Re:Problems I have with Mozilla 1.3
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Mozilla 1.4 Released
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Theres the fantasy world on little spec whitesheets and RFCs.
And then theres the reality. IE is the only browser that works.
And you can get all righteous about the hows and wherefores and how its a bad thing.
But to any non-technical user who just wants to see the box scores on ESPN, or read the latest headlines, or check his savings account - all that matters is that "this shit dont work".
Fuck standards, make a product that works in real life, not on paper.
Until then open source projects will always be labelled as second rate by the masses.
Oh but its my hardware and i have a right to do what i want with it and.
Microsoft would be well served to release an official linux bootloader. The whole linux-on-xbox angle is a front to sell the mod chips.
"Hey, this mod is for linux not copying games for free!"
Microsoft could put an end to that bogus claim.
Of course they'd have to tweak it somehow so that the bios couldnt be flashed. Which I'm not sure is possible. So I guess this is "Hey MS publish an easy way for us to pirate our warez or we'll do it the hard way!"
Whatever. The xbox is a piece of crap game-wise anyways. It's been two years and still Halo is really the only worthwhile exclusive title.
Easier than what? Booting a game and picking a save file?
You only have to do it once, flash your bios, and that's that.
Unless they found a way to flash the bios without shorting the WE pads (ie; without opening the box), I wont be impressed. It's just a variation on a theme.
They come off like script kiddies. Threatening people with anothers skills/products.
The hack isnt fake. The hack is old and well known. It involves running the game 007, and using a doctored gamesave to reset the system and boot linux. Then you can flash the bios.
So they found another variant of it, in another game, or some such. Big deal.
Just a bunch of loudmouth attention seeking idiots, making the legitimate hacking scene look like dirtbags.
Muir says the release of the claimed series of exploits, one of which is in the Xbox Dashboard utility, factory-installed on the Xbox hard drive, could be disastrous for games companies intent on preventing piracy. If genuine, the exploits would let anyone with even a slight technical knowledge "reflash" the Xbox BIOS, allowing users to pirate games. The only hardware modification necessary is a dollop of solder on the write-enable pads on the motherboard.
This can already be done, with the well-known 007 savegame exploit, even discussed here on slashbot.
What a crappy excuse for extortion. "Do what I say, or else I'll tell everyone something they already know!"
Sorry, but it's a lame ass gimmick. It's halfway cute in a gameboy game. A lame gimmick for anything else.
So to scroll up, I tilt the handheld so that I'm outside of the screens viewing angle. Uh huh. And all because cursor keys / direction pads / styluses are hard hard hard to use.
Re:helping the handicapped illegal?
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Hacking the XBox
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Helping the handicapped is a goal or a motive. You can have whatever goals you want, be it helping old ladies play Halo or killing all kittens.
Reverse engineering is a means to that end. There's no law against helping the handicapped. Thats just idiotic FUD.
It's not illegal to want to kill all kittens, but it is illegal to drive around shooting them out of your car window.
Re:Looks like an interesting book.
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Hacking the XBox
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You can modify hardware you buy. You cant buy something and turn it into an illegal device, though.
You can buy a handgun, but you cant modify it to be fully automatic, for instance.
There's absolutely no law that says you can't splice a USB keyboard onto your xbox controller. Thats just a knee-jerk reaction of the reviewers.
Couldnt this have been reviewed by someone whos not a knee-jerk reactionary idiot? What a bunch of tripe.
Tip: If you wanted to develop some sort of controller for the handicapped, you can go right ahead - legally.
So all in all, is the book informative? Is there any neat technical information that would be of interest to anyone? Or is it a pseudo-politacal RMS-like diatribe about "big gub'ment and how Micro$oft is t eh suck".
Whats with case modders and fans? Seriously, some ventilation is important, but 4 80mm fans venting straight up?
Just a lot of noise for nothing, unless he plans on turning it upside down and using it as a personal hovercraft.
The paint job is pretty disgusting too. Looks like something that fell out of Santas Workshop (by workshop I mean lower colon).
I guess all in all it's a neat mod job. I was thinking of doing something similar with some old 21" vivitrons I "salvaged" from work. Though in my case I could fit a flexATX form factor board (like one of Shuttle's spacewalkers) in there, with a HDTV tuner card with component inputs, and have a little 21" HDTV media doodad.
You leave your photograph in every store you go to, every public washroom you enter, every highway you drive on.
You're captured on film at least a dozen times a day. At least I am (and other people who go outside).
It's a lot less work to have a computer scan the tapes for the same face than to send crews to dust for fingerprints over the entire planet multiple times daily.
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Mr Juarez?
As in hot 0-day Juarez?
Thats ironic.
Theres the fantasy world on little spec whitesheets and RFCs.
And then theres the reality. IE is the only browser that works.
And you can get all righteous about the hows and wherefores and how its a bad thing.
But to any non-technical user who just wants to see the box scores on ESPN, or read the latest headlines, or check his savings account - all that matters is that "this shit dont work".
Fuck standards, make a product that works in real life, not on paper.
Until then open source projects will always be labelled as second rate by the masses.
There is a smaller printer, and michael knows all about it.
It's used to print the label on his jockstraps.
Yes it is! You are WRONG michael.
This IS the worlds smallest printer.
Because I say so.
It's the same thing, guaranteed. With another game. Probably with the GameShark.
In any case, it means you have to open the box up to solder the WE pads. Then you flash. Thats it. You only need to do it once.
They have nothing.
Btw, I read the article, and it described the 007 hack. Which works on MechWarrior and no doubt countless other games.
Oh but its my hardware and i have a right to do what i want with it and .
Microsoft would be well served to release an official linux bootloader. The whole linux-on-xbox angle is a front to sell the mod chips.
"Hey, this mod is for linux not copying games for free!"
Microsoft could put an end to that bogus claim.
Of course they'd have to tweak it somehow so that the bios couldnt be flashed. Which I'm not sure is possible. So I guess this is "Hey MS publish an easy way for us to pirate our warez or we'll do it the hard way!"
Whatever. The xbox is a piece of crap game-wise anyways. It's been two years and still Halo is really the only worthwhile exclusive title.
Easier than what? Booting a game and picking a save file?
You only have to do it once, flash your bios, and that's that.
Unless they found a way to flash the bios without shorting the WE pads (ie; without opening the box), I wont be impressed. It's just a variation on a theme.
They come off like script kiddies. Threatening people with anothers skills/products.
I was thinking more along the lines of:
"Reveal the location of the rebel base, or witness the true power of this facility."
Or whatever the line is.
The hack isnt fake. The hack is old and well known. It involves running the game 007, and using a doctored gamesave to reset the system and boot linux. Then you can flash the bios.
So they found another variant of it, in another game, or some such. Big deal.
Just a bunch of loudmouth attention seeking idiots, making the legitimate hacking scene look like dirtbags.
Muir says the release of the claimed series of exploits, one of which is in the Xbox Dashboard utility, factory-installed on the Xbox hard drive, could be disastrous for games companies intent on preventing piracy. If genuine, the exploits would let anyone with even a slight technical knowledge "reflash" the Xbox BIOS, allowing users to pirate games. The only hardware modification necessary is a dollop of solder on the write-enable pads on the motherboard.
This can already be done, with the well-known 007 savegame exploit, even discussed here on slashbot.
What a crappy excuse for extortion. "Do what I say, or else I'll tell everyone something they already know!"
Umm, there's already an exploit that needs no mod (the 007 gamesave thingy).
.05% of people who buy xboxes to modify them for linux.
So big freakin deal? These guys sound like idiots.
Whatever they know will be found out by others anyways. I seriously doubt MS cares about the
Hell for every guy who buys an xbox only for linux, theres a hundred like me who'll buy a dozen games or so.
It's funny how much power nerds think they have. They have about as much pull as pee wee herman.
Whats the difference between portrait and landscape on a square screen, like my Palm integrated phone?
Yeah it'll revolutionize the industry like the power glove, or the motion fighter thing for psx
Awesome-a power!
What a lame ass gimmick.
Sorry, but it's a lame ass gimmick. It's halfway cute in a gameboy game. A lame gimmick for anything else.
So to scroll up, I tilt the handheld so that I'm outside of the screens viewing angle. Uh huh. And all because cursor keys / direction pads / styluses are hard hard hard to use.
Helping the handicapped is a goal or a motive. You can have whatever goals you want, be it helping old ladies play Halo or killing all kittens.
Reverse engineering is a means to that end. There's no law against helping the handicapped. Thats just idiotic FUD.
It's not illegal to want to kill all kittens, but it is illegal to drive around shooting them out of your car window.
You can modify hardware you buy. You cant buy something and turn it into an illegal device, though.
You can buy a handgun, but you cant modify it to be fully automatic, for instance.
There's absolutely no law that says you can't splice a USB keyboard onto your xbox controller. Thats just a knee-jerk reaction of the reviewers.
Couldnt this have been reviewed by someone whos not a knee-jerk reactionary idiot? What a bunch of tripe.
Tip: If you wanted to develop some sort of controller for the handicapped, you can go right ahead - legally.
So all in all, is the book informative? Is there any neat technical information that would be of interest to anyone? Or is it a pseudo-politacal RMS-like diatribe about "big gub'ment and how Micro$oft is t eh suck".
More interesting is how much McBride bought before this whole pump n dump thing started.
The power supply got hot, IIRC it was internal.
Of course, such was the fashion of the day. I saw many a commodore meltdown.
There wasnt enough silicon in those old timer things to generate any appreciable heat.
Umm, slashbot buzzword of the year... WiFi
Whats with case modders and fans? Seriously, some ventilation is important, but 4 80mm fans venting straight up?
Just a lot of noise for nothing, unless he plans on turning it upside down and using it as a personal hovercraft.
The paint job is pretty disgusting too. Looks like something that fell out of Santas Workshop (by workshop I mean lower colon).
I guess all in all it's a neat mod job. I was thinking of doing something similar with some old 21" vivitrons I "salvaged" from work. Though in my case I could fit a flexATX form factor board (like one of Shuttle's spacewalkers) in there, with a HDTV tuner card with component inputs, and have a little 21" HDTV media doodad.
Bullshit.
You leave your photograph in every store you go to, every public washroom you enter, every highway you drive on.
You're captured on film at least a dozen times a day. At least I am (and other people who go outside).
It's a lot less work to have a computer scan the tapes for the same face than to send crews to dust for fingerprints over the entire planet multiple times daily.
Noone cares where you go to take a dump.
We hardly care about stuff like that in the tech industry. Not when there are buzzwords like "wifi" or "honeypot" to be bandied about.
Virtual machines and honeypots and linux and blah blah blah blah
I refuse to read anything "by Niggle".
Tolkein can promote his white power agenda elsewhere, the dirty scum skinhead nazi sympathiser.
You do know he betrayed the allies during WWII, dont you?
Realize the tech industry dwarfs the entertainment industry.
Plus its good PR.