Linus says, 'Don't give them a share of the credit; call the whole thing after my name alone!'"
I suspect this is a little unfair on Linus - he is perfectly entitled to refer to the Kernel as 'Linux', which, as far as I am aware is all he has ever done.
Also - if I do a dpkg -l |less I notice rather a lot of this is _not_ developed as part of the GNU project. Shouldn't we therefore be giving credit to everyone who has develped anything there?!
I seem to recall being urged to avoid Amazon at all costs not so long ago due to their patent of 'one click' purchasing? Is this still on? Just in case here is an alternative link.
I had a friend who worked in a place that sends out this stuff; apparently approximately half of the replies they receive are just people sending it straight back!!
Also, businesses have to pay to have their rubbish taken away (at least in the UK) so they are actually paying _3_ times for 0 results!
The offenders who chose to ignore it and flaunt the fact they were ignoring it (anything above 2 Mb/s for over a few hours) were warned by mail individually, and after that, had their ports shut off and the MAC address of their computers banned from the DHCP pool, so no matter where they went (i.e., plugging it into their roommate's port), they were locked out.
...Are they not familiar with ifconfig hw ?
Out uni blocks everthing except port 80 from halls computers, which is probably the only real way to keep the bandwidth consumption down. They can still access the other servers in the uni for their mail / files etc though.
I guess it's only at a level which the monitor would be giving off anyway (the monitor presumably complies with the FCC regulations), just broadcasting something useful rather than white noise.
I think the music companies may have something to say about broadcasting mp3s if there is any range in it though!
There isn't much chance a fireman or whatnot is going to carry someone on their back down the face of a building with one of these things. Combined with their fire
gear the weight of these items is just a bit on the high side.
Presumably you could trail a rope up the abseil down.
(Why are we talking about this on/. ?!)
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Try xpdf -fullscreen
Linus says, 'Don't give them a share of the credit; call the whole thing after my name alone!'"
I suspect this is a little unfair on Linus - he is perfectly entitled to refer to the Kernel as 'Linux', which, as far as I am aware is all he has ever done.
Also - if I do a dpkg -l |less I notice rather a lot of this is _not_ developed as part of the GNU project. Shouldn't we therefore be giving credit to everyone who has develped anything there?!
I seem to recall being urged to avoid Amazon at all costs not so long ago due to their patent of 'one click' purchasing? Is this still on? Just in case here is an alternative link.
I had a friend who worked in a place that sends out this stuff; apparently approximately half of the replies they receive are just people sending it straight back!!
Also, businesses have to pay to have their rubbish taken away (at least in the UK) so they are actually paying _3_ times for 0 results!
The offenders who chose to ignore it and flaunt the fact they were ignoring it (anything above 2 Mb/s for over a few hours) were warned by mail individually, and after that, had their ports shut off and the MAC address of their computers banned from the DHCP pool, so no matter where they went (i.e., plugging it into their roommate's port), they were locked out.
...Are they not familiar with ifconfig hw ?
Out uni blocks everthing except port 80 from halls computers, which is probably the only real way to keep the bandwidth consumption down. They can still access the other servers in the uni for their mail / files etc though.
I guess it's only at a level which the monitor would be giving off anyway (the monitor presumably complies with the FCC regulations), just broadcasting something useful rather than white noise.
I think the music companies may have something to say about broadcasting mp3s if there is any range in it though!
not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but try this