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Archive for February, 2008

The Demoscene Came a Long Way

Boy, the demoscene came a long way since their humble beginnings in the early 1980s on archaic computers like the Apple II, Atari 800 and especially the Commodore 64 and later the Commodore Amiga 500. If you want to learn more about the old days and stuff like that, check out my post about the […]


Software Piracy, Abandonware and Today’s Messed up Copyright Laws

I was browsing in the Defacto2.net document archive of the PC scene and found a reference to an interesting article written by Stephen Granade titled “Warez, Abandonware, and the Software Industry“. The article discusses in detail the subjects software piracy, copyright with a few on it from a perspective of a new type of software […]

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About One on the Quest, to Burn a Legal CD

I had some fun with copyright laws over the past weeks, mainly regarding video productions I did or re-published. I experienced different things, but one reminded me of a short story that I read over a year ago in the German IT magazine “CT”, which I am still subscribed to here in the US. I […]


Major Windows XP and Microsoft Media Player 11 Rant.. plus some tips

I wasted today and in the past months a lot of time on solving a problem that is actually very simple and if you would believe the advertisements than there shouldn’t be a problem at all or a simple solution right around the corner. Well, that is obviously not the case. Lets start with an […]


DefCon 15 Session Videos and Audios Update

It has been six months since the world largest hacker conference is over. I am referring to DefCon 15 of course, which was held on August 3 – 5, 2007 at the Rivera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The educational sessions where video-taped, converted to .MOV format (Apple) and pressed on 10 DVD-ROMs, […]