Will this allow us to boot other region dvds as well (JP or EU games)
I don't think so. They've allegedly hacked the DVD firmware to stop it from telling the difference between original discs and copies and reporting that to the OS. I doubt that the region coding is at the physical media level. I don't think it is in normal video DVDs either. As I understand it the region coding is part of the CSS encryption scheme.
In short, you would probably have to change some of the data on the disc to make it look like it came from a different region. Then the disc no longer passes the signature check, which hasn't been broken. And probably won't be unless there are major mistakes in the implementation since it uses pretty strong crypto.
How many 3D Marks Intel iMac gets (or will get when someone hacks drivers)?
Doesn't it come with Intel integrated video (the GMA950 or something like that)?
If so, I'd estimate it would get around 12 3D Marks. If someone hacks the drivers and overclocks the living fuck out of it, you may even get 14.
Of course 3D Mark is a DirectX benchmark and the Mac uses OpenGL. So you would have to wait until a version of VMWare came out for the Intel Mac and then use its experimental Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer. Unfortunately 3D Mark only produces integer results - depending on whether they round up or down you would either get 0 or 1 3D Mark.
I think you'd be better off sticking with a PC if you want to run 3D Mark a lot.
if their fab processes have improved recently it doesn't change my mind and it isn't FUD - it's honest first hand expirience with thei craptacular hardware.
So what exactly was the problem with the fab processes? The mask ? The feature size? The dielectric? Current leakage? What?
Oh I'm sorry, have I caught you trolling about something you don't even understand? How embarassing.
Bottom line is i don't trust them and they have done nothing to regain my trust.
I bet they're devastated about that. Who were you talking about anyway? ATI or Nvidia? I can't be bothered to try and read your original post. Trying to parse the one above gave me a headache.
why would you pay all that cash for a great workstation to just take it out the box & dump XP on it....
Well speaking personally, I'm going to buy a MacBook Pro and install XP on it purely to piss off you and the rest of the Apple zealots.
For an encore I'm then going to video myself smashing it into thousands of little pieces and post it on the net. I figure that at least a few thousand zealots will die due to excessive rage. And that has to be worth a couple of thousand dollars.
Where can I get this? I haven't found any details or downloads yet...
As this is for a Mac, there will be no free download. It will instead be provided as a $25 shareware package - just like every other useful little utility.
I'll preface this comment with the statement that I don't actually know enough about kerberos and ldap to actually offer advice. I do know, however, that Open Directory that ships with Apple's OS X Server product, it uses kerberos and ldap to handle user authentication. Just thought it would be worth mentioning.
So to paraphrase your comment - I don't really know anything about this subject and I can't really contribute anything useful or relevant to the original question, but I thought it might be a good opportunity to mention Apple's products. Go Apple!
I predict that you will be modded insightful and my comment will be modded down.
Yeah, I noticed this when i doubled-back and read the article in depth. i read the summary, and looked over the list and was astonished when neither of these BSD distros was mentioned, as they are pretty well known for being a high security distribution.
If you read the article so thoroughly, how did you miss the fact that it was about Live CDs used for security testing? The BSD Live CDs may well be very secure, but they do not come with hundreds of auditing tools. They are therefore out of scope for the article.
Don't know about security though. But since Xgl is fairly new I wouldn't trust it in a server.
You have missed the point. If it weren't for my unshakeable faith in the Slashdot community, I might even suspect you of not having read the article.
This is about Live CDs designed for security auditing, not the security of Live CDs. Although Nmap with OpenGL support would be pretty cool - watching thousands of Phong shaded, texture mapped SYN packets flying at the target host and either bouncing off or penetrating would make my day. Someone page Dan Kaminsky - he's great at cool shit like that.
Note that this simulation of a virus is probably not "perfect": there are errors, and however small and insignificant they may be at this scale, they may introduce crippling inaccuracies the moment you try to simulate a larger system with a certain number of viruses(each introducing their own error factors), or one system over a more significant amount of time.
This is an excellent point. An example I once heard concerned simulating a game of Snooker (for our Leftpondian cousins, think Pool). The basic premise was that if your computer simulation missed out a single atom somewhere on the edge of our galaxy, your simulation would be wildly divergent from reality after only 2 or 3 shots. And if you missed a butterfly I guess you'd be even more screwed.
I am hated for many reasons, many are good reasons, the least of which is the Mac.
I don't think he hates people just because they own Macs. I think he hates people because they own Macs and can't shut up about how fucking great they are, whether they are asked or not. The sort of people who simply cannot see a story about running anything other than OSX on a Mac on any public forum without saying, "LOL Why wuld u do that?? It's like putting a Honda engine in a Ferrari. LOL". It just seems to me that Mac owners tend to see being a close-minded, corporate kool-aid drinking, public irritant as a state to aspire to.
Of course in reality I have yet to encounter anyone who owns a Mac that doesn't fall into that group. I do however conceed that it is theoretically possible that such people may exist.
...and badly at that...take a look at the "Real VGA!" photo...thats pretty clearly a BAD! Bad! photoshoping...
Hi, would you mind letting us know where you got the experience to be able to tell when a picture has been Photoshopped?
When you've done that can you also provide a detailed explanation of the various visual anomalies that have led you to this conclusion?
Sorry for all the questions, it's just that I have an aversion to people who claim expertise in a subject without providing evidence. While I am certain that you're not just another loud mouthed, attention seeking Slashtard there may be others who are not so trusting.
In reality, all they are doing is giving those same corporations justification for not actually fixing the core problems which are hype, over-marketing, inflated prices & poor quality products.
So what you are saying is that if there was no piracy, the corporations wouldn't be able to justify producing low quality products and selling them for high prices?
To which I would have to point out that no-one has ever pirated a WinModem but they are still produced.
Actually the WinModem line came to me at the last second. I was just going to point out that you were fucking deluded, but some mods consider that flamebait, even when it is amply justifed by the original post.
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And according to ATI Crossfired Radeon X1900 XTX cards are bottle necked by current CPUs.
Any modern graphics card will be bottlenecked by the CPU if you run it at 640x480. Are they saying that their cards are CPU limited when they run FEAR at 2480x1536 with 16x AA? Because if they are, they are full of shit. In fact I suspect ATI have always been full of shit - because occasionally they squeeze out a little bit and call it a driver.
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16, at 96 or even 192 kHz. People who do serious audio work do it with cards requiring a lot more than consumer soundcards like the latest offering from Creative.
Right then, let's assume 32bit sampling at 192kHz. That is approx 768 kilobytes per second. A plain old PCI bus can do 133 Megabytes per second - that's well over 100 simultaneous channels even allowing for overhead.
Would you like to explain to us in a bit more detail why you think someone needs a 16 lane PCIe soundcard? I breathlessly await your business case for a soundcard than can record over 5,000 channels of 32bit, 192Khz sound.
And please don't claim that professionals might need something that can do more than 32/192 in the future. That would just make you look silly.
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Will this allow us to boot other region dvds as well (JP or EU games)
I don't think so. They've allegedly hacked the DVD firmware to stop it from telling the difference between original discs and copies and reporting that to the OS. I doubt that the region coding is at the physical media level. I don't think it is in normal video DVDs either. As I understand it the region coding is part of the CSS encryption scheme.
In short, you would probably have to change some of the data on the disc to make it look like it came from a different region. Then the disc no longer passes the signature check, which hasn't been broken. And probably won't be unless there are major mistakes in the implementation since it uses pretty strong crypto.
Parent hit the nail right on the head. It's called plausible deniability.
Oh. I thought you wanted him modded up for the torrent.
I really should try and be less cynical.
Unfortunately 3D Mark only produces integer results - depending on whether they round up or down you would either get 0 or 1 3D Mark.
Sorry, I forgot to mention this is for 3D Mark 2001. For 2005 you would have to divide the results by about 20. So that would give you......
DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR: Calling exception handler.....
Exception handler not found....
Stack dump in progress....
Brain Rebooting at 12:44 GMT.
Bootloader v1.01 (C) Yarweh Industries 4004 BC
DRM Key not found - disabling psychic networking...
How many 3D Marks Intel iMac gets (or will get when someone hacks drivers)?
Doesn't it come with Intel integrated video (the GMA950 or something like that)?
If so, I'd estimate it would get around 12 3D Marks. If someone hacks the drivers and overclocks the living fuck out of it, you may even get 14.
Of course 3D Mark is a DirectX benchmark and the Mac uses OpenGL. So you would have to wait until a version of VMWare came out for the Intel Mac and then use its experimental Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer. Unfortunately 3D Mark only produces integer results - depending on whether they round up or down you would either get 0 or 1 3D Mark.
I think you'd be better off sticking with a PC if you want to run 3D Mark a lot.
I guess that shows the slashdot editors actually do read their site sometimes after all!
Or maybe they read the actual article before posting it?
Sorry, just my little joke.
if their fab processes have improved recently it doesn't change my mind and it isn't FUD - it's honest first hand expirience with thei craptacular hardware.
So what exactly was the problem with the fab processes? The mask ? The feature size? The dielectric? Current leakage? What?
Oh I'm sorry, have I caught you trolling about something you don't even understand? How embarassing.
Bottom line is i don't trust them and they have done nothing to regain my trust.
I bet they're devastated about that. Who were you talking about anyway? ATI or Nvidia? I can't be bothered to try and read your original post. Trying to parse the one above gave me a headache.
why would you pay all that cash for a great workstation to just take it out the box & dump XP on it....
Well speaking personally, I'm going to buy a MacBook Pro and install XP on it purely to piss off you and the rest of the Apple zealots.
For an encore I'm then going to video myself smashing it into thousands of little pieces and post it on the net. I figure that at least a few thousand zealots will die due to excessive rage. And that has to be worth a couple of thousand dollars.
Where can I get this? I haven't found any details or downloads yet...
As this is for a Mac, there will be no free download. It will instead be provided as a $25 shareware package - just like every other useful little utility.
for most users configurable screensaver-hacks is just something that will twist their minds.
Ah, so you're a GNOME developer then?
I'll preface this comment with the statement that I don't actually know enough about kerberos and ldap to actually offer advice. I do know, however, that Open Directory that ships with Apple's OS X Server product, it uses kerberos and ldap to handle user authentication. Just thought it would be worth mentioning.
So to paraphrase your comment - I don't really know anything about this subject and I can't really contribute anything useful or relevant to the original question, but I thought it might be a good opportunity to mention Apple's products. Go Apple!
I predict that you will be modded insightful and my comment will be modded down.
Power (Watts) = Volts (in the U.S, ~120v) * Current.
You're failing to take account of it being AC.
What's wrong with making this a DIY project and doing a little math along the way?
You win at irony!
P.S. Don't bother to reply to this 'cause I rarely ever check my posts.
So I guess there's little chance that you'll see me calling you a smug little cocksucker then?
thedletterman - Sorry about the above flame. I misread your comment - obviously you did notice. That does make you the odd one out though...
Yeah, I noticed this when i doubled-back and read the article in depth. i read the summary, and looked over the list and was astonished when neither of these BSD distros was mentioned, as they are pretty well known for being a high security distribution.
If you read the article so thoroughly, how did you miss the fact that it was about Live CDs used for security testing? The BSD Live CDs may well be very secure, but they do not come with hundreds of auditing tools. They are therefore out of scope for the article.
It is very good to be security conscious. If you really want to benefit by the advances in Unix, try a secure OS like Tomahawk Desktop.
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Initially I thought this was just a really lame astroturf for what is simply yet another minor desktop Linux distro, but then I looked at their site.
Turns out it does have some unique features. For instance not only does it come with a firewall enabled, it comes with a picture of a firewall too! Check this out - http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/images/inkscape-
Beat that OpenBSD!
Don't know about security though. But since Xgl is fairly new I wouldn't trust it in a server.
You have missed the point. If it weren't for my unshakeable faith in the Slashdot community, I might even suspect you of not having read the article.
This is about Live CDs designed for security auditing, not the security of Live CDs. Although Nmap with OpenGL support would be pretty cool - watching thousands of Phong shaded, texture mapped SYN packets flying at the target host and either bouncing off or penetrating would make my day. Someone page Dan Kaminsky - he's great at cool shit like that.
Note that this simulation of a virus is probably not "perfect": there are errors, and however small and insignificant they may be at this scale, they may introduce crippling inaccuracies the moment you try to simulate a larger system with a certain number of viruses(each introducing their own error factors), or one system over a more significant amount of time.
This is an excellent point. An example I once heard concerned simulating a game of Snooker (for our Leftpondian cousins, think Pool). The basic premise was that if your computer simulation missed out a single atom somewhere on the edge of our galaxy, your simulation would be wildly divergent from reality after only 2 or 3 shots. And if you missed a butterfly I guess you'd be even more screwed.
Infected Pus.
Dude, at least try and use the correct terminology. It's called Windows.
I am hated for many reasons, many are good reasons, the least of which is the Mac.
I don't think he hates people just because they own Macs. I think he hates people because they own Macs and can't shut up about how fucking great they are, whether they are asked or not. The sort of people who simply cannot see a story about running anything other than OSX on a Mac on any public forum without saying, "LOL Why wuld u do that?? It's like putting a Honda engine in a Ferrari. LOL". It just seems to me that Mac owners tend to see being a close-minded, corporate kool-aid drinking, public irritant as a state to aspire to.
Of course in reality I have yet to encounter anyone who owns a Mac that doesn't fall into that group. I do however conceed that it is theoretically possible that such people may exist.
...and badly at that...take a look at the "Real VGA!" photo...thats pretty clearly a BAD! Bad! photoshoping...
Hi, would you mind letting us know where you got the experience to be able to tell when a picture has been Photoshopped?
When you've done that can you also provide a detailed explanation of the various visual anomalies that have led you to this conclusion?
Sorry for all the questions, it's just that I have an aversion to people who claim expertise in a subject without providing evidence. While I am certain that you're not just another loud mouthed, attention seeking Slashtard there may be others who are not so trusting.
In reality, all they are doing is giving those same corporations justification for not actually fixing the core problems which are hype, over-marketing, inflated prices & poor quality products.
So what you are saying is that if there was no piracy, the corporations wouldn't be able to justify producing low quality products and selling them for high prices?
To which I would have to point out that no-one has ever pirated a WinModem but they are still produced.
Actually the WinModem line came to me at the last second. I was just going to point out that you were fucking deluded, but some mods consider that flamebait, even when it is amply justifed by the original post.
And according to ATI Crossfired Radeon X1900 XTX cards are bottle necked by current CPUs.
Any modern graphics card will be bottlenecked by the CPU if you run it at 640x480. Are they saying that their cards are CPU limited when they run FEAR at 2480x1536 with 16x AA? Because if they are, they are full of shit. In fact I suspect ATI have always been full of shit - because occasionally they squeeze out a little bit and call it a driver.
16, at 96 or even 192 kHz. People who do serious audio work do it with cards requiring a lot more than consumer soundcards like the latest offering from Creative.
Right then, let's assume 32bit sampling at 192kHz. That is approx 768 kilobytes per second. A plain old PCI bus can do 133 Megabytes per second - that's well over 100 simultaneous channels even allowing for overhead.
Would you like to explain to us in a bit more detail why you think someone needs a 16 lane PCIe soundcard? I breathlessly await your business case for a soundcard than can record over 5,000 channels of 32bit, 192Khz sound.
And please don't claim that professionals might need something that can do more than 32/192 in the future. That would just make you look silly.
ImageMagick's API is notoriously unstable and new releases don't even bother with backwards compatibility.
Yeah, it sure is a shame that those old versions stop working the second they release the new ones.
Its called matlab
No, it's called either "posting your comment in the wrong story" or "shut up bitch, you have no idea what you're talking about".