Ummm... no. It's because starting with W2K SP2 and XP, you can't disable the System File Protection on reboot, so even though you can zap all of IE's files, you can't (easily) prevent Windows from restoring them a few moments later. Of course, there's a page somewhere out there how to modify SFC.dll (the main part of SFP) so you can disable it again pre-SP2 style, but I don't have the link handy.
But of course, since they probably won't get away with distributing a hacked version of a windows DLL, they (he? - isn't 98lite a one-man venture?) won't touch that with a 10 foot pole... then again, even 98lite patches a few Win98 files, so that wouldn't really be a new problem - but who knows?
(IIRC, looking at the specific portion of that DLL you've got to NOP out, it's essentially a check that sets some variable that normally selects SFP's mode of operation to 0 (normal) in case you use the old (undocumented, of course) value for "don't protect any file, ever", but after that all the other handling code stayed unchanged, so just NOP out the resetting of that value, and - hey presto! - it works again. Talk about ugly hacks...)
Just how many people will be listening to this all day long, waiting to hear "fsck me gently with a chainsaw" (arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c) on public radio for the first time? ^_^
Also, how long will it then take before "concerned parents" get the project off the air? >_<
Well, you asked for it... Paul van Dyke ain't great, and who's GaryD? (Or did you mean SlashDot user #49875?)
Now, had you asked about Reinhard & Wolfgang Voigt, Christian Fennesz, Christian Kleine, Ulrich Schnauss, ISAN, Bernd Fleischmann, Mike Ladd, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Sensorama,..., it definitely would've been a different story...:)
np: Jah Wobble & Deep Space - Slow (Largely Live In Hartlepool And Manchester)
Oh my... that NDS-ADS comparision even got a reference to a SlashDot thread in it concerning the Kerberos protocol glitches in Microsofts implementation...
I wonder if this makes Slashdot biased in this case... *grin*
np: Thomas Fehlmann - Fellmaus (Staedtizism comp.)
Setup and character introductions? Well, I _still_ don't have a fscking clue what's going on, or who's who, or why they call her "Nurse" when she's obviously the maid (not to mention that a nurse like her will most likely make the body count of the hospital skyrocket), and so on...
Sorry, but if the first 2 (of only 6) episodes suck, I don't think the rest is worth my time... it was a jump into unknown waters for me, so to say, as the series hasn't been out much longer in Japan than in the US, but I already feel sorry for the shipment costs I've paid for the DVD...:(
(Maybe you've seen the series and already know the rest of the story, but starting a series with a big letdown definitely doesn't help it; if it get's better by epsiode 3, Pioneer should've made only 2 discs with 3 episodes each, hoping that the 3rd ep would keep people interested...)
Still, if there's "real" humour (as opposed to sick jokes, old cliches and toilet humour) somewhere in there, I seem to "plain old just don't get it"(TM), and neither seem all those people posting in the AnimeOnDVD fora, most of which are also quite angry about their acquisition...
Now if only Cowboy Bebop were more than 26 episodes - too bad it's only 8 more to go...:(
In the meantime, there's always Nanako (boing boing)!
Uhhh... I've watched Amazing Nurse Nanako today, and I was less than unimpressed by it - if a decent plot and/or story are also (seemingly) considered fan service these days, then I'd rather have that sort than the "boing boing" one... *urgh*
(Having a whiny ditz constantly being abused by her "superior" as a main character of course doesn't help the series, either...:( )
Concerning the rest of your post - I'm a fan of the first Armitage III OVAs, and I definitely want more of that - the original ending left far too much open... oh, and I have to agree that the OVA dub is much better than the movie one, but I guess you haven't even heard the horror that the German dub of the movie is... *blech* made me shell out quite a lot for the Japanese DVD that thankfully contains the original English dub as well, if only to reassure me that there was a good story hidden under all that horrible German voice "acting"...)
If you want something really different,try shoujo, and you think anime is just about sex and violence, there is a entire branch of anime that has
not really been released over here. Find a hard core anime fan and ask him about these. Fushigi Yuugi (although this is really a shonen series in disguise) is a classic, although the end leaves one wanting.
Being quite a big WARP fan, I can't let this blooper go by uncommented... WARP are an U.K. label, and Boards of Canada are signed to them (and SKAM records, also in England), along with Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plaid, Plone, Broadcast, Jimi Tenor, Mira Calix, Two Lone Swordsmen, Squarepusher, Red Snapper, etc etc etc...
Matador is just distributing their stuff in the US of A...:)
(As far as US distribution goes, most of it is handled by Nothing records - dunno about the RIAA-connection of them... but as always, this only goes for America - in Europe you can always order directly from WARPMart...:)
If you're looking for a good German independent label check out Mille Plateaux, who really put out a consistently yummy palette of Ambient and Experimental Electronics - highly recommended, especially Vladislav Delay, Gas, Alva Noto, Sturm and probably the rest of their roster I haven't checked out yet...
np: Jimi Tenor - Theme Sax (Sähkömies)
(Originally on Sähkö, re-released by WARP)
Even if there's just 5% of yay-sayers (as opposed to the usual masses of grits-voters), anime is no worse than a lot of other low-interest(?) topics no-one ever complained about, and it's just a vocal few having their personal jihad against anime... it's Jon Katz all over again, see?
np: Biosphere - Nook & Cranny (Cirque) (Oh my, I'm an electronic music geek as well... ain't life horrible? Did I complain about lacking coverage of this topic on Slashdot? No, because it's THEIR DAMN OWN choice what to make on-topic and what not!)
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Well, that must've been the video for "Extra" which can be found on his album "Jelly Tones"... and I don't think the video was cut together from stock footage; I'd say it was made specially for the video, so... tough luck finding more, I'd say...
np: Underworld - Pearls Girl (Second Toughest In The Infants)
Well, since CmdrTaco was more or less specifically asking for DVD releases... Pioneer has acquired the rights to Akira some time ago, and they said that they were doing a completely new dub of Akira... and taking into account the dubs I've heard from Pioneer I think you at least shouldn't yet diss that one...:)
np: Underworld - Banstyle/Sappy's Curry (Second Toughest In The Infants)
What about the one that put it on the back of the elephants on the back of the turtle?
Errr... that was Terry Pratchett... and I doubt he'd pass as a god amongst the other ones roaming the multiverse...:)
(Note to the original poster of this thread: I remember you... wasn't it you who always posted his fantasies about a certain actress that'd been turned to stone, and something about a heated cereal and your pants? So stop pretending you've got different feelings now - you don't trick me! HAR!)
Heise have also dropped the ball on their April's Fools joke this year when they recycled a story that ran on Segfault about a month ago (ROT-26 encryption)...
Seems like it's a sad year for April's Fools... *sigh*
Then again, the day's still young over here, so there's still hope... >:)
(Oh, and of course said "article" is in German, so remember to use the fish...;)
np: Jeswa - Poema Singled (Lily Of The Valley comp.)
You should consider taking smaller doses of Underworld at a time.
Can't have you imitate Karl's cool lyrics, can we? =P
sweet in winter sweet in rain. shake well before use she said. you never touch me anymore this way. connector in. receiver out. you let me in through the back door. ride the sainted rhythms on the midnight train to romford. ride the sainted rhythms. sweet in winter sweet in rain. shake well before use she said. you never touch me anymore this way. oh no. connector connector connector connector. youre a connector connector connector connector. im so dirty. and the light blinds my eyes. youre oh so dirty. and the light it blinds my eyes. here comes christ on crutches. call me wet trampoline she said today. well i was too busy with my hand. shake well before use she said but you never touch me anymore. i was busy listening for phone sex coming through the back door. in skin-tight trunks. and we all went mental and danced. i get my kicks on channel six. i get my kicks on channel six. to the off-peak electricity. and the light blinds my eyes. and i feel dirty. and the light blinds my eyes. and i feel so shaken in my faith. here comes christ on crutches. and here comes another god. here comes another god like a buffalo thunder with a smell of sugar and a velvet tongue and designer voodoo. and i got phone sex to see me through the emptiness in my 501s. freeze-dried with a new religion. and my teeth stuffed back in my head. i get my kicks on channel six. the light it burns my eyes. and i feel so dirty. here comes christ on crutches. i will not be confused. will not be confused. they left me confused. i will not be confused with another man. this pressure of opinions. lighten up. listen to your eyes you said. but all i could see was doris day in a big screen satellite. disappearing down the tube hole on farringdon street with whiplash willy the motor psycho. and the light it burns my eyes. and the light it burns my eyes. i get my kicks on channel six.
I can just see it... pr0n sites won't no longer need all those senseless keywords in their meta-tags to show up on innocent-looking keywords you feed a search engine...
No - now all they have to do is to stuff the "Robust Redirector" with some makeshift-keywords they extracted by spidering over a load of webpages, and presto! --- You've Got PR0N!1!
That's kind of like they do now, with sitenames that are popular "speling" errors of other sites...
Also, who's going to prevent people using the same keywords for their page, and how is the process of choosing between n possible redirections going to be handled, as it should be "transparent" to the user?
I guess there's a lot of thought-work left before this reasonably can go live... and still, how many of you have Smart Browsing enabled in Netscape, and how does this differ, privacy-wise?
Sure you can... that's what region 0 is for - if you take, for example, DVDExpress' Anime section, you're going to see quite a few DVDs that say "no region coding", which means they were coded for region 0. Other examples that come to mind are the music video DVDs for "Superthruster" and "All Is Full Of Love"...
Also, most German DVDs don't even use CSS, so that shouldn't be a problem for "all-useable" DVDs either...
Oh well...
np: Two Lone Swordsmen - It Hits (A Virus With Shoes)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK almost no DVDs (the "big company" DVDs, like Warner's and such, being the exception) available in Austria and Germany employ the CSS "protection" scheme... still, the discs play fine in every (region 2) player - so I guess it would be viable to just write the movies back to DVD unencrypted.
Then again, I guess there's some other information in that "hidden" sector (region code?) that might prevent the disc from being played on a regular DVD player... (but not neccessarily on a computer; the player software still has to go through the operating system... =)
>And of course there's the matter of people making >huge files available only by HTTP so that they're >almost impossible to get over anything except a >T1 or greater, and sometimes not even then. >(There's no resume capability that I'm aware of.)
Hmmm...
Have a look at RFC 2616, "HTTP/1.1" and it's sections 3.12 (Range Units), 14.16 (Content-Range) and 14.35 (Range)...
Also, try wget for resuming HTTP downloads, or GetRight or something similar if you're running windows... hell, even Netscape resumes downloading if the connection over which you were downloading a pr0n picture gets disconnected... *nudgenudgewinkwink*, *grin*
You know, there are those stacks of CDs on my left side (which would be safer if they weren't simply stacked on top of each other on my table) that I randomly pull a CD out of when I need some music... (i.e. 24/7:)
I don't really give much thinking into what specific to play while I'm coding/debugging/whatever, since I'm always hyperactive and can't hold still without some music playing; that's really weird, I think, but hey, that's me...:)
Anyhow, what I've been playing lately would be:
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Drive
Thomas Köner - Kaamos
Pan Sonic - A
Autechre - Tri Repetae
Mogwai - Kicking A Dead Pig
V/A - We Are Reasonable People
Apollo 440 - Electro Glide In Blue
Fluke - Oto
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Autechre - Anvil Vapre EP
Mira Calix - Pin Skeeling EP
Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities
The Black Dog - Spanners
Underworld - DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan
Orbital - In Sides
Bowery Electric - Beat
Spooky - Found Sound
Bogdan Raczynski - Samurai Math Beats
LFO - Advance
Squarepusher - Budakhan Mindphone
...
And so forth and so on... guess anything on WARP or related/comparable material will qualify...:)
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Ummm... no. It's because starting with W2K SP2 and XP, you can't disable the System File Protection on reboot, so even though you can zap all of IE's files, you can't (easily) prevent Windows from restoring them a few moments later. Of course, there's a page somewhere out there how to modify SFC.dll (the main part of SFP) so you can disable it again pre-SP2 style, but I don't have the link handy.
But of course, since they probably won't get away with distributing a hacked version of a windows DLL, they (he? - isn't 98lite a one-man venture?) won't touch that with a 10 foot pole... then again, even 98lite patches a few Win98 files, so that wouldn't really be a new problem - but who knows?
(IIRC, looking at the specific portion of that DLL you've got to NOP out, it's essentially a check that sets some variable that normally selects SFP's mode of operation to 0 (normal) in case you use the old (undocumented, of course) value for "don't protect any file, ever", but after that all the other handling code stayed unchanged, so just NOP out the resetting of that value, and - hey presto! - it works again. Talk about ugly hacks...)
np: Manual - Baja Nights (Until Tomorrow)
Just how many people will be listening to this all day long, waiting to hear "fsck me gently with a chainsaw" (arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c) on public radio for the first time? ^_^
Also, how long will it then take before "concerned parents" get the project off the air? >_<
np: Phonem - Decay (Arovane/Phonem - Aer (Valid))
Well, you asked for it... Paul van Dyke ain't great, and who's GaryD? (Or did you mean SlashDot user #49875?)
Now, had you asked about Reinhard & Wolfgang Voigt, Christian Fennesz, Christian Kleine, Ulrich Schnauss, ISAN, Bernd Fleischmann, Mike Ladd, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Sensorama, ..., it definitely would've been a different story... :)
np: Jah Wobble & Deep Space - Slow (Largely Live In Hartlepool And Manchester)
Well, what do you know? I just searched for "pr0n", and what category links do I get?
I don't even want to start thinking about how _THAT_ did happen... *g*
np: Reinhard Voigt - Track 3 (Premiere World)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Warp, Skam, Mille Plateaux, Force Inc., Forcetracks, Aural Industries, Dot, ~scape, Kracfive, Monotonik, Notype, Töshöklabs, Schematic, Chocolate Industries, Musik Aus Strom, Touch, Fals.ch, Sähkö, Blast First, etc etc etc...
np: Disjecta - Kracht (Clean Pit & Lid)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Well, it really is a common German saying... must've been some truth in it to become this common, huh? ^_^
np: Disjecta - Are You An Echo? (Clean Pit & Lid)
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Oh my... that NDS-ADS comparision even got a reference to a SlashDot thread in it concerning the Kerberos protocol glitches in Microsofts implementation...
I wonder if this makes Slashdot biased in this case... *grin*
np: Thomas Fehlmann - Fellmaus (Staedtizism comp.)
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Setup and character introductions? Well, I _still_ don't have a fscking clue what's going on, or who's who, or why they call her "Nurse" when she's obviously the maid (not to mention that a nurse like her will most likely make the body count of the hospital skyrocket), and so on...
Sorry, but if the first 2 (of only 6) episodes suck, I don't think the rest is worth my time... it was a jump into unknown waters for me, so to say, as the series hasn't been out much longer in Japan than in the US, but I already feel sorry for the shipment costs I've paid for the DVD... :(
(Maybe you've seen the series and already know the rest of the story, but starting a series with a big letdown definitely doesn't help it; if it get's better by epsiode 3, Pioneer should've made only 2 discs with 3 episodes each, hoping that the 3rd ep would keep people interested...)
Still, if there's "real" humour (as opposed to sick jokes, old cliches and toilet humour) somewhere in there, I seem to "plain old just don't get it"(TM), and neither seem all those people posting in the AnimeOnDVD fora, most of which are also quite angry about their acquisition...
Now if only Cowboy Bebop were more than 26 episodes - too bad it's only 8 more to go... :(
np: Underworld - Mother Earth (DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Uhhh... I've watched Amazing Nurse Nanako today, and I was less than unimpressed by it - if a decent plot and/or story are also (seemingly) considered fan service these days, then I'd rather have that sort than the "boing boing" one... *urgh*
(Having a whiny ditz constantly being abused by her "superior" as a main character of course doesn't help the series, either... :( )
Concerning the rest of your post - I'm a fan of the first Armitage III OVAs, and I definitely want more of that - the original ending left far too much open... oh, and I have to agree that the OVA dub is much better than the movie one, but I guess you haven't even heard the horror that the German dub of the movie is... *blech* made me shell out quite a lot for the Japanese DVD that thankfully contains the original English dub as well, if only to reassure me that there was a good story hidden under all that horrible German voice "acting"...)
np: Underworld - Tongue (DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Not that I'd be a shoujo fan or anything, but...
IMHO, a box set of the first 26 episodes definitely is a release... ^_^
Oh well, I'm nitpicking again...
Pole - Fahren (2)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Warp [...] They are based in Germany [...]
Being quite a big WARP fan, I can't let this blooper go by uncommented... WARP are an U.K. label, and Boards of Canada are signed to them (and SKAM records, also in England), along with Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plaid, Plone, Broadcast, Jimi Tenor, Mira Calix, Two Lone Swordsmen, Squarepusher, Red Snapper, etc etc etc...
Matador is just distributing their stuff in the US of A... :)
(As far as US distribution goes, most of it is handled by Nothing records - dunno about the RIAA-connection of them... but as always, this only goes for America - in Europe you can always order directly from WARPMart... :)
If you're looking for a good German independent label check out Mille Plateaux, who really put out a consistently yummy palette of Ambient and Experimental Electronics - highly recommended, especially Vladislav Delay, Gas, Alva Noto, Sturm and probably the rest of their roster I haven't checked out yet...
np: Jimi Tenor - Theme Sax (Sähkömies)
(Originally on Sähkö, re-released by WARP)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
How about the next poll being something like
I like anime
Even if there's just 5% of yay-sayers (as opposed to the usual masses of grits-voters), anime is no worse than a lot of other low-interest(?) topics no-one ever complained about, and it's just a vocal few having their personal jihad against anime... it's Jon Katz all over again, see?
np: Biosphere - Nook & Cranny (Cirque)
(Oh my, I'm an electronic music geek as well... ain't life horrible? Did I complain about lacking coverage of this topic on Slashdot? No, because it's THEIR DAMN OWN choice what to make on-topic and what not!)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Well, that must've been the video for "Extra" which can be found on his album "Jelly Tones"... and I don't think the video was cut together from stock footage; I'd say it was made specially for the video, so... tough luck finding more, I'd say...
np: Underworld - Pearls Girl (Second Toughest In The Infants)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Well, since CmdrTaco was more or less specifically asking for DVD releases... Pioneer has acquired the rights to Akira some time ago, and they said that they were doing a completely new dub of Akira... and taking into account the dubs I've heard from Pioneer I think you at least shouldn't yet diss that one... :)
np: Underworld - Banstyle/Sappy's Curry (Second Toughest In The Infants)
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RandBuf = malloc(sizeof(unsigned char)*count);
pgpAssert(RandBuf);
Well, in case you didn't notice, there's a pgpAssert() on the result of the malloc... no memory -> returns null -> pgpAssert() goes boom...
See? :)
np: Leak - Frilage (Demo CD)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
What about the one that put it on the back of the elephants on the back of the turtle?
Errr... that was Terry Pratchett... and I doubt he'd pass as a god amongst the other ones roaming the multiverse... :)
(Note to the original poster of this thread: I remember you... wasn't it you who always posted his fantasies about a certain actress that'd been turned to stone, and something about a heated cereal and your pants? So stop pretending you've got different feelings now - you don't trick me! HAR!)
np: Vladislav Delay - Ele (Entain)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Heise have also dropped the ball on their April's Fools joke this year when they recycled a story that ran on Segfault about a month ago (ROT-26 encryption)...
Seems like it's a sad year for April's Fools... *sigh*
Then again, the day's still young over here, so there's still hope... >:)
(Oh, and of course said "article" is in German, so remember to use the fish... ;)
np: Jeswa - Poema Singled (Lily Of The Valley comp.)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Dude.
You should consider taking smaller doses of Underworld at a time.
Can't have you imitate Karl's cool lyrics, can we? =P
-- Underworld, Dirty Epic (DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan)
np: Leak - Sleeping Wide Awake (Demo CD)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Oh... god... make it stop! PLEASE!!! :^)
Now where are those moderator points when I need them, CmdrTaco?!? ^_^
SCNR...
np: The Irresistible Force - The Lie-In King (It's Tomorrow Already)
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I've always thought that the domain for pr0n should be more accurately named ".cum"... ^_^
And while I'm at it... how about...
Okay, I'll quit rambling now...
np: Two Lone Swordsmen - It Hits (A Virus With Shoes)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
I can just see it... pr0n sites won't no longer need all those senseless keywords in their meta-tags to show up on innocent-looking keywords you feed a search engine...
No - now all they have to do is to stuff the "Robust Redirector" with some makeshift-keywords they extracted by spidering over a load of webpages, and presto! --- You've Got PR0N!1!
That's kind of like they do now, with sitenames that are popular "speling" errors of other sites...
Also, who's going to prevent people using the same keywords for their page, and how is the process of choosing between n possible redirections going to be handled, as it should be "transparent" to the user?
I guess there's a lot of thought-work left before this reasonably can go live... and still, how many of you have Smart Browsing enabled in Netscape, and how does this differ, privacy-wise?
(Mmmmh... Portscan... ARGH)
np: Boards Of Canada - Unknown Track 2.mp3 (Live)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Sure you can... that's what region 0 is for - if you take, for example, DVDExpress' Anime section, you're going to see quite a few DVDs that say "no region coding", which means they were coded for region 0. Other examples that come to mind are the music video DVDs for "Superthruster" and "All Is Full Of Love"...
Also, most German DVDs don't even use CSS, so that shouldn't be a problem for "all-useable" DVDs either...
Oh well...
np: Two Lone Swordsmen - It Hits (A Virus With Shoes)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK almost no DVDs (the "big company" DVDs, like Warner's and such, being the exception) available in Austria and Germany employ the CSS "protection" scheme... still, the discs play fine in every (region 2) player - so I guess it would be viable to just write the movies back to DVD unencrypted.
Then again, I guess there's some other information in that "hidden" sector (region code?) that might prevent the disc from being played on a regular DVD player... (but not neccessarily on a computer; the player software still has to go through the operating system... =)
Anyone know more about this?
np: Gas - Track 1 (Königsforst)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
>And of course there's the matter of people making
>huge files available only by HTTP so that they're
>almost impossible to get over anything except a
>T1 or greater, and sometimes not even then.
>(There's no resume capability that I'm aware of.)
Hmmm...
Have a look at RFC 2616, "HTTP/1.1" and it's sections 3.12 (Range Units), 14.16 (Content-Range) and 14.35 (Range)...
Also, try wget for resuming HTTP downloads, or GetRight or something similar if you're running windows... hell, even Netscape resumes downloading if the connection over which you were downloading a pr0n picture gets disconnected... *nudgenudgewinkwink*, *grin*
(Score: -1, On-Topic)
np: Autechre - Basscadubmx (Basscad EP)
As always under permanent deconstruction.
You know, there are those stacks of CDs on my left side (which would be safer if they weren't simply stacked on top of each other on my table) that I randomly pull a CD out of when I need some music ... (i.e. 24/7 :)
I don't really give much thinking into what specific to play while I'm coding/debugging/whatever, since I'm always hyperactive and can't hold still without some music playing; that's really weird, I think, but hey, that's me... :)
Anyhow, what I've been playing lately would be:
And so forth and so on... guess anything on WARP or related/comparable material will qualify... :)
np: Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel (Anvil Vapre EP)
As always under permanent deconstruction.