Citrus Chicken With Prunes
Saturday, 29 January 2017
This is an easy recipe to create a flavorful chicken: citrus and tangy. It takes about an hour.
Cavebear!
Thoughts and Commentary by Karl AuerbachLocus ab auctoritate .. est infirmissimus.
(The argument from authority is the weakest.)
– Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274).
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PC-Engines APU2 LED/Mode-Switch Driver for FreeBSD
The PC-Engines APU2 is a very nice board when you need a lot more horsepower than a Raspberry Pi but still want low power, small form factor, and no moving parts.
Among the many features of the The APU2 are three LEDs and one mode button/switch.
I needed a device driver so that my code could control the LEDs and read whether the button is pushed.
I wrote one. It is up and available on the InterWorking Labs website: at http://iwl.com/tech_examples/apu2led/.
Internet: Quo Vadis (Where are you going?)
Articles, blogs, and
meetings about the internet of the future are
filled with happy, positive words like “global”, “uniform”, and “open”.
The future internet is described in ways that seem as if taken from a late 1960’s Utopian sci-fi novel: the internet is seen as overcoming petty rivalries between countries, dissolving social rank, equalizing wealth, and bringing universal justice.
If that future is to be believed, the only obstacle standing between us and an Arcadian world of peace and harmony is that the internet does not yet reach everyone, or that network carriers are unfairly giving different treatment to different kinds of traffic, or that evil governments are erecting “Great Walls”, or that IPv6 is not yet everywhere, or that big companies are acquiring top level domains, or that encryption is not ubiquitous … The list goes on and on.
I do not agree.
I do not believe that the future internet will be a Utopia. Nor do I believe that the future internet will be like some beautiful angel, bringing peace, virtue, equality, and justice.
Instead I believe that there are strong,
probably irresistible, forces working to lock-down and partition the internet.
I believe that the future internet will be composed of “islands’.
These islands will tend to coincide with countries, cultures, or companies.
There will be barriers between these islands. And to cross those barriers there will be explicit bridges between various islands.
Network traffic that moves over these bridges will be observed, monitored, regulated, limited, and taxed.
The future internet will be used as a tool for power, control, and wealth.
And to a large degree the users of this future internet will not care about this.
This paper describes this future - a future more likely than the halcyon world painted by others.
Why Did I Break A Perfectly Good Website?
I have reworked the old, Joomla based, CaveBear website. It took a lot of work. A lot of URLs got changed, thus breaking external links. And I am sure that a lot of small adjustments remain to be done.
The old one was not broken.
So why did I break a perfectly good website?
Well, I’ll tell you why.
It all begins with the idea that much of the content of today’s world-wide-web will disappear.
License
As you might guess the material on this website is protected by US copyright.
Don’t let that scare you; you always have “Fair Use” rights.
And I am, of course, willing to consider allowing further use, but you need to ask me first.
About Cavebear
Here is a rare photograph of the CaveBear in the wild:
Scary! But don’t worry, he rarely bites.
You want to know more? OK. Below are a few links to more detailed items:
Karl CV/Bio
Sunday, 27 May 2007 13:09
Mr. Auerbach is Chief Technology Officer at InterWorking Labs in Scotts Valley, California.
Mr. Auerbach is the former North American publicly elected member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Karl Auerbach was formerly a senior researcher in the Advanced Internet Architecture group in the Office of the Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco Systems.
In addition to his technical work, Mr. Auerbach has been an attorney in California since 1978. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Section of he California State Bar.
What Is A CaveBear
Who or what is CaveBear? The "where" part is easy: 37° 00’ 02 North by 122° 00’ 59 West - which just so happens to be in the City of Santa Cruz in the State of California.
CaveBear was formed by me, (Karl Auerbach) in Mid 1994.
CaveBear is an organization for research, consulting, product development, and other matters related to the internet. CaveBear explores new ways of making the Internet a more useful place for people. Projects include:
- Tools for network diagnosis and repair.
- The homeostatic (self-healing) internet.
- Lifeline grade internet services.
- Capability computer architectures and operating systems.
- Internet governance.
- Internet law and policy.
- Protocol interoperability analysis and testing.
- Internet humor.
- The History of the Internet Project (sponsored by InterWorking Labs).
Shakespeare said - "what’s past is prologue, what to come in yours and my discharge." If CaveBear is about anything, it is about new ideas and new things.
Who Is Karl
If you are looking for a short bio then click here.
So, I bet the first thing you want to know is what I look like. The photo on the left is nearly a decade old, but I like it. The vicissitudes of Internet politics, life at startups, and life in general have left me with a bit more gray around the edges.
Some people have said "Karl is a crock".
And I’m here to say that they are right… sort of…
Yes! That that is me over there to the lower right.
I was understudy crocodile in a production of Peter Pan.
It is true that I hold some strong opinions. This website is full of materials that articulate and elaborate on those opinions so I won’t go into a lot of detail here except to say that I firmly believe that modern governance - political and of the internet - is in serious trouble unless we abandon the corrosive concept of stakeholderism and return to the principles of constrained government and separation of powers, as articulated by so many of the great thinkers of the 18th century.
Redressing Excess Corporate Power
Proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution To Redress the Increasing Distortion of Elections and Political Speech by Corporations and Other Aggregate Forms
Karl Auerbach ─ October 14, 2011 ─ Version 1.04
Proposed Text:
Corporate and other aggregate forms of organization are neither Persons nor Citizens under this Constitution and shall have neither protections, rights, nor legal standing under this Constitution.
This Amendment shall not be construed to deny or disparage the power of Congress or the Several States to enact legislation that defines rights, powers, limitations, liabilities, and standing of such corporate and other aggregate forms of organization.
The Problem:
The conservative wing of the US Supreme Court has elevated several corporate rights to at least the same degree of Constitutional protection as the rights of natural (living) people.
There is little or no precedent for the creation of these rights in corporations. The idea of the modern corporation did not arise until nearly a century after the writing and adoption of the Constitution. And the 14th Amendment predates the rise of the modern corporation by at least a decade.
In other words, these corporate rights are the product of judicial legislation.