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.cng Format (The Complete National Geographic)
About ten years ago I received a copy of The Complete National Geographic on DVD-ROM as a Christmas present. I installed it and referred to it occasionally, but a couple of years back the computer on which I installed it died.
This morning I had occasion to look up a remembered article from 1967. I still had the DVD-ROMs (and I had archived them to my NAS back in the day and still had the disk archives), so I tried to install the package. It wouldn't install. The package relies on Adobe AIR, which apparently was discontinued back in 2010. Attempts to install it now fail, although I found by dint of much searching that the failure is due to expiration of the signing certificate, and that if you disconnect your computer from the Internet and temporarily set its system clock back to 2010, the package will install. Once installed it will continue operating even after you set your system time back to current. One problem down. The second, though, is that I'd prefer to access this content on Linux; while I still do have legitimate Windows machines I'm moving away from them and I've decided to forego Win11. While looking around I found a couple of very informative web pages, which I'll link here as well as fair-use-excerpt some of the critical parts: The Retired Engineer Quote:
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05-14-2024, 10:10 AM | #2 |
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More proof that DRM is malicious.
Edit: First hit on Linux convert .cng (I use Duck Duck Go on all Browsers) https://github.com/laurb9/cng2jpg No need for a plugin. Last edited by Quoth; 05-14-2024 at 10:14 AM. |
05-19-2024, 08:43 AM | #3 |
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Decoding with ann excel spreadsheet:
[EDIT 13:50] I tried it, the VBA code gave me some errors, don't bother, the python code above worked just fine. Last edited by PoP; 05-19-2024 at 01:51 PM. |
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