Rebel Zero » Urgent News http://www.rebelzero.com Where sleeping Lynxes lie.... Sun, 09 May 2010 15:46:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New Zealand Internet Blackout http://www.rebelzero.com/rebelzero/new-zealand-internet-blackout/109 http://www.rebelzero.com/rebelzero/new-zealand-internet-blackout/109#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:15:17 +0000 Adam Stovicek http://www.rebelzero.com/?p=109 In support of our New Zealand citizens, and ultimately all of us, we at RebelZero.com took part in the Internet Blackout this Monday, February 23rd. The site was still some what usable but very friggin’ dark making it difficult to use.

Below is a graphic that many bloggers were given to use for the day. Clicking on it will take you to Creative Freedom’s website for greater detail about the event and the highly controversial law behind the protest.

This Saturday, February 28th, Section 92A of the Copyright Act is due to come into force. This website has voluntarily been taken down in protest against this law, which will be used to disconnect New Zealanders from the internet based on accusations of copyright infringement, without a trial and without evidence held up to court scrutiny. May we be very clear: we do not support or condone copyright infringement or illegal downloads. But this blatant disregard towards the basic human right to a fair trial is completely unjust and unworkable and it has the potential to punish New Zealand businesses and individuals where in fact no laws have been broken. Similar laws have been rejected in the EU as being against

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]]> http://www.rebelzero.com/rebelzero/new-zealand-internet-blackout/109/feed 0 ALERT – Intrepid Ibex – Potential Hardware Damage From e1000e Driver http://www.rebelzero.com/hardware/alert-intrepid-ibex-potential-hardware-damage-from-e1000e-driver/14 http://www.rebelzero.com/hardware/alert-intrepid-ibex-potential-hardware-damage-from-e1000e-driver/14#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:56:41 +0000 Adam Stovicek http://www.rebelzero.com/?p=14 Just got an email from the Ubuntu Developers mailing list from Steve Langasek warning of potential damage when using the e1000e driver for Intel GigE ethernet. Users whose machines have an Intel GigE ethernet are being urged NOT to use any of the Intrepid Alphas.

Here’s the complete message:

Reports have been coming in that the e1000e ethernet driver for Intel GigE
chipsets, as included upstream in Linux 2.6.27, may under certain conditions
irreparably damage your ethernet hardware by corrupting the on-board
firmware.

While we expect alphas to include a fair number of bugs, and rely on your
continued support and testing to help resolve these bugs for Ubuntu
releases, bugs that damage hardware are quite another matter. As a result
of this bug we must recommend that users do *not* use Intrepid alphas,
including the LiveCDs, on machines with Intel GigE ethernet.

Efforts to safeguard the hardware of affected users are ongoing, though
initially this will consist of a workaround in the form of disabling the
e1000e driver. Alpha 6 CD images will not be re-issued for this fix, so
affected users are advised to either use daily CD images once a resolution
is in place, or to wait for the release of the 8.10 beta, due to be released
on October 2.

Further discussion of this issue can be found on the ubuntu-devel mailing
list at
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-September/026559.html>,
and progress on resolving this issue can be tracked at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555>.

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