software patents

Posted on 2006.12.16 by rob friedman

In something which doesn’t make much sense until you read it, Software Freedom Law Center comes to Microsoft’s aid.

Why would lawyers who do pro bono work do this?

While it’s only a distant possibility the SFLC hopes that a Supreme Court ruling might even find that software patents are illegal.

*crosses fingers*

I personally think the obviousness test process is broken.

[tags]software patents, microsoft, SFLC, patents[/tags]

m0n0wall uptime

Posted on 2006.12.16 by rob friedman

A new beta build of m0n0wall came out today. So I decided to post the uptime of my system before I install the new build.

System information
Name 	xxx
Version 	1.23b1
built on Mon Jun 5 12:21:09 CEST 2006
Platform 	generic-pc
Uptime 	49 days, 04:30
Last config change 	Sat Dec 16 14:48:33 MST 2006

[edit] It’s up.

System information
Name 	xxx
Version 	1.3b1
built on Sat Dec 16 19:50:56 CET 2006
Platform 	generic-pc
Uptime 	00:01
Last config change 	Sat Dec 16 14:48:33 MST 2006

[tags]m0n0wall, freebsd, uptime, software, notes, firewall[/tags]

FreeNAS vmware install.

Posted on 2006.12.16 by rob friedman

I downloaded the latest FreeNAS 0.68 vmware image. After I unzipped the file, and put the guest OS where I wanted it, I came across an error.

Unable to connect to the MKS: You need execute access in order to connect with the VMware Server Console.  Access denied for config file: /mnt/sda1/virtual machines/FreeNAS 0.68/FreeBSD.vmx.

After searching google for the error, nothing came up. Fortunately it seemed like an easy fix after a few thoughts. Of course zip files do not retain file permissions. But of course, it could have been created on a windows machine. Either way, the fix was easy.

The Fix:

$ chmod 755 *.vmx
$ ls -la *.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 px users 1224 2006-12-16 14:24 FreeBSD.vmx
$ chmod 755 *.vmx
$ ls -la *.vmx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 px users 1224 2006-12-16 14:24 FreeBSD.vmx