As far as I know, the current (P4,P5,etc.) cards have no current hack.
The previous cards (P3, etc.) no longer work (except for the audio
signal and DTV's own channels) at all. Makes me wonder...
Also, from a random site <http://www.watchintv.com/terminology.php>:
Bootloaders- Device designed to
circumvent the Black Sunday ECM. The device is shaped like an access
card on one end, and has an access card slot on the other. A Black
Sunday ECM'ed H-card is placed into the slot, and then the entire setup
"becomes" the new, fixed H-card. When a hacker wishes to program this
card, he simply inserts the bootloader with H-card into a programmer
(since the bootloader has an end shaped exactly like the card) and does
so. The device works by glitching past the test of the security area.
As of late, DirecTV has implimented hashing on bootloaders, making them
useless for anything but emulation.
Unlooper: This is a powerful type of
card programming hardware that is able to 'unloop'cards(with proper
software) by in a sense, glitching the card. many testers who must
program multiple cards will use unloopers due to their speed.
So, DTV doesn't seem to have a clue, as bootloaders have not been
commonly used in several years, and the unlooping can be done with
software (see http://www.angelfire.com/trek/bigv0001/winexplorer.htm
for exmple) on a common ISO card r/w.
While not only talk, WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/archive.html has a great archive of most of their programs from the past several years. Unfortunately, the archives require RealPlayer, but some of the archives have time-stamped, clickable playlists. The live broadcast is available in most flavors including ogg and mp3. Some of the finest radio to be heard anywhere, though sometimes you just have to turn it off...
those ribbed plastics (can it, beavis) that show different parts of the image depending on the angle... and thus alow simple animation and 3-d looking objects through small movements.
they are called lenticular devices or often "winkie"
- see http://www.didik.com/3d_hist.htm
David Crosby, aside from being a fat, weird, overpaid, coked-up buffoon, has made some very good music over the years.
He has also made a baby for Melissa Etheridge. Talk about weird. He was recently arrested in the NY/NJ area for weapons and pot. Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Don't forget the NY Dolls and T-Rex; check out Suzi Q's early recording with the Pleasure Seekers "What A Way To Die"- teen girls in the garage rockin' out!
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=11384&archive=1349 6 has an interview from Monday on the darn finest little independent radio station in the NJ/NYC area (and on the net, with archives from several years, even some time-stamped playlists!)
Some ATMs are using OS/2. Real bank ATMs. Not the 200 pound quickie-mart models. My uncle works for one of the larger ATM service companies (formerly Shields). I was trained on the Diebold and one of the other (NCR maybe) about 12 years ago. These were simple imbedded-chip systems with EPROMS. My current bank has a brand-fuckin-spankin-new ATM with all sorts of bells and whistles, touchscreen, etc. You have to choose 'English' on the touchscreen, then enter PIN on keypad, then back to touchscreen to 'enter'.
I regularly watched TechTv (I seem to remember ScreenSavers being 1 1/2 hours?), and often found them informative and interesting.
Over the last 2 or so years the programming seems to be slacking (not in a good way.)
Since I have had little to no TV over the last 3 to 4 weeks (We can thank DirecTV for effecitvely ending the HU(P3) card.), combined with being underemployed, I feel quite liberated. I only miss IFC, Sundance, Flix, TCM, and HBO-for the Sopranos (but I can just watch at a freind's or torrent...)
I shop at thrift stores and garage sales. Here I sit in front of a $35 21" Trinitron (garage sale) and using a Mac 8600/200 (one of three at Salvation Army thrift store, each had G3 Newertech upgrades- $50 for all 3) as my daily (web/email, nostly) computer.
I find that it helps to give advice to the proprieters of these places (garage/yard/rummage sales and thrift stores) about what they actually are selling. Often they don't even know what some of the items they are selling are, nor an idea of how much they could actually sell for. They usually appreciate and reciprocate by giving a good deal.
Of course, I never tell them that their crappy old records are worth more than a quarter or half-dollar at best...;)
Also recommend trash picking, you just never know- I recently found a Fender Bassman amp-head, constantly finding computers, even a few 3com and Cisco switches.
I'll have a tuna salad sandwich and an order of french fries, please. Nope, no tuna. You're out of tuna? No tuna. Uh, cheeseburger? Ah, wait a minute. Cheeseburger? Wait. Come on, come on, come on, come on. We ain't got all day. We ain't got all day. Okay? We gotta have a turnover, turnover. Okay, what are you gonna have? Uh, I think I'll have grilled cheese and a Coke. Uh, grilled cheese! No grilled cheese. No grilled cheese. Uh, cheeseburger and a Coke. Uh, no Coke. Pepsi. Okay, uh, Pepsi and french fries. No fries. Chip. Okay, chips. One cheeseburger, one Pepsi, one chip. Cheeseburger. Pepsi, chip. What do you want? I'll have a cheeseburger and a small Coke. Uh, no, uh, no Coke, uh, Pepsi. Pepsi. One cheeseburger, one Pepsi. Cheeseburger. Pepsi. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Four Pepsi, two chip. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger. Two Pepsi, one chip. Hiya, Pete. Hey. I'll have the usual. Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger. Hey! Yeah. I get mixed up. I-is he your brother? Him? Yeah. No. My brother Mike, he's in the back there. George here is, uh, my first cousin, but I treat him like a brother. Sandy, she's my second cousin, uh, I, I treat her like a first cousin. Him! Him, I treat-- he's, uh, he's my third cousin, I treat like a fourth cousin... Because he's, uh, raos. You know raos? You know mean? What? It means stupid. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, two chips. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger. One Pepsi. Two chip. One Pepsi. Uh, what to drink? I'll have a small orange. No orange today. What do you have? Pepsi. Oh, okay. Okay. Pepsi! Pepsi! Pepsi! Hey, I told you, more ice, more ice, huh? Come on, come on! All right, here it is. Right. Thank you. Hello, Olympia Restaurant. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, two Pepsi, one chip. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Two Pepsi, one chip. Yeah, to go? Four cheese- burger? Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Cheese- burger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. No, no fries. Chips. Four chip. Four chips. Four chips. And what to drink? Pepsi? No Coke. No orange. No grape. Pepsi. Four Pepsi. Okay, ten minutes. All right. Four Pepsi-- Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi! Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi! Hey! Hey, he wants you. All right, all right, all right. Uh, I'll have a couple of eggs, and, uh, couple eggs, sausage. Uh, is that the link sausage or patty? Link? Link? Uh, I'll have sausage. Eggs over lightly. Um, a large orange juice and coffee. Thanks. Cheeseburger? No, I, I don't want a cheeseburger. Uh, eggs, couple of eggs. Eggs-- do you speak English? Eggs! Couple of eggs and over lightly with sausage. Cafe? Cafe? No, no, no, no. No eggs. Cheeseburger. Uh, well, uh, when do you stop serving breakfast? No. No breakfast. No breakfast? Nope. All right, I just want a couple of eggs. No breakfast. Cheeseburger, huh? I just got up. I don't want a cheeseburger. Come on, come on, come on. Don't give me that. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. We gotta have turnover. You want a cheeseburger? Come on, everybody got a cheeseburger. You want a cheese- burger? Come on, cheeseburger? I, I don't want a cheeseburger. It's too early for a cheeseburger. Too early for a cheeseburger? Look. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Hey. Yeah, tell me what, what do you, what do you want? What are you gonna have? I'll have a cheeseburger. Ah, one cheeseburger. No more cheeseburger. No more cheese- burger. I'll have a hamburger then. Hamburger. No hamburgi. No ham- burger. No cheeseburger, no hamburgi, no burger! No cheeseburger, no hamburger, no burger! How 'bout a couple of eggs, then? Eggs? Over light? Scrambled.All right, scrambled.All right. What to drink? Ah, Coke. No Coke, Pepsi. Pepsi. One Pepsi. One Pepsi! Pepsi! Come on, Pepsi.
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Bill Murray, Gilda Radner
I recently was asked to configure a Turkish -(not sure of the correct description)keyboard Dell laptop running W2k pro (Turkish chars.). I speak English, not fluent in any other (human) language; Client (human) speaks: Turkish/English/Portugese/others... (Seems that the ".", "i", other keys are located differently on the keyboard. ) I was shoulder-coached by the user about the keyboard differences; he, not technically inclined at all, read me the dialogs. Items I had him translate were sometimes non-sensical, but I could get the 'gist' of the function. I was able to get him internet access, printer, and file sharing by mostly clicking thru the Windoes GUI. Not having the opportunity to try doing same on any other OS/platform, I wonder how difficult/easy it would be.
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As far as I know, the current (P4,P5,etc.) cards have no current hack. The previous cards (P3, etc.) no longer work (except for the audio signal and DTV's own channels) at all. Makes me wonder...
r .htm
for exmple) on a common ISO card r/w.
Also, from a random site <http://www.watchintv.com/terminology.php>:
Bootloaders- Device designed to circumvent the Black Sunday ECM. The device is shaped like an access card on one end, and has an access card slot on the other. A Black Sunday ECM'ed H-card is placed into the slot, and then the entire setup "becomes" the new, fixed H-card. When a hacker wishes to program this card, he simply inserts the bootloader with H-card into a programmer (since the bootloader has an end shaped exactly like the card) and does so. The device works by glitching past the test of the security area. As of late, DirecTV has implimented hashing on bootloaders, making them useless for anything but emulation.
Unlooper: This is a powerful type of card programming hardware that is able to 'unloop'cards(with proper software) by in a sense, glitching the card. many testers who must program multiple cards will use unloopers due to their speed.
So, DTV doesn't seem to have a clue, as bootloaders have not been commonly used in several years, and the unlooping can be done with software (see http://www.angelfire.com/trek/bigv0001/winexplore
http://www.dssmili.com/whole_frame.html has been one of the few sites with legit info.
While not only talk, WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/archive.html has a great archive of most of their programs from the past several years. Unfortunately, the archives require RealPlayer, but some of the archives have time-stamped, clickable playlists. The live broadcast is available in most flavors including ogg and mp3. Some of the finest radio to be heard anywhere, though sometimes you just have to turn it off...
they are called lenticular devices or often "winkie" - see http://www.didik.com/3d_hist.htm
He has also made a baby for Melissa Etheridge. Talk about weird. He was recently arrested in the NY/NJ area for weapons and pot. Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Don't forget the NY Dolls and T-Rex; check out Suzi Q's early recording with the Pleasure Seekers "What A Way To Die"- teen girls in the garage rockin' out!
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=11384&archive=1349 6 has an interview from Monday on the darn finest little independent radio station in the NJ/NYC area (and on the net, with archives from several years, even some time-stamped playlists!)
Try the Silver Apples or NEU! or even Kraftwerk.
I think Black Sabbath predated DP by a few years. Stooges and MC5 even moreso.
you may enjoy searching the playlists of wfmu.org
the Tommy James & the Shondells version or Tiffany?
How about _unless_ proven guilty?
you didn't really?
John Draper (aka Cap'n Crunch)
Maybe you are thinking of Cheshire Cat
I assume for a VW? What does the bidding start at?
Some ATMs are using OS/2. Real bank ATMs. Not the 200 pound quickie-mart models. My uncle works for one of the larger ATM service companies (formerly Shields). I was trained on the Diebold and one of the other (NCR maybe) about 12 years ago. These were simple imbedded-chip systems with EPROMS. My current bank has a brand-fuckin-spankin-new ATM with all sorts of bells and whistles, touchscreen, etc. You have to choose 'English' on the touchscreen, then enter PIN on keypad, then back to touchscreen to 'enter'.
Same goes for elevators and escalators. What about when they are going down?
I read that entirely a few years ago, and found at least three serious flaws in the story. I did however, find it quite entertaining.
They should also brush up on the welding skills. Notice the Prematex patch?
I regularly watched TechTv (I seem to remember ScreenSavers being 1 1/2 hours?), and often found them informative and interesting. Over the last 2 or so years the programming seems to be slacking (not in a good way.) Since I have had little to no TV over the last 3 to 4 weeks (We can thank DirecTV for effecitvely ending the HU(P3) card.), combined with being underemployed, I feel quite liberated. I only miss IFC, Sundance, Flix, TCM, and HBO-for the Sopranos (but I can just watch at a freind's or torrent...)
I find that it helps to give advice to the proprieters of these places (garage/yard/rummage sales and thrift stores) about what they actually are selling. Often they don't even know what some of the items they are selling are, nor an idea of how much they could actually sell for. They usually appreciate and reciprocate by giving a good deal.
Of course, I never tell them that their crappy old records are worth more than a quarter or half-dollar at best...;)
Also recommend trash picking, you just never know- I recently found a Fender Bassman amp-head, constantly finding computers, even a few 3com and Cisco switches.
couldn't resist...
I live in the US; in New Jersey
or-
In NJ, Passaic Co.
or-
In a three bedroom house, in the basement.
I say "Refill, please."
Band-aid- (wasn't that an 80s follow-up to "We are the World? I usually say "adhesive bandage" Astroturf, "artificial turf/grass" Xerox, "photocopy" Kleenex, "tissue, facial tissue, toilet paper/tissue, paper towels paper napkin" Coke/Cola, "cola/diet cola"; often "diet soda" implies 'diet cola' Saran Wrap, "plastic wrap/cling wrap" even 'plasti-crap' works Jell-O, "gelatin" Kool-aid, "bug-juice/sugar-water" Scotch tape, "adhesive tape, clear packing tape, brown packing tape, double sided tape..." Wite-out, "correction fluid/tape" Cellophane, (see Saran Wrap) Boogie board, Popsicle, "ice pop" Styrofoam, "packing foam,peanuts,egg-crate foam" etc. Post-it note, "sticky (note)" Legos, Legos are Legos. The rest are cheap imitations of cheap imitations ;D
Velcro,
"hook and loop tape:
Thermos,
(see Legos)
Escalator,
(seems that escalators go 'up'. What is the thing that goes 'down?' (insert comment) //*Moving Sidewalk* sounds good to me; obscure 60s garage band/Billy Gibbons reference
Listerine,
"mouthwash, antiseptic"
Hi-Liter,
"highlighter"
Jeep,
let's not go there...
Vicks,
"cough drop/lozenge"
Alka-Seltzer,
"antacid"
Lycra,
"stretch-fabric"
Spam,
whatever
Cool Whip,
"whipped cream"
Granola,
not TM
Gatorade,
Tylenol,
"acetaminophen"
Aspirin,
Generic TM -Bayer/IG Farbin (whole other topic there)
Valium,
Novocaine,
"procaine"
Vaseline,
"petrolieum jelly"
Rolodex,
"rotary index"
Chapstick,
"lip balm"
Q-Tip,
"cotton swab"
Pop Tart,
"toaster pastry"
Walkman,
"portable radio/cassette/cd/media player"
Frisbee,
"flying disc"
Hula Hoop,
Ping Pong,
Jacuzzi,
"hot tub/whirlpool"
Kitty Litter,
"cat litter"
Levi's,
"denim/blue jeans"
Play-Doh,
Skivvies, BVDs, Jockey shorts,
"underpants"
Teletype,
who says that?
Polaroid,
yeah ok, I have a Polaroid camera, (actually I think it is a Minolta that used Polaroid film) "instant camera"
Fiberglass,
"fiberglass" I think Fibreglas is TM
Plexiglass,
"plexiglass"
Linoleum,
not TM
Zipper
not TM
I'll have a tuna salad sandwich and an order of french fries, please. Nope, no tuna. You're out of tuna? No tuna. Uh, cheeseburger? Ah, wait a minute. Cheeseburger? Wait. Come on, come on, come on, come on. We ain't got all day. We ain't got all day. Okay? We gotta have a turnover, turnover. Okay, what are you gonna have? Uh, I think I'll have grilled cheese and a Coke. Uh, grilled cheese! No grilled cheese. No grilled cheese. Uh, cheeseburger and a Coke. Uh, no Coke. Pepsi. Okay, uh, Pepsi and french fries. No fries. Chip. Okay, chips. One cheeseburger, one Pepsi, one chip. Cheeseburger. Pepsi, chip. What do you want? I'll have a cheeseburger and a small Coke. Uh, no, uh, no Coke, uh, Pepsi. Pepsi. One cheeseburger, one Pepsi. Cheeseburger. Pepsi. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Four Pepsi, two chip. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger. Two Pepsi, one chip. Hiya, Pete. Hey. I'll have the usual. Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger. Hey! Yeah. I get mixed up. I-is he your brother? Him? Yeah. No. My brother Mike, he's in the back there. George here is, uh, my first cousin, but I treat him like a brother. Sandy, she's my second cousin, uh, I, I treat her like a first cousin. Him! Him, I treat-- he's, uh, he's my third cousin, I treat like a fourth cousin... Because he's, uh, raos. You know raos? You know mean? What? It means stupid. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, two chips. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger. One Pepsi. Two chip. One Pepsi. Uh, what to drink? I'll have a small orange. No orange today. What do you have? Pepsi. Oh, okay. Okay. Pepsi! Pepsi! Pepsi! Hey, I told you, more ice, more ice, huh? Come on, come on! All right, here it is. Right. Thank you. Hello, Olympia Restaurant. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, two Pepsi, one chip. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Two Pepsi, one chip. Yeah, to go? Four cheese- burger? Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Cheese- burger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. No, no fries. Chips. Four chip. Four chips. Four chips. And what to drink? Pepsi? No Coke. No orange. No grape. Pepsi. Four Pepsi. Okay, ten minutes. All right. Four Pepsi-- Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi! Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi! Hey! Hey, he wants you. All right, all right, all right. Uh, I'll have a couple of eggs, and, uh, couple eggs, sausage. Uh, is that the link sausage or patty? Link? Link? Uh, I'll have sausage. Eggs over lightly. Um, a large orange juice and coffee. Thanks. Cheeseburger? No, I, I don't want a cheeseburger. Uh, eggs, couple of eggs. Eggs-- do you speak English? Eggs! Couple of eggs and over lightly with sausage. Cafe? Cafe? No, no, no, no. No eggs. Cheeseburger. Uh, well, uh, when do you stop serving breakfast? No. No breakfast. No breakfast? Nope. All right, I just want a couple of eggs. No breakfast. Cheeseburger, huh? I just got up. I don't want a cheeseburger. Come on, come on, come on. Don't give me that. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. We gotta have turnover. You want a cheeseburger? Come on, everybody got a cheeseburger. You want a cheese- burger? Come on, cheeseburger? I, I don't want a cheeseburger. It's too early for a cheeseburger. Too early for a cheeseburger? Look. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese- burger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Hey. Yeah, tell me what, what do you, what do you want? What are you gonna have? I'll have a cheeseburger. Ah, one cheeseburger. No more cheeseburger. No more cheese- burger. I'll have a hamburger then. Hamburger. No hamburgi. No ham- burger. No cheeseburger, no hamburgi, no burger! No cheeseburger, no hamburger, no burger! How 'bout a couple of eggs, then? Eggs? Over light? Scrambled.All right, scrambled.All right. What to drink? Ah, Coke. No Coke, Pepsi. Pepsi. One Pepsi. One Pepsi! Pepsi! Come on, Pepsi. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner
I recently was asked to configure a Turkish -(not sure of the correct description)keyboard Dell laptop running W2k pro (Turkish chars.).
I speak English, not fluent in any other (human) language;
Client (human) speaks: Turkish/English/Portugese/others...
(Seems that the ".", "i", other keys are located differently on the keyboard. )
I was shoulder-coached by the user about the keyboard differences; he, not technically inclined at all, read me the dialogs.
Items I had him translate were sometimes non-sensical, but I could get the 'gist' of the function.
I was able to get him internet access, printer, and file sharing by mostly clicking thru the Windoes GUI.
Not having the opportunity to try doing same on any other OS/platform, I wonder how difficult/easy it would be.