All the blacklists I know have a tendency to block entire ISPs rather than just the ranges known to generate spam, if they think the ISP isn't taking sufficient action against its spammers or spambot infected customers. Blacklists and whitelists are useful, but I wouldn't use them as the sole indicator of whether or not an email is spam.
Spyglass wrote it. Spyglass licensed Mosaic from the NCSA, but Spyglass Mosaic was a from-scratch implementation. Spyglass then licensed their from-scratch implementation to Microsoft for a percentage of direct sales, which turned out to be a very unfair deal, since IE was never sold.
Company moved into a new, larger building. The server room had a heating vent leading into it, and no A/C. They solved it by clogging the vent with a bag full of shredded paper and cutting a hole in the wall to install a small consumer single-room air conditioner.
File serving in non-server editions of Windows is capped to 10 connections. 5 in home editions. IIS also has a 10 connection limit, though you can bump it up to 40.
My last debian install failed to configure grub, installing it to the MBR but nothing more. I made the lazy mistake of installing the final release using an older testing release of the netinstall cd I had downloaded earlier, and there was a change in where it put grub-install. So the system wouldn't boot after the debian install was complete. My solution was to figure out how to boot using the grub command line, which basically involved typing in exactly what ought to have been in the config file. After I booted I was able to configure it properly, typing in the same thing again. But I had the luck of having a second system with a working grub config for reference. I was also surprised that grub had an auto-complete feature, so I didn't have to guess the kernel and initrd paths. And there was inline help. And I had two other systems at my desk I could use to search online. It wasn't fun (apart from being educational), but it wasn't a brick either.
Most NAS appliances run Samba on Linux. If you know how to administer it, it makes a great Windows-compatible file server. Fast, cheap, reliable, scalable, and flexible.
But I get what you're saying. A couple years ago I helped out a small company that had maybe 5-8 desktops and a FreeBSD server. The previous consultant had installed it over the top of their Windows 2000 server, which they say had been crashing a lot. Everything seemed fine after that, but years later, it just stopped working. They couldn't access their files. The original consultant was long gone, so they called a Windows-only consultant who tried for days to learn how to work with it, who finally gave up and called me. It turned out that the original consultant made the mistake of binding samba to a specific ip address, and having the server obtain its ip address using dhcp. After its address finally changed (took a while), the server became inaccessible. I fixed the problem and installed SWAT and Webmin so they could administer it somewhat in the future without learning to use FreeBSD, and charged them $20 for my time.
A short while back I saw a small office with maybe 10 desktops and 3 servers, one of which had 11 hard disks. I didn't pay close attention to the other two. I know they didn't use them for much.
Some Linux players have this issue too if they use xv (which uses an overlay) for video output. If you can configure Windows Media Player not to use hardware acceleration (not sure if they still have this option, it's been a while), it'll render to screen instead of a scaled overlay, and you can take a screenshot. It's more an unfortunate side-effect of overlays than a DRM feature, though it makes DRM easier to implement.
A fun trick with overlays is to take a screenshot, paste it into mspaint, and let the video play behind the mspaint window. The video will show though the screenshot.
I saw his article, and decided I'll believe it when I see it. They have no reason to degrade the wrong video, or make the entire screen blurry. That'd actually be a heck of a lot harder to do than to just do it right and degrade only the protected video, and would serve no purpose.
You could be right, but we don't know that such a bug exists yet. I try not to attack MS with unsubstantiated speculation very often.
It's probably correct to assume that if they try to decode a protected file that has downsampling enabled to anything but a private overlay buffer in video memory, it'll be downsampled regardless of their hardware. Or at least that's how I'd write it. I haven't read much into it. If the company gets permission to use a protected video clip, they'd probably want to obtain an unprotected copy before working with it. The protected copy would look alright when they play it, but appear downsampled in their final product.
I should add that I switched to Linux in early 2004. I support the right to use DRM like I support the right to commit suicide. If publishers want to cut off their revenue with stupid restrictions then let them.
DRM is a just tool for content producers. Unprotected media should be entirely unaffected by it. I'd be surprised if the quality reduction wasn't an opt-in feature that only applies to protected media where the producer chooses to enable it. I haven't used it, but I doubt Vista can or would try to prevent an app from decoding and displaying an unprotected video in full quality.
They have many keys now, one for each model of player. I don't remember the exact terminology, but the player private keys are used to decrypt the disk key stored on the disk. There are many copies of the disk key, each encrypted with a different player's public key. If they want to revoke a player, they just don't include a copy of the disk key encrypted with that player's public key on future disks. So that player can play old disks, but they'll need to replace it to play new disks.
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"from the blacklists-in-general-are-like-this dept."
That about sums it up.
All the blacklists I know have a tendency to block entire ISPs rather than just the ranges known to generate spam, if they think the ISP isn't taking sufficient action against its spammers or spambot infected customers.
Blacklists and whitelists are useful, but I wouldn't use them as the sole indicator of whether or not an email is spam.
I'm guessing that burned DVD's won't last as long as pressed DVD's, as is true with CD's.
Having only 28k transistors, I imagine they could really make an 8086 that fast.
Spyglass wrote it. Spyglass licensed Mosaic from the NCSA, but Spyglass Mosaic was a from-scratch implementation. Spyglass then licensed their from-scratch implementation to Microsoft for a percentage of direct sales, which turned out to be a very unfair deal, since IE was never sold.
Company moved into a new, larger building. The server room had a heating vent leading into it, and no A/C. They solved it by clogging the vent with a bag full of shredded paper and cutting a hole in the wall to install a small consumer single-room air conditioner.
7000 rupees is about $150 USD right? That's not cheap at all. Not for XP volume licensing. Not in India. Not in the US.
I use shexview to find and disable unwanted shell extensions.
File serving in non-server editions of Windows is capped to 10 connections. 5 in home editions. IIS also has a 10 connection limit, though you can bump it up to 40.
My last debian install failed to configure grub, installing it to the MBR but nothing more. I made the lazy mistake of installing the final release using an older testing release of the netinstall cd I had downloaded earlier, and there was a change in where it put grub-install. So the system wouldn't boot after the debian install was complete. My solution was to figure out how to boot using the grub command line, which basically involved typing in exactly what ought to have been in the config file. After I booted I was able to configure it properly, typing in the same thing again. But I had the luck of having a second system with a working grub config for reference. I was also surprised that grub had an auto-complete feature, so I didn't have to guess the kernel and initrd paths. And there was inline help. And I had two other systems at my desk I could use to search online. It wasn't fun (apart from being educational), but it wasn't a brick either.
It worked fine with Linux. He couldn't get the Promise controller to work with Windows. That was the problem.
Most NAS appliances run Samba on Linux. If you know how to administer it, it makes a great Windows-compatible file server. Fast, cheap, reliable, scalable, and flexible.
But I get what you're saying. A couple years ago I helped out a small company that had maybe 5-8 desktops and a FreeBSD server. The previous consultant had installed it over the top of their Windows 2000 server, which they say had been crashing a lot. Everything seemed fine after that, but years later, it just stopped working. They couldn't access their files. The original consultant was long gone, so they called a Windows-only consultant who tried for days to learn how to work with it, who finally gave up and called me. It turned out that the original consultant made the mistake of binding samba to a specific ip address, and having the server obtain its ip address using dhcp. After its address finally changed (took a while), the server became inaccessible. I fixed the problem and installed SWAT and Webmin so they could administer it somewhat in the future without learning to use FreeBSD, and charged them $20 for my time.
It was a new system. He bought it with a 40gb because the configuration page didn't allow him to omit the hard drive altogether.
A short while back I saw a small office with maybe 10 desktops and 3 servers, one of which had 11 hard disks. I didn't pay close attention to the other two. I know they didn't use them for much.
Some Linux players have this issue too if they use xv (which uses an overlay) for video output. If you can configure Windows Media Player not to use hardware acceleration (not sure if they still have this option, it's been a while), it'll render to screen instead of a scaled overlay, and you can take a screenshot. It's more an unfortunate side-effect of overlays than a DRM feature, though it makes DRM easier to implement.
A fun trick with overlays is to take a screenshot, paste it into mspaint, and let the video play behind the mspaint window. The video will show though the screenshot.
That would have been disappointing even if you got it working.
I saw his article, and decided I'll believe it when I see it. They have no reason to degrade the wrong video, or make the entire screen blurry. That'd actually be a heck of a lot harder to do than to just do it right and degrade only the protected video, and would serve no purpose.
Select a bogus source language and it makes a good proxy for reading blocked sites, unless they block that too.
I made an embarrassing typo. "DRM is just a tool"
You could be right, but we don't know that such a bug exists yet. I try not to attack MS with unsubstantiated speculation very often.
It's probably correct to assume that if they try to decode a protected file that has downsampling enabled to anything but a private overlay buffer in video memory, it'll be downsampled regardless of their hardware. Or at least that's how I'd write it. I haven't read much into it. If the company gets permission to use a protected video clip, they'd probably want to obtain an unprotected copy before working with it. The protected copy would look alright when they play it, but appear downsampled in their final product.
I should add that I switched to Linux in early 2004. I support the right to use DRM like I support the right to commit suicide. If publishers want to cut off their revenue with stupid restrictions then let them.
DRM is a just tool for content producers. Unprotected media should be entirely unaffected by it. I'd be surprised if the quality reduction wasn't an opt-in feature that only applies to protected media where the producer chooses to enable it. I haven't used it, but I doubt Vista can or would try to prevent an app from decoding and displaying an unprotected video in full quality.
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I can open them in OpenOffice and Gnumeric just fine.
What bugs me is their Microsoft Active Directory integration requirement. What does that have to do with disk encryption?
They have many keys now, one for each model of player. I don't remember the exact terminology, but the player private keys are used to decrypt the disk key stored on the disk. There are many copies of the disk key, each encrypted with a different player's public key. If they want to revoke a player, they just don't include a copy of the disk key encrypted with that player's public key on future disks. So that player can play old disks, but they'll need to replace it to play new disks.