Wow, your memory really is fuzzy... either that or you used incredibly badly-written BBS software.
No BBS program I ever used (most of my experience is with TriBBS and RemoteAccess, but I also dabbled with Renegade and various Renegade-alikes) would parse the dynamic-content codes outside of files that would actually be displayed by the BBS. My memory's a bit fuzzy as well, so there might have been a few exceptions that I don't explicitly recall, such as allowing users with high enough access levels (e.g., sysops) to use them in messages, or allowing them in certain message bases, but under normal circumstances no one but the sysop would be allowed to use them and even then only in very limited circumstances.
Similarly, no BBS program I ever used had a "drop to DOS" sequence that could be embedded in a display file. Of course there was a menu command that would do it, but a) menus and the ANSI files displayed when users accessed them were always separate and b) the drop to DOS command would have to be explicitly defined in whatever menu for anyone to actually use it, and only insane sysops would allow a regular user access to it.
Hopefully this will make more sense than the Google translation.:P
Swiss revenue office distributes OpenOffice and Mozilla
The revenue office of the Swiss canton of Genf is furnishing all taxpayers who are "natural persons" in the canton with a CD for electronically filing their tax returns for 2002. Along with the tax return program GEtax 2002, which was developed in connection with DV Bern AG, open source programs like OpenOffice 1.0.1 in French for Windows and Linux as well as the web browser Mozilla 1.2.1 in French for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X can be found on the CD.
With this, the government of Genf is one of the first governments worldwide to provide its citizens with open source products. OpenOffice.org contains, among other things, a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentation software, and Zeichenprogramm [I have no idea what that means. "character program"?]. The web suite Mozilla 1.2.1 includes a web browser, and email and chat clients, as well as an HTML editor.
Cygwin has had an X server for a while. It is part of the official distribution now, though, so you can select it in the graphical installer, rather than having to download and install it separately after you've installed Cygwin.
LINE can run Linux binaries on Windows, much like WINE executes Windows binaries on Linux, though it's probably not as useful as Cygwin or a full Linux system.
There is also a port of User-Mode Linux to Win32 underway, but it is not very far along yet and would probably not be useful to you. (Also, it depends on the aforementioned LINE. Which I think is kind of funny.)
"But a black hole's a huge compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?" "Well, the thing about a black hole -- its main distinguishing feature -- is it's black. And the thing about space -- your basic space color is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"
for Squirrelmail you have to use courier imap and either courier mta or qmail.
Not true. I'm using SquirrelMail with uw-imap and Postfix, and it works fine. You just have to tell it what IMAP server you're using.
Actually, the only time I ever had any problems with SquirrelMail was when I was using qmail -- but the problem was with the Debian package, not qmail. It worked fine after I installed the tarball from squirrelmail.org.
IIRC Smart Media's pinout is the same as an ATA drive or something like that
Actually, no. That's CompactFlash you're thinking of. SmartMedia looks like this. There is a floppy disk adapter for SmartMedia, called FlashPath, but that's rather irrelevant here...
Good post. Glad to see good posts still exist around here;) Heh heh. Thanks.:)
But Dish, OTOH, does broadcast some channels unencrypted, which you can pick up with a DVB receiver - the Lyngsat site can tell you which ones are FTA. I just looked -- the only channels Dish broadcasts in the clear on CONUS are the barker channels (remote control help, 3-minute PPV/sports guide), the Muzak channels and one Sky Angel channel (I think...I saw it when I was skimming the lists but I couldn't find it again). There are also a few locals that are in the clear, but they're on spot beams.
I was aware that Dish broadcasts several channels unencrypted, but I didn't really feel like it was worth mentioning -- because like you said, these channels may be free, but no one wants 'em.:)
Dish isn't completely proprietary -- they use the DVB standard with Nagravision encryption. See my earlier post -- the one wrinkle is that Dish marries smartcards to specific receivers' serial numbers. Since this box doesn't actually have a serial number (or at least, not one issued by Dish Network for their own hardware), you can't legitimately subscribe it to Dish Network programming. You might be able to use it with a hacked card, though... but it wouldn't necessarily work very well (or indeed at all), since this thing is probably not equipped to talk to Dish's equipment (LNBs, multi-sat switches, etc).
As DevilJeff said, signal piracy and stream decoding are two very different things. You may have the keys to decrypt the stream, but unless you actually have the CAM (conditional access module) that actually decrypts the stream, the keys won't do you much good.
Not true. A receiver and smartcard can be remarried at any time. Erm, yeah. I was aware of this, however dimly, but it didn't really seem relevant, because you still need a receiver's serial number to marry the card to. A WinTV DVB card, even with the appropriate Nagravision CAM, won't provide this serial number to the smartcard, so you can't legitimately subscribe your own homebrew satellite PVR to Dish... unless you know something I don't.
A word of warning to any Slashdotters who are thinking this might be a nice way to get around paying for a DirecTiVo (or DirecTV DVR as I think they're calling the Series 2 ones) or DishPVR:
I've looked into building my own satellite PVR, and from what I learned, I think I can safely say that this box in all likelihood will not work with DirecTV or Dish Network. DirecTV uses its own proprietary encryption scheme which isn't supported by anything but DTV-licensed receivers, and while Dish Network uses Nagravision encryption, which is supported by some things (like Hauppauge's WinTV DBS card), they marry their smartcards to their receivers, so a Dish Network smartcard will only work in the receiver in which it was first activated unless you hack it (and even then it may not work outside a Dish Network receiver). Basically, this thing is useless unless you want to use it to record free-to-air satellite broadcasts.
First, they only got Sklyarov when he set foot on US soil.
Second, as I understand it, MPlayer uses the Win32 DLLs for playback just as WMP/QT/whatever-else does. The only way it could really be considered reverse engineering is if the APIs weren't published.
I'd say it's unlikely that anyone would try cracking down on MPlayer under the pretense of the DMCA, because it's not actually circumventing any access control mechanisms... but just like the majority of Slashdot's 600k+ other users, IANAL. But even so I have a hard time seeing how even the best lawyers could spin this to make it look like they're actually violating the DMCA. But maybe I'm just naive.
I take great offense that, we do NOT all suck and I guarantee that you will never, never, NEVER find me touching a button for this organization if I live to 10 billion years!
9,999,999,999 years and 11 months later...
"Mr...uh, UrGeek, sir? We're here from Microsoft...after ten billion years we've had a sudden attack of morality and we've decided to dissolve the company, and we were wondering if you'd like to press the button that will detonate all Microsoft campuses in the universe with a massive nuclear blast."
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Wow, your memory really is fuzzy... either that or you used incredibly badly-written BBS software.
No BBS program I ever used (most of my experience is with TriBBS and RemoteAccess, but I also dabbled with Renegade and various Renegade-alikes) would parse the dynamic-content codes outside of files that would actually be displayed by the BBS. My memory's a bit fuzzy as well, so there might have been a few exceptions that I don't explicitly recall, such as allowing users with high enough access levels (e.g., sysops) to use them in messages, or allowing them in certain message bases, but under normal circumstances no one but the sysop would be allowed to use them and even then only in very limited circumstances.
Similarly, no BBS program I ever used had a "drop to DOS" sequence that could be embedded in a display file. Of course there was a menu command that would do it, but a) menus and the ANSI files displayed when users accessed them were always separate and b) the drop to DOS command would have to be explicitly defined in whatever menu for anyone to actually use it, and only insane sysops would allow a regular user access to it.
I didn't know that. Thanks. Too bad I can't go back and edit my comment. :P
Cygwin has had an X server for a while. It is part of the official distribution now, though, so you can select it in the graphical installer, rather than having to download and install it separately after you've installed Cygwin.
LINE can run Linux binaries on Windows, much like WINE executes Windows binaries on Linux, though it's probably not as useful as Cygwin or a full Linux system.
There is also a port of User-Mode Linux to Win32 underway, but it is not very far along yet and would probably not be useful to you. (Also, it depends on the aforementioned LINE. Which I think is kind of funny.)
"But a black hole's a huge compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?"
"Well, the thing about a black hole -- its main distinguishing feature -- is it's black. And the thing about space -- your basic space color is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"
(Okay, so it's not EXACTLY related...)
He's written like that since at least 1983.
Actually, the only time I ever had any problems with SquirrelMail was when I was using qmail -- but the problem was with the Debian package, not qmail. It worked fine after I installed the tarball from squirrelmail.org.
I don't really know. I doubt it will break, but it wouldn't hurt to try to break your habit of removing it when you're bored anyway. :P
If the phones are from the same provider, or if your SIM card is unlocked, you can just swap the card between the phones.
Now, if the FBI is going to use Ads to track down criminals and terrorists will ad blocking software become illegal?
Yeah, just like ignoring wanted posters and those "have you seen this child" mailings has been made illegal.
Good post. Glad to see good posts still exist around here ;) :)
:)
Heh heh. Thanks.
But Dish, OTOH, does broadcast some channels unencrypted, which you can pick up with a DVB receiver - the Lyngsat site can tell you which ones are FTA.
I just looked -- the only channels Dish broadcasts in the clear on CONUS are the barker channels (remote control help, 3-minute PPV/sports guide), the Muzak channels and one Sky Angel channel (I think...I saw it when I was skimming the lists but I couldn't find it again). There are also a few locals that are in the clear, but they're on spot beams.
I was aware that Dish broadcasts several channels unencrypted, but I didn't really feel like it was worth mentioning -- because like you said, these channels may be free, but no one wants 'em.
Dish isn't completely proprietary -- they use the DVB standard with Nagravision encryption. See my earlier post -- the one wrinkle is that Dish marries smartcards to specific receivers' serial numbers. Since this box doesn't actually have a serial number (or at least, not one issued by Dish Network for their own hardware), you can't legitimately subscribe it to Dish Network programming. You might be able to use it with a hacked card, though... but it wouldn't necessarily work very well (or indeed at all), since this thing is probably not equipped to talk to Dish's equipment (LNBs, multi-sat switches, etc).
As DevilJeff said, signal piracy and stream decoding are two very different things. You may have the keys to decrypt the stream, but unless you actually have the CAM (conditional access module) that actually decrypts the stream, the keys won't do you much good.
Not true. A receiver and smartcard can be remarried at any time.
Erm, yeah. I was aware of this, however dimly, but it didn't really seem relevant, because you still need a receiver's serial number to marry the card to. A WinTV DVB card, even with the appropriate Nagravision CAM, won't provide this serial number to the smartcard, so you can't legitimately subscribe your own homebrew satellite PVR to Dish... unless you know something I don't.
A word of warning to any Slashdotters who are thinking this might be a nice way to get around paying for a DirecTiVo (or DirecTV DVR as I think they're calling the Series 2 ones) or DishPVR:
I've looked into building my own satellite PVR, and from what I learned, I think I can safely say that this box in all likelihood will not work with DirecTV or Dish Network. DirecTV uses its own proprietary encryption scheme which isn't supported by anything but DTV-licensed receivers, and while Dish Network uses Nagravision encryption, which is supported by some things (like Hauppauge's WinTV DBS card), they marry their smartcards to their receivers, so a Dish Network smartcard will only work in the receiver in which it was first activated unless you hack it (and even then it may not work outside a Dish Network receiver). Basically, this thing is useless unless you want to use it to record free-to-air satellite broadcasts.
First, they only got Sklyarov when he set foot on US soil.
... but just like the majority of Slashdot's 600k+ other users, IANAL. But even so I have a hard time seeing how even the best lawyers could spin this to make it look like they're actually violating the DMCA. But maybe I'm just naive.
Second, as I understand it, MPlayer uses the Win32 DLLs for playback just as WMP/QT/whatever-else does. The only way it could really be considered reverse engineering is if the APIs weren't published.
I'd say it's unlikely that anyone would try cracking down on MPlayer under the pretense of the DMCA, because it's not actually circumventing any access control mechanisms
Anyone else get the mental image of a 747 sticking out of the ground with a giant parachute draped over it when they read the headline?
I have yet to see any machine translators that will do Dutch to English.
Just remember that XFree86 maps your video card's memory into its process space, so it's not using as much of your RAM as it appears to be.
God forbid two companies use the same stock photos.
Corporations have morals?
9,999,999,999 years and 11 months later...
"Mr...uh, UrGeek, sir? We're here from Microsoft...after ten billion years we've had a sudden attack of morality and we've decided to dissolve the company, and we were wondering if you'd like to press the button that will detonate all Microsoft campuses in the universe with a massive nuclear blast."