The build date on the update is March 6, before the Homebrew Channel and before an app to pirate virtual console/WiiWare games was released. If these things influenced their decision to actually release it, I don't know.
It also has javascript blocking *NIX file paths unless the useragent contains "mac". It worked before and might be fixed now, though. I don't see why they don't check that a file was actually received, you can enter a path to a non-existent file and it will report a successful upload. My university also has passwords sent in base64 for some reason, but that might be just an issue with them.
Although I don't see the other issues you mention. IIRC, I've always been able to open up pages in a new tab without issue. Clicking the logo takes me to my university's homepage, and clicking "MyBB" returns me to the main page. This is version 7.
The account management page doesn't work either, the sections just sit on loading forever (why do they use scripting for this anyway?). Thus giving no way to, say, change your password. Billing still works. Still no way to remove a credit card without adding another, though.
If you look at this list linked from the page the previous poster mentioned, you'll see several of these "mirrors" do fetch pages through open proxies.
No, the site also went down on Thanksgiving 2006 when they offered Core 360s for $100. I'm not sure how many people were trying to get that, but I'm guessing it was well over a million. All trying to connect at the same instant (although the site was down for a couple minutes before the target time as well). The Firefox downloads were a lot more spread out, so perhaps it could've handled that without problems.
The IP spoofing described in this paper wouldn't allow for that. It involves telling a tracker another IP address to use instead of the one you're connecting from. Thus he couldn't actually download the illegal content.
The article does talk about mistaken identification based on a shorter DHCP timeout than tracker timeout, which might be closer to what you're talking about. That could be extended by manually setting your IP address to one authenticated by someone else. This is especially possible in a dorm setting where you're on the same LAN. Just copy the MAC an IP addresses of someone who's already authenticated but has since disconnected.
You get two free Disturbed songs with a pre-order of their latest CD from BestBuy.com. Limited (why not just include a code with all CDs?) and only 2 of the 3 songs are included, but at least it's something.
No, as far as I can see, the article doesn't state what processor the machine will have, the summary is the only thing that says the processor will be dual core. And I'd bet that the summary is wrong, I'm under the impression from other articles that it will include the Atom 230, which is single core. Especially since the dual-core version, the Atom 330, isn't supposed to be out until Q3 2008.
Although the Atom does include HyperThreading to compensate for its lack of out of order execution, thus explaining why some people might think the solo core Atom really has two cores.
The Linux version of the Wind will be only $400 in the US. Unfortunately, it only includes a three-cell battery, which is a deal breaker for me. I'd pay $50 more for a longer battery life, but apparently that will only be available on the "standard" $550 Windows XP model.
But DS cartridges do implement technical measures to prevent being copied (encryption). They were broken. Same as every other content protection method.
Agreed, it's nowhere near as nice as XMBC. I've been using TVersity to stream media to my Xbox 360, but now it just won't connect most of the time. I've switched to using WMP11 for streaming as it actually works. Downside is I lose the automatic transcoding of unsupported media types as well as the ability to listen to shoutcast streams.
Does anyone know of a good free alternative to TVersity that actually works with the 360? Preferably cross-platform and open source?
But it can degrade when the weather isn't perfect (or at least during a thunderstorm). My DSL connection has gone out a couple times during a storm (although the connection obviously wasn't very strong to begin with).
Certainly the signal quality would degrade, but probably not as much as a minidsh connection.
Like game consoles and DVRs and such. Of course, this is hindered by these companies having their own video download service. I'd imagine a Wii Netflix channel could work (none of the videos are in HD, right?), but apparently they use WMV. That would work well with 360, but Microsoft has their own video download service.
That quiz is horribly designed. "All of these" includes "None of these", thus creating a paradox if that answer is chosen (although that's not the right answer anyway, so maybe that's just a hint). And I suppose it will say you fail if you indicate you don't agree with the AUP? I could certainly disagree with it but choose to follow it anyway. And the DMCA was created to make it illegal for people to share (some) information on the internet (or anywhere else).
I don't go to MST and my university doesn't block all P2P traffic (I think they throttle uploads though), but they do other bad things such as disallowing servers and blocking all TCP inbound connections to enforce that. Seems the freeflow of information is being stifled even on publicly funded networks.
It's more an issue of free speech and stifling access to new technologies. This is limiting the time people are allowed to use peer to peer communication for legal purposes (since using it for illegal purposes is supposed to be banned). The 6 hours thing also hinders seeding or other forms of uploading, the whole point of peer to peer networks.
They disabled that last I had Comcast. It was working fine, then they rolled out a firmware update that enabled VOD but caused the button to do nothing.
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The build date on the update is March 6, before the Homebrew Channel and before an app to pirate virtual console/WiiWare games was released. If these things influenced their decision to actually release it, I don't know.
It also has javascript blocking *NIX file paths unless the useragent contains "mac". It worked before and might be fixed now, though. I don't see why they don't check that a file was actually received, you can enter a path to a non-existent file and it will report a successful upload. My university also has passwords sent in base64 for some reason, but that might be just an issue with them.
Although I don't see the other issues you mention. IIRC, I've always been able to open up pages in a new tab without issue. Clicking the logo takes me to my university's homepage, and clicking "MyBB" returns me to the main page. This is version 7.
The account management page doesn't work either, the sections just sit on loading forever (why do they use scripting for this anyway?). Thus giving no way to, say, change your password.
Billing still works. Still no way to remove a credit card without adding another, though.
If you look at this list linked from the page the previous poster mentioned, you'll see several of these "mirrors" do fetch pages through open proxies.
No, the site also went down on Thanksgiving 2006 when they offered Core 360s for $100. I'm not sure how many people were trying to get that, but I'm guessing it was well over a million. All trying to connect at the same instant (although the site was down for a couple minutes before the target time as well). The Firefox downloads were a lot more spread out, so perhaps it could've handled that without problems.
Adults eat about 2500000-3000000 calories per day.
A $1 licensing fee is quite expensive for a $5 thumb drive or $10 hard drive enclosure.
What file did it list? It's probably picking up something in MoonSecure's virus definitions as a virus itself.
The IP spoofing described in this paper wouldn't allow for that. It involves telling a tracker another IP address to use instead of the one you're connecting from. Thus he couldn't actually download the illegal content.
The article does talk about mistaken identification based on a shorter DHCP timeout than tracker timeout, which might be closer to what you're talking about. That could be extended by manually setting your IP address to one authenticated by someone else. This is especially possible in a dorm setting where you're on the same LAN. Just copy the MAC an IP addresses of someone who's already authenticated but has since disconnected.
From the summary and article, it sounds like it was just a regular Pringles can.
You get two free Disturbed songs with a pre-order of their latest CD from BestBuy.com. Limited (why not just include a code with all CDs?) and only 2 of the 3 songs are included, but at least it's something.
No, as far as I can see, the article doesn't state what processor the machine will have, the summary is the only thing that says the processor will be dual core. And I'd bet that the summary is wrong, I'm under the impression from other articles that it will include the Atom 230, which is single core. Especially since the dual-core version, the Atom 330, isn't supposed to be out until Q3 2008.
Although the Atom does include HyperThreading to compensate for its lack of out of order execution, thus explaining why some people might think the solo core Atom really has two cores.
The Linux version of the Wind will be only $400 in the US. Unfortunately, it only includes a three-cell battery, which is a deal breaker for me. I'd pay $50 more for a longer battery life, but apparently that will only be available on the "standard" $550 Windows XP model.
But DS cartridges do implement technical measures to prevent being copied (encryption). They were broken. Same as every other content protection method.
Agreed, it's nowhere near as nice as XMBC. I've been using TVersity to stream media to my Xbox 360, but now it just won't connect most of the time. I've switched to using WMP11 for streaming as it actually works. Downside is I lose the automatic transcoding of unsupported media types as well as the ability to listen to shoutcast streams.
Does anyone know of a good free alternative to TVersity that actually works with the 360? Preferably cross-platform and open source?
Exactly what I was thinking.
Although I suppose people can use this instead.
But it can degrade when the weather isn't perfect (or at least during a thunderstorm). My DSL connection has gone out a couple times during a storm (although the connection obviously wasn't very strong to begin with).
Certainly the signal quality would degrade, but probably not as much as a minidsh connection.
I think this video applies here.
Like game consoles and DVRs and such. Of course, this is hindered by these companies having their own video download service. I'd imagine a Wii Netflix channel could work (none of the videos are in HD, right?), but apparently they use WMV. That would work well with 360, but Microsoft has their own video download service.
The power supply on my newer 360 says 175W max.
That quiz is horribly designed. "All of these" includes "None of these", thus creating a paradox if that answer is chosen (although that's not the right answer anyway, so maybe that's just a hint). And I suppose it will say you fail if you indicate you don't agree with the AUP? I could certainly disagree with it but choose to follow it anyway. And the DMCA was created to make it illegal for people to share (some) information on the internet (or anywhere else).
I don't go to MST and my university doesn't block all P2P traffic (I think they throttle uploads though), but they do other bad things such as disallowing servers and blocking all TCP inbound connections to enforce that. Seems the freeflow of information is being stifled even on publicly funded networks.
It's more an issue of free speech and stifling access to new technologies. This is limiting the time people are allowed to use peer to peer communication for legal purposes (since using it for illegal purposes is supposed to be banned). The 6 hours thing also hinders seeding or other forms of uploading, the whole point of peer to peer networks.
Or their website (nbc.com), or hulu.com.
They disabled that last I had Comcast. It was working fine, then they rolled out a firmware update that enabled VOD but caused the button to do nothing.
Whoops, meant to moderate that insightful, but accidentally chose redundant. Posting to clear it.