I had to go to the airport early this morning and on the way back I thought I’d swing by the Apple Store in Emeryville at an hour well before anything should have been open, just to make sure that last night’s release of their new Operating System, Tiger, wasn’t part of some 24-hour round-the-clock […]
The Debian Sarge net install for ppc doesn’t get sound working on the most recent Powerbooks. To make it work we need to apply Ben’s patch to the most recent kernel. This took me forever to figure out, but here it is in eight easy steps.
1. Download and prepare the Linux 2.6.11 source
cd /usr/src
wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
tar […]
Despite earlier concerns reported on Slashdot that the GPL might be particularly difficult to enforce in Germany, that country’s courts now hold the distinction of having enforced it twice. The first enforcement came in 2004 when Harald Welte of the netfilter/iptables core team sought to enjoin Sitecom from distributing its WL-122 router, which used netfilter’s […]