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by Steve Gibson, Nov 09, 2001 3:35am PST

Well going with the morning update early for shits and giggles considering I'm up at this awful hour. Our email was a bit fruity yesterday and we didnt get a lot of things. If you tried to email Maarten or myself yesterday I'd recommend giving it another shot today as I won the battle of good vs evil with DNS late last night. As a few people have noticed Shack is now hosted by Speakeasy.net. The partnership with Speakeasy will be expanding further than simple hosting of this website. Probably the first thing to show up will be official Shack Servers of Death (read: Counter-Strike, Q3 etc. servers) popping up. No real timeline on that stuff yet though. Note: We are still sitting on a temporary server (the original Shack server from way back!) that is struggling. If you see lots of errors on the page, just act like nothing is wrong. Wait a few minutes before trying to reload the page, that'll help minimize the load. Hammering that refresh key hurts more than it helps :) Banners?: UGO adserver is down for a couple days, so Maarten decided to put that tower on the right side as a place holder. As is only fair pup came up with that top banner so we both could be equally ridiculed. Movie: Am I amusing to you?


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    And here's how to make the Star Wars trailer on your system...

    My DVD player happens to be in a relatively low-quality laptop. With some manipulation, I was able to download the trailer file on the laptop, transfer it to my better desktop system, and play it. Here's how... First, you need to get a copy of the file. (Sorry to all you non-DVD owners, or Mac-users, this means you won't be able to play along until someone places the file out in the open). For those of you with DVD players, use the InterActual player to view the trailer. This will create a copy of the .mov file in your Temporary Internet Files directory. The easiest way to find it is to use Explorer, Find Files, and look for all files under the Temporary Internet Files directory (that's under the Windows directory for some users, and the Local Settings folder under your profile in Documents and Settings for others...but really, if you don't know that, you should wait for someone else to do this for you). A note of caution: the trailer file is NOT saved as a .mov. Instead, it's probably a file such as zE56k0sh56ugvb7s. Just look for a recently accessed file roughly 13,454,475 bytes in length. Copy it to a better location (and with a better name). Now, if you attempt to play this file right now, you'll get an error. Why? Well, there are some tricks being done. The actual .mov file being loaded is mystery_480.mov from the http://dvd.starwars.com/epii_preview/mystery/img/ directory. However, that simply redirects (after DVD verification) to a stub which redirects to the above 13MB file. You can get the mystery_480.mov file by creating a html file with the following line: <A HREF="http://dvd.starwars.com/epii_preview/mystery/img/mystery_480.mov">Here</A> Open that file up in the InterActual browser, right click, and Save to File. However, that will only save the 8K stub. What's actually needed is to edit the original 13MB file. Open it up in a hex editor (what's that? If you need to ask, you'll probably want to wait for someone else). You'll notice the first 76 bytes are literally "x"ed out. You can replace those bytes with the first 76 bytes from the mystery_480.mov file, or with something like this: 00 00 22 C5 6D 6F 6F 76 00 00 22 BD 63 6D 6F 76 00 00 00 0C 64 63 6F 6D 7A 6C 69 62 00 00 22 A9 63 6D 76 64 00 00 Save the file, and open with Quicktime. The video and sound tracks are disabled, so you'll need to go into the Edit Menu, choose Enable Tracks, and turn both on. You can now play the file to your hearts content, or save and transfer to your non-DVD machine. Enjoy.
    Nov 09, 2001 4:39pm PST

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