When ethical business people want to sell something they publicise, improve their product and make sure theirs is the best. They defend their intellectual property to make sure it is distributed in ethical way – whether is a closed source or open source product. When unethical people whose product might not be as good as…
It is quite possible to hold constructive meetings via IRC. Indeed, organisations as large as the Wikimedia Foundation still use IRC for arranging major events, such as Wikimania. Follow the simple rules below to avoid disappointment. Having an effective meeting online It is much harder to hold a meeting online than one in person because…
Yes indeed. On 1st April 2007, we published the manpage content for the Wireless Cider Transmission Protocol (wctp) reproduced below. Introduction This is the manual for wctp – wireless cider transmission protocol. A proper Unix/Linux manpage is being prepared. Name wctp – Wireless Cider Transmission Protocol Synopsis wctp ~[-acefghlqy] site Description wctp allows the user…
The sky appears blue (instead of black) because light passing through the air hits tiny particles like dust and pollen. These tiny particles are large enough to reflect blue light, but red light (which has a longer wavelength) is not reflected nearly as much. So the result is that the blue light gets scattered by…
FUD is an acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. It is an immoral way of promoting a product by introducing one of these elements into people’s thinking about a competitor and is frequently used by proprietary software vendors to denigrate the merits of free and open source software. When ethical business people want to sell…
This is a very brief guide to setting up a vserver (http://linux-vserver.org) to run LTSP on. Getting DHCP to work Requires NET_RAW Getting NFS to work A user space NFS server is required. “nfs-user-server” or “unfs3” should work fine. We are using unfs3. See the respective documentation for the differences between the two. Local Devices…