a rootkit isn't even marginally similar to the others in that rootkits are ran deliberately by a local assailant. They don't propogate by any means and you are never tricked into running them. They really have nothing to do with this topic.
What DVD-R has going for it aside from compatibility is that it is cheaper than +r. Both the media and the players, but especially the media.
Anyway, a million warez monkeys out there don't care what you think since DVD-R/RW is the only format that will read in a playstation 2.
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Mplayer Revisited
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- by Joe Barr - It's been almost two years since I wrote about Mplayer, an open source movie player for Linux and other platforms. Rereading that story today, I see I was wrong when I predicted that Mplayer's popularity wouldn't last. It continues to rank as the most popular project on freshmeat.net. I recently downloaded pre-release 1 of Mplayer 1.0 to see how much things have changed, if at all, since then. What I found is that while some things have changed, others have not.
In December of 2001, Mplayer had the rep of playing more codecs than any other movie player for Linux. The list of codecs - both audio and video - that it supports today is quite impressive. And if you add the mplayerplug-in you can leverage Mplayer's repertoire and play the most popular video formats used online in Mozilla, Galeon, Netscape, and maybe Opera, too.
Mplayer also had the rep of being a tough install and of being even tougher on users - noobs or not - who were having problems with the install. In fact, I used a comment from a frustrated user posting on freshmeat.net for the title of my first article and called it "Mplayer: the project from hell." Let's start with the install issue first and save the other for last.
Buried deep in the Mplayer documentation - in the section on installation - are a few lines of text that make the process seem completely trivial. They read as follows:
Features:
* Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the GUI section before compiling.
* If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder), see the MEncoder section.
* If you have a V4L compatible TV tuner card, and wish to watch/grab and encode movies with MPlayer, read the TV input section.
* There is a neat OSD Menu support ready to be used. Check the OSD Menu section.
Then build MPlayer:./configure make make install
At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The $PREFIX/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf file is needed only when you want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of it.
Actually, there is a little more to it than that. And a lot of reading in those docs is highly recommended before you begin. Here's how I installed Mplayer from the pre-1 1.0 source code on Red Hat 9.0 running Ximian Desktop 2.
I began by going through the list of requirements and making sure that I had not just each app noted, but an acceptable release of each. Except for gcc, that is. I ignored the rants and held steady with gcc-3.2.2-5 shipped by Red Hat.
Then I was ready to download: I grabbed mplayer-1.0pre1 and the codecs I thought I needed plus a skin or two from the downloads page on the Mplayer site. I created an mplayer directory in my home directory, then used bunzip2 to decompress each of the downloads and then ran tar, which unpacked them and stowed them away in their own directories. For neatness, I created a separate tar directory and moved the tar files themselves there afterwards.
Then I entered the mplayer-1.0pre1 subdirectory tar had created and ran the configure script with the gui option:./configure --enable-gui. The script ran, but it complained about not having found a Win32 codecs directory, among a long list (more than 50 items) of other things.
I had downloaded the Win32 codecs, but they were needed in a directory I didn't have. No problem. I changed to su, created a/usr/local/lib/codecs directory, and moved the win32codecs directory there. Then I ran the configure script again. This time there was no complaint about missing Win32 codecs.
Then I went through the configure.log and checked every one of the 50 items it had noted as deficient or missing. None of them were critical. Many didn't even apply to me as they were for different platforms completely. So I started make and took a break.
I came back about 15 minutes later and found make had completed successfully. I ran make install as root, then exited to
hahah! We never spam, or send out email on mailing lists,
If all you have to do is change IPs then that means your IP was targeted directly which means, barring open relays, the spammer being blocked is YOU. My guess is some of the people on your mailling lists are reporting you as spammers.
Ha. Sure bud, you assume they were sloppy but the truth is they could very well have done everything you suggest and it's still not that damned hard to get things going on it. Your original post suggesting to not let anyone but admin install things (that fixes it!) is laughable.
The majority of Xbox linux users -also- buy Xbox software. I know that's how I do it. Splinter Cell and Halo are awesome.. so is Linux. The way I see it, I'm just a legitimate customer who found some uses for his hardware in addition to what the manufacturer intended.
Changing the laser power changes the characteristics of the audio or data being written. For audio, you can hear these changes during playback, although what you hear will depend on speaker quality, audio settings and environment.
Now why would that be? This is a digital signal is it not? So it's not like the reflectivity of the media is going to result in a different read. Each data point is either on or off, there is no in between that would vary due to reflectivity... right?
Sorry no. Gamecube piracy has been and still is nonexistant. This is after what, 2 years from release? Meanwhile the Xbox and PS2 have warez scenes that are so big they compete with porn on sheer volume sent over Usenet. I would say that Nintendos plans for keeping piracy off of the Cube has worked. The only question is how did it affect sales...
yeah.. well... you can fix the winsock problems by removing tcp/ip and then removing the mstcp tree in the registry. Reboot and then readd tcp/ip. So.. how many harddrives have you needlessly nuked? heh
While I strongly disagree with the whole concept, I have to say that people should be allowed to do what they want with their property, including having other people edit it for content.
Taken from Andrew Chens responses to the solutions:
Although this idea works for newsgroups and some other centralized services, it does not with P2P. Basically, it comes down to the fact that you must trust whomever is actually doing the checksumming, or else they can just lie and publish false checksums. In the case of P2P networks, the checksumming is done by the same person you want to figure out if you can trust! As far as I know, this is an unresolvable problem.
Actually, the checksums should still work I believe, in much the same way that file sizes work now. Consider the reason the files that are being injected are set to the same size as the real file; the purpose is to mask these files to the naked eye. Checksums could be used for the same purpose. The reason for this is because as people find good files they will tend to keep them while deleting the bad files. Sure if we only get 1 result back then we don't know one way or other, but if we have 10 results back and 8 of the 10 of the same checksum, we can assume those 8 are the good files. Of course the problem with this is that a great many people don't bother to delete bad files after downloading, but should the poisoning become too much of a problem we can entice more people to clean up their shared files by way of the client interface.
All in all, I think this would combat poisoning very well.
I doubt that Gates claim of the end of "Open Computing" is an indication of an attack on Open Source specifically, that would be business as usual and not worth mentioning, more likely hes talking about some type of digital rights management or content control. Probably something catering to the large content providers and specifically aimed at pirates.
Hah! If you stopped patting yourself on the back long enough you might realize that your argument only works if Japan and the US are seperate entities that make their own items and don't export to each other. It's a global market and how things are manufactured in Japan as compared to the US has nothign at all to do with what is available on our market since anything they make they can sell here if there is a market for it. The reason Japan has those things and we don't is exactly like the man said, they don't export it to the US because we wouldn't buy it.:P
the ISP level, bandwidth is often metered. That is simply not true, I've worked for several ISPS as network admin, my current job is Unix admin at a CELC/ISP/Cable TV company, and I've never worked for an ISP that pays for metered bandwidth, nor have I heard of one (and we sell bandwidth to several ISPs).
Sam Lantinga is one of the coolest guys in opensource today. Hes done a lot for gaming on Linux and his SDL library is being used by hundreds of projects now. I really look up to this guy.
I'm sick of people saying this. If you knew anything at all about the character you would know that the "silly romance plot" is exactly the type of thing you see in Spider-Man. In the comics the Mary Jane plotline is just as much a part of the comics as anything else, hell for the longest time it was the -primary- plotline. Personally I think the movie did an excellent job of translating it to the big screen.
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a rootkit isn't even marginally similar to the others in that rootkits are ran deliberately by a local assailant. They don't propogate by any means and you are never tricked into running them. They really have nothing to do with this topic.
Um.. if you read your own link you see that laws against subliminal advertising do in fact exist.
What DVD-R has going for it aside from compatibility is that it is cheaper than +r. Both the media and the players, but especially the media.
Anyway, a million warez monkeys out there don't care what you think since DVD-R/RW is the only format that will read in a playstation 2.
- by Joe Barr -
./configure make make install
./configure --enable-gui. The script ran, but it complained about not having found a Win32 codecs directory, among a long list (more than 50 items) of other things.
/usr/local/lib/codecs directory, and moved the win32codecs directory there. Then I ran the configure script again. This time there was no complaint about missing Win32 codecs.
It's been almost two years since I wrote about Mplayer, an open source movie player for Linux and other platforms. Rereading that story today, I see I was wrong when I predicted that Mplayer's popularity wouldn't last. It continues to rank as the most popular project on freshmeat.net. I recently downloaded pre-release 1 of Mplayer 1.0 to see how much things have changed, if at all, since then. What I found is that while some things have changed, others have not.
In December of 2001, Mplayer had the rep of playing more codecs than any other movie player for Linux. The list of codecs - both audio and video - that it supports today is quite impressive. And if you add the mplayerplug-in you can leverage Mplayer's repertoire and play the most popular video formats used online in Mozilla, Galeon, Netscape, and maybe Opera, too.
Mplayer also had the rep of being a tough install and of being even tougher on users - noobs or not - who were having problems with the install. In fact, I used a comment from a frustrated user posting on freshmeat.net for the title of my first article and called it "Mplayer: the project from hell." Let's start with the install issue first and save the other for last.
Buried deep in the Mplayer documentation - in the section on installation - are a few lines of text that make the process seem completely trivial. They read as follows:
Features:
* Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the GUI section before compiling.
* If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder), see the MEncoder section.
* If you have a V4L compatible TV tuner card, and wish to watch/grab and encode movies with MPlayer, read the TV input section.
* There is a neat OSD Menu support ready to be used. Check the OSD Menu section.
Then build MPlayer:
At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The $PREFIX/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf file is needed only when you want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of it.
Actually, there is a little more to it than that. And a lot of reading in those docs is highly recommended before you begin. Here's how I installed Mplayer from the pre-1 1.0 source code on Red Hat 9.0 running Ximian Desktop 2.
I began by going through the list of requirements and making sure that I had not just each app noted, but an acceptable release of each. Except for gcc, that is. I ignored the rants and held steady with gcc-3.2.2-5 shipped by Red Hat.
Then I was ready to download: I grabbed mplayer-1.0pre1 and the codecs I thought I needed plus a skin or two from the downloads page on the Mplayer site. I created an mplayer directory in my home directory, then used bunzip2 to decompress each of the downloads and then ran tar, which unpacked them and stowed them away in their own directories. For neatness, I created a separate tar directory and moved the tar files themselves there afterwards.
Then I entered the mplayer-1.0pre1 subdirectory tar had created and ran the configure script with the gui option:
I had downloaded the Win32 codecs, but they were needed in a directory I didn't have. No problem. I changed to su, created a
Then I went through the configure.log and checked every one of the 50 items it had noted as deficient or missing. None of them were critical. Many didn't even apply to me as they were for different platforms completely. So I started make and took a break.
I came back about 15 minutes later and found make had completed successfully. I ran make install as root, then exited to
sounds like somebody needs to get laid.
hahah!
We never spam, or send out email on mailing lists,
If all you have to do is change IPs then that means your IP was targeted directly which means, barring open relays, the spammer being blocked is YOU.
My guess is some of the people on your mailling lists are reporting you as spammers.
blah, you're just arguing things that are preference based. That has nothing to do with the screw up that is gets() AKA overflows-R-us
Ha. Sure bud, you assume they were sloppy but the truth is they could very well have done everything you suggest and it's still not that damned hard to get things going on it. Your original post suggesting to not let anyone but admin install things (that fixes it!) is laughable.
That's complete bullsht. $29/month to DSL providers is far away from being a loss, and that is what they charge in -most- cases.
The majority of Xbox linux users -also- buy Xbox software. I know that's how I do it. Splinter Cell and Halo are awesome.. so is Linux.
The way I see it, I'm just a legitimate customer who found some uses for his hardware in addition to what the manufacturer intended.
Changing the laser power changes the characteristics of the audio or data being written. For audio, you can hear these changes during playback, although what you hear will depend on speaker quality, audio settings and environment.
Now why would that be? This is a digital signal is it not? So it's not like the reflectivity of the media is going to result in a different read. Each data point is either on or off, there is no in between that would vary due to reflectivity... right?
Sorry no. Gamecube piracy has been and still is nonexistant. This is after what, 2 years from release? Meanwhile the Xbox and PS2 have warez scenes that are so big they compete with porn on sheer volume sent over Usenet. I would say that Nintendos plans for keeping piracy off of the Cube has worked. The only question is how did it affect sales...
Yeah keep telling yourself that, NERD!
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yeah.. well... you can fix the winsock problems by removing tcp/ip and then removing the mstcp tree in the registry. Reboot and then readd tcp/ip.
So.. how many harddrives have you needlessly nuked? heh
While I strongly disagree with the whole concept, I have to say that people should be allowed to do what they want with their property, including having other people edit it for content.
Oohh.. oh yeah. doh!
You're right, there really isn't any way to combat poisoning in a simple 2 peer relationship, that example extends to everything.
I suppose some sort of ranking system is the only solution, but of course the ranking system itself can be poisoned...
Taken from Andrew Chens responses to the solutions:
Although this idea works for newsgroups and some other centralized services, it does not with P2P. Basically, it comes down to the fact that you must trust whomever is actually doing the checksumming, or else they can just lie and publish false checksums. In the case of P2P networks, the checksumming is done by the same person you want to figure out if you can trust! As far as I know, this is an unresolvable problem.
Actually, the checksums should still work I believe, in much the same way that file sizes work now. Consider the reason the files that are being injected are set to the same size as the real file; the purpose is to mask these files to the naked eye. Checksums could be used for the same purpose.
The reason for this is because as people find good files they will tend to keep them while deleting the bad files. Sure if we only get 1 result back then we don't know one way or other, but if we have 10 results back and 8 of the 10 of the same checksum, we can assume those 8 are the good files.
Of course the problem with this is that a great many people don't bother to delete bad files after downloading, but should the poisoning become too much of a problem we can entice more people to clean up their shared files by way of the client interface.
All in all, I think this would combat poisoning very well.
I doubt that Gates claim of the end of "Open Computing" is an indication of an attack on Open Source specifically, that would be business as usual and not worth mentioning, more likely hes talking about some type of digital rights management or content control. Probably something catering to the large content providers and specifically aimed at pirates.
Hah! If you stopped patting yourself on the back long enough you might realize that your argument only works if Japan and the US are seperate entities that make their own items and don't export to each other. It's a global market and how things are manufactured in Japan as compared to the US has nothign at all to do with what is available on our market since anything they make they can sell here if there is a market for it. :P
The reason Japan has those things and we don't is exactly like the man said, they don't export it to the US because we wouldn't buy it.
the ISP level, bandwidth is often metered.
That is simply not true, I've worked for several ISPS as network admin, my current job is Unix admin at a CELC/ISP/Cable TV company, and I've never worked for an ISP that pays for metered bandwidth, nor have I heard of one (and we sell bandwidth to several ISPs).
What I'd like to know is, how the hell do they have 40,000 subscribers at $6/month and not be in the black?
Sam Lantinga is one of the coolest guys in opensource today. Hes done a lot for gaming on Linux and his SDL library is being used by hundreds of projects now. I really look up to this guy.
I'm sick of people saying this. If you knew anything at all about the character you would know that the "silly romance plot" is exactly the type of thing you see in Spider-Man. In the comics the Mary Jane plotline is just as much a part of the comics as anything else, hell for the longest time it was the -primary- plotline. Personally I think the movie did an excellent job of translating it to the big screen.
Yeah but, when he said 100% he was saying it as an engineer.
This time lets not sell the tech to the Israelis so they stop kicking our pilots asses so bad in mock dogfights. This could be like their handicap.