A disturbing question here: Is Linksys Violating The GPL? If true, am I, as an owner of the WRT-54G, an accomplice or victim?
I hope that LinkSys can be pursuaded to do the right thing here.
Archive | 2003
VFP and Perl: A winning combination
Leland F. Jackson, CPA posts yet another interoperability success story for VFP here. UPDATE: Leland points out that since Perl is using the ODBC driver, not updated for VFP since 6.0, there are a few limitations: no stored procedures will run, and 7.0/8.0 features such as auto-incrementing keys will fail, too.
Dishwasher interfaces ought not to be difficult…
AskTog: Multiple Mistakes Drown Interface. Yet another great column by Bruce Tognazzini. Read and heed. Link courtesy of Tomalak’s Realm
SCO woes continue…
SCO, Novell continue bickering over Unix ownership. “SCO says newly uncovered documents further prove its claims, whereas Novell says it has retained patent rights to Unix.” from Computerworld News. I wish SCO would stop beating around the bush are reveal what the problem is. Vendors who choose to continue using their code could pay them a license fee, and vendors who choose not to could stop. Of course, that might not advance the value of SCO as much. Perhaps we should start a PayPal fund to buy them out.
Home again!
Made it home in one piece, 7 hours door-to-door, after a long day of work. On impulse power only for today.
Travel day….
On the road again, 1500 air miles to cover 1000 great circle miles, with no change of time zones. Going home. See y’all tomorrow.
Yes, that’s it!
Quote of the Day, from Phil Wolff:
RSS newsreaders are TiVo for bloggers.
Normally I’d append a pointer to the end of the post that occasioned it, but I thought this was too good not to give a post of its own.
Q.O.D., from [The Doc Searls Weblog]Guardian retracts story — because of blog pressure?
Doc Searls points out the power of blogs to make a fuss that even the conventional media has to respond to: Off Guardian.
Daniel Drezner: The Blogosphere Gets Results from the Guardian. He posts,
The good news: The Guardian story that caused such a ruckus yesterday has been taken down from their web site. As a side note, this isn’t the only story they’ve had to retract this week.
The bad news: the Guardian ‘s blatant distortion of events has already been picked up by hostile media outlets in South Africa, the Middle East, and the United States.
Also at least 273 blogs, including my own, yesterday. I’ve noted the Guardian’s retraction on that post, too.
Thanks to Mike Sanders for the pointage.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]
Yeah! You go!
Some hi-tech firms are still doing well… MySQL raises $19.5 million [CNET News.com]
Woo-hoo! 100 Mbps wireless! The air will cook!
US Robotics Claims 100 Mbps. “US Robotics offering proprietary 100 Mbps + speeds in new “Turbo” 802.11g gear: The explanation that they’re placing all the speed on a single channel doesn’t make any sense, of course. They’re limited by channelization, so they’re increasing the symbol rate in some way, which certainly would decrease distance because of issues of reflection in OFDM (or whatever the Texas Instruments underlaying chips are doing at 100 Mbps — PBCC?). More interesting is a $250 product they plan to ship in July which has the Linksys WAP54G features (AP, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, client) but also can act as a repeater for relaying signals. It’s unclear whether it can be a bridge and an AP simultaneously….” from Wi-Fi Networking News