Actually, you connect the VM's virtual drive to the ISO; DAEMON Tools does not have to be running on the Host OS or the Guest OS.
It's done in the second menu item (Edit, I think) and the first choice (Change Virtual Macine Settings, I think). Select the virtual CD-ROM on the left side, and on the right it can either map to one of the physical CD-ROMs in the machine, or to an ISO.
There was one CD for which I couldn't get a valid ISO from Undisker, so I used Nero to create a.NRG file (basically the same).[1] Problem was, VMware didn't support.NRG files that way. No problem, I did what you suggested and used DAEMON Tools on the Host OS, and connected the virtual CD-ROM to one of the Host's "physical CD-ROMs" (which happened to be a DAEMON Tools virtual CD-ROM, so I had two "layers" in between the.NRG file and the Guest OS installing it).
Sorry about the "I think"s above, I use VMware at work all the time as my company does virtualization of software and we're constantly testing new builds on various version of Office, Adobe, Nero, and many other programs our customers run. I don't have it here at home, though, so I'm going by memory and I don't read the menu, I just know where the option is.;-)
[1] -- I thought it was a scratched CD, and Nero was more fault-tolerant. But then I tried mounting the.NRG file in DAEMON Tools and using Undisker to create an ISO from that (valid, unscratchable) image. It still failed while copying the same file, so it must be a bug in Undisker. Or some sort of copy protection; I believe this was Office XP with SP2.
Once the goods have been delivered, forget about the medium already!
Exactly. And it's not really stopping piracy, either, because pirates who download ISOs and "play" them through DAEMON Tools also have CD burners, which they can in about 1 minute produce a CD which will allow them to still play the game with this patch.
I don't have any Ubi games myself, so I'm not sure how valid this suggestion is, but here's a potential workaround for those people who absolutely have to pirate:
1. Download VMware with serial from Kazaa/BitTorrent/etc.
2. Make ISO using Nero/Undisker/etc (also obtainable through the above).
3. Connect the virtual CD-ROM to the ISO . As far as the Guest OS is concerned, it's a real, physical CD-ROM, and you don't even have to run DAEMON Tools on the Host OS.
4. Profit!!!
I just don't see why companies will produce such crap. I don't even care about this game, and in less than 10 seconds I've got two workarounds (assuming, that is, that the game functions correctly while running in a VM; and even if it doesn't, the pirates can still burn CDs from the downloaded ISOs).
I buy all my games, and I loved that I figured out how to use DAEMON Tools to run Starcraft without putting the CD in the drive. Making your users hate you is taking a page out of the playbook of the RIAA/MPAA.
Hey thanks for questioning my presuppositions, and I'm not above admitting when I'm wrong. "Revenue" is almost always defined in terms of tax income, as seen in these definitions:
However, I disagree that it's like your landlord: you entered into contract with your landlord willingly after considering your options. I was born here. (And as other respondents have pointed out, "I can just move" is not a valid response to people who are discussing how to change the democracy for the better.)
What blows me away is the Federal Government uses words like "revenue" when describing the taxes that they take from us, using the threat of a barrel of a gun to make sure we pay.
That's most emphatically not "revenue", which is money earned in exchange for goods and/or services entered into willingly by both parties.
If we've found a more efficient way of doing things, most especially because the older, less-efficient way of doing things was less efficient because of arbitrary additional charges, then why should we be punished simply because we can now do more with less?
But then I'm not a politician, I don't understand their doublethink.
First off, I love your username -- the first portion of the cracked XP license string, so chosen because it's a political statement as well. Of course, good luck installing SP1...;-)
If candidates are going to spend money to purchase votes, why not the money go into my pocket. They don't have any way of monitoring who voted for whom, so taking their money and then voting for my favorite (essentially unelectable thanks to campaign finance laws) Libertarian candidate would work for me.
Voting is speech. We're supposed to have freedom of speech. Donations are speech as well. I see no problem with everyone speaking. If we elect a corrupt candidate then we'll pay the price and hopefully wise up the following election.
In Brazil, candidates promise to purchase a fridge for everyone who votes for them. The fridges never materialize, but people's votes are swayed nonetheless. The difference is down there, the government makes it a point to promote ignorance of the populace so that they continue to vote irrationally, whereas here in the US we at least pay lip service to promoting education.
To prevent vote-selling, it can't be possible to someone to walk out the door with proof that they voted for a certain person.
This is not a troll.
Why would you want to prevent "vote selling?"
I remember last presidential election, where some people created a "vote swapping" web site, where people who were in states that were "guaranteed" to a certain candidate would be able to "swap" their votes with people in another state which had a chance of being won by a third party.
No money changed hands, and the authorities still tried to shut it down. What fucking business is it of their as to who I vote for and how I determine who to vote for? Why not allow people to purchase votes? You can only purchase so many, for so long, until you've run out of money.
What's really ironic is they ruled that you can say "fuck" as an adjective as long as you're not describing the sexual act.
Someone (some fucking rapper I think) used the word "fucking" a couple weeks ago as an expletive to describe some award he got, and the FCC ruled that it was not a fine-able offense because it was used as an expression, which "kids use all the time these days."
Firefly was one of my favorite shows. I think it's really cool that you're discussing Firefly and have a quote from the song in your sig.
I hope they bring it back, especially in the correct order.
You can get all Family Guy episodes from Kazaa. I'm stoked they're thinking about making new episodes, they just better put them somewhere and stick to the schedule which includes pre-empting baseball/football/hockey/basketball/ stickball/fuckball because I really don't care about all those balls.
Apparently Darl and Microsoft have been partnering over hardware long before PCs came about.
Check this out from Microsoft's site, in a discussion on CRM (Customer Relationship Management): it's a case study of... McBride Electric.
They've been around for 50 years, so it's probably not part of the conspiracy(TM) but I got a kick out of seeing McBride's name featured prominently on Microsoft's site!
I'd like to second Critical's thoughts and add that it's much more than "humans win, robots die" -- it's an acceptance of our fate, for both sides.
The machines realized that there could come about a virus so strong it would destroy the monoculture of machines. They realied that they needed the humans. So they stopped fighting them.
It's not merely feel-good -- it also says "If you're not useful, you're history."
It took what, 5 or 6 years, for the NT kernel to be able to reliably run 95/98/ME apps.
Exactly. It took that long to migrate developers to the Win32 API. Since these are mostly higher-level calls, applications didn't need to be bothered with 16-bit and 32-bit differences. An application could not use the logo "Designed for 95" unless it also ran on NT. That was by design.
6 years later, they came out with XP. This ran both 95 and NT apps, because by the time it came out, all apps could run on NT. (Well, not all, but I haven't had a problem personally.)
This was very foresightful of them, because it'll be incredibly easy to move to.NET and future sandboxes.
Someone else mentioned that purchasing VirtualPC was a good move. This is so true: all they have to do is port one application to their new platform (that being VirtualPC), and *poof* all their apps work on the new platform. Then they can take their time making them native.
Of course, this was the rationale behind OS/2's Windows support, and look where it got them. The difference is, this time Microsoft owns both the old and the new. They can turn off the old versions, forcing people to upgrade to the new ones. It's good for them in a business sense, but people are getting wise to it; there is no upgrade treadmill in free software.
Hmm... Well I believe you're genuinely trying to help, and I really appreciate that it works getting the Alien vs. Predator teaser preview, but... my initial question was how to save the ping-ping movie linked in the far parent.
Seriously, thanks very much for the script -- but I still can't save the ping-pong movie. Another poster gave me directions for using mplayer but I run Windows and haven't found a Windows version of mplayer (their site says they've ported it to cygwin but I can't get it to build). I suppose I could get Knoppix and run it from there, but I would imagine someone has solved this problem under Windows...
Again, thanks for your help. Do you know how to save the ping-pong movie?
Thanks for the link but it didn't work with this particular movie. Am I doing something wrong? I saved the Perl script to "getmovie.pl" and ran the following:
$./getmovie.pl http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/asx/hkzkt10.asx
didn't find any EMBED at./getmovie.pl line 52, line 18.
Looking at the ASX file it is correct, there is no EMBED tag. And there's no.mov either, it's a.wmv. Did this work for you, and if so, how?
But it requires Oracle. Huh. An Open source product that requires the purchase of a proprietary software product. Kinda defeats the purpose. No?
Rather than changing Compiere to support alternate databases, perhaps a good project would be "duplicate the Oracle API."
This way, any application which requires Oracle could be shoe-horned into another database. Granted, not all databases have the same features so perhaps there'd be some APIs you would not be able to implement (so have them return errors?). Abstraction is a good goal, as others have stated, but instead of spending the effort to make just one program abstracted, create this API layer and you can abstract many more programs with one swell foop.
Unfortunately, google is starting to fall prey to the same spam crap that destroyed Altavista and the rest. Hopefully their million dollar PhDs can come up with something to stop this.
I think/. already has a good answer: a system of moderation./. doesn't have "moderator ratings" so whenever someone gets mod points their mods are "equal" to everyone else's. But if Google allowed people to give feedback on the relevance of links, then the spam problem would (eventually) go away.
It could be as simple as adding radio buttons (like meta-mod) or a drop-down (like mod) next to each link. If it wasn't helpful to you, select that and click the "Go" button next to the link (or perhaps at the bottom of the page, but having one for each link sounds like a better UI). It could give a popup saying "Thanks for your feedback" with links to your user details, a graph showing feedback given for that page, etc.
And as people make their choices, it could aggregate them and people who are consistently going the other direction from the crowd would have a lowered feedback rating, so their feedback would have less effect than someone who was 100% in the crowd's direction.
I'd love to work on this. (I've applied to Google before, but never gotten an interview. At least now I have a job, it's been a long couple years.)
Sorry it sounded like flamebait, it wasn't. I had written and then removed a story from my youth, which I'll state here:
When I was 9 or 10, a friend's dad had some boxes of bullets in the garage (his parents had split and dad was never around). We took the bullets out into the woods and hucked them at rocks; sometimes they'd go "BOOM" and we'd squeal with joy. This was incredibly dangerous; although we weren't playing with a gun and pointing it at each other, we could have killed someone. We were very lucky.
And this was at 9 or 10, not 4. I know I want my (eventual) kids to know how to shoot but I don't think access to guns at 4 is a good idea.
Like you said, something lower-powered would be the first exposure, something they can knock tin cans over with or put holes in a paper target. And of course "THIS IS NOT A TOY" drilled into their heads.
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It's done in the second menu item (Edit, I think) and the first choice (Change Virtual Macine Settings, I think). Select the virtual CD-ROM on the left side, and on the right it can either map to one of the physical CD-ROMs in the machine, or to an ISO.
There was one CD for which I couldn't get a valid ISO from Undisker, so I used Nero to create a .NRG file (basically the same).[1] Problem was, VMware didn't support .NRG files that way. No problem, I did what you suggested and used DAEMON Tools on the Host OS, and connected the virtual CD-ROM to one of the Host's "physical CD-ROMs" (which happened to be a DAEMON Tools virtual CD-ROM, so I had two "layers" in between the .NRG file and the Guest OS installing it).
Sorry about the "I think"s above, I use VMware at work all the time as my company does virtualization of software and we're constantly testing new builds on various version of Office, Adobe, Nero, and many other programs our customers run. I don't have it here at home, though, so I'm going by memory and I don't read the menu, I just know where the option is. ;-)
[1] -- I thought it was a scratched CD, and Nero was more fault-tolerant. But then I tried mounting the
Exactly. And it's not really stopping piracy, either, because pirates who download ISOs and "play" them through DAEMON Tools also have CD burners, which they can in about 1 minute produce a CD which will allow them to still play the game with this patch.
I don't have any Ubi games myself, so I'm not sure how valid this suggestion is, but here's a potential workaround for those people who absolutely have to pirate:
1. Download VMware with serial from Kazaa/BitTorrent/etc.
2. Make ISO using Nero/Undisker/etc (also obtainable through the above).
3. Connect the virtual CD-ROM to the ISO . As far as the Guest OS is concerned, it's a real, physical CD-ROM, and you don't even have to run DAEMON Tools on the Host OS.
4. Profit!!!
I just don't see why companies will produce such crap. I don't even care about this game, and in less than 10 seconds I've got two workarounds (assuming, that is, that the game functions correctly while running in a VM; and even if it doesn't, the pirates can still burn CDs from the downloaded ISOs).
I buy all my games, and I loved that I figured out how to use DAEMON Tools to run Starcraft without putting the CD in the drive. Making your users hate you is taking a page out of the playbook of the RIAA/MPAA.
Or how about removing redundant comments?
Hey thanks for questioning my presuppositions, and I'm not above admitting when I'm wrong. "Revenue" is almost always defined in terms of tax income, as seen in these definitions:
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However, I disagree that it's like your landlord: you entered into contract with your landlord willingly after considering your options. I was born here. (And as other respondents have pointed out, "I can just move" is not a valid response to people who are discussing how to change the democracy for the better.)
What blows me away is the Federal Government uses words like "revenue" when describing the taxes that they take from us, using the threat of a barrel of a gun to make sure we pay.
That's most emphatically not "revenue", which is money earned in exchange for goods and/or services entered into willingly by both parties.
If we've found a more efficient way of doing things, most especially because the older, less-efficient way of doing things was less efficient because of arbitrary additional charges, then why should we be punished simply because we can now do more with less?
But then I'm not a politician, I don't understand their doublethink.
Why is it that all the good attorneys seem to like U2? Perhaps it's their political messages...
Then again, we dumped tea over a 3% tax and now we're paying over 50% of our income to taxes. So perhaps I'm the one who's misguided...
If candidates are going to spend money to purchase votes, why not the money go into my pocket. They don't have any way of monitoring who voted for whom, so taking their money and then voting for my favorite (essentially unelectable thanks to campaign finance laws) Libertarian candidate would work for me.
Voting is speech. We're supposed to have freedom of speech. Donations are speech as well. I see no problem with everyone speaking. If we elect a corrupt candidate then we'll pay the price and hopefully wise up the following election.
In Brazil, candidates promise to purchase a fridge for everyone who votes for them. The fridges never materialize, but people's votes are swayed nonetheless. The difference is down there, the government makes it a point to promote ignorance of the populace so that they continue to vote irrationally, whereas here in the US we at least pay lip service to promoting education.
This is not a troll.
Why would you want to prevent "vote selling?"
I remember last presidential election, where some people created a "vote swapping" web site, where people who were in states that were "guaranteed" to a certain candidate would be able to "swap" their votes with people in another state which had a chance of being won by a third party.
No money changed hands, and the authorities still tried to shut it down. What fucking business is it of their as to who I vote for and how I determine who to vote for? Why not allow people to purchase votes? You can only purchase so many, for so long, until you've run out of money.
So what's the reason?
There's a little birdhouse in your soul, isn't there?
Someone (some fucking rapper I think) used the word "fucking" a couple weeks ago as an expletive to describe some award he got, and the FCC ruled that it was not a fine-able offense because it was used as an expression, which "kids use all the time these days."
I hope they bring it back, especially in the correct order.
You can get all Family Guy episodes from Kazaa. I'm stoked they're thinking about making new episodes, they just better put them somewhere and stick to the schedule which includes pre-empting baseball/football/hockey/basketball/ stickball/fuckball because I really don't care about all those balls.
Btw, my staffing firm is John Galt Staffing. I thought that was hella cool. ;-) </fnord>
Check this out from Microsoft's site, in a discussion on CRM (Customer Relationship Management): it's a case study of ... McBride Electric.
They've been around for 50 years, so it's probably not part of the conspiracy(TM) but I got a kick out of seeing McBride's name featured prominently on Microsoft's site!
The machines realized that there could come about a virus so strong it would destroy the monoculture of machines. They realied that they needed the humans. So they stopped fighting them.
It's not merely feel-good -- it also says "If you're not useful, you're history."
6 years later, they came out with XP. This ran both 95 and NT apps, because by the time it came out, all apps could run on NT. (Well, not all, but I haven't had a problem personally.)
This was very foresightful of them, because it'll be incredibly easy to move to .NET and future sandboxes.
Someone else mentioned that purchasing VirtualPC was a good move. This is so true: all they have to do is port one application to their new platform (that being VirtualPC), and *poof* all their apps work on the new platform. Then they can take their time making them native.
Of course, this was the rationale behind OS/2's Windows support, and look where it got them. The difference is, this time Microsoft owns both the old and the new. They can turn off the old versions, forcing people to upgrade to the new ones. It's good for them in a business sense, but people are getting wise to it; there is no upgrade treadmill in free software.
Yes, it's a Matrix reference. However, I want one too! Department of Ironic Department.
Not that I'm accusing you of that. But I will cut-and-paste your response for future ... reference. ;-)
Thanks so much. SDK works great. Another tool to add to my "Utilities" CD-R. ;-)
Also thanks for keeping this conversation up so long in a dead topic -- you're now a friend. :>
Seriously, thanks very much for the script -- but I still can't save the ping-pong movie. Another poster gave me directions for using mplayer but I run Windows and haven't found a Windows version of mplayer (their site says they've ported it to cygwin but I can't get it to build). I suppose I could get Knoppix and run it from there, but I would imagine someone has solved this problem under Windows...
Again, thanks for your help. Do you know how to save the ping-pong movie?
$ ./getmovie.pl http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/asx/hkzkt10.asx ./getmovie.pl line 52, line 18.
didn't find any EMBED at
Looking at the ASX file it is correct, there is no EMBED tag. And there's no .mov either, it's a .wmv. Did this work for you, and if so, how?
Thanks!
Rather than changing Compiere to support alternate databases, perhaps a good project would be "duplicate the Oracle API."
This way, any application which requires Oracle could be shoe-horned into another database. Granted, not all databases have the same features so perhaps there'd be some APIs you would not be able to implement (so have them return errors?). Abstraction is a good goal, as others have stated, but instead of spending the effort to make just one program abstracted, create this API layer and you can abstract many more programs with one swell foop.
I think /. already has a good answer: a system of moderation. /. doesn't have "moderator ratings" so whenever someone gets mod points their mods are "equal" to everyone else's. But if Google allowed people to give feedback on the relevance of links, then the spam problem would (eventually) go away.
It could be as simple as adding radio buttons (like meta-mod) or a drop-down (like mod) next to each link. If it wasn't helpful to you, select that and click the "Go" button next to the link (or perhaps at the bottom of the page, but having one for each link sounds like a better UI). It could give a popup saying "Thanks for your feedback" with links to your user details, a graph showing feedback given for that page, etc.
And as people make their choices, it could aggregate them and people who are consistently going the other direction from the crowd would have a lowered feedback rating, so their feedback would have less effect than someone who was 100% in the crowd's direction.
I'd love to work on this. (I've applied to Google before, but never gotten an interview. At least now I have a job, it's been a long couple years.)
When I was 9 or 10, a friend's dad had some boxes of bullets in the garage (his parents had split and dad was never around). We took the bullets out into the woods and hucked them at rocks; sometimes they'd go "BOOM" and we'd squeal with joy. This was incredibly dangerous; although we weren't playing with a gun and pointing it at each other, we could have killed someone. We were very lucky.
And this was at 9 or 10, not 4. I know I want my (eventual) kids to know how to shoot but I don't think access to guns at 4 is a good idea.
Like you said, something lower-powered would be the first exposure, something they can knock tin cans over with or put holes in a paper target. And of course "THIS IS NOT A TOY" drilled into their heads.