cooper
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Boot off of your own CD/Floppy/USB stick?
Or maybe even put your own command.com (or whatever it's called these days) on one and just run it in place.
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...I only experiment with Linux until it supports my Laptop's gfx chipset better :)
Which is a...?
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There's a track by The Excrementory Grindfuckers (chances are, you won't know and most certainly won't appreciate this german band) who put the dialogue of a woman having sex through such a speech synthesys. It was a hoot!
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Not without a proper search warrant will they get through the door.
Who says they didn't have one? Plus, they might've even let them in. Or perhaps even the people who own the place they held the party in allowed it. Or they signed some contract that would make this a possibility.
Spouting about guns and what have you is the redneck cowboy mentality most europeans hate about the US. We don't have a right to bear arms (in fact, we have laws against it) and I personally feel a whole lot safer because of it.
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I run Linux on my home machines as well as the laptop I use for work.
For those rare instances where I simply *MUST* use Windows, my employer has graciously supplied me with a VMWare Workstation license. :P
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As the people in The Netherlands say: "France. Beautiful country. Such a pity it's filled with French people".
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here's the cut out of it (if ur bored u can translate this one aswell ....)
Here we go:
Computer Crime Unit intercepts 150000 illegal files at LAN-PartyComputerfreaks unimpressed by raid
150000 illegally downloaded music- and moviefiles valued at roughly 75000 euro, that's what the Computer Crime Unit caught when they raided a LAN-party in Kruibeke saturday morning. The raid was the 'talk of the weekend' on internet forums, but the computerfreaks aren't really impressed. 'What a fucked up thing to do' is the general opinion.
After a night of non-stop gaming we were suddenly visited by the police, who came rushing in like we were the worst band of criminals on earth. It was, as they put it, 'A check for illegal PC activity', writes Nova in his report of what happened to him saturday morning at the Sint Joris Instituut in Kruibeke. Some thirty youngsters, including a bunch of juveniles, were just entering their second day of the planned 3 day LAN-party, where as is customary people play games and share computer files, when the police raided the place. "They insisted we stood in the back of the room and left our computers running. We were searched and were barely allowed to notify our parents."
Eventually the Judicial Service of the Aalst courts (a.k.a. the regional chapter of the Belgian FBI) confiscated 15 PCs and 5 servers, which were estimated to contain 150000 illegal files. Compared to the previous raid, at De Pinte in may of last year where 40000 files were discovered, an unexpected success. However in the online community of LAN gamers and computerfreaks they aren't as impressed with the catch. To the contrary, they wonder why the police troubles themselves with these small players.
"This once again proves we have a serious problem here in Belgium", says Kurt on the website of The Others, the clan that organised the LAN-party. "We've got pedophiles, dealers, etc. running around freely and they assign a 13 man police force for something like this. Downright rediculous!". And Kurt isn't the only person underwhelmed with saturday's raid. Given the amount of people present it's not without merit: barely 30 people, while people regularly organise LAN-parties with hundreds, and up to a thousand visitors. The yield however was something worth mentioning.
"A really fucked-up thing to do", says Jhonnie and the other members of the online hangout of The Others, who are convinced the sole purpose of the police was to harrass. The adults face being sent to the correctional court for fencing and information fraud. The juvelines are sent to the juvenile judge, but what matters most to the LAN-goers are their precious computer parts, who are reported to have been confiscated, complete with keyboard and mouse.
"If you mess with the bull, you get the horns. A LAN-party is for gaming, not leeching (downloading without supplying any files of your own)", says Edris at the forum, but he also wonders aloud why "the smurfs chose to raid these guys". He's convinced someone ratted them out, or were the organisers stupid enough to mention on their flier that there would be a lot of leeching going on? After all, that was why the police did their previous raid.
However according to Pieter De Graef, crewmember of the 'LAN-party.be' website, the raid in Kruibeke isn't that unexpected. The police targets smaller gatherings in an effort to reduce the illegal downloading at the bigger parties. For instance, next month there's a mega-LAN-party. I think that by doing this raid they sent out a clear signal that they most certainly can act against these practices. And it's working."
According to De Graef there are quite a few gamers who prefer not to leech, fearing a raid. "The gamers might be more cautious about when and where they download, but if they will stop is a different question altogether."
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I often found the protective tube they put the cable in is too inflexible. Under those circumstances I think it's reasonable to make your own, but it still looks like a TON of work and probably not worth the effort. Go with SATA and be happy that way.
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Well, I have that too of course. Not THX, but still... :)
Those Mini-ITXes can spit out Dolby surround sound right off the board.
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Codeweavers is already looking into porting Wine to the OSX x86 environment. There was something about that in the last Wine Weekly News. See http://www.winehq.com.
If the apple workstation itself is the problem, you can get a generic x86 box and using Wine run the real Photoshop on it. It should be a well-tested app there. Check Wine's AppDB to make sure.
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I'm wondering how they found out... doubt it was anything as servere as intercepted mail/IM. Maybe people on IRC talking publicilly about sharing the collections... Or maybe just a good old fashioned tip-off? Anything you do on the internet, passworded or not, is kinda public domain really.
As I was reading up on this article and looking for more info, I discovered a raid they performed sometime last year. They raided that party because the invite to the party promised availability of thousands of pornographic images, thousands of movies and tens of thousands of MP3's. Someone forwarded the invite to the law who then chose to raid the place.
Given the size of this party I highly doubt these guys were as brazen as that group.
What I suspect is that this is something akin to that happens here (The Netherlands) each year, usually around December. I suspect that's shortly before the budget rounds come up or something. Suddenly the Dutch branch of the MPAA/RIAA, Stichting Brein, raid an illegal CD pressing plant or some such. They play it out big in the news, so people know they exist and COULD BE GOING AFTER YOU NEXT! In the end some poor schmuck who was earning about 10.000 a month with his setup lost all his servers and got a 25000 fine. So in about 4 months he's recouperated his losses and is once again raking in the cash. Things go on business as usual. By then the people from Stichting Brein have long since returned to their comfy desks, and the police have returned to operating speed traps at stupid locations.
But, thinking about it, a group of 30 people could probally have afforded to download that much from AllofMP3.com and then some (if you consider that anyone above 18 is likely to be earning or a student). Yup, its unlikely, but possible.Which begs the question, if you download music from allofmp3.com, and then get raided, are they legal files? Or is it akin to buying warez?
I'm guessing the police simply asked the persons in question something like "Which of these files are from movies or CDs you actually own?" and the participants responded with "None".
Most of the outrage on the forums is because people consider file sharing an integral part of the LAN party experience. In my time it was primarily about playing games, but that might just be me.
Anyways, apparently a good chunk of press was drummed up to record the raid (notice any similarity with the dutch CD piracy thing I wrote about?) who subsequently interviewed some participants. These stupid fucks chose to use their time to question the illegality of their actions. They felt they had the right to share these files, and went on national television to say so. If there's ever a list of truly boneheaded things you can do after a raid, this would probably make it to the top-5...
The forum people also suspect the police chose this party for their raid precisely BECAUSE it was a small one. You don't need 6 vans of police officers in riot gear to clear out a place with 20 gamers. I'm guessing they did this simply to make the news. Their effectiveness demonstrated, they can now petition whatever bosses they have for more funds, and go on pissing away these funds all year without having to raise a finger.
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Another article about this same raid. Source.
Raid at computerpartyKruibeke police and the Computer Crime Unit of the Aalster region shut down a computer party during a raid in the east-Flanders town of Bazel yesterday morning. Since the start of the meeting friday evening the participants had already illegally downloaded and shared 150000 music and movie files. It's been estimated that in doing so they evaded 75000 euros in copyright royalty payments. 15 computers and 5 servers were confiscated. "At the time of the raid about 20 participants were present, including some minors. The youngest was 11", said Annelore Bruneel, spokesperson of the Dendermonde courts. Everybody was questioned, but nobody was detained. The participants cooperated fully with the investigation. All adults will be prosecuted for violations of both the computerlaw and the copyright law, as well as fencing. The juveniles will be referred to the juvenile judge. The justice department had meticulously planned the raid.
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Translation of the newspaper clipping:
150000 illegal files confiscated in KruibekeThis saturday-morning, police raided a "LAN-party", a gathering of computer enthousiasts, in Kruibeke and confiscated computers and servers. Roughly 150000 illegally downloaded files were present on them.
Kruibeke police and the Computer Crime Unit of GDA ("Gerechtelijke Dienst van het Arrondissement". Rough translation: Judicial Court Service. They appear to be Belgium's FBI) Aalst conducted the raid. At a so-called LAN-party computer files are exchanged and games are played. The party started friday evening and was supposed to continue until sunday afternoon. Some thirty participants were present at the time of the raid. Police confiscated 15 PCs and 5 servers. On them they found 150000 illegally downloaded music and movie files, totalling 75000 euros in evaded copyright royalty payments.
Amongst the participants several juveniles were present. The youngest participant was barely 11 years old. None of the participants were arrained (I think they mean jailed). However the case will be investigated further by the justice department.
The adults risk being sent to the correctional court on charges of fencing and 'information fraud' (best translation I can think of). The juveniles will be sent to the juvenile court.
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i like it , .... :D lil more info on different front ends and flashing the exbox wud've been handy tho :D
The problem is that there are a *LOT* of IPTV shows that already showed you this. Off the top of my head Systm, StepONE and The Glitch.
It's kinda like the whole wardriving thing. It's already been beaten to death by most other shows out there. Either show that you're doing something cool with it, or don't bother and refer the viewer to some such shows.
As for this show, I thought it was pretty good, though I would've preferred to see a little scripting being done before the recording starts. A lot of shows tend to suffer from this though. I was also a bit surprised that a modded XBox would be used for something called poorboys. A PC is a necessity in my world, an XBox is not. I'm too lazy to check EBay, but I'd expect a modded XBox to set you back a good 100-150 bucks.
TorrentFlux was new to me. It's a slick PHP frontend to BitTornado which I was already using. Looks nice enough to give a go.
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I was gonna spout about this when I was done, but anyways...
I'm gonna set up a network-booting MythTV machine using a fanless Mini-ITX board. The recording will be done by a separate machine, so this will be a dedicated player. Because of this, the Mini-ITX and its power supply (probably the 120Watt PicoPSU) is all I need to get a working setup. End result is a MythTV box with *NO* moving parts. 0db noise emissions. If that's not female friendly, I don't know what will be.
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I really liked this ep too. What kinda sucks is that they need on average 3 months to make a new one...
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It's interesting to note that the text on Wikipedia about the movie Hackers now includes a reference to Hak.5 because of that "Trust your technolust" quote they always end with.
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Sounds like Standard Operating Procedure during the dotcom days.
1. Dream up something useless.
2. Create a company and put it up on the stock exchange.
3. Market the CRAP out of it, so shareholders think you're a big innovator.
4. As your stock price soars, sell out to a big company before actually making anything, to keep the costs down.
And more current:
1. Figure out the concept behind someone else's interesting idea, or an obvious extention on it.
2. Patent the sucker!
3. Wait for it to take off, then either license or sue.
Rince, lather, repeat.
Thankfully we don't have software patents here just yet...
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Ok
1) My screen name is "dude999897969594".
2) Not my girlfriends screen name.
Whew. It would be kinda weird if your girlfriend took 'dude<number>' for screenname...
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I didn't have the time to see it this morning, so I have something to look forward to when I get home.
In the mean time I let the box continue seeding the ep. Thankfully plenty of other people were doing the same. As a result I managed to download the full thing at about 750 KB/s which is pretty close to maximum for my line :)
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As featured on Harrison's SploitCast (I'm aching for a new ep!), what basically happens is you supply the hash and the hash type, and it searches its database of precomputed hashes to see if they have it in there. If so, they email you back the password for that hash in a couple of minutes...
Or something. I don't see an email inputfield, so I might be wrong about that last bit.
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Well there's another thing I learned about 32bit and 64bit numbers in C#. You shouldn't need to use more than 32bit!
I would suggest that you find the guy that said that, walk up to him and say "Cooper told me to do this." after which you apply a particularly savage beating to him.
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Use GMP.
"GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface."
I've actually used this stuff some time ago and it's pretty damned good.
Text to Speach Software
in Everything Else
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Yup.