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Azureus 2.4.0.0

Now with encrypted/obfuscated peer connections. Also improved download (piece picking) algorithm and webseed. I’ve been running the beta for quite some time, but as the technology is pretty new (hard to find other clients compatible with encryption) and as I don’t suffer from traffic shaping, I haven’t bothered to turn it on. It would be [...]

Vista to deny RPC1 DVD-ROM

Microsoft makes up a load of bs (via Slashdot) to justify the blocking of RPC1 DVD-ROM drives from playing encrypted / region coded DVDs in Windows Vista. Good news for MS, the pirated scene version may ship without these nuisances. And if it doesn’t there are plenty of tools and likely hacks that will pick [...]

Wordpress 2.0

New version is out in what is still the most widely used and appreciated weblog / light CMS line of code on the market. Extremely hyped of course, with only modest changes overall. I mean, TinyMCE, that is just useless. I’ve tried every textarea replacement there is, while running Mambo and I can just note [...]

Mysql named best database

The establishment, free market proponents and corporate thugs chocked.

Builder AU - Oracle 10G and DB2 are acknowledged as industry leaders in the database field and both are strong in terms of features and are surprisingly easy to use with clean GUIs.
However, one of the other databases tested is also acknowledged by the industry and has [...]

Daemon Tools 4

Not quite there yet, but close.

DAEMON TOOLS - As we already heard from our customers, it fixes indeed most or even all blacklists - however, it is STILL a SCSI-Emulator, therefore it’s still necessary to remove present IDE-Drives!
- NO IDE-Jammer atm - we are working on it! No ETA for it - it’s done
when it’s [...]

Windows users switch to Mac?

Oh. Ah. The propaganda machine has geared up. Mac users are a pesky bunch for sure. Not to mention the economists who think that owning an iPod will prod users to switch to Apple altogether. Something about “momentums,” “halos” and “darlings.” Economists … they go great with Apple products for some reason. They’re both just [...]

TrueCrypt 4.0

The free software that gives you plausible deniability. Which could come in handy in these treacherous times.
Truecrypt 4.0 uses as encryption algorithms: AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent (256-bit key), Triple DES, and Twofish (256-bit key). Supports cascading (e.g., AES-Twofish-Serpent).
New features include but are not limited to: Full support for keyfiles, Writing to the outer [...]

Nero 7

Installed it but I have to say I’m not impressed. Not with the new functions of which I’ve discovered none and not with the GUI which seems stale and unbending. Not to mention what a bloatware it is if you install the entire package.
And that Nero Scout thing? WTF is that all about. I suggest [...]

BitTorrent’s Grab at Respectability

Progress or sell-out? Irrelevant development for the rest of us “illegal file sharers?” Probably.

Business Week - BitTorrent, the maker of popular file-sharing software used to distribute movies, music, and games both legally and illegally, is going commercial. The company has raised $8.75 million in venture capital from Menlo Park (Calif.)-based Doll Capital Management and [...]

Methlabs.org and PeerGuardian compromised

Since I haven’t been following the development I have no idea what initiated the rift but the conspiratorial side of me of course suspects that the industry is somehow involved.

TorrentSpy - The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website following a series of threats and incidents. The [...]





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