If they turn out to have a premature failure bug, they'll become known as the Hitachi DeathStar. (The last disk I had with some designed-in irony like that was the Quantum Fireball.)
Jesus, where does this sort of thing end? (I'm speaking rhetorically; I don't know that Jesus actually reads Slashdot.)
By putting something on the Web, you are putting it in a public place where anyone who wants to can look at it, store a copy in their heads, tell friends about it later, even take a picture of it and look at it later if they want. If it's information that you have to be authenticated to get access to in the first place, I guess I can see why that would be different. But if any random web user has access to it, what the fuck is the deal with then suing someone because they cached a copy and make it available to others?
IA-intensely-NAL, but isn't there a meatspace legal principle that people in a brightly lit public place have no reasonable expectation of privacy? Can't any random passerby take my picture on a public street without fear of being sued? How is this different?
When information is kept in your safe, or desk drawer, or other private location, it's yours and you can control what happens to it. As soon as you put that information on posters and plaster the city with it (or put it on TV, or stick it on a web page), in a public place, it's out now. It's escaped, it's Out There, the cat is out of the bag, the horse has bolted, and other metaphors. If this is a problem for someone, they ought not make that information publically available. Seems fair enough to me.
If the OSS movement is ever to survive and become something more than a hippy hobbyist kludge then it needs hardnosed realists who can produce results, not just fire and brimstone ministers such as Richard Stallman.
What do you mean, "ever to survive"? It's surviving right now! I personally like our hippy hobbyist kludge, and am tired of people braying about what it "must do to survive". I wish all the hardnosed realists would go find something else to turn into lame corporate crap, and leave us alone.
Looks like it just has tftp/bootp in ROM, so it can't run standalone. But at least that also means it's real easy to recover if you screw up!
It would be insanely great to get GDB set up to attach remote processes running on the MVP.
If you have one of these boxes, maybe you can answer this:
OK, it's got a 300 MHz PowerPC. Does it have a BDM or JTAG port, or a monitor in ROM? In other words, when I accidentally scrag the firmware in flash, is it a brick now or is there a recovery path to get it bootable again?
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Now I've got enough money to build my robot. My girl robot. This is going to be the best prom ever.
Better use an EPROM, unless you're supremely confident of your programming skills.
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If they turn out to have a premature failure bug, they'll become known as the Hitachi DeathStar. (The last disk I had with some designed-in irony like that was the Quantum Fireball.)
Yeah, the RIAA is pretty pissed about what's happening to their traditional business model too. Look for more of that in the future.
Jesus, where does this sort of thing end? (I'm speaking rhetorically; I don't know that Jesus actually reads Slashdot.)
By putting something on the Web, you are putting it in a public place where anyone who wants to can look at it, store a copy in their heads, tell friends about it later, even take a picture of it and look at it later if they want. If it's information that you have to be authenticated to get access to in the first place, I guess I can see why that would be different. But if any random web user has access to it, what the fuck is the deal with then suing someone because they cached a copy and make it available to others?
IA-intensely-NAL, but isn't there a meatspace legal principle that people in a brightly lit public place have no reasonable expectation of privacy? Can't any random passerby take my picture on a public street without fear of being sued? How is this different?
When information is kept in your safe, or desk drawer, or other private location, it's yours and you can control what happens to it. As soon as you put that information on posters and plaster the city with it (or put it on TV, or stick it on a web page), in a public place, it's out now. It's escaped, it's Out There, the cat is out of the bag, the horse has bolted, and other metaphors. If this is a problem for someone, they ought not make that information publically available. Seems fair enough to me.
They could take it as an opportunity to switch to Linux/OS X/PDP 11
I got all three right here! RSX-11M don't know what the hell a "movie" is, but mplayer's just fine on the other two.
What's this "windows" thing y'all keep goin' on about? Must be some kind of venereal disease, the way some people talk about it.
If the OSS movement is ever to survive and become something more than a hippy hobbyist kludge then it needs hardnosed realists who can produce results, not just fire and brimstone ministers such as Richard Stallman.
What do you mean, "ever to survive"? It's surviving right now! I personally like our hippy hobbyist kludge, and am tired of people braying about what it "must do to survive". I wish all the hardnosed realists would go find something else to turn into lame corporate crap, and leave us alone.
You probably want to start with public urination and work your way up. Escalation of force doctrine, and all that.
The web knows everything.
Looks like it just has tftp/bootp in ROM, so it can't run standalone. But at least that also means it's real easy to recover if you screw up!
It would be insanely great to get GDB set up to attach remote processes running on the MVP.
If you have one of these boxes, maybe you can answer this:
OK, it's got a 300 MHz PowerPC. Does it have a BDM or JTAG port, or a monitor in ROM? In other words, when I accidentally scrag the firmware in flash, is it a brick now or is there a recovery path to get it bootable again?
Now I've got enough money to build my robot. My girl robot. This is going to be the best prom ever.
Better use an EPROM, unless you're supremely confident of your programming skills.
Darl, do you have any idea how many Linux clusters those Mafia guys are running? And they're loaded! Go get 'em!
"Special" controllers sold seperately, natch.