Shamus_McFartfinger

I knew there was a reason why I never signed up. What a pack of dickheads.

Bloody hell. The site's down. I'll check again in a few hours. Thanks for the link.

for sure ! but, if possible a visual interface for building/burning (like visualiso from http://cdr.dpaehl.de/ )would be simply GREAT! Never tried it. I'll grab it now. Hmm.... Rightly or wrongly, I'll throw my 2 cents in. Stay with me here...... We can't discuss anything related to bypassing copyright protection on DVDs. Logically, if you have a non-protected DVD you have likely created it yourself using an authoring program such as TMPGEnc DVD Author or another authoring package. Yes? All authoring programs that I'm aware of create and burn their own disk images. Perhaps you're copying a home movie. In this case is would simply be a matter of using the ISO READ/WRITE functions of a now sadly-defunct program. Assuming your home movie has been borrowed from friends or family and needs to be transferred from a DVD9 to a DVD5, then DVD Shink will compress the files, create an ISO which can then be burned automatically with Nero or whatever. The point I'm trying to make is that their are already tools available that can do what you're asking. To go back to our home movie, why would you compress the files to VTS sets then run ImgBurn to create an ISO before burning it to disk? It's a hell of alot easier just to let DVD Shrink do the hard work. That said, if DVD Shrink were to be updated sometime in the future to call ImgBurn instead of Nero or that other "bad" program, ImgBurn will grow in popularity. A couple of years ago the idea might had had some merit, (back when we used to use ImgTool to create ISOs because DVD Shrink didn't have the ability to read or write disk images), but I don't see any real use for the work that would be involved with its inclusion but that's just my opinion. ... Disclaimer: The author of this message reserves to right to be proven wrong in the future.

Not with this program. Creating the ISO (using ImgTool or something similar) is your best option.

WooHoo!

Against my better judgement I went and bought one of these thingies (Network Attached Storage or NAS) yesterday. I suppose for the price they really aren't too bad. Capacity-wise, they can apparently hold 2 x 500gig drives. Pros: .. A cheap way to add a terabyte of HD space at roughly $1 a gig. .. Easy setup. The unit just needs a dhcp server on the network and a bit of common sense to get it working. .. Easy installation software. .. Install time from start to finish (including opening the unit and installing drives) about 15 minutes. .. Includes configurable synchro s/ware for easy backups. .. The NAS is treated as a local drive instead of a network drive. .. Very quiet and also very small. .. Drives and/or drivespace can be allocated on a per user or per machine basis which can be password protected. .. Drives can be run in RAID mode if required with striping, mirroring etc. Cons: .. Only works with Windows. Linux/Mac users can't use it. .. Slow network speed (10/100). It took 5 hours to backup 85gigs of data. .. The manual (or what passes for it) really sucks. Options are available for the NAS that just aren't in the manual such as using shared drives. .. Driver software must be installed on all machines wanting to access the NAS. .. Uses a custom file-system meaning that drives in the unit can't be removed and dropped into a PC if the unit fails. .. Backup util (Smartsync Pro), only has a single user licence. Not very useful for those with multiple PCs. Initial impressions: Not bad for what it does. I'm undecided on whether or not I'll add more drives to the initial 120gig that came with the unit. To put a terabyte in this thing wouldn't be hard but it would be hard to justify the cost verus its performance. 500gig drives are about $500 each here. Add the cost of the NAS and it's around $AUS1300. A Buffalo Terastation begins at a terabyte (complete with gigabit, print server, multiple USB ports, 4 x super fast scsi drives and easy expandability), for around $AUS2000. Conclusion: For light to moderate home use connected to 1 or 2 PCs, this option is ideal. It's cheap and easy and does what is advertised. For heavy users with many PCs attached to a network, I wouldn't recommend it. It's main downfall (in my opinion) is the lack of gigabit. http://www.netgear.com/products/details/SC101.php <soapbox mode off>

LOL!! Your life is obviously a pathetic one. The difference between you and I is that I take a great deal of pride in being a small part of Lightning_UKs programs and forums. How exactly would your life have changed by knowing which company brought the lawsuit in the first place? I can't see it being a monumental change. 15 minutes of fame for "breaking the news" at best. Continual questions in other forums such as Digital Digest (which you can guarantee lawyers for the unnamed company would have been watching carefully, as they would now be watching this one), hardly help the person most affected by it: The author of the program. Those of us who were longtime participants in the old forum wanted the author going through no more than was required, instead of forum vultures providing speculation (ammunition) for prosecutorial counsel. Think outside the square next time you feel the need to flap your gums.

Childish rants? Look in your own back yard for those, idiot. Go search the Digital Digest forums for the fornight beginning 6th June this year for your own posts, you sanctimonious prick.

Yep. Pure genius.

I just read the link. LOL!!! Just what the world needs - another expert.

Idle curiosity mate. 'tis all.

I've obviously missed something here.

Bugger. I was hoping you might have looked around a bit. It would have saved me the trouble. On the same sort of topic, I finally arseholed my Celeron 700 yesterday so I'm thinking of just adding another PC (maybe a 2gig P4 or Athlon 2000 or something) and just filling it with large drives. Still a pain though as each drive has to be mapped as a single drive letter. I suppose SATA drives would be the proper way to go but that means building a relatively expensive machine just to hold harddrives. What a pain in the arse. Suggestions? Opinions? Anyone?

You started it, dipshit, for making a complete cunt of yourself when we stopped by the Digital Digest forums. Secondly, you naive git, how fucking smart it is to provide links to software that circumvents DVD copy protection when the DVD Decrypter forum was shut down for that very reason? Have some respect for the owner of this site in the very least. You may now go fuck yourself.

The quality is a bit dodgy (uses flash player, URGH!) bit I reckon they're piss funny. http://www.schmackos.com.au/tv/

Yeah. I didn't see it the first time either. Bit of a bastard if the unit died as the files would be unrecoverable. Yep. Another reason I'm not all that keen on buying one. The principle behind the thing is sound but, as you say, with half a dozen or more machines it'd be a complete bastard. For home use with one or 2 machines it'd be a great idea. I wish the Buffalo Terastation was a bit cheaper. http://www.buffalotech.com/products/produc...7&categoryid=19 Ya gotta wonder why they did this. What's a gigabit PCI card worth? About 50 bucks retail? (20 quid?). A company as large as SMC would have little trouble incorporating gigabit for a very low cost given they already have the technology for their routers and switches. Even the option to buy it as an extra would have made it seem a better deal. I don't suppose you've looked at other NAS units recently? Opinions?

So I can stop this thing now?

No result from Xieve attack. 50 billion passwords checked. Started brute force......

6 characters? That'd speed things up a bit. You'll find the p/w long before I do.

Does that mean you don't need the file anymore? The puta is running anyway so it might as well do something. (Yep: checking for 9 character password). 47,000,000,000 passwords checked in the last hour. This may take a while. *cough*

Just incase it doesn't work, I've also downloaded the patch and am running a password recovery program on it. I'll let it chew on it while I'm at work and see what it comes up with. 29,000,000,000 passwords checked so far. LOL!

I was looking at one of these thingies myself. Dunno yet as there's a few things about them that irritates me. . Custom file system - meaning you can't install a drive with any files on it. . It relies on custom software - files are inaccesible without the proprietary software running in the background. This software must be installed on all machines wishing to access the NAS. . Only 10/100 - this just sucks. Gigabit would cost about $10 to implement as standard. On the upside, it's a cheap-ish way to add 500gigs. They're about $180 here. HDDs (Western Digital 250GB 8MB IDE - Caviar SE WD2500JB, 7200 RPM) are around $170 each. That works out at around $500 for 500gigs. Not bad really. <pondering mode off>

Mate, if both of your machines are already talking to the router then most of the hard work is already done. Making your external drive available to the network is pretty simple with XP/w2k. We can help if you wish.

WOW!! That really sucks. No wonder you drink.

It wasn't the new Netgear NAS thingy, was it? http://www.netgear.com/products/details/SC101.php