From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 23 11:35:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB17337BAC3 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:35:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA35046 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:35:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA43066 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:35:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003231935.MAA43066@harmony.village.org> To: small@freebsd.org Subject: iopener hack Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:35:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's a story over on slashdot that purports to say that netpliance has changed some things about the iopener. First, they are now requiring that one get service from them. Second, they are claiming that any modification is a violation under the terms they are selling to you as (which is bs and unenforcible, but they are welcome to try, the most they can do is cancel my warrantee). Finally, the iopeners shipped after March 20 can't be modified like has been widely reported. Don't know how they did this, but if it was with no-stick parts, or if it was with special high-security bolts, these can easily be worked around :-). I'm still going to get mine, but only if they don't force me to buy more than one month of internet service from them, and I'll resist that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message