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Uhhh…no?

Steffen L. Norgren — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:59:42 +0000

And this tidily sums up the court system in the U.S.

Patched Ventrilo for Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard

Steffen L. Norgren — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:27:35 +0000

As I have promised upon the release of Mac OS X 10.5, here is a patched version of Ventrilo for all us Mac users to download and enjoy!

This version actually works and took me all of 10-minutes to fix. I have posted instructions for the Ventrilo developers in the past on how to fix this problem, but instead they prefer to threaten me with legal action.

Download:

EDIT: You should probably download and install Ventrilo first, as I am unsure as to whether it installs anything to other locations on the drive.

Simply delete the original install and move my patched version over to the applications folder afterwards.

Enjoy!

Ventrilo Fix for OS X 10.5, Leopard

Steffen L. Norgren — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:47:55 +0000

Well now, this bug has existed with Ventrilo for over a year on OS X 10.5. But guess what? I fixed it! Yes, I spent about an hour tooling around with the package contents of Ventrilo.app and found main.nib. I then opened this file in Interface Builder (part of Xcode) and did a little trial and error editing. Throughout this process I discovered the problem, fixed it and have tested the results. Everything works fine. I didn’t go much deeper than the main channel list, but I am sure this problem exists in other spots within the application. However, with the problem identified, it should be rather simple to fix in the future. I’m surprised that one of Ventrilo’s valuable developers couldn’t spare the 5 or 10 minutes needed to fix this problem… That is, spare 5 or 10-minutes over the past bloody year in which this bug has been known on Leopard Beta. In any case, I offer the solution to everyone!

Since the Ventrilo.app file that you install is read only, you will need to copy the application to a different directory. On the copy, right click on the application and select “Show package contents”. Navigate to the English.lprog folder and replace the main.nib file with the one I have linked above. Enjoy being able to run Ventrilo on OS X 10.5 guys!

UPDATE: If you are looking for the patched version of Ventrilo, see this post.

UPDATE #2: A person, who’s comment I lost, posted a simple shell script on how to make the change in all offending portions of the program.

su root **You will need password to your machine**
cd /Applications/Ventrilo.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/main.nib
cp objects.xib objects.xib.old
cat objects.xib | sed 's/rowHeight">020 objects.xib.new
rm objects.xib
cp objects.xib.new objects.xib

Restart Ventrilo!

I made it onto Wired!

Steffen L. Norgren — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:51:35 +0000

I don’t know how my picture made it into wired, but it did and I am quite pleased!

It is kind of amusing considering it only took me a few minutes with Photoshop and being bored in class.

Wired Article
BoingBoing links to the article too!

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Steffen L. Norgren — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:53:39 +0000

In Hexadecimal:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

In decimal:

2^6 * 5 * 19 * 12,043 * 216,493 * 836,256,503,069,278,983,442,067

In binary:

00001001 11111001 00010001 00000010

10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011

11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101

01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000

The above is the HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. I was not aware that a string of numbers and letters was copyrightable. Perhaps its just my ignorance but it seems that someone is abusing the DMCA again.

This means the (admittedly long) number is precisely the key you need in order to decrypt and watch HD-DVD movies in Linux (oh, okay, maybe software is also required). And the fact that it’s out there, spreading like wildfire, is killing the types at the movie studios right now.