[DLC] COL on Linux?

Samir Faci sfaci at cs.uic.edu
Wed Jan 31 14:37:54 CST 2007


well... as far as online resources.. no offense to Depaul students,
but I would think

Mit's open courseware is a far more attractive options then Depaul's
bootleg content (no pirating needed)

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

I don't see a problem with universities releasing their lectures.. the
most important thing (the degree) is not acquired.

--
Samir

On 1/31/07, Matthew Lechleider <matthew at lechleider.com> wrote:
> "I have a degree in Computer Science from the Pirate Bay"
>
> zing !
>
> --
> Matthew Lechleider
>
>
>
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: DePaul Linux Community <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
> To: DePaul Linux Community <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
> Subject: Re: [DLC] COL on Linux?
> Date: 31/01/07 11:57
>
> > Since, as far as I know, it requires Windows Media DRM, it can never be
> truly supported on anything other than Windows.&nbsp; Brilliant right?&nbsp;
> I&#39;m sure DePaul was worried people would put their Algorithms 101 class
> up on bittorrent and they&#39;d lose 50% of their enrollment.&nbsp;
> > &quot;I have a degree in Computer Science from the Pirate
> Bay&quot;Anyway...The short answer is not really, but perhaps the group
> could reverse engineer COL and write a better player.A few years ago I was
> able to grab the Jar and get a version of COL that pulled content from the
> local disk to run in Linux.&nbsp; It only pulled the white board information
> so any video stuff needed to be played in another application.
> > I would grab the COL Jar from the site and pull it apart and start poking
> around. See what you can find out.&nbsp; Good luck,EJOn 1/31/07,
> > Brett Clark &lt;morningbrett at yahoo.com&gt; wrote:
> > Is there any way that the Course OnLine application can be run on a Linux
> build?&nbsp; I&#39;d like to make the switch, but as a DL student in
> California, I need the COL player to function, and the COL folks tell me it
> only works in Windows.&nbsp; Grrrr...
> >
> > &nbsp;
> > Thanks for any help!
> > &nbsp;
> > Brett Clark
> >
> >
> > Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debatein the
> > Yahoo! Answers Food &amp; Drink Q&amp;A.
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