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I want to share a video showing my findings regarding ProtectDISC CD from the previous blog entry in practice.
This shows successful loading from a backup CD-R
Keeping all the lengthy text in spoilers this time.
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Now the for the video (little more than a minute, 7.5MB...
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The information below comes without any warranty. This blog entry is solely for entertainment and educational purposes. (But I can't even guarantee any entertainment and/or educational value – my intention is to be entertaining and/or educational here.)
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Continuation of Visit a doctor….
I'm a clairvoyant. Not really. Don't have to be one for the prediction I made: I said, that "Kassenärztliche Vereinigung", representing the doctors but responsible for patient's complaints would pull some nonsense to protect their member and not even deal with...
1. A new CD
I've already posted quite a few entries about CDs infected with DRM garbage. Nevertheless I took the opportunity and bought a pile of nonsense CD/DVD/BD in the 1€ shop (actually it is now the 1.10€ shop since they increased the price). Mostly it was mediocre audio books. But one...
Disclaimer: I do not generalize. There probably are a lot of good doctors out there (just how to find them?). These are my personal experiences and opinions that come from said experiences.
I'm not calm at the moment and can't proofread my text or anything right now.
This blog entry actually...
Yesterday I put this in my status (longer version here):
It is a big problem for me to ask for help myself on the forum; I always fear to get (only!) stupid replies like the examples above. I guess that less than 10 of my currently 2542 normal forum posts are direct questions for my own...
[Continuation of [Got away]. Same disclaimers as last time: Writing stories in English is a huge challenge and effort for me. I’m not satisfied with it but still wanted to upload it. I guess almost nobody is gonna read it anyway. Keep in mind: THIS IS A COMPLETELY FICTIONAL STORY! I don’t...
I'll try to keep it short this time.
This CD is damaged:
It is already hard to see when moving the disc in the hands; and even harder to take a photo of if. I increased the contrast of the image so the smudgy part can be seen as a dark mark. There are no noteworthy scratches on this CD, I...
Yes, this title does sound like the title of one of the worst movies of all time. But it is about the experiments with garbage CDs (CD-Cops in this case) I have been doing in the past weeks. In order not to waste much money for testing out disc based DRM systems, I simply bought the cheapest...
I guess no (non-trivial) program is proven to be correct. That is not the point. Mistakes happen and nowadays there is infrastructure to deliver updates (which should not be an excuse to not even try to fix crucial bugs before release).
My question: Have you ever seen errors in paid software? I...
Well… how to start this? This blog entry is about a learning game I bought today with a bunch of other stuff. “Three CDs for 1€!” With CD they meant everything from audio CD to video DVD and PC games as well as PlayStation 2.
Admittedly it looks like I’m finally a case for the loony bin: An...
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Walking through the pedestrian zone in town brings up a lot of whining in the shop windows. It is a lot more sophisticated and obviously written by marketing experts, but it boils down to: “Please don’t buy online...
Mhhm. Yes. I need to stop posting status messages and profile comments! Better put my opinion in the blog:
Technical solutions for social problems aren’t a solution. Reducing a topic on common, concise buzzwords often isn’t enough for arguing something. In this case the buzzword would be...
Last year in October I uploaded a blog entry with some photos of dead trees and missing water in the summers of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. Luckily I was taught about the hydrological cycle (because I'm obviously an uneducated idiot who has never heard of this before) and that earth won't...
The Mini-Mushroom introduced in New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS is more than just useless! It is a terrible power-up. No, not a terrible power-up… it is a power-down! The purpose of a power-up is to improve the abilities of a video game character, not to make the character so small one...
Dang it!
The Anker AR200 is an excellent SD reader. It is fast – with USB 3.0 – compact and offers reading/writing an SD and a micro-SD at the same time (two drives)… And it can handle single data line mode - which is why it is recommended for reading/writing console NAND via hardmod (I can...
I’ve installed Windows 98SE on one of my old computers. It doesn't feel like it used to back then. I just can’t take it anymore. No idea if anybody finds this interesting; as so often before it helps me to let off some steam and rant a bit.
Windows 98 installation was everything but...
Normally I am Linux user. It is not a secret, but no: I don’t run around trying to convince people to change their operating system – because I simply don’t care for what OS somebody is using and for what reason. I have my reasons for using Linux and have just been reminded to pay attention to...
All this messing around with copy protected CDs brought a topic to my mind that I mentioned before sometimes: My trouble with disc rot in/on Command & Conquer Alarmstufe Rot 2 (Red Alert 2). It was the first big title to come with SafeDisc 2.0 and I got an edition containing Yuris Rache...
More than 15 years ago I was playing around with those garbage CDs. You know those PC games that required their original, some kind of non-standard, CD in the drive for starting up. Since having installed my very own PsNee in one of my PS1 consoles I started revisiting the topic "copy protected...
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He was the ass of gbatemp, everyone knocked on him, I honestly felt bad, even though I was guilty myself, but he egged it all on himself, -
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I feel like gbatemp should make t-shirts or memorabilia to remember the lost ones. I bet the Polly shirts would sell out quick.
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Honestly I'm scared to, from you, but ok, lemme turn on vpn, virtual machine, private browser first
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That robot is here somewhere, I hear it moving around at night, but I haven't seen it for months.
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Oh that laptop I give to ancientboi, so you been watching him for months, and he's been watching you
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