The firmware is redistributable and can be included in distributions, so it's not bad for the users.
Redistributable != free software.
One could write drivers for the firmware based on the open source drivers developed by Intel - unlike ATI or nVidia which does not openly provide documentation for their hardware.
Citing the first paragraph of the ipw2200 project website:
This project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection mini PCI adapters. This project (IPW2200) is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available).
So it seems that Intel is also one of the bad guys in opening up the HW documentation...
Here are the descriptions of the branches:
testing - Brand new stuff that's quite possibly broken.
unstable - Packages go here after they've been in testing for two weeks without hosing anybodies machines.
That is not right at all. New packages first go into unstable. Testing is the distribution to become stable sometime. When every goal for the release is met, testing is frozen and all release-critical bugs are fixed. Then it becomes stable when a new version of Debian is released.
In my opinion it is meaningless for a normal user to run Debian Testing, as it is meant for QA and developers to 'test' the packages to go into stable.
Furthermore, when a bug is introduced in testing the user must wait for it to enter unstable first. That process could be quite cumbersome for joe average who thinks he gets a more stable unstable.
You are correct: an alarm is useless. If you are in a mall or store and your car alarm goes off, will you notice? Doubtful.
I have no experience with car alarms, but the nice feature in the laptop alarm, which i think you're missing, is the remote pager. Then you will most certainly notice. From the article:
Step away from your laptop and the palm-held end of the device notifies you if your laptop is being moved. You then have five seconds to either disarm a siren on the other end of the device before it goes off, or let it blare out the news to the whole world that something is wrong.
I'd rather buy a proper IDE RAID (not some software based HighPoint-RAID you find on mobos these days) for $300, 8 drives (4 active, 4 hot spares). That's about 160 GB fully redundant drive space for you for $1000.
From a backup perspective, the keyword is not only redundant data-storage - but also removable data-storage. Which hdd's lack. What to do if the server building burns down and your hdd's is no longer to use?
The great thing about DSL is that it can run on some old cobber wires laid down by the phone companies once. You don't need get your whole front-yard digged up in order to get some fiber to your house. It would be a very big investment to get fiber on every last-mile - then it's much cheaper (both for the customer and ISP) to reuse the old cobber wires already down there.
You also seem to think a lot of what to use the bandwidth for. Right now I have a 512 kbps ADSL at my appartment, and I seldom use more than at couple of k/s for ssh, irc, email and so on. But when I use a lot (need to download software og other rather big files) it would be nice not to wait so long. 4 years ago i was still using some flatrate 33.6 modem connection, and in order for the Internet to evolve i think greater bandwidth is required for the end user (or a least fixed access).
Here, how about this? I'll create a directory on my drive. Let's call it "/home/stwrtpj/al_qaeda_plans". Now let's copy some files in there from other directories, but lets give these files name like, oh, I don't know "plot_to_kill_george_w", "destroy_america", "smite_the_infidels", aaaaand "plans_to_blow_up_hoover_dam". Now let's take a screenshot of Gnome's file manager proudly displaying those filenames. So does this mean I'm a terrorist? Does this give anyone the right to pursue civil or criminal charges against me? No. "plot_to_kill_george_w" could contain a freaking grocery list for all you know.
A danish slashdot-like site has been speaking to some lawyers in order to get their facts straight. Given the fact that the AntiPiracy-group is not some government thing set up to nail those pirates - this has to go to civil court. The "innoccent until proven otherwise" concept then gets transformed into "we'll just have to convince the judge". If you and your lawyers can explain to the judge that screenshots doesn't prove anything it would be nice. Right now there a now legal precedence in using screenshots in court.
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Offtopic: You seem to have gone a long way to ensure that you can check you mail from anywhere ;)
... and a long time without a kernel security update :-)
Most consumer-grade computers you encounter are already set up to use GMail
:-)
This argument doesn't hold. Slashdot users are not your average consumer. Or at least - most Slashdot users aren't
This project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection mini PCI adapters. This project (IPW2200) is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available).
So it seems that Intel is also one of the bad guys in opening up the HW documentation...
The ipw2200 for one comes with a non-free (not as in free beer) firmware.
It's spam or Spam. Not SPAM.
Excel.
Actually some of the nodes does some distribution like ISC's F-root using anycast:
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/f-root/
The NORDUnet rootserver is also distributed (to three locations in europe).
In my opinion it is meaningless for a normal user to run Debian Testing, as it is meant for QA and developers to 'test' the packages to go into stable.
Furthermore, when a bug is introduced in testing the user must wait for it to enter unstable first. That process could be quite cumbersome for joe average who thinks he gets a more stable unstable.
Regards,
Christian (running Debian Unstable
You are correct: an alarm is useless. If you are in a mall or store and your car alarm goes off, will you notice? Doubtful.
I have no experience with car alarms, but the nice feature in the laptop alarm, which i think you're missing, is the remote pager. Then you will most certainly notice. From the article:
Step away from your laptop and the palm-held end of the device notifies you if your laptop is being moved. You then have five seconds to either disarm a siren on the other end of the device before it goes off, or let it blare out the news to the whole world that something is wrong.
You're one brave man! /me starts humming "another one bites the dust"...
I'd rather buy a proper IDE RAID (not some software based HighPoint-RAID you find on mobos these days) for $300, 8 drives (4 active, 4 hot spares). That's about 160 GB fully redundant drive space for you for $1000.
From a backup perspective, the keyword is not only redundant data-storage - but also removable data-storage. Which hdd's lack. What to do if the server building burns down and your hdd's is no longer to use?
Their fault.. shrinking the fullsize image via to get thumbs isn't really a Good Thing.
:-)
You forgot the [tm] part
Sure.. MD5 always worked for me :-)
So why are you using them now? Can't get enough banner ads?
:)
I use their directory sometimes. Say I want to find all pizzabars placed in my town. That's a bit harder when using google
I'm not saying i want cheaper ADSL - just that it's a good idea en developing new solutions for the current "pipes" :)
The great thing about DSL is that it can run on some old cobber wires laid down by the phone companies once. You don't need get your whole front-yard digged up in order to get some fiber to your house. It would be a very big investment to get fiber on every last-mile - then it's much cheaper (both for the customer and ISP) to reuse the old cobber wires already down there.
You also seem to think a lot of what to use the bandwidth for. Right now I have a 512 kbps ADSL at my appartment, and I seldom use more than at couple of k/s for ssh, irc, email and so on. But when I use a lot (need to download software og other rather big files) it would be nice not to wait so long. 4 years ago i was still using some flatrate 33.6 modem connection, and in order for the Internet to evolve i think greater bandwidth is required for the end user (or a least fixed access).
Here, how about this? I'll create a directory on my drive. Let's call it "/home/stwrtpj/al_qaeda_plans". Now let's copy some files in there from other directories, but lets give these files name like, oh, I don't know "plot_to_kill_george_w", "destroy_america", "smite_the_infidels", aaaaand "plans_to_blow_up_hoover_dam". Now let's take a screenshot of Gnome's file manager proudly displaying those filenames. So does this mean I'm a terrorist? Does this give anyone the right to pursue civil or criminal charges against me? No. "plot_to_kill_george_w" could contain a freaking grocery list for all you know.
A danish slashdot-like site has been speaking to some lawyers in order to get their facts straight. Given the fact that the AntiPiracy-group is not some government thing set up to nail those pirates - this has to go to civil court. The "innoccent until proven otherwise" concept then gets transformed into "we'll just have to convince the judge". If you and your lawyers can explain to the judge that screenshots doesn't prove anything it would be nice. Right now there a now legal precedence in using screenshots in court.
The ones targeted for the spam emails is not the ones who know how to setup filtering software, thus going through this procedure isn't needed.
... businesses want productivity. There's just not enough of that in Linux desktop apps..
What kind of apps are you talking about?
I (in my work as a fulltime programmer) find it much convenient to work in blackbox using emacs, cvs and other development tools.
what would you say to a distro that took 10 meg, then made a 100 meg ram disk and extracted the root to that and started running X?
Debian doesn't do that. Unless you choose to install X, you don't get any X libs or whatsoever.
Please stop trolling. Check out these links if your mom and dad haven't already pulled the plug:
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