tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37282067134771068222024-03-14T10:12:06.201-04:00Anarchy != ChaosPeople accomplish great things through voluntary cooperation. Just look at Linux!Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-61063561291218456082015-10-29T18:13:00.002-04:002015-10-30T22:05:45.233-04:00Libraries, Liberty, and The Onion Router<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I like libraries. The idea of a place where anyone can read anything is a fantastic innovation in human history. <br>
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I've <a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2015/01/copyright-and-great-library-at.html" target="_blank">written about libraries before</a>.<br>
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Since Hypatia, and possibly before, libraries were not about just books, they are places where both learning and teaching occur. Young or old, rich or poor, the idea of welcoming everyone is inherently revolutionary.<br>
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Librarians are cool, too. If you think Google is good, go talk to a librarian. They know how to find stuff!<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2015/10/libraries-liberty-and-onion-router.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-66659559280407783322015-01-07T13:56:00.001-05:002018-08-19T12:10:49.198-04:00Copyright and the Great Library at Alexandria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Updated 20180819! See bottom!<br><br>The Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain has published their annual list of "<a href="http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2015/pre-1976" target="_blank">What Would Have Entered The Public Domain</a>" for 2015. <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150103/06291129584/all-these-works-should-be-public-domain-arent.shtml" target="_blank">TechDirt has a good digest of the list</a> as well.<br>
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Edit: <a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016/pre-1976" target="_blank">Here is the list for Jan 1, 2016</a>.<br>
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None of that is going to happen. <br>
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When considering the government granted monopoly that is Copyright, it is important to keep in mind that the original reasoning and justification used for
legislating Copyright in these United States, was to create a modern
Library of Alexandria.<br>
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Vint Cerf: <br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end
model that allows people at each level
of the network to innovate free of any
central control. By placing intelligence
at the edges rather than control in the
middle of the network, the Internet has
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The 'Net is made
up of independent providers with private peering contracts between them. This is one of the details in the "debate" about "Net Neutrality" that tends to get lost. <br>
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<span style="color: red;">Update:</span> <a href="http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-just-cable-companies-and-blame-local-government-for-dismal-broadband-competition/" target="_blank">Wired Magazine agrees</a> with me.<br>
<span style="color: red;">Update</span>: <a href="http://tucker.liberty.me/2015/02/26/net-neutrality-triumph-of-the-ruling-class/" target="_blank">The bureaucrats have finally gotten their way</a>, and put the 'Net back under their chains. February 26, 2015<br>
<span style="color: red;">Update</span>: <a href="https://mises.org/library/net-neutrality-scam" target="_blank">One more</a>, from the Mises Institute. <br>
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<a href="http://neocashradio.com/blog/neocash-radio-crypto-war-special-with-guest-curt/" target="_blank">NeoCash Radio</a> has put up the short talk we had concerning the "First Crypto War", being, in my opinion, the time period from when Phil Zimmerman wrote PGP, to when the International Trafficking In Arms Regulations on the export of strong encryption were repealed.<br>
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I recommend my earlier post, "<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-net-was-young.html" target="_blank">When The Net Was Young</a>", if you haven't read it.<br>
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Spoiler: Geeks vs. NSA, Geeks won the battle, the war continues.<br>
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But there are elements to the story that I was not able to get into on the air, so I will spend a little while creating this blog post with links and additional materials concerning my comments in the radio show <br>
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The guys over at <a href="http://neocashradio.com/blog/episode-77-ruble-and-rand-in-crisis/" target="_blank">NeoCash Radio had me on for their show #77</a>, talking about Bitcoin and all the rest of it.<br />
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Thank you, Daren and JJ, for the opportunity, and I look forward to our talk on the First Crypto War when that comes out.<br />
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Curt-Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-21131675874465027222014-02-10T22:59:00.001-05:002014-02-19T21:53:15.755-05:00Installing the Trinity Desktop Environment on Debian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A recent discussion on <a href="http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/35214/" target="_blank">LXer concerning the greatness that was Kmail</a> reminded me that I never did a good write-up on installing the <a href="http://trinitydesktop.org/" target="_blank">KDE3 fork, Trinity-DE</a>.<br>
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One of the more interesting aspects of this particular discussion is that I wasn't the one to bring up Trinity-DE. Usually, it's me who points out that the wondrous fantasticness that was <a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/02/debian-linux-6-and-trinity-desktop.html" target="_blank">KDE3 has not left the world</a>, that Trinity-DE is alive and well.<br>
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So it's time for a screenshot tutorial on installing Trinity-DE. For my base, I chose Debian Wheezy, using the <a href="http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/amd64/bt-cd/" target="_blank">Xfce-AMD64 install CD</a>. You can choose any of the Debian Netinstall, CD#1, or DVD#1 disks and simply install whichever default desktop it comes with.<br>
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If you do choose to install KDE4 by default, then put Trinity-DE on with it, let me know how that goes. It's the one thing I haven't tried yet, since I do not prefer KDE4.<br>
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I just learned that Doug Engelbart died
yesterday.</div>
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So few people know that the way they
work with their computers came to him in a flurry of creation while
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You know that Linux kernel thing, that has thousands of developers from all over the world, some of which do it professionally, most of which do it for the love of solving problems (or something)?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I look at it as a great chance for learning.</span><br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2013/04/learning-by-doing-compiling-your-own.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-71004003560935335622012-12-11T21:47:00.002-05:002012-12-14T16:16:50.675-05:00Governance vs. Government<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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A fundamental disagreement between the Statist and the Anarchist is whether or not a system can be self-organizing. Bear with me, this will take a moment to frame.<br>
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To get the definition out of the way up front, by "state" I am not talking about any particular political subdivision. The "state" is the institution with the monopoly on legitimate coercion. When a soldier kills, for example, it is not "murder" <i>because</i> he is acting as an agent of the state. What is robbery if I do it is "tax collection" <i>when performed by</i> an agent of the state. And so on. The act that is otherwise criminal is declared to be legitimate specifically because an agent of the state is doing it. They are "only following orders".<br>
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<span style="color: red;">Updated 20121214</span> <br>
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It's been 12 years since <a href="http://knoppix.net/" target="_blank">Mark Knopper</a> first created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix" target="_blank">Knoppix</a>, ushering in an amazing way to try running Linux: directly from a CD.<br>
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No installation hassles, no worries about losing data during an upgrade. No getting stuck in the middle of an install and not having a machine to use to track down documentation.<br>
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Just a running machine. Easily, quickly, and best of all <i>temporarily</i>.<br>
<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-linux-live-cd.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-2523986290672037792012-05-23T23:13:00.001-04:002012-06-04T10:51:10.323-04:00Morality and Ethical Behavior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Morals. Ethics.<br>
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These are two words that are generally not taught to students, and certainly not in the government schools, until they have to deal with the generalized concepts in places like law school, or college accounting classes, where it's pointed out that knowing the law, and not following it, is "unethical" or "immoral".<br>
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Usually, people first encounter the idea in the context that someone can be prosecuted for "unethical behavior" while in office, while politicians who do not keep campaign promises are considered perfectly normal. This is hypocrisy, and deserves to be addressed.<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2012/05/morality-and-ethical-behavior.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-31972746030648811172012-04-26T19:02:00.000-04:002012-04-27T19:08:54.057-04:00Software Patents and "Rent Seeking""Rent Seeking" is a term in economics used to denote the effort of those with "political" power, that is, the ability to leverage the violence of the state, to use that leverage for personal gain.<br>
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Inspired by the recent <a href="http://mises.org/daily/6010" target="_blank">Mises.org article on the subject</a>, I'd like to give my own perspective on the issue. <br>
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While most of us think of "rent" only as paying one's landlord for the use of their property, this common use of the term is not as far from the more technical "economic" term as it seems at first. Let it stew for a while, see if it doesn't make sense.<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2012/04/software-patents-and-rent-seeking.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-78691860146552521362012-03-11T01:00:00.001-05:002012-03-11T01:11:04.617-05:00Go fsck yourself, part duh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br>
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It's four hours later, and this time, I'm writing from the laptop.<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2012/03/go-fsck-yourself-part-duh.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-29222994911408395082012-03-10T17:44:00.005-05:002012-03-14T10:22:55.779-04:00Go fsck yourself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMPr3mqNSBP04hiKK3D0eIM3tnfAGOyTZQEyAvZ_t82DH7wRWlcREpE0WnGoTA_eNb8hFYimIPWcm8vDu0xX-AwuImFmMRKDZ8GkE-rg_20ciV2EUm_j-WjJWoapEEr615WDjKdHEljo/s1600/openlogo-50.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMPr3mqNSBP04hiKK3D0eIM3tnfAGOyTZQEyAvZ_t82DH7wRWlcREpE0WnGoTA_eNb8hFYimIPWcm8vDu0xX-AwuImFmMRKDZ8GkE-rg_20ciV2EUm_j-WjJWoapEEr615WDjKdHEljo/s1600/openlogo-50.png"></a></div>Interesting experience today.<br>
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My daily use machine has a SATA disk drive, and it would not boot this morning. GRUB would begin, and then fail saying it could not find any initrd or kernel.<br>
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I was able to boot using a Live CD, but several of the ones I have didn't work. Time to purge my "rescue disk" collection, download the latest <a href="http://trinityhome.org/">Trinity Rescue</a> and <a href="http://knoppix.net/">Knoppix</a>, etc.<br>
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The one that did work would not recognize that the HD even existed. So no fdisk, no mounting the partitions for backup, nothing. Doomed, I thought. Fried disk. Right.<br>
<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2012/03/go-fsck-yourself.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-40865291142120630322011-09-12T22:20:00.000-04:002011-09-12T22:20:57.467-04:00VoIP and some agonies of E.164 or, Forward Into The Past!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrwRci7c7ikAqlwRZOOsVw_5RUI5LTrH5eyrLcJNhv6L6wwwQsFeyRx6Af8I_4Ob4ukSGuZAJi_zRjv_WY712et2mzkpD5c63bULrJEIlh5UQnanleFX9e_u7R8Fv_clD8bKOs_3TZtzs/s1600/compuserve-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrwRci7c7ikAqlwRZOOsVw_5RUI5LTrH5eyrLcJNhv6L6wwwQsFeyRx6Af8I_4Ob4ukSGuZAJi_zRjv_WY712et2mzkpD5c63bULrJEIlh5UQnanleFX9e_u7R8Fv_clD8bKOs_3TZtzs/s1600/compuserve-logo.jpg"></a></div>Does anyone else remember <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe">CompuServe</a> accounts, which were all numbers? Mine was 72125,1424. Or <a href="http://www.icq.com/">ICQ</a>, which was fun to guess just when the other person signed up by the numeric value of their ICQ account. I'm glad to see ICQ is still operating, which maybe I should have noticed before. I wonder if my old number still works?<br>
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Now people use names for their email, in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol">standard and well understood form</a> that works seamlessly between different service providers. Me@example.com is far more understandable than 72125,1424 ever was.<br>
<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/09/voip-and-some-agonies-of-e164-or.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-43253893916577506102011-08-17T19:33:00.004-04:002011-08-18T13:00:44.933-04:00Abandon Skype all ye who enter here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyQamKNJXiP2h2zAoVNJI8ncfKrE2l6FOeHkvSBEYKEJlk7QJU6NhaZ0B7wSKLO2w5QZ5AjI-5iKp1CdIut_4ZjTxHlUmExEaaO4W0Ak4l-EW1W8fcz5y6n-GKLIe6u_ii6KwDy970IQ/s1600/Skype_Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyQamKNJXiP2h2zAoVNJI8ncfKrE2l6FOeHkvSBEYKEJlk7QJU6NhaZ0B7wSKLO2w5QZ5AjI-5iKp1CdIut_4ZjTxHlUmExEaaO4W0Ak4l-EW1W8fcz5y6n-GKLIe6u_ii6KwDy970IQ/s1600/Skype_Logo.jpg"></a></div>With the purchase of Skype by Microsoft, there's a question that has been bugging me for quite a while.<br>
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Why Skype?<br>
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What properties made Skype the 800lbs gorilla of software phones?<br>
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I think I have a few ideas.<br>
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1) Video. Even though it took a while to get video working on Linux, it does work and works pretty well.<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/08/abandon-skype-all-ye-who-enter-here.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-84184937537624980232011-08-03T02:22:00.001-04:002011-09-06T02:32:35.350-04:00Looking up old friends.Recently, I have thought about looking up old friends. Like from highschool. Or early girlfriends. People like that.<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://priss.com/Ride2000/Himself-Start.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://priss.com/Ride2000/Himself-Start.jpg" width="200"></a></div>What has been very hard to keep in mind is that I have made no secret of my identity on the "interwebs". My existence on the 'Net has been rather obvious, from early posts on <a href="http://seclists.org/nanog/1998/Apr/224">NANOG</a> and <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.motorcycles/search?scoring=d&filter=0&enc_author=o1oUNhkAAAAmoM1MD39ZLld3IQ2X7H7zGjOacwzCT7wv2Afe3PIXeA&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_miny=1992&as_maxd=30&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=1992">Rec.Motorcycles</a> to the present.<br>
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This creates a conflict of interest, of sorts.<br>
<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/08/looking-up-old-friends.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-82360713260893720132011-05-11T13:16:00.000-04:002011-05-11T13:16:01.900-04:00Microsoft devours Skype<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyQamKNJXiP2h2zAoVNJI8ncfKrE2l6FOeHkvSBEYKEJlk7QJU6NhaZ0B7wSKLO2w5QZ5AjI-5iKp1CdIut_4ZjTxHlUmExEaaO4W0Ak4l-EW1W8fcz5y6n-GKLIe6u_ii6KwDy970IQ/s1600/Skype_Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyQamKNJXiP2h2zAoVNJI8ncfKrE2l6FOeHkvSBEYKEJlk7QJU6NhaZ0B7wSKLO2w5QZ5AjI-5iKp1CdIut_4ZjTxHlUmExEaaO4W0Ak4l-EW1W8fcz5y6n-GKLIe6u_ii6KwDy970IQ/s1600/Skype_Logo.jpg"></a></div>Skype has been purchased by Microsoft, for <a href="http://www.itworld.com/open-source/163509/microsofts-reported-skype-acquisition-may-impact-linux-users">$8.5 Billion</a>.<br>
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I have used Skype for years on Linux, even though Skype treated their Linux client as something like a red-headed step-child. Features like video chat were always included in the Linux client long after they were in the Windows version, bug fixes were slow, stuff like that.<br>
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But, and here's the biggest thing: It <i>worked</i>.<br>
<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/05/microsoft-devours-skype.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-74055109813621133402011-03-30T15:38:00.002-04:002013-05-07T15:40:26.984-04:00Windows Is Not Free<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Three years ago, I read one of the finest articles on the issues concerning the difficulties faced by the advocates of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS or FOSS), and the endless efforts to get people to give F/OSS an opportunity to work for them.<br>
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The article is "<a href="http://autotelic.com/windows_is_free">Windows Is Free: The Impact of Pirated Software on Free Software</a>", along with the follow up article by the same author, "<a href="http://autotelic.com/No%20Really%20-%20Windows%20Is%20Free">No Really - Windows Is Free</a>."<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-is-not-free.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-91302576325327239892011-03-24T10:10:00.002-04:002011-03-24T10:57:36.029-04:00I am now a Linux Kernel DeveloperNo joke.<br>
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On Sunday, March 20th, I submitted a patch to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, to fix a compile problem that began when the "binutils" package, that handles programs written in assembly, was updated such that something that was never a problem before became a problem.<br>
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The file linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S had two places where the "END(foo)" did not match the "foo" in its "ENTRY(foo)". The file dates back to 1992, so this problem has been there the whole time and no one noticed because it didn't cause an error until now.<br>
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I have no idea if the patch will be accepted, or even noticed, but I've done it and now anyone who gets the compile error...<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S: Assembler messages:</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:1422: Error: .size expression does not evaluate to a constant make[3]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.o] Error 1</span><br>
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...will know what it is about and how to fix it if my patch doesn't make it into the kernel.<br>
<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-am-now-linux-kernel-developer.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-9169229945952382572011-03-15T20:46:00.000-04:002011-03-15T20:46:06.137-04:00"Dum vivimus, vivamus! -- 'While we live, let us live!' "A friend just pointed me to this video:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://priss.com/Ride2000/Hollywood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://priss.com/Ride2000/Hollywood.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>This reminds me of why I keep my motorcycle, even though it's spent year after year in various garages while I traveled or did more "important" things.<br />
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Robert Heinlein explained why in his book _Glory Road_:<br />
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<b>"Dum vivimus, vivamus! -- 'While we live, let us live!' "</b><br />
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When the hero was asked by a very pretty woman what <a href="http://www.albion-swords.com/swords/albion/late/sword-lady-vivamus.htm">the inscription on his sword</a> meant, the hero said,<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Touch life. Touch life <i>twice</i>!"</span></b>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-17142469346590517882011-03-14T11:35:00.000-04:002011-03-14T11:35:46.937-04:00Bodhi Linux 0.1.7 and the Enlightenment Desktop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFpoV6f-nXGKO8OpPgFLppKdNqIuGrDfL5LmD6HiqJ5GxDB8FcVHvId1C_GiE82vYZaYUuspJ4r-MHXRTqM5MZSpmyn836CZyM3ZXHv81QYN3w5Gz9y0NsR_AmEoxE4UXtUw1-cIT15U/s1600/bodhi_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFpoV6f-nXGKO8OpPgFLppKdNqIuGrDfL5LmD6HiqJ5GxDB8FcVHvId1C_GiE82vYZaYUuspJ4r-MHXRTqM5MZSpmyn836CZyM3ZXHv81QYN3w5Gz9y0NsR_AmEoxE4UXtUw1-cIT15U/s1600/bodhi_logo.png"></a></div>Bodhi has released 0.1.7, a further development release of the <a href="http://www.bodhilinux.com/">Bodhi Enlightenment desktop</a> Linux distribution. As I've <a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/02/bodhi-linux-015-and-enlightenment.html">mentioned before</a>, Bodhi is focusing on providing usability with a minimal footprint.<br>
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By using the <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/">Enlightenment</a> graphics environment, Bodhi creates highly configurable, and aesthetically pleasing, visual effects without loading the system down with bloat.<br>
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As Bodhi is a tributary of <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, and so it's no surprise that Bodhi works as a liveCD and not just an install disk. As an old <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> hack myself, I'm so used to install disks doing nothing but installing that it's still a bit of a pleasant surprise.<br>
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<a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/bodhi-linux-017-and-enlightenment.html#more">Read more »</a>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-63266410522645861132011-03-12T15:41:00.001-05:002011-03-12T16:48:49.614-05:00Hero Of The Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhd4WKzVrcOFHf0dY7sI-LfqYKFZsJYYCOudHogSGJAlMN8gMTsV_xem3J_NK6FsFS6_7vUwNygo5eO_dJBNhMNtqK8BLVZfSKb1LKKcyTc-T47YOHGH-vu5c-dwzFW_eVt6b2bgBeyI/s1600/Hero_Of_The_Day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhd4WKzVrcOFHf0dY7sI-LfqYKFZsJYYCOudHogSGJAlMN8gMTsV_xem3J_NK6FsFS6_7vUwNygo5eO_dJBNhMNtqK8BLVZfSKb1LKKcyTc-T47YOHGH-vu5c-dwzFW_eVt6b2bgBeyI/s320/Hero_Of_The_Day.jpg" width="216" /></a></div>Today, March 12th, 2011, saw this man, a Mr. D.H. of somewhere in Los Angeles, become a true Hero in the ancient tradition.<br />
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Even with plans for his own birthday to be spent at 6 Flags Amusement Park, Mr. D.H. abandoned those plans <i>the night before</i> simply because a friend needed help moving.<br />
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There is a saying older than history itself that while an acquaintance will help you move, a friend will help you move bodies. Mr. D.H. has demonstrated in the heroic tradition that it doesn't require actual bodies to make a friend, only someone who will step up when the need is great, and do what must be done regardless of the personal inconvenience.<br />
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So a big <i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hazah!</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> to Mr. D.H., whomever he may be, from everyone who may at one time or another have the opportunity to be his true friend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Happy Birthday</span>!</span><br />
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</span>Curt-http://www.blogger.com/profile/15378506296755879713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728206713477106822.post-54019497643512356092011-03-11T15:32:00.004-05:002011-03-11T15:47:44.478-05:00The joys of multi-card reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxjyXc9ixNhJ85rYGNkLZnYyuF4NGUQn4W7ps57gh-OiMZ1mXWFERFYh82K8E7AJVbYbKaa859YIpuuZLvEvH1tvRoxJO2dgGeMZOa8JNNMa7Hs14XgiL9YLGWIAO7h5fiCcfQgytzsAs/s1600/b36f6c6e-01d8-4394-a790-40264c6d4056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxjyXc9ixNhJ85rYGNkLZnYyuF4NGUQn4W7ps57gh-OiMZ1mXWFERFYh82K8E7AJVbYbKaa859YIpuuZLvEvH1tvRoxJO2dgGeMZOa8JNNMa7Hs14XgiL9YLGWIAO7h5fiCcfQgytzsAs/s1600/b36f6c6e-01d8-4394-a790-40264c6d4056.jpg"></a></div>As mentioned at the <a href="http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/recovering-from-motherboard-failures.html">bottom of my prior posting</a>, because of a surprising number of errors being received when I tried to use my venerable external card reader, I had ordered an internal <a href="http://www.rosewill.com/products/1184/productDetail.htm">multi-card reader</a>. Well, it arrived in good order, and now the front of my PC has one more blue LED than it had.<br>
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I guess this is the way that <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text">streetlights have destroyed the night</a> for so many of us, one bulb at a time.<br>
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They nicely include both grey and black faceplates, for the utterly pointless aesthetics of having the machine match. It must be important to someone, and I did indeed use the matching faceplate. It was already in place. My server has a silver DVD drive in a black case, and I can't say that anyone has complained.<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrgm6MDeYD41UIrSqeEB7Uv4SYQltb1AxphoGmHrDEw5GwSiFM0RailIxUgKIt3j2sONzvILKuZy6TG9EL29mzRScdwj7jc_808RckOnD-oKteqNLxUANUzmy1JBotB3gkUqrwDJJKOs/s1600/img_1895.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrgm6MDeYD41UIrSqeEB7Uv4SYQltb1AxphoGmHrDEw5GwSiFM0RailIxUgKIt3j2sONzvILKuZy6TG9EL29mzRScdwj7jc_808RckOnD-oKteqNLxUANUzmy1JBotB3gkUqrwDJJKOs/s200/img_1895.jpg" width="200"></a></div>First, a note on cleaning. I am sick (and tired) of computer hardware that cannot be cleaned. Laptops that require being sent back to the manufacturers in order to be cleaned, things like that. I remember one call to Circuit City for a Sony Vaio laptop I owned, where the person who answered the phone simply did not understand what I meant when I said the fan needed to be cleaned.<br>
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I had to let her go to her script and answer the question "Is the machine overheating and shutting down?" with "Yes", because if I didn't say "yes" she didn't have any option for having me send it in for cleaning at all. So they did the cleaning, and wiped Linux, but I've learned always to do a full backup before letting anyone else even touch my machines.<br>
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