Happy Sys Admin day!
If there was no sysadmins, you would not be able to see this message. In fact, it is highly likely that you would not be able to see any messages at all. Today, or tomorrow, your electroshit would stop working. Once that happens, you usually get to talk to an semi-interested semi-moron behind the Customer Service Line. Read the rest of this entry
As engadget writes in their article, the Library of Congress appended the rule to the DMCA that says Apple and their peers cannot sue you for “jailbreaking” or “rooting” your phone. In terms of the “plain English”, this means that big companies cannot prohibit you from unlocking your phone no more. Well, in fact, they can still TRY to prohibit you (by implementing that rigorous software checks and tricks) but they cannot SUE your ass if you download a program from the web and unlock your phone.
This ain’t THAT much important in terms of the end-user, because such prohibitions and threats do not come through often, however it was a real threat, Apple could have put you behind the bars for five years if you gained financial profit from jailbreaking their software (1, 2). Besides jailbreaking, Library of Congress has permitted extended use of clips from authorized material and extended that right beyond educational, to allow clips from copyrighted material to be shown for criticism, commentary, or in documentary purposes.
What is really important is that this is a step towards user and away from the big companies. It is known that large companies have taken over the mechanism of copyright and twisted it out, so today, instead of the creator and author, the biggest protection by such intellectual property laws is given to the huge corporations. This is a step towards the user, one that might and would improve our lives and ease up clutch that “The Man” has on our throats. I am sure rms of FSF will be pleased.
Hello all. To return to the community, once at least, I will be writing a series of articles called Troubleshooting Internetz Connection. It will be aimed at noobs and their problems. Supposed to enable you to troubleshoot your shit without bugging all the great internautz like me.
Generic End-User to Internetz Relationship
This guide will include one picture (clickable on your right, please open it in new tab so you can browse articles), and series of articles that will be edited. At the end, there will be this internetz blog, but there will be another zipped ODT file containing all the chapters in the intended order. Blogz will be reference to the document, but full and latest version will always be in the ODT file itself, therefore blogz is like working version of the chapters contained in the document. Previously mentioned Troubleshooter for Internetz Connection, aka TIC.
This article came not out of the need for such information, there is an abundance of such info online, but out of my own need to try and make my own, very first, howto-troubleshooting guide for end users such as you are (I presume, otherwise, you might find this too “newbie oriented”, if so – please browse the net for more specific articles suitable for your level of knowledge). This guide presumes you are a newb, so please do not experiment on your own, if guide is unclear or you are not sure about sumpthin, the best way to deal with it is to ask someone you know that has skill and knowledge to solve your problem. Do not trust your colleagues, school friends and such, only cuz they have better computer than you do; people often do not admit their noobness to others, or to themselves, for that matter.
I will try and write this guide in English first, cuz I want it to be accessible and useful for large number of people, but later on I plan to translate it into languages I speak, and of course to offer others to translate into their own language. As long as you pay respect to the License, all should be good.
