IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: December 20th, 2008

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-12-21 11:16:15 UTC
Modified: 2008-12-21 11:16:15 UTC

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twitter	Journaled PR firm uglies http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/219917	Dec 20 03:19
twitter	A little something Bill Gates does with his money, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109...	Dec 20 04:11
twitter	Yes, while millions of ordinary Americans are losing their homes, Gates and buddies were building yet another tacky pleasure palace. This one failed because of a divorce by it's founder, and the company stiffed the people working there.	Dec 20 04:13
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twitter	Fat cats get their bailout bonuses Legally, thanks to GWB http://www.prwatch.org/node/8075	Dec 20 05:42
twitter	hush money means hush, http://www.prwatch.org/node/8070	Dec 20 05:45
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schestowitz	F*. I FINALLY Found out what broke YouTube for me.	Dec 20 09:32
schestowitz	2 days ago they did maintenance and their sensitive spot was Flashblock.	Dec 20 09:32
schestowitz	I couldn't find this by Google search	Dec 20 09:32
schestowitz	I tried disabling greasemonkey, debugging JavaScript... everything... the stuff burns a couple of hours. It was all down to Flashblock, which needed disabling, so..........	Dec 20 09:33
schestowitz	http://www.telegeography.com/wordpress/?p=78 Cable Cuts Disrupt Internet in Middle East and India, Again	Dec 20 11:13
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Omar87	Hi all.	Dec 20 11:55
schestowitz	Hi.	Dec 20 12:06
schestowitz	http://www.pcworld.com/article/155796/under... "Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut, according to France Telecom."	Dec 20 12:57
Omar87	schestowitz: Yup, that explains why my internet connections is slow as hell.. =_=	Dec 20 13:03
Omar87	connection*	Dec 20 13:04
schestowitz	Yay! DRM coming to radio: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent...	Dec 20 13:04
trmanco	yay? :-P	Dec 20 13:08
Omar87	I can't see where's the "yay" part here. :p	Dec 20 13:10
Omar87	Isn't the Radio a DRM territory already?	Dec 20 13:10
schestowitz	I was joking. It was a "yay" or frustration	Dec 20 13:13
Omar87	lol :-)	Dec 20 13:13
Omar87	But isn't it already DRM'ed?	Dec 20 13:13
schestowitz	No, not yet	Dec 20 13:13
schestowitz	Sony joins HD radio push : http://news.zdnet.com/2100-95...	Dec 20 13:14
schestowitz	Radio Daddy Tells Podcasters to F off : http://podcast411.com/blog/?p=31	Dec 20 13:15
schestowitz	Meanwhile they work to ruin Creative Commons and Internet Radio too	Dec 20 13:15
schestowitz	US politicians back Act to save internet radio : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/0...	Dec 20 13:15
Omar87	Because sometimes when I listen to a song in the Radio, I noticed in the past years that they never mention the song's title. So I thought this is part of the DRM..	Dec 20 13:15
schestowitz	Internet radio strikes deal with music Mafiaa : http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/...	Dec 20 13:15
schestowitz	The Internet Radio Death Watch : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0...	Dec 20 13:15
schestowitz	Pandora Reaching Its Epilogue? : http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/18/pando...	Dec 20 13:16
schestowitz	Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-pa...	Dec 20 13:16
schestowitz	Omar87: that seems unrelated though.	Dec 20 13:16
schestowitz	Royalty fee 'to damage net radio' : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6896152.stm	Dec 20 13:16
Omar87	schestowitz: I just wonder, what the is a song for if it's not sharable...	Dec 20 13:17
Omar87	schestowitz: I meant, they never mention the song's title just in order to make it harder for you to look it up in the LimeWire... lol. :p	Dec 20 13:18
Omar87	heheh, two of my friends have taken opposite paths.	Dec 20 13:22
schestowitz	This silly.	Dec 20 13:22
schestowitz	People have their song on channels like MTV to promote albums	Dec 20 13:22
schestowitz	In fact, many big labels (MAFIAA-affiliated) put their videos /THEMSELVES/ on YouTube to promote albums and artists.	Dec 20 13:22
Omar87	One of them preferred to become a Mac user, and the other has just installed Ubuntu on his machine and is loving the hell out of it. :)	Dec 20 13:23
schestowitz	http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/commentary/co...	Dec 20 13:25
trmanco	http://quality.mozilla.org/blogs/jayp...	Dec 20 13:49
schestowitz	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw... "On April 4, 2008, Jason Matusow, a Microsoft employee accused Groklaw of being "a website setup by IBM" in a blog posting [27]. He posted a retraction several hours later, however stated that it was his belief that this was the case, however that comments to his blog made him think that he should be careful about his assertions. Jones has always denied such claims. [28]"	Dec 20 14:30
zoobab	hehe	Dec 20 14:40
schestowitz	http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/arti...	Dec 20 14:40
schestowitz	I'm going to write about that.	Dec 20 14:40
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schestowitz	http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/20/microso...	Dec 20 15:42
schestowitz	The joys of databases and silly O/S leaks: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...	Dec 20 16:31
schestowitz	"He abused the role to contact 11 convicted offenders and threaten to spill the beans on their crimes unless he was given "hush money". Johal requested between €£29,000 and €£31,000 for his silence, threatening to tell work colleagues or neighbours of convicted sex offenders about their crimes. In one instance Johal demanded €£89,000 as a "goodwill gesture"."	Dec 20 16:31
schestowitz	The headline suggests MAFIAA intervention in packet transmission.. RIAA won't sue, but will throttle < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/2... >. The article does not support this.	Dec 20 16:32
schestowitz	http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/serv...	Dec 20 16:37
schestowitz	"The proposed exclusion of non-royalty free standards will slow down innovation because R&D investments can no longer be earned back. This is bad for society € consumers and public authorities alike € and for the economy at large. It will hurt our region hardest as proximity to (public authority) customers is an advantage. It should not be forgotten that if royalty-free standards are imposed, European investors in R&D will have t	Dec 20 16:37
schestowitz	o give royalty-free licenses to non-European competitors, which is difficult to reconcile with the EU's Lisbon objectives."	Dec 20 16:37
schestowitz	zoobab: how close is Philips to Microsoft? Other than patent policy, there's no tight relationship, right?	Dec 20 16:37
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schestowitz	bbl.. [xmas drinks]	Dec 20 17:05
schestowitz	Microsoft's attitude towards Free/open source analysed further; Novell & Miguel peddle Microsoft-patented Windows.Forms (in Mono): http://boycottnovell.com/2008/...	Dec 20 17:18
zoobab	you should collect all the patents related to Monos	Dec 20 17:58
zoobab	and ask Miguel claim by claim	Dec 20 17:58
zoobab	make a //ism between Mono features and MS claims	Dec 20 17:59
zoobab	claim by claim	Dec 20 17:59
zoobab	and show to the lazzy people like me that Mono is for sure infinging	Dec 20 17:59
neighborlee	schestowitz: the witch giving snowwhite the red apple is priceless :))lol	Dec 20 19:02
zoobab	GIMP sued	Dec 20 19:09
trmanco	lets drink Wine 1.1.11	Dec 20 19:56
trmanco	it was supposed to be released yesterday	Dec 20 19:56
trmanco	http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.11	Dec 20 19:56
trmanco	Linux is your wife... you can keep her doing experiment and adding gadgets( dress, rings, cars)and works more fine till end \| Windows is a prostitute... ready made and tested by professionals, cant try more changes.. performance gets affected by virus(AIDS)	Dec 20 20:45
schestowitz	zoobab: really? Got link?	Dec 20 21:55
schestowitz	http://www.linux.com/articles/35623	Dec 20 21:56
schestowitz	trmanco: Windows is not stable, either.	Dec 20 21:56
trmanco	Microsoft Holes Exploited Again: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/20/...	Dec 20 21:58
schestowitz	Seen it, thanks. Let me see.	Dec 20 21:59
schestowitz	Yeah, I read Alan's blog... that's where I got it from.	Dec 20 21:59
schestowitz	GIMP sued?? http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=e...	Dec 20 22:01
trmanco	I have no idea	Dec 20 22:02
neighborlee	nice catch, would have been nice to not put in the 'ubuntu will complete the process' part, but hey ;)	Dec 20 22:03
schestowitz	Wintel press doesn't know what "hacker" means... they demonise FOSS developer... http://www.pcworld.com/article/155852/fas...	Dec 20 22:04
schestowitz	The thing is, programs are easy to resolve patents problems in, Mono is at the very bottom of many applications and changes affect function that requires mimicking to work.	Dec 20 22:05
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schestowitz	http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/20/mon...	Dec 20 22:19
schestowitz	http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-se... "Cheney, along with Bush, ought to be sent to the Hague for trial for crimes against humanity."	Dec 20 22:21
zoobab	http://www.theglobalipcenter.com/gipc/...	Dec 20 22:27
zoobab	can someone manage to dumpo the videos?	Dec 20 22:27
zoobab	dump	Dec 20 22:27
zoobab	real media shit	Dec 20 22:27
zoobab	mplayer -v "rtsp://209.3.198.150:554/video/gipc/08100..."	Dec 20 22:27
zoobab	gives me:	Dec 20 22:27
zoobab	librtsp: server responds: ''	Dec 20 22:27
schestowitz	http://www.alternet.org/story/113758/	Dec 20 22:29
schestowitz	vlc?	Dec 20 22:30
schestowitz	I think I got it	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	[libaf] Adding filter dummy	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	[dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	[dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	AO: Description: PulseAudio audio output	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	AO: Author: Lennart Poettering	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	[dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	[dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	Video: no video	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	Freeing 0 unused video chunks.	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	Starting playback...	Dec 20 22:31
schestowitz	A: 55.7 (55.6) of 4730.0 ( 1:18:50.0) 0.6% 39%	Dec 20 22:32
schestowitz	"That last point is the big one: The real crisis is in the real economy -- ya know, the real world of jobs, wages, health care premiums and pensions that Washington has totally ignored as it keeps writing checks to its well-heeled campaign contributors on Wall Street under the guise of a lending crisis."	Dec 20 22:34
schestowitz	"Adding insult to injury is the last thing I discussed with Rachel -- the fact that because the bailout money came with almost no strings attached, the financial-industry recipients of the taxpayer largesse are either hoarding the money, using it to pay shareholder dividends and executive bonuses, or devoting it to efforts to buy up smaller competitors."	Dec 20 22:34
schestowitz	http://www.theglobalipcenter.com/gipc/... What is it good for?	Dec 20 22:35
trmanco	IPv6 Makes Slow Progress: http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/ipv...	Dec 20 22:39
schestowitz	Obama, We Hardly Knew Ye "President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet appointments are winning praise from conservatives such as Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell and John McCain, and most of the people who actually voted for Obama aren't complaining just yet. Opinion polls show that most people approve of Obama's picks, while two-thirds of Americans approve of Obama personally. "	Dec 20 22:43
schestowitz	Tories and Lib Dems vow to boycott Damian Green investigation http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/08/d...	Dec 20 22:50
schestowitz	http://www.prwatch.org/node/8018	Dec 20 22:51
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schestowitz	zoobab: can I publish IRC log?	Dec 20 23:04
schestowitz	gimp	Dec 20 23:04
schestowitz	1 in 4 IT Jobs Done Overseas by 2010 < http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article... >	Dec 20 23:22
schestowitz	Troll? http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161...	Dec 20 23:34
schestowitz	This makes it sounds like Groklaw is hutting down: "I fully understand your need to move on and I wish you happiness. I know that you will find what you seek as long as you are true to yourself." http://www.groklaw.net/com...	Dec 20 23:36
schestowitz	Another Linux is coming for xmas... http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/18/435	Dec 20 23:42
zoobab	yes	Dec 20 23:54
schestowitz	Thanks. Manana.	Dec 20 23:58

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Dan O'Brian

2008-12-21 14:36:38

<zoobab> you should collect all the patents related to Monos <zoobab> and ask Miguel claim by claim <zoobab> make a //ism between Mono features and MS claims <zoobab> claim by claim <zoobab> and show to the lazzy people like me that Mono is for sure infinging

A most excellent idea. Oh, wait, Roy already tried that and failed miserably because he kept pointing at unrelated patents.
jo Shields

2008-12-21 14:52:36

And Roy has stated elsewhere that a list of specific violated patents has nothing to do with it(?!)

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