I would strongly suggest you stop reading the TIVO Community Forums where such "gentleman's agreements" are held and instead head over to http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ instead. There you willfind all th einfo you need to hack a TIVO, including the latest software versions, how to prevent it from being "upgraded", and how to extract and insert video using about 3 different methods.;-)
Appreciate the response! Honestly without two tuners any PVR is pretty much useless to me. I have and had used a ReplayTV box w/auto commercial skip. It worked GREAT for extraction, and recorded with decent but not terrific quality off of my DISH. However a single tuner is close to useless as if I'm in front of the TV recording is silly, I might as well watch it! I researched the DISH PVR, found it SERIOUSLY lacking and unable to do extraction without pulling the drive, so I called DIRECT and grabbed a CHEAP DTivo. I promptly hacked the snot out of it and I am NO Linux "expert". Networked, HMO enabled, extraction working if I want it.
Nowadays there are frequently 2 or 3 shows at once I want to watch at the same time. I have ONE TV, one DTivo, no way will I put a TV in my bedroom so one is IT. I would build a Myth box in a heartbeat IF it could handle what I want which is massive stuff off of Direct. As it is I'll probably try the KnopMyth for funsies. For the shows I cannot record I use Torrents to a hacked Linkstation played back on my Linktheater.
I'm not YET doing HD, when I switch I don't know what I'll do. When Direct switches encoding I also don't know what I'll do. The HDTivo is interesting, and hacked now, but expensive and the apparent coming format change may make it obsolete.:-( I'd like a box to postprocess my DVDs for clearer viewing or even to store some of them (not all, I have 400+).
In the UK there are SAT cards for PCs, I've researched them. Here there's nothing of the sort, WTF! Let me guess, content providers won't allow it right? I can hardly wait for the DRM to bite these idiots in the ass!
*IF* I decided to use cable instead, are there *dual* tuners for Myth that will work for this? For HBO? Showtime? PPV and other premiums? For digital cable? No IRDA dongle? If not (and I'll research this, not to worry) then sorry Myth is a novelty to me, a toy. I stopped with the rabbit ears and ugly crap on my roof years ago. Going back, even for "free" reception, is a BIG step backwards. OTA won't cut it and neither will simple Basic cable.
So far a seperate Linux distro for TIVO hardware sounds like a great idea to me! However any changes that break the hacked DTivo I have now will likely prevent such a Distro from being viable anyway. These new changes won't hit me, I'm not worried right now. However the future sure looks mighty murky as to what I'll be watching! At least I'm not alone in this problem...
I'd love to run a Myth box but... How would it replace my DTIVO? I can watch one and record two or watch\record one while recording another. OTA bites in my area and cable isn't somethnig I want to deal with. So, how would Myth handle what I'm doing short of a ton of receivers and ugly IRDA dongles to control them?
Umm, bullshit. Mike spoke to CISCO about this and they refused to listen. It's been 4 months since CISCO patched this (not just worked on it but PATCHED) with a slipstream patch not even noted as critical. CISCO had plenty of time and had they not sat around with their thumbs in their ass telling ISS they couldn't duplicate the problem even with full access to source and access to ALL of Mike's research then they deserve what they get. Yes, that is the way it apparently went down.
Add to that - Mike got a good bit of a headstart on this by reading translated WEB pages freely available on the 'net. Translated from what you might ask - try Chinese. Mike also got some help from a previous BlackHat talk. This was stated by Mike during his talk. Last but not least CISCO is beta testing a new architecture that would no longer require an attacker to work their ass off finding the offsets for each IOS version before attacking, the new architecture would allow a single offset to work on ALL machines. So far I've yet to see CISCO saying anything about changing how that's going to be done.
So what would six months have bought us? What would the one YEAR that CISCO had asked for bought us? BlackHats were ALREADY working on this and you had better believe that had CISCO rolled out this new architecture they would've been happy. Mike sat up and rang the alarm bell and so far as I can tell he gave CISCO PLENTY of warning so trynig to say that he didn't follow industry practices is nutz - especially trying to use that as some basis for a lawsuit.
He was under NO legal obligation to tell them ANYTHING and when he tried to warn them they didn't believe him nor could their techs get it together enough to duplicate it. So far as I'm concerned he did a much better job of warning people than CISCO who have proven themselves to be nearly as bad as Adobe in all of this.
Heh, it was handed out at DEFCON on CD and someone even went so far as to present it as well - no not Mike. Copies of this thing are all over the place and the copy I got wasn't even redacted like the copy Mike presented with at BlackHat. He even pulled the ISS template out of his but not so the copy that's being handed out. A shame ISS didn't back him up - speaks volumes for them I think....
LOL, a disadvantage of not allowing them to upgrade me I suppose! What version are they up to now? USB ports still unused? Folders was pretty badly needed for sure. I see the SA boxes up to like V7 of the software with TIVO2GO! on it but other than that no real attraction for me. Appreciate the info on the folders, about time they caught up (lol). Maybe I'll put my old drive in and update it to see what the new software looks like:-)
Seriously, the biggest feature I wanted from the SA TIVO was Folders for recorded shows - only on the SA models. I had two fairly slow but decent 120Gig drives in my unit and listing recorded shows took an eternity - it sucked. I had also used a method of modding the software that was no longer "supported" and in fact the developer had been driven out of the community. Asking for help from the guys who had driven the guy out was pretty useless. Well, one of the drives toasted somehow so...
Okay, starting from scratch I did some research and learned that the 4.x software that has folders and HMO works FINE on the DTIVOS! I also wanted a better drive so I popped for a 250+Gig drive with 16meg of cache. Problem - LBA48 kernel needed. Yup, you can get a kernel that does this too - even purchase a CD to do it from a vendor (and the 4.x image too!).
Bottom line - my TIVO runs the SA software, works fine, is FAST, has folders, has a standard interface to setup the supported USB NIC (okay, I upgraded to better drivers), doesn't encrypt my shows, and I can do extraction.
Honestly? I SUCK at Linux but there's enough info out there that mortals can do this if you're halfway technical. I did lose the shows I'd already recorded and I would advise not reusing the original drive but overall it's doable obviously if I can do it. I purchased my images and the tools to support the vendor, I asked questions when I needed to on DealDatabase, and in general just muddled my way through.
Now I just want to get TIVO2GO! on my DTIVO box, not yet sure how I'll do that - slices? Folks are reversing the TIVO2GO! protocol and the encryption on that has also been whacked so that might be a "significant other" friendly way of doing extraction... All in all I really like my DTIVO and it's got higher quality recordings than the SA boxes to boot .
Sadly, in finally getting completely through the article I see Dealdatabase mentioned as a resource. Doh!
Honestly though, I'm also hacking a Linux based Linkstation, one of the things I run into is "what now" and "why?". On the TIVO I'm not sure what else I'll add or "why" I'll add it. I can get to the shows, with some work I can supposedly insert shows (why, I have a LinkTheater too!), I can maybe get it to play MP3s but again - why?
Some might want to put a WEB server on it and yeah I have that but not much functionality and not much need for it really - this is NOT a high powered box (remote scheduling maybe?). Perhaps allowing folks to get at the shows to DL but if I run something like ETIVO (sorry, Windows) I could serve that with a more powerful box and transfer files to it in the background with less work.
My Linkstation - running into the same thing. Streams video, audio, and I'm swapping in a BIG HD. But what else? At some point an appliance is doing what you need. Folks have installed MySQL on the LS but kripes it's a 200MHZ PPC box with 32meg of free RAM once the OS boots. WTF are you going to DO with that exactly? (lol) One of the IBM tech articles has one of those boards being put into a autonomous submarine but somehow I don't see myself doing that anytime soon. Fun to follow though!
At some point you have to say enough and move on I guess. Now if someone would just whack the LinkTheater firmware so we can get Buffalo out of the way! (lol)
Forget the AV and TIVO supported forums if you want to REALLY delve into a TIVO. They will freak out if you mention video extraction and you're likely to be banned before getting nay answer. Instead head for http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ and get into the GUTS. Warning, they eat their young over there so do some research before daring to post. Also grit your teeth as more senior members are designated as "gods" by some of the more irritating.
That said - my S2 DTIVO is now running a 250+Gig HD, has a USB2 NIC attached, has encryption disabled, allows me to EASILY archive shows using MFSFTP (Etivo is looking interesting), and I'm running 4.x software that was designated for the SA versions of the TIVO but has features I wanted (folders!). I learned all about how to do that on DealDatabase and by doing research on the tools I heard about there. I honestly still am no "pro" with a TIVO but I've learned enough to make my TIVO more useful and that of a few others too. While that forum may be a bit hostile for the uninitiated it's about the best going for serious TIVO stuff and they won't ban you for daring to utter "extraction"!
Heh, that will teach me not to proofread the title!
If you hunt on the 'net you will find an old copy of the Motorola Phone tools that can be updated, the Motorola Technician's tools, and a TON of other tools (some in foreign character sets) that will allow you to move files, backup firmware\SEEMS, and modify TONS of options. A previous post likened some of this stuff to hacking the Registry and that is NOT far off. Many changes are simply flipping switches that were left turned off, ni some few cases you may be adding functionality with a firmware change. For instance my silver Razr doesn't have video capability but the later black model does - swapping firmware (pretty sure this is needed) and flipping switches will give my phone those capabilities. I couldn't find an option to ring and vibe on my phone but after poking around in the "registry" of options I now have it working just fine on my phone.
There's lots of info out there and the community seems to be nearly as quirky as the overclocking communities. where else can you find guys who sign their messages with phone type and firmware mods?! (lol) It's all good if you just look, I seem to recall there's evena forum dedicated JUST to the V710 Motorola so look for it...
You do realize that the V710 is one of the more hacked phones around right? Do some searching, get a copy of the Motorola Phone Tools software and data cable, get some of the freely available tools, and HACK IT! There are WEB boards, there are How-To pages, there is free software, there are LOTS of resources for that phone! Stop whining and do something about it if you don't like it. If I were at home I'd give you a list of links, the resources aren't hard to find...
Finding a ringtone of a PHONE is indeed a PITA!:-( My phone also didn't have a ring AND vibe option for some reason and I actually had to hack it to get it (Cingular Razr). So far other than the default mostly crappy phone rings which I'm not a huge fan of I've got "Kung Fu Fighting" on there but no way in hell am I actually ever going to let it ring that way - it was a test I swear!
So, where in the heck did you actually manage to find a decent ring, do they have others, and was it free? Searches only turn up sites that will DL tones to your phone and I will NOT pay by the KB so I need an MP3 if possible.
And by double what Intel has when I checked. Intel is dirty, as dirty as Microsoft, they have just been smarter about it is all. We'll see where this goes or doesn't but the ruling in Japan and the Europeans looking into this doesn't bode well for Intel IMO.
It's quite obvious you have never water cooled a system or spent much time researching it. The fact that you think a water cooled system has "extra noise" whenin fact it's barely above a whisper and certanily more quite and than anything air cooled speaks volumes. Heat pipes ARE water cooling and in fact are SEALED systems - exactly what the poster stated! There are water systems that can remain self contained in a standard PC case too, minimal water storage mind you but yes that small.
That job is FAR from simplistic and I'm surprised that you would think educated folk would think it is. One need only take a little time exploring some of the hobbyist machinist sites like 5Bears to understand just exactly how complex such a job must be. In some aspects it's as much art as it is a science and I envy anyone who has those skills. Much respect!
P.S. To those I was going to moderate - sorry! I couldn't simply skip this post and not respond.
When I can have a dual tuner DIRECTV feed into a Myth box that supports a Season Pass type of feature and a nice program guide I'll consider it. Until then MythTV type setups aren't an option....
Hack it. I have hacked my DTIVO to run a version of software not available for the DTIVO, added a larger drive, and I'll bet that I can get rid of these ads too. Am I a rocket scientist? By no means but I can read and I spent ALOT of time doing just that over on the Dealdatabase.com forums. where the normal (and linked) TIVO forums will scream bloody murder if you talk about pulling content off of a box the DealDatabase Forums will teach you how to do that and much much more.
My TIVO no longer accepts updates from the mothership, is networked, runs a WEB server to allow me to control it, and can accept additional modifications anytime I want. You can do this and more and it doesn't take much more than some research to do it...
Ya', by being on SAT I'm not missing out on anything. My cable company is a collection of morons and I REALLY didn't want to give them my cash. At one point I finally couldn't stand it and dumped them. Reluctantly I now have them for my 'net service but supposedly fiber to the curb is coming - I'll dump them so fast their head's will spin.
I've had SAT now for about 7 years I think. First DISH which was great if you want to SUBSCRIBE to a p0rn channel but their PVR SUCKED. So, I switched to DTV just for the TIVO. I haven't looked back since and am quite happy now:-) I can live without p0rn and the pic is crystal clear. I'm still interested in MythTV mind you but until I can get SAT on it like I can my TIVO it's not going to be more than a novelty for me...
I'm actually familiar with the concept however most of my "friends" aren't into sitting around looking at slideshows. We go outside, have dinner out *in public*, and DO things. Perhaps instead of introducing me to the concept of "friends" I've now explained to you the concept of "friends who aren't boring"?
I owned a ReplayTV, loved that it could be networked so easily - I never even cracked the case! But then I noticed that I couldn't record two things at once - single tuner sucked. Then I noted that I was suffering a double encoding loss with my SAT box - that sucked too. No Season Pass but yeah I could record a static time slot - bleah!
I now have a DirecTivo. Done right video transfer isn't too bad. Dual tuners. No double encoding. Support... Yeah, I don't miss my ReplayTV and am enjoying my DIRECTIVO
It's not hard. www.dealdatabase.org has forums for this and yeah that's not a link - deal. You can even put the nifty 4.x software onto DTVs and get all of the HMO stuff:-) If I can do it than any Linux geek can!
Really? So DISH enabled the I/O ports to allow for the movies to be pulled off? No? Can it be hacked to do so? Oh... you can with the TIVO!:-P
The best part of the TIVO, especially for Linux geeks, is that it can be expanded and tinkered with easily. Need more space? Not a problem! Want to pull the video off? Doable. Want to play MP3? Doable. Display pics? Doable (but why?).
I'm nto great in Linux but with work and patience I just hacked mine pretty good and continue to do so. HD hacks are out there and while they aren't quite as plentiful as the older boxes the features look pretty good. 4 tuners for instance - WOW!/me wants....
Added layers of crap simply means more stuff for them to store for comparison's sake and irritation on the consumer's part. Certainly there are ways to do this securely without storing the clear-text data but most of these places are NOT going to be smart enough to implement those systems nor are they going to bother with the added CPU.
There will always be simple shortcuts and there will always be companies taking them. This was in no way a "sophisticated" attack - these guys wouldn't stand a chance against one of those. What's most scary is that they claim to employ smart people who's job it is to spot things like this. That means that they either A) didn't bother to have them review this change before implementation or B) the group they employed was too stupid to spot one of THE most classic of WEB programming mistakes. I've spent time talking to people who do these kinds of security reviews for a living, no way in heck would they have missed this kind of coding stupidity as this is nearly one of the first things they check for!
I sure hope these folks don't run a retail sales site - $5 says the prices are encoded in the HTML if they do:-)
He didn't dump the RAW contents of the database tables, he didn't steal the disks. Encryption would've done absoutely ZIP to fix this issue. He was using a legit login and interface to view the data, had encryption existed (and it may have actually) then the account he was using would've dutifully decrypted the data and displayed it. A security genius you are not...
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I would strongly suggest you stop reading the TIVO Community Forums where such "gentleman's agreements" are held and instead head over to http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ instead. There you willfind all th einfo you need to hack a TIVO, including the latest software versions, how to prevent it from being "upgraded", and how to extract and insert video using about 3 different methods. ;-)
Appreciate the response! Honestly without two tuners any PVR is pretty much useless to me. I have and had used a ReplayTV box w/auto commercial skip. It worked GREAT for extraction, and recorded with decent but not terrific quality off of my DISH. However a single tuner is close to useless as if I'm in front of the TV recording is silly, I might as well watch it! I researched the DISH PVR, found it SERIOUSLY lacking and unable to do extraction without pulling the drive, so I called DIRECT and grabbed a CHEAP DTivo. I promptly hacked the snot out of it and I am NO Linux "expert". Networked, HMO enabled, extraction working if I want it.
:-( I'd like a box to postprocess my DVDs for clearer viewing or even to store some of them (not all, I have 400+).
Nowadays there are frequently 2 or 3 shows at once I want to watch at the same time. I have ONE TV, one DTivo, no way will I put a TV in my bedroom so one is IT. I would build a Myth box in a heartbeat IF it could handle what I want which is massive stuff off of Direct. As it is I'll probably try the KnopMyth for funsies. For the shows I cannot record I use Torrents to a hacked Linkstation played back on my Linktheater.
I'm not YET doing HD, when I switch I don't know what I'll do. When Direct switches encoding I also don't know what I'll do. The HDTivo is interesting, and hacked now, but expensive and the apparent coming format change may make it obsolete.
In the UK there are SAT cards for PCs, I've researched them. Here there's nothing of the sort, WTF! Let me guess, content providers won't allow it right? I can hardly wait for the DRM to bite these idiots in the ass!
*IF* I decided to use cable instead, are there *dual* tuners for Myth that will work for this? For HBO? Showtime? PPV and other premiums? For digital cable? No IRDA dongle? If not (and I'll research this, not to worry) then sorry Myth is a novelty to me, a toy. I stopped with the rabbit ears and ugly crap on my roof years ago. Going back, even for "free" reception, is a BIG step backwards. OTA won't cut it and neither will simple Basic cable.
So far a seperate Linux distro for TIVO hardware sounds like a great idea to me! However any changes that break the hacked DTivo I have now will likely prevent such a Distro from being viable anyway. These new changes won't hit me, I'm not worried right now. However the future sure looks mighty murky as to what I'll be watching! At least I'm not alone in this problem...
I'd love to run a Myth box but... How would it replace my DTIVO? I can watch one and record two or watch\record one while recording another. OTA bites in my area and cable isn't somethnig I want to deal with. So, how would Myth handle what I'm doing short of a ton of receivers and ugly IRDA dongles to control them?
Umm, bullshit. Mike spoke to CISCO about this and they refused to listen. It's been 4 months since CISCO patched this (not just worked on it but PATCHED) with a slipstream patch not even noted as critical. CISCO had plenty of time and had they not sat around with their thumbs in their ass telling ISS they couldn't duplicate the problem even with full access to source and access to ALL of Mike's research then they deserve what they get. Yes, that is the way it apparently went down.
Add to that - Mike got a good bit of a headstart on this by reading translated WEB pages freely available on the 'net. Translated from what you might ask - try Chinese. Mike also got some help from a previous BlackHat talk. This was stated by Mike during his talk. Last but not least CISCO is beta testing a new architecture that would no longer require an attacker to work their ass off finding the offsets for each IOS version before attacking, the new architecture would allow a single offset to work on ALL machines. So far I've yet to see CISCO saying anything about changing how that's going to be done.
So what would six months have bought us? What would the one YEAR that CISCO had asked for bought us? BlackHats were ALREADY working on this and you had better believe that had CISCO rolled out this new architecture they would've been happy. Mike sat up and rang the alarm bell and so far as I can tell he gave CISCO PLENTY of warning so trynig to say that he didn't follow industry practices is nutz - especially trying to use that as some basis for a lawsuit.
He was under NO legal obligation to tell them ANYTHING and when he tried to warn them they didn't believe him nor could their techs get it together enough to duplicate it. So far as I'm concerned he did a much better job of warning people than CISCO who have proven themselves to be nearly as bad as Adobe in all of this.
CISCOGate indeed....
Heh, it was handed out at DEFCON on CD and someone even went so far as to present it as well - no not Mike. Copies of this thing are all over the place and the copy I got wasn't even redacted like the copy Mike presented with at BlackHat. He even pulled the ISS template out of his but not so the copy that's being handed out. A shame ISS didn't back him up - speaks volumes for them I think....
LOL, a disadvantage of not allowing them to upgrade me I suppose! What version are they up to now? USB ports still unused? Folders was pretty badly needed for sure. I see the SA boxes up to like V7 of the software with TIVO2GO! on it but other than that no real attraction for me. Appreciate the info on the folders, about time they caught up (lol). Maybe I'll put my old drive in and update it to see what the new software looks like :-)
Seriously, the biggest feature I wanted from the SA TIVO was Folders for recorded shows - only on the SA models. I had two fairly slow but decent 120Gig drives in my unit and listing recorded shows took an eternity - it sucked. I had also used a method of modding the software that was no longer "supported" and in fact the developer had been driven out of the community. Asking for help from the guys who had driven the guy out was pretty useless. Well, one of the drives toasted somehow so...
Okay, starting from scratch I did some research and learned that the 4.x software that has folders and HMO works FINE on the DTIVOS! I also wanted a better drive so I popped for a 250+Gig drive with 16meg of cache. Problem - LBA48 kernel needed. Yup, you can get a kernel that does this too - even purchase a CD to do it from a vendor (and the 4.x image too!).
Bottom line - my TIVO runs the SA software, works fine, is FAST, has folders, has a standard interface to setup the supported USB NIC (okay, I upgraded to better drivers), doesn't encrypt my shows, and I can do extraction.
Honestly? I SUCK at Linux but there's enough info out there that mortals can do this if you're halfway technical. I did lose the shows I'd already recorded and I would advise not reusing the original drive but overall it's doable obviously if I can do it. I purchased my images and the tools to support the vendor, I asked questions when I needed to on DealDatabase, and in general just muddled my way through.
Now I just want to get TIVO2GO! on my DTIVO box, not yet sure how I'll do that - slices? Folks are reversing the TIVO2GO! protocol and the encryption on that has also been whacked so that might be a "significant other" friendly way of doing extraction... All in all I really like my DTIVO and it's got higher quality recordings than the SA boxes to boot .
Sadly, in finally getting completely through the article I see Dealdatabase mentioned as a resource. Doh!
Honestly though, I'm also hacking a Linux based Linkstation, one of the things I run into is "what now" and "why?". On the TIVO I'm not sure what else I'll add or "why" I'll add it. I can get to the shows, with some work I can supposedly insert shows (why, I have a LinkTheater too!), I can maybe get it to play MP3s but again - why?
Some might want to put a WEB server on it and yeah I have that but not much functionality and not much need for it really - this is NOT a high powered box (remote scheduling maybe?). Perhaps allowing folks to get at the shows to DL but if I run something like ETIVO (sorry, Windows) I could serve that with a more powerful box and transfer files to it in the background with less work.
My Linkstation - running into the same thing. Streams video, audio, and I'm swapping in a BIG HD. But what else? At some point an appliance is doing what you need. Folks have installed MySQL on the LS but kripes it's a 200MHZ PPC box with 32meg of free RAM once the OS boots. WTF are you going to DO with that exactly? (lol) One of the IBM tech articles has one of those boards being put into a autonomous submarine but somehow I don't see myself doing that anytime soon. Fun to follow though!
At some point you have to say enough and move on I guess. Now if someone would just whack the LinkTheater firmware so we can get Buffalo out of the way! (lol)
Forget the AV and TIVO supported forums if you want to REALLY delve into a TIVO. They will freak out if you mention video extraction and you're likely to be banned before getting nay answer. Instead head for http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ and get into the GUTS. Warning, they eat their young over there so do some research before daring to post. Also grit your teeth as more senior members are designated as "gods" by some of the more irritating.
That said - my S2 DTIVO is now running a 250+Gig HD, has a USB2 NIC attached, has encryption disabled, allows me to EASILY archive shows using MFSFTP (Etivo is looking interesting), and I'm running 4.x software that was designated for the SA versions of the TIVO but has features I wanted (folders!). I learned all about how to do that on DealDatabase and by doing research on the tools I heard about there. I honestly still am no "pro" with a TIVO but I've learned enough to make my TIVO more useful and that of a few others too. While that forum may be a bit hostile for the uninitiated it's about the best going for serious TIVO stuff and they won't ban you for daring to utter "extraction"!
Heh, that will teach me not to proofread the title!
If you hunt on the 'net you will find an old copy of the Motorola Phone tools that can be updated, the Motorola Technician's tools, and a TON of other tools (some in foreign character sets) that will allow you to move files, backup firmware\SEEMS, and modify TONS of options. A previous post likened some of this stuff to hacking the Registry and that is NOT far off. Many changes are simply flipping switches that were left turned off, ni some few cases you may be adding functionality with a firmware change. For instance my silver Razr doesn't have video capability but the later black model does - swapping firmware (pretty sure this is needed) and flipping switches will give my phone those capabilities. I couldn't find an option to ring and vibe on my phone but after poking around in the "registry" of options I now have it working just fine on my phone.
There's lots of info out there and the community seems to be nearly as quirky as the overclocking communities. where else can you find guys who sign their messages with phone type and firmware mods?! (lol) It's all good if you just look, I seem to recall there's evena forum dedicated JUST to the V710 Motorola so look for it...
You do realize that the V710 is one of the more hacked phones around right? Do some searching, get a copy of the Motorola Phone Tools software and data cable, get some of the freely available tools, and HACK IT! There are WEB boards, there are How-To pages, there is free software, there are LOTS of resources for that phone! Stop whining and do something about it if you don't like it. If I were at home I'd give you a list of links, the resources aren't hard to find...
Finding a ringtone of a PHONE is indeed a PITA! :-( My phone also didn't have a ring AND vibe option for some reason and I actually had to hack it to get it (Cingular Razr). So far other than the default mostly crappy phone rings which I'm not a huge fan of I've got "Kung Fu Fighting" on there but no way in hell am I actually ever going to let it ring that way - it was a test I swear!
So, where in the heck did you actually manage to find a decent ring, do they have others, and was it free? Searches only turn up sites that will DL tones to your phone and I will NOT pay by the KB so I need an MP3 if possible.
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And by double what Intel has when I checked. Intel is dirty, as dirty as Microsoft, they have just been smarter about it is all. We'll see where this goes or doesn't but the ruling in Japan and the Europeans looking into this doesn't bode well for Intel IMO.
It's quite obvious you have never water cooled a system or spent much time researching it. The fact that you think a water cooled system has "extra noise" whenin fact it's barely above a whisper and certanily more quite and than anything air cooled speaks volumes. Heat pipes ARE water cooling and in fact are SEALED systems - exactly what the poster stated! There are water systems that can remain self contained in a standard PC case too, minimal water storage mind you but yes that small.
Ya' really ought to do a little research....
That job is FAR from simplistic and I'm surprised that you would think educated folk would think it is. One need only take a little time exploring some of the hobbyist machinist sites like 5Bears to understand just exactly how complex such a job must be. In some aspects it's as much art as it is a science and I envy anyone who has those skills. Much respect!
P.S. To those I was going to moderate - sorry! I couldn't simply skip this post and not respond.
When I can have a dual tuner DIRECTV feed into a Myth box that supports a Season Pass type of feature and a nice program guide I'll consider it. Until then MythTV type setups aren't an option....
Hack it. I have hacked my DTIVO to run a version of software not available for the DTIVO, added a larger drive, and I'll bet that I can get rid of these ads too. Am I a rocket scientist? By no means but I can read and I spent ALOT of time doing just that over on the Dealdatabase.com forums. where the normal (and linked) TIVO forums will scream bloody murder if you talk about pulling content off of a box the DealDatabase Forums will teach you how to do that and much much more.
My TIVO no longer accepts updates from the mothership, is networked, runs a WEB server to allow me to control it, and can accept additional modifications anytime I want. You can do this and more and it doesn't take much more than some research to do it...
Ya', by being on SAT I'm not missing out on anything. My cable company is a collection of morons and I REALLY didn't want to give them my cash. At one point I finally couldn't stand it and dumped them. Reluctantly I now have them for my 'net service but supposedly fiber to the curb is coming - I'll dump them so fast their head's will spin.
:-) I can live without p0rn and the pic is crystal clear. I'm still interested in MythTV mind you but until I can get SAT on it like I can my TIVO it's not going to be more than a novelty for me...
I've had SAT now for about 7 years I think. First DISH which was great if you want to SUBSCRIBE to a p0rn channel but their PVR SUCKED. So, I switched to DTV just for the TIVO. I haven't looked back since and am quite happy now
I'm actually familiar with the concept however most of my "friends" aren't into sitting around looking at slideshows. We go outside, have dinner out *in public*, and DO things. Perhaps instead of introducing me to the concept of "friends" I've now explained to you the concept of "friends who aren't boring"?
I owned a ReplayTV, loved that it could be networked so easily - I never even cracked the case! But then I noticed that I couldn't record two things at once - single tuner sucked. Then I noted that I was suffering a double encoding loss with my SAT box - that sucked too. No Season Pass but yeah I could record a static time slot - bleah!
I now have a DirecTivo. Done right video transfer isn't too bad. Dual tuners. No double encoding. Support... Yeah, I don't miss my ReplayTV and am enjoying my DIRECTIVO
It's not hard. www.dealdatabase.org has forums for this and yeah that's not a link - deal. You can even put the nifty 4.x software onto DTVs and get all of the HMO stuff :-) If I can do it than any Linux geek can!
Really? So DISH enabled the I/O ports to allow for the movies to be pulled off? No? Can it be hacked to do so? Oh... you can with the TIVO! :-P
/me wants....
The best part of the TIVO, especially for Linux geeks, is that it can be expanded and tinkered with easily. Need more space? Not a problem! Want to pull the video off? Doable. Want to play MP3? Doable. Display pics? Doable (but why?).
I'm nto great in Linux but with work and patience I just hacked mine pretty good and continue to do so. HD hacks are out there and while they aren't quite as plentiful as the older boxes the features look pretty good. 4 tuners for instance - WOW!
Well said and exactly my point!
:-)
Added layers of crap simply means more stuff for them to store for comparison's sake and irritation on the consumer's part. Certainly there are ways to do this securely without storing the clear-text data but most of these places are NOT going to be smart enough to implement those systems nor are they going to bother with the added CPU.
There will always be simple shortcuts and there will always be companies taking them. This was in no way a "sophisticated" attack - these guys wouldn't stand a chance against one of those. What's most scary is that they claim to employ smart people who's job it is to spot things like this. That means that they either A) didn't bother to have them review this change before implementation or B) the group they employed was too stupid to spot one of THE most classic of WEB programming mistakes. I've spent time talking to people who do these kinds of security reviews for a living, no way in heck would they have missed this kind of coding stupidity as this is nearly one of the first things they check for!
I sure hope these folks don't run a retail sales site - $5 says the prices are encoded in the HTML if they do
Blake is right again! It will be interesting to see how many slly ideas get posted - and then shot down - by the end of this thread :-)
He didn't dump the RAW contents of the database tables, he didn't steal the disks. Encryption would've done absoutely ZIP to fix this issue. He was using a legit login and interface to view the data, had encryption existed (and it may have actually) then the account he was using would've dutifully decrypted the data and displayed it. A security genius you are not...