09.22.08

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IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 21st, 2008 – Part 2

Posted in IRC Logs at 3:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

schestowitz	The cost of my connection is already quite high. 100MBit though.	Sep 21 18:26
_Doug	I figure they are going to sell off iPlayer eventually ..	Sep 21 18:26
schestowitz	Kangaroo?	Sep 21 18:27
_Doug	upto 1200Bbit, so long as you don’t use it ..	Sep 21 18:27
_Doug	Who are you calling a Kangaroo	Sep 21 18:27
_Doug	back later .. time for a break …	Sep 21 18:29
schestowitz	Wait	Sep 21 18:29
schestowitz	http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008…	Sep 21 18:29
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_Doug	virtualization: what’s it good for ?	Sep 21 18:56
_Doug	“Novell Inc.and Microsoft jointly announced Thursday that Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise has been optimized to run as an “enlightened” guest on Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor platform”	Sep 21 18:56
_Doug	What’s ‘enlightened’, does that mean hypervisor only makes running the others a jolting experience ?	Sep 21 18:57
schestowitz	_Doug: I told you.	Sep 21 18:58
schestowitz	You have this massive mainframe with UNIX on it, you then want SUSE instances.	Sep 21 18:59
_Doug	\|”In order to take advantage of paravirtualization, however, an operating system must be specifically ported to run on top of a host system”	Sep 21 18:59
schestowitz	SLES to be precise, at least in IBM’s case. You have virtual compartment instead of one beast. Microsoft says only 7% of the servers are virtualised.	Sep 21 18:59
_Doug	So we have an OS that can only run in VM mode on a specific OS ?	Sep 21 19:00
schestowitz	I saw “enlightened” too… earlier in OSNews. It means nothing, but it sounds good. Microsoft gives only Novell access to some APIs. Let me find info…	Sep 21 19:00
_Doug	I mean isn’t that lockin ?	Sep 21 19:00
_Doug	“MS only Novell access to some APIs” well DOH	Sep 21 19:01
schestowitz	Here, I found it: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0	Sep 21 19:01
schestowitz	Sh*. Wrong link	Sep 21 19:01
schestowitz	http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization…	Sep 21 19:01
_Doug	If I don’t have big hardware ?	Sep 21 19:02
schestowitz	_Doug: yes, that makes it harder to move from SLES to another GNU/Linux distro later. It’s good for MONOPO~1	Sep 21 19:02
schestowitz	_Doug: maybe you want to run Solaris and GNU/Linux on the same rack and servers at the same time. Best of both worlds…?	Sep 21 19:03
_Doug	It would be simpler to build a scalable cluster ..	Sep 21 19:03
schestowitz	Reminds me of an ad (it’s hard to manage)	Sep 21 19:03
schestowitz	It’s like the theory of building a Google datacentre from recycles 486s.	Sep 21 19:04
_Doug	Only if you are in click-and-install land …	Sep 21 19:04
schestowitz	It also takes up a lot of energy and hard to maintain, redundancy aside. Let me find that IBM vid.	Sep 21 19:04
_Doug	A single console and a bunch of scripts is all you need …	Sep 21 19:04
_Doug	let the computer do the work ..	Sep 21 19:05
schestowitz	Got it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx…	Sep 21 19:05
schestowitz	What about click-n-drollers?	Sep 21 19:05
schestowitz	*droolers?	Sep 21 19:06
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_Doug	VM, a solution in search of a problem ..	Sep 21 19:07
_Doug	“Microsoft and Novell deliver on virtualization interoperability”	Sep 21 19:08
_Doug	Was ‘virtualization interoperability’ ever a problem ?	Sep 21 19:08
schestowitz	Kind of… but it’s getting as popular as it is hyped. Desktop VM is good too in case you want several environments to run simultaneously.	Sep 21 19:08
_Doug	I mean the VMed OS was supposed to not know it was on a VM machine, the clue is in the name – virtual machine !!!	Sep 21 19:09
schestowitz	Lots of Mac users virtualise Windows.	Sep 21 19:09
schestowitz	_Doug: yes, but Microsoft INNOVA~1 this with “hypercalls”	Sep 21 19:09
schestowitz	It created an ‘extension’ equivalent to penalise through rewrds in terms of performance to ‘taxed’ Linuxes.	Sep 21 19:10
schestowitz	If people don’t realise this yet, then they don’t keep an eye on the ball, which is why the media coverage of this latest ‘news’ annoys me. They described this as “Microsoft plays with Linux VMs”. Pete Judge in ZDNet UK was right to stand out by saying “SUSE”, not “Linux”. Microsoft helps create two ‘classes’ of Linuxes: ‘legal’ and ‘edgy’ (or balance -sheet liability, as opposed to “community”)	Sep 21 19:12
_Doug	Can I run Wine on SuSE on hypervisor on Windows 2008 on Hyper-V ?	Sep 21 19:15
_Doug	And can I thrn install Vista on Wine ?	Sep 21 19:16
_Doug	Virtual server backups prone to failure ..	Sep 21 19:18
_Doug	http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/19/Virtual_serve…	Sep 21 19:18
_Doug	Can an OS running in a VM environment ever be as stable as one running natively ?	Sep 21 19:19
_Doug	As a techie working in an IT environment, do I really want one ?	Sep 21 19:20
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_Doug	From my experience, rebooting a working OS is always an excercise in faith, never mind after an ‘upgrade’.	Sep 21 19:21
_Doug	Sticking all this on top of an emulator strikes me as temting faith …	Sep 21 19:22
schestowitz	_Doug: it’s not stable, no.	Sep 21 19:22
schestowitz	Let it be added that Novell agreed from the start that SLES would run /under/ Windows. How foolish and submissive is /that/?	Sep 21 19:23
schestowitz	Analogy: have a corvette run on top of a skateboard (CNET).	Sep 21 19:23
schestowitz	http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/64166.html	Sep 21 19:24
_Doug	All these references in the press to VM is dangerous, as the PHB is going to read it and coome into work tomorrow and demand to know why we don’t have VM already, why are we behind the curve ..	Sep 21 19:24
_Doug	corvette run on top of a skateboard : nice one ..	Sep 21 19:25
schestowitz	Yes, this was pointed out last year. VM hype.	Sep 21 19:25
schestowitz	But some people want to run some Wndows apps on Mac or Linux (servers or desktop)	Sep 21 19:25
_Doug	“A so-called time bomb was added into an early version of the software — a fairly common development practice”	Sep 21 19:26
_Doug	Total bollix, if you don’t mind me saying so …	Sep 21 19:26
schestowitz	For Microsoft there’s a hidden agenda here. I wrote about it before, but read closely.	Sep 21 19:26
schestowitz	There’s a new campaign called “go virtual now”	Sep 21 19:26
schestowitz	Microsoft is hyping it up but only with Hyper-V	Sep 21 19:26
schestowitz	They can use Hyper-V as a gatekeeper to leave Red Hat out in the cold.	Sep 21 19:26
schestowitz	Hypothetical scenario:	Sep 21 19:27
schestowitz	Company has Red Hat servers and Debian all over the place… chugging along in the back room without a problem.	Sep 21 19:27
schestowitz	Then comes some clueless Steel-like CIO asking to follow Mirosoft’s advice and “go virtual”	Sep 21 19:27
schestowitz	What to use? VMWare? “Expensive,” he’ll say.	Sep 21 19:28
schestowitz	“Windows 2008,” s/he’ll say, “is kind of like Linux with the CLI [Microsoft markets it that way] and it has virtualisation as a feature… built in.”	Sep 21 19:28
schestowitz	So $Peon gets that Windows thingie (spare $3000), then puts GNU/Linux on it… but wait… it doesn’t work well… he need to buy SLES and pay Microsoft some Linux tax. What for? Good question. Nobody know, but it’s part of the cartel.	Sep 21 19:29
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schestowitz	Anyway, that’s just one problem (the cost). The other issue is then stability. How on earth can you rely on SLES when it sits on Windows.	Sep 21 19:30
_Doug	I admire your deviousness, purr of evil ..	Sep 21 19:30
schestowitz	Mind you, the psychic some people know as Laura Didio surveyed folks to find that WS08 has /WORSE/ uptime than WS03.	Sep 21 19:30
_Doug	SLED on Windows .. good point .. madhatter time ..	Sep 21 19:31
schestowitz	UNIX and Linux were well ahead. So… not only us GNU/Linux down more (it relies on Windows), but it also needs maintenance with patches and all, as well as BOTH Wndows licences and SUSE licences (which also include Linux ‘tax’). Okay? But wait…	Sep 21 19:31
_Doug	Free Software Shouldn’t Mean You Can’t Make a Buck	Sep 21 19:31
_Doug	http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Free-Softwa…	Sep 21 19:31
schestowitz	Then, CIO busts the grunt’s door, blamiing tha Lunix thingie.	Sep 21 19:32
schestowitz	“Why is it down so often?” he says. “Why pay two licences?” Good question.	Sep 21 19:32
schestowitz	So now there’s more reasons to cut off the Lunix [sic] altogether. Microsoft makes GNU/Linux look bad: expensive and not performany.	Sep 21 19:33
_Doug	http://www.ubersoft.net/	Sep 21 19:33
schestowitz	*performant (if that’s a proper word	Sep 21 19:33
_Doug	I should have vtaken up that other job offer, wanna know what it was ?	Sep 21 19:34
schestowitz	Go ahead.	Sep 21 19:34
_Doug	Running an ‘escort’ agency site ..	Sep 21 19:34
_Doug	At least I would have kept my dignity ..	Sep 21 19:34
schestowitz	If it’s just a site, then your hands are kept clean.	Sep 21 19:35
_Doug	Personally checking in the ‘staff’ ..	Sep 21 19:35
schestowitz	Some company in London that developers Casono solutions offered me a job back in 2003. I declined.	Sep 21 19:35
_Doug	Get me a white streatch limo and drive up and down with by bitches in the back .. oh what a life ..	Sep 21 19:35
schestowitz	Wait, we’re talking not about Ford Escorts, do we?	Sep 21 19:36
_Doug	Instead, all I ever wanted to do was fix machinery .. oh well ..	Sep 21 19:36
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_Doug	What’s Casono ?	Sep 21 19:36
schestowitz	Casino (typo)	Sep 21 19:36
schestowitz	No, they only develop software. Orbis.	Sep 21 19:36
_Doug	ok, got to take a break …	Sep 21 19:37
schestowitz	I still have the contract somewhere on my PC.	Sep 21 19:37
schestowitz	Gambling is no good to society and developing proprietary casonoware is no constructive occupation of dignity.	Sep 21 19:38
schestowitz	In retrospect, given the state of the industry (offshoring and all), it wonderful that I made a career change and stepped into research.	Sep 21 19:38
schestowitz	I’m still keeping in touch with computing, not just medicine, maths and all that malarky.	Sep 21 19:39
schestowitz	There’s a good discussion about the economy and the frauds in many companies at the moment. In COLA too… since you don’t read it, well, I guess I could repeat it here. Novell is affected too.	Sep 21 19:42
*benJIman wonders what schestowitz’s research subject is.		Sep 21 19:46
schestowitz	Good post: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/09/20/t…	Sep 21 19:48
schestowitz	Image analysis mainly.	Sep 21 19:49
_Doug	benJIman: what do you study ?	Sep 21 19:52
benJIman	_Doug: I am no longer a student.	Sep 21 19:52
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schestowitz	Where are you now?	Sep 21 19:54
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benJIman	Near london.	Sep 21 19:54
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schestowitz	FTC busy again: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20746/1075/	Sep 21 20:01
_Doug	benJIman: aren’t you barred ?	Sep 21 20:01
_Doug	new version of MythTV released	Sep 21 20:04
_Doug	http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05098	Sep 21 20:04
_Doug	Top 10 reasons why Steve Ballmer should be certified insane ..	Sep 21 20:08
_Doug	http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20745/53/	Sep 21 20:08
schestowitz	Yes, seen that a moment ago.	Sep 21 20:09
schestowitz	That remark about the stock is curious.	Sep 21 20:09
schestowitz	Ballmer: “There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.”	Sep 21 20:11
schestowitz	http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/14796	Sep 21 20:11
schestowitz	Emphasis on “It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.” That was then, this is now: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3656.html	Sep 21 20:11
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_Doug	Given the current instability, I don’t think anyone whould want to rack the boat ..	Sep 21 20:15
schestowitz	I have a new .sig for COLA (will last for a couple of weeks until it’s absorbed): “There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.”	Sep 21 20:18
_Doug	Except for the people that started the rumor that HBOS was about to fail, and then sold it short ..	Sep 21 20:19
schestowitz	Well, yeah, but that just shows what a corrupt place the stock market has always been.	Sep 21 20:20
schestowitz	The mom-and-pops suffer the most because they have no inside information. The crooks manipulate things, so they win the most. GL had a link the other day about new regulation in news.	Sep 21 20:21
_Doug	You sound suprised ? tell us something we don’t already know	Sep 21 20:22
_Doug	As a consolation, you and the rest, get to work for the next 20 years to pay off the dept	Sep 21 20:22
schestowitz	_Doug: no, it’s old news.	Sep 21 20:23
schestowitz	For the second time you claim that I purport to be stating something new. I had this discussion about selling short when I was a teenager. My dad explained this to me. In short, Wall Street is a casino, albeit a sophisticated one with TV channels and all.. (yes, I’m exaggerating)	Sep 21 20:24
_Doug	The root cause being allowing morgages to be clumped and diced and sliced and resold on ad nausium ..	Sep 21 20:25
_Doug	The ‘priduct’ being ultimately show to be worthless …	Sep 21 20:26
_Doug	We had a ‘tech bubble’ crash, now this is a ‘real world’ crash	Sep 21 20:27
schestowitz		Sep 21 20:27
schestowitz	Well puy	Sep 21 20:27
schestowitz	*put	Sep 21 20:27
_Doug	How the ‘instrument’ was first invented is described in ‘Liars Poker’	Sep 21 20:28
schestowitz	Apart from the “we”. Not everyone is affected. Those who are hit worse are probably Americans… not as bad for Canadians.	Sep 21 20:28
_Doug	http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Rising…	Sep 21 20:28
schestowitz	Read it yet?	Sep 21 20:29
_Doug	‘We’ are going to be paying for this, for the next decade, through higher taxes and prices ..	Sep 21 20:29
_Doug	Yea I read it years ago ..	Sep 21 20:29
schestowitz	“As described by Lewis, liar’s poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader.”	Sep 21 20:29
schestowitz	I bet the likes of Alex Jones will have a day trip.	Sep 21 20:30
_Doug	It’s all there: lets buy up morgages, slice and dice them and sell on as ‘packages’	Sep 21 20:30
_Doug	Alex Jones is a NutJob .. gives conspiricy theorists a bad name	Sep 21 20:30
schestowitz	I have friends with mortgages and debt. Scary… especially for them.	Sep 21 20:30
schestowitz	Alex goes too far, I agree.	Sep 21 20:31
schestowitz	Ike (spelling?) is even worse.	Sep 21 20:31
schestowitz	Crocodile nonsense…	Sep 21 20:31
_Doug	They had to change the law to allow such ‘packages’ to be traded on the stock exchange, before that it was illegal, for good reason !!!	Sep 21 20:31
_Doug	Remember the south east asian bubble that went burst, well this time they brankupted the US !	Sep 21 20:32
schestowitz	Is Greenspan and the other ‘geniuses’ still in reign? They must have known and anticipated this. I reckon some of those unnecessary wars are at least partly interlinked. A lot of the wealth (real weath… not imaginary one) is in Arab states and countries like Singapore, I think.	Sep 21 20:33
_Doug	The Oracle of WallStreet, is gone ..	Sep 21 20:33
schestowitz	:-S	Sep 21 20:33
schestowitz	Which one\?	Sep 21 20:33
_Doug	You could take any of his pronouncments as meaning the exact opposite	Sep 21 20:33
_Doug	You don’t need a conspiricy, Greed is GOOD !!!	Sep 21 20:34
schestowitz	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan	Sep 21 20:34
schestowitz	“Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926 in New York City) is an American economist and was from 1987 to 2006 the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States. “	Sep 21 20:34
schestowitz	He left at a good time. Got his knighthood and all and then ran home.	Sep 21 20:35
_Doug	http://www.rdwarf.com/users/kioh/	Sep 21 20:35
schestowitz	“His honorary titles include Knight Commander of the British Empire, bestowed in 2002 and Commander of the Légion d’honneur (Legion of Honor).” Watch the photo next to it with Bush.	Sep 21 20:36
_Doug	The prime function of the CotFED is to inspire confidence, to that respect he must predict, or give the impression of being able to predict the future.	Sep 21 20:36
_Doug	So if he says the economy is going up, and people believe him, then they’ll buy, and the economy will indeed improve ..#	Sep 21 20:37
schestowitz	LOL good URL.	Sep 21 20:38
_Doug	Like a king of old, he has to be sacraficed to the Gods before peopel realise he has feet of clay ..	Sep 21 20:38
schestowitz	Well, he looks smart.	Sep 21 20:38
schestowitz	I mean, they gave him a gown and a medal and all…and glorify the oracles in the media. Much like other bubbles in any case, including some at the micro level… like Micro-soft.	Sep 21 20:39
_Doug	Exactly: http://www.thepostgame.com/wordpress/wp-con…	Sep 21 20:39
_Doug	Not like him	Sep 21 20:39
schestowitz	Build the image of a mighty software company that controls the world (never mind if it relies on piracy and puts back doors in software along with the NSA)…	Sep 21 20:40
schestowitz	LOL at that last one.	Sep 21 20:40
_Doug	The mighty software company got mighty because it got millions of people to work for it for nothing and give it money besides, in the form of ‘licenses’	Sep 21 20:41
_Doug	Trouble for the ‘west’ is the ‘third world’ don’t want to buy it’s cars or goods, as they have their own, so what’s left to sell them ?	Sep 21 20:42
schestowitz	Yes, well that’s the pyramiding.	Sep 21 20:42
_Doug	And most of the raw resources the west needs is in the ‘third world’	Sep 21 20:43
schestowitz	See http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html	Sep 21 20:43
schestowitz	“Sadly, many of these brilliant people have been blinded by the stock price and unable to see that Microsoft is also the key architect of the greatest financial pyramid scheme this century. It is not uncommon for participants in pyramid schemes to lose their emotional bearings. My close friends who work at Microsoft are particularly upset over my work and it is possible that even Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer do not realize the im	Sep 21 20:44
schestowitz	plications of their financial practices.”	Sep 21 20:44
schestowitz	This guy has just removed his pages that stood there for a long time (see his reasons): http://reactor-core.org/microsoft-pyramid.html	Sep 21 20:44
schestowitz	“down for renovations and rethinking”	Sep 21 20:44
_Doug	I am familiar, but such facts are inconvient in the current crisces	Sep 21 20:44
schestowitz	Web archvive has a copy	Sep 21 20:45
schestowitz	“As with all pyramid schemes, it is important to get as close to tier 1 as possible. From a practical standpoint, usually only tiers 1 and 2 will derive significant long-term economic rewards from such schemes.”	Sep 21 20:45
schestowitz	http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://react…	Sep 21 20:45
_Doug	big secret: most financial ‘business’ is a pyramed, it’s a three card trick .. leme explain ..	Sep 21 20:45
_Doug	You give £100.00 to the bank and they give you a checkbook.	Sep 21 20:46
_Doug	You write checks and but goods.	Sep 21 20:46
schestowitz	Yes, that’s a known thing. Scale is another factor.	Sep 21 20:46
_Doug	The bank lends your money to other peopel and they buy goods.	Sep 21 20:46
_Doug	So £100 pounds is magically transformed into £300.	Sep 21 20:47
benJIman	_Doug: It’s “Cheque” not “Check”	Sep 21 20:47
_Doug	Only as long as all three people don’t come looking for their money at the same time.	Sep 21 20:47
_Doug	Get it ..	Sep 21 20:47
_Doug	That’s international finance 101	Sep 21 20:47
schestowitz	Well, better keep the UAE happy then… and keep the oil reserves sufficient.	Sep 21 20:48
_Doug	as long as there is ‘wealth’ coming into the system, everything is fine ..	Sep 21 20:48
schestowitz	Well, then you start buying $200 Eees	Sep 21 20:48
schestowitz		Sep 21 20:49
_Doug	Wealth in the form of raw material or physical labor, or consumers buying things ..	Sep 21 20:49
_Doug	When that don’t happen, you invent an ENRON	Sep 21 20:49
_Doug	Or invade somewhere with the raw material and ‘sell’ it back to them ..	Sep 21 20:50
schestowitz	Well, it’s a bit different ’cause you can put it thusly: American hadly even fulfills its own needs now. People buy Chinese merchandise. Export? Haha. Not much, thank you.	Sep 21 20:50
_Doug	Except if they have nuclear weapons ..	Sep 21 20:50
schestowitz	Well, let’s not go there yet.	Sep 21 20:50
_Doug	Like: the UK used sell salt to the saharian Arabs ..	Sep 21 20:50
_Doug	Now the west sells OIl to the Iraqies	Sep 21 20:51
schestowitz	Well, it’s the 51st state	Sep 21 20:51
schestowitz	(Iraw, I mean)	Sep 21 20:51
schestowitz	*Iraq	Sep 21 20:51
_Doug	No, the UK is ..	Sep 21 20:51
schestowitz	Okay, 52nd	Sep 21 20:52
_Doug	and we are damn proud to be Americans,	Sep 21 20:52
_Doug	So China sells us cheap goods, what to sell China, arms and IP ?	Sep 21 20:52
schestowitz	So sharing the burden internationally is the solution? Or letting G8 ‘manage’ the wealth? http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://reactor-co…	Sep 21 20:53
schestowitz	BTW, Labour is at ‘my’ gym right now.	Sep 21 20:53
schestowitz	Midland Hotel. They are staying there for a week… the annual conference. So I go to Fitness First instead… it’s not too bad actually.	Sep 21 20:53
_Doug	people don’t want to know, just sleep safely in their beds.	Sep 21 20:53
schestowitz	Well, my friend Mike and his g/f won’t have a child because of this situation. “It’s not a good environment to raise a child,” he tells me. He has a mortgage to pay too.	Sep 21 20:54
_Doug	Under my three cups I have nothing at all ..	Sep 21 20:54
schestowitz	LOL at “arms and IP ?”	Sep 21 20:55
schestowitz	China would be stupid to let itself become a slave via USPTO	Sep 21 20:55
_Doug	Well, it’s that simple, we buy their OIL and they ‘buy’ our arms and give the money back again	Sep 21 20:55
_Doug	China can’t be ‘liberated’ like some other places ..	Sep 21 20:56
schestowitz	BTW, the Gates bed buddies in China and the Ballmer-McCain thing (Chinese embassy) may be related to future prospects and China’s dominance. You could also see the sheer demonisation ahead of the Olympics.	Sep 21 20:56
schestowitz	_Doug: no.	Sep 21 20:57
_Doug	Lets stick to issues, it ain’t about Mr. A, B, or C it’s a whole bigger picture.	Sep 21 20:57
schestowitz	Acxtually, if you can’t portray them as “evil”, then you can justify overthrowing the leaders with the help of ‘the people’ (as in Republic of the People)	Sep 21 20:57
schestowitz	_Doug: yes, I reckoned going personal would prove unproductive.	Sep 21 20:57
schestowitz	And yet, to characterise those involved, examples may help.	Sep 21 20:58
schestowitz	Make no mistake. Microsoft too (among other companies) is an active participant in politics.	Sep 21 20:58
_Doug	So the west (the US mostly) is in a bit of a sticky wicket. Nothing to sell, cheep goods coming in from the east and al lthe raw materials in an unstable (can’t be controled) part of the world.	Sep 21 20:59
_Doug	Not to mention the Ruskies ..	Sep 21 21:00
schestowitz	http://www.rdwarf.com/users/kioh/ha…	Sep 21 21:00
schestowitz	Well, they trade i Euro now, so…	Sep 21 21:01
_Doug	who trades in Euros ? send in the marines !!	Sep 21 21:01
_Doug	It’s much much worse, I’ve been watching the issue for a long time.	Sep 21 21:02
schestowitz	How long?	Sep 21 21:02
schestowitz	LOL @ marines.	Sep 21 21:02
_Doug	There are more dollars outside the US than in, most is tied up with the value of the petro-dollar.	Sep 21 21:02
trmanco	http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/?q=node/171	Sep 21 21:02
_Doug	That’s why the price of OIl has to be kept high.	Sep 21 21:02
schestowitz	Oh no…	Sep 21 21:03
schestowitz	I think I saw something like this coming earlier and someone made a similar type of warning.	Sep 21 21:03
_Doug	There’s also the revenue tied up in illegal pharmaceuticals, one fifth of the GDP of the planet	Sep 21 21:04
schestowitz	[A-Za-z]buntu™	Sep 21 21:04
_Doug	This has to be brought back into the conventional economy.	Sep 21 21:04
_Doug	That’s why the ‘war on drugs’ is mostly bogus	Sep 21 21:04
schestowitz	_Doug: illegal in what sense?	Sep 21 21:05
_Doug	Are you scared yet ?	Sep 21 21:05
_Doug	herion, cocaine etc ..	Sep 21 21:05
schestowitz	No, I heard this before.	Sep 21 21:05
_Doug	I’m just explaining how the real economy operates, and not what you read in the newspapers or on tv ..	Sep 21 21:06
schestowitz	There’s also a portion of it which is to do with keeping a pyramid, in the sense that there are classes. Leveling won’t do.	Sep 21 21:06
schestowitz	Me? Newspaper? TV? Naa.. I read and hear the news, not a fable.	Sep 21 21:06
schestowitz	Although some papers are honest… not many though.	Sep 21 21:07
schestowitz	Those that criticise Gates for example… get bought, remember?	Sep 21 21:07
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AVRS2	url?!	Sep 21 21:08
_Doug	got to go ..	Sep 21 21:08
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schestowitz	I’m trying to find one.	Sep 21 21:08
AVRS2	Nah, I mean the Ubuntu letter.	Sep 21 21:09
AVRS2	*e-mail	Sep 21 21:09
schestowitz	I have a few here: http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/… But there’s more.	Sep 21 21:09
ReverseGTR	Microsoft and Novell take a step with their relationship into the consumer work with Novell’s distro being the first to integrate drivers nessisary to become totally compatible with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/art…	Sep 21 21:09
schestowitz	There’s Linux…………… and then there’s /Novell/ Linux.	Sep 21 21:10
ReverseGTR	btw, it is Novell’s SUSE distro that is for Hyper V which makes many wonder what will be the fate of Red Hat	Sep 21 21:10
MinceR	Microsoft Linux, SuSE Edition.	Sep 21 21:10
MinceR	there’s also Xandros Edition and Turbolinux Edition. there was Linspire Edition but i hear it’s gone under already.	Sep 21 21:11
ReverseGTR	MinceR: and it will be separated into PC Literate, Expert and We Will Spoil You if you pay us allot support packages	Sep 21 21:11
MinceR		Sep 21 21:11
schestowitz	Yes.	Sep 21 21:11
MinceR sings “We Will, We Will F*k You”		Sep 21 21:12
schestowitz	Don’t sing. SweatyB might dance.	Sep 21 21:12
ReverseGTR	MinceR: M$ is going to throw in some pre-paid prositutes?	Sep 21 21:12
ReverseGTR	sweet	Sep 21 21:12
schestowitz	Coupons.	Sep 21 21:13
MinceR	nah	Sep 21 21:13
MinceR	just the usual screwing the customer deal.	Sep 21 21:13
schestowitz	They toss them from the airplanes. I think Moglen said this.	Sep 21 21:13
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: awww	Sep 21 21:13
schestowitz	Just take them, take them.	Sep 21 21:13
schestowitz	“Ditch Red Hat,” they say	Sep 21 21:13
schestowitz	Come to Pen SUSE.	Sep 21 21:13
MinceR	it’s all right for SweatyB to dance as long as he does it on a narrow ledge.	Sep 21 21:13
schestowitz	[hides knife behind back]	Sep 21 21:13
schestowitz	Microsoft doesn’t mind Linux growing a little as long as it’s inside the ‘pen’	Sep 21 21:14
MinceR	if they knew more, they would mind.	Sep 21 21:14
schestowitz	Later on Microsoft can do some slaughtering. I wrote about it last year and SJVN then repeated the analogy.	Sep 21 21:15
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: you can find out more from their spin doctors at the M$/Novell PR Orgy room: http://www.moreinterop.com/	Sep 21 21:15
MinceR	it’s easy to switch from suse to a real distro.	Sep 21 21:15
schestowitz	Well, try to beat the ‘media	Sep 21 21:15
schestowitz	BN does about 20,000 on good days, but the media is like what? Millions of pages?	Sep 21 21:15
schestowitz	“Microsoft hails open source reach”	Sep 21 21:15
schestowitz	“Microsoft plays with Linux”	Sep 21 21:15
schestowitz	“Hyper-V works with Novell… Interop! Sol-loo-shens”	Sep 21 21:16
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: “plays” as in never takes it seriously	Sep 21 21:16
schestowitz	Plays like a cat plays with a mouse..	Sep 21 21:16
schestowitz	Learning where to bite.	Sep 21 21:17
ReverseGTR	good analogy	Sep 21 21:17
MinceR	except that in this case, the mouse will eat the cat, it just doesn’t realize yet.	Sep 21 21:17
schestowitz	Microsoft is open…, like a bear trap.	Sep 21 21:17
schestowitz	Well, there are many mice.	Sep 21 21:17
ReverseGTR	mice that will start starving for market share	Sep 21 21:18
schestowitz	Unless Microsoft… errr… I mean “fat cat” can make all these Ubuntu and RedHats go away.	Sep 21 21:18
schestowitz	The picture of Xfce comes to mind.	Sep 21 21:18
schestowitz	Subscriptions rather.	Sep 21 21:18
schestowitz	ReverseGTR: were you here last night?	Sep 21 21:19
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: from what I read Xfce is a good GUI, ecspecially when it comes to developing distros that are integrated into mobo ROMs. and no I was not	Sep 21 21:19
schestowitz	We had a discussion about XenSource and I’ll post about it tomorrow. It’s about his Nathan Myhrvold’s brother and co at Ignite Partners helps the hijack of Xen, which Ubuntu and Red Hat depended on.	Sep 21 21:20
schestowitz	Microsoft is ‘runs’ EMC/VMware too…it’s bizarre, truly.	Sep 21 21:20
schestowitz	ReverseGTR: I mentioned Xfce because of the mouse.	Sep 21 21:20
schestowitz	http://www.xfce.org/layout/images/logo.png	Sep 21 21:20
ReverseGTR	oh lol, didn’t realise they had such a logo	Sep 21 21:21
schestowitz	I haven’t actually used Xfce for like 8 years.	Sep 21 21:21
schestowitz	http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/?q=node/171 “Michelle, The Trademark Team”	Sep 21 21:21
schestowitz	200 people in a company that cannot make many patches to the kernel, but they have a “Trademark Team”?	Sep 21 21:22
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: welcome to the wild world of software marketing where like Steve Jobs said: “good artists create, great artists steal.”	Sep 21 21:26
schestowitz	With sharing and attribution, some of this is resolved.	Sep 21 21:27
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: but if there is a will there is a way and many businesses will employ large legal teams just to find some loophole in the licensing and either reverse-engineer or just flat out add it to their product or service	Sep 21 21:29
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: but yea the more software is shared the more people use that product/service and the less likely they would look favoribley on another that resembles what they helped create	Sep 21 21:30
schestowitz	The preparation of the Novell/Microsoft deal/collusion/partnership took approximately 6 months and involved feedback at various levels. A few top employees were involved as well. At the heart of the deal was a stake to be inserted into the heart of the GPL (v2 at the time). Again, that’s why we must respond.	Sep 21 21:30
pombat42	Hello all! xfce is a great window manager but what has to be done is to make certain that with the various mainstream versions of Linux that use KDE or gnome, that all, and I mean every single one, programs that are in the menus are also in the xfce menus should a person choose to install xfce from the repository	Sep 21 21:31
schestowitz	What complicates this further is the attempt to use the code /against/ the community (particularly actual vendors like Red Hat), using patents, driver voids (e.g. Hyper-V, Mono permissions, clones).	Sep 21 21:31
pombat42	nothing is more frustrating to a user than to experiment with xfce with say Ubuntu only to discover that many, or in some cases, all of the stock applications do not show up in the menus.	Sep 21 21:32
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: so Microsoft wants to be at the heart of the controll machine or what they think is central to managing open source and then changing standards to oust the largest competitors.	Sep 21 21:32
schestowitz	This new article is very relevant to the DE diversity: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080918-openmok…	Sep 21 21:32
schestowitz	pombat42: Mandriva did a splendid job at integrating GNOME and KDE apps based on my experience with 2008.1 (I only used Mandrake in the past on two PCs)	Sep 21 21:33
pombat42	ReverseGTR : Of course they do. That’s the way they operate. If this were baseball and they had 2 strikes against them in the bottom of the 9th they would change the rules to allow 4 strikes. After buying out the umpires contract of course	Sep 21 21:34
schestowitz	ReverseGTR: yes, and they can legally do so. People must resist, but true information is scarce.	Sep 21 21:34
schestowitz	Groklaw is OK.	Sep 21 21:34
pombat42	Schestowitz: Thanks! How did Mandriva do with xfce and windowmaker though? Ubuntu does decent with xfce but dies badly with windowmaker	Sep 21 21:35
schestowitz	Then there’s SJVN, who gave Novell a little whipping for “IP peace of mind,” but he’s still a SLED fan.	Sep 21 21:35
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: I hope Openmoko and Maemo become a force to be reconned with in the mobile market	Sep 21 21:35
pombat42	once phones separate the physical phone from the contract, things will begin to start cooking with gas!	Sep 21 21:36
schestowitz	pombat42: no traces of Xfce on this machine, but there’s Mandriva 2008.1 Xfce edition, which is a /COMMUNITY/ effort only. Beranger praised it.	Sep 21 21:36
pombat42	Nice to know! I’m sure that one has it all there. I haven’t used Mandriva since it was Mandrake though. I like Slackware mostly	Sep 21 21:37
schestowitz	Some things are still /blowing up’ in Mand2009, but it’s not final and it’s KDE4 (work in progress). Alanw wrote some stuff about it yesterday.	Sep 21 21:37
schestowitz	Maemo?	Sep 21 21:37
schestowitz	Isn’t that kind of closed? Or at least, based on what I’ve read, Nokia lost control to the community of users, so it’s not happy. It wants DRM and ‘stuff’	Sep 21 21:38
schestowitz	pombat42: there are other issues with mobile phones like transmission and radiation, IMHO.	Sep 21 21:38
pombat42	Nokia from what I have heard is on the tight rope walking both sides and seeing which way it falls.	Sep 21 21:38
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: they have been mostly closing it up from the driver end with the N810′s DSP being run through a proprietary tarbar but aside from that there is still an active open source developement community for it	Sep 21 21:39
schestowitz	I can’t help wondering if it’s ‘the next smoking’. I bet it’s those with vested intertests that publish or fund contradictory studies. It’s just like global warning.	Sep 21 21:39
schestowitz	Let me find a link that I sent my dad.	Sep 21 21:39
pombat42	take care people. have a good evening/day	Sep 21 21:40
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schestowitz	Got it : http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9999188-1.ht…	Sep 21 21:40
MinceR	if nokia management had half a brain, they’d realize the DRM bubble is close to being popped.	Sep 21 21:40
schestowitz	Yes, tell Ari.	Sep 21 21:40
schestowitz	http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2008…	Sep 21 21:41
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: well on the other side of Nokia’s software is Symbian which has been given to a consortium that I think now Google is a part of since Android’s API may merge into Symbian’s kernel in the future.	Sep 21 21:41
schestowitz	Symbian is now Nokia and they FUD Linux.	Sep 21 21:41
schestowitz	In the most pathetic ways too. They alienate the very same people whom they crave and need desperately.	Sep 21 21:42
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: but wouldn’t that mean they pretty much given up on patching up Maemo?	Sep 21 21:42
schestowitz	Tip #1: don’t insult your customer to sell	Sep 21 21:42
schestowitz	ReverseGTR: got a link about it.	Sep 21 21:43
schestowitz	There was that “J Gold” BS, which was debunked very heavily. By Google too, IIRC. Besides, Nokia competes with Google, it even ‘stole’ Qt.	Sep 21 21:43
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: I am sure in the future Nokia will have management that is more open minded since Finland as a country has the most Linux users.	Sep 21 21:44
schestowitz	For sure?	Sep 21 21:44
schestowitz	Firefox I know about, but GNU/Linux?	Sep 21 21:44
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: well from what I heard from people who have been to Finland and seeing everything that comes out that is not from Nokia is basically running on Linux.	Sep 21 21:45
schestowitz	http://www.archive.org/search.php?quer…	Sep 21 21:45
ReverseGTR	like this: http://technorati.com/posts/kedOO4…	Sep 21 21:45
*schestowitz looks		Sep 21 21:46
ReverseGTR	its pretty neat, a 32 inch multitouch whose smoothness puts the M$ Surface to shame	Sep 21 21:47
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ReverseGTR	I was just saying how it is much faster and smoother then the M$ Surface	Sep 21 21:47
schestowitz	Can you paste it?	Sep 21 21:47
ReverseGTR	http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/01/multi…	Sep 21 21:47
schestowitz	Ah	Sep 21 21:47
schestowitz	Well, Surface is predated by Linux devices.	Sep 21 21:48
schestowitz	Research stuff mostly.	Sep 21 21:48
ReverseGTR	true	Sep 21 21:48
schestowitz	http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/11/irc-l…	Sep 21 21:48
schestowitz	Links therein.	Sep 21 21:48
schestowitz	brb	Sep 21 21:50
AVRS2	gn	Sep 21 21:51
schestowitz	I’m back now anyway	Sep 21 21:53
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ReverseGTR	schestowitz: I have only known one place that is using the Microsoft Surface and that is the AT&T Store in Times Square NY, NY	Sep 21 21:54
schestowitz	The shop.	Sep 21 21:55
schestowitz	Microsoft sold a million Zunes… to the warehouses.	Sep 21 21:55
schestowitz	It’s called channel-stuffing of course and they did the same with XBox360 and Office 2007 (I have references). I have no references showing channel-stuffing of Vista, but Vista is worse.	Sep 21 21:56
schestowitz	In that case of Vista, they count even /downgrade’ to XP now as one Vista sale but TWO, according to what I was told XP sale is counted as Vista by Microsoft, which also tied it to every PC. I believe it’s called double-sipping and it gives a false perception of warn embrace.	Sep 21 21:57
schestowitz	“/downgrades/ to XP not..” (pardon my lack of proofreading	Sep 21 21:58
schestowitz	*dipping	Sep 21 21:58
schestowitz	*warm (okay, I’ll start proofreading, I promise)	Sep 21 21:59
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: in that case they seem to be only deluding themselves since Dell and HP have extended plans to continue bundling XP. And even HP maybe designing a new Unix based OS for their enterprise servers.	Sep 21 21:59
schestowitz	Not GNU/Linux-based?	Sep 21 22:00
ReverseGTR	I still think the rumors of HP making a desktop OS are to state the least dumfounded. However, I also feel that Virtual Machines will catch on more before anybody starts looking into M$ alternatives.	Sep 21 22:01
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: concerning HP’s OS it is mostly rumors, but based on their past Unix OS probably not	Sep 21 22:01
schestowitz	H-P sort of denied it. Well, someone sure tried to retract rumours spurred by BW.	Sep 21 22:01
schestowitz	They GPLv2ed one of their UNIX FSes recently, no? Could this be related? Possibly?	Sep 21 22:01
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: could be	Sep 21 22:02
schestowitz	They are too tied to Microsoft though.	Sep 21 22:02
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: I know Dell’s stunt with Ubuntu was strictly marketing since I don’t see them sold any longer	Sep 21 22:02
schestowitz	The Silverlight bundle, the toolbars, the OOXML lobby, the Home Server relationship. They also made some major deal back in early 2007.	Sep 21 22:02
schestowitz	Speaking of which, they are said to have been involved in those Vista collusions that /still/ have Microsoft in court facing class action.	Sep 21 22:03
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: maybe if HP has their own distro it will run as an “enlightened guest” on MS’s Hyper-V.	Sep 21 22:03
schestowitz	Well, rPath would be a fit. They collaborate with Microsoft (they actually sponsored them) and they liaised with Novell.	Sep 21 22:04
schestowitz	What makes it so bizarre is their Red Hat roots.. They turned to SUSE after reportedly being rejected and turned away by Red Hat and another which I can’t recall for sure… maybe Canonical.	Sep 21 22:05
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: so you are stating that MS’s Hyper-V will actually be the next version of rPath?	Sep 21 22:05
schestowitz	No, not quite.	Sep 21 22:05
schestowitz	rPath gives tools for Linux appliances that are custom made.	Sep 21 22:05
schestowitz	As I understand it, business X can use their services to build a distro Y for good deployment. Now… that can be put on a PC as a VM.	Sep 21 22:06
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: well it stated in the Novell SUSE for MS Hyper-V article that Canonical had a hand in developing.	Sep 21 22:06
schestowitz	Whatever goes below (a VM layer… middleware _so to speak_) is a separate matter.	Sep 21 22:06
schestowitz	Watch what ASUS has been doing… virtualising WIndows /under/ Linux in Express Gate.	Sep 21 22:07
ReverseGTR	ok so they pretty much create or optimize applications and drivers to run or run smoother in VM	Sep 21 22:07
schestowitz	Phoenix also and Microsoft wasn’t happy… changed it EULA and got stung by antitrust, then forced to retract the trickery.	Sep 21 22:07
schestowitz	Lastly you have Dell, which is putting Linux as based, as standard. Many laptops will boot Linux by defauly.	Sep 21 22:08
schestowitz	ReverseGTR: rBuilder is their main product, I believe.	Sep 21 22:08
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: awesome, so it was more then a marketing stunt afterall	Sep 21 22:08
ReverseGTR	for Dell	Sep 21 22:08
schestowitz	Their ease of creation is the selling point, but I could be wrong. It needs studying.	Sep 21 22:09
schestowitz	You could build your distro using a Web UI and then d/l it.	Sep 21 22:09
schestowitz	ReverseGTR: it’s a separate thing.	Sep 21 22:09
schestowitz	They spoke about it in LinuxWOrld 2007, IIRC>	Sep 21 22:09
schestowitz	Maybe a bit later. Let me pull my reds.	Sep 21 22:09
schestowitz	refs	Sep 21 22:09
schestowitz	Here’s one: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.ad…	Sep 21 22:10
schestowitz	Little more here, but I want to find the older ones: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linu…	Sep 21 22:11
schestowitz	Yes, they dropped clues in LinuxWorld 2007 (IDG). Found it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocac…	Sep 21 22:12
schestowitz	http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/ar… : Dell Creating Consumer PCs Complete with Virtualization	Sep 21 22:13
schestowitz	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/… : Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory	Sep 21 22:13
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: speaking of Windows on Maemo Linux virtualization here is a 3.1 on the DOS emulator DOSBOX: http://www.pdatoday.com/index.php/weblo…	Sep 21 22:13
schestowitz	http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-d… : Dell considers bundling virtualization on motherboards	Sep 21 22:13
schestowitz	Last one: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linux-and-virt… : Linux and virtualisation are ideal partners: Dell	Sep 21 22:13
schestowitz	Wasn’t Windows ‘emulated’ of VMed inside DOS until Win98?	Sep 21 22:14
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: I didn’t think it was emulated I thought M$ just kept some legacy drivers around so 3.1 apps can run	Sep 21 22:15
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: oh oops, I meant that DOS was the kernel and Windows was the API	Sep 21 22:15
ReverseGTR	that is how I always thought the relationship was with Windows and DOS with the exception of NT4	Sep 21 22:16
schestowitz	There was a huge thread about it that I started in USENET a while back.	Sep 21 22:16
schestowitz	I’m no Windows guru, so I stayed out of it.	Sep 21 22:16
schestowitz	Later came a sort of rebuttal: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os…	Sep 21 22:17
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: I always thought that Windows relied on DOS, but less and less through the years (with the exception of NT4) until XP came out which started out as a spruced up version of Windows 2000 (which is based on NT4).	Sep 21 22:17
ReverseGTR	ok I guess DOS was already becoming pretty insignifigant when it came to running apps and elements of the API by Windows 95. I guess it is just a testament how Microsoft dragged their feet when it came to further developing the OS for customers.	Sep 21 22:19
ReverseGTR	schestowitz: anyway, I g2g and thanks for the links.	Sep 21 22:22
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schestowitz	neighborlee: any news on Mono? Been a busy day in the comments about Mono.	Sep 21 22:42
twitter	Win3.1 on doxbox. That’s worked out since Etch. Seems almost stable under Lenny. Wine is easier and more useful. Virtualbox should do the nastiest of legacy stuff.	Sep 21 22:59
twitter	Don’t need any of it myself now.	Sep 21 23:00
twitter	As for Windows code, it seems to be some of the stalest code in the world. Things are patched onto it, bugs remain.	Sep 21 23:01
schestowitz	The looks of Windows XP evoke repulsion, but it can be skinned. I hardly see it though… just in YouTube videos and screenshot.	Sep 21 23:01
twitter	XP is more than ugly, it’s annoying. Lots of intrusive popups, no virtual desktops to hide them.	Sep 21 23:02
schestowitz	In Windows 95 there was a delete-freeze bug that stayed there for almost 10 years, IIRC.	Sep 21 23:02
schestowitz	I once saw this happening when a colleague deleted some files. I could not believe my eyes. Later someone in USENET explained it.	Sep 21 23:03
twitter	About the lowest thing I’ve seen, outside of the Gator Purple Ape, is the AOL Burger King buddy.	Sep 21 23:04
schestowitz	It was two things actually: 1) the computer froze for like 10 minutes (yes, that’s ‘normal’); 2) seletion was painfully slow. No GUI-free/CLI option for it.	Sep 21 23:04
schestowitz	KDE had a similar big, but not so severe. I posted it to Digg yesterday: http://digg.com/linux_unix/KDE_32_times_faster_de…	Sep 21 23:05
schestowitz	Also made the front page some hours ago: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Can_… (brought down Linux Today. LOL)	Sep 21 23:05
twitter	I saw a flashing, always on top screen on a classmate’s computer and asked him about it. He calmly explained that it was an advertisement “buddy” that was a cost of using his chat client.	Sep 21 23:06
twitter	going to look at links	Sep 21 23:06
schestowitz	Microsoft tests similar costs. Spying and adverts as part of a ‘free’ (gratis) O/S. Since they already give it for free in most countries — and to schools that threaten to go GNU/Linux — then I guess it’t the smart thing for Microsoft to do.	Sep 21 23:08
twitter	I’ve had problems from time to time using Konqueror 3.5x to copy directories by sftp. Sometimes the nested files don’t go through. grsync works every time.	Sep 21 23:12
schestowitz	I never had such a problem experienced.	Sep 21 23:12
schestowitz	I used to be using gftp	Sep 21 23:12
schestowitz	When I used KDE 3.1 anyway… it seems not to have supported SFTP properly.. just FTP, but I can’t recall for sure.	Sep 21 23:13
twitter	Can’t remember as far back as Woody anymore. I do have a hard drive to check, but I think konqueror did sftp then.	Sep 21 23:15
twitter	Authentication was not as slick.	Sep 21 23:15
schestowitz	I sometimes use Konqy to upload pictures and videos to BN	Sep 21 23:16
schestowitz	The WordPress uploaded doesn’t get along with the server when large files are attempted.	Sep 21 23:16
twitter	The problem got me the other month using Lenny, which is still in testing. You won’t see it unless you have three or four levels of depth.	Sep 21 23:17
twitter	The directory structure is put in place but files don’t make it to depth.	Sep 21 23:17
schestowitz	Have yo reported the bug yet. Will help everyone.	Sep 21 23:18
schestowitz	Have you reported the bug yet? Will help everyone.	Sep 21 23:18
twitter	I think the bug was fixed again, but I always copy and check now. If it’s big and important, I use grsync.	Sep 21 23:18
twitter	Like I said, the bug has come and gone and it has been rare. I’ve only been hit two or three times over 8 years.	Sep 21 23:19
twitter		Sep 21 23:19
schestowitz	Which version?	Sep 21 23:20
schestowitz	..of KDE?	Sep 21 23:20
twitter	Konqueror 3.5.9 using same KDE.	Sep 21 23:22
twitter	A picture copy failed me the other day.	Sep 21 23:23
twitter	Worked the last time I tried it.	Sep 21 23:23
schestowitz	I should be creful then and check for 404s	Sep 21 23:23
twitter	You won’t see it on single picture and video moves. It looked like a nesting problem.	Sep 21 23:25
twitter	Checking for 404s won’t hurt though.	Sep 21 23:25
schestowitz	It’s too much to run through.	Sep 21 23:26
schestowitz	Just looked through the 404 log for schestowitz.com	Sep 21 23:26
schestowitz	BN outgrew my personal site in terms of traffic.	Sep 21 23:26
schestowitz	Interesting that “how does short selling work” was the exact search phrase that brought 80 people to my site. People are curious about the frauds now…	Sep 21 23:30
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