There's a piece of free software http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ that could crunch through 135 million passwords in a few hours. On my GTX275 it would take about 3.5 hours. I think i will save myself $34.
YES, you CAN modify the kernel (although maybe not under some stupid corner cases in the USA, thanks to DMCA. But pretty much everywhere else in the world)...BUT... you CAN'T re-distribute THE MODIFIED kernel to 3RD PARTIES, without obtaining a specific license to do so.
Psystar CAN obtain Mac OS X. Can modify the kernel (let's say in Europe, for the sake of avoiding DMCA). But CAN'T sell it on computers to customers, as they are selling a derivative of Apple's work, without Apple's license.
Actually because OSX in built on the BSD licensed Mach kernel, it is perfectly legal to modify and distribute the kernel. The leading effort in this regard is even hosted on google code http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/. This modified kernel allows people to run OSX on AMD processors and other CPUs without the latest SSE extentions.
Actually the italians had a very stong resistance against the Nazi occupation in WWII. Because this resistance sprang from very left wing sources (mainly the communist/ socialist parties and the trade unions) its significance was downplayed by the western allies after the war. Better "Dead than Red" and all that.
I really like the look of the Neo 1973, but the fact it doesn't have Wifi is a dealbreaker for me, and i'd guess for a lot of the enthusiast market they are after.
I have a 20 Gig Ipod thats about half full. Theres a mix of oggs and mps on it and i use the rockbox firmware. Rockbox has an option to build its own tag database on the the Ipod itself, on mine it takes about 10 minutes and because it happens in the background i don't even notice it. So i don't think that building the metadata database on the source computer is any kind of advantage for the ipod, its down more to its simple interface and almost a monopoly in the online music business. I'd guess that Jobs' recent cooling towards DRM was at least partly motivated by the fact that it is seen as an unfair trade practice in a few countries, (France and Norway recently adopted this position i think).
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There's a piece of free software http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ that could crunch through 135 million passwords in a few hours.
On my GTX275 it would take about 3.5 hours. I think i will save myself $34.
YES, you CAN modify the kernel (although maybe not under some stupid corner cases in the USA, thanks to DMCA. But pretty much everywhere else in the world) ...BUT...
you CAN'T re-distribute THE MODIFIED kernel to 3RD PARTIES, without obtaining a specific license to do so.
Psystar CAN obtain Mac OS X. Can modify the kernel (let's say in Europe, for the sake of avoiding DMCA). But CAN'T sell it on computers to customers, as they are selling a derivative of Apple's work, without Apple's license.
Actually because OSX in built on the BSD licensed Mach kernel, it is perfectly legal to modify and distribute the kernel. The leading effort in this regard is even hosted on google code http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/. This modified kernel allows people to run OSX on AMD processors and other CPUs without the latest SSE extentions.
Actually the italians had a very stong resistance against the Nazi occupation in WWII. Because this resistance sprang from very left wing sources (mainly the communist/ socialist parties and the trade unions) its significance was downplayed by the western allies after the war. Better "Dead than Red" and all that.
I really like the look of the Neo 1973, but the fact it doesn't have Wifi is a dealbreaker for me, and i'd guess for a lot of the enthusiast market they are after.
I have a 20 Gig Ipod thats about half full. Theres a mix of oggs and mps on it and i use the rockbox firmware. Rockbox has an option to build its own tag database on the the Ipod itself, on mine it takes about 10 minutes and because it happens in the background i don't even notice it.
So i don't think that building the metadata database on the source computer is any kind of advantage for the ipod, its down more to its simple interface and almost a monopoly in the online music business. I'd guess that Jobs' recent cooling towards DRM was at least partly motivated by the fact that it is seen as an unfair trade practice in a few countries, (France and Norway recently adopted this position i think).
It's at least partly based on a quotation from Matt Groening -
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the iceweasels come"