From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 23 14:31:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from well.apcs.com.au (well.apcs.com.au [203.41.196.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9097A37C96B for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@well.apcs.com.au) Received: (from keith@localhost) by well.apcs.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA06716; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:29:21 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from keith) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200003231935.MAA43066@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:29:21 +1100 (EST) From: Keith To: Warner Losh Subject: RE: iopener hack Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Warner, Who is the manufacturer of the iopener ? I wish to buy 100 units to play with around the offices. Keith On 23-Mar-00 Warner Losh wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson Australia Power Control Systems Pty. Limited. Member of the Australian Technology Showcase. http://www.apcs.com.au +61 2 66 534843 Date: 24-Mar-00 Time: 09:22:10 Satellite Service 64K to 8Meg EzyISP Accounting Systems -------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message