On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:21:14 -0500
Eliah Kagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(There are also multiple useful,
mutually-inconsistent formal systems in both fields.)
Provably so?
Dhu
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:21:14 -0500
Eliah Kagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(There are also multiple useful,
mutually-inconsistent formal systems in both fields.)
Provably so?
Euclidean and ono-Euclidian geometries should suffice.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:56:33AM +0530, V. Karthik Kumar wrote:
| @Paul: No matter how many fucking emails you send, you will never be
| able to reason it out, you moron.
I'm glad you've resorted to namecalling. That'll surely help you find
the non-free files in OpenBSD. Please remember to send
--- Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do you use (obviously flawed) research methods?
My method is to ask other people to do it for me. I use that method
because it is efficient. Its results are accurate, too.
However, when a person tells me his OS is free, I have not
--- Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, but when you redefine free to mean something specific, you
redefine
your own language.
It's normal to develop criteria for what free means in specific
activities. Consider, for instance, free elections. Human rights
organizations
Stay on list or stay out of my inbox.
--- Karthik Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a more serious note: everybody who criticizes the other of
non-free software must come clean first: No clean, no talk.
Sophistry. If there is problems in logic, etc then one need
not be
of
--- Roberto J. Dohnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick question, do we really need an endorsement from Richard
Stallman and the
FSF for OpenBSD? When I choose an OS I don't go to Richard and the
FSF, I
choose the OS I want to use whether its Kubuntu or PCLinuxOS for the
desktop
(with all
Stay on list or stay out of my inbox.
--- Karthik Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 6, 2008 7:23 AM, Reid Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which OpenBSD does. You have failed to show otherwise.
To show that OpenBSD follows them as goals? Ah, perhaps. :-)
And you've continued to
Good Morning,
In an effort to help support OpenBSD and its masses I am offering myself to
you as a once-live preserved Puffy the Blowfish in limited quantities.
I am seeking pre-orders to determine the qualifications of the numbers for
the registered limited editions.
I have three types of
--- Duncan Patton a Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:21:14 -0500
Eliah Kagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(There are also multiple useful,
mutually-inconsistent formal systems in both fields.)
Provably so?
+1
I'd love an example of Math being inconsistent. Quite
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:56:33AM +0530, V. Karthik Kumar wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
You see, rms? You were right. OpenBSD has lots of trolls who:
a. Don't find out about the person who is emailing
b. Make assumptions about the person in a.
most of us found out
--- Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:21:14 -0500
Eliah Kagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(There are also multiple useful,
mutually-inconsistent formal systems in both fields.)
Provably so?
Euclidean and ono-Euclidian
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:26:35 -0800 (PST)
Reid Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:21:14 -0500
Eliah Kagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(There are also multiple useful,
I said:
(There are also multiple useful,
mutually-inconsistent formal systems in both fields.)
Duncan Patton a Campbell said:
Provably so?
Reid Nichol said:
I'd love an example of Math being inconsistent. Quite frankly, I'd be
surprised if this is true.
Tony Abernethy's example of
On Jan 7, 2008 12:44 PM, Reid Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do you use (obviously flawed) research methods?
My method is to ask other people to do it for me. I use that method
because it is efficient. Its results are accurate, too.
Richard Stallman wrote:
I see nothing wrong in using someone else's
Windows machine for a few minutes.
Great!, Now go down to your local public library.. assuming they offer free
Internet access..
Do you're own fucking research!
Helpful resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:31:10AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
is possible I said something about it at some point. Could you tell
me where that statement appears? If I need to correct it, I need to
know where it is.
Time to back track again, eh Moron.
What is the URL of that
oops: NON-Euclidean
(still more accurate than a lot of ... on this thread)
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:26:35 -0800 (PST)
Reid Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan
Say, mate, where in Lagos Nigeria do I send my money?
Regards
Johan M:son Lindman
On Monday 07 January 2008 08:57:33 you wrote:
Good Morning,
In an effort to help support OpenBSD and its masses I am offering myself to
you as a once-live preserved Puffy the Blowfish in limited quantities.
I
Richard Stallman wrote:
But it also perpetuates serious problems (totalitarian surveillance,...)
Are you seriously that paranoid? Do you wear a tin foil hat by any chance? :-)
Richard Stallman wrote:
The cases are similar, and my view on the two cases is similar.
So answer this question,
Markus Bergkvist wrote:
Pierre Riteau wrote:
I noticed that increasing the delay in sys/dev/pci/nviic.c from 100
to 500 fixes this problem but I haven't took the time to file a bug
report yet.
Seems to work here too.
Just increasing the delay doesn't work here any longer on a recent
Reid Nichol wrote:
--- Duncan Patton a Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:21:14 -0500
Eliah Kagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(There are also multiple useful,
mutually-inconsistent formal systems in both fields.)
Provably so?
+1
I'd love an example of
On 2008/01/06 17:50, Brian wrote:
--- Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and
are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your
torrent client with a different network card?
I have run into
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:49 -0500
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I doubt I would have looked at the AROS web site myself. To find out
the status of the BSD systems, recently, I asked the FSF staff to
check for me.
Wait, you have someone else do the research,
On 2008/01/06 20:15, Jon wrote:
I would like to discuss what is the best way to automatically download the
lists available from http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/lists/ and use
them with PF.
Can PF manage such a large set of IP.
You'll have to bump the maximum number of table entries
I've have two more values that maybe should be debounced:
_AC0 = 2732
_TC1 = 1
_TC2 = 5
Index: acpitz.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/acpi/acpitz.c,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 acpitz.c
--- acpitz.c6 Jan 2008
I think my pf / spamd config is correct and running
well, but I'm not entirely sure and would appreciate
any suggestions, corrections or optimizations.
/var/log/spamd shows activity of hosts being
grey-trapped, marked as (BLACK) or (GREY); spamdb
shows trapped and white hosts.
However, 'pfctl
Richard, should we expect a contribution to the project for the time
that you and your minions have taken from all of us?
I have no minions, and I cannot take time from you. However, if you
adopt the policy that you won't reply to my messages unless I pay you
to, you will be within
Since plants can be easily replicated, why are we buying food from farmers?
I'm not against buying software from developers (as long as it is free
software). See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.
This has been discussed many times
and it shouldn't take long for you or your minions to find out that we do
not
care about the source of firmware which doesn't load into OpenBSD.
The people who do searches for me are helpful volunteers. I can ask
them to look for something, but I
But what about the different case where the company permits
redistribution of the binary firmware, but does not release source
code. Would OpenBSD distribute the firmware in that case?
Of course and going by your description it is nothing but hardware at
that point
No,
A few computer users are in a position manufacture hardware, but
computer users in general do not have that capability. (Meanwhile,
manufacturing does not work by copying a sample; copying as such is
not doable.)
A few software users are in a position to code software..
Those quotes do not show gNewSense includes non-free software.
What's interesting is that they admit they cannot find all blobs without
truly
reading and understanding the code, they lack people for it.
They say they can't reliably find all the binary-only firmware.
Nobody's perfect.
On 2008/01/07 01:26, Robert Carr wrote:
However, 'pfctl -t spamd -T show' shows nothing in the
spamd table
That's normal for 4.2 (unless you use spamd's blacklist-only mode)
I find it impolite that you partially removed my questions and only
responded to some of them. I asked you if you please could respond to
all paragraphs.
People raise many issues in these messages. My idea of politeness
does not say I have to respond to every question that someone
Except, sir, at some point, someone made a mistake. And this mistake
has blown up in to this thread with this ongoing argument. Their
report was either not as accurate as you seem to think, or you're very
badly expressing the contents of the report (which has not been made
http://torrent.gnome.org/
Would you be so kind as to tell me the precise URLs where you
found those quotes?
That is a host; I figured it would have lots of pages.
Your message today hinted that maybe you meant the front page.
So I looked there, and found them there.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
If I understand that correctly, it means that OpenBSD does distribute
binary-only firmware, which isn't free. This would be a second reason
why I should not endorse OpenBSD. The systems I endorse try to
exclude such
On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
If I understand that correctly, it means that OpenBSD does distribute
binary-only firmware, which isn't free. This would be a second reason
why I should not endorse OpenBSD. The systems I endorse try to
exclude such firmware.
Then, sir,
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:26:07AM -0800, Robert Carr wrote:
/var/log/spamd shows activity of hosts being
grey-trapped, marked as (BLACK) or (GREY); spamdb
shows trapped and white hosts.
However, 'pfctl -t spamd -T show' shows nothing in the
spamd table (spamd-white is being populated),
In OpenBSD the recommendation for certain non-free programs
is in the recipes for installing them.
Oh, no URL?
I could ask someone to find a specific URL, but why take the trouble?
The OpenBSD developers have acknowledged that contains ports for
non-free programs. There is no
Frank Bax wrote:
My spamd-setup always takes 20-30 minutes on two servers (4.1 and 4.2).
This is not normal? When I run it manually; most of the time is
spent
downloading traplist.gz
This morning, I changed the crontab time /usr/libexec/spamd-setup -d
4.1 runtimes (minutes): 39,
Hi,
in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not
require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but
they seem to be protected with a mac filter, because I cannot get an
IP address via dhclient
I have a naive question: Is there any way to avoid that? I mean:
2008/1/7, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I would like to discuss what is the best way to automatically download the
lists available from http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/lists/ and use
them with PF.
Forget the list. From what I gathered from the talk at 24c3
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
This has been discussed many times
and it shouldn't take long for you or your minions to find out that we do
not
care about the source of firmware which doesn't load into OpenBSD.
The people who do searches for
On Jan 7, 2008 12:31 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since plants can be easily replicated, why are we buying food from farmers?
I'm not against buying software from developers (as long as it is free
software). See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.
With free
On 1/4/08, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/3/08, knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this is becoming OT, but I can't recommend storing HDDs as real
backup solution either. HDDs _do_ have bitrot, and one should at least,
say, once a year, verify that the *whole* disk is readable,
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:18:17PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
Can you tell the FSF web programmers to do more checking for HTML/SQL
injection vulnerabilities?
I know nothing about that issue, but I will forward your message.
Teaching the public about this issue is a good thing
Alberto Gonzalez is that you?
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:18:10PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
Didn't you do that right from the start when you came
to our lists to post the wrong conclusions you draw from your
un-researched assumptions?
That is not what happened. I stated
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote
Hi,
in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not
require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but
they seem to be protected with a mac filter, because I cannot get an
IP address via dhclient
On Jan 7, 2008 5:01 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I understand that correctly, it means that OpenBSD does distribute
binary-only firmware, which isn't free. This would be a second reason
why I should not endorse OpenBSD. The systems I endorse try to
exclude such firmware.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:28:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:38:24PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 07:48:53PM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote:
On 1/5/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there anything that, bug-wise, could
On Jan 7, 2008 9:48 AM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't carry a mobile phone, but I don't see anything wrong in
borrowing one from someone to make a call.
So if it is a new model of cell phone and if the owner teaches you how
to use it and make life easy
I can assure you this is not some email scam from africa, This is a
completely legitimate offer, and will be funded and shipped from the US.
Though I am currently travelling in Asia. IF you dont want one you dont have
to order one. plain and simple.
On Jan 7, 2008 5:51 PM, Johan Mson Lindman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:16AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
| But what about the different case where the company permits
| redistribution of the binary firmware, but does not release source
| code. Would OpenBSD distribute the firmware in that case?
|
| Of course and
--- Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008/01/06 17:50, Brian wrote:
--- Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and
are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your
torrent
apm overrides acpi. If you want to run acpi disable apm at boot time.
b bsd -c
disable apm
quit
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:13:27AM +0100, Markus Bergkvist wrote:
Markus Bergkvist wrote:
Pierre Riteau wrote:
I noticed that increasing the delay in sys/dev/pci/nviic.c from 100
to 500 fixes
On 1/7/08, Targus Neoprene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there a way to surpass the mac filter and get an ip?
most likely yes and yes. man ifconfig
--knitti
Thanks for the pointer! I totally missed those lines.
I was only seeing the
iic1: addr 0x48 ...
and
iic1: addr 0x49 ...
lines. Last time we spoke those lines disappeared when asbtm0 and wbenv0
appeared.
Also, I get different output on those iic1 if asbtm0 and/or wbenv0 is
found or not.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:24AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I find it impolite that you partially removed my questions and only
responded to some of them. I asked you if you please could respond to
all paragraphs.
People raise many issues in these messages. My idea of
Nope, I added it in there exactly that way. I got the idea from FreeBSD
:-)
Thanks for the diff though. Keep them coming.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:52:24AM +0100, giovanni wrote:
I've have two more values that maybe should be debounced:
_AC0 = 2732
_TC1 = 1
_TC2 = 5
Index: acpitz.c
On Jan 7, 2008 9:00 AM, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote
Hi,
in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not
require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but
they seem to be protected
On Jan 7, 2008 8:31 AM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have not presented any evidence that there are non-free programs
in gNewSense.
gNewsSense bugs 31, 100, 103, 108:
31: license problems - cdrecord (no open date)
http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00031
100: Helix Player
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:55:52AM -0600, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 06:44:48 +
Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:39:35PM -0600, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:28:39 -0800 (PST)
Reid Nichol [EMAIL
loosen up a bit, you're too tight up... I just want to check my
emails, I don't want to download p0nr movies
2008/1/7, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote
Hi,
in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not
require a
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:52AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
Those quotes do not show gNewSense includes non-free software.
What's interesting is that they admit they cannot find all blobs without
truly
reading and understanding the code, they lack people for it.
They say
On Jan 7, 2008 9:19 PM, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh come on now THRUSH! You really are an irritating cunt.
Can't you read?
The use of a search engine even by an imbecilic moron, such as yourself,
would have shown this page:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
Marco Peereboom wrote:
Alberto Gonzalez is that you?
at least in this case the excuse is somewhat valid, as richard is
certainly old enough for the claim of i cannot recall to hold water.
perhaps he should see a doctor about this?
in the case that richard is not in the initial stages
equating firmwares with blobs is an RMS-thing, it enables him to destroy the
good by comparing it to the perfect
Firmware runs on the hardware, not in the kernel.
On Jan 7, 2008 1:31 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has been discussed many times
and it shouldn't take
dropped misc by accident
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:16AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
But what about the different case where the company permits
redistribution of the binary firmware, but does not release source
code. Would OpenBSD distribute the firmware in that case?
I mean that I'd also be interested to see any more elaborated answer
than a sermon on ethics... and after all, at my place of work they
also use the same system (!), so that it'd be interesting to know how
they can crack it... and avoid it
2008/1/7, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
loosen up
2) using more free software is better than not running it at all
3) incentivating usage of non-free software on free software operating
systems doesn't incentivate the creation of free software
replacements
this is a word play. I know people who used OpenBSD for a while
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:31:37PM +0100, giovanni wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:43:56AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Nope, I added it in there exactly that way. I got the idea from FreeBSD
Sorry, but in your diff TC1 and TC2 are not debounced. right? so why am I
wrong?
They are not
There are also quite a few free programs that run only on Windows.
(Being able to redistribute a program and its source and modify and
redistribute the source doesn't somehow cause it to be instantly
ported to other platforms by the grace of God.) These programs can be
run on other
On Jan 7, 2008 2:30 PM, Markus Bergkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the pointer! I totally missed those lines.
I was only seeing the
iic1: addr 0x48 ...
and
iic1: addr 0x49 ...
lines. Last time we spoke those lines disappeared when asbtm0 and wbenv0
appeared.
Also, I get
No, Richard. No. This is really getting tired.
Their report was that OpenBSD contains ports for non-free programs,
and that is what I tried to say in the interview.
No, you didnt't.
I made a mistake in the way I said it: I used words which were subject
to misunderstanding.
No, you used
Richard Stallman wrote:
Gilles' message seems to say that OpenBSD policy is to allow
binary-only firmware. Is that correct?
Binary firmware that's legally redistributable is distributed in OpenBSD, Yes.
But you need to wrap your head around what that means for OpenBSD.
Modern
On 1/7/08, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah doing your best really counts. Kind of a Dr. that did his best but
killed the patient. HE TRIED!!
The consequences of a doctor making a mistake while trying to save a
patient's life are more severe than those of a gNewSense developer
Richard Stallman wrote:
My supplying the URL or name of a non-free program's port in OpenBSD
would do no good, because the developers are happy to have such ports
and would not remove it.
I am not going to spend the time, or ask someone else to do so, just
for an idle request. If the OpenBSD
On Monday 07 January 2008 14:42:41 openbsd puffy wrote:
I can assure you this is not some email scam from africa, This is a
completely legitimate offer, and will be funded and shipped from the US.
Though I am currently travelling in Asia. IF you dont want one you dont
have to order one. plain
What is your name? What is the company that proposes to do this,
and where is it located, whats the web site for it, etc?
You aren't exactly instilling confidence in people right now...
--STeve Andre'
On Monday 07 January 2008 08:42:41 openbsd puffy wrote:
I can assure you this is not some
Has anybody thought of this... the ports system is a facility that one
can 'borrow' and use on a OpenBSD system that _is_ used for their own
'convenience'!!! You can just improve it and give back your changes,
and most of the stuff you'll ever do with it has much to deal with
free software anyway
I am new to OpenBSD and I am not sure what is the correct way to find
packages.
For example I have tried to install the xfce window manager, and at
first I looked at the list of files in the packages list and there were
a lot of files with xfce in the name / description. I looked for one
As long as this thread has been running, the only plausible reasons
I can think of for you not to repeat your claimed accurate conclusion
is either that you do not remember what this claimed accurate conclusion was
or that this claimed accurate conclusion wold now be yet another
Quick question, do we really need an endorsement from Richard Stallman and
the
FSF for OpenBSD?
If OpenBSD does not need my endorsement, then OpenBSD developers
should not need to argue with me that I owe them an endorsement.
On 1/7/08, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
If I understand that correctly, it means that OpenBSD does distribute
binary-only firmware, which isn't free. This would be a second reason
why I should not endorse
Isn't this attitude more than a bit short-sighted? I certainly
understand the benefits of reserving one's resources for dealing with
issues that can happen, but many of the technology-related problems we
have today are arguably due (at least in large part) to people ignoring
But, when people use the word free, even within a particular context,
anyone would be able to understand what that person was talking about
within an acceptable level of error.
I don't think so -- that is too much to ask. In any area, the meaning
of freedom involves filling in
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote:
loosen up a bit, you're too tight up... I just want to check my
emails, I don't want to download p0nr movies
Theft of service is theft, regardless of how much or little service
you're stealing. If someone's gone to the trouble of filtering on MAC
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:31:24AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I find it impolite that you partially removed my questions and only
responded to some of them. I asked you if you please could respond to
all paragraphs.
People raise many issues in these messages. My idea of
7 Jan 2008 07:58:04 -0800, Unix Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
These firmwares are just the same as Microcode in modern processors, It's
NOT tainting the kernel at all... unlike binary blob drivers that are
very common in the
Just wondering... what could be the worse thing that could happen
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:22:53PM +0100, knitti wrote:
Backup (and/or archiving) is not fire-and-forget. You have to know how
long you want to store this data to choose the right technology and
media. And you have to have a process to verify that your data is good
after this time. If you want
Why do you use (obviously flawed) research methods?
My method is to ask other people to do it for me. I use that method
because it is efficient. Its results are accurate, too.
However, when a person tells me his OS is free, I have not always
checked.
On Jan 7, 2008 7:16 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do you use (obviously flawed) research methods?
My method is to ask other people to do it for me. I use that method
because it is efficient. Its results are accurate, too.
However, when a
So... 'ethically' the TiVo ma as well be a circuit, since users don't
usually install software on it?
Users did install software on it, and that's why Tivo tivoized it.
Should you do more then say that, maybe put a webpage encouraging open
hardware development?
I mean to write an article about the issue of free hardware designs
some day when I have some time.
You have done a pretty good job of summarizing my position.
The sex education analogy is quite clear and valid.
(I'm in favor of teaching people how to use contraception,
because I'm in favor of encouraging sex.)
Thank you for helping to explain.
In this discussion I have stuck to correcting
xlTargus Neoprene wrote:
Hi,
in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not
require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but
they seem to be protected with a mac filter, because I cannot get an
IP address via dhclient
I have a naive question: Is there any
IMO, a big part of the problem here is that when you say recommend in
this context what you actually mean appears (based on the discussion
here) to be something that most people would express as not
deliberately erect barriers against.
The evidence of this discussion shows that's
But it also perpetuates serious problems (totalitarian surveillance,...)
Are you seriously that paranoid? Do you wear a tin foil hat by any
chance? :-)
Cell phone systems keep track of the location of the phone, and they
can record the information permanently. They can do this even
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