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Region Free DVD Player Hack

Region Free DVD Player Hack 12/15/2003 02:02 PM

how-to record on your ipod (for free) -
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how-to record on your ipod (for free) -
hack a day - www.hackaday.com 12/31/2004 06:44 AM
How to record on yr iPod with no equipment for free

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Research: Linux Servers Mostly Hack-Free

Research: Linux Servers Mostly Hack-Free 07/30/2004 03:30 PM
Internet News Jul 30 2004 8:09PM GMT

Research Says Linux Servers Mostly
Hack-Free

Research Says Linux Servers Mostly
Hack-Free 07/30/2004 10:22 AM
Research shows majority of Linux servers are never infected or hacked.

Analog Hack Tells Which Pepsi Bottles
Offer Free Songs

Analog Hack Tells Which Pepsi Bottles
Offer Free Songs 02/18/2004 10:49 AM
Once upon a time, Pepsi would have reconciled itself to knowing that people in one or two communities were in on the design flaw. Now they have to know the news is everywhere.

302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever

302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever 03/14/2005 05:10 PM
This subject just will not die until the search engines address it. "Google and Yahoo are now working to perfect ways to determine when to treat a 302 like a Moved-Temporarily redirect, and when to treat it like an exit-tracker. It's far from a simple problem, so it's going to take some time."

Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat

Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat 08/13/2004 10:39 AM

Just Hack It Again

Just Hack It Again 01/27/2004 04:56 AM
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

I posted this comment a few weeks ago, but i never clarified what i thought of this quotation - until now...

Let's say you learnt a subject really well, and were asked to teach others. You enjoy teaching and others admire your teaching style. Then one day, you throw away all your notes and teach off-the-cuff, from memory. You have to really know your stuff before you'd dare do that.

We'll that's what I think George Carrette meant by "Just Hack". If you don't know your stuff inside-out, upside-down and every-which-way, "Just Hack" is probably not for you.

Just Hack

Just Hack 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

Reminds me of the time the Malaysian government sent a software team to Canada to do technology transfer for a flight simulator system. After spending 2 years in Canada, they returned, and i asked one of the team members how the Canadian coders designed this powerful and complex system. I was expecting some detailed software methodology involving multiple phases. He told me, "they just hire a bunch of talented programmers, teach them the physics, and tell them to hack!"

AIM Ad Hack 3.60

AIM Ad Hack 3.60 05/25/2004 06:56 AM

PS2 Eye Toy Hack

PS2 Eye Toy Hack 04/11/2004 03:51 PM

Aim Ad Hack 3.63

Aim Ad Hack 3.63 07/07/2004 04:49 AM

Hack yourself

Hack yourself 01/02/2005 06:23 PM
"You can be happy. You can live the life you want to live. You can become the person you want to be. This is what I've figured out so far."

AIM Ad Hack 3.59

AIM Ad Hack 3.59 04/27/2004 08:44 AM

A third css hack

A third css hack 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
During my search for the powers that will finally grant me eternal life - in other words while programming my...

Hack Your Car

Hack Your Car 02/13/2004 09:08 PM

Aim Ad Hack 3.62

Aim Ad Hack 3.62 06/15/2004 04:52 PM

How to hack your new PSP

How to hack your new PSP 04/09/2005 07:57 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 9 2005 11:28AM GMT

Aim Ad Hack 3.67

Aim Ad Hack 3.67 09/04/2004 05:30 PM

The underscore hack

The underscore hack 11/25/2003 10:25 PM

Via Web-Graphics, Petr Pisar's Underscore Hack provides a new way of targetting CSS rules specifically at Internet Explorer on Windows. As with all such hacks, the pros and cons of using this approach need to be closely examined before deploying it. The hack takes advantage of the fact that adding an underscore to the start of a property name causes that declaration to be ignored by every browser except IE for Windows. However, the hack takes the dangerous step of using one bug to solve another. Peter-Paul Koch explained why this is a risky thing to do in a recent column for Digital Web magazine:

A certain browser has a certain CSS bug. Good to know. This same browser has another bug, usually in its parsing of CSS selectors or comments. This, too, is important information. However, a CSS hacker proceeds to use the second bug to "solve" the first one.

Solving one bug by another is not my idea of keeping Web development simple, but the matter goes beyond bad coding style. These hacks are inherently unsafe.

In an ideal world the next release of the browser would solve both bugs. In an uncaring world the next release of the browser would solve neither. In the uncertain world we live in the next release could solve one bug but not the other!

Therefore you could end up with a hack that applies an extra rule you no longer need, or with a necessary extra rule that isn't applied any more.

In my opinion, hacks like this are safe for use on sites that are being actively maintained. If you use them in a "fire and forget" project you could well find it breaking in new browsers in a few years time, when the site is no longer being maintained but remains online and broken for all to see. If on the other hand you use it for a living, breathing site such as a constantly changing commercial project or a personal weblog errors that crop up in future browsers can be taken on as and when they appear.

When all is said and done, a large proportion of hacks in use today exist to combat the infamous box model problem - and the best advice for coping with that can be found on Dave Shea's CSS Crib Sheet: Try to avoid applying padding/borders and a fixed width to an element. Do that, and box model hacks just stop being necessary.

Hack your own ringtones

Hack your own ringtones 05/25/2004 03:43 AM
This week on Engadget's HOWTO section: how to hack your own ringtones for the P900:

I bought a CD and use it in my alarm clock (a lot of alarm clocks have that as a feature)- Should I pay $3 for that? Perhaps, seems weird to me. Sometimes when the phone rings I whistle a popular tune from a CD I bought, do I need to pay for that? America is a great place, we have fair use- it’s why we’re great innovators and heck- making stuff for our phones for our own personal use goes beyond fair use. In this week’s how to we show you how to make your own ring tones, for just your phone, for just personal use, from the CD you just bought.

Link (Thanks, pt!)

Hack Attack

Hack Attack 07/09/2004 01:19 PM
My server was used in various hacking attempts over the past day or so. The hack replied on “blind” includes based on common include URL...

LED flashlight hack

LED flashlight hack 06/17/2004 02:52 PM
Popular Science has a simple hack for replacing a flashlight's bulb with bright white light-emitting diodes.

A flashlight ... hacked to use three 2300-millicandela LEDs will be as bright as an incandescent and last 5 to 10 times longer. Of course you can add up to 20 LEDs (as long as they fit in the reflector) if you're planning to, say, man a lighthouse with the thing.

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Hack the universe

Hack the universe 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
BoingBoing patron saint Warren Ellis spake thusly, and lo; it was good:

Read this Scientific American piece. Short version; the universe is actually a two-dimensional plane packed with information, and the three-dimensions universe we perceive is nothing but an expression of that information. Matter and energy and life are, in fact, holograms. It leaves something very very interesting open for the future. If the universe is a vast two-dimensional plane of information -- then it can be hacked.

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iTMS hack on the way

iTMS hack on the way 12/02/2003 01:49 AM
Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen of DeCSS fame does his viking ancestors proud with another digital "piracy" tool.

Hack Your Way to Hollywood

Hack Your Way to Hollywood 04/29/2004 05:00 AM
Heather Robinson, 25, sure has moxie. She turned her youthful indiscretions with a stolen credit card into a movie deal. Now she's trying to land another, this one based on her electronic snooping through AOL's customer database. Xeni Jardin reports from Los Angeles.

Hack and Slash

Hack and Slash 12/30/2004 07:37 PM
H&S RPS = MaM

Bloodletters - Hack Yourself

Bloodletters - Hack Yourself 01/03/2005 04:54 AM
I wish I could email this text to the world .. Blood letters: »hack yourself« .. this incredible essay .. Go Read It All! .. Just be happy .. Hacio dy hunan .. hackyourself .. Bloodletters

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Hack Hotbot, but only in the US

Hack Hotbot, but only in the US 03/14/2003 02:27 PM
David S. over at mezzoblue, was interested in entering the hack hotbot contest. He was upset/confused to see that prizes...

"Bloodletters - Hack Yourself"

"Bloodletters - Hack Yourself" 01/05/2005 12:04 AM

Hack Your Keyboard

Hack Your Keyboard 06/14/2004 02:36 PM
Book Excerpt: Your keyboard can be the gateway for all sorts of weird input devices--including arcade-style buttons, joysticks and other exotica. Our hands-on article gives you everything you need to customize your input device.

how to hack your head

how to hack your head 04/27/2004 01:06 PM
SBJ dives even further into your wide-open mind

Where librarians go to hack

Where librarians go to hack 05/03/2004 07:24 PM
Proving you can never be too pedantic (in a good way, mind you), I bring you hacker librarians:

There is a subculture of librarians that could make a significant impact on the profession. They are women and men, youthful and experienced alike, who all share one thing: a passion for solving problems by creating software. They are hacker librarians.

Hacker librarians are not afraid to configure and install software. They do not shrink from writing a program in whatever flavor of 'P' language they favor, from Perl to Python, with the hardiest even tackling Java and C++. Beyond enjoying the hunt for the right solution, they like to create solutions with colleagues and appreciate those who can provide knowledge about user needs and experiences.

Dewey Hacks, anyone?

School of hack

School of hack 08/03/2004 11:05 AM

Can You Hack the Vote?

Can You Hack the Vote? 08/05/2004 06:01 PM
Electronic voting systems have drawn fire from courts, lawmakers, and citizens groups--and now they're under attack by hackers. It's an organized assault, too. E-voting technology expert Rebecca Mercuri, a Harvard research fellow who has been outspoken in her opposition to such systems, has issued a "Hack the Vote" challenge, trying to illustrate what she calls their unreliability and vulnerability. She unveiled the so-called Mercuri Challenge at the recent Black Hat Briefings and Defcon 12 security conferences.

Preelection Action Urged

Mercuri suggests electronic voting machines be hacked during their preelection testing, so officials will abandon them before an actual election. "People in the election community say this technology is bulletproof," Mercuri says. "It's not." She especially opposes use of electronic voting technology in its current state, which does not allow for a verifiable backup. "I'm not asking anyone to break any laws, we just want the opportunity to hack e-voting systems to prove that it can or cannot be done," she says.

News source: PCWorld.com

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New Mac-Hack Whack

New Mac-Hack Whack 05/20/2004 09:55 AM
Unsanity has released Paranoid Android to protect Mac users from a security vulnerability in OS X. By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)

A PSP hack attack

A PSP hack attack 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
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Hack Simulation

Hack Simulation 08/22/2004 09:39 AM
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Hack To School

Hack To School 09/01/2004 03:02 PM
As a new school year starts, university I.T. administrators must learn how to counter threats to their networks from increasingly computer-savvy students.
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DVD Region-Free 3.68

DVD Region-Free 3.68 06/03/2004 08:20 AM

DVD Region+CSS Free 5.02

DVD Region+CSS Free 5.02 06/12/2004 03:59 PM

DVD Region+CSS Free 5.83

DVD Region+CSS Free 5.83 04/16/2005 09:50 AM

DVD Region+CSS Free 5.82

DVD Region+CSS Free 5.82 03/29/2005 02:09 PM

DVD Region-Free 3.30 Updated

DVD Region-Free 3.30 Updated 01/18/2004 07:08 PM

DVD Region-Free 3.20 Released

DVD Region-Free 3.20 Released 10/29/2003 08:15 PM

Region-free-ify your Mac's DVD drive

Region-free-ify your Mac's DVD drive 12/15/2003 12:59 PM
Here's a firmware update that can region-free-ify and speed up your Mac's Superdrive DVD drive. Warning: may screw up your computer ferociously. Warning: may violate the DMCA. Warning: It's your goddamned computer, why the hell hasn't Apple given you the capability of watching all your DVDs on it, no matter what country you bought them in? Link (Thanks, Pat!)

Thai PM to visit troubled region

Thai PM to visit troubled region 05/05/2004 10:52 PM
Thaksin Shinawatra is to see for himself the Muslim provinces where fighting left more than 100 dead last week.

Blockbuster presidents want an end to
DVD region codes

Blockbuster presidents want an end to
DVD region codes 12/17/2003 01:15 PM
No less a personage than Nigel Travis, the president and COO of Blockbuster, is calling for the end of region coded DVDs (that annoying system...

Newsday.com - State/Region News

Newsday.com - State/Region News 12/19/2004 03:52 PM
Survey finds support for restricting Muslim-Americans' freedoms .. The sad and frightening news:

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Blockbuster Chief: End DVD Region Codes

Blockbuster Chief: End DVD Region Codes 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
Xesdeeni writes "Blockbuster's President/COO Nigel Travis has called for the elimination of the DVD region code. At issue is the situation when a movie is ...

Region lags in online promotion

Region lags in online promotion 04/10/2005 10:41 AM
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Clashes in Pakistan tribal region

Clashes in Pakistan tribal region 06/09/2004 04:25 AM
A Pakistani army base and checkpoints are attacked by suspected militants in South Waziristan.

I have this drive and I set the region
code 4 times and it

I have this drive and I set the region
code 4 times and it 09/04/2004 05:31 PM
TechTree Sep 4 2004 8:44PM GMT

Peace push for DR Congo region

Peace push for DR Congo region 05/11/2004 05:10 AM
Militias in Ituri are urged to end fighting and join in with the national peace process at talks in the Congolese capital.

Shell pulls staff from oil region

Shell pulls staff from oil region 09/24/2004 11:32 PM
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, withdraws hundreds of workers from oil facilities in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta.

D.C. Region Job Market Has Look Of a
Boom (washingtonpost.com)

D.C. Region Job Market Has Look Of a
Boom (washingtonpost.com) 05/16/2004 01:57 AM
washingtonpost.com - To find enough new workers for all its building projects, Bozzuto Construction Co. had to hire a headhunter. Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is wooing MBA students with fancy dinners and cocktail parties. Pohanka Automotive Group created a new position just to fill all the other vacant jobs.

Storm Pounds Appalachian Region With
Rain

Storm Pounds Appalachian Region With
Rain 09/17/2004 12:24 PM
Heavy rain and wind from what was once Hurricane Ivan assaulted the southern Appalachian region Friday, washing away homes and killing at least three people.

Blockbuster prez calls for end to DVD
region-coding

Blockbuster prez calls for end to DVD
region-coding 12/17/2003 11:54 AM
The President of Blockbuster has called for an end to region-coding in DVDs:

"I believe, in addition to the elimination of two-tier pricing, the studios should also make another significant strike against piracy with the elimination of regional coding," he said. "The extra time on windows created by regional coding is an opportunity that pirates exploit."

His reasoning is a little mealy-mouthed. This isn't "pirates exploiting opportunities," it's more like "customers routing around market-failures," as when the product they demand isn't offered for sale, or when they discover that they can buy the same product for half the money in a different part of the world. Link (via /.)

AT&T Taps Houstonian To Lead Southwest
Region

AT&T Taps Houstonian To Lead Southwest
Region 07/30/2004 03:25 AM
AT&T has promoted Philip W. Johnson to the position of region vice president - southwest region. Johnson will manage the sales center vice presidents located in Texas, Arizona, Utah and Oklahoma. For the past six years, Johnson has been sales center vice president � enterprise sales segment in Houston. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004]

Philips to Increase Presence in Northern
Region

Philips to Increase Presence in Northern
Region 08/03/2004 01:45 AM
TechTree Aug 3 2004 5:44AM GMT

SingTel poised to launch first 3G
service in region

SingTel poised to launch first 3G
service in region 09/22/2004 11:17 PM
Business Day Newspaper Sep 23 2004 2:39AM GMT

Deadly Ivan Slams Appalachian Region
(AP)

Deadly Ivan Slams Appalachian Region
(AP) 09/17/2004 08:14 PM
AP - The violent remains of Hurricane Ivan pounded a large swath of the eastern United States on Friday, drenching an area from Georgia to Ohio, washing out dozens of homes, sweeping cars down roadways and trapping more than 100 students at an elementary school.

Undercurrent: Nation, Region, Webl0g,
Home

Undercurrent: Nation, Region, Webl0g,
Home 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
There are hundreds of political traditions among the 193 sovereign nations of the world. There can be just as many press traditions. Just as every country has its literature, its poetry, its song, every nation has a press that carries the national imprint in some way. Now blogging will do that: it will carry the imprint of nation. What we're curious about is the imprint of "globe."

Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED

Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: Apple's DVD players are subject to restrictive rules laid out by greedy Hollywood studios that don't really care if they piss off Apple's customers, since that's Apple's lookout. However, I've just discovered, to my amazement, that Apple imposes its very own restrictions on its DVD players over and above those imposed by the studios: that's right, Apple voluntarily treats its customers worse than the studios say it has to.

In the crazy world of DRM for DVDs, there's this idea that a Hollywood studio should be able to tell you where you're allowed to watch a DVD after you buy it. They accomplish this with something called "Region Codes." Discs have region-codes and players have region-codes. If you have a Region 1 disc (US and Canada) and a Region 2 player (Europe), and you put the disc in the player, the player will reject it.

But what happens when you take your laptop from New York to London? You're in Region 2, but you bought your device in Region 1. Can you buy a disc in London and play it on your computer?

Yes and no. When a computer manufacturer gets a DVD-decoding license from Hollywood's licensing cartel (the DVD Copy Control Association or CCA), it is allowed to make players that can change regions up to five times.

What's more, once the region-switches have run out, computer companies can reset your counter at a service depot a further five times. That means that you get 25 region-switches. This sucks pretty bad: I moved from San Francisco to London with hundreds of Region 1 DVDs and now when I buy a movie in the shop, it's Region 2. That means that if I watch a movie from my US collection once a week, and once from my UK connection the next week, I'll run out of region switches in three months. Three months after moving to the UK, I'll have to throw out half my DVDs.

So, basically, I don't watch my DVDs. Sometimes, though, I'm weak, and I tune into one and squander one of my precious region switches. Now my nearly-new Powerbook has only one switch left out of its initial five, and so I brought it to Apple to get them to reset the counter. It needed service anyway (I'm on my fifth or sixth screen replacement for the defect in the 15" machines that causes the "white blobs" to obscure the display), so it seemed like a good time to do it.

I know that Apple is allowed to do this. How do I know? Well, when EFF went to the Copyright Office and asked it to give us an exemption to the DMCA to make tools for watching out-of-region DVDs, Time-Warner showed up and told us this:

"And, the way it works, and I apologize because it's a little bit complicated, the consumer can set it five times. After the fifth time that they've reset it, they do have an ability to reset it again, but they have to bring the drive to an authorized dealer or an authorized service representative, who can then authorize an additional set of five changes, and then they can bring it back for a second, for a third, fourth and fifth set of authorized changes. So you can change it 25 times in total, but you have to go back for each set of five. You only get the first five when you buy the ROM drive itself."

That was Dean Marks, from AOL Time Warner. Straight from the horse's mouth, testifying to the US government.

But when my Powerbook was ready for pickup, Apple left me a voicemail saying that they couldn't reset my DVD player, that doing so would void my warranty.

When I went into the Apple Store in London to get the machine, I asked about it. I wanted this in writing: if they had a policy that said that they couldn't fix my region-counter, I wanted to be able to tell Dean Marks about it the next time we went to the Copyright Office and ask him why Apple thought it couldn't reset my counter.

Apple refused to put it into writing. They refused to let me record them telling me they couldn't fix my Powerbook. They wouldn't even put in writing that they were referring me to the legal department. Eventually I spoke to the manager, who promised to get back to me the next day.

The next day, he did. He told me that he'd spoken to legal and that they wouldn't put anything in writing. However, they did have some documents on their website they printed for me that talk about DVDs.

1. DVD Player: About DVD-Video Regions, last modified July 16, 2004, technical contributor J Scalo. This document describes the different regions, saying that after five region-switches, "the drive is permanently set to use that region, and you cannot make any more changes."

   Interestingly, this also contains something labeled APPLE EYES ONLY that says that

   On Wallstreet and PDQ (PowerBook G3 Series M4753), the number of region code changes remaining is not stored in the firmware of the DVD drive but rather in the DVD extension and NVRAM. This information should absolutely not be conveyed to the customer.

   In extreme customer satisfaction situations you can reset the region change count by following this procedure:

   1. Reset PRAM/NVRAM by pressing Fn-Ctrl-Shift-Power while the computer is turned off
   2. Startup with system extensions off.
   3. Restart with system extensions on.

   Note: This procedure resets some of the customer's custom settings.

   After following this procedure, the region change count for the drive is reset to five.

   In later PowerBook models, the region count is stored in the firmware of the drive and cannot be reset with this procedure.

2. Changing the region code of your DVD drive, last modified on January 23, 2004. This document says that you can only change your region code five times. "After that, the region code is set permanently and you cannot change it."

So there's two things going on here that I'm pretty pissed off about:

1. The studios have screwed the electronics companies with this region code business and I have to throw out my DVDs or buy an extra Powerbook or something
2. Worse, though: Apple has a policy about region-changing that is more restrictive than it has to be: they're playing for the other side. This really stinks and makes me wonder why I should keep on buying Apple hardware.

Lots of Apple execs read Boing Boing. If you have a reply on this, email me and I'll be happy to discuss it with you.

Update: Many of you have written to point out that VLC plays out of region DVDs on a Powerbook. That's nice, but it doesn't work reliably on my Powerbook.

Update 2: Thanks for all the tips on how to hack my Powerbook or change its firmware. I'm afraid that I'm not in the market for this, though, tempting as it is, as I've been informed that using these tools will void my warranty.

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