Mplayer. http://www.mplayerhq.hu Plays everything you throw at it. Just install all the codes. Has packages for *nix and W32...
For WinZealots, try googling for "nimo codec pack", it'll plug all sorts of good codecs in for you to play just about everything and play it BETTER than M$ wants you to be able to play it.
Just don't download and install the latest M$ media player. It's DRM spyware and you'll wish you hadn't installed it. BAD... Windows media player 6 plays EVERYTHING you need if you install the nimo package..
"P.S. If you use a computer you are a pussy. A person who truely knows how things work would have been smart enough to build it themselves. Not go out and buy premanufactured hardware and part it together. A trained monkey could do that. But you should have fabricated your own hardware that you engineered, all from raw materials that you dug up out of the Earth yourself using tools that you designed and made. "
I can not do that because I don't have the resources to do that. It takes multi-million dollar tools and labs to construct electronic devices and you know that. I understand how they are made, have seen the processes, have toured plants and labs, and READ BOOKS. I am not a zealot that can recite from memory the exact instructions to build a computer from raw materials to desktop, but I have a basic understanding of how it was done.
I never said everyone should be a freaking expert in everything, I say people should have at least some minimal BASIC understanding of the things they deal with in life. You don't have to understand EVERYTHING about what makes your car tick but you should at least understand that metal parts need lubrication or they sieze up and stop working, IE, check the f*cking dipstick and put oil in the damn motor when it needs it and KNOW what happens if you don't!!
Same thing on computers, people should at least have some basic knowledge of the system, in that they can't just go batshit clicking "DELETE" whenever they feel like it and not have anything go wrong.
I'm just a third party IT consultant on the outside. I can only make recomendations, and I have. It's not up to me to implement them, nor do I have the power or right to implement them.
I'm there a lot doing work for them but I can only do what they authorize me to do. If it was within my power to do so, she would be offline and relegated to a pocket calculator and a pad of post it notes...
"They know what a program is and how to use it and they know how to install programs on windows"
Wow! I wish I knew some people like that! Everyone I have run into is a terrorist with a mouse, just waiting to terrorize the network. To them a mouse is a WMD. With a few clicks they can wreck havoc and bring the entire corporation to it's knee's in minutes.
One place I deal with has a person there we call "Miss clicky-click" and she's scary. She is hell bent to open everything, click on everything, change everything, all with ZERO comprehension of the consequences. When I go to work on their systems she runs over, looks over my shoulder and with a notepad writes down all the things that I do. Then she runs over to her box and tries what she saw me doing. Bad.. And she is the President's secretary so nobody can stop her. She's just flat out dangerous. She can screw up a network in seconds.
I've tried to convince them to take her system away from her, or at the very least secure the rest of the network from her but they don't want to. I dunno, go figure. I guess they like having me out there fixing her click-a-thons on a regular basis...
Why I am against this windows approach to Linux is that I think Linux should be kept different from Windows. It's not windows and it should not try to be windows.
People should set up a dual boot system if they need a learning curve or if they can afford to, setup a seperate PC to learn on. And but the dman books. With KDE 3.1 it's not hard at all to learn. As long as they don't panic and flail around like a fish out of water and click on everything they will be OK. If people would slow down a little and read the screen it will work fine for them. Maybe they should have someone a little more tech savvy help them out, install Linux for them and give them some start up pointers.
My dad was having HELL with windows 2000, it was a brand new, clean install on a brand new machine. Constant lock ups, BSOD's all sorts of problems. He was getting hammered with Klez in emails all day long, port attacks, it was just a bad experiance in general.
I told him, "Look, I know you don't want to hear this but if you really want to USE your computer and instead of FIGHTING your computer, let me install Linux on it"
He wasn't to thrilled with it but he said OK. I totally wiped out his windows install and put Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 on it. I got kppp to work with his winmodem, his scanner works, his printer, everything. When he picked it up from me I spent 15 minutes showing him the basics. He took it home and emailed me a few hours later that all was well. I talked to him today, about a week after he switched and he says it's great, he likes it a LOT now. He has NO problems anymore and he says it's really fast and rock solid. He's 67 and until a few weeks ago he was doing ebay and email (only) on a Pentium 1, 200mhz w/Win95 and was dead set that he was going to stick with it because it was what he was used to. Now he says he wished he had switched sooner.
A lot of people are stuck in their ways just because they are stubborn. My dad was. He's happy now, knowing that his computer troubles are behind him. He adjusted just fine when he realized that it was different and that he should expect it to be different. With that in mind, he took it upon himself to slow down and learn what's going on. He's still a n00b and will always be at n00b level but he did adjust. A few other people I know did equally as well and they are glad they made the change to Linux too. and *I'M* glad they made the switch because I was supporting them and having to cope with their windows problems and constant virus problems.
All in all, if people are wanting to switch to Linux they should do some reading up on it first (or find someone that can help them) before they install it and expect it to be the same as Windows because "it ain't windows baby!"
No, I *know* I'm by far not the smartest person around, by any means, there are many more people far smarter than I am. But there are many many more people that are far dumber than I am and those people always seem to end up in office jobs using computers when they have no business doing so. Many of them would be better suited being janitors or selling beer at a ball game.
But, I try to understand my world around me and how it works. Other people should too. Do you know how much money people could save by being able to do something so simple as replace a broken light switch? Or change the oil in their car? Damn, my grandmother couldn't even set her own WIND UP clocks twice a year at DST. That's pathetic.
Even some basic understanding of things would save not only the user some trouble but eveyrone else too. Case in point, "Bob" is a dumbass. Bob should be picking up trash with a pointy stick and a burlap sack but Bob knew someone and got a job in an office. Bob doesn't understand computers and when the computer doesn't understand what Bob wants it to do and gives Bob an error, Bob goes click happy and screws all sorts of things up. The more clicking Bob does, the worse things get. Then Bob, being a low brow, beats the crap out of the computer and breaks the mouse and CD drawer. So now someone has to come out and fix the computer and repair the file damage Bob did, all because Bob is a stupid bastard.
And the sad part is, there are a LOT of Bob's out there.. I'm an IT consultant. I know..
I used to work at a place (in the 80's) where we all carried large, high power Motorola walkie talkies. If you keyed one up near a PC you could hear the hard drive powering up and down, CLONK CLONK! (big full sized 5.5" drive, you know those cinder block sized drives from the 80's).
Some, if not most monitors would flip out, all sorts of nasty things would happen. We had to make sure we were at least 10 feet from a PC before keying up...
I beg to differ. I think people SHOULD know how things work. People seem to know which celebrity is bopping which celebrity, what they ate last, what their farts smell like, what color underwear they wear but they have no clue how to use a standard transmission, have no idea where oil or gas comes from beyond the pump, no idea what that big thing is under the hood and the vast majority have no idea how to even change a tire.
Dumb people do society no favors. They contribute nothing to the betterment of mankind. They are for the most part, burdens because others have to carry their burdens for them. If people would spend more time improving themselves and less time worrying about other poeple's business the world would be a better place and they would be better off as people and could actually contribute something to society.
We are here to better ourselves, not to be stupid cattle consumers. Do you want to go through live being a dumb consumer? Personally, I take everything I get apart and learn every thing I can about it. I *LIKE* learning, it's GOOD.
Just being dumb lemmings is a terrible waste. There is more to life than 24/7 parties, booze, football, TV... Work to better yourself and you help to make the world a better place. Ignorance is not beneficial to anyone...
"Anyone should be able to use a computer without knowing a damn thing about it"
No. Stupid people should not be allowed to use computers. People should know how to use computers, not how to click and drool. Stupid people sitting at a keyboard are hazards to the rest of the computing world. They wreck data, they spread viruses, the break hardware, they waste IT support time, they cost businesses money.
If stupid people were kept away from keyboards and stayed at home in front of a TV set where they belong and left the computing world to those that understand it, things would go smoother, there would be less computer problems,far less virus problems, much less IT support time wasted, and business would save a lot of money..
I fail to see why computers should be dumbed down for the dumb. It makes no sense.
Don't understand your computer?? Stick to your Playstation 2, and use your Gameboy as your PDA..
I think that prior to a story release/. could mirror the piddly little site and do us all a favor. Apparently/. has the pipe to cope.
Secondly, I want to see a device that will cook these assholes with that 400db, 6hz THUMP THUMP shit. These punks drive past my house and split my skull with that horrid shit. It's an invasion of MY PRIVACY. I don't want to hear that, I don't want to FEEL THAT. I want QUIET in my house. These sorry assholes think it's cute to thump that shit into my house and make ME suffer that trash.. I hope that it's causing them brain damage, like brain tumors and other nasty things.
I would pay BIG MONEY $$$$ for a device that I could aim at them and totally fry their stereos as they drive by, and I mean fry it beyond repair.
They deserve it. They are breaking the law and they deserve to be punished.
I read an article in an old early 50's magazine where they were warning people of the hazards of plastic. They knew then it would be a horrible problem.
Plastic lasts all but forever in the wild, in your house it lasts about 20 seconds. Nobody hardly recycles it. It fills the dumps, it blows everywhere, it's terrible.
I don't remember seeing too many brown paper bags blowing around before these damn things took over. Junk (toys, houseware, car parts, etc.) made of plastic is just plain junk, it breaks and goes to the dump because it can't be repaired.
Paper bags could be recycled and often were, and it was profitable to do so. Paper thrown away into a pile with other trash will break down. Wooden things will rot, metal things will rust or corrode away, glass can be recycled.
MOST things can be recycled however plastic seems to be the one thing that doesn't seem to make it to the recycle center very often. Plastic is about one of the worst things mankind has invented. The truth is that plastic is GREAT for the money counters. It's extremely cheap to make, it's almost FREE compared to using other materials thus they have an extremely high profit margin. Not to mention, repeat customers because people have to keep replacing the broken trash with more trash..
Ah yes, but the new Windows is *supposed* to protect you, remember?
The whole point of it is, if someone can get 60 seconds alone with your box, you're SOL.. And even if they can't get physical contact with your box, if they really want in, they will get in. There are a lot of ways. With all the miniture cameras out now, well, you know the rest of the story..
I used to sell Tempest PC's to the gubmint a number of years back and learned a few things about physical security in the process. They used isolated power supplies, fiber optic for any lans, faraday caged buildings and rooms, you name it.
And the really secured machines were DEEP underground in a faraday cage in a concrete bunker and ran on battery banks that were disconnected from the charge source before the systems were powered up. And to prevent tampering, guards were posted with M16's..
Now THAT was security.. They went from that, during the cold war, to losing hundreds of laptops in the post cold war era.. Some security eh??
If you don't maintain physical control of your box then you can not be certain of privacy and integrity of your data. Most people think that with the stupid password on their W2k or XP box that their stuff is private. Wrong. I can boot up Knoppix and your hard drive is mine to do with as I please. I can email your private data out, FTP it out, http upload it anywhere I want, burn it to a CD or RW, FTP it all into a laptop with an ethernet x-over cable, dump it to zip disks, I could go on and on.
A person that can get to a box in the middle of the night and has a few hours to spare can have a real playday with your box and a Knoppix CD. I've shown this to customers and they crap all over themselves when they discover that that dipstick password "security" is utterly useless. Knoppix+Windows box+ethernet+time alone=b0xen_0wnership..
Of course this is no concern to M$, they just care about you listening to music on your PC and paying per listen. And they have to stop those EVIL LINUX people from watching movies on their LINUX BOXES. All of these new proposals are not about security, they are about THEM controlling YOU..
That's correct. The RF wavelength it emits is so slow that it can only be recieved with a frequency counter that's been retrofitted with a DeLorean brand (tm) flux capacitor.
Hacking the IBM PC/XT and IBM DOS is no easy task..
Damn it! I just tore one of those apart last year. It was a dual 10 meg unit. The carts were like 8"x11"x1" or something near that. What a dog it was. But in it's day it was neat to have removable storage greater than a 1.2m floppy (that cost $9.50 each!)
OMG, that remind me of an accountant I used to know back in the PC/XT DOS 3.x days. He would run his programs with red text on a blue background. It was so freaking horrid it was like jabbing white hot corkscrews into your eyeballs and twisting them until your toes curled up..
I'll never forget that, it was bad. And I used to have to go work on this guys PC when it would screw up. I couldn't take it. He LIKED it and claimed it stopped over the shoulder spying...
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Mplayer. http://www.mplayerhq.hu
Plays everything you throw at it. Just install all the codes. Has packages for *nix and W32...
For WinZealots, try googling for "nimo codec pack", it'll plug all sorts of good codecs in for you to play just about everything and play it BETTER than M$ wants you to be able to play it.
Just don't download and install the latest M$ media player. It's DRM spyware and you'll wish you hadn't installed it. BAD...
Windows media player 6 plays EVERYTHING you need if you install the nimo package..
I was expecting to see GTA3 on one of the screens.
*That* would worry me...
I have the entire site gzipped into a single 5.1meg file.
Where can I upload it for someone to mirror or torrent??
I am not setup to run a torrent server..
before it get's /.'ed
How do I put it up as a bitTorrent now??
I can gzip into a single file but I don't know how to start it up for bitTorrent. I have BT and know how to download torrents..
Let's beat the rush and torrent sites in the future..
I like this idea.
This is retarded. Put the guy on a short yellow bus and push it off the pier.
This guy is just yanking the chains of the system.
Some people know how to work the system, this guy is justing taking it off on a different angle..
He wants *special* attention. That's all there is to it..
"P.S. If you use a computer you are a pussy. A person who truely knows how things work would have been smart enough to build it themselves. Not go out and buy premanufactured hardware and part it together. A trained monkey could do that. But you should have fabricated your own hardware that you engineered, all from raw materials that you dug up out of the Earth yourself using tools that you designed and made. "
I can not do that because I don't have the resources to do that. It takes multi-million dollar tools and labs to construct electronic devices and you know that.
I understand how they are made, have seen the processes, have toured plants and labs, and READ BOOKS. I am not a zealot that can recite from memory the exact instructions to build a computer from raw materials to desktop, but I have a basic understanding of how it was done.
I never said everyone should be a freaking expert in everything, I say people should have at least some minimal BASIC understanding of the things they deal with in life. You don't have to understand EVERYTHING about what makes your car tick but you should at least understand that metal parts need lubrication or they sieze up and stop working, IE, check the f*cking dipstick and put oil in the damn motor when it needs it and KNOW what happens if you don't!!
Same thing on computers, people should at least have some basic knowledge of the system, in that they can't just go batshit clicking "DELETE" whenever they feel like it and not have anything go wrong.
Damn!!
I'm just a third party IT consultant on the outside.
I can only make recomendations, and I have.
It's not up to me to implement them, nor do I have the power or right to implement them.
I'm there a lot doing work for them but I can only do what they authorize me to do. If it was within my power to do so, she would be offline and relegated to a pocket calculator and a pad of post it notes...
"You're a bit bitter. I hope you're at least in your late 50's to early 60's. Sounds like you need to retire...or at least a long vacation. "
LOL!!! If Bob would quit breaking shit maybe I could take a vacation!!
"They know what a program is and how to use it and they know how to install programs on windows"
Wow! I wish I knew some people like that!
Everyone I have run into is a terrorist with a mouse, just waiting to terrorize the network. To them a mouse is a WMD. With a few clicks they can wreck havoc and bring the entire corporation to it's knee's in minutes.
One place I deal with has a person there we call "Miss clicky-click" and she's scary. She is hell bent to open everything, click on everything, change everything, all with ZERO comprehension of the consequences. When I go to work on their systems she runs over, looks over my shoulder and with a notepad writes down all the things that I do. Then she runs over to her box and tries what she saw me doing. Bad.. And she is the President's secretary so nobody can stop her. She's just flat out dangerous. She can screw up a network in seconds.
I've tried to convince them to take her system away from her, or at the very least secure the rest of the network from her but they don't want to. I dunno, go figure.
I guess they like having me out there fixing her click-a-thons on a regular basis...
Why I am against this windows approach to Linux is that I think Linux should be kept different from Windows. It's not windows and it should not try to be windows.
People should set up a dual boot system if they need a learning curve or if they can afford to, setup a seperate PC to learn on. And but the dman books. With KDE 3.1 it's not hard at all to learn. As long as they don't panic and flail around like a fish out of water and click on everything they will be OK. If people would slow down a little and read the screen it will work fine for them.
Maybe they should have someone a little more tech savvy help them out, install Linux for them and give them some start up pointers.
My dad was having HELL with windows 2000, it was a brand new, clean install on a brand new machine. Constant lock ups, BSOD's all sorts of problems.
He was getting hammered with Klez in emails all day long, port attacks, it was just a bad experiance in general.
I told him, "Look, I know you don't want to hear this but if you really want to USE your computer and instead of FIGHTING your computer, let me install Linux on it"
He wasn't to thrilled with it but he said OK.
I totally wiped out his windows install and put Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 on it. I got kppp to work with his winmodem, his scanner works, his printer, everything.
When he picked it up from me I spent 15 minutes showing him the basics. He took it home and emailed me a few hours later that all was well.
I talked to him today, about a week after he switched and he says it's great, he likes it a LOT now. He has NO problems anymore and he says it's really fast and rock solid. He's 67 and until a few weeks ago he was doing ebay and email (only) on a Pentium 1, 200mhz w/Win95 and was dead set that he was going to stick with it because it was what he was used to. Now he says he wished he had switched sooner.
A lot of people are stuck in their ways just because they are stubborn. My dad was. He's happy now, knowing that his computer troubles are behind him. He adjusted just fine when he realized that it was different and that he should expect it to be different. With that in mind, he took it upon himself to slow down and learn what's going on.
He's still a n00b and will always be at n00b level but he did adjust. A few other people I know did equally as well and they are glad they made the change to Linux too.
and *I'M* glad they made the switch because I was supporting them and having to cope with their windows problems and constant virus problems.
All in all, if people are wanting to switch to Linux they should do some reading up on it first (or find someone that can help them) before they install it and expect it to be the same as Windows because "it ain't windows baby!"
No, I *know* I'm by far not the smartest person around, by any means, there are many more people far smarter than I am. But there are many many more people that are far dumber than I am and those people always seem to end up in office jobs using computers when they have no business doing so. Many of them would be better suited being janitors or selling beer at a ball game.
But, I try to understand my world around me and how it works. Other people should too. Do you know how much money people could save by being able to do something so simple as replace a broken light switch? Or change the oil in their car? Damn, my grandmother couldn't even set her own WIND UP clocks twice a year at DST. That's pathetic.
Even some basic understanding of things would save not only the user some trouble but eveyrone else too.
Case in point,
"Bob" is a dumbass. Bob should be picking up trash with a pointy stick and a burlap sack but Bob knew someone and got a job in an office. Bob doesn't understand computers and when the computer doesn't understand what Bob wants it to do and gives Bob an error, Bob goes click happy and screws all sorts of things up. The more clicking Bob does, the worse things get. Then Bob, being a low brow, beats the crap out of the computer and breaks the mouse and CD drawer. So now someone has to come out and fix the computer and repair the file damage Bob did, all because Bob is a stupid bastard.
And the sad part is, there are a LOT of Bob's out there..
I'm an IT consultant. I know..
I used to work at a place (in the 80's) where we all carried large, high power Motorola walkie talkies. If you keyed one up near a PC you could hear the hard drive powering up and down, CLONK CLONK! (big full sized 5.5" drive, you know those cinder block sized drives from the 80's).
Some, if not most monitors would flip out, all sorts of nasty things would happen. We had to make sure we were at least 10 feet from a PC before keying up...
ROTFLMAO!!!
Be sure to record it and put the divx up on the web for us to all laugh at!!
I beg to differ. I think people SHOULD know how things work. People seem to know which celebrity is bopping which celebrity, what they ate last, what their farts smell like, what color underwear they wear but they have no clue how to use a standard transmission, have no idea where oil or gas comes from beyond the pump, no idea what that big thing is under the hood and the vast majority have no idea how to even change a tire.
Dumb people do society no favors. They contribute nothing to the betterment of mankind. They are for the most part, burdens because others have to carry their burdens for them. If people would spend more time improving themselves and less time worrying about other poeple's business the world would be a better place and they would be better off as people and could actually contribute something to society.
We are here to better ourselves, not to be stupid cattle consumers. Do you want to go through live being a dumb consumer? Personally, I take everything I get apart and learn every thing I can about it. I *LIKE* learning, it's GOOD.
Just being dumb lemmings is a terrible waste. There is more to life than 24/7 parties, booze, football, TV...
Work to better yourself and you help to make the world a better place. Ignorance is not beneficial to anyone...
HAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait for halloween now!!! Oh man, that's sweet revenge. Any asshole that runs over it deserves whatever damage they get...
Good job, mod this one up as informative!
I would call troll on this but you are right..
There are a LOT of people that have no business driving..
Booyeah! Another troll disarmed..
"Anyone should be able to use a computer without knowing a damn thing about it"
No. Stupid people should not be allowed to use computers. People should know how to use computers, not how to click and drool.
Stupid people sitting at a keyboard are hazards to the rest of the computing world. They wreck data, they spread viruses, the break hardware, they waste IT support time, they cost businesses money.
If stupid people were kept away from keyboards and stayed at home in front of a TV set where they belong and left the computing world to those that understand it, things would go smoother, there would be less computer problems,far less virus problems, much less IT support time wasted, and business would save a lot of money..
I fail to see why computers should be dumbed down for the dumb. It makes no sense.
Don't understand your computer?? Stick to your Playstation 2, and use your Gameboy as your PDA..
I think that prior to a story release /. could mirror the piddly little site and do us all a favor. Apparently /. has the pipe to cope.
Secondly, I want to see a device that will cook these assholes with that 400db, 6hz THUMP THUMP shit. These punks drive past my house and split my skull with that horrid shit. It's an invasion of MY PRIVACY. I don't want to hear that, I don't want to FEEL THAT. I want QUIET in my house. These sorry assholes think it's cute to thump that shit into my house and make ME suffer that trash..
I hope that it's causing them brain damage, like brain tumors and other nasty things.
I would pay BIG MONEY $$$$ for a device that I could aim at them and totally fry their stereos as they drive by, and I mean fry it beyond repair.
They deserve it. They are breaking the law and they deserve to be punished.
or does this smack of M$ windows???
I read an article in an old early 50's magazine where they were warning people of the hazards of plastic. They knew then it would be a horrible problem.
Plastic lasts all but forever in the wild, in your house it lasts about 20 seconds.
Nobody hardly recycles it. It fills the dumps, it blows everywhere, it's terrible.
I don't remember seeing too many brown paper bags blowing around before these damn things took over. Junk (toys, houseware, car parts, etc.) made of plastic is just plain junk, it breaks and goes to the dump because it can't be repaired.
Paper bags could be recycled and often were, and it was profitable to do so. Paper thrown away into a pile with other trash will break down. Wooden things will rot, metal things will rust or corrode away, glass can be recycled.
MOST things can be recycled however plastic seems to be the one thing that doesn't seem to make it to the recycle center very often.
Plastic is about one of the worst things mankind has invented. The truth is that plastic is GREAT for the money counters. It's extremely cheap to make, it's almost FREE compared to using other materials thus they have an extremely high profit margin. Not to mention, repeat customers because people have to keep replacing the broken trash with more trash..
fsck plastic...
Ah yes, but the new Windows is *supposed* to protect you, remember?
The whole point of it is, if someone can get 60 seconds alone with your box, you're SOL..
And even if they can't get physical contact with your box, if they really want in, they will get in.
There are a lot of ways. With all the miniture cameras out now, well, you know the rest of the story..
I used to sell Tempest PC's to the gubmint a number of years back and learned a few things about physical security in the process.
They used isolated power supplies, fiber optic for any lans, faraday caged buildings and rooms, you name it.
And the really secured machines were DEEP underground in a faraday cage in a concrete bunker and ran on battery banks that were disconnected from the charge source before the systems were powered up. And to prevent tampering, guards were posted with M16's..
Now THAT was security.. They went from that, during the cold war, to losing hundreds of laptops in the post cold war era.. Some security eh??
If you don't maintain physical control of your box then you can not be certain of privacy and integrity of your data. Most people think that with the stupid password on their W2k or XP box that their stuff is private. Wrong. I can boot up Knoppix and your hard drive is mine to do with as I please.
I can email your private data out, FTP it out, http upload it anywhere I want, burn it to a CD or RW, FTP it all into a laptop with an ethernet x-over cable, dump it to zip disks, I could go on and on.
A person that can get to a box in the middle of the night and has a few hours to spare can have a real playday with your box and a Knoppix CD. I've shown this to customers and they crap all over themselves when they discover that that dipstick password "security" is utterly useless.
Knoppix+Windows box+ethernet+time alone=b0xen_0wnership..
Of course this is no concern to M$, they just care about you listening to music on your PC and paying per listen. And they have to stop those EVIL LINUX people from watching movies on their LINUX BOXES. All of these new proposals are not about security, they are about THEM controlling YOU..
That's correct. The RF wavelength it emits is so slow that it can only be recieved with a frequency counter that's been retrofitted with a DeLorean brand (tm) flux capacitor.
Hacking the IBM PC/XT and IBM DOS is no easy task..
Damn it!
I just tore one of those apart last year. It was a dual 10 meg unit. The carts were like 8"x11"x1" or something near that. What a dog it was. But in it's day it was neat to have removable storage greater than a 1.2m floppy (that cost $9.50 each!)
I guess I should have waited....
Oh well..
OMG, that remind me of an accountant I used to know back in the PC/XT DOS 3.x days.
He would run his programs with red text on a blue background. It was so freaking horrid it was like jabbing white hot corkscrews into your eyeballs and twisting them until your toes curled up..
I'll never forget that, it was bad. And I used to have to go work on this guys PC when it would screw up. I couldn't take it. He LIKED it and claimed it stopped over the shoulder spying...
The only way to stop this is to use "Tempest" grade equipment.
Notice that newer BIOSes have an option for "use spread spectrum"?? That's supposed to be a lame attempt to cut down on RF emissions.
And with all the newer plastic cases they make now, well, give it up..
The only truly secure computer is an isolated computer buried in a concrete bunker 100 feet below the surface of the earth.
Then again, my old 5160 w/ IBM DOS 2.10 is pretty darned secure...