Feel free to set me straight if I'm misguided, but the problem with community wireless networks is the liability that you open yourself to. There was a story yesterday whose comments talk about that liability.
Can you explain why you feel SPF is broken? Is it because of forwarding? From your own post it appears domainkeys is broken because you can't add headers without re-signing the message. I don't see the difference. No anti-forgery effort is going to be compatible with how how email works today. Something is going to have to change for improvements to happen.
Not trolling here. I just want you to back up your "broken SPF" statement.
We had to turn off SPF after some users couldn't send e-mail to people that used mail forwarders.
Then why didn't you set the all parameter to "~all" instead of something else? The tilde makes it soft fail. Then violations will not be rejected; they will be accepted. It sound like you set it to "-all" which means fail if there isn't a match.
This sounds like a great idea. The majority of computer users want stuff to just work. Being able to plug something in and then tell the system to get and install the driver for your new hardware automatically is something I've always wanted.
there has been some strong negative feedback, including comments such as that it will kill open source drivers in Linux
You don't address any of these objections on your web page, at least that I could tell. It's hard to comment on this one since I can't see the original objection nor your response.
a system which employs digital signatures could never be secure enough to stop worms
I don't see how this system is much different than using apt-get under debian. People trust Debian's repository and its mirrors to install software all the time. It's not that much more of a stretch to trust a system like that to install drivers. Before you draw a distinction between drivers and packages, keep in mind that the install process in both instances is going to require root. If something nefarious is going to be installed it could happen via either process.
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You, as an author, can use the freecache service by using their style links in your pages. It doesn't cost you anything to do it, and it's pretty easy to do.
That's only going to help the linked page and not object on it or other pages on the site. As pointed out in another post, the web page owner would need to change all of their links to go through freecache.
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It won't help a slashdotting because the editors still refuse to contact linked sites ahead of time. They won't know to mirror their content on Freecache.
or like MS not allowing developers to write a MS Access competitor or other competing software using Visual Studio?
Not at all. The difference is that Visual Studio isn't free. You have to purchase it. If you purchase Bitkeeper then you get a different licence than the free one. You can use the one you paid for with any code, including a bitkeeper competitor or replacement.
No, the BitKeeper license is evil. Go read it sometime -- it prevents folks from working on competing systems. This means that folks working on Free revision control (like me!) are substantially hampered if we want to also do some work on the Linux kernel.
Stop trolling. The entire linux kernel and all the history is available via CVS if you don't wish to use BK. That's even mentioned in the article. You did read the article, didn't you?
I know the guy that owns the site. He hasn't updated it in a while because he's been trying to get companies interested in the idea. Unfortunately, this is one of those chicken and the egg problems. No company wants to contribute patents until others have first. So getting the ball rolling is proving difficult for him. I point him to this thread. The Groklaw idea is a great one.
Interesting. That doesn't reflect my experience at all. I have an IBM Thinkpad T30 running WinXP. I suspend it all the time. It's better than rebooting and I rarely have a problem.
I suspend two or three times a day: I suspend it before I go to sleep, and before I leave work to take it home. Sometimes I listen to MP3s in the morning while I'm getting ready for work and I suspend it when I leave to go to work. I reboot maybe once every month, sometimes I go longer without a reboot. This is using a real mix of software: Cygwin, xemacs, resin, Oracle 9, Mozilla, SecureCRT, Winamp, Photoshop, MS Outlook, Cisco VPN client, OpenOffice, Propellerheads Reason, ACID Pro, and even some games (Warcraft III, Diablo II, Dungeon Siege). All work without causing any problems and without needing to reboot.
I'd say that you have faulty hardware if you haven't been able to get anything to suspend with all of those operating systems.
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue."
Ahh, so the service pack removes Windows and installs OpenBSD. How thoughtful of them.:-)
Hey Robert Scoble, Firefox is open source. That means if you want those features then contribute patches or find a company to fund you to do that development. Unlike the company you work for, where people must beg for features or bug fixes and then hope and pray they are implemented, with software such as Firefox you can do it yourself. How's it feel to be fully in control of your own computer? Exhilarating, isn't it?
Yep, and it always has as long as you use the prefork MPM which is the default which you compile Apache. That makes Apache 2 service requests in the same manner as 1.3. Where people have problems is when you use PHP with the worker MPM which uses threads. Although the PHP core is supposed to be thread safe the developers can't guarantee that other PHP modules will be. Stick with the prefork MPM and you'll be A-OK.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the big hangup in adoption at the moment is mod_perl. mod_perl 2.0 is supposed to fix that but it's still under development at the moment.
It seems most reviews focus on the installer rather than the system. Please skip the review of the installer. Unless you switch distros every week you'll spend less than 1% of your time in the installer, with that percentage diminishing every day.
Instead I'd like to see reviews that focus on how easy it is to administrate the system. Is there a wide variety of prebuilt packages? Are they easy to install? If I'm new to linux, what tools are on the system to assist me? What hardware does it support? Those sort of things.
This is a much more sane response than just filing a lawsuit. It at least gives the users the chance to do the right thing rather than bring the hammer down on their head like the RIAA has been doing.
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Blah blah lamesness filter blah blah blah.
What is a shizzle?
Feel free to set me straight if I'm misguided, but the problem with community wireless networks is the liability that you open yourself to. There was a story yesterday whose comments talk about that liability.
Not trolling here. I just want you to back up your "broken SPF" statement.
It won't help a slashdotting because the editors still refuse to contact linked sites ahead of time. They won't know to mirror their content on Freecache.
Gblog.
I know the guy that owns the site. He hasn't updated it in a while because he's been trying to get companies interested in the idea. Unfortunately, this is one of those chicken and the egg problems. No company wants to contribute patents until others have first. So getting the ball rolling is proving difficult for him. I point him to this thread. The Groklaw idea is a great one.
Someone has already been working on this idea. See the Open Patents web site.
I suspend two or three times a day: I suspend it before I go to sleep, and before I leave work to take it home. Sometimes I listen to MP3s in the morning while I'm getting ready for work and I suspend it when I leave to go to work. I reboot maybe once every month, sometimes I go longer without a reboot. This is using a real mix of software: Cygwin, xemacs, resin, Oracle 9, Mozilla, SecureCRT, Winamp, Photoshop, MS Outlook, Cisco VPN client, OpenOffice, Propellerheads Reason, ACID Pro, and even some games (Warcraft III, Diablo II, Dungeon Siege). All work without causing any problems and without needing to reboot.
I'd say that you have faulty hardware if you haven't been able to get anything to suspend with all of those operating systems.
Hey Robert Scoble, Firefox is open source. That means if you want those features then contribute patches or find a company to fund you to do that development. Unlike the company you work for, where people must beg for features or bug fixes and then hope and pray they are implemented, with software such as Firefox you can do it yourself. How's it feel to be fully in control of your own computer? Exhilarating, isn't it?
Yeah but that fantasy is built upon the assumption that SCO owns Unix. Keep dreaming.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the big hangup in adoption at the moment is mod_perl. mod_perl 2.0 is supposed to fix that but it's still under development at the moment.
Here's a link for people who wonder what a MPM is: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html
Instead I'd like to see reviews that focus on how easy it is to administrate the system. Is there a wide variety of prebuilt packages? Are they easy to install? If I'm new to linux, what tools are on the system to assist me? What hardware does it support? Those sort of things.
This is a much more sane response than just filing a lawsuit. It at least gives the users the chance to do the right thing rather than bring the hammer down on their head like the RIAA has been doing.
Continuing with the creatures of the forest theme (bird, fox) I nominate Thunderbunny as the new name.
Haha. I guess you had a pretty bad Debian experience. :-)