When I was at the University of SC in 2004, they required you to install the Cisco Clean Access software which checked to make sure you were running the school provided AV and had all your windows updates among other things. I hated the school AV (mcafee) because it constantly had false positives on items on my computer and would delete without prompting. It gave no option to quarantine, ignore, etc...just delete. I noticed that if you didn't have the Cisco Clean Access software installed and tried to browse, you were given a web portal login for your school network credentials, very similar to the actual Cisco Win32 software. After logging in you were prompted to download the Cisco software via the web portal along with McAfee and whatever else. I noticed in the school policy that Mac's and Linux clients were exempt. I booted OpenSuse, was greeted by the same web portal, but when I logged in, it told me I had a 7 day lease rather than telling me to download the Cisco crap. I went back to XP, downloaded User Agent Switcher for Firefox and faked my user agent to linux when logging into the web portal. It told me I had a 7 day lease and I was able to switch back my default FF user agent until I was prompted to login 7 days later. User Agent Switcher lets you save presets in a menu so switching is easy. I don't know if your school is setup the same way but you might want to try it. I was really surprised that with all the money and manpower that my school put into implementing all these policies that it was defeated by a first year student with a simple Firefox extension. Good luck, I really do feel your pain.
I did not RTFA but from the summary it sounds like the conclusion is that the Macbook Pro is worth the money or at least comparable to other high end notebooks. That's nice, but it doesn't really offer an explanation as to why Apple hasn't entered the $500-1000 market. I cannot imagine the staggering marketshare they would gain with a laptop that a majority of parents could afford their college bound kid. Anyone got any insights into Apple's complete disinterest in the mid-range notebook market?
I know it's mother's day and all, but there's got to be something somewhat interesting going on in the "nerd" world, right? Just sayin', a week old report on the PHP6 *planned* features isn't exactly frontpage news. It's so boring in fact, I felt the need to reply and bash the post just to alleviate my boredom. Neurotic, eh?
I suppose, but from a quick perusal of the article it looks as though A) it's not rechargable. You have to buy new cells after 48 hours of use. Personally, I use my laptop that amount within a week, so I'd be buying these pretty often. You could argue that it's not different than having to stop and fuel your car, but it really isn't as convienent as charging it from an outlet in your home, work, school, or local Starbucks. B) That article is two years old, and it takes about a commercial version possibly being out by the end of '06. I haven't googled it or anything, but I haven't heard about this being commercially available just quite yet, as cool as it sounds.
Perhaps this is finally the sort of problem that will stur average joe consumer to be dissatisfied with the state of current battery technology, stirring innovation? Personally, I can't wait for Mr. Fusion in my laptop. My kids would all be the next WWE superstars with those kinds of irradiated swimmers in my loins.
Should the charge not be some kind of hacking/cybercrime for stealing and/or cracking other peoples accounts, rather than for "virtual theft". The crime should be no different than hacking, and the victims should be able to demand restitution of the virtual goods.
This is totally different than the students who videotaped their teacher being a complete asshole in class and posted it. They were punished for embarrassing the teacher and no other reason. If they were acting like the asshats (in class) that the article describes, then they deserved to be smacked. That said, 40 days is DAMN ridiculous. Students do not need to be bringing cameras to school in order to record themselves acting the fool, but suspending them for 8 weeks is nonsense. Stop with the knee-jerk reactions because kids are being kids. Suspend them for a day or two and hope they learn. Sheesh.
Coward,
I get this as a gift for Xmas, but why do you assume I don't pay for anything? I own my home, make all the payments, in addition to working my way through school. So don't be in such a hurry to trash other people just because you're a foaming at the mouth Sony fanboy.
No, it doesn't suck. The TV supports 1080i just fine, which is what my cable box outputs. Even most upscaling DVD Players output at 1080i. The only problems I've had is with the PS3. Two more points: I said it was the TV in my bedroom for a reason. I bought the damn TV for $500 dollars when I was a freshman 3 years ago, when HDTV's were MUCH more expensive. It was a deal then and I've enjoyed it immensely. The reason it's in the bedroom is because I have a 61" 1080p Samsung in the living room with the 360 hooked up to it. I only want the PS3 in the bedroom that way I can play it when the fiancee is on the X360 (or vice versa). I do not regret buying the TV, but I do regret getting the PS3. Xbox Live is $50/year, but it Just Works(TM). XBL is polished, well organized and integrated, with lots of features and good performance. Also, charging charging tends to keep the 8 year olds from running amok in games and teamkilling or whatever else. I usually get a XBL card at Christmas from someone, so it's not really money out of my pocket.
Maybe if they cared enough to fix some of the HUGE issues with the PS3, consumer adoption would be higher. Like the 720p problem. I have a Panasonic 27" 1080i CRT HDTV in my bedroom. It does NOT suppose 720p and goes black when a 720p source is fed to it over component. Therefore, I can only get 480p out of my console for games designed to run at 720p. The games that do run at 1080p take a huge hit in framerate and are downscaled to 1080i. Sony has put out many updates to the PS3 and is even now working on firmware 2.0. They have had ample time to fix this and have not. I do believe the presence of a scaler chip was proven to exist in the PS3, however sources conflict on this. On another note, I think the price point of the PS3 is insane considering its competition. It is true that consoles in the past, when counting for inflation have been just as expensive if not more so. Therefore, the $600 price tag is not inherently insane, but considering the $400.00 and $250.00 price points of the X360 and Wii respectively, it is absurd. Proponents point to the BluRay suppose and the cost of the HD DVD addon for the X360 as proof that the consoles cost the exact same in the end. Yeah, but the difference is I opted for that functionality. That's good for two reasons. 1) By the time I got my X360, two games, an extra controller, I wasalready at almost a $600.00 cost for the console. Honestly I wouldn't have had another $200 right then and there to get the PS3. I loved being able to go pay the extra $200 months later and get the HD DVD addon (which I can use with my PC!) at my leisure and choice. Even now, becuase I got my HD DVD drive first, I am a staunch supported of the format. I don't care to buy BluRay movies at all. So when I bought my PS3, I had to shell out $200 more for functionality I don't need or want. And no, I don't buy the argument that next-gen games just absolutely NEED that kind of storage capacity. So yeah Sony, stop shoving your Superior Formats(TM) down our throats and rootkitting our computers, you might actually start making money!
At my University, they took to blocking BitTorrent traffic, and the traffic of most popular P2P apps. This was pretty effective at stopping 99.9% of students from using the aforementioned services. So, with far more effective methods of counteracting this, why resort to billing students for what may or may not be a legitimate DMCA complaint? Seems like they are just inviting **AA to abuse this.
On a serious note, I am the owner of hdkeys.com, and I have felt the full brunt of this censorship. I established the site back when BackupHDDVD was released, and modified the source adding the ability for the program to automatically retrieve volume keys from the site when they were not found in the local key database. In addition, there was a searchable form on the index page where you could lookup keys. At first, I received a DMCA takedown sent to my dedicated host provider (Layered Technologies), demanding that my hosted copy of BackupHDDVD be removed. This demand arrived at the same time Sourceforge received a similar letter. A month or so passed by and I received another letter, this time through my registrar, GoDaddy, demanding that I remove all the volume keys from the site or be sued out of house and home. In addition, the second letter dictated that I must call the law firm and inform them that I have complied. I complied, but did not notify them. The site has been offline since then. As far as I'm concerned, they demanded something of me, it's up to them to confirm that I have complied. So in recap, I've been threatened, strong armed, and intimidated (you should have read those letters), via my webhost and registrar for simply hosting:
A) A textbook implementation of the AACS protocol and
B) Hex strings
When I started at as a freshman at the University of South Carolina 2 years ago, they were already using CCA. It's main intrusion was the fact that the University demanded that we use McAffee regardless of any other (superior) software we may have already purchased. Personally, I used Symantec Antivirus (Corporate) that I got through my internship. Regardless, it forced McAffee down my throat. I couldn't use the two side by side, as XP would freeze on startup with both installed. I noticed that the policy for CCA usage only applied to Windows computers, and that Linux and Mac users were exempt. So I booted my SuSe installation and launched Firefox to discover a web-gate type login, a form that I had to put my CCA user and pass into. Once entered, it said I was logged in for 7 days. I thought, well there's really only one way they're seperating out Windows, Mac's and Linux boxes: the user-agent. All it took to bypass was a custom Firefox deployment package pre-configured with User Agent Switcher. You didn't even need CCA installed. Every 7 days you got the web-gate login. All you had to do was switch to the pre-configured Linux user-agent and login, upon which you could change back to the default and continue on your merry way for 7 days. In about a week everyone in my dorm was using it, and it still works today. They just ban the user-agent when they catch on, and we come up with new ones. I'm not sure this guy's University may differ, but it really shouldn't take any kind of sexy software hackery to bypass it.
PS. wtf is up with slashdot's server? It took me like 15 minutes to get this posted
Yeah man, I'm only 21 and I remember playing the demo of Rocket Jockey obsessively. I couldn't have been no more than 8 at the most. I loved tethering other driver's to the poles and then watching them squirm. Good times:)
From my experience, Quicktime works fine under Vista, and I've used it extensively. The apple software update works as well. Perhaps they mean it works, but just isn't supported?
This is exactly my problem. I spent $620 on a Geforce 8800 GTX on Newegg last week and I have still be unable to get it to work in Vista. Their drivers BSOD on install and again on startup. I have to boot to safe mode and remove them. Yes, I've tried it many times and only on clean installs. Yes, I disabled my overclock. Yes, I'm sure the hardware is fine, its all brand new and it's been thoroughly put through the motions. See my thread on the official Nvidia forums. Everyone who is having this problem is up the creek without a paddle because Nvidia has no way of submitting bug reports (that part of their site is under construction), and there's not so much as a support phone number. They tell you to contact the manufacturer of your card, Foxconn in my case. I contacted Foxconn and they said it was a driver problem (which it is) and they couldn't help me. So I'm SOL and my new $620 card is worthless when used in conjunction with my $250 eVGA 680i mobo and $240 pair of 1GB Corsair PC2-6400 sticks and my $220 Core 2 Duo e6400 and my $400 "Ultimate" operating system. Yep. I feel great about my purchase(s).
I don't know about 1gb of RAM usage while idle, that doesn't reflect on what I've seen on numerous clean Vista installs. I'm typing this on a Vista Ultimate box with the following specs:
Core2Duo E6400 2048mb PC2-6400 Geforce 8800 GTX
and after boot, my RAM usage is around 450mb, about 20%. For someone to have 1gb used while idle they must have installed alot of apps that have their own services or unnecessary startup entries in the registry. I know Win2k didn't have it, but msconfig is your friend, kids! In all seriousness, after installing Acrobat, Quicktime, Java, and PowerDVD on my system, each of them took it upon themselves to run a bg process on startup and eat my ram. acrotray.exe, qttask.exe, pdserve..etc...all useless. Remove this crap and you won't have 1gb idling. I'm far from sold on Vista, but it doesn't use THAT much ram, nor is my CPU usage above 1-2% idle. Let's stop foaming at the mouth and be realistic.
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Rooting is trivial even with a locked bootloader. It's custom ROMs that are difficult with the locked bootloader.
Unlocking bootloader != Rooting!
If you are rooted, you can use Titanium Backup to uninstall HTC Loggers or you can manually delete HTCLoggers.apk from /system/app/.
When I was at the University of SC in 2004, they required you to install the Cisco Clean Access software which checked to make sure you were running the school provided AV and had all your windows updates among other things. I hated the school AV (mcafee) because it constantly had false positives on items on my computer and would delete without prompting. It gave no option to quarantine, ignore, etc...just delete. I noticed that if you didn't have the Cisco Clean Access software installed and tried to browse, you were given a web portal login for your school network credentials, very similar to the actual Cisco Win32 software. After logging in you were prompted to download the Cisco software via the web portal along with McAfee and whatever else. I noticed in the school policy that Mac's and Linux clients were exempt. I booted OpenSuse, was greeted by the same web portal, but when I logged in, it told me I had a 7 day lease rather than telling me to download the Cisco crap. I went back to XP, downloaded User Agent Switcher for Firefox and faked my user agent to linux when logging into the web portal. It told me I had a 7 day lease and I was able to switch back my default FF user agent until I was prompted to login 7 days later. User Agent Switcher lets you save presets in a menu so switching is easy. I don't know if your school is setup the same way but you might want to try it. I was really surprised that with all the money and manpower that my school put into implementing all these policies that it was defeated by a first year student with a simple Firefox extension. Good luck, I really do feel your pain.
I did not RTFA but from the summary it sounds like the conclusion is that the Macbook Pro is worth the money or at least comparable to other high end notebooks. That's nice, but it doesn't really offer an explanation as to why Apple hasn't entered the $500-1000 market. I cannot imagine the staggering marketshare they would gain with a laptop that a majority of parents could afford their college bound kid. Anyone got any insights into Apple's complete disinterest in the mid-range notebook market?
I know it's mother's day and all, but there's got to be something somewhat interesting going on in the "nerd" world, right? Just sayin', a week old report on the PHP6 *planned* features isn't exactly frontpage news. It's so boring in fact, I felt the need to reply and bash the post just to alleviate my boredom. Neurotic, eh?
Meh, nevermind...
Windows XP SP3 rev. 5503
I suppose, but from a quick perusal of the article it looks as though A) it's not rechargable. You have to buy new cells after 48 hours of use. Personally, I use my laptop that amount within a week, so I'd be buying these pretty often. You could argue that it's not different than having to stop and fuel your car, but it really isn't as convienent as charging it from an outlet in your home, work, school, or local Starbucks. B) That article is two years old, and it takes about a commercial version possibly being out by the end of '06. I haven't googled it or anything, but I haven't heard about this being commercially available just quite yet, as cool as it sounds.
Perhaps this is finally the sort of problem that will stur average joe consumer to be dissatisfied with the state of current battery technology, stirring innovation? Personally, I can't wait for Mr. Fusion in my laptop. My kids would all be the next WWE superstars with those kinds of irradiated swimmers in my loins.
Should the charge not be some kind of hacking/cybercrime for stealing and/or cracking other peoples accounts, rather than for "virtual theft". The crime should be no different than hacking, and the victims should be able to demand restitution of the virtual goods.
This is totally different than the students who videotaped their teacher being a complete asshole in class and posted it. They were punished for embarrassing the teacher and no other reason. If they were acting like the asshats (in class) that the article describes, then they deserved to be smacked. That said, 40 days is DAMN ridiculous. Students do not need to be bringing cameras to school in order to record themselves acting the fool, but suspending them for 8 weeks is nonsense. Stop with the knee-jerk reactions because kids are being kids. Suspend them for a day or two and hope they learn. Sheesh.
So not only is the submitter shamelessly plugging his own site, but it:
A) Crashes before there are 9 comments and B) Doesn't know how to spell "still" Glad to see slashdot's standards are still so high, CmdrTaco. Thanks.
Coward, I get this as a gift for Xmas, but why do you assume I don't pay for anything? I own my home, make all the payments, in addition to working my way through school. So don't be in such a hurry to trash other people just because you're a foaming at the mouth Sony fanboy.
No, it doesn't suck. The TV supports 1080i just fine, which is what my cable box outputs. Even most upscaling DVD Players output at 1080i. The only problems I've had is with the PS3. Two more points: I said it was the TV in my bedroom for a reason. I bought the damn TV for $500 dollars when I was a freshman 3 years ago, when HDTV's were MUCH more expensive. It was a deal then and I've enjoyed it immensely. The reason it's in the bedroom is because I have a 61" 1080p Samsung in the living room with the 360 hooked up to it. I only want the PS3 in the bedroom that way I can play it when the fiancee is on the X360 (or vice versa). I do not regret buying the TV, but I do regret getting the PS3. Xbox Live is $50/year, but it Just Works(TM). XBL is polished, well organized and integrated, with lots of features and good performance. Also, charging charging tends to keep the 8 year olds from running amok in games and teamkilling or whatever else. I usually get a XBL card at Christmas from someone, so it's not really money out of my pocket.
Maybe if they cared enough to fix some of the HUGE issues with the PS3, consumer adoption would be higher. Like the 720p problem. I have a Panasonic 27" 1080i CRT HDTV in my bedroom. It does NOT suppose 720p and goes black when a 720p source is fed to it over component. Therefore, I can only get 480p out of my console for games designed to run at 720p. The games that do run at 1080p take a huge hit in framerate and are downscaled to 1080i. Sony has put out many updates to the PS3 and is even now working on firmware 2.0. They have had ample time to fix this and have not. I do believe the presence of a scaler chip was proven to exist in the PS3, however sources conflict on this. On another note, I think the price point of the PS3 is insane considering its competition. It is true that consoles in the past, when counting for inflation have been just as expensive if not more so. Therefore, the $600 price tag is not inherently insane, but considering the $400.00 and $250.00 price points of the X360 and Wii respectively, it is absurd. Proponents point to the BluRay suppose and the cost of the HD DVD addon for the X360 as proof that the consoles cost the exact same in the end. Yeah, but the difference is I opted for that functionality. That's good for two reasons. 1) By the time I got my X360, two games, an extra controller, I wasalready at almost a $600.00 cost for the console. Honestly I wouldn't have had another $200 right then and there to get the PS3. I loved being able to go pay the extra $200 months later and get the HD DVD addon (which I can use with my PC!) at my leisure and choice. Even now, becuase I got my HD DVD drive first, I am a staunch supported of the format. I don't care to buy BluRay movies at all. So when I bought my PS3, I had to shell out $200 more for functionality I don't need or want. And no, I don't buy the argument that next-gen games just absolutely NEED that kind of storage capacity. So yeah Sony, stop shoving your Superior Formats(TM) down our throats and rootkitting our computers, you might actually start making money!
At my University, they took to blocking BitTorrent traffic, and the traffic of most popular P2P apps. This was pretty effective at stopping 99.9% of students from using the aforementioned services. So, with far more effective methods of counteracting this, why resort to billing students for what may or may not be a legitimate DMCA complaint? Seems like they are just inviting **AA to abuse this.
I replied with links to both PDF's long before you posted your comment.
Yes, they are both posted on this page of a Doom9 thread. Look for the PDF's attached by Mistar Muffin, that's me.
On a serious note, I am the owner of hdkeys.com, and I have felt the full brunt of this censorship. I established the site back when BackupHDDVD was released, and modified the source adding the ability for the program to automatically retrieve volume keys from the site when they were not found in the local key database. In addition, there was a searchable form on the index page where you could lookup keys. At first, I received a DMCA takedown sent to my dedicated host provider (Layered Technologies), demanding that my hosted copy of BackupHDDVD be removed. This demand arrived at the same time Sourceforge received a similar letter. A month or so passed by and I received another letter, this time through my registrar, GoDaddy, demanding that I remove all the volume keys from the site or be sued out of house and home. In addition, the second letter dictated that I must call the law firm and inform them that I have complied. I complied, but did not notify them. The site has been offline since then. As far as I'm concerned, they demanded something of me, it's up to them to confirm that I have complied. So in recap, I've been threatened, strong armed, and intimidated (you should have read those letters), via my webhost and registrar for simply hosting:
A) A textbook implementation of the AACS protocol and
B) Hex strings
Yeah, America rules.
When I started at as a freshman at the University of South Carolina 2 years ago, they were already using CCA. It's main intrusion was the fact that the University demanded that we use McAffee regardless of any other (superior) software we may have already purchased. Personally, I used Symantec Antivirus (Corporate) that I got through my internship. Regardless, it forced McAffee down my throat. I couldn't use the two side by side, as XP would freeze on startup with both installed. I noticed that the policy for CCA usage only applied to Windows computers, and that Linux and Mac users were exempt. So I booted my SuSe installation and launched Firefox to discover a web-gate type login, a form that I had to put my CCA user and pass into. Once entered, it said I was logged in for 7 days. I thought, well there's really only one way they're seperating out Windows, Mac's and Linux boxes: the user-agent. All it took to bypass was a custom Firefox deployment package pre-configured with User Agent Switcher. You didn't even need CCA installed. Every 7 days you got the web-gate login. All you had to do was switch to the pre-configured Linux user-agent and login, upon which you could change back to the default and continue on your merry way for 7 days. In about a week everyone in my dorm was using it, and it still works today. They just ban the user-agent when they catch on, and we come up with new ones. I'm not sure this guy's University may differ, but it really shouldn't take any kind of sexy software hackery to bypass it. PS. wtf is up with slashdot's server? It took me like 15 minutes to get this posted
Yeah man, I'm only 21 and I remember playing the demo of Rocket Jockey obsessively. I couldn't have been no more than 8 at the most. I loved tethering other driver's to the poles and then watching them squirm. Good times :)
From my experience, Quicktime works fine under Vista, and I've used it extensively. The apple software update works as well. Perhaps they mean it works, but just isn't supported?
This is exactly my problem. I spent $620 on a Geforce 8800 GTX on Newegg last week and I have still be unable to get it to work in Vista. Their drivers BSOD on install and again on startup. I have to boot to safe mode and remove them. Yes, I've tried it many times and only on clean installs. Yes, I disabled my overclock. Yes, I'm sure the hardware is fine, its all brand new and it's been thoroughly put through the motions. See my thread on the official Nvidia forums. Everyone who is having this problem is up the creek without a paddle because Nvidia has no way of submitting bug reports (that part of their site is under construction), and there's not so much as a support phone number. They tell you to contact the manufacturer of your card, Foxconn in my case. I contacted Foxconn and they said it was a driver problem (which it is) and they couldn't help me. So I'm SOL and my new $620 card is worthless when used in conjunction with my $250 eVGA 680i mobo and $240 pair of 1GB Corsair PC2-6400 sticks and my $220 Core 2 Duo e6400 and my $400 "Ultimate" operating system. Yep. I feel great about my purchase(s).
I don't know about 1gb of RAM usage while idle, that doesn't reflect on what I've seen on numerous clean Vista installs. I'm typing this on a Vista Ultimate box with the following specs:
Core2Duo E6400
2048mb PC2-6400
Geforce 8800 GTX
and after boot, my RAM usage is around 450mb, about 20%. For someone to have 1gb used while idle they must have installed alot of apps that have their own services or unnecessary startup entries in the registry. I know Win2k didn't have it, but msconfig is your friend, kids! In all seriousness, after installing Acrobat, Quicktime, Java, and PowerDVD on my system, each of them took it upon themselves to run a bg process on startup and eat my ram. acrotray.exe, qttask.exe, pdserve..etc...all useless. Remove this crap and you won't have 1gb idling. I'm far from sold on Vista, but it doesn't use THAT much ram, nor is my CPU usage above 1-2% idle. Let's stop foaming at the mouth and be realistic.