So run it on another machine that isnt an authoritiative nameserver?
And/or, if your company is so broke it can't afford a couple hundred bucks to put together a low-end box to run update tests on, then you are doomed anyway.
"Free Software", even when serviced and supported by a corporation such as RedHat, is about knowing WTF you are doing and being responsible for your own stuff, as opposed to being a drooling button-pusher assuming everyone else will take care of you and suing them when they don't.
And if this was a Microsoft error, the fault would STILL be on the people who didn't have the sense to test it themselves first, especially when choosing to use MS, which has a history of breaking things. In fact the only reason RedHat's mistake is news to begin with is that fact that this type of thing is so rare to begin with. To be blunt, if MS did it, I would consider it no more newsworthy than 'Sun rises again today'.
Instead, warn people 100 years from now. Be sure to ask them to warn the people 100 years from then, and to continue 'passing the warning down'.
Beyond that, if civilization collpases to the point where all language and generational information-passing goes to crap, quit worrying about it. I mean, are we worrying about warning people 10 billion years (or however long it is) from now about the collapse of the entire solar system? At some point you cant do anymore and have to assume that the future will sort itself out.
I don't know anything about satellite data, so I could be talking out my ass here. But if a dish is 'auto-aligning', and all you have to do is drop the thing 'anywhere' and push some buttons, if it went down, couldn't your on-site monkey just turn it off, and then turn it back on, and let it think it has just been dropped 'anywhere' again, and push the same 'few buttons', and start from the beginning?
Not to mention huge-profit stability. Not being able to reap insane revenues by billing per-minute for phone calls? OMG how will the CEO pay for the new golf course on his private yacht?
I'm surprised they havent found a way to prevent you from using email (which is unlimited and free) and force you to use text messaging instead (which limits you to send tiny little messages and pay 20 cents each for the privilege)
There are guides that can show you how to use an iPhone (original) to use your EDGE internet connection from your laptop via Wifi. Granted, this does require non-Apple supported software modifications, but it's doable. They also let you use a service provider other than AT&T, and let you install any of a TON of software on the phone that perform a huge variety of tasks that you might or might not have a use for.
But no, AT&T is never going to let Apple do this officially for people who arent savvy enough to unlock/jailbreak their phones on their own. At the very least, not without making sure it requires you to pay a hefty additional fee to do it.
Of course, a Windows computer directly connected to the Internet is pretty susceptible to that too - anyone on/. with any relatives that are still bound to MS-monopoly land (and lets face it, most probably do) should at *least* make sure they have a firewall (which is a seperate piece of *hardware* with ethernet connections, not some shit software that runs on the same machine its supposed to protect) between their cable/dsl modem and their wintendo box
The 'hardware' is just a miniature computer. The value is what the software running on it does.
Regardless, if someone releases some software under GPL3, they are basically saying that they do not give permission for someone to distribute modified versions of that software in any form, including embedded in some sort of hardware device.
If the software serves some meaningful purpose on that device, then you are distributing the software. If it doesnt serve a purpose, then the vendor can either write their own code, or buy some code from someone willing to give them permission to use it in that manner.
Lots of people seems to think thatj ust because you dont have to click "Yes" to an EULA or pay money to get it means that you can do any damn thing you want with someone elses GPL'ed code - it doesnt - just like with any other software, you comply with the terms you received it under, or you dont use it.
The fact that you are selling ("distributing") some hardware does not negate the fact that you are also selling ("distributing") some software. If you obtained that software under the GPL license, then you must comply with the terms of the GPL, including, among other things, if you are selling modified copies of that software (along with your hardware), then you must make the modified source available.
Think 'spirit' vs 'letter'. If you bought software (source) to put on your 'appliance', you would be paying a per-unit fee to the vendor you got it from. GPL software's equivalent to the per-unit fee is "share your modifications (in full source form) with everyone who uses your modified program (regardless of what device it runs on), so that they can (if they choose) make further modifications/enahncements/etc"
... use the "send brief comment" box at the bottom instead of uploading a lengthy DOC file.... How about 'never upload a DOC file' ever, regardless of the context?
(Assuming "DOC" is referring to a proprietary Microsoft word processor file)
(And with the possible exception of, you are co-writing some sort of document with others, and you have all agreed in advance to use [a specific version of] a Microsoft word processor to exchanging the work-in-progress)
Word processor files are NEVER appropriate for final output or publishing of anything, nor for transmitting information to other entities with which you dont have a specific prior arrangement to exchange files in that format. Plain text, or (if you simply MUST control the fonts and margins) PDF
There is a difference between 'block access to' and 'no longer carry', and this article's title blurs the difference. Since the former isn't feasible, I'm sure this is the latter.
Eg, *Verizon* will no longer carry the alt.* newsgroups on their own Usenet servers that they use to provide Usenet access to their own customers. This is entirely their choice to do so, and in fact they aren't the first. Heck, some ISP's don't even offer Usenet service at all anymore. If you dont like that, choose a different ISP. Or (in response to the whines about broadband monopolies, which have some validity), just a different Usenet provider:
Nothing is stopping someone who wants access to alt.sex.natalie.portman.and.midgets or alt.horses.and.chix from subscribing to one of the many for-pay Usenet services. Supernews is one that springs to mind, but I'm sure you all know how to use Google. These work regardless of who your ISP is.
And just when I thought cell phones, at least, where starting to standardize on USB, which already has 'installed base'. In fact, other than the not-easily-removable battery on my iphone, about my only gripe is that to connect it to USB requires its dock cable - Apple should have put a mini-usb connector built right in.
Dont try to boot from the drives on the funky addon controller. Connect a drive to the mobo's standard built-in controller, and boot (Linux) from that, then use the additional drives for other mounts- Linux doesnt need the bios in order to access drives for storage.
So expensive as hell, and I bet not much bandwidth at 900Mhz, either. (Eg maybe 11Mbps) Lots of companies selling old 'expensive' solutions in this market, apparently. They dont want to admit that technology has bypassed them. Kinda like trying to sell 'business class' 300baud acoustic modems for $1000 each after everyone had 28.8's.
I've got a pair of Netgear WNHDE111's doing 40M+ at about 800 ft, with only 'mostly' LOS. They might do 500m if there was 100% clear LOS. Oh, and they only cost $250 for a pair, not 2 grand each.
Gotta love companies that consider their stuff so 'elite' that they can't be bothered to put any pricing information on their website. You could call them, but of course its after business hours. They want you to give them your contact info so they can call you at their convenience. Pfft, not.
I once actually took the time to call a company about some sort of networking kit, and was told that the units I was looking at were like 20k apiece. I told the guy to go back to smoking whatever he was before I called.
Generally, if a company refuses to publish their pricing opening, its probably $toomuch or $outofthisworld. I'm sorry, but if you are afraid that the price is going to scare people away, what makes you think it isnt going to scare them away when they finally find out it (AFTER wasting their time to call you and/or wait around for you to call them back, pissing them off)
.. is that Microsoft and Yahoo should both spontaneously combust, or otherwise cease to exist in some spectacular fashion.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, that has stifled more good tech than any other entity I can think of, and the only 'innovation' they do is on new ways to lock people in as customers.
Yahoo is a spammer and spammer supporter. Their main page is a cluttered ugly mess of crap. Yahoo 'stores' is horridly designed and hard to use.
Microsoft: No thanks, I'll stick with Free Software (Free as in GNU: fsf.org)
Yahoo: For search, no thanks, I'll stick with Google. For whatever else you offer, I'm probably not interested anyway.
As others have suggested or hinted at, is to quit sharing one email account, either for communication between 'board members', or with 'the student body'.
I think a Google Group would work far more efficiently. Each 'board member' would have their own account, and have some administrative access. the masses would have less access. If there are recurring cases where you need to communicate to all 'board members', but privately (eg without the student body reading that communication), then perhaps two groups, one for internal messages between members, and a seperate one for 'public messages'
Yes, I beleive I noted somewhere that 'entertainment' was about the only legitimate use of flash (Even disgusting moronic cartoons), and the unavailablity of those sites on nonflash platforms isn't really a big deal.
But, imagine/. redone so all navigation and comment viewing was in flash. If that ever happened, I can tell you I wouldnt bother reading the site anymore, nor would a lot of other current regular readers. I'd be pretty unhappy about it too. Of course, I think/. probably has more sense than to ever consider anything like that, so I'm not worried.
Youtube works just fine on the iPhone. Think of bbc's player. Until the iPhone forced them to offer a nonflash nondrm version, there was no way to use their videos on anything but windows.
Flash is horrid. Sites that have chosen to make their information available or usable only if you have flash are horrid. Feel free to point out any site that uses flash that you think uses flash and doesnt suck in terms of usability.
The entire idea of websites being coded in compiled proprietary binary form is bad anyway. Thankfully, most websites that are are generally not worth visiting anyway.
I have an iPhone. I'm *GLAD* it doesnt support flash. Flash is used:
1. For entertainment/cartoons videos. Not terribly important to me. 2. To overcomplicate access to various types of media (mainly so its harder to directly download the media, which makes it impossible to save it an play it offline) 3. By incompetent "webmasterz" to make websites hard to use and look like shit, preventing any possibility of changing the font sizes or colors (becuase they are always incredibly tiny and fuzzy, and in horridly hard to read garish colors), or to copy/paste the text, and to make all the forms and controls as slow and as bloated as possible.
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So run it on another machine that isnt an authoritiative nameserver?
And/or, if your company is so broke it can't afford a couple hundred bucks to put together a low-end box to run update tests on, then you are doomed anyway.
"Free Software", even when serviced and supported by a corporation such as RedHat, is about knowing WTF you are doing and being responsible for your own stuff, as opposed to being a drooling button-pusher assuming everyone else will take care of you and suing them when they don't.
And if this was a Microsoft error, the fault would STILL be on the people who didn't have the sense to test it themselves first, especially when choosing to use MS, which has a history of breaking things. In fact the only reason RedHat's mistake is news to begin with is that fact that this type of thing is so rare to begin with. To be blunt, if MS did it, I would consider it no more newsworthy than 'Sun rises again today'.
Instead, warn people 100 years from now. Be sure to ask them to warn the people 100 years from then, and to continue 'passing the warning down'.
Beyond that, if civilization collpases to the point where all language and generational information-passing goes to crap, quit worrying about it. I mean, are we worrying about warning people 10 billion years (or however long it is) from now about the collapse of the entire solar system? At some point you cant do anymore and have to assume that the future will sort itself out.
I don't know anything about satellite data, so I could be talking out my ass here. But if a dish is 'auto-aligning', and all you have to do is drop the thing 'anywhere' and push some buttons, if it went down, couldn't your on-site monkey just turn it off, and then turn it back on, and let it think it has just been dropped 'anywhere' again, and push the same 'few buttons', and start from the beginning?
It is unlikely that either your DSL *Modem* or Vonage *VoIP Phone Adapter* would be considered *Routers*
Not to mention huge-profit stability. Not being able to reap insane revenues by billing per-minute for phone calls? OMG how will the CEO pay for the new golf course on his private yacht?
I'm surprised they havent found a way to prevent you from using email (which is unlimited and free) and force you to use text messaging instead (which limits you to send tiny little messages and pay 20 cents each for the privilege)
There are guides that can show you how to use an iPhone (original) to use your EDGE internet connection from your laptop via Wifi. Granted, this does require non-Apple supported software modifications, but it's doable. They also let you use a service provider other than AT&T, and let you install any of a TON of software on the phone that perform a huge variety of tasks that you might or might not have a use for.
But no, AT&T is never going to let Apple do this officially for people who arent savvy enough to unlock/jailbreak their phones on their own. At the very least, not without making sure it requires you to pay a hefty additional fee to do it.
Of course, a Windows computer directly connected to the Internet is pretty susceptible to that too - anyone on /. with any relatives that are still bound to MS-monopoly land (and lets face it, most probably do) should at *least* make sure they have a firewall (which is a seperate piece of *hardware* with ethernet connections, not some shit software that runs on the same machine its supposed to protect) between their cable/dsl modem and their wintendo box
If the point of 'The Web' is to allow direct links between any 2 points, is today's web something entirely different?
The point of "The Internet" is to allow that (despite the media-owned telco companies wish otherwise).
"The Web" is just one application that runs on "The Internet"
The 'hardware' is just a miniature computer. The value is what the software running on it does.
Regardless, if someone releases some software under GPL3, they are basically saying that they do not give permission for someone to distribute modified versions of that software in any form, including embedded in some sort of hardware device.
If the software serves some meaningful purpose on that device, then you are distributing the software. If it doesnt serve a purpose, then the vendor can either write their own code, or buy some code from someone willing to give them permission to use it in that manner.
Lots of people seems to think thatj ust because you dont have to click "Yes" to an EULA or pay money to get it means that you can do any damn thing you want with someone elses GPL'ed code - it doesnt - just like with any other software, you comply with the terms you received it under, or you dont use it.
Who is decrying copyright as evil? Only systems designed to take more rights than copyright grants (DRM) are decried as evil, IMNSHO.
The fact that you are selling ("distributing") some hardware does not negate the fact that you are also selling ("distributing") some software. If you obtained that software under the GPL license, then you must comply with the terms of the GPL, including, among other things, if you are selling modified copies of that software (along with your hardware), then you must make the modified source available.
Think 'spirit' vs 'letter'. If you bought software (source) to put on your 'appliance', you would be paying a per-unit fee to the vendor you got it from. GPL software's equivalent to the per-unit fee is "share your modifications (in full source form) with everyone who uses your modified program (regardless of what device it runs on), so that they can (if they choose) make further modifications/enahncements/etc"
... use the "send brief comment" box at the bottom instead of uploading a lengthy DOC file.(Assuming "DOC" is referring to a proprietary Microsoft word processor file)
(And with the possible exception of, you are co-writing some sort of document with others, and you have all agreed in advance to use [a specific version of] a Microsoft word processor to exchanging the work-in-progress)
Word processor files are NEVER appropriate for final output or publishing of anything, nor for transmitting information to other entities with which you dont have a specific prior arrangement to exchange files in that format. Plain text, or (if you simply MUST control the fonts and margins) PDF
You are comparing individual users accessing just the articles they want, compared with an ongoing pull of the entire alt.* feed?
Remember, 98% of Verizon's customers have never even heard of Usenet.
There is a difference between 'block access to' and 'no longer carry', and this article's title blurs the difference. Since the former isn't feasible, I'm sure this is the latter.
Eg, *Verizon* will no longer carry the alt.* newsgroups on their own Usenet servers that they use to provide Usenet access to their own customers. This is entirely their choice to do so, and in fact they aren't the first. Heck, some ISP's don't even offer Usenet service at all anymore. If you dont like that, choose a different ISP. Or (in response to the whines about broadband monopolies, which have some validity), just a different Usenet provider:
Nothing is stopping someone who wants access to alt.sex.natalie.portman.and.midgets or alt.horses.and.chix from subscribing to one of the many for-pay Usenet services. Supernews is one that springs to mind, but I'm sure you all know how to use Google. These work regardless of who your ISP is.
And just when I thought cell phones, at least, where starting to standardize on USB, which already has 'installed base'. In fact, other than the not-easily-removable battery on my iphone, about my only gripe is that to connect it to USB requires its dock cable - Apple should have put a mini-usb connector built right in.
Dont try to boot from the drives on the funky addon controller. Connect a drive to the mobo's standard built-in controller, and boot (Linux) from that, then use the additional drives for other mounts- Linux doesnt need the bios in order to access drives for storage.
So expensive as hell, and I bet not much bandwidth at 900Mhz, either. (Eg maybe 11Mbps) Lots of companies selling old 'expensive' solutions in this market, apparently. They dont want to admit that technology has bypassed them. Kinda like trying to sell 'business class' 300baud acoustic modems for $1000 each after everyone had 28.8's.
I've got a pair of Netgear WNHDE111's doing 40M+ at about 800 ft, with only 'mostly' LOS. They might do 500m if there was 100% clear LOS. Oh, and they only cost $250 for a pair, not 2 grand each.
Gotta love companies that consider their stuff so 'elite' that they can't be bothered to put any pricing information on their website. You could call them, but of course its after business hours. They want you to give them your contact info so they can call you at their convenience. Pfft, not.
I once actually took the time to call a company about some sort of networking kit, and was told that the units I was looking at were like 20k apiece. I told the guy to go back to smoking whatever he was before I called.
Generally, if a company refuses to publish their pricing opening, its probably $toomuch or $outofthisworld. I'm sorry, but if you are afraid that the price is going to scare people away, what makes you think it isnt going to scare them away when they finally find out it (AFTER wasting their time to call you and/or wait around for you to call them back, pissing them off)
.. is that Microsoft and Yahoo should both spontaneously combust, or otherwise cease to exist in some spectacular fashion.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, that has stifled more good tech than any other entity I can think of, and the only 'innovation' they do is on new ways to lock people in as customers.
Yahoo is a spammer and spammer supporter. Their main page is a cluttered ugly mess of crap. Yahoo 'stores' is horridly designed and hard to use.
Microsoft: No thanks, I'll stick with Free Software (Free as in GNU: fsf.org)
Yahoo: For search, no thanks, I'll stick with Google. For whatever else you offer, I'm probably not interested anyway.
As others have suggested or hinted at, is to quit sharing one email account, either for communication between 'board members', or with 'the student body'.
I think a Google Group would work far more efficiently. Each 'board member' would have their own account, and have some administrative access. the masses would have less access. If there are recurring cases where you need to communicate to all 'board members', but privately (eg without the student body reading that communication), then perhaps two groups, one for internal messages between members, and a seperate one for 'public messages'
Must be some other iPhone. It isnt in mine:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3
Yes, I beleive I noted somewhere that 'entertainment' was about the only legitimate use of flash (Even disgusting moronic cartoons), and the unavailablity of those sites on nonflash platforms isn't really a big deal.
/. redone so all navigation and comment viewing was in flash. If that ever happened, I can tell you I wouldnt bother reading the site anymore, nor would a lot of other current regular readers. I'd be pretty unhappy about it too. Of course, I think /. probably has more sense than to ever consider anything like that, so I'm not worried.
But, imagine
Youtube works just fine on the iPhone. Think of bbc's player. Until the iPhone forced them to offer a nonflash nondrm version, there was no way to use their videos on anything but windows.
Flash is horrid. Sites that have chosen to make their information available or usable only if you have flash are horrid. Feel free to point out any site that uses flash that you think uses flash and doesnt suck in terms of usability.
The entire idea of websites being coded in compiled proprietary binary form is bad anyway. Thankfully, most websites that are are generally not worth visiting anyway.
I have an iPhone. I'm *GLAD* it doesnt support flash. Flash is used:
1. For entertainment/cartoons videos. Not terribly important to me.
2. To overcomplicate access to various types of media (mainly so its harder to directly download the media, which makes it impossible to save it an play it offline)
3. By incompetent "webmasterz" to make websites hard to use and look like shit, preventing any possibility of changing the font sizes or colors (becuase they are always incredibly tiny and fuzzy, and in horridly hard to read garish colors), or to copy/paste the text, and to make all the forms and controls as slow and as bloated as possible.