This technique no longer works. I work for Toshiba and I know that all the new corporate models store the password in non-volatile flash. There is a reset jumper but it only changes the CMOS settings to their defaults, the password remains. The only way to get rid of it (without changing the motherboard) is to send it in. A challenge code must be sent to one of the very few authorised Toshiba employees capable of returning a response code.
The latest corporate based Toshiba models have a challenge/response system. There is no "short this jumper for 15 seconds" or "remove the RTC battery for 20 seconds". The password is stored in non-volatile flash. You might be able to bypass the password if you have an IC handy as well as a component-level-repair soldering station.
I work for Toshiba and my job is to repair laptops. This challenge/response system is annoying for me because I actually have to send the challenge code to one of the very few authorised people in Toshiba able to give me a response.
However, a judge would make you pay your friend for everything that was taken.
So basically, if I "made available" his Playstation, but I made a pirated copy of it first so that I owned an exact copy, and I make several identical copies for the world to take, then it's exactly the same as sharing an MP3? You're right, that's exactly the same. My god, you've reached me on a level I never though possible.
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Of course porn is on the internet, but face it, the quality has always been behind hard-copies. Now internet video streams (such as YouTube) aren't so uncommon, but blow that up on a big screen and you'd probably rather watch a VHS. I'm sure many people would rather have higher quality at a cost, than settle for the free alternative. There's an dirt-cheap ugly hooker on one side, but a beautiful escort on the other.
Have you even seen their XML format? It looks like they have taken their binary format and turned it into tags. It's not like they bothered to come up with a well structured XML format. If I remember correctly, bold text is not surrounded by tags, but by a pair of empty tags with attributes controlling the bold state. This means you can have two "bold on" tags but only one "bold off" tag. This sounds like it has had heavy influence from a binary format, but maybe one you'd expect to see in the early 90s or late 80s.
I haven't looked at ODF but I sure hope they haven't got bollocks like that.
Wrong. Most people won't need Vista "Ultimate". In fact, Ultimate is not $400 either. Further, Vista is not locked to hardware.
No, you're wrong. He was comparing full versions, i.e. the cost to get everything on offer.
If you don't have 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz processor in these days, maybe you ought to be looking for a new computer. Further, "excessive" and "useless" are purely opinions. Usually, Aero INCREASES performance since it offloads rendering to the GPU.
Depends what you're doing. I had an argument with a guy here on Slashdot that said he still uses Windows 95 to do web surfing etc. I think that is a bit extreme. I'm currently running Apache on Linux on an old Toshiba 300CDS notebook computer, with 80MB RAM (I work for Toshiba). Fortunately it supports LBA drives, so I could slap something bigger than the 1.2 GB HDD it had in there. It's set up as a jukebox, with the headphone jack going to a small amp, and is remote controllable through the PC Card LAN. Uptime? About 4 months (I set it up about 4 months and 1 week ago). I tried running Gnome on it; it worked, although quite slowly.
My point is, although Vista requires today's hardware, people still have to justify the shift from XP. XP runs on some shitty stuff and can do what people want a computer to do; "I just want to do word processing and surf the web."
You don't need AV software on Windows either. Use common sense (run non-admin, don't install warez-crackz-pr0n.exe, and don't be a general moron).
True, common sense is all it takes for people like you and me, people who know about computers, security etc., but the average Joe Bloggs is a general moron with a computer. Common sense among morons results in some serious shit, and not the good kind at 88 mph. That's why antivirus software even exists. The original point was that with Linux, *BSD, OSX etc., it is a lot harder to fudge your system up, even if you're a moron. It's especially harder if the network and user privileges are correctly set up. The same applies for Windows too, of course. I think you are right with the common sense and all, but I think you'll find it's common only among geeks and nerds.
why? why must it be stored in RAM? why? fuck. jesus.
Because if it is not in RAM, it is not executable (unless it is in cache). Sure, 11 isn't stored in RAM, but 2 and 9 are, and so is the binary compiled version which adds 2 and 9 to a CPU register or place in RAM.
OK OK, maybe I don't get it, but if the key to decrypt the data is on the disc itself, and the little program that runs in a Java VM determines whether to release the key based on certified hardware, couldn't you just:
Debug a legitimate Windows BD player
Determine the data that goes to and from the BD+ program in the VM
Replicate the data that goes to the BD+ program up to the point where the program is about to release the key (which must be stored unencrypted in RAM at some point anyway)
The key is on the disc, the data is on the disc. The key could be anywhere, but the static binary that determines whether the hardware is legit must be so small anyway, and at the end of the day, it will always boil down to a yes or no answer (to release the key). Find out each point at which it says no and change it to yes.
I guess what I'm saying is, how is this any different to an actual app that looks for a dongle? The dongle contains the secret ingredient (in our case the secret ingredient is the certificate) to make the app work and do its thing, but people got around most of those by simply NOOPing out the check so that it doesn't even look. I know nothing about Java VMs, and I know it must be much more complicated than that, but how much more? The program is loaded into your OWN RAM, and the key and binary algorithm to decrypt are already there.
10 years just seems too long. The only advantage that BD+ has is that once the algorithm has been cracked, they can simply change the binary (and I imagine it is probably different for different discs anyway). But no matter what, the program always decides yes or no, and the data is undoubtedly decryptable using only the disc.
A long time ago I heard about a survey of bank customers who preferred automatic teller machines to human tellers because the computerised version is friendlier.
Yeah, but neither human tellers nor ATMs carry tasers.
Centrino is a marketing term. Any laptop that is Centrino qualified means that it has an Intel Core or Intel Core 2 processor, an Intel north- and southbridge, and Intel wireless LAN chipset.
Centrino != Core
Sometimes you will see laptops with the logo "Core Duo" and not "Centrino". This just means that the laptop is missing one of the three components.
In fact, I work for Toshiba, and my job is to fix laptops; if you remove the Intel wireless LAN module (and/or replace it with another brand), the BIOS does not display the Centrino logo anymore during boot, instead it will say "Core Duo" or "Intel Core Inside" etc etc. If you put the Intel wireless LAN module back in, the Centrino logo is displayed again.
That highly depends on what side you're on. For DRM proprietors, of course, what a restriction that would be. For end users, not so much. Restricting a restriction is still a restriction. The purpose of adding restrictions is to limit what is possible. DRM is a restriction, but that doesn't mean that restricting DRM is not. Someone's freedom is taken away either way.
I would guess that there aren't many companies who would pay to get some linux software pre-installed. I mean, what software would that be?
Perhaps "commercial" software such as Crossover (and other proprietary Windows-on-Linux tools)? Just to show new Linux users that you don't have to give up Windows all at once. Obviously the free software developers don't have enough money to give to Dell to install more respectable software to make the price difference of the Linux Dell significantly more attractive than the Windows Dell.
It's not uncommon at all for branded products to use a wide range of parts, for either localisation reasons or costs of production.
I used to work in a retail store, and people would quite often ask if I could get "this particular model" or "one made in March" etc. Of course I had no control over what one our warehouse would send us, it was always luck of the draw. Generally, it is the [dare I say it] substandard brands that do it most often. Here in NZ where Teac does not have a very decent reputation, they quite often go through a lot of internal parts but use the same SKU/model number. The Teac sales rep would tell me that they've changed something inside to make it cheaper, but they've lost this feature or whatever. That's when people would ask "have you got the Teac panel from March? I heard all the new ones don't have this feature".
Oh, and if you've been using Word since 1986, you should know by now that Undo is Ctrl-Z, just like it is in every other Windows, Linux, and Mac application (s/Ctrl/Command/). You shouldn't ever have to use a mouse to undo or redo something.
Except for Emacs, where the default for undo is Ctrl+Underscore (C-_) or control-shift-dash on most keyboards.
First of all, it's Portege (or Portégé, acute accents over the e letters). It is a play on words.
Second of all,
s/Seams/Seems/g
s/consitantly/consistently/g
s/alot/a lot/g
s/iTunes./iTunes,/g
s/tis/this/g
s/noware/nowhere/g
Seriously, noware?! You either missed your caffeine intake for the day (I know I make stupid mistakes when I don't get a serious amount of coffee in the morning), or you aren't running Firefox with its nifty built-in spell-checker!
To be honest, I do not think this is an issue specific to the M400, many mainstream Toshibas run Vista now (primarily the Satellite A100 in the retail side and Tecra A7 in the corporate side) and I have heard various things about Vista playing dirty with video playback. Well, to be honest I haven't heard anything nice about Vista. Users do not easily adjust to the new interface and new way to do things, and the default shutdown option is to sleep, not to fully power off, and users complain about battery life. Idling side by side, two identical hardware setups, one running XP, and the other running Vista, the battery life on XP is amazingly longer.
Disclaimer: I work for Toshiba, my job is fixing laptops.
I'm not trying to stop people from buying Toshibas with Vista; the hardware on an A100for example has an off-board 128MB (the more expensive A100s have 256MB) nVidia GeForce Go7300 or ATI equivalent. They have 5400RPM 80GB drives, and 2 x 512MB PC4200 RAM modules (although many now come with 2 x 1GB). Being Centrino, they also come with Intel's latest Wireless chipset (WM3945). They also all come with Bluetooth. With a 15.4" Widescreen clear-bright WXGA LCD module and a dual-layer DVD burner (and 5-in-1 multicard reader), it's not exactly a sub-par machine!
The Portege M400 isn't sub-par either. It's Vista that's sub-par.
Tubgirl's gross-out value was slightly ruined for me after I found out it's actually an orange juice enema she's expelling, rather than liquid poop, which is the instinctive assumption.
I don't care what it is. It's flying out of her ass and into her face.
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This technique no longer works. I work for Toshiba and I know that all the new corporate models store the password in non-volatile flash. There is a reset jumper but it only changes the CMOS settings to their defaults, the password remains. The only way to get rid of it (without changing the motherboard) is to send it in. A challenge code must be sent to one of the very few authorised Toshiba employees capable of returning a response code.
The latest corporate based Toshiba models have a challenge/response system. There is no "short this jumper for 15 seconds" or "remove the RTC battery for 20 seconds". The password is stored in non-volatile flash. You might be able to bypass the password if you have an IC handy as well as a component-level-repair soldering station.
I work for Toshiba and my job is to repair laptops. This challenge/response system is annoying for me because I actually have to send the challenge code to one of the very few authorised people in Toshiba able to give me a response.
So basically, if I "made available" his Playstation, but I made a pirated copy of it first so that I owned an exact copy, and I make several identical copies for the world to take, then it's exactly the same as sharing an MP3? You're right, that's exactly the same. My god, you've reached me on a level I never though possible.
Of course porn is on the internet, but face it, the quality has always been behind hard-copies. Now internet video streams (such as YouTube) aren't so uncommon, but blow that up on a big screen and you'd probably rather watch a VHS. I'm sure many people would rather have higher quality at a cost, than settle for the free alternative. There's an dirt-cheap ugly hooker on one side, but a beautiful escort on the other.
Have you even seen their XML format? It looks like they have taken their binary format and turned it into tags. It's not like they bothered to come up with a well structured XML format. If I remember correctly, bold text is not surrounded by tags, but by a pair of empty tags with attributes controlling the bold state. This means you can have two "bold on" tags but only one "bold off" tag. This sounds like it has had heavy influence from a binary format, but maybe one you'd expect to see in the early 90s or late 80s.
I haven't looked at ODF but I sure hope they haven't got bollocks like that.
No, you're wrong. He was comparing full versions, i.e. the cost to get everything on offer.
Depends what you're doing. I had an argument with a guy here on Slashdot that said he still uses Windows 95 to do web surfing etc. I think that is a bit extreme. I'm currently running Apache on Linux on an old Toshiba 300CDS notebook computer, with 80MB RAM (I work for Toshiba). Fortunately it supports LBA drives, so I could slap something bigger than the 1.2 GB HDD it had in there. It's set up as a jukebox, with the headphone jack going to a small amp, and is remote controllable through the PC Card LAN. Uptime? About 4 months (I set it up about 4 months and 1 week ago). I tried running Gnome on it; it worked, although quite slowly.
My point is, although Vista requires today's hardware, people still have to justify the shift from XP. XP runs on some shitty stuff and can do what people want a computer to do; "I just want to do word processing and surf the web."
True, common sense is all it takes for people like you and me, people who know about computers, security etc., but the average Joe Bloggs is a general moron with a computer. Common sense among morons results in some serious shit, and not the good kind at 88 mph. That's why antivirus software even exists. The original point was that with Linux, *BSD, OSX etc., it is a lot harder to fudge your system up, even if you're a moron. It's especially harder if the network and user privileges are correctly set up. The same applies for Windows too, of course. I think you are right with the common sense and all, but I think you'll find it's common only among geeks and nerds.
- Debug a legitimate Windows BD player
- Determine the data that goes to and from the BD+ program in the VM
- Replicate the data that goes to the BD+ program up to the point where the program is about to release the key (which must be stored unencrypted in RAM at some point anyway)
The key is on the disc, the data is on the disc. The key could be anywhere, but the static binary that determines whether the hardware is legit must be so small anyway, and at the end of the day, it will always boil down to a yes or no answer (to release the key). Find out each point at which it says no and change it to yes.I guess what I'm saying is, how is this any different to an actual app that looks for a dongle? The dongle contains the secret ingredient (in our case the secret ingredient is the certificate) to make the app work and do its thing, but people got around most of those by simply NOOPing out the check so that it doesn't even look. I know nothing about Java VMs, and I know it must be much more complicated than that, but how much more? The program is loaded into your OWN RAM, and the key and binary algorithm to decrypt are already there.
10 years just seems too long. The only advantage that BD+ has is that once the algorithm has been cracked, they can simply change the binary (and I imagine it is probably different for different discs anyway). But no matter what, the program always decides yes or no, and the data is undoubtedly decryptable using only the disc.
What if you recorded it simultaneously using two VCRs, and gave someone just one of your copies?
It's tuatara, not tutuara.
Centrino is a marketing term. Any laptop that is Centrino qualified means that it has an Intel Core or Intel Core 2 processor, an Intel north- and southbridge, and Intel wireless LAN chipset.
Centrino != Core
Sometimes you will see laptops with the logo "Core Duo" and not "Centrino". This just means that the laptop is missing one of the three components.
In fact, I work for Toshiba, and my job is to fix laptops; if you remove the Intel wireless LAN module (and/or replace it with another brand), the BIOS does not display the Centrino logo anymore during boot, instead it will say "Core Duo" or "Intel Core Inside" etc etc. If you put the Intel wireless LAN module back in, the Centrino logo is displayed again.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino
That highly depends on what side you're on. For DRM proprietors, of course, what a restriction that would be. For end users, not so much. Restricting a restriction is still a restriction. The purpose of adding restrictions is to limit what is possible. DRM is a restriction, but that doesn't mean that restricting DRM is not. Someone's freedom is taken away either way.
Touché!
You know, Venus has a day longer than it's year . . . and it also spins backwards compared to the other planets in our solar system.
They'd have to make a screen big enough for her lips first. Even with todays 42" size TVs her lips are just under life-size.
Perhaps "commercial" software such as Crossover (and other proprietary Windows-on-Linux tools)? Just to show new Linux users that you don't have to give up Windows all at once. Obviously the free software developers don't have enough money to give to Dell to install more respectable software to make the price difference of the Linux Dell significantly more attractive than the Windows Dell.
President Skroob:
That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!
It's not uncommon at all for branded products to use a wide range of parts, for either localisation reasons or costs of production.
I used to work in a retail store, and people would quite often ask if I could get "this particular model" or "one made in March" etc. Of course I had no control over what one our warehouse would send us, it was always luck of the draw. Generally, it is the [dare I say it] substandard brands that do it most often. Here in NZ where Teac does not have a very decent reputation, they quite often go through a lot of internal parts but use the same SKU/model number. The Teac sales rep would tell me that they've changed something inside to make it cheaper, but they've lost this feature or whatever. That's when people would ask "have you got the Teac panel from March? I heard all the new ones don't have this feature".
Can't be, or you'd have a chair-shaped bruise on your forehead by now . . .
It's 34.7 MB because it says it's for IE7 but I bet secretly it is patching system files.
I think the GP is implying that it is to no surprise that it is a result of dry joints; not that the laptop only lasted one year.
Except for Emacs, where the default for undo is Ctrl+Underscore (C-_) or control-shift-dash on most keyboards.
First of all, it's Portege (or Portégé, acute accents over the e letters). It is a play on words.
Second of all,
Seriously, noware?! You either missed your caffeine intake for the day (I know I make stupid mistakes when I don't get a serious amount of coffee in the morning), or you aren't running Firefox with its nifty built-in spell-checker!
To be honest, I do not think this is an issue specific to the M400, many mainstream Toshibas run Vista now (primarily the Satellite A100 in the retail side and Tecra A7 in the corporate side) and I have heard various things about Vista playing dirty with video playback. Well, to be honest I haven't heard anything nice about Vista. Users do not easily adjust to the new interface and new way to do things, and the default shutdown option is to sleep, not to fully power off, and users complain about battery life. Idling side by side, two identical hardware setups, one running XP, and the other running Vista, the battery life on XP is amazingly longer.
Disclaimer: I work for Toshiba, my job is fixing laptops.
I'm not trying to stop people from buying Toshibas with Vista; the hardware on an A100for example has an off-board 128MB (the more expensive A100s have 256MB) nVidia GeForce Go7300 or ATI equivalent. They have 5400RPM 80GB drives, and 2 x 512MB PC4200 RAM modules (although many now come with 2 x 1GB). Being Centrino, they also come with Intel's latest Wireless chipset (WM3945). They also all come with Bluetooth. With a 15.4" Widescreen clear-bright WXGA LCD module and a dual-layer DVD burner (and 5-in-1 multicard reader), it's not exactly a sub-par machine!
The Portege M400 isn't sub-par either. It's Vista that's sub-par.
I don't care what it is. It's flying out of her ass and into her face.