Of course they let the FBI into his dorm room. They had a warrant to do so.
This is the equivalent to coming upon a murder scene, picking up the weapon and getting your fingerprints on it, putting it back down and continuing on your way while whistling innocently.
Hmm.. It looks like IBM bought Whistle, the original makers of the "Whistle InterJet."
The original InterJet ran FreeBSD, so I don't think it's a design decision on IBM's part, but an inheritance.
One of my favorite things that would happen to these every so often, is when they would crash. The power-off command on the InterJet was soft, so it would trigger a shutdown script to be run. Well if it crashed, that wouldn't work.
One cute thing about the InterJet is that it had a built in UPS. So when it would crash, you couldn't just unplug it. You'd have to (short of ripping the thing open and disconnecting the battery) wait for the battery to drain before you could restart after a crash.. No hard off switch anywhere on the box either.
Apart from that small problem though, it was a cute little box that did its job.
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Of course they let the FBI into his dorm room. They had a warrant to do so.
This is the equivalent to coming upon a murder scene, picking up the weapon and getting your fingerprints on it, putting it back down and continuing on your way while whistling innocently.
Well if he didn't mention Linux, it wouldn't
get posted to Slashdot, and he wouldn't get
his $99.95 per paperweight kit.
Hmm.. It looks like IBM bought Whistle, the original makers of the "Whistle InterJet."
The original InterJet ran FreeBSD, so I don't think it's a design decision on IBM's part, but an inheritance.
One of my favorite things that would happen to these every so often, is when they would crash. The power-off command on the InterJet was soft, so it would trigger a shutdown script to be run. Well if it crashed, that wouldn't work.
One cute thing about the InterJet is that it had a built in UPS. So when it would crash, you couldn't just unplug it. You'd have to (short of ripping the thing open and disconnecting the battery) wait for the battery to drain before you could restart after a crash.. No hard off switch anywhere on the box either.
Apart from that small problem though, it was a cute little box that did its job.