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Author Topic: Microsoft Releasing Windows Source Code Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-21-2003 05:53 AM                        I always thought that the CPU ID was a perfectly reasonable concept; pretty much all "real" computers (workstation level and above) have this feature and it makes certain tasks (license management being one of the most important) much simpler, since software licenses (etc.) can be tied to the CPU ID. I'd much prefer this over the "activation" crap that MS is using with Windows XP and other newer software, which depends upon several hardware components and will cause the software to fail if several of them are swapped out.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-21-2003 08:59 AM                        Leo wrote: "I'm surprised those dyes have turned out to be so stable, given the concentration of acetic acid in them. Together with the nitric acid in the bases of early IB prints and then 28% acetic in each of the dyes, I'd have expected it to attack the pigments and cause significant fading. But in fact the colours tend to keep their contrast and density at least until nitrate base decomposition makes an element unusable" Don't forget that there was a wash step after the dyes were transferred to the receiver. So most of the excess water-soluble acid would have been washed out. But poor washing could have an adverse effect on the long term stability of either dye-transfer or incorporated coupler films.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-21-2003 09:06 AM                    Concerning Windows security. As long as you can get physical access to the machine in question, you can have anything you want. Unlike Novell/Linux/etc. I have this utility and it works like a champ. http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-21-2003 09:12 AM                        Here's my favorite (and free, too) NT password recovery bootdisk: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-21-2003 09:16 AM                        ANY OS, even Novell is compromisable with physical access and a phillips screwdriver. Not all methods will render an OS bootable by itself again, but if you want the data...  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-22-2003 08:55 AM                    quote: ANY OS, even Novell is compromisable with physical access and a phillips screwdriver. Well, maybe if no one will miss the server, and you really feel like hacking into the hard drive the hard way. With the NT utility above, one quick reboot and you're in business. No phillips screwdriver necessary. Comes in handy when someone sets a local administrator account on their PC that's not part of any domain then forgets what the password is, or leaves the company or whatever.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-22-2003 09:42 AM                     I guessed what these were because there is a discussion group somewhere, Yahoo, I think, on dye transfer printing, the still photo version. When Kodak stopped supplying the materials, the few remaining printers using the process stockpiled what materials they could, but since then, there are people who have been making their own dyes, mordants, tanning developers, and even the matrix film. You've got to admire them, I make all af my own black and white chemicals, and have dabbled in some of the alternative processes, but I think I would draw the line at coating my own film, and building the machine to do it. There have been several posts in that forum on dye formulae.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-22-2003 04:19 PM                    Regarding the Technicolor dyes, these are given as British vs. American equivalents: British.................................American Disulphine Green B. 150..............Fast Acid Green B. Solway Celestol B. 250...............Antraquinone Blue AB. Chlorazol Fast Red K. 150............Paranol DF. Red 8 BL. Chlorazol Fast Pink BK. 180..........Amidine Fast Rose 2 BL. Chlorazol Fast Orange ER 180.........Dupont Pontamine Orange ER. Chlorazol Brilliant Yellow 3G 200....Dupont Brilliant Paper Yellow Conc. Lissamine Green B. 200...............Pontacyl Green SN. I have no idea if these are simply different trade names for the same chemicals or not. No difference in the formulation is given. The book (Colour Cinematography) also mentions a British patent referring to Erioglaucine for cyan, Acid Fuchsin for magenta, and Resorcine Yellow for yellow. There is something quaint about the common or trade names of these dye chemicals.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-23-2003 04:04 AM                        I think Steve Kraus gets this weeks award for driving a thread off topic the fastest. Only one reply! Wow!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-23-2003 04:06 AM                        Which is why I don't even look at this thread. I just peeked in here to see if it was back on topic. Leave it to Steve to turn something boring into something even MORE boring!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-23-2003 05:36 AM                        To bring this back on topic, just for Joe... Security is only as good as its secret.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-23-2003 07:16 AM                    Technicolor boring? Tsk tsk tsk. Maybe I could steer this thread towards trains! Anyway, one reason I am holding off as long as possible from using XP is activation. This is the beginning of an unfortunate trend which if the gullible public doesn't object is going to lead to software that is no longer purchased outright but has to be subscribed to and stops working when you stop paying Mr. Bill. That's their long term goal.  |  IP: Logged

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