Are you allowed to perform hardware modifications or is this merely a software thing. I would think that a mod chip is probably at least needed to get past micro$oft's test of palladium.
Well, the/.ing is complete. We have knocked their entire site offline (not just the cgi server handling removal requests). I hope their software isn't dependent on being able to contact their site, otherwise they're going to have quite a problem. Hooray for the/. effect, it ought to get their attention.
If the DRM is based on security through obscurity, it should be fairly easy to reverse engineer. I mean, it's not like binary is unreadable, algorithms are recoverable, it's just that they are not likely to be in their original state, but it will work nonetheless.
I have a friend named Pascal. I'm not sure if he was acutally named after the mathematician, but in a similar vein would be Euler (which everybody is sure to mispronounce), Riemann, Dirac, ,...
Well, as I recall from reading a previous post, in which the editor stated something along the lines of NYTIMES (registration required... mumble... mutter) Somebody replied stating that in the future, any two words placed after the words registration required had better be a username and password, and he stated that he had actually registered uname=mumble, passwd=mutter with NYT. I may have the uname and passwd mixed up, but go ahead and try it.
Actually, we do have museums here at berkeley. This stuff just isn't worth putting in the museums. For example, there is a display of microscopes, with some dating back to the times of hooke and galileo.
I'm a Berkeley student and working at the labs here for the summer, and we do in fact throw most of the stuff out. However, things have to be accounted for before being discarded. However, the really old stuff is still sitting around. In fact, there's a really old particle accelerator sitting in one of the hallways in the physics building. I'm not sure if it still works, and it's dusty as hell, but it's pretty neat looking.
Windows 2000 and XP have a way to remap keys through the registry. While it's not exactly easy, you can run it through a script. Microsoft describes how to do it here
In fact, M$ already has a product that does this, it's called the XBox. M$ even owns the patents as to how to do this. Look at the article on this topic from a couple of days ago, and you'll see that they already have a system on which only M$ signed products can run. In fact, it requires installing a mod-chip to run anything else. I don't think the average computer user is going to be willing to install a mod-chip on their computer to be able to run open source.
-Ja das ist und OS.sig
Heck, at that point, give up cd's and stuff. Games might as well just be shipped on HD's. Plug in the drive, mount it, and you're ready to go. Of course, if Micro$haft has anything to say about it, 97% of your Terabyte of space will be taken up by Winblows.
I don't know about you, but 20Gb goes pretty fast, i mean, once you start dual or triple booting (I've had up to 4 OS's on my system at once). That, and any av takes up tons of space.
While this may not be the best article or the best source, it definitely addresses an issue that we have been pointing out here at/. for the past forever. At least they printed the article.
GNU/Linux is actually crashable. I did it recently while trying to set up XWindows. The keyboard locked up, the mouse flew to the top-right corner of the screen, and everything decided to stop working. Had to restart the entire computer.
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Are you allowed to perform hardware modifications or is this merely a software thing. I would think that a mod chip is probably at least needed to get past micro$oft's test of palladium.
.sig, what's that?
If you're going to go with liquid cooling, you have to go with liquid nitrogen. Don't settle for anything less.
.sig, what's that?
Well, the /.ing is complete. We have knocked their entire site offline (not just the cgi server handling removal requests). I hope their software isn't dependent on being able to contact their site, otherwise they're going to have quite a problem. Hooray for the /. effect, it ought to get their attention.
.sig, what's that?
As it turns out, I did have the uname and passwd reversed.
If the DRM is based on security through obscurity, it should be fairly easy to reverse engineer. I mean, it's not like binary is unreadable, algorithms are recoverable, it's just that they are not likely to be in their original state, but it will work nonetheless.
.sig, what's that?
I have a friend named Pascal. I'm not sure if he was acutally named after the mathematician, but in a similar vein would be Euler (which everybody is sure to mispronounce), Riemann, Dirac, , ...
Well, as I recall from reading a previous post, in which the editor stated something along the lines of NYTIMES (registration required ... mumble ... mutter) Somebody replied stating that in the future, any two words placed after the words registration required had better be a username and password, and he stated that he had actually registered uname=mumble, passwd=mutter with NYT. I may have the uname and passwd mixed up, but go ahead and try it.
.Sig, what's that?
Actually, we do have museums here at berkeley. This stuff just isn't worth putting in the museums. For example, there is a display of microscopes, with some dating back to the times of hooke and galileo.
.sig anyways
Who needs a
A slide rule was used for calculating logs and exponentials, back way before slashdot was ever around.
.Sig? Who needs a .sig
I'm a Berkeley student and working at the labs here for the summer, and we do in fact throw most of the stuff out. However, things have to be accounted for before being discarded. However, the really old stuff is still sitting around. In fact, there's a really old particle accelerator sitting in one of the hallways in the physics building. I'm not sure if it still works, and it's dusty as hell, but it's pretty neat looking.
.sig now open source
This
Windows 2000 and XP have a way to remap keys through the registry. While it's not exactly easy, you can run it through a script. Microsoft describes how to do it here
In fact, M$ already has a product that does this, it's called the XBox. M$ even owns the patents as to how to do this. Look at the article on this topic from a couple of days ago, and you'll see that they already have a system on which only M$ signed products can run. In fact, it requires installing a mod-chip to run anything else. I don't think the average computer user is going to be willing to install a mod-chip on their computer to be able to run open source. -Ja das ist und OS .sig
Heck, at that point, give up cd's and stuff. Games might as well just be shipped on HD's. Plug in the drive, mount it, and you're ready to go. Of course, if Micro$haft has anything to say about it, 97% of your Terabyte of space will be taken up by Winblows.
-OS sig, contribute here
I don't know about you, but 20Gb goes pretty fast, i mean, once you start dual or triple booting (I've had up to 4 OS's on my system at once). That, and any av takes up tons of space.
-OS sig, contribute here
While this may not be the best article or the best source, it definitely addresses an issue that we have been pointing out here at /. for the past forever. At least they printed the article.
Thank goodness they at least fixed it in 2000, otherwise, I'd be a lot more rushed to get my linux install working properly.
GNU/Linux is actually crashable. I did it recently while trying to set up XWindows. The keyboard locked up, the mouse flew to the top-right corner of the screen, and everything decided to stop working. Had to restart the entire computer.