I find it interesting that Fare has completely missed the point of the GPL. The GPL isn't a license whose intent is to promote the unimpeded distribution of software; it's a license to protect your right to fix and modify the software you own. What Fare has done is to "poke holes" in the GPL by reinterpreting it as a public domain software license, which it isn't. It's roughly equivalent to complaining that a Porsche 911 sucks because it won't haul a trailer very well.
No, the Dreamcast browser does not run on Windows CE. If you boot Sega Rally which uses Windows CE, you will see a "Windows CE" logo at the bottom right corner of the Sega logo screen. iirc the Windows CE logo is quired on all Dreamcast Windows CE titles. Besides which, I happen to know for a fact that the browser doesn't run on Windows CE anyway because I was peripherally involved in that project. Toshi
Here's the nmap -v against my Dreamcast on the net via ppp at the ISP Best.com: [root@pocket tm]# nmap -v 205.x.x.x Starting nmap V. 2.3BETA5 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/) No tcp,udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect() scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want to see what hosts are up). Host (205.x.x.x) appears to be up... good. Initiating TCP connect() scan against (205.x.x.x) Adding TCP port 113 (state Open). The TCP connect scan took 40 seconds to scan 1487 ports. Interesting ports on (205.x.x.x): Port State Protocol Service 113 open tcp auth Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 40 seconds. Note: the browser was on irc at the time, which is how I figured out the IP address, and probably why port 113 was open (for username authentication) Why the heck would a Dreamcast let you telnet in anyway? It's not like you can store files on a Dreamcast, or run apps remotely... Toshi
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I find it interesting that Fare has completely missed the point of the GPL. The GPL isn't a license whose intent is to promote the unimpeded distribution of software; it's a license to protect your right to fix and modify the software you own. What Fare has done is to "poke holes" in the GPL by reinterpreting it as a public domain software license, which it isn't. It's roughly equivalent to complaining that a Porsche 911 sucks because it won't haul a trailer very well.
No, the Dreamcast browser does not run on Windows CE. If you boot Sega Rally which uses Windows CE, you will see a "Windows CE" logo at the bottom right corner of the Sega logo screen. iirc the Windows CE logo is quired on all Dreamcast Windows CE titles. Besides which, I happen to know for a fact that the browser doesn't run on Windows CE anyway because I was peripherally involved in that project. Toshi
Here's the nmap -v against my Dreamcast on the net via ppp at the ISP Best.com: [root@pocket tm]# nmap -v 205.x.x.x Starting nmap V. 2.3BETA5 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/) No tcp,udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect() scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want to see what hosts are up). Host (205.x.x.x) appears to be up ... good. Initiating TCP connect() scan against (205.x.x.x) Adding TCP port 113 (state Open). The TCP connect scan took 40 seconds to scan 1487 ports. Interesting ports on (205.x.x.x): Port State Protocol Service 113 open tcp auth Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 40 seconds. Note: the browser was on irc at the time, which is how I figured out the IP address, and probably why port 113 was open (for username authentication) Why the heck would a Dreamcast let you telnet in anyway? It's not like you can store files on a Dreamcast, or run apps remotely... Toshi