Ever heard of nLite or vLite? They let you build your [u]own[/u] XP/Vista ISOs with update, service pack and additional driver integration as well as literally every customization you can think of.
So, yes, this is nothing exactly new, and I'd rather prefer my own customization.
I finally got ahold of a Paypal customer support person this morning (when I called last night, their automated "screw off" system told me they were closed for the night). I explained everything to her and she asked me to fax in a bunch of junk like my driver's license, statement from my bank account, statement from my credit card account, and various other things. I guess I should be lucky they didn't ask for DNA and sperm samples as well.
I told them the only reason, and I repeat ONLY REASON I was using their service was to raise relief funds, and the representative made a comment along the lines of "well you can see how it's counter-productive to get this resolved when you're writing 'Paypal sucks' on your website." Gee lady, maybe the whole issue could've been resolved beforehand if your company actually gave a crap about their customers and made even the tiniest bit of effort to resolve things without immediately hitting the "off" switch like that one jerk from "Ghostbusters?" The representative herself was nice, and I don't have a problem with the people working there; I do, however, have a problem with their automated systems making arbitrary decisions without providing customers ANY time to rectify the situation without risking downtime / account closure. You don't run a business treating all your customers like criminals and making them prove they aren't.
I'll be faxing in that information right now, so the money you donated to the Paypal fund WILL get to the Red Cross, but it all depends on the speed of the world-famous Paypal Complaint Appeals Department or whatever the hell they're called.
On 9/4/05, Rokas Kirvelis norgin@gmail.com wrote:
Instead of writing a fucking essay about PayPal how about you FUCKING CONTACT CUSTOMER SUPPORT like it told you to do? I wouldn't be fucking surprised if you photoshopped those pics (because text is so hard to photoshop) and took the money. You're not even doing anything to get the money back.
Yeah, okay. Thanks again for the support, Internet.
Still no ETA on when the servers and SA will be up again. No idea when we'll be able to get the servers and move them to another hosting facility either. Running a small business is awesome because, not only are you in charge of making sure a bunch of people get service and employees get paid, but you're constantly responsible for everything and you can't stop worrying about what will happen. At least your standard 9-to-5 job lets you leave work at your office when your shift is over; a small business is a boulder you carry around on your shoulders every hour of every day. Some days the boulder crushes you, and this past week has been a series of those days.
Hey, did I pay $10 to post this? No.
I'm pretty sure that Slashdot has more users and less banners/ads/posts by admins begging for money than the Something Awful forums. Oh, and see the search button at the bottom? Like, whoa!
I'm pretty sure that if SomethingAwful was owned and ran by VA Software (which had a revenue of around $7.6 million in the third quarter of 2005), they wouldn't have an incentive to charge $10. However, as it turns out, it is owned and ran by one individual - Richard Kyanka, and he isn't quite as wealthy as a huge IT company. Like, whoa!
Well, knowing Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's past history, maybe PayPal has a perfectly valid reason to freeze his account. It wouldn't be a surprise if a large part, if not all of the money went into Richard's private account. Richard has a lot of experience misappropriating funds and pretty much just outright screwing his users.
Yes, raising fund for forces stationed in Iraq and for sick children are horrible deeds indeed.
Oh, and just for kicks, here's some basic information about the site: The forums, which contain nothing of interest, ask you to register before you can browse. Registration costs $10. To add search capabilities, which are standard on pretty much every single other forum, you have to pay extra. Want to browse old posts? Pay extra! Want to change your avatar or custom title? Pay extra!
First, you can browse most of the forums before registering.
Second, the forums are the among the best, largest, and most literate, communities on the web. Hence, the registration cost is has two reasons
1) People tend to be less jackasses if they know it will cost them at least $10.
2) It actually costs money running forums with tens of thousands of users that require seven dedicated servers.
As for the extra features cost, once again, two reasons:
1) It still costs money to run the servers
2) With the sheer number of users on the forums
(at least three thousand online at any given time), the servers just can't handle if everyone would search/browse archived posts all the time. Thus, either they limit it to those who find it worth extra money, or disable it for everyone
If I recall correctly, Nintendo has a patent on emulating Gameboy and Gameboy Advance hardware on portable platforms, so expect them to have a say about this..
This kind of thing is not new
ANts P2P is a decentralized, encrypted anonymous protocol that works in the same way as BitTorrent.
From the page
"ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net.
It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable,
hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others."
Why not give that a try?
Well, since link and the hack is publicly available, it doesn't take more than a mouse click to get the stuff anyways, even if I DID leave it out/censor it. This is just a translation right of. If someone abuses the information herein, they could've done so either way, especially since hardly anyone but swedes, who don't need the translation, will find use for the sensitive info.
Since the link was down, here's my crappy attempt at a translation =)
Arga Unga Hackare literally means Angry Young Hackers
Hello and welcome to AUH 's new home in cyberspace!
We have moved in here since the last owners were evicted from the internet, like the dead and unneeded organs of a body.
We have, like you, wondered a lot about what really happened at Bahnhof
and since we are, except young, very angry, we feel compelled to share this information with as many people as possible. So that you will be angry too, and your friends will be angry, and their friends will be angry and so on until the streets of the internet is filled with an angry mob chanting "AUH! AUH! AUH!" and demanding Ponténs[Note: Henrik Pontén, lawyer and front figure for Swedens Anti-Piracy] blood.
From: Garfield, Dean Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:02 PM To: Ponten, Henrik Cc: Tilbury, Chad Subject: FW: EREC-05-007: Sweden: Authorities seize major pirate servers at Stockholm ISP
Henrik, this is truly phenomenal. We are all very proud of you. I am sure you are a bit unpopular with the pirate community in Sweden right now. Great work.
We'll start of slow by letting someone named 'Peter' sum up the situation
From: peter@anti-piracy.se Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:29 To: Tilbury, Chad; Seymour, Dan; Winter, Craig Subject: Swedish pirates busted!
Hi guys!
After 2 years of infiltrations our work finally paid of today with a successful raid on Sweden's oldest and largest ISP named Bahnhof. Bahnhof has been a source for top level piracy for several years and hosting some of the biggest and fastest servers in Europe.
Hello there, Peter!
It will be interesting to find out what kind of infiltration you guys have been doing
Before long, we realize that Pater is a pretty nasty person - time to infiltrate the infiltrator. An just so you know, we have infiltrated you, your sites, your mail and your activity ever since we stole your passwords through SONG 4 years ago.
I suppose this makes us more macho than you.
From: Anders Nilsson [mailto:anders.nilsson@antipiratbyran.com] Sent: den 10 mars 2005 17:09 To: 'Peter Bergstrom'
Peter, could you send me some IRC-logs
Interesting, Peter is mailing IRC-logs to Anti-piracy.
Could this means - is Peter the bad guy?
Let's continue looking and see what we'll find!
Received: from pc003 ([80.217.208.156]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20050310182216.IHDS11192.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@p c003> for <anders.nilsson@antipiratbyran.com>; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:22:16 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Peter_Bergström <peter@anti-piracy.se> To: "'Anders Nilsson'" <anders.nilsson@antipiratbyran.com> Subject: SV: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:22:11 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353
Will create a few logs and dumps. Can't be used to public though.
From: Mac Greevy, Dara Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:08 AM To: Sunderland, Jane Cc: Malcolm, John; Garfield, Dean; Tilbury, Chad Subject: RE: EREC-05-007: Sweden: Authorities seize major pirate servers at Stockholm ISP
Dear Jane
"The Swede" was central to this operation. He even shared coffee at one stage with the operators of the servers at the ISP's premises (ironically located in the same building as the Swedish program)!
Oh my.. That's a bad Peter!
Mailing from home when you're undercover is just what you need to do if you want people to find out!
156.208.217.80.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer c80-217-208-156.cm-upc.chello.se.
While obviously most people were disappointed about exeem, there is already a cross-platform, decentralized, anonymous, encrypted, bittorrent-like p2p-appilcation knows as ANts.
It's still in a pretty early phase, so it hasn't reached the critical amount of users p2p applications need to survive. Still, I have high hopes for it
intrigued by your response I checked if this was the case.
It does, however, appear that the device is time-synched with the server, as entering the same keys at two different points in time gave two different answers.
So it appears this nothing is different then?
My bank (SEB, www.seb.se) has been using a hardware token system for years. I click the sign in button, enter my birthdate, receive two four-digit numbers, start the little device, enter my password and the two numbers and get a six-digit number that I enter in the login page and then I get logged in.
Is this somehow different?
Oh, and by the way, works like a charm and I feel a lot more secure than I do with static passwords
I find it a bit funny that they have confused bit stuffing with bit padding.
For those who don't know, bit stuffing is when you add bits to a packet so you know there are no control codes by accident in the fields. For example, your standard HDLC packet begins and ends with 0111110, so to make sure this doesn't appear again before the end of the packet,a 0 is inserted after every five consecutive ones.
Bit padding is when you add bits at the end of a field to make sure it becomes a standard size.
Well, this is a new approach to spreading FUD. If he's referring to SCO, I would doubt that anyone still buys that. If he's saying that they are infringing Microsoft's own patents then why can't he give examples, and why haven't Microsoft already been taking legal action? They sure don't seem to be afraid of doing so
The best games are usually those that have a good and solid story, and then add some humor as a touch-up. For example:
In the game "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" the holy relic that allows that protagonist to breathe underwater is a snorkle, the first headgear you get is a pair of shades which lowers your INT and if Alucard equips all of the fake "Alucart" equipment, he changes name to Alucart.
In Metal Gear Solid, before the fight with Psycho Mantis, a mind-reader, Snake comments on the fact that the game background music disappears ("Hey, what happened to the music?"). Mantis the proves his telepathic ablities by moving your controller using it's rumble feature, and the only way to bypass his mind-reading abilities his by connecting the controller to another controller port.
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Ever heard of nLite or vLite? They let you build your [u]own[/u] XP/Vista ISOs with update, service pack and additional driver integration as well as literally every customization you can think of. So, yes, this is nothing exactly new, and I'd rather prefer my own customization.
a^0 = a/a, thus 0^0 = 0/0 which, you know, really cannot be defined.
Sammy Studios (now High Moon) only published Guilty Gear. It has always been developed by Arc System Works
Paypal / Donation / Server Update 9/04/2005 - 10:07 AM - Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
I finally got ahold of a Paypal customer support person this morning (when I called last night, their automated "screw off" system told me they were closed for the night). I explained everything to her and she asked me to fax in a bunch of junk like my driver's license, statement from my bank account, statement from my credit card account, and various other things. I guess I should be lucky they didn't ask for DNA and sperm samples as well.
I told them the only reason, and I repeat ONLY REASON I was using their service was to raise relief funds, and the representative made a comment along the lines of "well you can see how it's counter-productive to get this resolved when you're writing 'Paypal sucks' on your website." Gee lady, maybe the whole issue could've been resolved beforehand if your company actually gave a crap about their customers and made even the tiniest bit of effort to resolve things without immediately hitting the "off" switch like that one jerk from "Ghostbusters?" The representative herself was nice, and I don't have a problem with the people working there; I do, however, have a problem with their automated systems making arbitrary decisions without providing customers ANY time to rectify the situation without risking downtime / account closure. You don't run a business treating all your customers like criminals and making them prove they aren't.
I'll be faxing in that information right now, so the money you donated to the Paypal fund WILL get to the Red Cross, but it all depends on the speed of the world-famous Paypal Complaint Appeals Department or whatever the hell they're called.
On 9/4/05, Rokas Kirvelis norgin@gmail.com wrote:Instead of writing a fucking essay about PayPal how about you FUCKING CONTACT CUSTOMER SUPPORT like it told you to do? I wouldn't be fucking surprised if you photoshopped those pics (because text is so hard to photoshop) and took the money. You're not even doing anything to get the money back.
Yeah, okay. Thanks again for the support, Internet.
Still no ETA on when the servers and SA will be up again. No idea when we'll be able to get the servers and move them to another hosting facility either. Running a small business is awesome because, not only are you in charge of making sure a bunch of people get service and employees get paid, but you're constantly responsible for everything and you can't stop worrying about what will happen. At least your standard 9-to-5 job lets you leave work at your office when your shift is over; a small business is a boulder you carry around on your shoulders every hour of every day. Some days the boulder crushes you, and this past week has been a series of those days.
My apologies to everybody.I'm pretty sure that if SomethingAwful was owned and ran by VA Software (which had a revenue of around $7.6 million in the third quarter of 2005), they wouldn't have an incentive to charge $10. However, as it turns out, it is owned and ran by one individual - Richard Kyanka, and he isn't quite as wealthy as a huge IT company. Like, whoa!
Yes, raising fund for forces stationed in Iraq and for sick children are horrible deeds indeed.
Oh, and just for kicks, here's some basic information about the site: The forums, which contain nothing of interest, ask you to register before you can browse. Registration costs $10. To add search capabilities, which are standard on pretty much every single other forum, you have to pay extra. Want to browse old posts? Pay extra! Want to change your avatar or custom title? Pay extra!First, you can browse most of the forums before registering.
Second, the forums are the among the best, largest, and most literate, communities on the web. Hence, the registration cost is has two reasons
1) People tend to be less jackasses if they know it will cost them at least $10.
2) It actually costs money running forums with tens of thousands of users that require seven dedicated servers.
As for the extra features cost, once again, two reasons:
1) It still costs money to run the servers
2) With the sheer number of users on the forums (at least three thousand online at any given time), the servers just can't handle if everyone would search/browse archived posts all the time. Thus, either they limit it to those who find it worth extra money, or disable it for everyone
That's not a wikipedia article, that's an article from a wiki running mediawiki.
The opening line definetily does not make me want to read the rest of the article. Since when is the Kingdom of Mordor an evil empire?
Seems like someone confused the Lord of the Rings with Star Wars
For those of us who can't use bittorrent:
FileFront
If I recall correctly, Nintendo has a patent on emulating Gameboy and Gameboy Advance hardware on portable platforms, so expect them to have a say about this..
Just slashdot it!
This kind of thing is not new ANts P2P is a decentralized, encrypted anonymous protocol that works in the same way as BitTorrent. From the page "ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net. It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable, hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others." Why not give that a try?
Though this is hardly the time to be conjugating verbs in the past-impossible-future-never-tense.
I wholeheartedly agree. This game would have been totally realistic if she only wore some more clothes
My hosting company (PowWeb) has PHP4 and 5 running side by side, and lots and lots of handy extension, I program exclusively for PHP5
Well, since link and the hack is publicly available, it doesn't take more than a mouse click to get the stuff anyways, even if I DID leave it out/censor it. This is just a translation right of. If someone abuses the information herein, they could've done so either way, especially since hardly anyone but swedes, who don't need the translation, will find use for the sensitive info.
Hello and welcome to AUH 's new home in cyberspace!
We have moved in here since the last owners were evicted from the internet, like the dead and unneeded organs of a body. We have, like you, wondered a lot about what really happened at Bahnhof and since we are, except young, very angry, we feel compelled to share this information with as many people as possible. So that you will be angry too, and your friends will be angry, and their friends will be angry and so on until the streets of the internet is filled with an angry mob chanting "AUH! AUH! AUH!" and demanding Ponténs[Note: Henrik Pontén, lawyer and front figure for Swedens Anti-Piracy] blood.
We'll start of slow by letting someone named 'Peter' sum up the situation
Hello there, Peter! It will be interesting to find out what kind of infiltration you guys have been doing
Before long, we realize that Pater is a pretty nasty person - time to infiltrate the infiltrator. An just so you know, we have infiltrated you, your sites, your mail and your activity ever since we stole your passwords through SONG 4 years ago. I suppose this makes us more macho than you.
Interesting, Peter is mailing IRC-logs to Anti-piracy. Could this means - is Peter the bad guy? Let's continue looking and see what we'll find!
Oh my.. That's a bad Peter! Mailing from home when you're undercover is just what you need to do if you want people to find out!
w00t! A chello address in
While obviously most people were disappointed about exeem, there is already a cross-platform, decentralized, anonymous, encrypted, bittorrent-like p2p-appilcation knows as ANts.
It's still in a pretty early phase, so it hasn't reached the critical amount of users p2p applications need to survive. Still, I have high hopes for it
intrigued by your response I checked if this was the case.
It does, however, appear that the device is time-synched with the server, as entering the same keys at two different points in time gave two different answers.
So it appears this nothing is different then?
My bank (SEB, www.seb.se) has been using a hardware token system for years. I click the sign in button, enter my birthdate, receive two four-digit numbers, start the little device, enter my password and the two numbers and get a six-digit number that I enter in the login page and then I get logged in.
Is this somehow different?
Oh, and by the way, works like a charm and I feel a lot more secure than I do with static passwords
From the ZAP Smart Car page:
Don't be fooled by its charming, futuristic look
So, they're saying it's really old and boring?
I find it a bit funny that they have confused bit stuffing with bit padding.
For those who don't know, bit stuffing is when you add bits to a packet so you know there are no control codes by accident in the fields. For example, your standard HDLC packet begins and ends with 0111110, so to make sure this doesn't appear again before the end of the packet,a 0 is inserted after every five consecutive ones.
Bit padding is when you add bits at the end of a field to make sure it becomes a standard size.
Well, this is a new approach to spreading FUD. If he's referring to SCO, I would doubt that anyone still buys that.
If he's saying that they are infringing Microsoft's own patents then why can't he give examples, and why haven't Microsoft already been taking legal action? They sure don't seem to be afraid of doing so
Only in the world of internet connections can you get paid for having your technology tested
The best games are usually those that have a good and solid story, and then add some humor as a touch-up. For example:
In the game "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" the holy relic that allows that protagonist to breathe underwater is a snorkle, the first headgear you get is a pair of shades which lowers your INT and if Alucard equips all of the fake "Alucart" equipment, he changes name to Alucart.
In Metal Gear Solid, before the fight with Psycho Mantis, a mind-reader, Snake comments on the fact that the game background music disappears ("Hey, what happened to the music?"). Mantis the proves his telepathic ablities by moving your controller using it's rumble feature, and the only way to bypass his mind-reading abilities his by connecting the controller to another controller port.