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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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It appears that the Russian mp3 site, AllofMP3 has had its priveliges to process Visa and Mastercard payment types revoked. It seems the RIAA has likely had a hand in this. A spokesman from Mastercard said that "MasterCard does not tolerate the use of its network for illegal activity..." Visa took a similar stand. Why would they do this? The site itself, technically operates legally. They pay royalties to the Russian Multimedia and Internet society, who in turn attempt to give the money to the record companies. The record companies (RIAA) do not accept these. The purpose is to keep AllofMP3 from being a competitor.
The US government will not allow Russia into the World Trade Organization because of AllofMP3's existance. It is really all a ploy, in my opinion. The site follows Russian law, and attempts to pay loyalties (stupid RIAA is sandbagging to try and shut a viable competetor down). Furthermore, it is legal to use in the USA because we are importing a product from a foreign country. There is a legal loophole that allows such activities. Eventually the site plans to give its music away for free, using ads to support itself. When that happens, lets see how long it takes for the USA to set up a national firewall to block AllofMP3.
Oh well. Looks like we are stuck transferring money to Paypal accounts, then using XROST. Hopefully Paypal doesn't follow the card companies' suite.
More info:
http://www.betanews.com/article/AllofMP3_Fights_Critics_Loses_Visa/1161197051
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8KRC1KO0.htm
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Thursday, 09 November 2006 |
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I never liked using Microsoft's Windows Update. I knew it was spying on me from the beginning. Now, to protect my privacy, and to protect my computer from being shutdown due to it somehow being "pirated" (its a legal copy) I had to find an alternative. Enter WindizUpdate. Whoever runs it downloads the newest updates (minus WGA) and puts them up. The site automatically scans, and you can then install the updates you need painlessly, without Microsoft. Give it a try! Note:the WindizUpdate plugin requires firefox.
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/
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Thursday, 05 October 2006 |
Whenever you are a client on a public/school/network computer, and it is running XP most likely, you have the problem sometimes of being restricted. You can't run regedit most of the time, which means you can't delete the keys restricting you from running CMD, changing desktop properties, etc. As long as vb scripts aren't disabled, this script I wrote will remove these restrictions:
Enable Taskmgr
Enable CMD (
Enable Regedit
Enable Control Panel
and a few others
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You can add to it if you find the list of restrictive registry keys
Download it here.
Then, since regedit is enabled, copy and paste this into notepad, save it as a .reg file, and merge it:
REGEDIT 4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
Then, reboot and the computer will automatically login to the admin account.
The moral to sysadmins: DISABLE VBS SCRIPTS IN XP!
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Monday, 09 October 2006 |
Note: This Article is not a How-To. The How-To is Here.
I recently purchased a Twinhan VisionPlus 7021 DVB card used, for around $50. This card enables me, when connected to a satellite dish, cable broadcast, or terrestrial antenna to recieve and decode (if the streams aren't encrypted...more on that later) mpeg2 dvb streams. It also works with HD streams, when used with USB 2.0.
The specs are here.
The software I got to use with these cards (the factory software stinks) are both ProgDVB and MyTheatre.
After trying both Progdvb and MyTheatre, they both hav their uses. I was able to hear some audio only channels in ProgDVB, and see open video in MyTheatre. The only unencrypted video on the satellites I was using (echostars 5 and 7) were the "ONPPV" preview channels. Some of the radio audio only stations are unencrypted too. I was lazy to test this card, and just used my dishnetwork setup that was already aimed. I had to make sure my LNBs were set as circular/custom, and each had a LOF of 11250.
Then, you have encrypted video to deal with. The plugins to decrypt (illegal to decrypt pay channels if you don't actually pay for the service!) are
Sof2cam, vplug, or YANKSE. Google it. Good luck with that. It isn't my fault if you stupidly steal and get caught. I have so far been unsuccessful in decrypting channels (THAT I LEGALLY PAY FOR!!!)
You could use a card module if you have one, which lets you use your access card in your computer to decrypt the video signals.
Now all I have to do is aim a spare dish/LNB I have at a better FTA bird, and get some better TV. I will post video/screenies when I do. Until then, wish me luck! Post any quesions/comments in my forum of 0 users plus myself.
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
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I dropped my laptop a while back, and it scratched the screen. I have tried all sorts of ideas to get rid of it. I tried brasso, but that helped a little and made the screen shiny in a place it shouldn't be. I have tried using toothpaste, various glues and sealants (removeable in the case of accidents), and have had little or no luck. I have found a viable solution:Turtle Wax. I am sure that other brands of car wax that you wipe on, let dry, and rub off would work as well. I have done two coats, and the scratch is barely visible (if it werent for that shiny spot from the brasso, you couldn't tell...). I polished the whole screen with the wax. You have to be gentle, and patient. It takes a while to get the wax buffed down to the point of being transparent. A few more coats, and this scratch will be completely filled in. As an added benefit, the wax will keep stuff from sticking as easily to the screen, like dust. Got a scratch? Try this!
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