Plantagenet Penguinista

...& live in Perth, Bunbury or Albany (WestAus) — or points in between — send an email to me at cyberknights com au & I'll see if I can arrange for one to lanf in your hand (or mailbox, or whatever). No, it’s not a technical DVD — at least, not in the sense of being connected with IT, computers or electronics. You push it into a DVD player & learn some stuff. Amongst other things, you can kiss cancer, diabetes & quite a number of “modern” afflictions goodbye.

I was handed a DVD (on the topic of Jebel Al Laws ) which was to be copied, but the copying machine had refused because the disc was “encrypted.” Curious, I poked it into a DVD drive, cranked up k9copy (licensed under GPL2 , yes FOSS does rock!) & 20 minutes later am watching the copy on a standard DVD player. Was there a problem?

As I was re-organising items around my house, I extracted the manuals for my TP-Link ADSL modem from the box, plus a phone cable (which I added to my cables drawer), I discovered a paper copy of the GPL . One more small piece of evidence to provoke a re-think amongst those who refuse to accept that Free Software could possibly work. Happily — like some other significant items — the concept does not require their acceptance (or understanding) to exist & to operate.