If you don't know that what you just described is purely rot13 encoding, then you shouldn't be here. You should also be able to write a correct function without any help in your favorite programming language.
I for one, encode all my information in Dual-ROT13, this makes sure that people snooping will ignore it since I wouldn't be THAT dumb.
Well, in the Netherlands the current copyright laws are so broad (thanks to **AA ass-kissing government "non-profit" organizations) that it allows for somebody to be sued because they're playing a legally purchased song. The reason: they are in fact copying the data (from hard disk to memory, buffer, cache) and circumventing the copyright protection (DRM) because technically, all data has to be buffered somewhere analog or digital without encryption to make it come out of the speakers.
I disagree strongly. Go to another (english) computer and the average computer user will not know what to do. The order and number of items changes and their all whacked out of place running around as a chicken without a head that the computer is broken.
Yes, we sysadmins can relate to certain icons in any language but it's not as strong as knowing command line scripting and making the computer do stuff through that. A script is in general not made to click on certain well-known places but instead executes some commands that have effect on the computer.
That is why *nix (Linux, BSD,...) is so loved among the real sysadmins because it lets them do stuff on all computers no matter what language the GUI is in. A GUI is for simple users and maybe some people that got privileges to change some settings, power users and sysadmins need the command line to get the computer to do stuff fast and reliable especially if you're in a multi-lingual and more important in a multi-charset environment.
I am a Mac sysadmin for a large company and I can get the computers in Singapore to do the same things I let the local branches do but I have generally no idea what to do when I'm using Remote Desktop.
If the pipe develops a leak the gas has to be running full power to weld it back on again. No I'm not kidding: to weld a gas pipe, you have to run the gas. That way the pipe won't blow because there is no oxygen. Sure you might have a big flamethrower on your hands but that is nothing compared to blowing up your gas line.
What type of programmer puts such possibilities or leaks in a program? I have been programming for a long time and I never had stuff like this happening. Data integrity is one of the primary things you want to maintain and you should be extra careful when handling and altering files not your own.
On August 25th, 2006, Engadget.com reported on a software tool that would allow consumers to decrypt WMDRM protected content. In response, on August 28, 2006, Microsoft released an update to the individualized blackbox component (IBX) designed to ensure that client applications using the Windows Media Format SDK version 9.5 who individualize to this latest version are robust against a new circumvention tool.
This update is not yet available for the Windows Media Format 9 Series FSDK or for users of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2.
Consumers are not at risk in any way. Content services can require that the updates be present in order to issue licenses by following the instructions below. Please note that the version number of IBX was not incremented as part of these updates to avoid delaying the release of these critical breach mitigations. Consequently, the only way to determine if the update is installed is to query the build number of the IBX. This requires code executing on the client.
To determine the build number of the IBX:
1. Ensure the PC is running the August 2005 update to Windows Media DRM. See the attached white paper for details. 2. Determine the path of the WMDRM folder. The path is stored in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DRM\DataPath 3. Identify the file name of the latest IBX. If the machine has been individualized only once, the IBX file name will be indivbox.key. Otherwise, the IBX file name is in the form indivbox_xxx.key, where xxx are digits 0-9. The file name with the greatest value of xxx will be the latest IBX. 4. Call GetFileVersionInfo() to retrieve the build version of the file identified in step 3. See [link]. 5. If the IBX file version is 11.0.5497.6285 or greater, then the updated IBX is installed
Please submit questions to [email removed]
Best regards,
Windows Media Licensing Department Microsoft Windows Digital Media Division
Basically -> the content provider CAN require that patch to be there. I don't know whether it's a separate patch through WMP or through MSUpdate but since I don't use Windows/Microsoft I can't speak for them.
You don't need a freaking PhD in anything to install a wireless router. What you need to do is read the freaking documentation and apply it. If people are too dumb to understand how to program a VCR, they're imho too dumb to own a computer or for that matter install and configure a WiFi access point and should be barred from the internet until they get some education. Until then (when security becomes more costly than the ad-revenue from home-based internet access) there will be no solution for this.
Hmm... guess what it will read: The state of California does not recommend using Windows XP on this computer. Please contact your local dealer for a Linux distribution.
It is otherwise widely used hidden under proprietary MS code: Active Directory is a pure Kerberos + LDAPv3 implementation except that for synching and logging in (the essential outside communications that other platforms would like to use) is proprietary and they changed some things to the standard scheme too (SID etc.) which makes it useless for anybody but MS.
OpenDirectory by Apple is also an LDAPv3 implementation be it more pure than MS's implementation. You can combine both AD and OD on Mac to get a unified Windows-compatible login capabilities in the network that also get the benefits of using OD (force preferences and security settings on users/computers) without schema changes on either side.
RedHat also relies on LDAP for network-wide authentication in their products as does IBM and recently even Novell and lots of companies use it for different purposes in one or another way.
Pop in a random DVD in their player and let them (try to) skip the ads, the "you don't steal a dvd"-ad, the FBI warnings, the previews and then when you stop the movie for any reason, the fact that you have to watch that crap all over again.
if($subject == devotechristian) {
include "american pie" . $previews }
Then tell them it will only get worse and that DVD was just a begin. Or tell $random_audiophile he won't be able to make back up copies of his "high quality master"...
On the Mac it does it when the OpenFirmware boots up (much like the mandatory beep through the internal speaker in the PC) and you CAN turn it off by turning down your volume (yes, in software) before rebooting or shutting down your computer. Make a script that does automatically mute your volume on shutdown and turns it up on startup and you're all set.
I don't know what planet you came from but all updates to tiger were free, just as all updates for panther were free and all updates for leopard will be free.
And every major release (about every 2-3 years) just costs $149 for a single license, $199 for a 5-license pack, $499 for a 10-client server (10-client limit for SMB/AFP only, not enforced) or $999 for an unlimited server license.
If your reseller decided to charge you for each subversion update (10.3.9 for example), then you better had a consultant coming to click on the software update button every time or you just were dumb and bought the release on DVD with the latest updates on it.
If you are a big user (like a company) you can even enroll in a support program where you get all updates to the latest versions for free for the next 3 years (you can buy it individually for servers, talk to your apple sales rep for more info). That would be good if you need to buy 10.4 now, you'll get 10.5 soon and you might be in for 10.6 if your lucky FOR FREE!!!
As for 2, I would like to know whether they just remove some bytes from the files and then everybody can play it anywhere or is it a special driver/codec that doesn't care about the WMDRM. In the first case, it should be fairly easy then to play your stuff on other hardware and platforms (as you should always be able to do without evil companies) using eg. VLC in the second case, you will have to transcode using this software to DivX or other formats to play your stuff on other players
I would have your contract with them checked and maybe even run it through a lawyer. I am looking into sattelite myself because I can't get DSL or Cable here and in those contracts it states exactly when I would get capped (after x-amount of Gbytes/hour for x-amount of continuous hours) and to what rate it would get capped to (64kbit/s). I calculated it and it would mean that I can stream constantly (24/7) 256 kb/s down while my line is actually 10M bursting. If I put this in an ever-adapting rate-limiting script I can actually get continuous broadband.
Apparently this guy had the experience switching from Mac -> Windows and see what happens. A lot of people say it has to do with market penetration (Thanks to the M$ FUD) but nothing is less true. There are far more hosts running on any flavor of Unix or using the GNU tools or somewhat compatible tools for that matter than Windows hosts connected to the Internet.
The biggest flaw in Windows is stuff running as SYSTEM. Try this in Windows: schedule a command in a terminal to run cmd.exe the next minute using the "at" command. As you will notice, you will get your cmd.exe... running as SYSTEM. You don't even have to be a very privileged user to do that, kill your own explorer.exe and start explorer.exe in that cmd.exe you have and guess what: you're running your system as SYSTEM. This would be like running Bash, KDE or Gnome as root, although possible, you can't elevate root out of standard user rights. Same thing for hooks into IIS (.NET) or any other application, they can all elevate to SYSTEM without too much trouble. Would be like suggesting to run Bind or Apache as root, and as any Unix guru would say: Blasphemy! Blasphemy! and you would feel the vibration of Rich Stevens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens) spinning in his grave at the speed of the fan running in the server.
I think the Operating System should take care of representing the data whether it be reading a text field or error messages out loud or being able to have an overlay with bigger text. In Mac OS X you can take any text out of any application and let it be read.
That is exactly what virusscanner sellers do. They create new virusses, mutate them and test them out. Of course they don't do that in a internet or network-connected environment. In all cases this should be in a lab environment completely closed off from the exterior world.
What's the big deal here? A bunch of Windows computer with antivirus software running in a closed off network as to benchmark some programs. Happens with games, office software etc... nothing to see here, please move along.
Of course this way you also get stories (hoax, urban legends) like the one about Symantec releasing virusses to sell their software...
Does that mean we have to wait for a hurricane in order to get high speed in my area?
It's nice that they are re-building and as with that they indeed have to use new technologies because implementing old would be more expensive. It's logical to me that this happens. It's like building a new house, you can't get the cotton-covered electrical wiring so you get new better wiring. How this will translate to costs of course is another issue. Re-wiring existing technology IS also expensive and the costs/benefit is not as high.
But will this also mean that the poor in New Orleans won't be able to pay the charge for fiber-to-premises? Or will they make it so cheap so that New Orleans becomes the haven for geeks and technological companies?
1: Make kid that chooses spamming as a career and let him bury some stuff in your backyard 2: Find out that "some stuff" is gold and platinum. Oppose digging works in court, dig up gold and platinum while you have to be in court 3: ??? 4: Profit!!!
This is not criticizing either the followers of Christ, God or Darwin but quite honestly, most Americans didn't evolve anywhere past 1850, nothing changed from single people (people living up a hill driving beat-up trucks that can't spell for crap are very common in my area), corporations (it's still the friendly corporate culture where you don't need to work very hard to get somewhere, just get to know the boss or his daughter) to the government (implementing nazi-like restrictions, cowboy-like sherrifs) and especially the phonographic recording industry being mad that MP3's took over the 45rpm.
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and please leave your geek badge at the desk.
If you don't know that what you just described is purely rot13 encoding, then you shouldn't be here. You should also be able to write a correct function without any help in your favorite programming language.
I for one, encode all my information in Dual-ROT13, this makes sure that people snooping will ignore it since I wouldn't be THAT dumb.
Well, in the Netherlands the current copyright laws are so broad (thanks to **AA ass-kissing government "non-profit" organizations) that it allows for somebody to be sued because they're playing a legally purchased song. The reason: they are in fact copying the data (from hard disk to memory, buffer, cache) and circumventing the copyright protection (DRM) because technically, all data has to be buffered somewhere analog or digital without encryption to make it come out of the speakers.
And your friend is probably not a member of RIAA/MPAA. Even if he was, do you think he would see anything from that $30M?
I disagree strongly. Go to another (english) computer and the average computer user will not know what to do. The order and number of items changes and their all whacked out of place running around as a chicken without a head that the computer is broken.
...) is so loved among the real sysadmins because it lets them do stuff on all computers no matter what language the GUI is in. A GUI is for simple users and maybe some people that got privileges to change some settings, power users and sysadmins need the command line to get the computer to do stuff fast and reliable especially if you're in a multi-lingual and more important in a multi-charset environment.
Yes, we sysadmins can relate to certain icons in any language but it's not as strong as knowing command line scripting and making the computer do stuff through that. A script is in general not made to click on certain well-known places but instead executes some commands that have effect on the computer.
That is why *nix (Linux, BSD,
I am a Mac sysadmin for a large company and I can get the computers in Singapore to do the same things I let the local branches do but I have generally no idea what to do when I'm using Remote Desktop.
If the pipe develops a leak the gas has to be running full power to weld it back on again. No I'm not kidding: to weld a gas pipe, you have to run the gas. That way the pipe won't blow because there is no oxygen. Sure you might have a big flamethrower on your hands but that is nothing compared to blowing up your gas line.
What type of programmer puts such possibilities or leaks in a program? I have been programming for a long time and I never had stuff like this happening. Data integrity is one of the primary things you want to maintain and you should be extra careful when handling and altering files not your own.
Dear Windows Media Licensee,
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On August 25th, 2006, Engadget.com reported on a software tool that would allow consumers to decrypt WMDRM protected content. In response, on August 28, 2006, Microsoft released an update to the individualized blackbox component (IBX) designed to ensure that client applications using the Windows Media Format SDK version 9.5 who individualize to this latest version are robust against a new circumvention tool.
This update is not yet available for the Windows Media Format 9 Series FSDK or for users of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2.
Consumers are not at risk in any way. Content services can require that the updates be present in order to issue licenses by following the instructions below. Please note that the version number of IBX was not incremented as part of these updates to avoid delaying the release of these critical breach mitigations. Consequently, the only way to determine if the update is installed is to query the build number of the IBX. This requires code executing on the client.
To determine the build number of the IBX:
1. Ensure the PC is running the August 2005 update to Windows Media DRM. See the attached white paper for details.
2. Determine the path of the WMDRM folder. The path is stored in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DRM\DataPat
3. Identify the file name of the latest IBX. If the machine has been individualized only once, the IBX file name will be indivbox.key. Otherwise, the IBX file name is in the form indivbox_xxx.key, where xxx are digits 0-9. The file name with the greatest value of xxx will be the latest IBX.
4. Call GetFileVersionInfo() to retrieve the build version of the file identified in step 3. See [link].
5. If the IBX file version is 11.0.5497.6285 or greater, then the updated IBX is installed
Please submit questions to [email removed]
Best regards,
Windows Media Licensing Department
Microsoft Windows Digital Media Division
Basically -> the content provider CAN require that patch to be there. I don't know whether it's a separate patch through WMP or through MSUpdate but since I don't use Windows/Microsoft I can't speak for them.
must look really hot in JUST A lab coat
You don't need a freaking PhD in anything to install a wireless router. What you need to do is read the freaking documentation and apply it. If people are too dumb to understand how to program a VCR, they're imho too dumb to own a computer or for that matter install and configure a WiFi access point and should be barred from the internet until they get some education. Until then (when security becomes more costly than the ad-revenue from home-based internet access) there will be no solution for this.
Hmm... guess what it will read: The state of California does not recommend using Windows XP on this computer. Please contact your local dealer for a Linux distribution.
Even better:
Safari -> Private browsing... it gives you even a nice warning that it doesn't keep forms, history or cookies in that mode.
It is otherwise widely used hidden under proprietary MS code: Active Directory is a pure Kerberos + LDAPv3 implementation except that for synching and logging in (the essential outside communications that other platforms would like to use) is proprietary and they changed some things to the standard scheme too (SID etc.) which makes it useless for anybody but MS.
OpenDirectory by Apple is also an LDAPv3 implementation be it more pure than MS's implementation. You can combine both AD and OD on Mac to get a unified Windows-compatible login capabilities in the network that also get the benefits of using OD (force preferences and security settings on users/computers) without schema changes on either side.
RedHat also relies on LDAP for network-wide authentication in their products as does IBM and recently even Novell and lots of companies use it for different purposes in one or another way.
Since Google's CEO sits on Apple's BoD I think Google iPenis Store (now with extra DRM) should be more appropriate.
Hmm... DRM on your penis... hahahahahahahahaha
Pop in a random DVD in their player and let them (try to) skip the ads, the "you don't steal a dvd"-ad, the FBI warnings, the previews and then when you stop the movie for any reason, the fact that you have to watch that crap all over again.
if($subject == devotechristian) {
include "american pie" . $previews
}
Then tell them it will only get worse and that DVD was just a begin. Or tell $random_audiophile he won't be able to make back up copies of his "high quality master"...
On the Mac it does it when the OpenFirmware boots up (much like the mandatory beep through the internal speaker in the PC) and you CAN turn it off by turning down your volume (yes, in software) before rebooting or shutting down your computer. Make a script that does automatically mute your volume on shutdown and turns it up on startup and you're all set.
I don't know what planet you came from but all updates to tiger were free, just as all updates for panther were free and all updates for leopard will be free.
And every major release (about every 2-3 years) just costs $149 for a single license, $199 for a 5-license pack, $499 for a 10-client server (10-client limit for SMB/AFP only, not enforced) or $999 for an unlimited server license.
If your reseller decided to charge you for each subversion update (10.3.9 for example), then you better had a consultant coming to click on the software update button every time or you just were dumb and bought the release on DVD with the latest updates on it.
If you are a big user (like a company) you can even enroll in a support program where you get all updates to the latest versions for free for the next 3 years (you can buy it individually for servers, talk to your apple sales rep for more info). That would be good if you need to buy 10.4 now, you'll get 10.5 soon and you might be in for 10.6 if your lucky FOR FREE!!!
1) Does it run (on) Linux?
2) How does it work?
As for 2, I would like to know whether they just remove some bytes from the files and then everybody can play it anywhere or is it a special driver/codec that doesn't care about the WMDRM. In the first case, it should be fairly easy then to play your stuff on other hardware and platforms (as you should always be able to do without evil companies) using eg. VLC in the second case, you will have to transcode using this software to DivX or other formats to play your stuff on other players
I would have your contract with them checked and maybe even run it through a lawyer. I am looking into sattelite myself because I can't get DSL or Cable here and in those contracts it states exactly when I would get capped (after x-amount of Gbytes/hour for x-amount of continuous hours) and to what rate it would get capped to (64kbit/s). I calculated it and it would mean that I can stream constantly (24/7) 256 kb/s down while my line is actually 10M bursting. If I put this in an ever-adapting rate-limiting script I can actually get continuous broadband.
Apparently this guy had the experience switching from Mac -> Windows and see what happens. A lot of people say it has to do with market penetration (Thanks to the M$ FUD) but nothing is less true. There are far more hosts running on any flavor of Unix or using the GNU tools or somewhat compatible tools for that matter than Windows hosts connected to the Internet.
The biggest flaw in Windows is stuff running as SYSTEM. Try this in Windows: schedule a command in a terminal to run cmd.exe the next minute using the "at" command. As you will notice, you will get your cmd.exe... running as SYSTEM. You don't even have to be a very privileged user to do that, kill your own explorer.exe and start explorer.exe in that cmd.exe you have and guess what: you're running your system as SYSTEM. This would be like running Bash, KDE or Gnome as root, although possible, you can't elevate root out of standard user rights. Same thing for hooks into IIS (.NET) or any other application, they can all elevate to SYSTEM without too much trouble. Would be like suggesting to run Bind or Apache as root, and as any Unix guru would say: Blasphemy! Blasphemy! and you would feel the vibration of Rich Stevens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens) spinning in his grave at the speed of the fan running in the server.
I think the Operating System should take care of representing the data whether it be reading a text field or error messages out loud or being able to have an overlay with bigger text. In Mac OS X you can take any text out of any application and let it be read.
That is exactly what virusscanner sellers do. They create new virusses, mutate them and test them out. Of course they don't do that in a internet or network-connected environment. In all cases this should be in a lab environment completely closed off from the exterior world.
What's the big deal here? A bunch of Windows computer with antivirus software running in a closed off network as to benchmark some programs. Happens with games, office software etc... nothing to see here, please move along.
Of course this way you also get stories (hoax, urban legends) like the one about Symantec releasing virusses to sell their software...
Does that mean we have to wait for a hurricane in order to get high speed in my area?
It's nice that they are re-building and as with that they indeed have to use new technologies because implementing old would be more expensive. It's logical to me that this happens. It's like building a new house, you can't get the cotton-covered electrical wiring so you get new better wiring. How this will translate to costs of course is another issue. Re-wiring existing technology IS also expensive and the costs/benefit is not as high.
But will this also mean that the poor in New Orleans won't be able to pay the charge for fiber-to-premises? Or will they make it so cheap so that New Orleans becomes the haven for geeks and technological companies?
If that is the case, then we should ask our alien overlords to tell us how much planets we really have.
1: Make kid that chooses spamming as a career and let him bury some stuff in your backyard
2: Find out that "some stuff" is gold and platinum. Oppose digging works in court, dig up gold and platinum while you have to be in court
3: ???
4: Profit!!!
Did humans evolve? American's didn't.
This is not criticizing either the followers of Christ, God or Darwin but quite honestly, most Americans didn't evolve anywhere past 1850, nothing changed from single people (people living up a hill driving beat-up trucks that can't spell for crap are very common in my area), corporations (it's still the friendly corporate culture where you don't need to work very hard to get somewhere, just get to know the boss or his daughter) to the government (implementing nazi-like restrictions, cowboy-like sherrifs) and especially the phonographic recording industry being mad that MP3's took over the 45rpm.