Nice response of the plaintiff in the "joined letter" on page 10 where they are asked to provide details of the investigative methods used to obtain the IP address and screenshots. They talk about lots of things in detail that aren't really relevant and than basically skip over what was really asked:
They provide lots of details on how to use Kazaa (go to a website, download the program, click this button, then that button, select entry from list X, yadda yadda) to "connect with like-minded infringers" and lots of whining about how "them be exponentially stealing perfect copies of teh precioussss".
Followed by: "We logged on to Kazaa and then did stuff like making screenshots like everybody could do.
And we saw him do bad things, oh yes we did.
Or go and ask Media Sentry to get additional non-answers because that's all top secret business stuff you wouldn't understand anyway."
Or is the german government going to force ISPs(which they have a large say in one of the largest ones, Telekom) to block access to gmail? No. The users won't be blocked from anything, but if you run a company (branch) in Germany that offers telecommunication services you are required to log everything and keep those logs for at least six months.
That's why privacy advocats and the other people with brains who are opposed to the directive had support from the IT lobby - because telcos are the ones who have to pay (the millions and millions) required for creating and running this surveillance infrastructure.
Ask Microsoft Germany why pre-built PCs don't have "normal" Windows CDs anymore, but only recovery CDs/partitions and the hologram-license-thingee bolted to the case in a way that it is (supposed to be) destroyed if the buyer wants to remove it. No, not really because of piracy.
AFAIK: Because EULA restrictions like prohibiting the resale of the pre-installed software (or the transfer to another PC, e.g. if you wanted to sell or keep using the no longer needed Windows of the PC that you tossed out) were ruled as not binding for the end user. The legal situation in Germany is, that, if you buy a PC from some shop, your business partner is the shop and only the shop - and not MS or some other software company whose software comes with the PC. => To be binding for the buyer, additional restrictions in EULAs of pre-installed software have to be part of the contract between the buyer and the shop (the buyer's business partner). If e.g. MS wants the EULA to have weight, it would have to require "recursively" each OEM and retailer down to the end users to make the EULA part of the contract each time Windows is (re-)sold. "Thats 900 bucks and a signature here for agreeing to those 100 pages of legalese that I will read and explain to you now. Or 850 bucks without Windows; you will probably manage to get a copy from somewhere else.."
Nice side effect of transferable OEM Windows licenses: Companies - often buying new PCs when the old ones are written off - can not only donate old hardware to schools/charities, but also spare windows licenses for PCs that were donated without an OS or that were assembled from donated parts; that was great for schools when lots of companies rolled out XP and had no use for the NT or 2000 licenses anymore. The institution managing the "computers in every class room" program was quite happy to offer a central place for collecting and distributing them. (I guess MS wasn't too pissed by that because schools using PCs with donated Windows/Office licenses is still better than schools with 100% Linux/Openoffice solutions, creating a user base used to OSS software and file formats)
Isn't the salt mean to be kept as secure as a non salted password hash? Otherwise you still know you need to reverse hash(salt+password), just like without salt when you needed to reverse hash(password).
I believe a random salt is just meant to make dictionary attacks unattractive, to remove the danger by (already existing) "md5-hash -> plain text" libraries.
You also can't tell by simply looking at a list of salted hashes that multiple people use the same password.
Real world example(s): while developing a big app, we created a dummy test user and everybody and his dog knew his very simple password.
Later some more test users (e.g. with differnet privileges) where added by random developers or sales people.
Looking at the user table in the DB (with unsalted passwords) you could see who was lazy and picked that dummy user's password for their "own" user(s).
I also witnessed something like that in a network with shared administration that had - for various reasons - some default "maintenance" account that everybody knew the password of.
For shits and giggles (well, to find weak passwords, actually) we let a password cracker run over the password file; turned out that about 10% of the people had used that "maintenance" password for their user account.
Only by not knowing the salt (i.e. that any password you hash isnt going to match the stored hash unless it happens to be the unknown salt+password) would you be trying the harder task of reversing hash(?????password) into salt+password.
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand that sentence.
Do you mean brute-forcing the salted hashes is more difficult than the unsalted ones and that therefore the salt needs to be kept secret?
If so: the salt doesn't change anything about the computational difficulty; not more than simply picking a longer password, that is.
In some aspects, the CSU is even further to the left than our socialdemocrats.
If you look at what they actually do, I don't think Germany has social democrats left.;-) At least not in the SPD, not since Schröder. so conservatives=>don't like immigrants doesn't sound right either
I was talking about immigration politics, not hate crime rates. "don't like immigrants" doesn't equal "beat up brown people"
And the parties/politicans that are against immigration or think that it is a good idea to send people born in Germany "back" to a country they have never seen are usually in CDU/CSU or nazi parties. And the same goes for a lot of the voters.
"law-and-order" hardliners, secretary of the interior is the biggest police and surveillance state supporter there is
"War on drugs", "War on terror", "Zero tolerance", "Glass.Parling.Lot" would really fly in Bavaria
the same party has had absolute majority in parliament since Bavaria was founded (hello cronyism and corruption)
that party is the most right-wing party in Germany (except for Neo-Nazi parties); actual slogan "To our right there mustn't be room for another party!"
"christian values" as in "Think of the children!" and "video games make our children violent"
The way to "solve" a social or criminal problem is: real solutions might cost money; instead we'll use more laws, harder punishment, prohibition of every morally bad thing we don't want to see. If the problems aren't visible, they are gone. To paraphrase a _leftie_ politican on the video game issue: "They support a ban of violent video games in case a game triggers some whacko kid to finally go out and kill someone. We would like to prevent the kid from becoming whacko in the first place."
Example: media reports about school children showing each other pornos and viloent video clips on their cellphones. Bavarian solution for the problem: ban cell phones at school
"traditional values": beer, sausage, Lederhosen isn't typical for Germany, it's typical for Bavaria
some common things with Texas might be
a "the rest of you states suck, we're better; in fact, we're basically independent"-mentality
conservative=>dislike of immigrants (Mexican border..)
gun nuts - lots of "traditional" hunting and gun clubs; the yearly "shooting fair" is the social highlight in every little town
"shoot first, ask questions later"
What the AC refers to is that many people in Bavaria will think of what happend as a good course of action. And that there won't be problems abusing state power for such a useless thing.
And that the main reason for those actions - including the use of riot police - is getting pictures that show
"We aren't like those soft leftie cowards, we're HARD on that issue. Don't mess with Texa..eh.. us! We're taking ACTION, something is done about it, don't worry, we'll keep you and your children save."
And also: "If we make enough noise about that school shooter playing Counterstrike, everybody will ignore the fact that he was in a gun club and that that was the reason that he was good at shooting and had access to the guns he used in the first place. Everybody shut up about that! Or someone might ask questions about stuff like why we want to further loosen gun control laws or lower the minimum age requirement for childrens to start using firearms!"
At the end of the street was a fresh water hand pump, for the houses without running water.
That's 100% BS.
Not the existance of the pumps, but the "houses without running water".
Those hand pumps are somewhat famous relics(*) and are still maintained - actually, they have to by law.
Those pumps are deep wells and were/are a water supply system for dire emergencies. There has to be a pump for every 1500 people.
(*)
Some of them are at least from the 19th century.
But IIRC the main reasons for their (continued) existance are probably WWII and the Cold War when West-Berlin was an "island" and a 100% self-supply infrastructure was built in case of a second blockade: power plants, water and waste treatment, several inner-city airports etc; for example, there still is a storage in use below the city that is able to hold 1 billion liters of natural gas
She'd queue up, and when she got to the front the store-keepers would just serve whoever was behind her. This happened frequently, in multiple shops (in Berlin).
Shenannigans.
I live in Berlin, have Turkish friends and have never seen or heard of something like that.
And the media and lawyers would be all over cases like that.
Did she shop at Nazis'R'Us or where?
Berlin is the largest Turkish city outside of Turkey.
Among the 3.4 million people (~14% foreigners) there are alone 120000 Turkish people registered as living in Berlin.
And those are only the ones without German passports. You can add several tens of thousands for 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant children or people who already obtained citizenship.
Chances aren't bad that the person in line behind you is also Turkish or of Turkish origin.
Depending on the district, that chance will be well above 50%.
What about identity *theft*. If I hack your computer and make a copy of your credit card numbers, SSN, and other identifying information, have I stolen anything?
If you don't delete them, no.
You still have your identity, right?
No. Because it's only "identifying information" as long as it is unique.
I once had my hands on a VCR of an elementary school - it had no tuner for just that reason. They only use their equipment to show videos
I'm too lazy to look up the original wording but it goes something like "you don't have to pay if it is too big of a hassle to make $gizmo work as a receiver".
=> Pulling out the cable or "I don't own an antenna" isn't enough to avoid the fee, but ripping out the tuner is.
You also (or rather: especially) want to block www.google-analytics.com or more specific the script http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js that is used to track you by more and more sites these days.
And yes,/. uses it too. Just have a look the end of the source.
Well, if she's anything like a certain friend of mine: you have to show her the gimmicks and little games it usually comes with.
A friend of mine wanted to have Linux installed after she had seen/played xsnow, Shisen-Sho, KPatience, lately: ksudokuo, the possibility to have kde loop through a set of her favourite background pictures, that xine/mplayer played every crap without a "couldn't find codec xy" (e.g. xvid videos, ac3 sound), xmms being able to use her winamp skins, seeing how easy it is to write cool looking papers with lyx, etc...
I don't think she still uses it a lot - since her CIV III is for Windows..;-) - but she still uses it for watching movies, burnuing CDs, "safely" browsing the net or to open the occassional Office attachment with OpenOfficse (since she doesn't has MsOffice).
Kinda funny: the stuff that Linux does better (for her) is the same stuff the author of the article had problems with. Probably because her Office stuff isn't as complicated and I installed all that multimedia stuff for her. Well, and it was obvious to her that she won't be able to run the same software but use something else instead. [ Probably didn't miss Windows Media Player much because she lost all the music she had ripped with it after a Windows reinstall (cause WMP had ripped it with its default settings to DRMed wma files..) ]
Though I know some people that once in a while go there to shop for gifts or buy some specialities (foodwise) that you won't (easily) get elsewhere. Like the Weisswurst you mentioned.
Also: Weisswurst in Berlin? Heretic! You are supposed to eat Currywurst or Doener.;-)
The last times I went (both November 05; Harry Potter and Serenity) we had at least 45 minutes of commercials.
After having that happen on the (late!) showing of HP we bought and printed the tickets for Serenity via the cinema's wesite and scheduled our arrival at about half an hour after the "official" starting date, bought some snacks, made a trip to the bathroom and then had to sit "only" through 15 minutes of commercials and trailers.
I have yet to see a RPG that impresses me technically, plotwise and puzzlewise as much as "Ambermoon" by Thalion for the Amiga has.
Ambermoon on the Thalion Webshrine (files for Amiga emulators on the last page of the article).
Oooh, I remember reading a "complete walkthrough" (that won an award/money prize IIRC)in one game magazine that didn't even cover half of the game.
You could easily tell because the "complete list of NPCs for your party" didn't contain two key figures and didn't mention the place where you find one of them.
And without visiting that NPC and place (as there is a - literal - key item), there is no chance to ever get to the second part of the game that mostly takes place on two other worlds instead of the (only) one you know of up until then.
It was a little like "Fellowship of the Ring" ending on the gate to the mines of Moria because nobody could open the door.
I am still somewhat amazed that nobody cared about all the dangling storylines, hints or even that there were some islands/areas on the (included) map that he didn't figure out how to reach..
One more example -- Limewire 4.9 uses ~75MB of RAM with no transfers.
With Limewire one has (or had, it must have been a 1.x or 2.x version) another memory problem:
the number of shared files.
I once set an entire 20GB partition with probably between 5000 to 10000 files to "shared" and my computer was forced to its knees by Limewire using x-hundreds MB ofmemory.
My guess is that Limewire created a Java File object and a somewhat costly metadata/info/stats objects for each file it found. Also, every file had to be indexed&stuff for search queries.
He, and the first time I saw that movie was: In Latin class. Simply hilarious.
Only the one or two hardcore Pythonists of the thirty students had seen the movie before. => Class floored with laughter, evil grinning teacher saying something like "*sigh* Of, if only we were allowed to teach that way.."
A nice feature for dvd software players (maybe in dvdnav?) I would like to see:
A blacklist with movie hashsums. Most DVDs I own have the same "copying is stealing" spot before the disc menu.
Everytime your player encounters a "blacklisted" movie it would skip that title and play the next one. Maybe add a context menu entry "[un]block this title" for ease of use.
Or a simpler version: since some program (I guess xine) already creates a ~/dvdcss/ dir with data for each disc (probably a css key cache) one could simply add a property: "start playback for this disc title/menu number X". Add a "define as default title" context menu entry and say byebye to the annoying crap.
IIRC there are ffmpeg binaries for windows, though I doubt that this is the most comfortable way.
I tried DVD ripping using Win a couple of years ago, but the programs were either not stable (on my system) or you had to use a crapload of different programs for different tasks.
Program names I remember: TMPGEnc/Xmpeg, Smartripper, DVD2AVI, VirtualDub , Gordian Knot (IIRC a GUI that integrates some of the most popular programs needed for ripping, converting etc).
Though I must say I would recommend to use a Linux distro on another partition with "dvd::rip" as I found it to be the easiest program to use. Though the windows programs have surely gotten better now than six years ago;-)
At some time there even was a specialised "dvd::rip"-Linux CD out there so that you could pop the CD into a non-Linux box, reboot and rip.
The idea behind it was that you could use an "unused" (Windows) LAN (for example an office network after work hours), boot each computer with a copy of the CD and then use the "cluster mode" of dvd::rip to speed up the transcoding by distributing the workload across all "your" computers in the LAN.
Does anyone know if there still is such a project somewhere?
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Nice response of the plaintiff in the "joined letter" on page 10 where they are asked to provide details of the investigative methods used to obtain the IP address and screenshots.
They talk about lots of things in detail that aren't really relevant and than basically skip over what was really asked:
They provide lots of details on how to use Kazaa (go to a website, download the program, click this button, then that button, select entry from list X, yadda yadda) to "connect with like-minded infringers" and lots of whining about how "them be exponentially stealing perfect copies of teh precioussss".
Followed by:
"We logged on to Kazaa and then did stuff like making screenshots like everybody could do.
And we saw him do bad things, oh yes we did.
Or go and ask Media Sentry to get additional non-answers because that's all top secret business stuff you wouldn't understand anyway."
The users won't be blocked from anything, but if you run a company (branch) in Germany that offers telecommunication services you are required to log everything and keep those logs for at least six months.
That's why privacy advocats and the other people with brains who are opposed to the directive had support from the IT lobby - because telcos are the ones who have to pay (the millions and millions) required for creating and running this surveillance infrastructure.
Ask Microsoft Germany why pre-built PCs don't have "normal" Windows CDs anymore, but only recovery CDs/partitions and the hologram-license-thingee bolted to the case in a way that it is (supposed to be) destroyed if the buyer wants to remove it.
No, not really because of piracy.
AFAIK:
Because EULA restrictions like prohibiting the resale of the pre-installed software (or the transfer to another PC, e.g. if you wanted to sell or keep using the no longer needed Windows of the PC that you tossed out) were ruled as not binding for the end user.
The legal situation in Germany is, that, if you buy a PC from some shop, your business partner is the shop and only the shop - and not MS or some other software company whose software comes with the PC.
=> To be binding for the buyer, additional restrictions in EULAs of pre-installed software have to be part of the contract between the buyer and the shop (the buyer's business partner).
If e.g. MS wants the EULA to have weight, it would have to require "recursively" each OEM and retailer down to the end users to make the EULA part of the contract each time Windows is (re-)sold.
"Thats 900 bucks and a signature here for agreeing to those 100 pages of legalese that I will read and explain to you now. Or 850 bucks without Windows; you will probably manage to get a copy from somewhere else.."
Nice side effect of transferable OEM Windows licenses:
Companies - often buying new PCs when the old ones are written off - can not only donate old hardware to schools/charities, but also spare windows licenses for PCs that were donated without an OS or that were assembled from donated parts; that was great for schools when lots of companies rolled out XP and had no use for the NT or 2000 licenses anymore.
The institution managing the "computers in every class room" program was quite happy to offer a central place for collecting and distributing them. (I guess MS wasn't too pissed by that because schools using PCs with donated Windows/Office licenses is still better than schools with 100% Linux/Openoffice solutions, creating a user base used to OSS software and file formats)
Isn't the salt mean to be kept as secure as a non salted password hash? Otherwise you still know you need to reverse hash(salt+password), just like without salt when you needed to reverse hash(password).
I believe a random salt is just meant to make dictionary attacks unattractive, to remove the danger by (already existing) "md5-hash -> plain text" libraries.
You also can't tell by simply looking at a list of salted hashes that multiple people use the same password.
Real world example(s):
while developing a big app, we created a dummy test user and everybody and his dog knew his very simple password.
Later some more test users (e.g. with differnet privileges) where added by random developers or sales people.
Looking at the user table in the DB (with unsalted passwords) you could see who was lazy and picked that dummy user's password for their "own" user(s).
I also witnessed something like that in a network with shared administration that had - for various reasons - some default "maintenance" account that everybody knew the password of.
For shits and giggles (well, to find weak passwords, actually) we let a password cracker run over the password file; turned out that about 10% of the people had used that "maintenance" password for their user account.
Only by not knowing the salt (i.e. that any password you hash isnt going to match the stored hash unless it happens to be the unknown salt+password) would you be trying the harder task of reversing hash(?????password) into salt+password.
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand that sentence.
Do you mean brute-forcing the salted hashes is more difficult than the unsalted ones and that therefore the salt needs to be kept secret?
If so: the salt doesn't change anything about the computational difficulty; not more than simply picking a longer password, that is.
In some aspects, the CSU is even further to the left than our socialdemocrats. ;-)
If you look at what they actually do, I don't think Germany has social democrats left.
At least not in the SPD, not since Schröder.
so conservatives=>don't like immigrants doesn't sound right either
I was talking about immigration politics, not hate crime rates. "don't like immigrants" doesn't equal "beat up brown people"
And the parties/politicans that are against immigration or think that it is a good idea to send people born in Germany "back" to a country they have never seen are usually in CDU/CSU or nazi parties. And the same goes for a lot of the voters.
To paraphrase a _leftie_ politican on the video game issue: "They support a ban of violent video games in case a game triggers some whacko kid to finally go out and kill someone. We would like to prevent the kid from becoming whacko in the first place."
What the AC refers to is that many people in Bavaria will think of what happend as a good course of action.
And that there won't be problems abusing state power for such a useless thing.
And that the main reason for those actions - including the use of riot police - is getting pictures that show "We aren't like those soft leftie cowards, we're HARD on that issue. Don't mess with Texa..eh.. us! We're taking ACTION, something is done about it, don't worry, we'll keep you and your children save."
And also: "If we make enough noise about that school shooter playing Counterstrike, everybody will ignore the fact that he was in a gun club and that that was the reason that he was good at shooting and had access to the guns he used in the first place. Everybody shut up about that! Or someone might ask questions about stuff like why we want to further loosen gun control laws or lower the minimum age requirement for childrens to start using firearms!"
I'd probbably pick Utah.
That's probably closer to Bavaria than Texas due to the religious fundie factor.
It's not a coincidene that the pope is from Bavaria..
At the end of the street was a fresh water hand pump, for the houses without running water.
That's 100% BS.
Not the existance of the pumps, but the "houses without running water".
Those hand pumps are somewhat famous relics(*) and are still maintained - actually, they have to by law.
Those pumps are deep wells and were/are a water supply system for dire emergencies. There has to be a pump for every 1500 people.
(*) Some of them are at least from the 19th century. But IIRC the main reasons for their (continued) existance are probably WWII and the Cold War when West-Berlin was an "island" and a 100% self-supply infrastructure was built in case of a second blockade:
power plants, water and waste treatment, several inner-city airports etc;
for example, there still is a storage in use below the city that is able to hold 1 billion liters of natural gas
She'd queue up, and when she got to the front the store-keepers would just serve whoever was behind her. This happened frequently, in multiple shops (in Berlin).
Shenannigans.
I live in Berlin, have Turkish friends and have never seen or heard of something like that.
And the media and lawyers would be all over cases like that.
Did she shop at Nazis'R'Us or where?
Berlin is the largest Turkish city outside of Turkey.
Among the 3.4 million people (~14% foreigners) there are alone 120000 Turkish people registered as living in Berlin.
And those are only the ones without German passports. You can add several tens of thousands for 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant children or people who already obtained citizenship.
Chances aren't bad that the person in line behind you is also Turkish or of Turkish origin.
Depending on the district, that chance will be well above 50%.
What about identity *theft*. If I hack your computer and make a copy of your credit card numbers, SSN, and other identifying information, have I stolen anything? If you don't delete them, no. You still have your identity, right? No. Because it's only "identifying information" as long as it is unique.
..on the issue by Mozilla Foundation's executive director: Frank Hecker's blog
Here, that might be an interesting read for you.
Also, a list about German Katrina help (pdf from mid-September 2005) by the German embassy in the US.
I once had my hands on a VCR of an elementary school - it had no tuner for just that reason. They only use their equipment to show videos I'm too lazy to look up the original wording but it goes something like "you don't have to pay if it is too big of a hassle to make $gizmo work as a receiver". => Pulling out the cable or "I don't own an antenna" isn't enough to avoid the fee, but ripping out the tuner is.
You just read "Digital Fortress"?
My condolences and I'm glad to see you have recovered.
You also (or rather: especially) want to block www.google-analytics.com or more specific the script http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js that is used to track you by more and more sites these days.
/. uses it too. Just have a look the end of the source.
And yes,
Well, if she's anything like a certain friend of mine:
;-) - but she still uses it for watching movies, burnuing CDs, "safely" browsing the net or to open the occassional Office attachment with OpenOfficse (since she doesn't has MsOffice).
you have to show her the gimmicks and little games it usually comes with.
A friend of mine wanted to have Linux installed after she had seen/played xsnow, Shisen-Sho, KPatience, lately: ksudokuo, the possibility to have kde loop through a set of her favourite background pictures, that xine/mplayer played every crap without a "couldn't find codec xy" (e.g. xvid videos, ac3 sound), xmms being able to use her winamp skins, seeing how easy it is to write cool looking papers with lyx, etc...
I don't think she still uses it a lot - since her CIV III is for Windows..
Kinda funny: the stuff that Linux does better (for her) is the same stuff the author of the article had problems with.
Probably because her Office stuff isn't as complicated and I installed all that multimedia stuff for her.
Well, and it was obvious to her that she won't be able to run the same software but use something else instead.
[ Probably didn't miss Windows Media Player much because she lost all the music she had ripped with it after a Windows reinstall (cause WMP had ripped it with its default settings to DRMed wma files..) ]
seems like it was a rich person store.
;-)
The KaDeWe is mainly a tourist trap.
Though I know some people that once in a while go there to shop for gifts or buy some specialities (foodwise) that you won't (easily) get elsewhere.
Like the Weisswurst you mentioned.
Also: Weisswurst in Berlin? Heretic! You are supposed to eat Currywurst or Doener.
15 minutes of commercials before the trailers.
The last times I went (both November 05; Harry Potter and Serenity) we had at least 45 minutes of commercials.
After having that happen on the (late!) showing of HP we bought and printed the tickets for Serenity via the cinema's wesite and scheduled our arrival at about half an hour after the "official" starting date, bought some snacks, made a trip to the bathroom and then had to sit "only" through 15 minutes of commercials and trailers.
I have yet to see a RPG that impresses me technically, plotwise and puzzlewise as much as "Ambermoon" by Thalion for the Amiga has.
Ambermoon on the Thalion Webshrine (files for Amiga emulators on the last page of the article).
Oooh, I remember reading a "complete walkthrough" (that won an award/money prize IIRC)in one game magazine that didn't even cover half of the game.
You could easily tell because the "complete list of NPCs for your party" didn't contain two key figures and didn't mention the place where you find one of them.
And without visiting that NPC and place (as there is a - literal - key item), there is no chance to ever get to the second part of the game that mostly takes place on two other worlds instead of the (only) one you know of up until then.
It was a little like "Fellowship of the Ring" ending on the gate to the mines of Moria because nobody could open the door.
I am still somewhat amazed that nobody cared about all the dangling storylines, hints or even that there were some islands/areas on the (included) map that he didn't figure out how to reach..
I always wondered why Latin is used at all.
Wouldn't it be straightforward to simply use "f.e." for "for example"?
Don't forget to make sure that the last thing on tape isn't your target practice..
One more example -- Limewire 4.9 uses ~75MB of RAM with no transfers.
With Limewire one has (or had, it must have been a 1.x or 2.x version) another memory problem:
the number of shared files.
I once set an entire 20GB partition with probably between 5000 to 10000 files to "shared" and my computer was forced to its knees by Limewire using x-hundreds MB ofmemory.
My guess is that Limewire created a Java File object and a somewhat costly metadata/info/stats objects for each file it found. Also, every file had to be indexed&stuff for search queries.
He, and the first time I saw that movie was:
In Latin class. Simply hilarious.
Only the one or two hardcore Pythonists of the thirty students had seen the movie before.
=> Class floored with laughter, evil grinning teacher saying something like "*sigh* Of, if only we were allowed to teach that way.."
A nice feature for dvd software players (maybe in dvdnav?) I would like to see:
A blacklist with movie hashsums.
Most DVDs I own have the same "copying is stealing" spot before the disc menu.
Everytime your player encounters a "blacklisted" movie it would skip that title and play the next one.
Maybe add a context menu entry "[un]block this title" for ease of use.
Or a simpler version: since some program (I guess xine) already creates a ~/dvdcss/ dir with data for each disc (probably a css key cache) one could simply add a property: "start playback for this disc title/menu number X".
Add a "define as default title" context menu entry and say byebye to the annoying crap.
IIRC there are ffmpeg binaries for windows, though I doubt that this is the most comfortable way.
;-)
I tried DVD ripping using Win a couple of years ago, but the programs were either not stable (on my system) or you had to use a crapload of different programs for different tasks.
Program names I remember: TMPGEnc/Xmpeg, Smartripper, DVD2AVI, VirtualDub , Gordian Knot (IIRC a GUI that integrates some of the most popular programs needed for ripping, converting etc).
Though I must say I would recommend to use a Linux distro on another partition with "dvd::rip" as I found it to be the easiest program to use. Though the windows programs have surely gotten better now than six years ago
At some time there even was a specialised "dvd::rip"-Linux CD out there so that you could pop the CD into a non-Linux box, reboot and rip.
The idea behind it was that you could use an "unused" (Windows) LAN (for example an office network after work hours), boot each computer with a copy of the CD and then use the "cluster mode" of dvd::rip to speed up the transcoding by distributing the workload across all "your" computers in the LAN.
Does anyone know if there still is such a project somewhere?