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Linux Firmware For Some 802.11b Access Points

Posted by timothy on from the now-that-is-a-busybox dept.

drwho writes "This just unveiled at the BAWUG meeting tonight: Linux firmware for Access Points. Check this URL for more info. I haven't tried it yet but it looks great!" The upshot is that certain Access Points can be flashed with a stripped-down Linux system, which makes them more flexible than they'd be under the included firmware. There are even some screenshots of a modded access point booting up.

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  1. Re:READ THIS!!!!**!!! by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He's Right. I checked this thread perhaps 15 minutes ago (more interesting than most stuff on slashdot at the moment...). The parent was at +5, and there were a number of posts at 2, and many at 1 and 0. Within 15 minutes, the whole thread got bitchslapped to -1.

    What does this tell us?

    -The slashdot editors (unsuprisingly) have tools to moderate a whole thread in one go.

    -They are willing to use these tools.

    As this thread was highly critical of the slashdot moderation system, this would appear to be a form of hypocritical censorship.

  2. STOP THE EVIL SLASHDOT CENSORSHIP by Marcus+Brody · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My parent post to this is now at -1 (originally +2).

    All three moderations were e-mailed to me at _precisely_ the same time (09:44:35), all with consecutive ESMTP id's.

    This is too coincedental to be multiple moderaters acting in concert. No *true* moderator had touched it. So the authorities (slashdot editors) are placing controls on what can and cannot be said on the forum, despite the fact that a fair number of moderators must have seen my post before it was bitchslapped - it was there for about half an hour before being whacked.

    Furthermore, I disagree with the ascertation that moderation is not censorship.
    It stifles free and open debate: AKA censorship.



    Incidentally, X-files couldnt really work without mulder, and it hasnt really worked since series 2.

    1. Re:STOP THE EVIL SLASHDOT CENSORSHIP by goldspider · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I find your ascertation that moderation IS censorship in itself inaccurate.

      I am making an assumption here that you are referring to how many Slashdot readers have their user preferences set to only display posts scored above a defined value. In doing so, they have in essence given a certain degree of trust to Slashdot moderators that only the best posts will reach them.

      The fact that they do not see posts scored below their defined value does not constitute censorship by Slashdot, but rather a consious choice by individual readers.

      If Slashdot wished to censor posts they deem to be of low quality, they would simply delete them. In this case, however, the quality of the post that a user can read is in the hands of the user, not Slashdot.

      Stop whining and learn not to troll, post offtopic, or whatever else you are modded down for.

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      "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
    2. Re:STOP THE EVIL SLASHDOT CENSORSHIP by Marcus+Brody · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, I actually agree with you. But you missed my point.

      If real moderaters put me at offtopic or flaimbait, then fair enough. What I have a problem with is the slashdot editors using infinite moderation points.

      Maybe I'm going to labour the point a bit here, but one of the tools of a totalatarian state is to afford the authorities rights well above and beyond those of ordinary people.

      This is a community site, and therefore judjement should be passed by the community, not the authorities (and their limitless powers). As you can see, my other post got modded both interesting and offtopice. IMHO, both moderations were correct. But obviously someone found it interesting, and they would not have read it had the slashdot editors come along and bithslap censored it to -1

  3. Re:READ THIS!!!!**!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy fuck, there are 213 fucking moderations on that one post! (And sure to be more to follow.)

  4. Bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, quit your whining. If you don't like the way things are run around here, go somewhere else, or start a site of your own. After all, slashcode is freely available...

  5. Not First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is not the first post so you may ignore it.

    1. Re:Not First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      FIRSTUS POSTUS, BEEOTCHII!!!
      Kneel down and worship my turgid effluence!




      pleeeeease?!!! damn, I never get first post!

    2. Re:Not First Post! by mattyohe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you were only off by about.. oh.. say.. 45 seconds

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      - what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
    3. Re:Not First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "you were only off by about.. oh.. say.. 45 seconds"

      It's not nice to troll the clueless firstposter AC! That should be minutes of course. But since he always replies to someonelse's post, he's doomed to never get it, eh?

  6. About you sig... by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Make sure you update it to reflect the people killed by the suicide gunmans attack on the 12 year olds party that happend in the past 24 hours. I don't want you stat to be out of date.

    1. Re:About you sig... by linzeal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I did around 4:00 am my time.

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      An Education is the Font of All Liberty
  7. Re:Slashdot Editors = Hypocrites by _johnnyc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sir, I'm done with you. If you have valid points, they're lost on me now. You are always offtopic and are continually interfering with my enjoyment of posts that are on topic.

    Your arguments are lost in your noise and trolling. Has it occured to you that you might have been moderated offtopic because you are offtopic? If I were a moderator, I'd mod you down right now.

    Enough already. Grow up. Surely there are other ways of making your points heard. You're beginning to sound like a disaffected high school student bitterly complaining of getting poor marks.

    I have nothing against dissent. But when it begins to interfere with my enjoyment of other reader's ontopic comments I get pissed.

    I am in now way affiliated with /. Editors, can you please answer this guy so he can shut up already. I want to see a story on this, because he won't stop otherwise.

  8. WOWWW!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux Screenshots are SO EXCITING!!!

  9. Re:802.11b ? by quinto2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    that was fairly transparent. Post as AC, thus allowing you to reply logged in and accumulate some karma points and not be redundant or offtopic!

    I admire someone with your dedication.

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    Ceci n'est pas un post