My guess is that Ylönen originally meant ssh mainly as a contribution to the community and didn't care much about the name. Slightly later he realized that he could make a living out of ssh and founded a company named after it.
The problem now is that SSH Communications Security (now a PLC) has grown much faster than he ever originally anticipated. Nor did he originally think OpenSSH was any kind of a problem (to him). Now the problem is that he runs a large company and their owners/legal/whatever aren't going to let him ignore other products with the name SSH any more.
This would put him in an awkward position and he is trying to ask nicely, even if he doesn't really want to ask at all, as he knows lawyers will be unavoidable otherwise.
A prototype of a similar speed-limiting system was demonstrated here (Finland) recently. They also demonstrated an alternative approach to just blindly limiting speeds. The simple idea is that the car gives off a constant audio nag every few seconds if you're speeding. (Think "pullup... pullup... pullup...") It's irritating enough to seriously discourage, but takes emergencies into account as well.
Another thing is that although heavy vehicles (buses, trucks) already have speed limiters set 5 km/h over their maximum allowed speed here and quite possibly in other EU countries, coaches constantly drive much faster. It's quite easy to find the limiter fuse in the fusebox and replace it with a burnt fuse.
Netscape does seem to dominate the market for educational and academic users. Very possibly because it has always been free for those purpouses. The schools here in Helsinki go as far as to prune out IE from their machines. Here at the University of Technology we do use IE on all the Win'2K machines, but the are vastly outnumbered by Solaris, Irix, Debian, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, AIX and probably others.
So IE seems to have quite some way to go if it intends to dominate schools, universities (and quite possibly other centrally administered computer systems) and not just computers used by people who don't know or care how to install a new browser if there's one preinstalled.
Actually SMS (text-message) spam was deemed illegal in Finland as soon as it started to appear a few years ago. It remains to be seen what legislators in other countries think of it.
The simple diagrams I've seen have all contained the idea of separating the network signal before transformers. If you have plenty of houses/apartments behind the same transformer you can just separate the network in the transformer room and send it off on another line. It still saves piles of wiring. After all this is what at least Elisa Communications (my local telco) does with xDSL. As the other end has to be at the local telephone exchange anyway, they move everything onto an IP network at the exchanges. That way the xDSL lines for the whole city form a single network which they call Arenanet. It has some neat high-bandidth applications. And of course they can build the separate network from the transformer room onwards into the same ducts as the power cables. At least Sweden is going to build the backbone of their national high speed network onto existing power pylons. -Late
That seems like a great thing, but Flash support for Linux is already available anyway. Don't know how long it has been around, but/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so handles things just fine here.
> This brings up a good point: do you > internationalize the source code?
Isn't i18n the process of designing programs to support several languages and currency/time/decimal notations and i10n the process of actually making changes for a specific language?
And I don't think code really should be localized. Coders will probably have to understand English to read documentation they need anyway and your average non English-speaking end user probably won't look at the code. I18n and l10n of programs and documentation is of much wider use at laest at the moment. Of course one could develop a translation engine that only translated the comments in source files:)
Oh. I would recommend that everyone started localization on documents about localization. That way as many people as possible can help.
Opinions seem to be divided on this matter. AFAIK IATA has banned mobiles on planes, because there is a possibility of them (GSM 900 to be precise) causing problems with avionics systems. They are also banned in hospitals here in Finland (although 1800MHz versions are allowed) for the exact same reason. There has also been at least one incident in Norway, when a planes avionics packed up directly after a passenger turned his mobile on / received a call (i forget which). Generally its not worth taking chances with aeroplanes, as a lot of people can be killed that way.
The European DVB standard is completely backwards compatible. All you need is a converter box, just like you'll need one in the states. If I'm not mistaken DVB is actually MPEG2 (like on DVD disks), it's just a question of how one transmits it. Actually this reminds me of how the US demand to have their own standard for the next generation of mobile phones, even though the rest of the world has agreed on one standard.
Not being from the USA I am highly out of touch with the situation, but I do know something about working for nerd/geek "rights".
A couple of years back I was involved in creating a Finnish association for nerds, called Irti Elämästä (an ironic name, roughly the equivalent of "Just say no to Life"). It all started mostly as a joke, but soon got more serious as there really seemed to be a need for it. The association still has rather few members as publicly addmitting to being a nerd or geek is rather hard, but...
Weve managed to gain a fair deal of media coverage from local papers to our nationwide TV-news. This partly because the media thinks we are working for worthy cause, that most people can appreciate and partly because we have some excellent media relations people.
And the point? If any of you US geeks and nerds are interested in an organized campaign for your rights, I can probably give you plenty of advice on getting publicity, as our methods should work over there too. I'm afraid our home page is written entirely in Finnish, but I can do some translating if people (or nerds) are interested.
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My guess is that Ylönen originally meant ssh mainly as a contribution to the community and didn't care much about the name. Slightly later he realized that he could make a living out of ssh and founded a company named after it.
The problem now is that SSH Communications Security (now a PLC) has grown much faster than he ever originally anticipated. Nor did he originally think OpenSSH was any kind of a problem (to him). Now the problem is that he runs a large company and their owners/legal/whatever aren't going to let him ignore other products with the name SSH any more.
This would put him in an awkward position and he is trying to ask nicely, even if he doesn't really want to ask at all, as he knows lawyers will be unavoidable otherwise.
-Late
A prototype of a similar speed-limiting system was demonstrated here (Finland) recently. They also demonstrated an alternative approach to just blindly limiting speeds. The simple idea is that the car gives off a constant audio nag every few seconds if you're speeding. (Think "pullup ... pullup ... pullup ...") It's irritating enough to seriously discourage, but takes emergencies into account as well.
Another thing is that although heavy vehicles (buses, trucks) already have speed limiters set 5 km/h over their maximum allowed speed here and quite possibly in other EU countries, coaches constantly drive much faster. It's quite easy to find the limiter fuse in the fusebox and replace it with a burnt fuse.
Netscape does seem to dominate the market for educational and academic users. Very possibly because it has always been free for those purpouses. The schools here in Helsinki go as far as to prune out IE from their machines. Here at the University of Technology we do use IE on all the Win'2K machines, but the are vastly outnumbered by Solaris, Irix, Debian, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, AIX and probably others.
So IE seems to have quite some way to go if it intends to dominate schools, universities (and quite possibly other centrally administered computer systems) and not just computers used by people who don't know or care how to install a new browser if there's one preinstalled.
Actually SMS (text-message) spam was deemed illegal in Finland as soon as it started to appear a few years ago. It remains to be seen what legislators in other countries think of it.
The simple diagrams I've seen have all contained the idea of separating the network signal before transformers. If you have plenty of houses/apartments behind the same transformer you can just separate the network in the transformer room and send it off on another line. It still saves piles of wiring. After all this is what at least Elisa Communications (my local telco) does with xDSL. As the other end has to be at the local telephone exchange anyway, they move everything onto an IP network at the exchanges. That way the xDSL lines for the whole city form a single network which they call Arenanet. It has some neat high-bandidth applications. And of course they can build the separate network from the transformer room onwards into the same ducts as the power cables. At least Sweden is going to build the backbone of their national high speed network onto existing power pylons. -Late
That seems like a great thing, but Flash support for Linux is already available anyway. Don't know how long it has been around, but /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so handles things just fine here.
> This brings up a good point: do you
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> internationalize the source code?
Isn't i18n the process of designing programs to support several languages and currency/time/decimal notations and i10n the process of actually making changes for a specific language?
And I don't think code really should be localized. Coders will probably have to understand English to read documentation they need anyway and your average non English-speaking end user probably won't look at the code. I18n and l10n of programs and documentation is of much wider use at laest at the moment. Of course one could develop a translation engine that only translated the comments in source files
Oh. I would recommend that everyone started localization on documents about localization. That way as many people as possible can help.
-Late
Opinions seem to be divided on this matter. AFAIK IATA has banned mobiles on planes, because there is a possibility of them (GSM 900 to be precise) causing problems with avionics systems. They are also banned in hospitals here in Finland (although 1800MHz versions are allowed) for the exact same reason. There has also been at least one incident in Norway, when a planes avionics packed up directly after a passenger turned his mobile on / received a call (i forget which).
Generally its not worth taking chances with aeroplanes, as a lot of people can be killed that way.
The European DVB standard is completely backwards compatible. All you need is a converter box, just like you'll need one in the states. If I'm not mistaken DVB is actually MPEG2 (like on DVD disks), it's just a question of how one transmits it. Actually this reminds me of how the US demand to have their own standard for the next generation of mobile phones, even though the rest of the world has agreed on one standard.
Not being from the USA I am highly out of touch with the situation, but I do know something about working for nerd/geek "rights".
A couple of years back I was involved in creating a Finnish association for nerds, called Irti Elämästä (an ironic name, roughly the equivalent of "Just say no to Life"). It all started mostly as a joke, but soon got more serious as there really seemed to be a need for it. The association still has rather few members as publicly addmitting to being a nerd or geek is rather hard, but...
Weve managed to gain a fair deal of media coverage from local papers to our nationwide TV-news. This partly because the media thinks we are working for worthy cause, that most people can appreciate and partly because we have some excellent media relations people.
And the point? If any of you US geeks and nerds are interested in an organized campaign for your rights, I can probably give you plenty of advice on getting publicity, as our methods should work over there too. I'm afraid our home page is written entirely in Finnish, but I can do some translating if people (or nerds) are interested.