And yes I am a dirty rotten pirate, but guess what, I don't care. At all.
And I do buy DVD's. Why?
Because it's usually cheaper (my time is worth something, and bandwidth ain't free) and easier than downloading them (sometimes even cheaper than renting them if you buy them at The Warehouse ($5 for Top-Gun, w00t)). And I only download scans for movies that are actually worth watching, because you can't buy HD-DVD/Bluray in NZ and you can't get most good movies on HD-DVD or Bluray.
But mostly I don't even bother as between working, more working, and doing useful things like music practise, who has time to sit on IRC camping out for a slot for the latest scan on XDCC.
And I don't think I'll buy any HDBluDVDRay products, as I simply can't be bothered, just as I can't be bothered getting HD scans anymore, and the quality isn't as good as scans anyway.
Also HDMI is stupid, why did they have to have to come up with a new standard with a new cable type and new plugs, when HDSDI has been in use in the Film industry since before consumer HDTV was available and runs over standard RG-59/RG-6 with standard BNC connectors.
It seems to be the trend these days that you take an established standard, bastardise it into an (in all ways) inferior standard, and start promoting it as the best thing since sliced bread.
Like LCD's, the industry seems to be pretending real hard that CRT's (you know those things with better refresh rates, resolutions, and dynamic range) never existed.
Also shame on all those who bought plasma TV's, they only have a 3 year half-life at best, realistically closer to 2.
I know someone who bought a $70,000 Plasma TV only a couple of years after they came out, it was fantastic for the first year or so, but 5 years later it is rubbish, really dim and greyed out. That's worse depreciation than a new car, or a large computer.
Obviously the pixel data is decrypted at some point, as the bitstream in HDCP is different to the bitstream in AACS, so the software/firmware/hardware is decrypting it and re-encrypting it to the target device, so it seems trivial to me to just read-back the pixel data as it is decrypted, either using a debugger/virtualization in software, or a simple FPGA data logger in hardware.
You can already rip SACD and DVD-audio with an FPGA, soldering iron and a 24/192 sound card.
If I had a Bluray/HDDVD (not available here yet), I'm sure I would be making dumps of the unencrypted bitstream within a week.
The only way I can see that they would have of completely stopping access to the pixel data would be to have the decrypting and re-encrypting on a single chip, and having the Decoder in the TV in the LCD driver. And I don't think it will be very likely that they will have done this in every device which can play AACS/HDCP.
Also you can play HD DVD on Windows PC's so obviously you can extract the decryption keys from the software players (once you de-obfuscate them). And I know they can disable keys, but I can't see them disabling every software player, as this will piss of a huge amount of legitimate customers.
Not to mention, that if you are a warez d00d you can get pretty much every movie that's any good as an HD scan of higher quality than either format offers. 2k field anamorphic scans in H.264 and XviD are available if you know where to look, and they sure take a beating on your CPU to play them.
But yes, I can see that AACS will be more of a deterrent(sic?) and annoyance for Joe Six-pack than CSS.
Well NeverWinterNights was(is) popular. It's not really an MMORPG, but a good deal of servers pushed new content continously.
Actually, I think smaller player count RPG's like NwN are better as you have more social interaction with DM's and you get to know the regulars. NeverSummer was great until I ran out of time (found a job and stopped bumming around playing NwN).
I never did finish NeverSummer as a door stole all my items, which completely turned me off the game. It would of been alright to steal all my non-quest items, but it took all of them, and I pretty much had to start from the level 20 quests again.
I played WoW for about two weeks, but just couldn't see the attraction, the game was just get quests, complete quests, repeat. Also you can't do trixie things like standing on bulkheads as it has no Collision Detection, and if Opponents can't reach you they tend to just teleport (lame). Also the story was boring, and almost all the quests I did (up to ~lvl20) were just, kill x of these, or get x of item y. Overall I got the feeling that the game was designed to take as long as possible to play with the minimal amount of content.
I prefer games where you can be better through superior strategies and tactics, rather than just more playing time and items.
Crossfire was good in that respect, but once you learnt all the strat's it became *way* to easy (there should always be some difficulty to a game), in that I could join a server and level to 108 in 4 hours or less.
I don't know about VAx, but on IBM z/Series the hardware natively supports all instructions dating back to the System/360 and if you are running z/OS (formerly MVS), then it implements all API's dating back to the first MVS release.
I wouldn't really call that emulation, rather than arcane stupidity. Still there are some VERY big companies still running code from the 1970's, though sometimes I wonder if the code is that old, does it really require so much performance that it couldn't be emulated on a much smaller system (hint: Hercules is a mainframe emulator which runs on 64-bit PC's (and 32bit but the performance sucks)).
People also seem to of forgotten that you could buy 21" CRT's that could run 2048x1536@75Hz 10 years ago.
I bought a couple of newer 21" monitors second hand a few months back, and they kick the shit out of any LCD's I've seen.
I still wouldn't mind having one of those Samsung/Sharp 30" displays though.
Hint: Apple don't make LCD's so obviously the same display, possibly in a different case, is available OEM.
Just like my IBM P275 21" CRT's, they're actually Sony displays AFAICT (Haven't opened them, but they're definitely FD trinitron).
It's just such a shame that you can't buy new CRT's anymore, as I haven't seen anything under $5000NZ (~$3000US), that compares favourably to my $200NZ CRT's (second hand of course).
I think I'll start stockpiling them, so that I don't have to buy an LCD until they actually have the dynamic range and clarity of a good CRT.
Well, I personally love my HDD's long data retention. If I'm lucky it might retain my data for 10 years. Then again it might fail 1 week after purchase......
Oh log retention, yes well that doesn't make a whole lot of sense... Except when it does.
I really wish Linux had a fossilfs like Plan9 that stored all changes chronologically. Kind of like Subversion on 'roids.
And no I'm not in favour of my ISP logging huge amounts of data about me, on the other hand I would be quite grateful if they kept reasonable amounts of logs of routing tables, I'm not sure what logging IP addresses means, surely they aren't logging every host I connect to, that would be insane.
Oh well, I can't even remember why I started this post, I guess that means I don't hav every good data retention...
If you're using *nix you might want to look at using the nip2 frontend with the VIPS system (vips.sf.net?), It's freakin' brilliant for working with enormous images, as it only processes the pixel data that is actually needed for the operation, for example a preview of a filter only operates on the pixels that are actually visible.
I've loaded up 8GB images before and worked with them in near realtime. It's pretty impressive stuff, and includes an enormous number of filters, and is designed for batch/semi-batch operations.
There's also a guide online for using it for producing infared scan composites which could probably applied to what you want to do.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, first of all, shame on you, everyone has 5 1/4 inch drives.
Secondly swap is invaluable when running large multiuser application servers.
Yes swap will kill your web server, probably your file server too, but when it comes to user applications where a large proportion of them will be suspended at any one time, I'm not going to put 16G of ram in a server when 8G and 8G of swap is perfectly sufficient. For instance a user leaves a browser open at some page for 4 days, it's not doing anything, but without swap it's going to use maybe 500MB of ram (Firefox is a pig), I'd much rather have it swapped out, and have the user suffer a slight delay to retrieve their app when they finally decide they want to use it.
Well how do you get your password for online banking.
It's (snail)mailed out to you, then you login and change it.
I don't see the difference between this and mailing you a key.
And yes i know them mailing personal authentication data to you is horrendously insecure, but that's not the point.
The real advantage to PKI is that you can set up the encryption prior to the exchange of authentication data, which makes application design much easier.
I did say it is much slower. also I think there is some tool which does disk backups by sector but hashes them and only updates if the sector has changed.
You *can't* get open source firmware for HDDs, and I doubt you can get opensource firmware for Video Cards.
The password for the hidden shares is the password for Administrator.
You can't spell, you display blatant factual errors, and you imply that you have a job(US), but I seriously doubt that someone with as little knowledge about reality as you could accomplish such a feat.
There is very few places with free health care for non-citizens.
We have state-subsidized health-care in New Zealand, but it is only available to New Zealand (and NZ protectorates) and Australian (some kind of bi-lateral agreement) citizens.
Mostly it points the same way as the screen, but I've seen quite a few which have two cameras one at each side (I'm guessing CMOS sensors must be pretty cheap these days).
You could do what I plan to do (when I get round to it;) and only encrypt swap,/home, and any other places you keep important data, and leave/usr,/opt,/music,/movies and any other places which hold unimportant data unencrypted (I could go either way on/etc and/var).
But I guess you'd have to do your amorak trick slightly differently...
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And yes I am a dirty rotten pirate, but guess what, I don't care. At all.
And I do buy DVD's. Why?
Because it's usually cheaper (my time is worth something, and bandwidth ain't free) and easier than downloading them (sometimes even cheaper than renting them if you buy them at The Warehouse ($5 for Top-Gun, w00t)). And I only download scans for movies that are actually worth watching, because you can't buy HD-DVD/Bluray in NZ and you can't get most good movies on HD-DVD or Bluray.
But mostly I don't even bother as between working, more working, and doing useful things like music practise, who has time to sit on IRC camping out for a slot for the latest scan on XDCC.
And I don't think I'll buy any HDBluDVDRay products, as I simply can't be bothered, just as I can't be bothered getting HD scans anymore, and the quality isn't as good as scans anyway.
Also HDMI is stupid, why did they have to have to come up with a new standard with a new cable type and new plugs, when HDSDI has been in use in the Film industry since before consumer HDTV was available and runs over standard RG-59/RG-6 with standard BNC connectors.
It seems to be the trend these days that you take an established standard, bastardise it into an (in all ways) inferior standard, and start promoting it as the best thing since sliced bread.
Like LCD's, the industry seems to be pretending real hard that CRT's (you know those things with better refresh rates, resolutions, and dynamic range) never existed.
Also shame on all those who bought plasma TV's, they only have a 3 year half-life at best, realistically closer to 2.
I know someone who bought a $70,000 Plasma TV only a couple of years after they came out, it was fantastic for the first year or so, but 5 years later it is rubbish, really dim and greyed out. That's worse depreciation than a new car, or a large computer.
Obviously the pixel data is decrypted at some point, as the bitstream in HDCP is different to the bitstream in AACS, so the software/firmware/hardware is decrypting it and re-encrypting it to the target device, so it seems trivial to me to just read-back the pixel data as it is decrypted, either using a debugger/virtualization in software, or a simple FPGA data logger in hardware.
You can already rip SACD and DVD-audio with an FPGA, soldering iron and a 24/192 sound card.
If I had a Bluray/HDDVD (not available here yet), I'm sure I would be making dumps of the unencrypted bitstream within a week.
The only way I can see that they would have of completely stopping access to the pixel data would be to have the decrypting and re-encrypting on a single chip, and having the Decoder in the TV in the LCD driver. And I don't think it will be very likely that they will have done this in every device which can play AACS/HDCP.
Also you can play HD DVD on Windows PC's so obviously you can extract the decryption keys from the software players (once you de-obfuscate them). And I know they can disable keys, but I can't see them disabling every software player, as this will piss of a huge amount of legitimate customers.
Not to mention, that if you are a warez d00d you can get pretty much every movie that's any good as an HD scan of higher quality than either format offers. 2k field anamorphic scans in H.264 and XviD are available if you know where to look, and they sure take a beating on your CPU to play them.
But yes, I can see that AACS will be more of a deterrent(sic?) and annoyance for Joe Six-pack than CSS.
Well NeverWinterNights was(is) popular. It's not really an MMORPG, but a good deal of servers pushed new content continously.
Actually, I think smaller player count RPG's like NwN are better as you have more social interaction with DM's and you get to know the regulars. NeverSummer was great until I ran out of time (found a job and stopped bumming around playing NwN).
I never did finish NeverSummer as a door stole all my items, which completely turned me off the game. It would of been alright to steal all my non-quest items, but it took all of them, and I pretty much had to start from the level 20 quests again.
I played WoW for about two weeks, but just couldn't see the attraction, the game was just get quests, complete quests, repeat. Also you can't do trixie things like standing on bulkheads as it has no Collision Detection, and if Opponents can't reach you they tend to just teleport (lame). Also the story was boring, and almost all the quests I did (up to ~lvl20) were just, kill x of these, or get x of item y. Overall I got the feeling that the game was designed to take as long as possible to play with the minimal amount of content.
I prefer games where you can be better through superior strategies and tactics, rather than just more playing time and items.
Crossfire was good in that respect, but once you learnt all the strat's it became *way* to easy (there should always be some difficulty to a game), in that I could join a server and level to 108 in 4 hours or less.
I don't know about VAx, but on IBM z/Series the hardware natively supports all instructions dating back to the System/360 and if you are running z/OS (formerly MVS), then it implements all API's dating back to the first MVS release.
I wouldn't really call that emulation, rather than arcane stupidity. Still there are some VERY big companies still running code from the 1970's, though sometimes I wonder if the code is that old, does it really require so much performance that it couldn't be emulated on a much smaller system (hint: Hercules is a mainframe emulator which runs on 64-bit PC's (and 32bit but the performance sucks)).
Yeah, except puppies degrade gracefully, almost all flash sites don't.
Besides I like puppies, especially corgies.
YOU FUCKING MORON. It's people like you that lose companies customers.
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUTUBE, just give me a page that works in my browser and let me download the fucking video's already.
I don't see that as racism, he's not saying oh it's because he's asian, he's just saying he happened to be an asian.
What's next it's discrimination to say "please take it to the women at the counter" we now have to say "please take it to the person at the counter".
How about this example:
Bruce: We're going out to a restaraunt, wnat to come?
Shelly: Which one?
Bruce: The Vietnamese one on the corner.
Shelly: FUCK YOU RACIST!
Bruce: Woah, what did I say?
Shelly storms off, Bruce is left standing there confused.
It would of been different if Bruce had said that gook place in chink town, that would be racist.
People also seem to of forgotten that you could buy 21" CRT's that could run 2048x1536@75Hz 10 years ago.
I bought a couple of newer 21" monitors second hand a few months back, and they kick the shit out of any LCD's I've seen.
I still wouldn't mind having one of those Samsung/Sharp 30" displays though.
Hint: Apple don't make LCD's so obviously the same display, possibly in a different case, is available OEM.
Just like my IBM P275 21" CRT's, they're actually Sony displays AFAICT (Haven't opened them, but they're definitely FD trinitron).
It's just such a shame that you can't buy new CRT's anymore, as I haven't seen anything under $5000NZ (~$3000US), that compares favourably to my $200NZ CRT's (second hand of course).
I think I'll start stockpiling them, so that I don't have to buy an LCD until they actually have the dynamic range and clarity of a good CRT.
Around the same time as slashdot gets rid of trolls, thaat is to say, never.
Well, I personally love my HDD's long data retention. If I'm lucky it might retain my data for 10 years. Then again it might fail 1 week after purchase. .....
Oh log retention, yes well that doesn't make a whole lot of sense... Except when it does.
I really wish Linux had a fossilfs like Plan9 that stored all changes chronologically. Kind of like Subversion on 'roids.
And no I'm not in favour of my ISP logging huge amounts of data about me, on the other hand I would be quite grateful if they kept reasonable amounts of logs of routing tables, I'm not sure what logging IP addresses means, surely they aren't logging every host I connect to, that would be insane.
Oh well, I can't even remember why I started this post, I guess that means I don't hav every good data retention...
Unfortunately that doesn't qualify as lossless compression.
Imperceptible loss on the other hand...
If you're using *nix you might want to look at using the nip2 frontend with the VIPS system (vips.sf.net?), It's freakin' brilliant for working with enormous images, as it only processes the pixel data that is actually needed for the operation, for example a preview of a filter only operates on the pixels that are actually visible.
I've loaded up 8GB images before and worked with them in near realtime. It's pretty impressive stuff, and includes an enormous number of filters, and is designed for batch/semi-batch operations.
There's also a guide online for using it for producing infared scan composites which could probably applied to what you want to do.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, first of all, shame on you, everyone has 5 1/4 inch drives.
Secondly swap is invaluable when running large multiuser application servers.
Yes swap will kill your web server, probably your file server too, but when it comes to user applications where a large proportion of them will be suspended at any one time, I'm not going to put 16G of ram in a server when 8G and 8G of swap is perfectly sufficient. For instance a user leaves a browser open at some page for 4 days, it's not doing anything, but without swap it's going to use maybe 500MB of ram (Firefox is a pig), I'd much rather have it swapped out, and have the user suffer a slight delay to retrieve their app when they finally decide they want to use it.
I don't know if I'm missing something here, but why is there so many articles on /. about Serenity.
It's not like the film was good, infact it sucked hard.
Well how do you get your password for online banking.
It's (snail)mailed out to you, then you login and change it.
I don't see the difference between this and mailing you a key.
And yes i know them mailing personal authentication data to you is horrendously insecure, but that's not the point.
The real advantage to PKI is that you can set up the encryption prior to the exchange of authentication data, which makes application design much easier.
I did say it is much slower. also I think there is some tool which does disk backups by sector but hashes them and only updates if the sector has changed.
YOU ARE A DUMBASS.
You *can't* get open source firmware for HDDs, and I doubt you can get opensource firmware for Video Cards.
The password for the hidden shares is the password for Administrator.
You can't spell, you display blatant factual errors, and you imply that you have a job(US), but I seriously doubt that someone with as little knowledge about reality as you could accomplish such a feat.
I Don't buy it.
Hotmail uses SSL certs, so even if he did fake it, you'd have to be some kind of dumbass to authenticate without SSL.
Mind you most people are dumbasses so I could see how it would work.
This is the case for all programs that save your password. They may try and obfuscated it but it is still going to be readable.
The only way to save your password securely would be to have a master password which decrypts the password database (Firefox does this).
There is very few places with free health care for non-citizens.
We have state-subsidized health-care in New Zealand, but it is only available to New Zealand (and NZ protectorates) and Australian (some kind of bi-lateral agreement) citizens.
Mostly it points the same way as the screen, but I've seen quite a few which have two cameras one at each side (I'm guessing CMOS sensors must be pretty cheap these days).
Well, you can use DD and nc instead of rsync to copy the disks, but it's *much* slower.
You thought wrong.
Ever seen BumFights/Crazy White Boys, enormouse fights like these seem common worldwide.
It's what happens when you get a whole lot of teenagers together who's lives (they think anyway) are shit, and get them shitfaced.
You could do what I plan to do (when I get round to it ;) and only encrypt swap, /home, and any other places you keep important data, and leave /usr, /opt, /music, /movies and any other places which hold unimportant data unencrypted (I could go either way on /etc and /var).
But I guess you'd have to do your amorak trick slightly differently...