Only they use the hymn hack to ENCRYPT their unencrypted AAC, as opposed to the other way around... wait... yes... I said that right. Thus the AAC becomes fairplay, and it works on the iPod while simultaneously appeasing the RIAA or whoever is worried about P2P and other scary ideas.
... you can always fill this out and take a look at it yourself. Of course, you can't distribute or sell a product with that technology seperate from "Helix DNA" unless you work something out with them.
They are just using the trick playfair (now hymn) used... figure out how to ask the iPod for your user keys, try all of them until one decrypts the priv atom in a m4p file, and decrypt the data stream with the key therein. It's just standard AES (128-bit Rijandel). The trick was figuring out how keys are managed. And lucky for Real, all that groundwork was already done for them. Then they could just pull your user keys from your iPod and encrypt your downloads with those on THEIR music site. Easy peasy.
Hate to break it to you, but no store-brand anything is reverse engineered by the store. It's almost always a competetors version of some product (or even the market leader's), just with a different label on it. They save on shipping and packaging, get lucrative agreements with vendors, and the store makes up for decreased margins with volume.
Most drives and standards associated with storage media (filesystems, etc.) use the concept of sectors, which are 512 bytes. Moreover many file systems store and manipulate blocks of approximately the page size of the operating system using it, usually 4096 or 8192 bytes. It is good if these units can be represented exactly in kb, and that the size of the drives themselves are expressed in these multiples, just so that you can figure out exactly how many of these structures you can expect to fit on the media.
They're supposed to come out with their SATA line of powervaults that will be considerably cheaper, while simultaneously doubling their storage density.
They're heading that way already... they are pushing SATA hot swap in the rackmount servers and the NAS devices.
An even better deal than the XRaid. You get 12 SATA drives in 2U, dual Ultra320 SCSI or 2GB FC, 100mbit management port, built in webserver, SNMP mgmt, powered by a 600MHz Xscale CPU. Totally rocks. You can score a 12x300GB unit for 10k, less if you omit FC or get multiple units (under 8k). Combine with a Relion/Altus head end, and you got some serious shit right there.
I _love_ my iHP 140 to death. Check this... I hooked it up to my *nix box, USB 2.0 external hard drive. I _repartitioned_ it. Then I set up FAT32 on part 1, and ext2 of part2, marked part 2 bootable. I put my music on the first part, and I can boot my Dell machines at work into a rescue disk on partition 2.
I should have written it off as a business expense! Hahaha...
And you know what? The Apple types get all snooty about the wheel and the controls on the iPod... well, I'm quite fond of the navigation using the three toggle switches on the remote. The "hold means back/cancel/up" thing was a really good idea. And two seperate hold switches for the remote and the unit itself... very useful.
...must have never heard of FPGAs. That's where supercomputing is REALLY headed. Vector processing is a specific application in that sense... as is "a bunch of FFTs" or maybe a dedicated MPEG2 block encoder.
That's the beauty. You architect the local hardware to better implement a large task.
I don't think the article author realized this, but the introduction of WinFS will not change the storage layer underneath, which will be the exact same version of NTFS that Windows XP/Server 2003 is using. So the filesystem PROPER won't change. However, there will be new features and services added that couple NTFS to a dedicated "Jet" instance which will discover, store, and search meta-data about these files. That part and the associated APIs is WinFS.
Considering ReiserFS is just about as featureful as NTFS is, why do we need a new file system again?
And let's not forget, even lowly ext2 supports POSIX attributes and ACLs... so really there's no excuse.
I think pushing to make sure all the modern FSs (ext2/3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, NFSv4) adhere to the POSIX extended attribs API in Linux is a good first step, so that you can then make Gnome/KDE take advantage of them in more cases.
Dude, Intel's got it's own OpenFirmware like doohickey already for the Itanium, it's called EFI.
Anyway, it's really simple. The processors will assert different "core-type" lines, which will control which ROM is memory-mapped to the default EIP pointer at boot time. I mean, Intel processors already signal their allowed clocking speeds by pins right now. Hell, they're probably different in x86-32 and Itanium, so they could both "be active" all the time, jumping to the appropriate memory-mapped physical address (both of which would be mapped at power-on to their own ROMs) and there'd be no need for an option line.
Because I can tell you why Parallel port printer cables rarely come with el-cheapo printers... because they're really expensive to make! They have like 13 pairs of solid conductors twisted up in there, all needing near-identical lengths to avoid "smearing"... it's not like a 4-wire USB cable. SCSI cables are the same way...
You'll note that a ribbon version of an IDE or SCSI cable is much cheaper. This is because the lengths of all the wires are pretty much guaranteed to be the same when you punch down the connector and trim off the end... this is much harder to do in an extracted, rounded cable.
RCA is actually (one of many) brands that Thomson Multimedia sells stuff under in the states. Included under the umbrella as well are Acoustic Research and Jensen. RCA ceased being a manufacturing companies in the 80s... Radio Shack was actually selling Thomson under the Optimus moniker. But it was also selling Koss equipment too under that name (headphones come to mind).
We are currently getting a Power Connect 5224 for less than an SMC 8624T at CDW or PC Connection, which is nice. I think the Dell firmware is a little more polished.
(I mention this because I pointed this similarity out earlier... also note D-Link and Netgear sell these Accton switches too)
I'm having a SERIOUSLY hard time beating the "Savage" on normal mode with two different characters so far. Am I just some kind of moron or what? The only thing I haven't tried is fooling around with that mermaid naiad...
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Only they use the hymn hack to ENCRYPT their unencrypted AAC, as opposed to the other way around... wait... yes ... I said that right. Thus the AAC becomes fairplay, and it works on the iPod while simultaneously appeasing the RIAA or whoever is worried about P2P and other scary ideas.
... you can always fill this out and take a look at it yourself. Of course, you can't distribute or sell a product with that technology seperate from "Helix DNA" unless you work something out with them.
They are just using the trick playfair (now hymn) used... figure out how to ask the iPod for your user keys, try all of them until one decrypts the priv atom in a m4p file, and decrypt the data stream with the key therein. It's just standard AES (128-bit Rijandel). The trick was figuring out how keys are managed. And lucky for Real, all that groundwork was already done for them. Then they could just pull your user keys from your iPod and encrypt your downloads with those on THEIR music site. Easy peasy.
Hate to break it to you, but no store-brand anything is reverse engineered by the store. It's almost always a competetors version of some product (or even the market leader's), just with a different label on it. They save on shipping and packaging, get lucrative agreements with vendors, and the store makes up for decreased margins with volume.
And you paid upwards of $5000 for that pansy thing? You can that from Dell for $4500... and that's not even trying to find a better deal.
Most drives and standards associated with storage media (filesystems, etc.) use the concept of sectors, which are 512 bytes. Moreover many file systems store and manipulate blocks of approximately the page size of the operating system using it, usually 4096 or 8192 bytes. It is good if these units can be represented exactly in kb, and that the size of the drives themselves are expressed in these multiples, just so that you can figure out exactly how many of these structures you can expect to fit on the media.
They're supposed to come out with their SATA line of powervaults that will be considerably cheaper, while simultaneously doubling their storage density.
They're heading that way already... they are pushing SATA hot swap in the rackmount servers and the NAS devices.
An even better deal than the XRaid. You get 12 SATA drives in 2U, dual Ultra320 SCSI or 2GB FC, 100mbit management port, built in webserver, SNMP mgmt, powered by a 600MHz Xscale CPU. Totally rocks.
You can score a 12x300GB unit for 10k, less if you omit FC or get multiple units (under 8k). Combine with a Relion/Altus head end, and you got some serious shit right there.
I _love_ my iHP 140 to death. Check this... I hooked it up to my *nix box, USB 2.0 external hard drive. I _repartitioned_ it. Then I set up FAT32 on part 1, and ext2 of part2, marked part 2 bootable. I put my music on the first part, and I can boot my Dell machines at work into a rescue disk on partition 2.
I should have written it off as a business expense! Hahaha...
And you know what? The Apple types get all snooty about the wheel and the controls on the iPod... well, I'm quite fond of the navigation using the three toggle switches on the remote. The "hold means back/cancel/up" thing was a really good idea. And two seperate hold switches for the remote and the unit itself... very useful.
...must have never heard of FPGAs. That's where supercomputing is REALLY headed. Vector processing is a specific application in that sense... as is "a bunch of FFTs" or maybe a dedicated MPEG2 block encoder.
That's the beauty. You architect the local hardware to better implement a large task.
I don't think the article author realized this, but the introduction of WinFS will not change the storage layer underneath, which will be the exact same version of NTFS that Windows XP/Server 2003 is using. So the filesystem PROPER won't change. However, there will be new features and services added that couple NTFS to a dedicated "Jet" instance which will discover, store, and search meta-data about these files. That part and the associated APIs is WinFS.
Considering ReiserFS is just about as featureful as NTFS is, why do we need a new file system again?
And let's not forget, even lowly ext2 supports POSIX attributes and ACLs... so really there's no excuse.
I think pushing to make sure all the modern FSs (ext2/3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, NFSv4) adhere to the POSIX extended attribs API in Linux is a good first step, so that you can then make Gnome/KDE take advantage of them in more cases.
Dude, Intel's got it's own OpenFirmware like doohickey already for the Itanium, it's called EFI.
Anyway, it's really simple. The processors will assert different "core-type" lines, which will control which ROM is memory-mapped to the default EIP pointer at boot time. I mean, Intel processors already signal their allowed clocking speeds by pins right now. Hell, they're probably different in x86-32 and Itanium, so they could both "be active" all the time, jumping to the appropriate memory-mapped physical address (both of which would be mapped at power-on to their own ROMs) and there'd be no need for an option line.
Because I can tell you why Parallel port printer cables rarely come with el-cheapo printers... because they're really expensive to make! They have like 13 pairs of solid conductors twisted up in there, all needing near-identical lengths to avoid "smearing"... it's not like a 4-wire USB cable. SCSI cables are the same way...
You'll note that a ribbon version of an IDE or SCSI cable is much cheaper. This is because the lengths of all the wires are pretty much guaranteed to be the same when you punch down the connector and trim off the end... this is much harder to do in an extracted, rounded cable.
are Honda, and the Korean ones (Hyundai, Kia... but not even Daewoo).
Everybody is cross breeding up the wazoo into three general camps... General Motors/Fuji/Toyota, Ford, and Daimer-Chrysler.
RCA is actually (one of many) brands that Thomson Multimedia sells stuff under in the states. Included under the umbrella as well are Acoustic Research and Jensen. RCA ceased being a manufacturing companies in the 80s...
Radio Shack was actually selling Thomson under the Optimus moniker. But it was also selling Koss equipment too under that name (headphones come to mind).
We are currently getting a Power Connect 5224 for less than an SMC 8624T at CDW or PC Connection, which is nice. I think the Dell firmware is a little more polished.
(I mention this because I pointed this similarity out earlier... also note D-Link and Netgear sell these Accton switches too)
Compare:
SMC TigerSwitch 8624T
Dell PowerConnect 5224
NetGear GSM7324
DLink DGS-3324SR
Well, that's all of them, except for Linksys, which is just rebranded Cisco equipment.
And of course, they all use COMPLETELY DIFFERENT firmware. Lovely.
I think I see pigs flying outside... and Satan's cold.
Now shut the fuck up; QED.
and I guess Green Hills management never heard of the deadliness of a compiler backdoor as explained by Thompson.
I'm having a SERIOUSLY hard time beating the "Savage" on normal mode with two different characters so far. Am I just some kind of moron or what? The only thing I haven't tried is fooling around with that mermaid naiad...
And at less than 1mW? That's nothing. A laser pointer is more damaging to the eye.
In the cutscenes? Who's that little girl and her dog???
Hehehe... so, I'm a LV3 knight... how about you