would give as much credit to Föttinger (the torque converter guy) as to all the other great automotive inventors.
Heh. Never seen that explanation on howstuffworks.com. Still, they're essentially correct. It's only complicated in the details. The concept is simple.. The engine turns one thing which pushes the fluid around which turns the other thing which is connected to the tranny. The hydrodynamics comes into it only when you talk about making it highly efficent. The concept is pretty easy, the devil is just in the details.
I've lost count of how many times a warm or even Mostly Off boot (often suggested by a Level 1 tech who doesn't understand the 'high tech' distinction any better than users do) did not resolve the problem, but a true 'Power Cycle' (on...off...on is the cycle) did.
If a full power cycle of a PC solves a problem that a "mostly off" boot does not, then it's time to get a new PC, as you have severe hardware issues by that point.
Seriously, your distinction between "mostly off" and a full power cycle makes no sense. If there's no power going to the bios chipset, the RAM, and the processor, then that sucker is freakin' off... And if there is power going to any of those three, then you screwed up somehow by not actually turning it off. The power button on the front of the case should be killing their power at the very minimum.. I know of no machine that is capable of waking from NIC or modem activity from an actual shutdown and/or off state. From standby, sure...
When you're not swapping and you've got some spare cycles that aren't being used, just pass over the empty swap pages with zeros... Clean 'em up.
Must be specific to the chipset or boards Dell is using.. I've not attempted it on a Dell, but it definitely doesn't matter on any motherboard I've bought in the last few years.. I tend to build my own instead of buying packaged systems though.
Okay, we have a difference of opinion. ...using the outstanding GUI of iTunes as a controller...
We certainly do have a difference of opinion. Frankly, I detest the iTunes interface. It's truly one of the most awful interfaces for media playback I have ever seen. It's not very good as a media organization system either, although it's not terrible in that respect. If it wasn't for smart playlists on my iPod, I wouldn't have the thing installed on my machine.
Yeah, he can't be correct. The automatic transmission has undergone continual design changes and improvements over the last 100 years or so. It wasn't really viable for car use until 1940 or so, but since then it's been changed and messed with quite a lot. Hard to do that if you don't understand how it works.
But it's still ingenious in the extreme. The torque convertor isn't too complicated, but the dual planetary gearing system is freakin' incredible, once you grasp what it's doing and how. Whoever first came up with it was a genius of the highest caliber, but it's far from non-understandable.
I have a laptop already. I don't like using it in the living room. I also have a webpad with touchscreen, same deal.
Frankly, I simply dislike computing devices as control systems. If I can't control it from my remote, I don't really want it as part of my media stack. Keyboards and touchscreens are poor interface devices for the home theater, IMO.
If you can show me a really nice fully integrated solution, then perhaps.. But I don't want to surf the web on the TV, and I don't have a need to check my e-mail from the couch. It's not "quaint", it's active dislike of taking the computing into the living room as the solutions I've seen thus far mostly suck.
You want a Tivo, with the Home Media Option.
I have a Tivo, I don't want the Home Media Option.
-Otto, Former Moderator of the Tivo Underground, Tivo Community Forum.
Granted, the webcasts won't be CD quality, (or 128 kbits/sec [which is still feasible]), but it wouldn't be horrible quality, like FM or anything. You underestimate the power of broadband.
No, you overestimate it. Okay, so 96k isn't bad.. a lot like a radio quality. Especially in newer formats like AAC and using good encoders.
But if everybody and their dog is trying to stream up 96k streams to elsewhere, the network will totally choke on it. Every pipe is oversold. That's how the network works.
There's perhaps 120 cable modem users on my segment. Probably less, considering my area. My old apartment had almost 400 cable modem users on the segment. And while there was a good 25 megabits running down to those 400 users, it wasn't bidirectional and there was only 2 or 3 megabits up. Now, while the cable modems themselves were limited to 256kbits, during peak usage, upstream could drop as low as 64 kbits or so for me. Especially when the jerks were doing P2P.. the traffic generated by eMule/eDonkey can almost be considered a DOS attack...
So while I had 256k upstream, it was not guaranteed to be that fast. The bandwidth was oversold, like all bandwidth everywhere is. You have an upstream cap, but that amount is not dedicated to you and only you. And it will run out with too many people using it for high bandwidth stuff like this.
Yes, most of them do, however I assume you're talking about cable modem/DSL users in the USA?
If that's the case maybe you need to change or lobby your provider to increase upstream bandwidth.
I personally have many times that in upstream bandwidth, however, not everybody has my cable company. I've seen faster, I've seen slower. Very frequently I've seen slower, as if you only use the network for surfing and playing games and such, 768k down and 64k-128k up is perfectly fine for most people's current needs. Only us power users really can take advantage of 4meg down and 512k up or something similar.
And don't forget that there's a choke point as well. As cable modems expand, available bandwidth to those cable modems decrease. DSL has a potential huge amount of bandwidth on each line, but every person connected to the CO is sharing a single network pipe or two leading upstream from there. At some point you always reach critical mass.
It's a SHA-1 checksum (which is even more secure than MD5), but you get the checksum for the file, even if it's a trojaned one. The only way to verify is to compare checksums with the file from the original site.
Okay then, SHA1 it is. What I was really meaning was that if the original site posted the magnet links, then this sort of problem wouldn't be there. They can certainly determine what the SHA1 of the file should be.
It's cool, I'll give it that. And if I wanted to be able to send music from my computer to the stereo using iTunes, then it'd be neater. But really, I want to be able to send music from my computer to my stereo while sitting in front of the stereo. My living room system is three rooms away. Why I'd want to sit in the computer room and play music in some other room is beyond me...
If the thing hooked to a TV and displayed a list of songs and then could select and play those songs, then I'd think it was more useful as an audio device in my stack of audio devices.
A wireless AP that plugs directly into the wall is quite cool in and of itself, however.
I like the idea of setting up every card with a fraud PIN. It works fine and spits out cash (to prevent you getting bruises), but also sets off a fraud alert alarm that signals it as fraud and alerts authorities, takes the guy's picture at the ATM, etc, etc. Attempts to catch the guy, in other words. Possibly even spits out special bills with the serial numbers recorded or something. Whatever it takes to get the suckers.
Anyway, then you can give the guy a PIN and though he'll get the cash, you'll get your card reported stolen automatically, the moment he does get it.
So what? If you're the original source, and you're wanting to send out 128kbits/sec, then you have to have 128 kbits/sec of bandwidth to send it out, at least. You may not need to support multiple users with this, but you'll still need to be able to stream at a good chunk of speed. Most cable modem/DSL users don't have that much upstream. So unless this thing reencodes at a lower rate, online streaming radio from these people will still suck.
If more people would start posting magnet links to their files, then you wouldn't have to.. The magnet link contains the MD5 (or whatever it is) checksum and that gets passed right to your P2P program. It can also contain HTTP sources to allow the P2P app to download from your website or several websites while simultaneously checking the P2P networks for sources as well.
Oh, and don't use Kazaa. Not only is it the main network getting checked by the **AA, but the fact of the matter is that Kazaa doesn't verify the integrity of the file and only hashes the first 128k or something like that. The rest of the file could be anything, it's not checked at all. This is why you so often get broken downloads with it.
The problem still exists. If you disable the firewall and disable remote admin, you can still get the remote admin page over the WAN. That, to me, is a bug. Okay, it may be a weird config as they stated, but it's a bug nevertheless.
They also have beta firmware up on that link you posted to fix the problem.
I am actually able to run just one of these through a USB adapter and have both mouse and keyboard work. I have no idea how this happens, it just does.
Because the mouse and keyboard, in the PS2 versions, are fully capable of sharing only one port. So the receiver unit you have is simply putting both signals out both connectors. The only reason there's two connectors on it at all is because some older motherboards have two connectors on them and only read the mouse signals on one and the keyboard signals on the other.
Newer mobo's with PS2 sockets don't much care. Plug a keyboard into the mouse labeled one, for example. Voila, it works. Now try plugging only one of your plugs from this wireless into it. Amazing! Both the keyboard and mouse work! Neat, huh?
The PS2 connector was designed to carry both signals simuntaneously in the first place, it just didn't get implemented totally on some systems. Some really early boards had only the one PS2 socket on them and a little splitter cable that you connected the keyboard and mouse to, to combine them into one signal to give to the motherboard.