Replying to myself to add some info. Firmware v1.20 doesn't have the "Advanced -> Secure Spot" page they mention so it really seems to be be new in v1.21. The 1.20 firmware can still be downloaded from here.
Two trailers with "thousands" of them were stolen from a harbour in Gothemburg/Sweden last weekend. According to a commenter the exact number is 18000, but [citation needed] on that one... Link in Swedish.
You don't have to use port 8080/8090 anymore, you can link directly to port 80. Then it works much better for people behind overly restrictive firewalls.
Well, the influences of the English language in the rest of the world make people split up words that are supposed to be togetherwritten so I see this as sweet revenge.
A good start is to get a Catweasel floppy controller. If you connect a 3", a 3.5", a 5.25" and a 8" floppy drive to it you will be able to read almost any floppy disk there is, including C64, Amiga, CP/M, CPC, Mac, Apple II, Famicom and so on.
Then comes the bigger problem: Finding the tools to extract files from their filesystems. There are small extraction/conversion tools on the net for almost every format there is, collecting dust on long forgotten areas of FTP servers. Some of them require some slight modifications to compile on post-80s UNIX and some only run in MSDOS with full hardware access, but with some patience, DOSBox, Google and imgtool from MESS you should be able to work with most of them.
Then finally comes the biggest problem: Finding applications that can work with the actual files...
This is not very far from the current push for mass surveillance in the post-9/11 western world. The only difference is that China is a bit ahead of us. We'll get there in time, also. Remember, people, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
Tried it every time a new major version is released.
Does it work and is it usable?
It works, yes. Is it usable? No, because compared to the standard net, it's horribly horribly slow. Besides that, due to the nature of Freenet, all sites are static and because there are so few sites there, and a high percentage of grey area or plain illegal content, almost all sites link to sites which link to sites which link to child porn.
I2P is a much more promising project. It's basically an encrypted, anonymizing IP-layer on top of IP so the web sites that are running there are normal fully interactive web sites running PHP, Rails or whatever. There is also BitTorrent, IRC and many other things running on top of it. The only difference from the normal net is that there is no way to tell the real IP or location of neither the server nor the user connecting to it.
I don't know of any such countries, but it's common to have laws that require companies to actually support the hardware they claim to support and that's a big difference. Not doing so is false marketing/fraud.
Well, I do wish that they had used this clock bug instead of those embarrassingly ugly mutated flying pacmans who looked like they came straight from a Nintendo 64 game. A perfect way to completely ruin an otherwise pretty mediocre film and put in on the worst-films-ever-list.
No, you just lack visions.:) The enormous speed boost the major JavaScript engines has gotten just the last few months, with plenty of optimizations still on the TODO-lists, will allow developers to create far more advanced web applications in the future than is feasible right now, without having to resort to proprietary crap like Silverlight.
Although some junior developers surely will abuse this and make overly complex web sites that risk triggering epilepsy and make it hard to find and read the information they were supposed to present in the first place, it will also be a great benefit to applications like Google's online office apps, webmail and similar. Also JavaScript heavy sites like Facebook will be much nicer to use as they won't eat as much CPU anymore.
This will also be great for desktop applications written mostly in JavaScript, such as Firefox, Songbird and Komodo IDE.
It's now available on http://www.google.com/gears/ if you are running Windows. Using it in VirtualBox to write this. I have only tried it for like 10 minutes but I love it already. Can't wait for the Linux version... Let's just hope it will support plugins so we can get a good adblocker, otherwise it's unusable.
At least where I live (Stockholm/Sweden) the most I can get to my house with ADSL is 24 Mbit down but only a single Mbit up, which is crap for both P2P and large uploads to Youtube, photo sites, etc. With cable I can get 24/8 or 10/10 which is a LOT better than any ADSL offering. I live a bit too far from the nearest tele station to get VDSL. People living only about 100 meters away can get 1000/100 for the same price though (about $40/month), because they have smarter landlords. *jealous*
Because new versions often have security fixes and they don't want to keep supporting legacy code.
Besides, upgrading is free and dead simple, almost automatic. How the hell can it be worse than when commercial software nags you? Also, they already said it will be several weeks between the "nags", which is pretty reasonable IMHO.
Users running Windows 9x who are connected to the internet already have so much spyware and viruses that running an unsupported version of Firefox won't be much of a problem in comparision.
Ok, I agree with you fully. I too think that DRM is the worst obstacle of all and is the most important fight. I just got the impression that you didn't think the fight for truly open standards wasn't worth fighting at all. Just because we just won a big fight doesn't mean we should give up on the other, also very important fights.
Now the by far most important fight is the one against mass surveillance, but I'll still keep fighting against draconian copyright legislation and software patents, the gender and sexuality apartheid and many other important things at the same time.
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Plus, upgrading your firmware "just because". Why?
Because router firmware upgrades often mean closing security holes.
Replying to myself to add some info. Firmware v1.20 doesn't have the "Advanced -> Secure Spot" page they mention so it really seems to be be new in v1.21. The 1.20 firmware can still be downloaded from here.
Thank you so much for the warning! I'll stay on 1.20 then and my next router certainly won't be a D-link.
It seems that it was 18K DS Lite that got stolen, not DSi.
Two trailers with "thousands" of them were stolen from a harbour in Gothemburg/Sweden last weekend. According to a commenter the exact number is 18000, but [citation needed] on that one... Link in Swedish.
You don't have to use port 8080/8090 anymore, you can link directly to port 80. Then it works much better for people behind overly restrictive firewalls.
I have never been able to use any Coral cache mirrors using swedish ISPs
What ISP are you talking about? I have never had any problems using Coral cache with Com Hem or Bredbandsbolaget.
Well, the influences of the English language in the rest of the world make people split up words that are supposed to be togetherwritten so I see this as sweet revenge.
A good start is to get a Catweasel floppy controller. If you connect a 3", a 3.5", a 5.25" and a 8" floppy drive to it you will be able to read almost any floppy disk there is, including C64, Amiga, CP/M, CPC, Mac, Apple II, Famicom and so on.
Then comes the bigger problem: Finding the tools to extract files from their filesystems. There are small extraction/conversion tools on the net for almost every format there is, collecting dust on long forgotten areas of FTP servers. Some of them require some slight modifications to compile on post-80s UNIX and some only run in MSDOS with full hardware access, but with some patience, DOSBox, Google and imgtool from MESS you should be able to work with most of them.
Then finally comes the biggest problem: Finding applications that can work with the actual files...
This is not very far from the current push for mass surveillance in the post-9/11 western world. The only difference is that China is a bit ahead of us. We'll get there in time, also. Remember, people, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
What's people's real world experience of Freenet?
Tried it every time a new major version is released.
Does it work and is it usable?
It works, yes. Is it usable? No, because compared to the standard net, it's horribly horribly slow. Besides that, due to the nature of Freenet, all sites are static and because there are so few sites there, and a high percentage of grey area or plain illegal content, almost all sites link to sites which link to sites which link to child porn.
I2P is a much more promising project. It's basically an encrypted, anonymizing IP-layer on top of IP so the web sites that are running there are normal fully interactive web sites running PHP, Rails or whatever. There is also BitTorrent, IRC and many other things running on top of it. The only difference from the normal net is that there is no way to tell the real IP or location of neither the server nor the user connecting to it.
Yes, they do.
Well well... :P
I don't know of any such countries, but it's common to have laws that require companies to actually support the hardware they claim to support and that's a big difference. Not doing so is false marketing/fraud.
Well, I do wish that they had used this clock bug instead of those embarrassingly ugly mutated flying pacmans who looked like they came straight from a Nintendo 64 game. A perfect way to completely ruin an otherwise pretty mediocre film and put in on the worst-films-ever-list.
No, you just lack visions. :) The enormous speed boost the major JavaScript engines has gotten just the last few months, with plenty of optimizations still on the TODO-lists, will allow developers to create far more advanced web applications in the future than is feasible right now, without having to resort to proprietary crap like Silverlight.
Although some junior developers surely will abuse this and make overly complex web sites that risk triggering epilepsy and make it hard to find and read the information they were supposed to present in the first place, it will also be a great benefit to applications like Google's online office apps, webmail and similar. Also JavaScript heavy sites like Facebook will be much nicer to use as they won't eat as much CPU anymore.
This will also be great for desktop applications written mostly in JavaScript, such as Firefox, Songbird and Komodo IDE.
The LGPL and BSD licenses are "free as in beer" now?
This is a wonderful example of what happens when there are open standards and healthy competition! The consumer is the winner!
CD? What.CD? I don't understand...
It's now available on http://www.google.com/gears/ if you are running Windows. Using it in VirtualBox to write this. I have only tried it for like 10 minutes but I love it already. Can't wait for the Linux version... Let's just hope it will support plugins so we can get a good adblocker, otherwise it's unusable.
At least where I live (Stockholm/Sweden) the most I can get to my house with ADSL is 24 Mbit down but only a single Mbit up, which is crap for both P2P and large uploads to Youtube, photo sites, etc. With cable I can get 24/8 or 10/10 which is a LOT better than any ADSL offering. I live a bit too far from the nearest tele station to get VDSL. People living only about 100 meters away can get 1000/100 for the same price though (about $40/month), because they have smarter landlords. *jealous*
Saddam OPTIMIZE TABLE
Actually, I think the SQL 2012 standard only supports the short form, "SADDAMIZE TABLE".
Not to be confused with the more penetrative command SOD... nevermind.
Because new versions often have security fixes and they don't want to keep supporting legacy code.
Besides, upgrading is free and dead simple, almost automatic. How the hell can it be worse than when commercial software nags you? Also, they already said it will be several weeks between the "nags", which is pretty reasonable IMHO.
Users running Windows 9x who are connected to the internet already have so much spyware and viruses that running an unsupported version of Firefox won't be much of a problem in comparision.
Ok, I agree with you fully. I too think that DRM is the worst obstacle of all and is the most important fight. I just got the impression that you didn't think the fight for truly open standards wasn't worth fighting at all. Just because we just won a big fight doesn't mean we should give up on the other, also very important fights.
Now the by far most important fight is the one against mass surveillance, but I'll still keep fighting against draconian copyright legislation and software patents, the gender and sexuality apartheid and many other important things at the same time.