Buy tickets to their concerts; buy CDs directly from the band or their website; buy other band crap like t-shirts, mugs, stickers; if they put their music online in places like magnatune or cdbaby buy it there; use their online tip jar if they have one; if they're "nobodies" bring pizza to their jam sessions.
There are plenty of ways. We just need to use them.
Claudio Jeker noted on the OpenBSD misc@ list that Sun released their adapted version of the OpenBSD malodriver under the original license it was released:
Second sentence on the page is:
This driver is based on the source code from OpenBSD, and is provided
under the same BSD-type License.
Whatever anyone wants to say about licensing, the rule I live by is to use the same license the original author started with, regardless whether the license calls for it or not.
I understand the desire to see your code under the license of your preference but realistically if you're getting a huge leg up (as is the case with Reyk's code for this wireless driver) why would you release your minor modifications under an incompatible license? If you believe in share and share alike give back to the original author the same way you received. It's just common courtesy when dealing with open source.
I took my iPhone with me to Guatemala last week. I didn't read anything in particular that made me think it would roam on the data networks but since I didn't immediately find a switch to tell it not to roam for data I put the iPhone in Airplane mode, turned if off (the full off) and then forgot about it? Why didn't I just leave it? I wanted to call my wife when I arrived back in the US. Leaving it in the car would have defeated the purpose of having a cell phone, at least in the US.
I would have really liked to put a Guatemalan pay-as-you-go SIM card in the iPhone but we all know that's not possible right now. I probably would have let it roam for emergency use in Guatemala but since I wasn't sure I could totally stop data access I went for being sure.:(
The article doesn't say that but while downloads speeds keep increasing I still long to have 1+ Mbps upload speeds with low latency. I have all the computing power I need at home but still find pay for an external web account because the link to my house would become saturated if anyone tried to view my vacation pics. It's just not the full-on internet I imagine when most users are downloaders only.
The case may well hinge on the whys and wherefores of the decision to fit Canadian pumps with the sensors. If the same companies who balk in the US did indeed put them on pumps in Canada for just these reasons they'll have a hard time defending the decision not to in the US. It'll be interesting to see what turns up in discovery.
And of course they're not all security related, even if this particular thread ran that way. 9 of the errata result in states where the CPU can or will hang. My personal "favorite" is AI65 that documents a case where the CPU won't throw a thermal interrupt when the temperature threshold is crossed. Your iMac might fail to kick on its fans in such a condition. Even worse -- there's no workaround
AI65. A Thermal Interrupt is Not Generated when the Current Temperature
is Invalid
Problem: When the DTS (Digital Thermal Sensor) crosses one of its programmed thresholds it generates an interrupt and logs the event
(IA32_THERM_STATUS MSR (019Ch) bits [9,7]). Due to this erratum, if the
DTS reaches an invalid temperature (as indicated IA32_THERM_STATUS MSR
bit[31]) it does not generate an interrupt even if one of the programmed
thresholds is crossed and the corresponding log bits become set.
Implication: When the temperature reaches an invalid temperature the CPU does not
generate a Thermal interrupt even if a programmed threshold is crossed.
Workaround: None identified.
How common is this? Beats me. It certainly bothers me that this isn't one of the errata that can be addressed via a BIOS fix.
It is here but coverage is limited, even within one neighborhood. I signed up after they told me I was eligible based on distance. Unfortunately, when the installer got here he found I was 3000 feet from the central box. The max they can deal with right now is 1900 feet. Unfortunately the box is at the 'top' of the neighborhood and I'm about dead center. So it works out that only about the first 1/3 of the neighborhood is going to be getting this until either they can push the signal farther on copper, or are able to drag more fiber throughout the neighborhood.
"Rampant" violation of *any* law can also be civil disobedience -- whether the individual actors are thoughtfully violating the laws -- and should cause government to review the laws themselves. Remember Prohibition in the US? Widely violated and eventually repealed. Members of the underground railroad violated laws and risked their lives. We fought a bloody war here in the US to eventually set that right. Cafe sit-ins and violation of Jim Crow laws led to huge revisions in civil-rights legislation and fomented decades of internal debate and eventual acceptance of the proposition that "separate-but-equal" is wrong. Violent confrontation between workers and business owners pursuing profit led to revisions to work laws in the US.
"But," some might respond, "with the exception of prohibition those are examples of human rights." Yeah, but those in favor of the status quo had vested financial interests in those laws being passed and maintained. That's not to say that copyright has no place in modern society. What is does says is that the people (you know, the foundation of government) disagree with the laws as they are. Stepping up enforcement might not be the right answer. Especially when government has steadfastly done nothing in the face of requests for solid guarantees about fair use in terms of time and media shifting. The DMCA outlaws even the posession of software that would allow people to use a DVD on devices that have no player software.
Government has plenty of tools at hand to deal with copyright infringement in the US. This law will do little to stop this "rampant" piracy you speak of.
This is why Consumer Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) buy everything they review at normal retail outlets. If you don't accept advertising there's nothing the manufacturers can take away from you. Of course the catch is you have to actually have enough subscribers paying the real cost of the magazine to make it work.
I presume that you cannot reuse the oil to bake fries in.
Are you new to the Western world? We refine oil to put in our cars, we burn it in our older cars, we fight wars to get the oil, we put it on our salads, we even slather our bodies in it. But we do not bake our fries in it! Fries we, um, FRY them in oil. In fact, I'm quite sure even dishes like Baked Alaska are at some point fried in oil.
It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving!... From... W... K... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!"
OpenBSD makes for an awesome Firewall. Get whatever size machine you need, install OpenBSD, enable PF, follow the *very* well written configuration docs online and you'll have one or more firewalls up in no time.
I just set one up and it was easy. And best of all the PF syntax is very straight forward.
For 3D you're right about the card but for 2D any card on the market today can handle it -- which for most desktop-productivity jobs is where the action is. Now as to power, you may be right that one 24" monitor uses less.
Where are these people shopping that they can't take the cards back? I know Frys, MicroCenter and Circuit City will take them back opened -- no restocking fee. I think even Best Buy and CompUSA will. I've never had a store refuse to take back a component upgrade. Opened software, DVDs and CDs, sure. Some desktop and typically all laptops, with a restocking fee. But not video cards.
Spamhaus deal with this question in their online comment about the possibility of their name being pulled:
The technicality of how to advise the millions of spamhaus.org users of which new domain to switch to was conveniently not addressed (no, we don't need a cheap bulk email program thank you).
So what Theo is doing is grandstanding to keep his name in front of people.
There are many things you can say about Theo de Raadt and/or accuse him of. "Grandstanding to keep his name in front of people" is just not one of them. Read his letter. When hardware doesn't work we the hardware owners have already lost everything of value. Making a public request that Intel customers put public pressure on them is part of the dialog between producers and customers.
OpenBSD is used on a lot of servers -- a fair number of those are firewalls. Do you have any idea how many of those machines are used as wireless servers to let users have secure wireless access *within* the trusted zone? A lot. OpenBSD + wifi + ipsec is a way better AP than anything you'll buy off the shelf at the local computer store. Also, how many OpenBSD users and developers out there do you think like to use their chosen OS on their laptops?
As for the defense that they could get fined by the FCC that's not necessarily Intel's motivation. Until Intel state that's the reason your post is idle specification. As Theo noted in his letter, numerous other companies *do* give out the documentation necessary and allow re-distribution of the firmware -- even some *gasp* wireless card manufacturers.
Apple bought NeXT. Steve Jobs wound up as CEO, Avie Tevanian took over as VP of Engineering and Mac users got OS X. Not a bad deal that one. Granted most don't work out so well but it does happen.
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John Horton Conway just left implementation as an exercise for the reader.
There are plenty of ways. We just need to use them.
I understand the desire to see your code under the license of your preference but realistically if you're getting a huge leg up (as is the case with Reyk's code for this wireless driver) why would you release your minor modifications under an incompatible license? If you believe in share and share alike give back to the original author the same way you received. It's just common courtesy when dealing with open source.
I would have really liked to put a Guatemalan pay-as-you-go SIM card in the iPhone but we all know that's not possible right now. I probably would have let it roam for emergency use in Guatemala but since I wasn't sure I could totally stop data access I went for being sure.
but I'm sure I want one.
The article doesn't say that but while downloads speeds keep increasing I still long to have 1+ Mbps upload speeds with low latency. I have all the computing power I need at home but still find pay for an external web account because the link to my house would become saturated if anyone tried to view my vacation pics. It's just not the full-on internet I imagine when most users are downloaders only.
The case may well hinge on the whys and wherefores of the decision to fit Canadian pumps with the sensors. If the same companies who balk in the US did indeed put them on pumps in Canada for just these reasons they'll have a hard time defending the decision not to in the US. It'll be interesting to see what turns up in discovery.
It is here but coverage is limited, even within one neighborhood. I signed up after they told me I was eligible based on distance. Unfortunately, when the installer got here he found I was 3000 feet from the central box. The max they can deal with right now is 1900 feet. Unfortunately the box is at the 'top' of the neighborhood and I'm about dead center. So it works out that only about the first 1/3 of the neighborhood is going to be getting this until either they can push the signal farther on copper, or are able to drag more fiber throughout the neighborhood.
It's Sony for pity's sake. This is one company even the Linux and Windows fanboys agree to hate. ;-)
This is why Consumer Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) buy everything they review at normal retail outlets. If you don't accept advertising there's nothing the manufacturers can take away from you. Of course the catch is you have to actually have enough subscribers paying the real cost of the magazine to make it work.
I just set one up and it was easy. And best of all the PF syntax is very straight forward.
For 3D you're right about the card but for 2D any card on the market today can handle it -- which for most desktop-productivity jobs is where the action is. Now as to power, you may be right that one 24" monitor uses less.
"It's ridiculous to just arrest a chap for using computers," he said.
Where are these people shopping that they can't take the cards back? I know Frys, MicroCenter and Circuit City will take them back opened -- no restocking fee. I think even Best Buy and CompUSA will. I've never had a store refuse to take back a component upgrade. Opened software, DVDs and CDs, sure. Some desktop and typically all laptops, with a restocking fee. But not video cards.
An annoyingly alliterative announcement.
OpenBSD is used on a lot of servers -- a fair number of those are firewalls. Do you have any idea how many of those machines are used as wireless servers to let users have secure wireless access *within* the trusted zone? A lot. OpenBSD + wifi + ipsec is a way better AP than anything you'll buy off the shelf at the local computer store. Also, how many OpenBSD users and developers out there do you think like to use their chosen OS on their laptops?
As for the defense that they could get fined by the FCC that's not necessarily Intel's motivation. Until Intel state that's the reason your post is idle specification. As Theo noted in his letter, numerous other companies *do* give out the documentation necessary and allow re-distribution of the firmware -- even some *gasp* wireless card manufacturers.
Apple bought NeXT. Steve Jobs wound up as CEO, Avie Tevanian took over as VP of Engineering and Mac users got OS X. Not a bad deal that one. Granted most don't work out so well but it does happen.