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 Posted by: Cap'n Hector at May 11, 2005 03:26 PM

Yes, use one of my mirrors:

http://xxxessive.com/mirror/vx30/analysis2.html
http://caphector.com/mirror/vx30/analysis2.html

 Posted by: Rory at May 11, 2005 04:54 PM

Have you thought about using BitTorrent as a way to reduce server load for all those evidence files?

 Posted by: cd at May 11, 2005 07:04 PM

Wordpress has some excellent Comment Spam plugins; perhaps one of them might also have a version for MT.

I particularly like one called Spamkarma.

Fun article, BTW. The denials and elisions are eminiscent of the dialogue in The Maltese Falcon, as the layers get winnowed away.

 Posted by: John Schofield at May 11, 2005 07:14 PM

I urge you, please, pretty please, as you update the main post continue to post the changes as separate entries as well. Every time your previous epic showed up in my reader I'd have to skim the whole damn thing to see what changed. You can consider it a compliment that I did that, multiple times, but every time I was muttering under my breath about this.

 Posted by: eggsnatcher at May 11, 2005 08:17 PM

I was one of those who downloaded from your site instead of a mirror, because I thought everyone else would be getting a mirror and I trust what comes from your server more than something that could have spyware... Sorry :-( You seem to be OK now though

 Posted by: nowhere but down at May 11, 2005 08:23 PM

geek alert but would curious about the changes you made and why to help?

I have noticed very time you say "you are working on something big" it is larger (in size and contreversys) than last big article. the next "something large" will either take a weekend to read or be normal fare :) :) :)

: Mathias

 Posted by: Jonathan Whitfield at May 11, 2005 11:18 PM

I'm sure you have heard this many times in the last few days, but you out did yourself. I was reading it during lunch and thought "I don't think I have ever sat and read something this long online before". Good luck in whatever you do next, you earned a rest.

 Posted by: randolph Valentine at May 11, 2005 11:25 PM

You have done an absolutely exquisite job of researching the intellectual theft at the root of the whole cherryOS scandal. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! And you did so with humility and grace. All the more reason to say: Bravo! Keep up the good work.

 Posted by: Gustavo Córdova Avila at May 12, 2005 08:59 AM

I loved your article about the whole CheeryOS fiasco; I really wonder what these people are thinking, do they really think that others are going to let them get fat and rich on their work without blowing a wistle? The gall...

I've never read your blog before, but it was a great introduction to your work.

Thanks!

 Posted by: eventhorizon at May 14, 2005 07:47 PM

I've claimed most of the responsibility for the downtime to Mike (it was an accident lol) - what happened was that I posted a direct link to the tar file in one of my Slashdot comments, and being a comment I didn't expect the response to be massive (I was also not thinking straight at the time, since I just spent a month of doing private research, and finally the information went public; I just got excited hehe). So everything's fine now and I have my head on straight lol. Just so you guys know, another company is wanting to help out, so you'll probably hear about them eventually.

I should've posted a link to my local server's tar file instead, since I would've realized my folly *really* quick haha.

-eventhorizon

 Posted by: Mark at May 15, 2005 04:22 AM

Hi,

I found your story regarding playerless-streaming.org a very interesting read.

As a user of Forbidden Technologies products (www.forbidden.co.uk) I was puzzled to find their system FORscene described as a useless monster by playerless-streaming.org. Especially as FORscene has been well received - as an aside in my biased opinion happen to think it's a fantastic product :-)

I learnt from a different source that the websites www.mediaframe.org and playerless-streaming.org were both owned by the same person in England (Joseph Denne).

MediaFrame is in direct competition with a range of other playerless streaming products, www.forbidden.co.uk being one, and it appears playerless-streaming.org is a deliberate and naive attempt by Joseph to mislead people.

Virtually all the playerless products listed, bar his own, come in for some stick. Some more than others. I take it by the severity of his views with respect to Forbidden he regards them as quite a threat!

By hiding his biased comments behind the mask of an apparent objective outsider - it rather says more about his own intellect and products that he sees fit to smear the competition rather than focus upon the strengths of his own product(s).

This blemish rather detracts from any saintly moral high ground MediaFrame think they might have occupied by donning the open-source halo.

Your post suggests he has attempted to hide his tracks but that he failed to manage to quite plug all the holes, having passed on this website to 'a an objective friend'.

Congratulations - keep digging!

Regards, Mark.
UK.

 Posted by: tyler at May 16, 2005 05:06 PM

hmmm, serving 200mb .tar.gz files to many people. Sounds like a job for BitTorrent, not the poor webserver. Using the http seeding method would be ideal (using your hosts bandwidth to seed).

 Posted by: Sandy at May 17, 2005 03:05 AM

Personally I'm partial to the one where the gecko visits the cats lady and then has a little sling on his arm. :)