Some Paneras have power outlets. Often located in booths and usually occupied by people without laptops. Thay should have signs like those in busses and trains:
Please give your seat to laptop users with low batteries.
E.g. my PDA is set to connect to wireless networks. I open it in the bus to check the calendar. It automatically connects to an open access point. A daemon such as ntpd or mta is starts and use the internet. Did I abuse it?
Or I go to a cafe, buy a cup of coffee, starts my laptop. The sign on the door says they have free wireless internet. Hmm, I see access points named NETGEAR, default, linksys, default, abcde, and WIRELESS. The girl at the counter does not know anything about the network. What do I do?
Good question. I wonder if say Linksys(Cisco) have a wardriving squad just to see where the Netgear and D-link costumers live. They could probably use the BSSID instead of just relying on people not changing the default ESSID=NETGEAR,linksys.
Or they could search for access points with a lot of clients, match them to their own costumers, and target them to sell extra accesspoints.
You could make standalone MSXML2OASIS and OASIS2MSXML programs that read from stdin and write to stdout. And such programs could be distributed with OpenOffice.org,
>Also, remember the GPL addresses copyrights and NOT patents, which this license covers.
The GPL does address patents:
From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html preample:
==
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. ==
That 200 line algorithm was probably just written by one or two persons. Did you contact them and offer them money for a license to you and promised to release your changes under GPL
I does not exactly suck. I use a firmware one version later than in the review.
If you just want a wireless phone (or especially if you want more than one) at home then get a DECT phone and an adapter (E.g. the Linksys or HandyTone from http://sipphone.com/adapters/). I would never buy a card that would only work when my computer was on.
But if you want an internet phone that you can bring to work, friends, cafes etc, then the Zyxel/WSIP is a good deal.
Except for the color it looks to be the Zyxel P2000W that I (well my GF) have. I have used it at many public hotspots. NAT even multiple NAT usually works.
The worst problem is that some public hotspots wants you to accept a policy in a browser before giving you access to the internet, based on you MAC-address. Zyxel, if you are reading this, please put a robot in the firmware that browse some webpage and hits any button named "OK", "Accept" etc.
1. Local calls are not free in most of the world. This limit the use for long-distance calls.
2. Most people into this kind of stuff will be dropping their land line and use pure VoIP (including IP->PSTN service) + cell phones.
I live in Denmark and switched to VoIP (musimi.dk). IP-IP calls are 0 c/min. Including calls to FWD, SipPhone etc. Local PSTN calls are 2.5 c/min (1.6 at night). DK->CA PSTN calls are 2.9 c/min DK->US PSTN calls are 3.2 c/min Subscription is $1/month/phonenumber.
Of course I wouldn't mind using Bellster to make free calls to the US/Canada, but I cannot offer much in return.
Then HP/Dell/Wallmart will just have to put a WinAMP/Realplayer etc on the Windowscomputers they sell. Problem solved. Maybe they will even put FireFox on when they are at it.
In the couple years PGP/GnuPG have become much simpler to set up, especially on windows. Thunderbird/Enigmail works great on many platforms. On linux KMail and kgpg also just works.
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But you could make it less centralized, eg:
http://distributeddns.sourceforge.net/
Some Paneras have power outlets.
Often located in booths and usually occupied by people without laptops. Thay should have signs like those in busses and trains:
Please give your seat to laptop users with low batteries.
It would help Joe Sixpack if he used a browser that did not trust the VeriSign CA per default.
This is a good case for Creative Commons.
Cities should require that sculptures and buildings, including gifts, should be under a CC license.
I put a picture of the Millenium park on Wikitravel:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Chicago
Wikitravel is under a CC share-alike license.
So am I, WikiTravel, or people who use WikiTravel commercially in problems?
>If I dial a mobile in another country, I have no competitive bargaining power for what I'll be charged
Yes, and that is why here in Denmark we pay twice as much to call a mobile from a PSTN phone as from a mobile on a different carrier.
> Competition has driven down the per minute costs.
Except the per minute cost to calls outside the country.
That is why my VoIP company (musimi.dk) let you set a max price.
You just log on and set it to eg. 10 cents/minute and you will not get any surprices.
That is easyer said than done.
E.g. my PDA is set to connect to wireless networks. I open it in the bus to check the calendar. It automatically connects to an open access point. A daemon such as ntpd or mta is starts and use the internet. Did I abuse it?
Or I go to a cafe, buy a cup of coffee, starts my laptop. The sign on the door says they have free wireless internet. Hmm, I see access points named NETGEAR, default, linksys, default, abcde, and WIRELESS. The girl at the counter does not know anything about the network. What do I do?
Or Joe Somebody might just connect to his neighbours access point believing he is using his own.
Good question.
I wonder if say Linksys(Cisco) have a wardriving squad just to see where the Netgear and D-link costumers live. They could probably use the BSSID instead of just relying on people not changing the default ESSID=NETGEAR,linksys.
Or they could search for access points with a lot of clients, match them to their own costumers, and target them to sell extra accesspoints.
You could make standalone MSXML2OASIS and OASIS2MSXML programs that read from stdin and write to stdout.
And such programs could be distributed with OpenOffice.org,
>Also, remember the GPL addresses copyrights and NOT patents, which this license covers.
The GPL does address patents:
From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html preample:
==
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
==
That 200 line algorithm was probably just written by one or two persons.
Did you contact them and offer them money for a license to you and promised to release your changes under GPL
>...that there actually is a version of Linux that does not use a MMU
The main version, Kernel 2.6.x can be compiled without MMU support for at least some architectures.
>2. VOIP uses premium rate number for incoming calls so unless you hate
>all your friends you've got to have an analogue/mobile anyway.
Is it cheaper to call mobile phones than VoIP phones?
Your friend can get their own SIP-phone and call you free.
>3. VOIP runs over DSL - which requires a voice line, so you end up
>paying rental twice (three times if you count the DSL).
I does not exactly suck.
I use a firmware one version later than in the review.
If you just want a wireless phone (or especially if you want more than one) at home then get a DECT phone and an adapter (E.g. the Linksys or HandyTone from http://sipphone.com/adapters/). I would never buy a card that would only work when my computer was on.
But if you want an internet phone that you can bring to work, friends, cafes etc, then the Zyxel/WSIP is a good deal.
That is just a bad excuse for not getting involved.
Join a party, any party, and you will get influence.
Except for the color it looks to be the Zyxel P2000W that I (well my GF) have. I have used it at many public hotspots. NAT even multiple NAT usually works.
The worst problem is that some public hotspots wants you to accept a policy in a browser before giving you access to the internet, based on you MAC-address. Zyxel, if you are reading this, please put a robot in the firmware that browse some webpage and hits any button named "OK", "Accept" etc.
Nice idea, but I don't believe it will work.
1. Local calls are not free in most of the world. This limit the use for long-distance calls.
2. Most people into this kind of stuff will be dropping their land line and use pure VoIP (including IP->PSTN service) + cell phones.
I live in Denmark and switched to VoIP (musimi.dk).
IP-IP calls are 0 c/min. Including calls to FWD, SipPhone etc.
Local PSTN calls are 2.5 c/min (1.6 at night).
DK->CA PSTN calls are 2.9 c/min
DK->US PSTN calls are 3.2 c/min
Subscription is $1/month/phonenumber.
Of course I wouldn't mind using Bellster to make free calls to the US/Canada, but I cannot offer much in return.
> it's just another tax.
No it is not. A tax is something you pay to the government, not some organizations like "VG Wort".
I built one for $50 plus a cheap Wifi card, that can be bough for $12:
http://www.agol.dk/elgaard/picframe.html
>That would imply they support whatever application it is. They'll just
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>ship it without it.
Things like that have happened before.
Eg. Java
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Article
A lot of Windows computers come with OpenOffice because MS Office is not integrated with MS Windows.
Then HP/Dell/Wallmart will just have to put a WinAMP/Realplayer etc on the Windowscomputers they sell. Problem solved.
Maybe they will even put FireFox on when they are at it.
If you have CPU bound job followed by I/O bound job,
they will execute faster if they run in parallism.
Several I/O bound could also execute faster if executed in parallel, e.g. jobs reading from different disk or even the same disk with I/O scheduling.
I think PGP has a future.
In the couple years PGP/GnuPG have become much simpler to set up, especially on windows. Thunderbird/Enigmail works great on many platforms. On linux KMail and kgpg also just works.
Try Xcruiser:/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcruiser
Great fun but not very useful for browsing.