SPARKS Piracy Bust: British Man Extradited to US to Face Criminal Conspiracy Charges
Back in August 2020 the piracy world went into meltdown. Various raids, targeting so-called ‘Scene’ groups, turned the international file-sharing ecosystem upside down. Shortly after law enforcement took action around the world, a US judge ordered a previously sealed indictment to be made public. Among other things, it revealed that British man George Bridi, who reportedly resided on the Isle of Wight, was accused of being part of a...
Pirate IPTV: Omi in a Hellcat Rejects Feds’ Suggestion of 210 Months in Prison
After raids in November 2019 that shuttered his Gears-branded IPTV services, Bill Omar Carrasquillo (Omi in a Hellcat) is inching closer to discovering his fate at the hands of the federal government. As previously reported, IRS and FBI agents seized “at least” $5.2m from his bank accounts along with a laundry list of supercars and other vehicles, alleged to have been purchased with ill-gotten gains. At the time of writing, a civil...
4 Linux technologies fundamental to containers
In previous articles, I have written about container images and runtimes. In this article, I look at how containers are made possible by a foundation of some special Linux technologies, including namespaces and control groups. read more Powered by...
Get started programming with DOS conio
One of the reasons so many DOS applications sported a text user interface (or TUI) is because it was so easy to do. The standard way to control console input and output (conio) was with the conio library for many C programmers. This is a de-facto standard library on DOS, which gained popularity as implemented by Borland’s proprietary C compiler as conio.h. read more Powered by...
