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It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on. Drink service every 90 to 120 minutes or so.</p><p>I was between two very nice women, Jennifer and Gretchen. Both of them were flying with people who had been given upgrades to business class. Jennifer was very friendly, and told me about her children and about her friend, who is an Ex-Pat on year two of her assignment. Gretchen was less sharing, but works for “the University” as some sort of Foreign Programs coordinator.</p><p>I have an iPod, and had loaded several movies on it, so I watched some, but kept having to pause it for interruptions anyway. One of the interruptions occurred when the in-flight movie suddenly shut-off, and both Jennifer and Gretchen commented on how obnoxious it was.</p><p>First Meal - another iPod movie on pause. “Our selections for this meal are Steak or Curry Chicken,” on the PA. 20 minutes later (remember, row 60)… only Curry Chicken left. It sort of worked out. There was so much curry smell in the air, the steak would have tasted like curry. It wasn’t bad for airline food, but it wasn’t “good” either.</p><h2 id=october-13>October 13<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#october-13>#</a></h2><p>Flying Over North East Asia</p><p>On two of my leg stretching walks around the cabin - I took some pictures out one of the massive exit door windows. One of those - maybe two and a half hours out of landing, I got a picture of what looked like a forest fire, except on what basically looked like dark brown desert.</p><p>I give up on movies after two and a half, and finally decide maybe I’ll try to sleep for real. 10 minutes later, snack time is announced. Chinese noodle bowl (pretty much Ramen Noodles with a few “actual” vegetables). After snack, I tried to snooze a little, and then more in flight movie problems made everyone restless.</p><p>I slept for about 15 minutes. Pure exhaustion.</p><p>Meal two (also lunch). Choices this time was a Turkey and Cheese on a Pretzel roll, or some sort of Chicken and Noodle thing. 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+positive about my experiences so far – this shower in my hotel room is
+really, really nice. It has a double shower head switchable to a
+hand-held shower head. It just feels nice. The water pressure is really
+strong, too.</p><p>I go down to eat the hotel breakfast:</p><ul><li>2 steamed buns with different fillings</li><li>2 pieces of “baked bacon”</li><li>1 Fairly McDonald’s style potato cake (they call it potato pie)</li><li>1 piece of very British tasting sausage</li><li>1 Hard Boiled brown egg</li><li>1 French style croissant</li></ul><p>There’s another American here that I’m supposed to be able to meet up with,
+and at 10 in the morning I call him up. Of course, he’s younger than me
+so he’s sleeping, and says he’ll call me back later.</p><p>This is the point where the jet lag really starts bugging me. I’m all
+restless, but tired too. I start to watch some DVDs that I took with me
+(there’s a DVD player in my room). About 1pm, I’m totally annoyed that
+I didn’t get a call back, and decide to go see what I can find.</p><p>I’ll start by simply saying that I walked in the wrong direction.
+I didn’t know it then. I did find a 7-11, a McDonalds, someplace called
+Big Pizza, and a Dairy Queen - all along a road that was so wide it had
+pedestrian bridges across it at regular intervals. I totally didn’t
+bring the camera (should have).</p><p>On the way back to the Hotel, I stopped by the 7-11 and bought a can of
+Pringles, some Laundry Soap and a liter of “Coke Light”. When I got back
+here, I puttered around a little, drank some Coke Light, ate half the
+Pringles, cleaned my dirty clothes (not much, but wanted to figure out
+how the machine worked) - it’s a “Washer / Dryer”, and all of the
+instructions are in Chinese, so I sort of guessed, and ended up with
+clean dry clothes two hours later.</p><p>I ate some Ramen noodle type thing for Dinner (the hotel had a few items
+that they started me off with - including tea bags and bottled water).
+About 9PM, the other American called me back, and told me that he had
+fallen back to sleep, and didn’t wake up until 2, and that he had tried
+calling then. We made arrangements to meet up in the morning.</p><p>Tired and fuzzy, and having taken no useful pictures… I went to bed.
+Tomorrow is the first day at work.</p></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/>in-china</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>history</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><div class=share-buttons><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Getting there is NOT half the fun on twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?text=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f&hashtags=blog%2cin-china%2chistory%2cwork"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM195.519 424.544c135.939.0 210.268-112.643 210.268-210.268.0-3.218.0-6.437-.153-9.502 14.406-10.421 26.973-23.448 36.935-38.314-13.18 5.824-27.433 9.809-42.452 11.648 15.326-9.196 26.973-23.602 32.49-40.92-14.252 8.429-30.038 14.56-46.896 17.931-13.487-14.406-32.644-23.295-53.946-23.295-40.767.0-73.87 33.104-73.87 73.87.0 5.824.613 11.494 1.992 16.858-61.456-3.065-115.862-32.49-152.337-77.241-6.284 10.881-9.962 23.601-9.962 37.088.0 25.594 13.027 48.276 32.95 61.456-12.107-.307-23.448-3.678-33.41-9.196v.92c0 35.862 25.441 65.594 59.311 72.49-6.13 1.686-12.72 2.606-19.464 2.606-4.751.0-9.348-.46-13.946-1.38 9.349 29.426 36.628 50.728 68.965 51.341-25.287 19.771-57.164 31.571-91.8 31.571-5.977.0-11.801-.306-17.625-1.073 32.337 21.15 71.264 33.41 112.95 33.41z"/></svg></a><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Getting there is NOT half the fun on linkedin" href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f&title=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun&summary=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun&source=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM160.461 423.278V197.561h-75.04v225.717h75.04zm270.539.0V293.839c0-69.333-37.018-101.586-86.381-101.586-39.804.0-57.634 21.891-67.617 37.266v-31.958h-75.021c.995 21.181.0 225.717.0 225.717h75.02V297.222c0-6.748.486-13.492 2.474-18.315 5.414-13.475 17.767-27.434 38.494-27.434 27.135.0 38.007 20.707 38.007 51.037v120.768H431zM123.448 88.722C97.774 88.722 81 105.601 81 127.724c0 21.658 16.264 39.002 41.455 39.002h.484c26.165.0 42.452-17.344 42.452-39.002-.485-22.092-16.241-38.954-41.943-39.002z"/></svg></a><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Getting there is NOT half the fun on reddit" href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f&title=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM446 265.638c0-22.964-18.616-41.58-41.58-41.58-11.211.0-21.361 4.457-28.841 11.666-28.424-20.508-67.586-33.757-111.204-35.278l18.941-89.121 61.884 13.157c.756 15.734 13.642 28.29 29.56 28.29 16.407.0 29.706-13.299 29.706-29.701.0-16.403-13.299-29.702-29.706-29.702-11.666.0-21.657 6.792-26.515 16.578l-69.105-14.69c-1.922-.418-3.939-.042-5.585 1.036-1.658 1.073-2.811 2.761-3.224 4.686l-21.152 99.438c-44.258 1.228-84.046 14.494-112.837 35.232-7.468-7.164-17.589-11.591-28.757-11.591-22.965.0-41.585 18.616-41.585 41.58.0 16.896 10.095 31.41 24.568 37.918-.639 4.135-.99 8.328-.99 12.576.0 63.977 74.469 115.836 166.33 115.836s166.334-51.859 166.334-115.836c0-4.218-.347-8.387-.977-12.493 14.564-6.47 24.735-21.034 24.735-38.001zM326.526 373.831c-20.27 20.241-59.115 21.816-70.534 21.816-11.428.0-50.277-1.575-70.522-21.82-3.007-3.008-3.007-7.882.0-10.889 3.003-2.999 7.882-3.003 10.885.0 12.777 12.781 40.11 17.317 59.637 17.317 19.522.0 46.86-4.536 59.657-17.321 3.016-2.999 7.886-2.995 10.885.008 3.008 3.011 3.003 7.882-.008 10.889zm-5.23-48.781c-16.373.0-29.701-13.324-29.701-29.698.0-16.381 13.328-29.714 29.701-29.714 16.378.0 29.706 13.333 29.706 29.714.0 16.374-13.328 29.698-29.706 29.698zM160.91 295.348c0-16.381 13.328-29.71 29.714-29.71 16.369.0 29.689 13.329 29.689 29.71.0 16.373-13.32 29.693-29.689 29.693-16.386.0-29.714-13.32-29.714-29.693z"/></svg></a></div></footer></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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around 20 years ago, if I recall. Every single thing RedHat ships is Free and Open Source software, meaning that they are obligated to make thier code changes available to their customers AND the maintainers of the original project.
-Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
+Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>VM Server Upgrades?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Computer prices are just starting to normalize. I walked into a MicroCenter store the other day, and they have stopped rationing video cards (and have plenty in stock, without crazy markups).
I’ve also been thinking a lot about upgrading my servers…
Current Server Setup Back in February of 2018, I started running my home websites on some used Rackmount servers.
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+Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Open Source Does NOT Mean Free","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Open Source Does NOT Mean Free","name":"Open Source Does NOT Mean Free","description":"Access to Web Services So RedHat started this trend way back, around 20 years ago, if I recall. Every single thing RedHat ships is Free and Open Source software, meaning that they are obligated to make thier code changes available to their customers AND the maintainers of the original project.\nGenerally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there\u0026rsquo;s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access.","keywords":["blog","development","legal"],"articleBody":"Access to Web Services So RedHat started this trend way back, around 20 years ago, if I recall. Every single thing RedHat ships is Free and Open Source software, meaning that they are obligated to make thier code changes available to their customers AND the maintainers of the original project.\nGenerally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access.\nBecause of the underlying software licenses, there’s nothing RedHat can do to stop Rocky Linux or Alma Linux from making access to the same software free (as long as that software doesn’t include any RedHat tradmarks or logos).\nThat is, RedHat being a very large and very old distribution, has two separate projects willing to pay the infrastructure money required to replicate the RedHat distribution path. That server space isn’t free, someone is paying real money for it so that both individuals and corporations can use a recent “RedHat compatible†distribution for free.\nI’ve just recently started using Python, and there’s a whole bunch of development advice based on these cool tools\n","wordCount":"231","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2024-04-03T17:31:21-04:00","dateModified":"2024-04-03T17:31:21-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Every single thing RedHat ships is Free and Open Source software, meaning
that they are obligated to make thier code changes available to their
customers AND the maintainers of the original project.</p><p>Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s <code>Fedora</code> and
<code>RedHat Enterprise Linux</code> which requires a paid subscription to access.</p><p>Because of the underlying software licenses, there’s nothing RedHat can do
to stop <code>Rocky Linux</code> or <code>Alma Linux</code> from making access to the same
software free (as long as that software doesn’t include any RedHat tradmarks
-or logos).</p><p>I’ve recently started using Python, and there’s a whole bunch of development
+or logos).</p><p>That is, RedHat being a very large and very old distribution, has two separate
+projects willing to pay the infrastructure money required to replicate the
+RedHat distribution path. That server space isn’t free, someone is paying
+real money for it so that both individuals and corporations can use a recent
+“RedHat compatible” distribution for free.</p><p>I’ve just recently started using Python, and there’s a whole bunch of development
advice based on these cool tools</p></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/development/>development</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/legal/>legal</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/><span class=title>Next »</span><br><span>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</span></a></nav><div class=share-buttons><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Open Source Does NOT Mean Free on twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?text=Open%20Source%20Does%20NOT%20Mean%20Free&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fpost%2f2024%2f04%2fopen-is-not-always-free%2f&hashtags=blog%2cdevelopment%2clegal"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM195.519 424.544c135.939.0 210.268-112.643 210.268-210.268.0-3.218.0-6.437-.153-9.502 14.406-10.421 26.973-23.448 36.935-38.314-13.18 5.824-27.433 9.809-42.452 11.648 15.326-9.196 26.973-23.602 32.49-40.92-14.252 8.429-30.038 14.56-46.896 17.931-13.487-14.406-32.644-23.295-53.946-23.295-40.767.0-73.87 33.104-73.87 73.87.0 5.824.613 11.494 1.992 16.858-61.456-3.065-115.862-32.49-152.337-77.241-6.284 10.881-9.962 23.601-9.962 37.088.0 25.594 13.027 48.276 32.95 61.456-12.107-.307-23.448-3.678-33.41-9.196v.92c0 35.862 25.441 65.594 59.311 72.49-6.13 1.686-12.72 2.606-19.464 2.606-4.751.0-9.348-.46-13.946-1.38 9.349 29.426 36.628 50.728 68.965 51.341-25.287 19.771-57.164 31.571-91.8 31.571-5.977.0-11.801-.306-17.625-1.073 32.337 21.15 71.264 33.41 112.95 33.41z"/></svg></a><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Open Source Does NOT Mean Free on linkedin" href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fpost%2f2024%2f04%2fopen-is-not-always-free%2f&title=Open%20Source%20Does%20NOT%20Mean%20Free&summary=Open%20Source%20Does%20NOT%20Mean%20Free&source=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fpost%2f2024%2f04%2fopen-is-not-always-free%2f"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM160.461 423.278V197.561h-75.04v225.717h75.04zm270.539.0V293.839c0-69.333-37.018-101.586-86.381-101.586-39.804.0-57.634 21.891-67.617 37.266v-31.958h-75.021c.995 21.181.0 225.717.0 225.717h75.02V297.222c0-6.748.486-13.492 2.474-18.315 5.414-13.475 17.767-27.434 38.494-27.434 27.135.0 38.007 20.707 38.007 51.037v120.768H431zM123.448 88.722C97.774 88.722 81 105.601 81 127.724c0 21.658 16.264 39.002 41.455 39.002h.484c26.165.0 42.452-17.344 42.452-39.002-.485-22.092-16.241-38.954-41.943-39.002z"/></svg></a><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Open Source Does NOT Mean Free on reddit" href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fpost%2f2024%2f04%2fopen-is-not-always-free%2f&title=Open%20Source%20Does%20NOT%20Mean%20Free"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM446 265.638c0-22.964-18.616-41.58-41.58-41.58-11.211.0-21.361 4.457-28.841 11.666-28.424-20.508-67.586-33.757-111.204-35.278l18.941-89.121 61.884 13.157c.756 15.734 13.642 28.29 29.56 28.29 16.407.0 29.706-13.299 29.706-29.701.0-16.403-13.299-29.702-29.706-29.702-11.666.0-21.657 6.792-26.515 16.578l-69.105-14.69c-1.922-.418-3.939-.042-5.585 1.036-1.658 1.073-2.811 2.761-3.224 4.686l-21.152 99.438c-44.258 1.228-84.046 14.494-112.837 35.232-7.468-7.164-17.589-11.591-28.757-11.591-22.965.0-41.585 18.616-41.585 41.58.0 16.896 10.095 31.41 24.568 37.918-.639 4.135-.99 8.328-.99 12.576.0 63.977 74.469 115.836 166.33 115.836s166.334-51.859 166.334-115.836c0-4.218-.347-8.387-.977-12.493 14.564-6.47 24.735-21.034 24.735-38.001zM326.526 373.831c-20.27 20.241-59.115 21.816-70.534 21.816-11.428.0-50.277-1.575-70.522-21.82-3.007-3.008-3.007-7.882.0-10.889 3.003-2.999 7.882-3.003 10.885.0 12.777 12.781 40.11 17.317 59.637 17.317 19.522.0 46.86-4.536 59.657-17.321 3.016-2.999 7.886-2.995 10.885.008 3.008 3.011 3.003 7.882-.008 10.889zm-5.23-48.781c-16.373.0-29.701-13.324-29.701-29.698.0-16.381 13.328-29.714 29.701-29.714 16.378.0 29.706 13.333 29.706 29.714.0 16.374-13.328 29.698-29.706 29.698zM160.91 295.348c0-16.381 13.328-29.71 29.714-29.71 16.369.0 29.689 13.329 29.689 29.71.0 16.373-13.32 29.693-29.689 29.693-16.386.0-29.714-13.32-29.714-29.693z"/></svg></a></div></footer></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
+Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>VM Server Upgrades?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Computer prices are just starting to normalize. I walked into a MicroCenter store the other day, and they have stopped rationing video cards (and have plenty in stock, without crazy markups).
I’ve also been thinking a lot about upgrading my servers…
Current Server Setup Back in February of 2018, I started running my home websites on some used Rackmount servers.
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-Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
+Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>VM Server Upgrades?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Computer prices are just starting to normalize. I walked into a MicroCenter store the other day, and they have stopped rationing video cards (and have plenty in stock, without crazy markups).
I’ve also been thinking a lot about upgrading my servers…
Current Server Setup Back in February of 2018, I started running my home websites on some used Rackmount servers.
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-Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Generally, open source licenses do not stipulate that access to the source code be free to anyone, so RedHat started locking down access to paying customers along with the launch of Fedora and the retirement of the original RedHat distribution (again, I fuzzy recall that RedHat 9 was the last freely available RedHat titled distribution), now there’s Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux which requires a paid subscription to access....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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