When I built a firewall from scrap parts (P166, 500Mb Harddrive) I emailed a whole bunch of computer hardware to ask for a non-window modem. I phrased my request like this: "PCI internal modem with a real UART that appears as a serial (COMx) port without any drivers"
The clueless sales people who answer emails at some vendors got themselves struck off my list, while the cluefull ones replied that they knew what I meant but didn't have any - except for one vendor who guessed I most be running linux, and had one in stock. It cost me 45NZ$ (About 25US$) - they're more expensive than other modems because they have all the hardware to modulate and demodulate without using the cpu.
One you insert the real modem inside the PC and reboot, then type:
dmesg | grep tty
you'll get a message like
ttyS4 is a 16650A
or something like that. That would mean that the modem is at/dev/ttyS4. Yours may be ttyS3. The hard part is finding a real PCI modem, cause not many places sell them. If you phrase your request like I did you're more likely to get the real thing.
Who cares about the cheesy FX? You hardly notice them because the story line was excellent. One Blakes 7 episode had more plot than a whole series of trek.
If the landlady owns the rock, then the tenant was struck by a rock belonging to her landlady. She should have got some compensation from the landlady.
People need to get with the picture and stop using those other languages because I don't understand them
My father-in-law seriously holds that view. He'll get agitated if someone dares to speak a foriegn language near him, even if it's a public place and they're not even talking to him. I'm glad you were joking.
It is dangerous to assume he's an idiot. He probably has better access to The People Who Run Things than you or I. Lawmakers don't read slashdot or groklaw. Lawmakers listen to propaganda from groups like AdTI. The only defense for those of us whose incomes rely on OSS is to educate the very people that AdTI are trying to fool. We won't achieve that by posting on/.
Have a firwall/gateway PC in a locked cupboard with a UPS. Have RJ45 sockets throughout the house for tenants to plug their own laptops into.
You could make a diskless (boot-from-LAN) LTSP client available for tenants who don't bring their own computer. Once they get past the xdm(or kdm or gdm) login screen (guest login username and password supplied when they pick up the keys for the house) they will get a customised desktop with an icon labeled "Surf the web" - anyone who has used any modern gui will be able to work out what to do next.
When you're afraid of your iPod being lifted, it gives a whole new meaning to the idea of "music piracy."
This is closer to the true original meaning of "piracy". The proper term for what most people call "piracy" is just copyright infringement i.e. infringing on someone else's exclusive right to distribute copies of something.
IBM refers to ALL of us by serial number, a 6-digit alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies every one of us
I think every organisation or company that has a computerised payroll system does that. Where I work everyone has an employee number. There may be two Jane Andersons working for the company but not two people with the payroll number 13563.
All the Slashdotters think IBM is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
I don't think anyone here truly believes IBM is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. It just so happens that IBM's interests are for the moment aligned with ours[*] so we are happy to support them in our common goals. Just like during WW2 USA and USSR shared common goals in opposing Germany and Japan. Hopefully there are enough checks and balances (eg GPL) to prevent IBM from harming the OSS movement if OSS is no longer in IBM's interest.
Mostly, the whole single user thing seems to be more of a way to prevent folks from forcing the cable tech into hooking up a network more then anything
That's right for the ISP I work for. We allow home networks, but only assist with the connection to one computer. The rest is up to the customer. We do, however, provide some documentation (with no guarantees) to help with home networks.
As an aside - I think we benefit from home networkers - because the machine directly connected to our network is more likely to be a firewall than a worm-infested windows box.
It seems people who talk about browsers don't like to mention MSIE.
Or perhaps most users of MSIE don't think of it as MSIE. To them it's just "the Intarweb program that comes with my computer". I talk to people who regard email and "the Internet" as separate things, calling email "email" and surfing the web "using the internet". They don't think of email as "using the internet" unless they use a webmail interface - ie unless they use IExplorer. If people are going to discuss the issue of browsers, it's usually because they're thinking of, promoting, or looking for alternatives. Joe sixpack doesn't even know that MSIE belongs to a class of similar apps called "browsers", or that there are alternatives to what came installed on his computer. Microsoft have done a good job in that regard.
It all depends on the index. And that index has to be created initially and then kept up to date. Do you really think Google crawls the whole web every time you do a google search? Any tool that searches your entire HD will be slower than one searching an index, while any tool searching the index only will miss files created after the most recent index-update-cycle. Ideally a daemon would be updating the index constantly whenever there are spare cpu cycles.
have a once-a-day cron job that runs updatedb, but then you'll just get anoyed at the way it causes your disks to churn for several minutes.
Any tool from google or microsoft or anyone else would need some functional equivalent to updatedb to run at regular intervals. The index has to be made some way or another. Maybe an updatedb type of process that runs whenever there are idle cpu cycles?
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My NAT/fw is a P166 box running IPCOP.
Easy to patch. Easy to use. Easy to set up.
I phrased my request like this:
"PCI internal modem with a real UART that appears as a serial (COMx) port without any drivers"
The clueless sales people who answer emails at some vendors got themselves struck off my list, while the cluefull ones replied that they knew what I meant but didn't have any - except for one vendor who guessed I most be running linux, and had one in stock. It cost me 45NZ$ (About 25US$) - they're more expensive than other modems because they have all the hardware to modulate and demodulate without using the cpu.
One you insert the real modem inside the PC and reboot, then type:you'll get a message likeor something like that. That would mean that the modem is at
The hard part is finding a real PCI modem, cause not many places sell them. If you phrase your request like I did you're more likely to get the real thing.
Or use the [shift] key when you insert the disk. Or use another operating system that doesn't autorun the anti-copying software.
... The RIAA have bought a law banning keyboards with a shift key.
There are plenty of grass-roots non-profit christian groups using free open source stuff. The CSU are not the best example of christianity.
Bastards! I'd want my money back! - oh wait - it was a free service.
Who cares about the cheesy FX? You hardly notice them because the story line was excellent. One Blakes 7 episode had more plot than a whole series of trek.
If the landlady owns the rock, then the tenant was struck by a rock belonging to her landlady. She should have got some compensation from the landlady.
Does this answer your question? (Quoting the article:)
People need to get with the picture and stop using those other languages because I don't understand them
My father-in-law seriously holds that view. He'll get agitated if someone dares to speak a foriegn language near him, even if it's a public place and they're not even talking to him. I'm glad you were joking.
there are plenty of atrocities in copyright law, but making students licensees of textbook publishers luckily isn't among them -- yet
...
Yet
People would take Ken Brown more seriously if ...
Unfortunately for us, KB's book is not aimed at intelligent people. It is aimed at Decision Makers. That is what scares me.
What an idiot
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It is dangerous to assume he's an idiot. He probably has better access to The People Who Run Things than you or I. Lawmakers don't read slashdot or groklaw. Lawmakers listen to propaganda from groups like AdTI. The only defense for those of us whose incomes rely on OSS is to educate the very people that AdTI are trying to fool. We won't achieve that by posting on
Here's what I would do.
Have a firwall/gateway PC in a locked cupboard with a UPS.
Have RJ45 sockets throughout the house for tenants to plug their own laptops into.
You could make a diskless (boot-from-LAN) LTSP client available for tenants who don't bring their own computer. Once they get past the xdm(or kdm or gdm) login screen (guest login username and password supplied when they pick up the keys for the house) they will get a customised desktop with an icon labeled "Surf the web" - anyone who has used any modern gui will be able to work out what to do next.
Do the VoIP economics work if the carriers have to provide universal service, as well as e911 and wiretap capability?
Okay, I can see the need for calling emergency services, but why wiretap?
Oh wait, you must be posting from the United States.
Learn to conjugate.
-th is the correct ending, but only for the third person singular.
Second person singular ends with -st.
<troll>anyway, english is just a corrupt form of dutch</troll>
You forgot your tags.
When you're afraid of your iPod being lifted, it gives a whole new meaning to the idea of "music piracy."
This is closer to the true original meaning of "piracy".
The proper term for what most people call "piracy" is just copyright infringement i.e. infringing on someone else's exclusive right to distribute copies of something.
IBM refers to ALL of us by serial number, a 6-digit alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies every one of us
I think every organisation or company that has a computerised payroll system does that. Where I work everyone has an employee number. There may be two Jane Andersons working for the company but not two people with the payroll number 13563.
All the Slashdotters think IBM is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
I don't think anyone here truly believes IBM is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. It just so happens that IBM's interests are for the moment aligned with ours[*] so we are happy to support them in our common goals. Just like during WW2 USA and USSR shared common goals in opposing Germany and Japan.
Hopefully there are enough checks and balances (eg GPL) to prevent IBM from harming the OSS movement if OSS is no longer in IBM's interest.
[*] Open Source advocates.
Mostly, the whole single user thing seems to be more of a way to prevent folks from forcing the cable tech into hooking up a network more then anything
That's right for the ISP I work for. We allow home networks, but only assist with the connection to one computer. The rest is up to the customer. We do, however, provide some documentation (with no guarantees) to help with home networks.
As an aside - I think we benefit from home networkers - because the machine directly connected to our network is more likely to be a firewall than a worm-infested windows box.
as long as they don't call the whole computer case "le harddrive" (or would that be "l'harddrive"?)
It seems people who talk about browsers don't like to mention MSIE.
Or perhaps most users of MSIE don't think of it as MSIE. To them it's just "the Intarweb program that comes with my computer".
I talk to people who regard email and "the Internet" as separate things, calling email "email" and surfing the web "using the internet". They don't think of email as "using the internet" unless they use a webmail interface - ie unless they use IExplorer.
If people are going to discuss the issue of browsers, it's usually because they're thinking of, promoting, or looking for alternatives. Joe sixpack doesn't even know that MSIE belongs to a class of similar apps called "browsers", or that there are alternatives to what came installed on his computer. Microsoft have done a good job in that regard.
It all depends on the index. And that index has to be created initially and then kept up to date. Do you really think Google crawls the whole web every time you do a google search? Any tool that searches your entire HD will be slower than one searching an index, while any tool searching the index only will miss files created after the most recent index-update-cycle. Ideally a daemon would be updating the index constantly whenever there are spare cpu cycles.
have a once-a-day cron job that runs updatedb, but then you'll just get anoyed at the way it causes your disks to churn for several minutes.
Any tool from google or microsoft or anyone else would need some functional equivalent to updatedb to run at regular intervals. The index has to be made some way or another. Maybe an updatedb type of process that runs whenever there are idle cpu cycles?