DUE TO A COMPLETE ONSLAUGHT OF USAGE FROM GETTING SLASHDOTTED, THE BETA GROUP IS NOW CLOSED. I will be creating a mailing list where we will take 1,000 members for a closed beta group to test the network stability of gnutella before the 1.0 release.
Details are forthcoming. The kids are usually hanging out in #gnutella on EfNet IRC if you want to come visit.
The most common practice by university admins to block student access to napster servers is by establishing a firewall (or modifying existing firewall to block napster). Unfortunately, this is also the most difficult method to bypass. Essentially this firewall looks for all information going to *napster.com and stops it. The only way to continue to access napster servers is to "bounce" off another site (that you can connect) to, to napster. This can be achieved using various 'proxy' software. 1) Someone who is offsite from your university needs to download and install a socks4/5 compatible proxy server, configure it correctly and then give you the information. 2) You will put this information in the section where napster asks if you go through a socks proxy/firewall. This will tell napster to first establish a connection with that server and then go to server.napster.com. Then you will be able to connect to napster's servers. Also, a good thing to remember - you're going to want to bounce off someone with a decent connection to the internet. Although almost all traffic is peerpeer - napster still talks to you for queries. The peerpeer connections will be established seperately. Another fairly common method to prevent students from accessing *napster.com is to remove the dns entry for napster.com. Every computer needs a dns server to resolve IPs (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) to hostnames (host.mask.com). Your school (or ISP) provides this DNS (domain name server) for you to use. The school could change their dns entry of server.napster.com, which is the host that the client looks for, to something else (a school warning page) -- or remove it entirely. Fortunately it's very easy to bypass this method. Unlike the firewall, we can do one of two simple things. 1) Simply insert a different DNS server into your configuration. This will then have your computer point to a different nameserver instead of pointing to your school's. Other nameservers won't have blocked napster because they have no reason to do so. 2) Edit your 'c:\windows\hosts' file. This file allows you to put an IP and what host it should resolve to, thus bypassing the need to have the dns server look it up for you. This is perhaps the best option of the two, incase your school has special dns entries that another server won't have. sample: (c:\windows\hosts) 208.184.216.223 server.napster.com #napster dns entry Note: You will have reboot for these settings to take effect. Also, if your school FIREWALLED napster, you will not be able to use this method. See Proxies section. (A good way to know you're firewalled, is to try to ping server.napster.com, then when it doesn't work ping 208.184.216.223. If the second way (ip) works - you're not firewalled. You just need a dns entry).
How exactly could you ban Napster? I know you can use the "You are not allowed to run Napster" rule, but how does a university physically block the access? By blocking the ports? Looks like Napster could just work it's way around that with every beta release. I have heard on/. of universities blocking Napster and the next release working anyway.
If I were them, I would have it plastered in big letters. This is a great thing for the Linux community and for Real. I for one am tired of that old buggy G2 alpha.
Of course, they might have not had time to post it on their site yet.
Let the viewing of South Park movies in Linux recommence!
From the very beginning, Theo has been very much against releasing ISO's. He says that ISOs hurt the progress of OpenBSD by not encouraging people to purchase the CD.
A link to a long discussion on this topic is below.
My first computer was a Slackard Hell. It was a Pentium 60 (yes kiddies, the very first Pentium). I went through 3 hard drives and 2 modems during that crappy computer's life span. The only good thing I can say about it was I went from 400MB to 1.2GB of space for free.
Good riddance, Packard Bell. May your innocent employees find good jobs, and may you die a slow, painful, rot-in-hell death.
"I need a card that can have the copy protection (MacroVision) disabled on the DVD/TV out so I can run it through a receiver and VCR without having the MacroVision make a mess of the signal."
I'm afraid that this question is getting lost, and this is the question I want most answered.
I just purchased a new Sony home theatre system (TV, Dolby receiver, 5 speakers + sub, and VCR) for myself. I would like to add DVD to this setup. I would like to have some way to turn the MacroVision off on whatever I buy.
Judging from what I have read, my best bet is to purchase a DVD drive and decoder card for my PC that can be manipulated to remove the MacroVision. The Creative Encore 5x with the Dxr3 decoder has been recommended. From what I understand, no regular DVD player (like a Sony one to match this setup I have) can be made to disable the MacroVision - you have to get a decoder box for this. Is this true?
An audio question to add: According to Creative, the Dxr3 provides Dolby 5.1 output. Is this true? Or is it "simulated" or something like that?
TIA,
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That way, we could read these dang articles without having to sign up for this.
Could the government also be trying to do this in order to track warez, mp3, etc. sites? Doing this in the name of "proctecting our networks" seems like a cover-up. It sure would help out law enforcement if they're really interested in piracy.
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It would be great to be able to run *BSD on these machines, especially the older ones we have where hp-ux just doesn't hack it anymore.
A quick check to propaganda.themes.org gives you a 404 error. Either this is the truth, or a April Fool's joke taken to the max.
Plankeye
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DUE TO A COMPLETE ONSLAUGHT OF USAGE FROM GETTING SLASHDOTTED, THE BETA GROUP IS NOW CLOSED. I will be creating a mailing list where we will take 1,000 members for a closed beta group to test the network stability of gnutella before the 1.0 release.
Details are forthcoming. The kids are usually hanging out in #gnutella on EfNet IRC if you want to come visit.
Wow.
Plankeye
The most common practice by university admins to block student access to napster servers is by establishing a firewall (or modifying existing firewall to block napster). Unfortunately, this is also the most difficult method to bypass. Essentially this firewall looks for all information going to *napster.com and stops it. The only way to continue to access napster servers is to "bounce" off another site (that you can connect) to, to napster. This can be achieved using various 'proxy' software. 1) Someone who is offsite from your university needs to download and install a socks4/5 compatible proxy server, configure it correctly and then give you the information. 2) You will put this information in the section where napster asks if you go through a socks proxy/firewall. This will tell napster to first establish a connection with that server and then go to server.napster.com. Then you will be able to connect to napster's servers. Also, a good thing to remember - you're going to want to bounce off someone with a decent connection to the internet. Although almost all traffic is peerpeer - napster still talks to you for queries. The peerpeer connections will be established seperately. Another fairly common method to prevent students from accessing *napster.com is to remove the dns entry for napster.com. Every computer needs a dns server to resolve IPs (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) to hostnames (host.mask.com). Your school (or ISP) provides this DNS (domain name server) for you to use. The school could change their dns entry of server.napster.com, which is the host that the client looks for, to something else (a school warning page) -- or remove it entirely. Fortunately it's very easy to bypass this method. Unlike the firewall, we can do one of two simple things. 1) Simply insert a different DNS server into your configuration. This will then have your computer point to a different nameserver instead of pointing to your school's. Other nameservers won't have blocked napster because they have no reason to do so. 2) Edit your 'c:\windows\hosts' file. This file allows you to put an IP and what host it should resolve to, thus bypassing the need to have the dns server look it up for you. This is perhaps the best option of the two, incase your school has special dns entries that another server won't have. sample: (c:\windows\hosts) 208.184.216.223 server.napster.com #napster dns entry Note: You will have reboot for these settings to take effect. Also, if your school FIREWALLED napster, you will not be able to use this method. See Proxies section. (A good way to know you're firewalled, is to try to ping server.napster .com, then when it doesn't work ping 208.184.216.223. If the second way (ip) works - you're not firewalled. You just need a dns entry).
How exactly could you ban Napster? I know you can use the "You are not allowed to run Napster" rule, but how does a university physically block the access? By blocking the ports? Looks like Napster could just work it's way around that with every beta release. I have heard on /. of universities blocking Napster and the next release working anyway.
Will this just be a never-ending war?
Plankeye
If I were them, I would have it plastered in big letters. This is a great thing for the Linux community and for Real. I for one am tired of that old buggy G2 alpha.
Of course, they might have not had time to post it on their site yet.
Let the viewing of South Park movies in Linux recommence!
Plankeye
From the very beginning, Theo has been very much against releasing ISO's. He says that ISOs hurt the progress of OpenBSD by not encouraging people to purchase the CD.
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A link to a long discussion on this topic is below.
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Plankeye
My first computer was a Slackard Hell. It was a Pentium 60 (yes kiddies, the very first Pentium). I went through 3 hard drives and 2 modems during that crappy computer's life span. The only good thing I can say about it was I went from 400MB to 1.2GB of space for free.
Good riddance, Packard Bell. May your innocent employees find good jobs, and may you die a slow, painful, rot-in-hell death.
Plankeye
In the starter for this thread, this was said.
"I need a card that can have the copy protection (MacroVision) disabled on the DVD/TV out so I can run it through a receiver and VCR without having the MacroVision make a mess of the signal."
I'm afraid that this question is getting lost, and this is the question I want most answered.
I just purchased a new Sony home theatre system (TV, Dolby receiver, 5 speakers + sub, and VCR) for myself. I would like to add DVD to this setup. I would like to have some way to turn the MacroVision off on whatever I buy.
Judging from what I have read, my best bet is to purchase a DVD drive and decoder card for my PC that can be manipulated to remove the MacroVision. The Creative Encore 5x with the Dxr3 decoder has been recommended. From what I understand, no regular DVD player (like a Sony one to match this setup I have) can be made to disable the MacroVision - you have to get a decoder box for this. Is this true?
An audio question to add: According to Creative, the Dxr3 provides Dolby 5.1 output. Is this true? Or is it "simulated" or something like that?
TIA,
Plankeye
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That way, we could read these dang articles without having to sign up for this.
Just an idea.
Plankeye
... that Carson Daly today will introduce this video and try to interject a few "tech phrases" in there? Damn preppie crap....
Damn, I miss the old MTV days... wait! There's MTV2! Yeah!
=)
Plankeye
Could the government also be trying to do this in order to track warez, mp3, etc. sites? Doing this in the name of "proctecting our networks" seems like a cover-up. It sure would help out law enforcement if they're really interested in piracy.
Just a thought.
Plankeye
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