Leaderboard

the 1st article is by Gutmann....one of the worlds foremost programmers of encryption....he wrote PGP....the most secure encryption known in the world http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/165 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/

thx for posting ... interesting reads I won't be going vista that's for sure from the quotes in Gutmann's article ---------------------- “I've just had my first experience with HD content being blocked. I purchased an HP Media Center PC with a built-in HD DVD player, together with a 24" 'high definition' 1920 x 1200 HP flat panel display (HP LP2465). They even included an HD movie, 'The Bourne Supremacy'. Sure enough, the movie won't play because while the video card supports HDCP content protection, the monitor doesn't. (It plays if I connect an old 14" VGA CRT using a DVI-to-VGA connector)” — Roger Strong. ---------------- With the HD-DVD, I wasn't able to play my movie on my non- HDCP HD monitor. Not being able to play a movie that I have paid for, because some executive in Hollywood decided I cannot, made me mad... I'm just an upset customer. My efforts can be called 'fair use enforcement'!” — “muslix64”, author of the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray cracks ---------------- “The funny thing is that I cant see how HDCP will actually even prevent piracy. In fact the only thing I can see it doing is encouraging piracy because everyone whose bought a new computer/monitor/HDTV in the last few years which don't have HDCP are now screwed out of the several thousand dollar purchases. So instead of buying new products they will turn to pirated/cracked Blu-ray/HD-DVDs which will work without the HDCP” — “Gizza”. ----------------- The HDCP scheme will serve to make the illegal product the most full featured and least restrictive, and thus the most attractive to the consumer. Add in the expense of buying new equipment to view the legal content (when existing equipment is perfectly capable) and the performance drain imposed by in-line encryption/decryption and they've put out the biggest incentive to piracy yet” — “Greg”. ------------------ “The HDCP (high-definition content protection) overlords are coming to get us ---------------- “Good job, industry! Spend an incredible amount of time and effort developing the next generation of video quality only to step on it BEFORE THERE'S EVEN A DECIDED UPON STANDARD in the name of Copy Protection which will just be outflanked by a couple of 14 year old hackers and distributed over BitTorrent anyway” — “SweetMercury ----------------------- lol -------------------

Pilotasso its been a wile but it sounds like you don't have a lods problem but a mitmap problem i don't know how you installed did you just throught a bitmap of the skin in to the temp texture file?Cosmonaut has a great tutorial CDDS Tutorial V2 on installing skins for walimus's F-15 you should check it out