My GnuPG key

We can communicate via secure e-mail using GnuPG / OpenPGP, which I strongly recommend. More details in this guide.

For those seeking to write to me, here is my public GnuPG key:

pub  4096R/0xC2B8B57AAAFC29CE 2016-02-29
Fingerprint=EA7F F4E9 08A4 B62D 34E0  9889 C2B8 B57A AAFC 29CE
sub  4096/0x059CDF01110D7CE9 2016-02-29

sâmbătă, 27 august 2011

Vintage Romanian car for sale - Dacia 1100



For vintage car passionates and connoiseurs, we offer one which is pretty rare in Western countries: the Romanian-made Dacia 1100, manufactured in late sixties.

General data

  • Manufacturer: Automobile Dacia (Romania), a licensee of Renault (France).
  • Model: Dacia 1100
  • Manufactured: 1969
  • Colour: white no. 40 ("alb 40")
  • Engine's volume: 1,100 cm3
  • Fuel: gasoline
  • Status: working, in good condition (was conserved in garage)
  • Present usage: slightly above 100,000 km
  • Legally registered in Romania, legal papers fully updated (the car presently have legal right to travel on Romanian roadways)
  • Includes mandatory Romanian civil insurance (RCA) and full damage insurance (CASCO)
  • Includes some original spare parts (Romanian made and French made).

The car is available and may be inspected in: Bucharest, Romania.


Contact data for sale: please call +40 XXX XXXXXX (the car was sold; the announcement is no longer active).



Below are some photos of this vintage car.















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vineri, 12 august 2011

Hardware details for an Asus N73S notebook


Here are complete hardware details for an Asus N73S notebook, which is a new, quite impressive machine.


Manufacturing date: June 2011.
Motherboard version: N73SV ID 1A

Testing distribution is Fedora 15 LXDE, i686 (Live CD).

Smolt profile:

General
=================================
UUID: 0ad3f25b-4767-4909-95b6-2b4677570c45
OS: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
Default run level: Unknown
Language: ro_RO.UTF-8
Platform: i686
BogoMIPS: 3991.03
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
CPU Stepping: 7
CPU Family: 6
CPU Model Num: 42
Number of CPUs: 8
CPU Speed: 2001
System Memory: 2684
System Swap: 0
Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
System: N73SV 1.0
Form factor: Notebook
Kernel: 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
SELinux Enabled: 1
SELinux Policy: targeted
SELinux Enforce: Enforcing
MythTV Remote: Unknown
MythTV Role: Unknown
MythTV Theme: Unknown
MythTV Plugin: 
MythTV Tuner: -1


Devices
=================================
(32902:7241:4163:4567) pci, None, PCI/ISA, Cougar Point LPC Controller
(7027:4096:4163:4153) pci, xhci_hcd, USB, N/A
(32902:278:4163:5602) pci, i915, VIDEO, N/A
(32902:7190:4163:4567) pci, pcieport, PCI/PCI, Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 4
(32902:7184:4163:4567) pci, pcieport, PCI/PCI, Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1
(32902:7186:4163:4567) pci, pcieport, PCI/PCI, Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2
(4318:3572:4163:5602) pci, nouveau, VIDEO, N/A
(32902:7200:4163:6707) pci, HDA Intel, MULTIMEDIA, Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller
(32902:7202:4163:4567) pci, None, SERIAL, Cougar Point SMBus Controller
(5772:43:6715:11319) pci, ath9k, NETWORK, AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
(6505:4227:4163:6225) pci, atl1c, ETHERNET, N/A
(32902:7171:4163:4567) pci, ahci, STORAGE, Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
(32902:7213:4163:4567) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
(32902:7206:4163:4567) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
(32902:260:4163:4567) pci, agpgart-intel, HOST/PCI, Sandy Bridge DRAM Controller
(32902:7226:4163:4567) pci, None, SIMPLE, Cougar Point HECI Controller #1
(32902:7194:4163:4567) pci, pcieport, PCI/PCI, Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 6
(32902:257:4163:4567) pci, pcieport, PCI/PCI, Sandy Bridge PCI Express Root Port


Filesystem Information
=================================
device mtpt type bsize frsize blocks bfree bavail file ffree favail
-------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sr0 WITHHELD iso9660 2048 2048 251401 0 0 0 0 0
/dev/mapper/live-rw / ext4 4096 4096 774084 316919 309057 196608 128609 128609
/dev/sr0 WITHHELD iso9660 2048 2048 251401 0 0 0 0 0
/dev/mapper/live-rw /home ext4 4096 4096 774084 316919 309057 196608 128609 128609
 


 

Output of lspci -vv:


 




00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- 
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
	Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 3
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: fee00000  Data: 4051
	Capabilities: [a0] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
			ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #2, Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <256ns, L1 <4us
			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot+
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
		SltCap:	AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
			Slot #1, PowerLimit 75.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
		SltCtl:	Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
			Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
		SltSta:	Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
			Changed: MRL- PresDet+ LinkState-
		RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
		RootCap: CRSVisible-
		RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
		DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
		DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
		LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -3.5dB
			 Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
			 Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
		LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
	Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
		Caps:	LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
		Arb:	Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
		Ctrl:	ArbSelect=Fixed
		Status:	InProgress-
		VC0:	Caps:	PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
			Arb:	Fixed+ WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
			Ctrl:	Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=ff
			Status:	NegoPending- InProgress-
	Capabilities: [140 v1] Root Complex Link
		Desc:	PortNumber=02 ComponentID=01 EltType=Config
		Link0:	Desc:	TargetPort=00 TargetComponent=01 AssocRCRB- LinkType=MemMapped LinkValid+
			Addr:	00000000fed19000
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0116 (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 15e2
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR-  [disabled]
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: fee00000  Data: 4069
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
		AFCap: TP+ FLR+
		AFCtrl: FLR-
		AFStatus: TP-
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 (rev 04)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
	Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
			ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #1, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <1us, L1 <16us
			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
		SltCap:	AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
			Slot #0, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
		SltCtl:	Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
			Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
		SltSta:	Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet- Interlock-
			Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState-
		RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
		RootCap: CRSVisible-
		RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
		DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
		DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
		LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
			 Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
			 Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
		LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
	Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
			ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #2, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
		SltCap:	AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
			Slot #1, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
		SltCtl:	Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
			Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
		SltSta:	Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
			Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
		RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
		RootCap: CRSVisible-
		RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
		DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
		DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
		LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
			 Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
			 Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
		LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
	Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
			ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #4, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
		SltCap:	AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
			Slot #3, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
		SltCtl:	Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
			Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
		SltSta:	Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
			Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
		RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
		RootCap: CRSVisible-
		RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
		DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
		DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
		LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
			 Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
			 Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
		LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
	Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
			ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #6, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
		SltCap:	AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
			Slot #5, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
		SltCtl:	Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
			Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
		SltSta:	Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
			Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
		RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
		RootCap: CRSVisible-
		RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
		DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
		DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
		LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
			 Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
			 Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
		LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- 
	Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11d7
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- 
	Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
		Caps:	LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
		Arb:	Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
		Ctrl:	ArbSelect=Fixed
		Status:	InProgress-
		VC0:	Caps:	PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
			Arb:	Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
			Ctrl:	Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=ff
			Status:	NegoPending- InProgress-
	Capabilities: [128 v1] Power Budgeting 
	Capabilities: [600 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Device 1a3b:2c37
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- 
	Kernel driver in use: ath9k
	Kernel modules: ath9k

04:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b73:1000 (rev 04) (prog-if 30)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1039
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- 
 


 

Output of lsusb -vv (USB ports are version 3.0):




Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x1d6b Linux Foundation
  idProduct          0x0002 2.0 root hub
  bcdDevice            2.06
  iManufacturer           3 Linux 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 ehci_hcd
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
  iSerial                 1 0000:00:1a.0
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           25
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xe0
      Self Powered
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower                0mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         9 Hub
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 Unused
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 Full speed (or root) hub
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0004  1x 4 bytes
        bInterval              12
Hub Descriptor:
  bLength               9
  bDescriptorType      41
  nNbrPorts             2
  wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
    No power switching (usb 1.0)
    Per-port overcurrent protection
  bPwrOn2PwrGood       10 * 2 milli seconds
  bHubContrCurrent      0 milli Ampere
  DeviceRemovable    0x00
  PortPwrCtrlMask    0xff
 Hub Port Status:
   Port 1: 0000.0503 highspeed power enable connect
   Port 2: 0000.0100 power
Device Status:     0x0003
  Self Powered
  Remote Wakeup Enabled

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x1d6b Linux Foundation
  idProduct          0x0002 2.0 root hub
  bcdDevice            2.06
  iManufacturer           3 Linux 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 ehci_hcd
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
  iSerial                 1 0000:00:1d.0
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           25
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xe0
      Self Powered
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower                0mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         9 Hub
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 Unused
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 Full speed (or root) hub
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0004  1x 4 bytes
        bInterval              12
Hub Descriptor:
  bLength               9
  bDescriptorType      41
  nNbrPorts             2
  wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
    No power switching (usb 1.0)
    Per-port overcurrent protection
  bPwrOn2PwrGood       10 * 2 milli seconds
  bHubContrCurrent      0 milli Ampere
  DeviceRemovable    0x00
  PortPwrCtrlMask    0xff
 Hub Port Status:
   Port 1: 0000.0507 highspeed power suspend enable connect
   Port 2: 0000.0100 power
Device Status:     0x0003
  Self Powered
  Remote Wakeup Enabled

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x8087 Intel Corp.
  idProduct          0x0024 Integrated Rate Matching Hub
  bcdDevice            0.00
  iManufacturer           0 
  iProduct                0 
  iSerial                 0 
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           25
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xe0
      Self Powered
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower                0mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         9 Hub
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 Unused
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 Full speed (or root) hub
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0001  1x 1 bytes
        bInterval              12
Hub Descriptor:
  bLength               9
  bDescriptorType      41
  nNbrPorts             6
  wHubCharacteristic 0x0009
    Per-port power switching
    Per-port overcurrent protection
    TT think time 8 FS bits
  bPwrOn2PwrGood       50 * 2 milli seconds
  bHubContrCurrent      0 milli Ampere
  DeviceRemovable    0x00
  PortPwrCtrlMask    0xff
 Hub Port Status:
   Port 1: 0000.0103 power enable connect
   Port 2: 0000.0507 highspeed power suspend enable connect
   Port 3: 0000.0100 power
   Port 4: 0000.0100 power
   Port 5: 0000.0100 power
   Port 6: 0000.0100 power
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
  bLength                10
  bDescriptorType         6
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  bNumConfigurations      1
Device Status:     0x0001
  Self Powered

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x8087 Intel Corp.
  idProduct          0x0024 Integrated Rate Matching Hub
  bcdDevice            0.00
  iManufacturer           0 
  iProduct                0 
  iSerial                 0 
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           25
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xe0
      Self Powered
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower                0mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         9 Hub
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 Unused
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 Full speed (or root) hub
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0001  1x 1 bytes
        bInterval              12
Hub Descriptor:
  bLength               9
  bDescriptorType      41
  nNbrPorts             6
  wHubCharacteristic 0x0009
    Per-port power switching
    Per-port overcurrent protection
    TT think time 8 FS bits
  bPwrOn2PwrGood       50 * 2 milli seconds
  bHubContrCurrent      0 milli Ampere
  DeviceRemovable    0x00
  PortPwrCtrlMask    0xff
 Hub Port Status:
   Port 1: 0000.0100 power
   Port 2: 0000.0100 power
   Port 3: 0000.0100 power
   Port 4: 0000.0100 power
   Port 5: 0000.0100 power
   Port 6: 0000.0100 power
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
  bLength                10
  bDescriptorType         6
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  bNumConfigurations      1
Device Status:     0x0001
  Self Powered

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 13d3:3304 IMC Networks 
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               1.10
  bDeviceClass          224 Wireless
  bDeviceSubClass         1 Radio Frequency
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Bluetooth
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x13d3 IMC Networks
  idProduct          0x3304 
  bcdDevice            0.01
  iManufacturer           0 
  iProduct                0 
  iSerial                 0 
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength          177
    bNumInterfaces          2
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xe0
      Self Powered
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower              100mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           3
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0010  1x 16 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0000  1x 0 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0000  1x 0 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       1
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0009  1x 9 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0009  1x 9 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       2
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0011  1x 17 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0011  1x 17 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       3
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0019  1x 25 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0019  1x 25 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       4
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0021  1x 33 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0021  1x 33 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       5
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass       224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol      1 Bluetooth
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0031  1x 49 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0031  1x 49 bytes
        bInterval               1
Device Status:     0x0003
  Self Powered
  Remote Wakeup Enabled

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13d3:5122 IMC Networks 
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceSubClass         2 ?
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x13d3 IMC Networks
  idProduct          0x5122 
  bcdDevice            2.02
  iManufacturer           2 USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam
  iProduct                1 USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam
  iSerial                 3 USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength          603
    bNumInterfaces          2
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0x80
      (Bus Powered)
    MaxPower              500mA
    Interface Association:
      bLength                 8
      bDescriptorType        11
      bFirstInterface         0
      bInterfaceCount         2
      bFunctionClass         14 Video
      bFunctionSubClass       3 Video Interface Collection
      bFunctionProtocol       0 
      iFunction               5 USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Video Control
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              5 USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam
      VideoControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                13
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      1 (HEADER)
        bcdUVC               1.00
        wTotalLength           77
        dwClockFrequency       15.000000MHz
        bInCollection           1
        baInterfaceNr( 0)       1
      VideoControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                 9
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID             2
        wTerminalType      0x0101 USB Streaming
        bAssocTerminal          0
        bSourceID               4
        iTerminal               0 
      VideoControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                26
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      6 (EXTENSION_UNIT)
        bUnitID                 4
        guidExtensionCode         {7033f028-1163-2e4a-ba2c-6890eb334016}
        bNumControl             8
        bNrPins                 1
        baSourceID( 0)          3
        bControlSize            1
        bmControls( 0)       0x0f
        iExtension              0 
      VideoControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                18
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID             1
        wTerminalType      0x0201 Camera Sensor
        bAssocTerminal          0
        iTerminal               0 
        wObjectiveFocalLengthMin      0
        wObjectiveFocalLengthMax      0
        wOcularFocalLength            0
        bControlSize                  3
        bmControls           0x00000000
      VideoControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                11
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      5 (PROCESSING_UNIT)
      Warning: Descriptor too short
        bUnitID                 3
        bSourceID               1
        wMaxMultiplier          0
        bControlSize            2
        bmControls     0x0000177f
          Brightness
          Contrast
          Hue
          Saturation
          Sharpness
          Gamma
          White Balance Temperature
          Backlight Compensation
          Gain
          Power Line Frequency
          White Balance Temperature, Auto
        iProcessing             0 
        bmVideoStandards     0x 0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0010  1x 16 bytes
        bInterval               6
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           0
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              5 USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            14
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  1 (INPUT_HEADER)
        bNumFormats                         1
        wTotalLength                      383
        bEndPointAddress                  129
        bmInfo                              0
        bTerminalLink                       2
        bStillCaptureMethod                 0
        bTriggerSupport                     0
        bTriggerUsage                       0
        bControlSize                        1
        bmaControls( 0)                    27
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            27
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  4 (FORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFormatIndex                        1
        bNumFrameDescriptors                8
        guidFormat                            {59555932-0000-1000-8000-00aa00389b71}
        bBitsPerPixel                      16
        bDefaultFrameIndex                  1
        bAspectRatioX                       0
        bAspectRatioY                       0
        bmInterlaceFlags                 0x00
          Interlaced stream or variable: No
          Fields per frame: 2 fields
          Field 1 first: No
          Field pattern: Field 1 only
          bCopyProtect                      0
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            46
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         1
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                            640
        wHeight                           480
        dwMinBitRate                 24576000
        dwMaxBitRate                147456000
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize      614400
        dwDefaultFrameInterval         333333
        bFrameIntervalType                  5
        dwFrameInterval( 0)            333333
        dwFrameInterval( 1)            500000
        dwFrameInterval( 2)            666666
        dwFrameInterval( 3)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 4)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            46
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         2
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                            352
        wHeight                           288
        dwMinBitRate                  8110080
        dwMaxBitRate                 48660480
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize      202752
        dwDefaultFrameInterval         333333
        bFrameIntervalType                  5
        dwFrameInterval( 0)            333333
        dwFrameInterval( 1)            500000
        dwFrameInterval( 2)            666666
        dwFrameInterval( 3)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 4)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            46
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         3
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                            320
        wHeight                           240
        dwMinBitRate                  6144000
        dwMaxBitRate                 36864000
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize      153600
        dwDefaultFrameInterval         333333
        bFrameIntervalType                  5
        dwFrameInterval( 0)            333333
        dwFrameInterval( 1)            500000
        dwFrameInterval( 2)            666666
        dwFrameInterval( 3)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 4)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            46
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         4
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                            176
        wHeight                           144
        dwMinBitRate                  2027520
        dwMaxBitRate                 12165120
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize       50688
        dwDefaultFrameInterval         333333
        bFrameIntervalType                  5
        dwFrameInterval( 0)            333333
        dwFrameInterval( 1)            500000
        dwFrameInterval( 2)            666666
        dwFrameInterval( 3)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 4)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            46
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         5
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                            160
        wHeight                           120
        dwMinBitRate                  1536000
        dwMaxBitRate                  9216000
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize       38400
        dwDefaultFrameInterval         333333
        bFrameIntervalType                  5
        dwFrameInterval( 0)            333333
        dwFrameInterval( 1)            500000
        dwFrameInterval( 2)            666666
        dwFrameInterval( 3)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 4)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            42
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         6
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                            800
        wHeight                           600
        dwMinBitRate                 38400000
        dwMaxBitRate                153600000
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize      960000
        dwDefaultFrameInterval         500000
        bFrameIntervalType                  4
        dwFrameInterval( 0)            500000
        dwFrameInterval( 1)            666666
        dwFrameInterval( 2)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 3)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            34
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         7
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                           1280
        wHeight                           960
        dwMinBitRate                 98304000
        dwMaxBitRate                176947200
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize     2457600
        dwDefaultFrameInterval        1111111
        bFrameIntervalType                  2
        dwFrameInterval( 0)           1111111
        dwFrameInterval( 1)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            30
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  5 (FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
        bFrameIndex                         8
        bmCapabilities                   0x00
          Still image unsupported
        wWidth                           1600
        wHeight                          1200
        dwMinBitRate                153600000
        dwMaxBitRate                153600000
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize     3840000
        dwDefaultFrameInterval        2000000
        bFrameIntervalType                  1
        dwFrameInterval( 0)           2000000
      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                             6
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                 13 (COLORFORMAT)
        bColorPrimaries                     1 (BT.709,sRGB)
        bTransferCharacteristics            1 (BT.709)
        bMatrixCoefficients                 4 (SMPTE 170M (BT.601))
    Interface Descriptor:
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      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       1
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            5
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               Asynchronous
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0080  1x 128 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       2
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            5
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               Asynchronous
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0100  1x 256 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       3
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            5
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               Asynchronous
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0320  1x 800 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       4
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            5
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               Asynchronous
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0b20  2x 800 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       5
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            5
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               Asynchronous
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x1320  3x 800 bytes
        bInterval               1
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       6
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        14 Video
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Video Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            5
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               Asynchronous
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x1400  3x 1024 bytes
        bInterval               1
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
  bLength                10
  bDescriptorType         6
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceSubClass         2 ?
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  bNumConfigurations      1
Device Status:     0x0002
  (Bus Powered)
  Remote Wakeup Enabled

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               3.00
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass         0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  bMaxPacketSize0         9
  idVendor           0x1d6b Linux Foundation
  idProduct          0x0003 3.0 root hub
  bcdDevice            2.06
  iManufacturer           3 Linux 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 xhci_hcd
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
  iSerial                 1 0000:04:00.0
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
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    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           25
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xe0
      Self Powered
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower                0mA
    Interface Descriptor:
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      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
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      bInterfaceProtocol      0 Full speed (or root) hub
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      Endpoint Descriptor:
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        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0004  1x 4 bytes
        bInterval              12
Hub Descriptor:
  bLength               9
  bDescriptorType      41
  nNbrPorts             2
  wHubCharacteristic 0x0009
    Per-port power switching
    Per-port overcurrent protection
  bPwrOn2PwrGood       10 * 2 milli seconds
  bHubContrCurrent      0 milli Ampere
  bHubDecLat          0.0 micro seconds
  wHubDelay          4080 nano seconds
  DeviceRemovable    0xa2
 Hub Port Status:
   Port 1: 0000.0100 5Gbps
   Port 2: 0000.0100 5Gbps
Device Status:     0x0003
  Self Powered
  Remote Wakeup Enabled 


 


 


 

Output of lsmod:






Module                  Size  Used by
8021q                  15580  0 
garp                    4926  1 8021q
stp                     1399  1 garp
llc                     3684  2 garp,stp
cpufreq_ondemand        7674  8 
sunrpc                165119  1 
acpi_cpufreq            6257  1 
mperf                   1145  1 acpi_cpufreq
ip6t_REJECT             3387  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6       6637  1 
nf_defrag_ipv6          7574  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ip6table_filter         1227  1 
ip6_tables              9798  1 ip6table_filter
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     20390  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   244866  1 
arc4                    1097  2 
ath9k                  80787  0 
snd_hda_intel          20294  2 
snd_hda_codec          69915  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
mac80211              201962  1 ath9k
snd_hwdep               4986  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                43761  0 
ath9k_common            2085  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              254583  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
snd_seq_device          5118  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                63642  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
ath                    11760  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
snd_timer              15551  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
uvcvideo               49026  0 
btusb                  12356  0 
snd                    48042  13 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
cfg80211              116073  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
videodev               54789  1 uvcvideo
sparse_keymap           2650  0 
bluetooth              77680  1 btusb
atl1c                  26739  0 
iTCO_wdt                9288  0 
soundcore               5039  1 snd
microcode              11108  0 
i2c_i801                7957  0 
xhci_hcd               87180  0 
snd_page_alloc          6112  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
iTCO_vendor_support     2082  1 iTCO_wdt
wmi                     7722  0 
rfkill                 13096  2 cfg80211,bluetooth
serio_raw               3475  0 
joydev                  7284  0 
ipv6                  234769  60 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6
squashfs               36806  2 
i915                  306255  2 
nouveau               482950  0 
ttm                    45959  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         24432  2 i915,nouveau
drm                   152267  5 i915,nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4214  2 nouveau,i915
i2c_core               21384  7 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video                  10797  2 i915,nouveau 


 


 


 


 












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CentOS al 6-lea - Linux pentru servere „grele”




















O întrebare pe care o pun întotdeauna novicii într-ale 
GNU/Linux-ului este „Ce distribuție să instalez ? Ce îmi recomandați ?”.
 Când mi se cere sfatul, răspunsul meu este, întotdeauna, tot o 
întrebare: „La ce vei folosi acel GNU/Linux ?”. Dacă interlocutorul are 
nevoie de un server, atunci opțiunile mele sunt simple: „Instalează 
CentOS sau Debian stable”.



















































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James Vasile despre intimitate pe Internet, despre „cutiuța” FreedomBox și despre viitor




















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Fedora. Cinșpe. Linuxu', nu pălăria














În septembrie 1998, o cunoscută revistă de IT românească publica, pe 
CD-ul ataşat, distribuţia Red Hat Linux 5.1. Într-o după-amiază 
însorită, m-am oprit la chioşc – chiar pe colţul de vis-a-vis de Perla –
 şi am cumpărat, într-o doară, revista. Îmi atrăsese atenţia, 
întâmplător, titlul de pe discul argintiu din vitrină: tocmai terminasem
 de citit prima carte despre GNU/ Linux din viaţa mea, care descria 
versiunea anterioară, 4.2. Și mi-am dorit „upgrade”-ul. Aşa a început 
totul…











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Eben Moglen's Keynote Address at the Open World Forum, October 2010












This is an English transcription of Mr. Eben Moglen's speech at the Open World Forum, October 2010. Mr. Moglen is the Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center.




The transcription is made by Răzvan Sandu, directly from the English video available here.









Keynote
Address




Open World Forum, Paris, October 2010 












It's a great pleasure to
be here. I want to thank the organizers particularly for allowing me
to compete with your cocktails. I guess, given that situation at the
end of a long day, the best I can do is to talk about something
completely different - so I'm going to talk about Freedom. I didn't
hear it mentioned much today, so perhaps it represents a useful
change of subject. 








The purpose of the
software which everybody has been talking about, seen by the most of
the people who made it, was to create Freedom. It was the consequence
of the existence of the Free Software Movement – FOSSIL,
apparently, if you have been listening to today's proceedings –
but, actually, I think, a more or less living organism. The Free Software Movement is a conspiracy to save the 21th century from
itself, generated in the last quarter of the 20th century by a series
of people who worried about the nature of technology free of ethical
an social imperatives for the securing of liberty. The purpose of the
Free Software Movement can be defined fairly simply, as follows:
''Make technology that supports Freedom, through sharing. Put that
software in everything. Turn Freedom on.". So far, we have
completed stage one of that process: the software intended to support
freedom now runs everywhere. When I was a young programmer, in the
1970s, software engineering had a single overarching goal, which was
summed up in a short phrase: "Write once, run everywhere". Nobody
did it. We did it. Freedom now runs on everything, from the smallest
object in your pocket to the largest cluster of computers in the
world, whichever one you're talking about. Indeed, neither the stuff
in your pocket nor the largest computers in the world can run on
anything else reliably and with the kind of portability of software
that was the goal of software engineering when I was young.  We
achieved "Write once, run everywhere" because we were tightly
focused on a single goal: "Make software that supports Freedom. Put
that software in everything. Turn Freedom on".







Now, we have
achieved, as I say, the goal of stage one: we have built software
that sustains freedom. It sustains freedom in several important
respects: first, it supports sharing. We used that support for
sharing – predominantly, the GNU General Public License and the
other arrangements that protected freedom to share – we used that
legal and social technology to destroy a malevolent monopoly whose
intention was precisely the opposite: "Put unfreedom everywhere.
Charge royalties.". That monopoly is now failing and will soon be
gone. That's happening because freedom runs everywhere and is
available everywhere to anyone who wants it, at no cost, to copy,
modify and improve. That process protects itself against
appropriation, it protects itself against unfreedom manufacture out
of free parts and it does what it can  to prevent the rent seeking
buried in the patent system by people who unwisely applied the patent
system to software, in order to enable rent seeking. However, we
have, in the process, created a network whose possibilities for
unfreedom are as difficult and as threatening as the problems in the
network we are seeking to prevent. We have created a platform which
allows free culture: Wikipedia exists, Creative Commons exists,
sharing knowledge is now possible all the way to the bottom of
opportunity levels in every human society, because the mobile
telephone is there and were it not for the rules of so-called Intellectual Property, we could deliver every piece of knowledge,
every kind of art, every thing of human value to every human brain.
In the next generation, we will make a determined attempt to allow
every human brain on the planet to learn. For the first time in the
history of the human race, we will make a determined attempt to
prevent every single human brain from being starved of the knowledge
that it seeks to acquire. If we succeed, we will change the destiny
of the human race, as we always intended to do. 








But we face a very
significant problem, one we knew would develop over time, but which
has developed faster and in a more threatening fashion that we
expected and it is built of our parts. You now live in a network
which surveils you more deeply, which knows more about you and which
renders the knowledge about you more dangerously accessible to those
who wish to modify your behavior than anyone of the 20th century
political systems we refer to as totalitarian. Those systems could
only surveil and observe your behavior and they could only do so to
the extent that your behavior was accessible to other human beings
who informed on you. The network now knows your thoughts, your plans,
your question, your dreams, your fears, your uncertainties. It
surveils every party you go to, every drink you have, every message
you leave for a friend. Five hundred million human beings have
decided to allow everything they do in their social lives, from day
to day,  to be collected in one big database. Run for profit, by a fool (applauses). If we were to allow that situation to continue for
much longer, we would face a situation in which the very fundamental
texture of human autonomy would begin to be adjusted by the network.
What you search for, what you find, what you buy, when you decide to
want something and what something you decide to want would begin to
be thoughtfully shaped by machines operating at the directions of
those who wish to take economic rents out of the modifiability of
your behavior. Not to mention all the governments which can now, with
a subpoena blank or an administrative order of some kind, seek from
every third party who collects information about you, the information
they require in order to interfere with, disrupt or forbid your
activity. I don't need to explain to anyone who lives in France how power-hungry the establishment can become on those subjects.







Now we come (applauses),
now we come to this unfortunate technical reality described by this
cloudy name: The Cloud. The funny thing about the cloud is the people
talk about it everywhere I go but, if you ask them to explain what it
is they can't do it, because they don't know. So, I'm going to
explain in two – I hope – fairly simple conceptions what the
cloud is. First, the cloud is the server-client architecture of the
Net, on steroids. And second, the cloud is the server-client
architecture of the Net, on steroids, virtualized. The first part of
it comes down to this: the Internet was constructed by researchers
attempting to complete the task of architecting an entirely
descentralised network consisting exclusively of peers. The goal in
doing so was to allow arbitrary machines, in a network of arbitrary
geometry, to survive arbitrary interferences by minor  annoyances
like nuclear war by routing all traffic in a completely
non-hierarchical fashion without any regulation by masters over
servants. This was reflected in the very form in which the network
understood, at its beginning, the concept of a server and a client.
Those of you who are custom to using only software produced by the
dying monopoly may not understand this, but everyone who uses Free
Software at least plain passively understands it, because your Free
Software computer treats the server as the computer closest to you
and the task of that server is to serve human interaction. That's how
X-Window works, right ? The X server serves com processes in the
network, all of which are assumed to be equal in hierarchical status,
the opportunity to communicate with the human being - and so it
serves the opportunity to get to your eyeball, your eardrum and your
fingertips. In other words, the Net consisted of a non-hierarchical
collection of processes, in which each human being had a server that
served interaction with him. The basic technical achievement of the
monopoly was to distort all of this completely. Windows was a
degenerate version of the structure of the network originally
architected by people who did not have the same neurological
dysfunctions as the architects of the monopoly (laughs). The purpose
of the server-client interaction structure in the Net became to
create hierarchies among machines in which some were servers and most
were clients. And human beings used clients to deal with servers
which operated, with respect to that human beings, du haut en bas.
We rebuilt the Net, over a period of almost 20 years, to prefigure
this peculiarly hierarchical and statist conception of the nature of
the Net, which was never any part of the original architecture, but
was solely an artifact of the rent-seeking policies of the
monopolist. Now, that hierarchical architecture of the Net is
enabling the gathering of political power in the center, with respect
to disempowered endpoints.  And both manufacturers of proprietary
software and the architects of proprietary networks absorb, as
mother's milk, the business model opportunities created by a
hierarchical Net, with power at the center and disempowered clients
at the edge. Those are the preconditions for the cloud. The unfair,
inappropriate, architecturally unnecessary, economically
anticompetitive architecture given to the Net is the watervapour out
of which the cloud condenses. All that is left to make the thing
called The Cloud is to remove the relationship between iron and the
server. This is accomplished by the uniform adoption of 
virtualization layers, many of which we wrote. The virtualization
layers makes it possible for  hierarchy to use the accumulations of
power at the center evermore efficiently and evermore mysteriously
with respect to the disempowered client at the edge. Taken to an
extreme, that hierarchical network architecture allows the client at
the edge to be completely disempowered.  It receives what is known as
Software As A Service - more appropriately, I think, labeled Software
As A Disservice -  that is to say you can't provide any services to
the net, all you have is software given to you to execute by some
master with a disembodied server somewhere. Moreover, and even more
aggressively inappropriately, the cloud comes to be seen as “all
your data, er, belong to us”. The virtualization of storage implies
that the party at the edge of the net no longer exercises control
over her own information, which is physically located at an arbitrary
place chosen for her by the people who run The Cloud. Any legal
obligations that may exist with respect to the control or  management
of her data has been lost neatly subverted. If there are, for
example, rules concerning the nature of the regulation of the data in
the cloud in a particular place, data will mysteriously tend to move,
by means even legitimate or illegitimate, to locations where those
regulations are weaker rather than stronger.  The North American
economy is slowly shifting thoughts to an economy based primarily on
data mining, which might be thought of as exercise of control over
the data representing the human lives of everyone on Earth. This is
not a recipe for freedom. This is the biggest and most successful
recipe for unfreedom that has ever been devised in history of human
beings. We have come, at the moment we expected it to arrive, we have
come to a faithful set of choices. The technology of digital
computation, storage and control now offers us, at one and the same
time, the greatest possible opportunity, namely the elimination of
ignorance, forever, and the power to allow every human brain to learn
and, on the other hand, the completion of a structure of social
control, more sorrow, more complete, more technologically perfect
than any that has ever existed in the history of human beings. 
Dearly beloved, I set before you a choice between life and death.
Fortunately, the tools are still in our hands. We made this stuff and
we can fix the problem.







As I have already
suggested, the primary difficulties that we face arise from two bad
technical decisions, both of them reversible. In the first place, we
allowed the conception of the server as a form of centralized power
divorced from the human being. It was not there in the original
design of the Net, it was not there in the original design of Unix,
it is an artifact of bad software, manufactured by people with ill
will. We do not have to accept the idea that services are
centralized. If we had an enormous number of cheap, reliable,
low-power serving computers, running software designed to provide
services to others on our behalf and storing our data in them, in
safe locations, we could convert a network presently consisting of
centralized services into a network consisting of federated services,
that is services rendered by people to people, for people, in a
non-hierarchical fashion. Second, we could reverse the virtualization
epidemic, not for the purpose of eliminating virtualization or for
preventing those who own heavy hardware for making better use of of
it, but to prevent the idea that you ought not to have a computer of
your own, you ought not to store your data on your own, you ought not
to provide services to the world on your own, you ought to be a
consumer of the services provided by the Net. So, do we have such a
possibility for reversing the centralization of the networks
architecture? Yes, we do.







Already, throughout the
hardware environment of the world you will notice the beginnings of
the distribution of the so-called "plug servers": tiny objects,
requiring very little power, using comparatively low-power, low
speed, but quite muscular little chips, mostly made by ARM. You can
buy, at the moment, at prices indicative of the beginning of a
hardware form-factors run, that is in the neighborhood of ninety to a
hundred-fifty US dollars around the world, objects no larger than a
cellphone charger, which contain a fully operational server with a
wired NIC, wireless, some S-ATA ports, some USB, some serial console
attachment possibilities and so on - in other words, a fully featured
computer, capable of  delivering services over the Net to anybody who
wishes to interact with you. Those plug servers, which will soon be
cheaper than cellphones – when they are made in appropriate
quantities – those plug servers, supported by Free Software –
that's us, folks, the people who believe in freedom! - supported by
Free Software, will soon be providing a form of personal private
cloud, which reverses the negative social consequences of power
concentration in the Net. Your data, kept in your home or your
office, securely backup-ed to the plug servers of your friends,
capable of being read by nobody without a search warrant, protecting
everything inside your apartment by intrusion-detection software
which works, providing you free telephone calls over the Net through
Asterisk, allowing your friends in China to climb over the Great Firewall using proxies servers several billion wide, many to many for
the Chinese Communist Party to interfere with, affording you the
opportunity to federate your social life rather than centralize it,
moving you painlessly into a migration of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter
and all the other bad things… You don't lose your friends, you all
just leave, bit by bit, and, as you go, you cease to use the
centralized servers, because you have a direct encrypted channel
between yourself and each of your friends – in other words, we
begin federating what the bad folks centralized. We do this in
machinery which is so cheap, so ubiquitous, so low in its power
demands that we no longer care about reliable electricity – one of
those servers will run on 2 W bands. We will succeed – we WILL
succeed – in providing freedom in a package so inexpensive, so
reliable and so thoughtfully engineered by us, for us, that it will
no longer be possible for people around the network to concentrate
power, to concentrate data or to conduct meaningful surveillance of
our individual lives. We will do this not soon, but now.







The hardware
economics are not a problem for us – they're already solved. The
software economics are not a problem for us – we solved those long
ago. The technical problems are not a problem for us – we're good
at that. That's how we got here! The political questions are not hard
for us: we love freedom and we hate tyranny. We know exactly how to
tell the difference. No matter what it requires a hoodie, or a
spacesuit or a uniform. We know what we're doing. We gonna put
freedom in new things. We gonna spread those things across the
planet. We're gonna turn freedom on. So what I wanna tell you is:
“It's OK! We're still here. We haven't gone away”. The Free
Software Movement isn't dead, it hasn't become “open-”anything
(applauses).  We know exactly what we need to do and we gonna do it.
We gonna make it and we gonna say: “Hey, here, we made this
freedom. We think you may like it. Want some? Take it. It's free”.
Wanna join up?  Thank you very much!














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