A decent dual-WAN router will cost you about twice what it would cost to build a cheap, but decent linux box.
On the other hand, the power consumption of a "cheap, but decent Linux box" will exceed the power consumption of a router by a factor measures in the tens or hundreds of times. It might not take long to cover the cost of a router in savings on the power bill.
D-Link made a (now discontinued) 4-port router that load-balanced:
I made the mistake of buying one of these.
It worked great for everything except one thing: ssh file transfers.
If I try to copy a file over about 500k in size using either scp or rsync-over-ssh, the router locks up at around 300-500k and it requires a power cycle to get it going again.
Unfortunately, the router is useless to me until it can do scp and rsync file transfers and, since it's now a discontinued item, I'm pretty much out of luck. Dlink tech support basically told me that they're not interested in dealing with this issue. Since it was a special order item from the local computer store, I'm stuck with it and out about $200 for a router that I can't use. No, I'm not very happy with Dlink, if you hadn't already noticed.
I got a DI-LB604 router and found that it worked great for everything except one thing: ssh file transfers.
If I try to copy a file over about 500k in size using either scp or rsync-over-ssh, the router locks up at around 300-500k and it requires a power cycle to get it going again.
Does this happen to you?
Unfortunately, the router is useless to me until it can do scp and rsync file transfers and, since it's now a discontinued item, I'm pretty much out of luck.
I would love to find a load-balanced router that can do file transfers over ssh properly, as I have a DSL and a cable Internet connection but can only use one or the other at the moment.
So what your saying is if I write a program that runs on Linux I have to redistribute the source code simply because it runs on Linux?
No.
If you write a program that runs in userspace on Linux, and it is all your original work (doesn't require things like QT, for example) then you don't have to distribute your source code.
If you set up Linux computers and sell them to the public, then you do have to provide the source code for the distribution that you install.
I think that would be three years from the date that the customer/end-user/whatever got it from you, not from the initial release. Otherwise, I could give the binary to my brother-in-law, wait three years, then release it more widely without having to provide source code.
He'll need to insure that he HAS a copy of the source code to give them, though. He would be well and truly screwed if someone makes the request and the link he figured he could download the source code from is dead?
OOH! So they are basically using it like the old embedded DOS was used back in the day.
Which brings up another somewhat related question: Why don't more outfits use FreeDOS in their embedded products? Cheap CPU's and an even smaller memory footprint should recommend FreeDOS to a lot of embedded applications. But I don't think I've ever heard of or come across an embedded FreeDOS product.
Am I just living under the wrong rock, or is there some other factor that I don't know about?
25+ years back, I somehow got "volunteered" into putting up the flags for the World Youth Baseball Tournament when it was held in the town where I lived at the time.
There were about 15 or 20 countries involved and the organizers handed me a big box of flags, one for each country, and said "Here you go", and that was the extent of the direction that I received.
Each flag had a little tag pinned to it saying what country it was for, so I just put them up in alphabetical order, more-or-less the way that they came out of the box.
This almost caused an international diplomatic incident!
Apparently you can't put country X's flag up next to country Y because they are fighting about something, or Y doesn't recognize X, or you-name-it. Phones started to ring, including mine, and I had to rush out again and re-arrange the flags to suit the diplomats.
I ultimately put those flags up in four different orders over the course of the week or so that the baseball tournament was on, because the arrangements never suited everyone. I only had the "diplomatic incident" occur once, on that first day, but I spent hours on the phone with various mucky-mucks smoothing ruffled feathers. And re-arranged those damn flags almost every day afterward.
I just don't believe the last part "and edit the document you were sending" comes up very often.
I'll admit that it doesn't occur often, but I occasionally receive a form that consists of either a doc or xls file that someone wants me to fill out and email (or sometimes fax) back to them.
I've already had experiences of electronics shops pointing to me to instructions on how to "crack" a DVD player to make it multi-region, how to unlock phones, and so on. I'm sure it won't be too long before we see game shops doing similar things; games will catch up eventually.
I purchased a copy of a Region 2 DVD a while back (Tante Danielle, in fact) and it actually came with a page of instructions in the shipping box that directed me to a website with instructions to alter the region of many (most?) DVD players so you could play the disk. Fortunately, my RCA DVD player was on the list and I switched it to region 0 with no problem.
Right now PDF sadly is about the only way to go and feel safe the document can be read down the road.
Something wrong with ASCII text files?
Stuff that I want to be sure I can access long down-the-road I try to save as a plain text file if at all possible.
I still have files that I originally wrote using SpeedScript on my Commodore 64. I can actually still use SpeedScript to open and edit them on my Fedora Linux computers (thank you Vice, but I also have plain-text versions that I can edit and view with pretty much anything.
I have long believed (and still believe) that the lowest-common-denominator in computer document files is a plain text file. In many cases, you're interested in the content and not the formatting, so plain text gets me where I'm going. And it generally takes up less space than a "fancier" format, too.
WTF does everyone in the world and their brother want to install a toolbar in my web browser? If I said yes to all of them, I'd have about 2 pixels of viewpane left to look at.
Yes I remember GW-BASIC. At that time it was the only compiler I had for DOS 3.3 based PC's.
GWBASIC is an interpreter, not a compiler. BASCOM was the compiler for GW-BASIC, but it was a separate purchase from Microsoft (for substantial bucks) and not included with MSDOS like GWBASIC was.
So they will send it off to the copyright office to be identified.
Nice thought, but that's not how it will work.
TFA says that private outfits of some kind will have certified databases to identify works, and you send your stuff to them for identification along with an as-yet unspecified fee. So the New Napster would require tens of billions of dollars to send out for identification fees for those billions of songs....
I'm assuming you're talking about x86-84. x86-64 isn't faster than plain old x86. It just has more addressable memory space.
That depends on what you're running. I work with long documents using Scribus on a regular basis and had my main desktop computer set up with Fedora 8/i386. I decided to switch to F8/x86_64 for the "adventure", and reformatted my machine and did just that. Now Scribus redraws the screen and scrolls through my documents at a slight but noticeably faster speed.
Pretty much everything else that I use runs about the same on x86_64 as it did on i386, though.
I use the weekly Coop grocery store flyer to line my budgie's cage, even though I subscribe to both a daily and a weekly newspaper. The surface of the flyer is rougher (lower quality newsprint) and my bird doesn't tip his ladder over as often as he does if I line his cage with a page out of the newspaper.
Nevermind that OOo is free, we had a *ahem* "borrowed" copy of Office XP. It's just too much of a hassle for them to remember to "Save As" when they are going to use a document somewhere else.
You can easily set OpenOffice to default to saving files in.doc format, if you want to. No "Save As" required.
A postal code in Canada is limited to one side of a street, sometimes even covering only section of it.
Excuse me? In my town of about 5000 people, the whole town has the same postal code. Everyone picks his mail up at the post office, there are no mail carriers that bring it to your house.
I have always assumed that most postal codes are for individual mail carrier routes. Postman Smith delivers route T2P 4A1 and Postman Jones delivers T2P 4A2.
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Should he get a copyright for his work?
Perhaps not. After all, he is "merely" creating a derivative of the original work.
A decent dual-WAN router will cost you about twice what it would cost to build a cheap, but decent linux box.
On the other hand, the power consumption of a "cheap, but decent Linux box" will exceed the power consumption of a router by a factor measures in the tens or hundreds of times. It might not take long to cover the cost of a router in savings on the power bill.
D-Link made a (now discontinued) 4-port router that load-balanced:
I made the mistake of buying one of these.
It worked great for everything except one thing: ssh file transfers.
If I try to copy a file over about 500k in size using either scp or rsync-over-ssh, the router locks up at around 300-500k and it requires a power cycle to get it going again.
Unfortunately, the router is useless to me until it can do scp and rsync file transfers and, since it's now a discontinued item, I'm pretty much out of luck. Dlink tech support basically told me that they're not interested in dealing with this issue. Since it was a special order item from the local computer store, I'm stuck with it and out about $200 for a router that I can't use. No, I'm not very happy with Dlink, if you hadn't already noticed.
I got a DI-LB604 router and found that it worked great for everything except one thing: ssh file transfers.
If I try to copy a file over about 500k in size using either scp or rsync-over-ssh, the router locks up at around 300-500k and it requires a power cycle to get it going again.
Does this happen to you?
Unfortunately, the router is useless to me until it can do scp and rsync file transfers and, since it's now a discontinued item, I'm pretty much out of luck.
I would love to find a load-balanced router that can do file transfers over ssh properly, as I have a DSL and a cable Internet connection but can only use one or the other at the moment.
Ask Amino. Or Sigma Designs.
Why? He didn't get his box from them; they are not the ones who are responsible for providing him with the source code.
Is this really a violation?
Yes.
Is the violation in question simply that they did not provide him with an unmodified Busybox?
If that's what they are using, and if they haven't provided it to him on demand, then yes, that is indeed the violation.
So what your saying is if I write a program that runs on Linux I have to redistribute the source code simply because it runs on Linux?
No.
If you write a program that runs in userspace on Linux, and it is all your original work (doesn't require things like QT, for example) then you don't have to distribute your source code.
If you set up Linux computers and sell them to the public, then you do have to provide the source code for the distribution that you install.
I think that would be three years from the date that the customer/end-user/whatever got it from you, not from the initial release. Otherwise, I could give the binary to my brother-in-law, wait three years, then release it more widely without having to provide source code.
He'll need to insure that he HAS a copy of the source code to give them, though. He would be well and truly screwed if someone makes the request and the link he figured he could download the source code from is dead?
Since that's not true (you don't have to prove anything), it's not a loophole. Major or otherwise.
That tape is no longer a medium that's "customarily used for software interchange" (as it says in the GPL text).
Neither is printing the source code out and handing someone ten reams of paper.
OOH! So they are basically using it like the old embedded DOS was used back in the day.
Which brings up another somewhat related question: Why don't more outfits use FreeDOS in their embedded products? Cheap CPU's and an even smaller memory footprint should recommend FreeDOS to a lot of embedded applications. But I don't think I've ever heard of or come across an embedded FreeDOS product.
Am I just living under the wrong rock, or is there some other factor that I don't know about?
25+ years back, I somehow got "volunteered" into putting up the flags for the World Youth Baseball Tournament when it was held in the town where I lived at the time.
There were about 15 or 20 countries involved and the organizers handed me a big box of flags, one for each country, and said "Here you go", and that was the extent of the direction that I received.
Each flag had a little tag pinned to it saying what country it was for, so I just put them up in alphabetical order, more-or-less the way that they came out of the box.
This almost caused an international diplomatic incident!
Apparently you can't put country X's flag up next to country Y because they are fighting about something, or Y doesn't recognize X, or you-name-it. Phones started to ring, including mine, and I had to rush out again and re-arrange the flags to suit the diplomats.
I ultimately put those flags up in four different orders over the course of the week or so that the baseball tournament was on, because the arrangements never suited everyone. I only had the "diplomatic incident" occur once, on that first day, but I spent hours on the phone with various mucky-mucks smoothing ruffled feathers. And re-arranged those damn flags almost every day afterward.
I just don't believe the last part "and edit the document you were sending" comes up very often.
I'll admit that it doesn't occur often, but I occasionally receive a form that consists of either a doc or xls file that someone wants me to fill out and email (or sometimes fax) back to them.
I've already had experiences of electronics shops pointing to me to instructions on how to "crack" a DVD player to make it multi-region, how to unlock phones, and so on. I'm sure it won't be too long before we see game shops doing similar things; games will catch up eventually.
I purchased a copy of a Region 2 DVD a while back (Tante Danielle, in fact) and it actually came with a page of instructions in the shipping box that directed me to a website with instructions to alter the region of many (most?) DVD players so you could play the disk. Fortunately, my RCA DVD player was on the list and I switched it to region 0 with no problem.
Right now PDF sadly is about the only way to go and feel safe the document can be read down the road.
Something wrong with ASCII text files?
Stuff that I want to be sure I can access long down-the-road I try to save as a plain text file if at all possible.
I still have files that I originally wrote using SpeedScript on my Commodore 64. I can actually still use SpeedScript to open and edit them on my Fedora Linux computers (thank you Vice, but I also have plain-text versions that I can edit and view with pretty much anything.
I have long believed (and still believe) that the lowest-common-denominator in computer document files is a plain text file. In many cases, you're interested in the content and not the formatting, so plain text gets me where I'm going. And it generally takes up less space than a "fancier" format, too.
WTF does everyone in the world and their brother want to install a toolbar in my web browser? If I said yes to all of them, I'd have about 2 pixels of viewpane left to look at.
http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/images/toolbar400gif.gif
I used Power Basic fairly recently
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/powerbasic-linux/index.html
Yes I remember GW-BASIC. At that time it was the only compiler I had for DOS 3.3 based PC's.
GWBASIC is an interpreter, not a compiler. BASCOM was the compiler for GW-BASIC, but it was a separate purchase from Microsoft (for substantial bucks) and not included with MSDOS like GWBASIC was.
So they will send it off to the copyright office to be identified.
Nice thought, but that's not how it will work.
TFA says that private outfits of some kind will have certified databases to identify works, and you send your stuff to them for identification along with an as-yet unspecified fee. So the New Napster would require tens of billions of dollars to send out for identification fees for those billions of songs....
I couldn't get youtube videos to work with gnash on this Fedora 8/x86_64 machine. They work fine if I install Adobe flashplayer.
I'm assuming you're talking about x86-84. x86-64 isn't faster than plain old x86. It just has more addressable memory space.
That depends on what you're running. I work with long documents using Scribus on a regular basis and had my main desktop computer set up with Fedora 8/i386. I decided to switch to F8/x86_64 for the "adventure", and reformatted my machine and did just that. Now Scribus redraws the screen and scrolls through my documents at a slight but noticeably faster speed.
Pretty much everything else that I use runs about the same on x86_64 as it did on i386, though.
I use the weekly Coop grocery store flyer to line my budgie's cage, even though I subscribe to both a daily and a weekly newspaper. The surface of the flyer is rougher (lower quality newsprint) and my bird doesn't tip his ladder over as often as he does if I line his cage with a page out of the newspaper.
Why else do newspapers offer "weekender" subscriptions?
Television listings and flyers/coupons.
Nevermind that OOo is free, we had a *ahem* "borrowed" copy of Office XP. It's just too much of a hassle for them to remember to "Save As" when they are going to use a document somewhere else.
.doc format, if you want to. No "Save As" required.
You can easily set OpenOffice to default to saving files in
A postal code in Canada is limited to one side of a street, sometimes even covering only section of it.
Excuse me? In my town of about 5000 people, the whole town has the same postal code. Everyone picks his mail up at the post office, there are no mail carriers that bring it to your house.
I have always assumed that most postal codes are for individual mail carrier routes. Postman Smith delivers route T2P 4A1 and Postman Jones delivers T2P 4A2.