The issue here is not the use of P2P. It is using P2P to steal things that do not belong to you.
It would be a shame if legitimate uses of P2P were subsumed by the folks who just want to steal a movie or someone else's music. They worked for it, you didn't. If you want a copy pay the folks that created it their proper due.
P2P = good, stealing = bad. Not much gray area there.
Actually what you wrote in the Sveasoft forums was that you "regretted subscribing" along with verbage designed to start yet another GPL flame war in the Sveasoft forums.
We promptly refunded your subscription - as you requested.
There are many other (and more appropriate) places than the Sveasoft forums to discuss GPL issues, such as here on Slashdot.
Source code is always released for our binaries, albeit with up to a two week delay. When firmware is stable we release it publicly, with source, at no cost. Look for the public version of Alchemy in the next week or two as we move to the new Talisman firmware development.
Then I guess OSS in general and Stallman in particular don't belong in an article titled, "The Business Value of Open Source" - one having no business value and the other having no business objective.
This article fluffs over how open source is a viable business model but the "success stories" and business models described are skeletal. So where's the beef? Redhat - that no longer offers a Linux distribution, RedCarpet that has all but disappeared, Stallman and GNU - the guy that can't even afford a haircut - come on guys. If you're gonna talk about the "successful open source business model" you better put some more meat on the bone. This article makes open source look postively scary from a business perspective.
Since when have Slashdot articles become flamebait? Come on guys - show some editorial restraint!
I am not a fan of Macromedia one way or the other but gimme a break. Flash has not taken over anything. It is just one of many gimmicks used to make web sites (and now mobile sites) "flashier".
Perhaps Slashdot's ire might better be spent on ActiveX controls or those who coopt Javascript? Flash is a tempest in a teapot (though the headline is definitely an attention getter:-) ).
Actually V1.0 WRT54G's use a 5V 2A power supply. V1.1, 2.0 and WRT54GS models use 12V 1A.
Unfortunately they use the same power connector so some unfortunate folks have watched a V1.0 go up in smoke when they mixed up the power supplies.
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Even the mobile phone manufacturers are picking up on this trend. By building Wifi into mobile phones we can set the device to use the lowest cost method to make our calls. When a hotpsot is available, use VoIP and drop the cost to next to nothing. Simple economics.
This is not to say the technical hurdles aren't formidable. But hey, my Grandpa publishes web pages and who could've sold me on that concept in 1994?
We have a 7 node mesh with up to three deep on any single linear chain using WDS. It works great. Our longes link is 6 kilometers through forest, islands, and over water.
You can have a chain of up to 6 links or more on with most of the latest AP's. We use our own WRT54G firmware (www.sveasoft.com/forums) regularlly with 6 deep WDS chains.
There are two ways to link WRT54G's using the Sveasoft firmware. The simplest is to set one WRT54G to client mode and use the other WRT54G's IP address as the client mode gateway. This turns the WRT54G into a WET54G or WET11 equivalent.
The second method is to use WDS and link two AP mode WRT54G's point-to-point.
Please do a search on the Sveasoft forums for more info (http://www.sveasoft.com/forums.html).
Actually 7 of the 10 last Summers have been the warmest on record ever in Sweden. My first Summer here was 1995 when temps were 85-90 from June through September. 1994 was even hotter according to friends. The last two years Summer weather has come in March and April and lasted until late September (unheard of for Sweden pre-1995!!)
Also Stockholm no longer gets deep snow like it used to. In a somewhat funny side-effect of global warming, the Stockholm town government cancelled all the old contracts for Winter snow removal a few years ago. When it did snow for two weeks last Winter, there was no one to remove it. It piled up for days causing chaos until they could arrange emergency removal.
The researcher basically states that it was warmer in 1400 than previously estimated. I have read that the end of the Viking Age (~800-1100 AD) was mainly due to a large drop in global temperatures. The Viking colony in Greenland lasted until 1380 AD when the Summer thaw that allowed them to travel by ship stopped occuring, for example.
He does not refute the fact that it is getting warmer - and rapidly so. He simply says it was pretty warm in 1400 too, in contrast to prior conslusions. Note also that, according to his data, we have already reached his pre-1400 temperature levels and the trend continuing steeply upward.
Thank god I live in Sweden. We love global warming. Vroom vroom!
For all you T68i owners that want to play with MMS but can't, check out www.zidango.com. They'll set up your phone remotely to run MMS and charge about $.40 a message.
The T68i absolutely rocks. This phone is so good I couldn't believe it came out of Ericsson. It smokes anything Nokia has or is going to have in the next six months.
The Sony Ericsson P800 will be out soon and it also rocks (saw a prototype). It kicks butt over the Nokia 7650 colorphone.
At our small telco platform dev company, we found that pair programming didn't make the code better and lead to much longer development times. What seems to work better with all the added benefits are a small team (less than 12 developers) in an open space plan in the same room. Morning review meetings keep everyone sync'ed up and the crosstalk and over-the-shoulder checks as development occurs give the same benefits.
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You work, you get paid. Simple concept.
I am a musician, I work and create music, I get paid by selling my music. Simple concept.
You put a copy of my music on P2P, people download it, I don't get paid.
Same as withholding your paycheck.
The issue here is not the use of P2P. It is using P2P to steal things that do not belong to you.
It would be a shame if legitimate uses of P2P were subsumed by the folks who just want to steal a movie or someone else's music. They worked for it, you didn't. If you want a copy pay the folks that created it their proper due.
P2P = good, stealing = bad. Not much gray area there.
Several folks using our Sveasoft firmware on a Linksys WRT54G or GS have successfully linked to an Airport using WDS (Wireless Distribution System).
It's a cool and relatively cheap way to extend your wireless network coverage without having to run CAT5 to the second router.
Because both devices are based on the same Broadcom wireless chipset they are interoperable.
Actually what you wrote in the Sveasoft forums was that you "regretted subscribing" along with verbage designed to start yet another GPL flame war in the Sveasoft forums.
We promptly refunded your subscription - as you requested.
There are many other (and more appropriate) places than the Sveasoft forums to discuss GPL issues, such as here on Slashdot.
Source code is always released for our binaries, albeit with up to a two week delay. When firmware is stable we release it publicly, with source, at no cost. Look for the public version of Alchemy in the next week or two as we move to the new Talisman firmware development.
Then I guess OSS in general and Stallman in particular don't belong in an article titled, "The Business Value of Open Source" - one having no business value and the other having no business objective.
This article fluffs over how open source is a viable business model but the "success stories" and business models described are skeletal. So where's the beef? Redhat - that no longer offers a Linux distribution, RedCarpet that has all but disappeared, Stallman and GNU - the guy that can't even afford a haircut - come on guys. If you're gonna talk about the "successful open source business model" you better put some more meat on the bone. This article makes open source look postively scary from a business perspective.
Since when have Slashdot articles become flamebait? Come on guys - show some editorial restraint!
:-) ).
I am not a fan of Macromedia one way or the other but gimme a break. Flash has not taken over anything. It is just one of many gimmicks used to make web sites (and now mobile sites) "flashier".
Perhaps Slashdot's ire might better be spent on ActiveX controls or those who coopt Javascript? Flash is a tempest in a teapot (though the headline is definitely an attention getter
Actually V1.0 WRT54G's use a 5V 2A power supply. V1.1, 2.0 and WRT54GS models use 12V 1A.
Unfortunately they use the same power connector so some unfortunate folks have watched a V1.0 go up in smoke when they mixed up the power supplies.
Even the mobile phone manufacturers are picking up on this trend. By building Wifi into mobile phones we can set the device to use the lowest cost method to make our calls. When a hotpsot is available, use VoIP and drop the cost to next to nothing. Simple economics.
This is not to say the technical hurdles aren't formidable. But hey, my Grandpa publishes web pages and who could've sold me on that concept in 1994?
We have a 7 node mesh with up to three deep on any single linear chain using WDS. It works great. Our longes link is 6 kilometers through forest, islands, and over water.
I would recommend using cheap AP's designed for home use and a third party firmware that allows them to link up and form a mesh.
The Linksys WRT54G is about $70 or less on Amazon and with third party firmware it can be linked into a mesh using something called WDS.
You can also add PoE and larger antennas quite reasonably.
See the Sveasoft site for more information.
Check out the "hacked" firmware for the Linksys WRT54G. Folks have wired entire communities with $80 wireless routers and third party firmware.
http://www.sveasoft.com
Here is a 6km link using these babies.
You can have a chain of up to 6 links or more on with most of the latest AP's. We use our own WRT54G firmware (www.sveasoft.com/forums) regularlly with 6 deep WDS chains.
There are two ways to link WRT54G's using the Sveasoft firmware. The simplest is to set one WRT54G to client mode and use the other WRT54G's IP address as the client mode gateway. This turns the WRT54G into a WET54G or WET11 equivalent.
The second method is to use WDS and link two AP mode WRT54G's point-to-point.
Please do a search on the Sveasoft forums for more info (http://www.sveasoft.com/forums.html).
Don't use the WAN port. Plug your network connections directly into the LAN ports.
Where is this "open" project's source code?
Sveasoft is working on a mesh firmware for the Linksys WRT54G. We hope to have a preliminary release sometime in late March.
Actually 7 of the 10 last Summers have been the warmest on record ever in Sweden. My first Summer here was 1995 when temps were 85-90 from June through September. 1994 was even hotter according to friends. The last two years Summer weather has come in March and April and lasted until late September (unheard of for Sweden pre-1995!!)
Also Stockholm no longer gets deep snow like it used to. In a somewhat funny side-effect of global warming, the Stockholm town government cancelled all the old contracts for Winter snow removal a few years ago. When it did snow for two weeks last Winter, there was no one to remove it. It piled up for days causing chaos until they could arrange emergency removal.
-Damn Yankee
The researcher basically states that it was warmer in 1400 than previously estimated. I have read that the end of the Viking Age (~800-1100 AD) was mainly due to a large drop in global temperatures. The Viking colony in Greenland lasted until 1380 AD when the Summer thaw that allowed them to travel by ship stopped occuring, for example.
He does not refute the fact that it is getting warmer - and rapidly so. He simply says it was pretty warm in 1400 too, in contrast to prior conslusions. Note also that, according to his data, we have already reached his pre-1400 temperature levels and the trend continuing steeply upward.
Thank god I live in Sweden. We love global warming. Vroom vroom!
Damn Yankee
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This shows the reach and depth of fear that Microsoft's monopoly can instill in even the biggest and baddest companies on the planet.
I doubt that this came from a purely internal HP-Compaq decision. The forces that be in Redmond probably played a role.
What is Bruce on to next?
For all you T68i owners that want to play with MMS but can't, check out www.zidango.com. They'll set up your phone remotely to run MMS and charge about $.40 a message.
The T68i processor is about 25% faster than the T68's.
The T68M is missing a *lot* of stuff compared to the T68i, though you can have it upgraded for free with a new flash burn.
The T68i/upgrade has MMS, more games, a picture album, and a bunch of new menu items and functions.
The T68i absolutely rocks. This phone is so good I couldn't believe it came out of Ericsson. It smokes anything Nokia has or is going to have in the next six months.
The Sony Ericsson P800 will be out soon and it also rocks (saw a prototype). It kicks butt over the Nokia 7650 colorphone.
(Nope, I don't and never have worked at Ericsson)
At our small telco platform dev company, we found that pair programming didn't make the code better and lead to much longer development times. What seems to work better with all the added benefits are a small team (less than 12 developers) in an open space plan in the same room. Morning review meetings keep everyone sync'ed up and the crosstalk and over-the-shoulder checks as development occurs give the same benefits.