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  1. A belated Birthday Greeting Best Wishes and Happy Birthday
  2. Happy Birthday!
  3. Best Wishes on your Birthday Great Show, I try to listen when a get time Till your
  4. I Think the Basie is up next for me after the holiday season
  5. I think you are going to be very happy with that set, a gem
  6. Thank's Gentleman I now have some Christmas Tunes to spin for the incarcerated youth I work with
  7. Glad to see more people catching on not like he is telling us anything new
  8. states 94% 345 seconds 5mile ave error
  9. Yep I had to set mine to Mid Atlantic to get the correct time
  10. I have been using the Staples brand for my Canon i950, about $5 cheaper per ink cartridge they seem to work as well as the OEM on Photo's
  11. I saw this for $35 great price garth
  12. hope you had a great day
  13. Sad News Left behind many good characters Rest In Peace
  14. Best Wishes Happy Thanksgiving Everyone Have a great Day
  15. Happy Birthday
  16. The Woody Herman Columbia Disc# 5
  17. Happy Birthday
  18. Happy Birthday
  19. Try Here Chicago Sound
  20. Maybe, maybe not. By Michael Santo Contributing Writer, RealTechNews Let’s face it, Mac users consider themselves pretty safe from spyware or malware … not completely safe, but very safe. Evidently, Sony BMG’s DRM, which some antivirus vendors are calling spyware, is a little too much for even the Mac OS. A poster at Macintouch comments on the discovery of apparent Sony BMG copy protection software running continuously in his Macintosh as a kernel extension. The software was apparently installed via a new Imogen Heap CD called “Speak for Yourself”. This is an RCA Victor release, but with distribution credited to Sony BMG, so the reader did some checking, and found the software. Unlike the issue with Windows Sony DRM, the EULA for this software states it will be installing copy protection software, and the files are not hidden. Darren Dittrich followed up on the discovery that Sony was playing a dirty trick on its customers, secretly installing a malware-style “root kit” on their computers via audio CDs: I recently purchased Imogen Heap’s new CD (Speak for Yourself), an RCA Victor release, but with distribution credited to Sony/BMG. Reading recent reports of a Sony rootkit, I decided to poke around. In addition to the standard volume for AIFF files, there’s a smaller extra partition for “enhanced” content. I was surprised to find a “Start.app” Mac application in addition to the expected Windows-related files. Running this app brings up a long legal agreement, clicking Continue prompts you for your username/password (uh-oh!), and then promptly exits. Digging around a bit, I find that Start.app actually installs 2 files: PhoenixNub1.kext and PhoenixNub12.kext. Personally, I’m not a big fan of anyone installing kernel extensions on my Mac. In Sony’s defense, upon closer reading of the EULA, they essentially tell you that they will be installing software. Also, this is apparently not the same technology used in the recent Windows rootkits (made by XCP), but rather a DRM codebase developed by SunnComm, who promotes their Mac-aware DRM technology on their site. Source: Macintouch, but you have to search for it because of the way the site works. Search for “malware-style”. We Say: It appears, despite the fact that Sony BMG believes that no one knows what a rootkit is, enough smart people around the Internet do know and continue to add more fuel to the fire. # Permalink Posted at 10:11 am On Nov 12, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Hoefsmit wrote: ← Silver's Blue contains the following autorun (files for installation)(cnf, exe, ico and inf) however one must go into the disc and click on these files to do the installation. By no means do I endorse what sony is doing or am I saying that it is completely safe all I was commenting on was that I ripped the cd and can play it on my Ipod without intalling software (I guess I should say that I know of)
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