I'm not trying to be negative about it but it doesn't really seem there is much that's interesting about this kit.
Based on the features, it seems this is marketed towards the people who download and then store games on their hard drive. They probably won't care if they have to press a switch on the unit to play their "N-Z" games or whatever.
And yea, this has nothing to do with rack mounting.
--john
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I don't think I understand why this comment was moderated +5.... All the poster is doing is agreeing with the parent. And there's not even any good information in the new comment; he talks about the stress test which happened just last week, when (as another commenter noted) macs have been supported since at least the alpha.
And if you just read this comment in isolation, the "Actually yes, there are" statement would lead you to believe that the commenter was *disagreeing* with the parent, not just saying the same thing over again.
So does this mean that it IS possible to hijack the airtunes stream? (Prior to reading your post I thought that this "hack" would only allow you to stream to an existing airport express, not allow you to emulate one.)
Hi, you're absolutely right. This has nothing to do with pirating/DRM at all. How airtunes works is that iTunes decrypts the AAC file (if necessary) to WAV, then compresses it to apple lossless, then encrypts it again, then sends it off to the airport express. So, as you can see here, hijacking the airtunes broadcast would give you exactly the same results as burning your DRM'ed AAC files to a CD and then ripping them to apple lossless.
However, this program from Jon doesn't even let you do this. It only lets you *encrypt* files so you can send them to the airport express to be played. (He has given us the public key, not the private.)
Along these lines, the RIAA shouldn't have any issues with this "hack" because it doesn't open up any new avenues for pirating. (And it certainly doesn't do the same thing that PlayFair does.)
The only reason that apple could be angry about this is because they now have lost control over the source of the airtunes stream. IMHO, however, this isn't really important, and apple probably should have/will introduce some public API for third-party apps to play to the airport express, or just build it into the OS. (Some have mentioned that the latency involved makes it impossible to watch DVDs, for example, which is why I think they haven't done this yet.)
If there are some parts that only a few peers have on the network, a good client will try to get those first. And a bad client will just download parts at random. So this isn't really a huge problem.
It's for the people who couldn't figure out downloading a bittorrent client on their own. If you don't believe that these people exist, check out the battle.net forums. There are hundreds of posts from people who are having problems with even the Blizzard Downloader client.
Of course I agree with you that they should post the.torrent. For the movies they tested BT with, I had to download the custom downloader at about 2 KB/s before I could extract the torrent, stick it in another client, and download the movie much faster.
In the Mac OS X version of the Blizzard Downloader at least, the.torrent is downloaded from a URL that is just in a text file in the application package. I believe that they hacked the.torrent protocol to allow for multiple trackers, however. Azureus wouldn't take the.torrent until I edited it a bit, but it did work (and faster, too).
He has a TiBook 1Ghz, and it runs EXTREMELY slow. He had to put it on the lowest resolution possible to even make it playable. But even then the game slows to a halt when there's any kind of action going on... Needless to say he quickly deleted it.
It runs pretty well on my 12" 1Ghz powerbook (GeForce FX Go5200). While this might not solve the problem, make sure you're running the game at your screen's native resolution. Lowering the resolution will often make the game go *slower,* not faster.
For example, Neverwinter Nights. It was supposedly getting released for Linux, PC and Mac in the same packaging at the same time. Reality: 1+ years later, no expansion packs and it doesn't have the Aurora Toolkit and it's $50. The PC version is $30 with the first expansion (gold version) and toolkit included.
The expansions *do* work with the mac version, you just have to install them manually. No toolkit though...
None of the terrestrial cable systems that I am aware of are currently offering HD signals. AT&T here won't even indicate when or if they will start carrying HD feeds.
Where I live (suburban New York), Cablevision's iO service offers HD HBO. I can't say how well it works, though, because I don't have an HD TV. (When you tune to it with my regular TV, you just see a black screen.)
Actually, I'm probably thinking of a logging filesystem, where almost all writes just go to the (sequentially written) log, and then are migrated to their "real" place on the disk.
Anyway, with the journal on a separate disk, you wouldn't have to write the journal "first," you would write to the journal and the data at the same time.
If the journal is on a different disk, there wouldn't be a performance hit at all; disk accesses would actually be faster. (Or at least they should be.)
I always thought speed was one of the main advantages of journaling. Because the writes to the journal are concentrated in one part of the disk, the drive doesn't have to seek as much.
The U.S. fears the next step could be looser regulations leading to more drugs crossing the border and its ready to play hardball with trade to make sure that doesn't happen.
No laws have been changed yet, the senate has just released findings which suggest that there are no real compelling reasons to keep it illegal.
And the Canadian government is already growing medical marijuana, it has been for a while.
I installed the full gnu fileutils a while ago to get colorized ls, and df -h, and after a while I realized that the gnu rm command does *not* work with mac os x. I had lots of problems with the drive thinking it was full when it was not, etc. I could fix everything with fsck, and the problems went away when I went back to the included rm command. (As always, this may have been fixed since I had problems with it.)
Also, Apple does beneficial work on the commands that they include. For example, with the rm included in 10.1, it is now able to delete files that are locked at the (HFS+) filesytem level. Gnu rm will never do that.
They would all be illegal, but not because he was viloating the copyright of his own work, but because he was bypassing the copy-controls illegally, under the DMCA.
When you buy a DVD, you have the legal right to copy it as many times as you like, as long as you don't start handing out copies.
The illegal part in copying DVDs for your own purposes is because the protocol was reverse engineered, which is illegal under the DMCA.
I got my copy from one of those video club things... it was the introductory video that they gave to you "risk free." So I got the tape, and then quit the club.
I think Columbia House may still have the offer going.
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As a mac user, I've decided the same thing. However, what other choices do we have?
--john
I'm pretty sure that this is not true. Download the azureus source and check yourself if you want.
--john
Based on the features, it seems this is marketed towards the people who download and then store games on their hard drive. They probably won't care if they have to press a switch on the unit to play their "N-Z" games or whatever.
And yea, this has nothing to do with rack mounting.
--john
I don't think I understand why this comment was moderated +5.... All the poster is doing is agreeing with the parent. And there's not even any good information in the new comment; he talks about the stress test which happened just last week, when (as another commenter noted) macs have been supported since at least the alpha.
And if you just read this comment in isolation, the "Actually yes, there are" statement would lead you to believe that the commenter was *disagreeing* with the parent, not just saying the same thing over again.
--john
So does this mean that it IS possible to hijack the airtunes stream? (Prior to reading your post I thought that this "hack" would only allow you to stream to an existing airport express, not allow you to emulate one.)
--john
Hi, you're absolutely right. This has nothing to do with pirating/DRM at all. How airtunes works is that iTunes decrypts the AAC file (if necessary) to WAV, then compresses it to apple lossless, then encrypts it again, then sends it off to the airport express. So, as you can see here, hijacking the airtunes broadcast would give you exactly the same results as burning your DRM'ed AAC files to a CD and then ripping them to apple lossless.
However, this program from Jon doesn't even let you do this. It only lets you *encrypt* files so you can send them to the airport express to be played. (He has given us the public key, not the private.)
Along these lines, the RIAA shouldn't have any issues with this "hack" because it doesn't open up any new avenues for pirating. (And it certainly doesn't do the same thing that PlayFair does.)
The only reason that apple could be angry about this is because they now have lost control over the source of the airtunes stream. IMHO, however, this isn't really important, and apple probably should have/will introduce some public API for third-party apps to play to the airport express, or just build it into the OS. (Some have mentioned that the latency involved makes it impossible to watch DVDs, for example, which is why I think they haven't done this yet.)
--john
If there are some parts that only a few peers have on the network, a good client will try to get those first. And a bad client will just download parts at random. So this isn't really a huge problem.
--john
It's for the people who couldn't figure out downloading a bittorrent client on their own. If you don't believe that these people exist, check out the battle.net forums. There are hundreds of posts from people who are having problems with even the Blizzard Downloader client.
.torrent. For the movies they tested BT with, I had to download the custom downloader at about 2 KB/s before I could extract the torrent, stick it in another client, and download the movie much faster.
Of course I agree with you that they should post the
--john
In the Mac OS X version of the Blizzard Downloader at least, the .torrent is downloaded from a URL that is just in a text file in the application package. I believe that they hacked the .torrent protocol to allow for multiple trackers, however. Azureus wouldn't take the .torrent until I edited it a bit, but it did work (and faster, too).
--john
Dime a bzillon = 10/lots => very uncommon.
So you're using the phrase incorrectly. Just clearing things up for future reference.
--john
I'm not really sure, but perhaps the hardware that upconverts the resolution can be a bottleneck. Try it if you don't believe me.
--john
Try playing at the screen's native resolution.
--john
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Actually, I'm probably thinking of a logging filesystem, where almost all writes just go to the (sequentially written) log, and then are migrated to their "real" place on the disk.
Anyway, with the journal on a separate disk, you wouldn't have to write the journal "first," you would write to the journal and the data at the same time.
If the journal is on a different disk, there wouldn't be a performance hit at all; disk accesses would actually be faster. (Or at least they should be.)
I always thought speed was one of the main advantages of journaling. Because the writes to the journal are concentrated in one part of the disk, the drive doesn't have to seek as much.
--john
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No laws have been changed yet, the senate has just released findings which suggest that there are no real compelling reasons to keep it illegal.And the Canadian government is already growing medical marijuana, it has been for a while.
--john
I installed the full gnu fileutils a while ago to get colorized ls, and df -h, and after a while I realized that the gnu rm command does *not* work with mac os x. I had lots of problems with the drive thinking it was full when it was not, etc. I could fix everything with fsck, and the problems went away when I went back to the included rm command. (As always, this may have been fixed since I had problems with it.)
Also, Apple does beneficial work on the commands that they include. For example, with the rm included in 10.1, it is now able to delete files that are locked at the (HFS+) filesytem level. Gnu rm will never do that.
It is not an X server, it's a window manager. It uses xfree86, which works out of the box in mac os x/darwin.
--john
Many high schools have .edu's (andover.edu), as do other educational institutions. Check out www.nols.edu and www.cobs.edu.
It's always good to see what my ISP has to say about the DSL situation... so many people are having problems and yet ours seems to be up 24x7.
Let's just hope that Covad keeps its act together.
Good luck, Chris
They would all be illegal, but not because he was viloating the copyright of his own work, but because he was bypassing the copy-controls illegally, under the DMCA.
When you buy a DVD, you have the legal right to copy it as many times as you like, as long as you don't start handing out copies.
The illegal part in copying DVDs for your own purposes is because the protocol was reverse engineered, which is illegal under the DMCA.
--john
I got my copy from one of those video club things... it was the introductory video that they gave to you "risk free." So I got the tape, and then quit the club.
I think Columbia House may still have the offer going.