| schestowitz |
Sort of like the term propaganda without the WW2 connotation |
Jan 03 00:00 |
| twitter |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richar… |
Jan 03 00:00 |
| schestowitz |
I might as well not spend much time outside a site I control, but the Brits here want to start filtering sites like in Thailand (2700 sites blacklisted) |
Jan 03 00:00 |
| Roy_B |
Coincides with my observation too. Example: CNN used to be a good news channel, but it became just like the others after it was bought out by Time Warner. |
Jan 03 00:00 |
| schestowitz |
So if not by omission or centralisation, they try to control information by blacklisting, which is a shame. |
Jan 03 00:00 |
| schestowitz |
AOL. |
Jan 03 00:01 |
| schestowitz |
Heh. |
Jan 03 00:01 |
| schestowitz |
Digg too was ruined |
Jan 03 00:01 |
| schestowitz |
Slashdot. Blech. |
Jan 03 00:01 |
| schestowitz |
It’s easier to keep readers naive than to have them in charge. |
Jan 03 00:02 |
| twitter |
Corporate control of US news is blatant. CFR looks too large and unwieldy for consensus, but the overall story is credible and seems to be factual. |
Jan 03 00:02 |
| twitter |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_F… |
Jan 03 00:03 |
| Roy_B |
Joke I heard several years ago: CNN == Corrupt News Network |
Jan 03 00:03 |
| schestowitz |
twitter: it only seems factual if everyone is doing it. |
Jan 03 00:04 |
| schestowitz |
As long as CFR can prevent conflict in reporting, you could believe the world is a dic |
Jan 03 00:04 |
| schestowitz |
*disc |
Jan 03 00:04 |
| schestowitz |
They always chant along with the Novell/MS party line. That’s why BN is important |
Jan 03 00:04 |
| twitter |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osc… |
Jan 03 00:05 |
| Roy_B |
At least with the Internet, there’s a wider variety of sources to chose from (for as long as that may last …) |
Jan 03 00:05 |
| schestowitz |
To change this, one needs: 1) Different sources; 2) journalists with guts; 3) editors that are not corrupt because they serve as gatekeepers. So you must break through 3 layers just to get truth told. And then, try to convince an audience that it forcefed lies in Slashdot through marketing people. |
Jan 03 00:06 |
| schestowitz |
I’d love to know how Novell or its fans re-scraped that anti OOo smear and put it in Digg and /. |
Jan 03 00:06 |
| schestowitz |
I doubt this was just a ‘natural’ thing |
Jan 03 00:06 |
| twitter |
Very interesting, ” Callaway came to national attention in 1916 with his opposition to the naval appropriation bill. He believed that a civilian army could repel any invasion, that battleships had been made obsolete by submarines, and that the military expenditures called for by the Preparedness Movement unduly favored munition makers.” |
Jan 03 00:06 |
| twitter |
” In 1917 he charged that leading business interests were purchasing newspapers to advance the preparedness campaign, which led his colleague J. Hampton Moore to call for an investigation.” |
Jan 03 00:07 |
| schestowitz |
.Well, duh  |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| schestowitz |
Press is corrupt |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| schestowitz |
RMS says people should read blogs they trust |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| schestowitz |
He know the autocracy and role of money |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| schestowitz |
Wikipedia can still be trusted more than the press. It does no advertising. |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| twitter |
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.h… |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| schestowitz |
But it’ll be accused of stuff for “Not Being the Same(C)” as the ‘bought’ coverage |
Jan 03 00:08 |
| twitter |
obnoxious pdf link, sorry. |
Jan 03 00:09 |
| schestowitz |
Heh. Full PDF |
Jan 03 00:09 |
| schestowitz |
Did Adobe exist back then? |
Jan 03 00:09 |
| schestowitz |
The quality if poor. |
Jan 03 00:10 |
| Roy_B |
It’s not so bad considering that it’s from 1917 … |
Jan 03 00:12 |
| twitter |
very bad, considering they have OCR |
Jan 03 00:13 |
| twitter |
That’s the NYT, throwing away a chance to advertise and inconveniencing their readers to prevent sharing. |
Jan 03 00:13 |
| schestowitz |
Google intends to scan more papers |
Jan 03 00:14 |
| schestowitz |
I saw this in Grolaw about 3 months ago |
Jan 03 00:14 |
| Roy_B |
I wouldn’t complain too much. Most papers I know charge for access to articles older than 7, 14 or 30 days. |
Jan 03 00:14 |
| schestowitz |
That ought to help research, BUT… I never know how much papers can be trusted anyway |
Jan 03 00:14 |
| twitter |
Most papers are going out of business for those kinds of policies. |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| schestowitz |
There were no personal blogs back then, either. There were paper journals that are personal. |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| schestowitz |
twitter: precisely |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| Roy_B |
I think less lately, since thy’re under so much financial pressure. |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| schestowitz |
Had they made ALL the stuff they have available, that would be an ocean of good information. |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| twitter |
The more they keep their product to themselves, the less money they earn. |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| schestowitz |
There are those that try selling archives, but it’s very unhelpful. |
Jan 03 00:15 |
| schestowitz |
Roy_B: they fire lots |
Jan 03 00:16 |
| schestowitz |
Let me find an articdle. |
Jan 03 00:16 |
| Roy_B |
Yup, I know it. |
Jan 03 00:16 |
| twitter |
Google, the last time I looked, pointed to Amazon.com even when there were free book copies available online. |
Jan 03 00:16 |
| twitter |
I have not looked in a couple of years, but thought that was wrong at the time. |
Jan 03 00:17 |
| schestowitz |
Got it: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article… |
Jan 03 00:17 |
| twitter |
It is also wrong that copyright lasts as long as it does. Stuff from 1917 is still copyright but has lost much of it’s values. |
Jan 03 00:18 |
| schestowitz |
“The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy Monday. The company publishes the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers. The New York Times Co. intends to pawn its shiny new Manhattan building to borrow a quarter of a billion dollars just to stop the bleeding. Other major dailies are either for sale, or rumored to be so, including the Rocky Mountain News, the Miami Herald and others. The Cox newspaper group is |
Jan 03 00:18 |
| schestowitz |
closing its Washington bureau. Most newspapers have announced layoffs, or will do so soon.” |
Jan 03 00:18 |
| schestowitz |
More here: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=20… |
Jan 03 00:18 |
| schestowitz |
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/re… (Required Reading: News) -> Lessig war on corruption |
Jan 03 00:19 |
| twitter |
I’ll be back later, it’s time to try a fancy 2.6.26 kernel. 24 works better on my laptop but I’d like to see what it does for this newer AMD. It’s the only version with all the extra modules compiled. |
Jan 03 00:20 |
| twitter |
for Lenny. |
Jan 03 00:20 |
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Jan 03 00:20 |
| Roy_B |
Interesting news. They say that it’s necessary to be cynical to be a lawyer and Lessig will have the chance to develop that in abundance. |
Jan 03 00:24 |
| schestowitz |
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/02/… I think James’ concern is that his former employer tries canning his ‘reputation’, portraying him as a lone wolf or a rotten apple. I wonder if his buddy, Marshall Goldberg, is still delivering these training sessions to new ‘TE’ recruits. |
Jan 03 00:24 |
| schestowitz |
His blog is worth reading. He’s truthworthy and he says the truth about the Bad Guys. |
Jan 03 00:25 |
| schestowitz |
He too is being smeared (of course), mostly by the media industry |
Jan 03 00:25 |
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Jan 03 00:27 |
| twitter |
so good so far |
Jan 03 00:27 |
| Roy_B |
He’s bold: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog… |
Jan 03 00:27 |
| twitter |
quick boot |
Jan 03 00:27 |
| Roy_B |
“Lawrence Lessig Calls for the Demolition of the FCC” |
Jan 03 00:28 |
| twitter |
Reed and Bose called for similar action years ago. Good for Lessig to get in on it. |
Jan 03 00:28 |
| Roy_B |
Or from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte… |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| schestowitz |
Roy_B: yes, that’s his latest big blast |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| Roy_B |
“Lawrence Lessig Proposes “Innovation Environment Protection Agency” |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| Roy_B |
The FCC no longer serves the needs of the public …” |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| schestowitz |
He put it in NewsWeek with about half a mil readers. |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| schestowitz |
The FCC ensures duopoly and lack of modernisation. |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| Roy_B |
That’s called makin’ a splash. |
Jan 03 00:29 |
| schestowitz |
Dana Blakenhorn too writes about this a lot. |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| schestowitz |
They changed his headline in NewsWeek |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| schestowitz |
He used harder language. |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| Roy_B |
I remember an interview with Danish media some months ago where he talks about his new focus. |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| schestowitz |
Which just shows you how editorship sets the tone. |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| Roy_B |
I’m glad to see he’s following through on it. |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| schestowitz |
Roy_B: yes, I posted this in many places. |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| schestowitz |
The Danish TV interview |
Jan 03 00:30 |
| schestowitz |
[H]omer found it first and put it in COLA. |
Jan 03 00:31 |
| schestowitz |
He pushed for Obama to be elected too… he knows him in person. |
Jan 03 00:31 |
| Roy_B |
’twill be interesting to see what he does in office. Bush was a hard lesson in “don’t listen to what we say — watch what we do.” |
Jan 03 00:32 |
| schestowitz |
Startup Founders Turn Android into Desktop OS < http://www.pcworld.com/article/156267/and… > |
Jan 03 00:33 |
| schestowitz |
I found several worrisome signs in Obama re: technology: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30… |
Jan 03 00:33 |
| schestowitz |
He also has a bad advisor (among several) on ‘IPR’ issues. |
Jan 03 00:33 |
| schestowitz |
So he’s surrounded by corporations that supposedly represent individuals. |
Jan 03 00:34 |
| Roy_B |
I’m not expecting too much but I hope to be surprised anyway. |
Jan 03 00:35 |
| Roy_B |
He does seem pretty intelligent and hopefully he has more curiosity than his predecessor. |
Jan 03 00:35 |
| schestowitz |
Heh. We’re cited here: http://softlibre.barrapunto.com/sof… |
Jan 03 00:36 |
| schestowitz |
BN is actually quite high status in the Free software circles these days |
Jan 03 00:36 |
| schestowitz |
About 300,000 hits today.. |
Jan 03 00:36 |
| schestowitz |
Obama is a brand |
Jan 03 00:37 |
| schestowitz |
He has some puppets and dictators in his cabinet |
Jan 03 00:37 |
| schestowitz |
Biden and Emanuel for starters. |
Jan 03 00:37 |
| Roy_B |
Interesting: “La AdministraciC3n de Obama migrarC! a OpenOffice.org” |
Jan 03 00:38 |
| Roy_B |
I don’t speak Spanish, but if that means what I think it means … |
Jan 03 00:38 |
| schestowitz |
In related stories. |
Jan 03 00:38 |
| schestowitz |
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourc… |
Jan 03 00:39 |
| schestowitz |
La Administración de Obama migrará a OpenOffice.org Obama Administration migrate to OpenOffice.org |
Jan 03 00:39 |
| schestowitz |
Según se dice en PCWorld, una de las primeras medidas que acometerá Barack Obama, en caso de resultar elegido, será la estandarización de toda la Administración Federal de EEUU a Openoffice.org . Para Obama, Openoffice es una suite ofimática libre, robusta, fiable y adecuada en el 99% de los casos a las necesidades del gobierno americano.» As stated in PCWorld, one of the first steps to launch Barack Obama, if elected, will |
Jan 03 00:39 |
| schestowitz |
be standardized across the U.S. Federal Openoffice.org. For Obama, an office suite OpenOffice is free, robust, reliable and adequate in 99% of the cases to the needs of the American government. “ |
Jan 03 00:39 |
| tessier_ |
The whole federal administrration would standardize on OO.org? |
Jan 03 00:43 |
| tessier_ |
Does Obama really know anything about OO.org? |
Jan 03 00:43 |
| *tessier_ speaks spanish |
Jan 03 00:43 |
| tessier_ |
Google’s translation is decent |
Jan 03 00:43 |
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Jan 03 00:53 |
| schestowitz |
He uses Apple stuff, doesn’t he? |
Jan 03 00:54 |
| MinceR |
i guess he uses whatever the rich bastards throw at him as a marketing stunt |
Jan 03 00:55 |
| MinceR |
after all, exploiting people who don’t know better for profit is the American Dream |
Jan 03 00:55 |
| Roy_B |
Obama? Yes, plus he uses a Crackberry |
Jan 03 00:55 |
| MinceR |
at least i’ve heard they’ve given him a zune |
Jan 03 00:56 |
| Roy_B |
I wonder if it would mean anything to him that they were sued by a patent troll and had to waste a lot of money to settle it. |
Jan 03 00:56 |
| MinceR |
i don’t remember his official stance on sw patents, if he had any |
Jan 03 00:57 |
| schestowitz |
MinceR: I doubt he understands these issues. |
Jan 03 01:04 |
| schestowitz |
He’ll find some advisors… mental aides |
Jan 03 01:04 |
| MinceR |
some of his advisors might though |
Jan 03 01:04 |
| MinceR |
then again, those advisors might very well answer to someone else… with money. |
Jan 03 01:04 |
| schestowitz |
Judging by the inauguration, I already lose trust in him |
Jan 03 01:04 |
| MinceR |
i’ve lost trust him long ago, but i can’t remember why :> |
Jan 03 01:05 |
| MinceR |
s/hi/in hi/ |
Jan 03 01:05 |
| MinceR |
i vaguely remember that there was a concrete reason besides that he’s a fundamentalist politician |
Jan 03 01:05 |
| schestowitz |
Obama inauguration, sponsored and brought to you by Brad Smith, Clyde Ballmer, Steve Ballmer, Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, etc. |
Jan 03 01:05 |
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Jan 03 02:08 |
| twitter |
eh, back to 24. |
Jan 03 02:10 |
| MinceR |
24? |
Jan 03 02:10 |
| twitter |
2.6.26 gave me problems with setting a bt878 capture card. |
Jan 03 02:10 |
| MinceR |
oh. |
Jan 03 02:10 |
| MinceR |
my bt878 card fried and i couldn’t get a replacement :/ |
Jan 03 02:10 |
| twitter |
you should be able to find them for $5 at any computer shop. |
Jan 03 02:11 |
| twitter |
used parts, that is |
Jan 03 02:11 |
| schestowitz |
gn |
Jan 03 02:11 |
| twitter |
good night |
Jan 03 02:11 |
| twitter |
vlc records very will now |
Jan 03 02:11 |
| MinceR |
i have a saa7134 card now |
Jan 03 02:12 |
| MinceR |
which means no radio and no teletext |
Jan 03 02:12 |
| MinceR |
also, damned slow channel switching |
Jan 03 02:12 |
| twitter |
hmmm. |
Jan 03 02:12 |
| MinceR |
i used to have a Hauppauge WinTV PCI/FM, and when i tried to get another, i’ve found that they’ve silently replaced the bt878 with a cx88 |
Jan 03 02:12 |
| twitter |
all I do is record with chron jobs. |
Jan 03 02:12 |
| twitter |
cron jobs |
Jan 03 02:13 |
| MinceR |
not even the vendor was aware of this, they still advertised it as a bt878 card |
Jan 03 02:13 |
| twitter |
uhg. |
Jan 03 02:13 |
| MinceR |
hopefully we’ll soon switch to DVB and i can get some decent solution to this problem |
Jan 03 02:13 |
| MinceR |
i’m afraid i’ll have to get both a DVB-T and DVB-C dongle though :/ |
Jan 03 02:14 |
| twitter |
I got a converter box. Reception is surprisingly better than analog. |
Jan 03 02:15 |
| MinceR |
what sort of converter? |
Jan 03 02:15 |
| twitter |
DTV to analog. |
Jan 03 02:16 |
| twitter |
Insignia and Apex from Best Buy. |
Jan 03 02:16 |
| MinceR |
isn’t kind of pointless to convert from DTV to analog and then back to digital again? |
Jan 03 02:16 |
| MinceR |
s/ki/it ki/ |
Jan 03 02:16 |
| twitter |
not if all I have is an analog capture card |
Jan 03 02:16 |
| twitter |
If my ATI all in wonder card does DTV, I don’t know how it works. |
Jan 03 02:17 |
| MinceR |
well, you could get a digital tv card :> |
Jan 03 02:17 |
| twitter |
I got one with my last computer but could not make it work. |
Jan 03 02:17 |
| twitter |
The old card works AOK and I don’t want more than 640×480 anyway. |
Jan 03 02:18 |
| twitter |
after capture, I trim them down to ogg theora |
Jan 03 02:19 |
| twitter |
The biggest problem I have with the converter box is that I can’t change frequencies in software anymore, but that’s not too big a deal because I rarely want to record anything but PBS anyway. |
Jan 03 02:21 |
| twitter |
The nicest thing about the older cards are that they don’t “respect” broadcast flags. |
Jan 03 02:22 |
| twitter |
I don’t think the converter boxes do anything about that either. |
Jan 03 02:22 |
| twitter |
good night |
Jan 03 02:23 |
| MinceR |
gn twitter |
Jan 03 02:24 |
| MinceR |
if i had DTV, i’d just save the stream directly :> |
Jan 03 02:24 |
| MinceR |
no information loss, no problem :> |
Jan 03 02:25 |
| MinceR |
gn |
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Jan 03 07:35 |
| mib_la0tyo |
hi |
Jan 03 07:35 |
| mib_la0tyo |
all |
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Jan 03 08:05 |
| schestowitz |
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/01/androi… “Ramifications abound: What does it mean for the stock price of Microsoft? Microsoft currently owns the vast majority of the desktop operating system market share? In recent weeks, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer repeatedly dismissed Android as competition to Windows Mobile.” FUD means MS is concerned. |
Jan 03 09:25 |
| schestowitz |
“Only two companies will have office suites with ODF 1.1 read/write support, Microsoft Office and StarOffice. Sun jerked the ODF 1.1 write support out of OOo 3.0, which can only write to what is called “ODF 1.2,” which is dramatically different from ODF 1.1. StarOffice users can choose whether to write to ODF 1.1 or ODF 1.2.” |
Jan 03 09:26 |
| schestowitz |
“So StarOffice/MS Office interop should be dramatically better than OOo/MS Office interop, driving enterprise OOo users to proprietary StarOffice.” |
Jan 03 09:27 |
| schestowitz |
“But I don’t think there will be much of that in this piece. This is more about the latest round in the Microsoft-Sun Microsystems plot to knock OOo out of the market. Their plan to do it with Microsoft’s patents didn’t work. See < http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/709519/0001193… >section IV.” |
Jan 03 09:27 |
| schestowitz |
“Software patents went down in flames in India and the E.U. and the U.S. Supreme Court began making noises about doing away with software patents.” |
Jan 03 09:28 |
| schestowitz |
“Rumaor has it for many years, Microsoft uses large numbers of subcontractors for low wage programmers in Redmond?” http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/33369 |
Jan 03 10:14 |
| schestowitz |
“Microsoft uses sweat shop programmers ? 5000 Vietnamese ?” |
Jan 03 10:14 |
| schestowitz |
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-layo… D”avid Gerard said.. Microsoft Corporation is headed for swingeing layoffs in mid-January and has called for a government bailout in the face of the credit crunch.” |
Jan 03 10:21 |
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Jan 03 10:36 |
| Omar87 |
Hi All |
Jan 03 10:36 |
| schestowitz |
Hey there! |
Jan 03 10:37 |
| schestowitz |
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01… |
Jan 03 10:37 |
| Omar87 |
How’s it goin’? |
Jan 03 10:37 |
| schestowitz |
Quite OK. Some trolls abound |
Jan 03 10:38 |
| Omar87 |
Did you read about the bootable FSF membership cards? |
Jan 03 10:38 |
| Omar87 |
They seem cool! |
Jan 03 10:38 |
| Omar87 |
They contain Gnewsense Live along with a collection of videos for RMS, and more. |
Jan 03 10:39 |
| schestowitz |
Videos? *LOL* |
Jan 03 10:39 |
| schestowitz |
So if they were stranded on an island, they could watch RMS talks. |
Jan 03 10:40 |
| Omar87 |
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Now-… |
Jan 03 10:40 |
| Omar87 |
LOL!  |
Jan 03 10:40 |
| schestowitz |
Member #0 |
Jan 03 10:40 |
| Omar87 |
Of course, they can do that as long the battery of their laptop is still alive.  |
Jan 03 10:41 |
| Omar87 |
as long *as*.. |
Jan 03 10:42 |
| schestowitz |
http://jadi.net/2009/01/giving-l… “Pentium 120, 32 MB ram, 4 GB Hard”!! |
Jan 03 10:44 |
| schestowitz |
Will it run Vista? |
Jan 03 10:44 |
| Omar87 |
I don’t think? |
Jan 03 10:45 |
| Axz |
Knoppix would be perfect for those poor machines |
Jan 03 10:45 |
| Omar87 |
I don’t think so.. |
Jan 03 10:45 |
| Omar87 |
I think DSL will be good too. |
Jan 03 10:45 |
| Axz |
lol ironic i did’t notice it was a mac |
Jan 03 10:46 |
| Axz |
but yeah Knoppix can polish that slow poor thing up |
Jan 03 10:47 |
| Omar87 |
[NOTE: By "I don't think so", I meant I don't think they can run Vista] |
Jan 03 10:47 |
| schestowitz |
Would knoppix ever run? |
Jan 03 10:47 |
| Axz |
lol like charmed |
Jan 03 10:47 |
| Axz |
we installed knoppix on ols atari once |
Jan 03 10:47 |
| Axz |
old* |
Jan 03 10:47 |
| schestowitz |
The 7-pound sub-notebooks |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| Omar87 |
WOW!! |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| Axz |
perfect distro for old abused machines by windows :p |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| Omar87 |
What about Damn Small? |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| schestowitz |
This is ridiculous: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/3… |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| Axz |
also great one indd |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| Omar87 |
LOL |
Jan 03 10:48 |
| Omar87 |
A couple of days ago, my friend told about someone he knows, he’s a MS extremists, and hated each and every Linux distro. |
Jan 03 10:49 |
| Axz |
Hehe, poor guy |
Jan 03 10:50 |
| schestowitz |
Because they harms Monopoly |
Jan 03 10:50 |
| schestowitz |
*harm |
Jan 03 10:50 |
| schestowitz |
Some people want to be ‘Part of the Club’ (the MS kickbacks) |
Jan 03 10:50 |
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Jan 03 10:50 |
| Omar87 |
One day he came to my friend and started asking him a lot about BackTrack Linux, and when my friend asked why he’s doing that, he said: “Although I hate all sorts of Linux, Backtrack Linux is the only Linux distro. I liked!!” |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| Omar87 |
Can you believe that..? |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| Axz |
That’s great example for everyone using perfect GUI designed OS but security is zero |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| Omar87 |
Isn’t that hilarious?? |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| schestowitz |
The Clean Coal Bait and Switch < http://www.prwatch.org/node/8096 > |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| schestowitz |
It’s all PR. |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| schestowitz |
http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-… |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| Axz |
security isnt even i ‘m worried about, more lazyness |
Jan 03 10:51 |
| schestowitz |
Omar87: people who discredit Linux try to have people try bad sdistros |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| schestowitz |
Like suggesting newbies that they try Gentoo |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| Omar87 |
schestowitz: He hated all other Linux distros. but Backtrack Linux. |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| schestowitz |
This way they recoil in disgust and never want to try it again. |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| oiaohm |
There is no such thing as a Perfect GUI someone will hate it. Some people like ratpoison wm of all things. |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| Omar87 |
schestowitz: No, my friend is a big fan of Linux. |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| schestowitz |
Oh, oops. |
Jan 03 10:52 |
| Axz |
Omar87, Sorry BackTrack is not really distro is more utilities like Qparted |
Jan 03 10:53 |
| schestowitz |
Either way, many distros are acceptable these days |
Jan 03 10:53 |
| Omar87 |
schestowitz: Actually, my friend is the current leader of Open Source Group at my university. |
Jan 03 10:53 |
| schestowitz |
Some people only require a Web browser, not even an office suite, which SaaS can often substitute. |
Jan 03 10:53 |
| schestowitz |
brb |
Jan 03 10:54 |
| Omar87 |
schestowitz: Yeah, but what freaks you is that how did he even hear about BackTrack when he never even liked it’s parent Slackware! |
Jan 03 10:55 |
| oiaohm |
http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ << Yes I have one person I work with who loves thing. |
Jan 03 10:55 |
| Omar87 |
schestowitz: tyt. |
Jan 03 10:55 |
| oiaohm |
Hmm that clean coal one. Pumping CO2 into the ground you better be dam sure its not going to rupture someone popultated and release the CO2. People forget one lake killed many villages in afria due to a mass CO2 release. |
Jan 03 11:01 |
| schestowitz |
Nice logo:: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/… |
Jan 03 11:08 |
| schestowitz |
I can imagine what the boxed version would be like. |
Jan 03 11:08 |
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Jan 03 11:10 |
| trmanco |
LOL |
Jan 03 11:10 |
| trmanco |
rat poison? |
Jan 03 11:11 |
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Jan 03 11:12 |
| oiaohm |
Hmm netsplit |
Jan 03 11:13 |
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Jan 03 11:21 |
| schestowitz |
New site: http://www.yearwithoutdrm.com/ |
Jan 03 11:24 |
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Jan 03 11:25 |
| schestowitz |
US harnesses blog for its propaganda (‘PR’): http://andylark.blogs.com/andyl… |
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Jan 03 11:33 |
| oiaohm |
US Airforce answer guide is fairly good. |
Jan 03 11:34 |
| oiaohm |
I find tolls hate nothing more than pure logical answers. And after a while doing that in there blog there blog dies. |
Jan 03 11:34 |
| schestowitz |
It’s best to ignore them. |
Jan 03 11:35 |
| schestowitz |
In BN, I can’t totally not read them (no killfiles), but it’s better if no-one gives them attention. |
Jan 03 11:35 |
| oiaohm |
Depends. |
Jan 03 11:36 |
| oiaohm |
Linux Hater and the like breeding a culture of trolling kinda needs to be taken out. |
Jan 03 11:36 |
| schestowitz |
Whose trolling? Posters or comments? |
Jan 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz |
Beranger has been silent for a week. |
Jan 03 11:37 |
| oiaohm |
Me picking on him with logic at moment. |
Jan 03 11:37 |
| schestowitz |
It’s probably a good thing. He thought about shutting it down too |
Jan 03 11:37 |
| oiaohm |
Linux Hater opening prometed insulting and the like. |
Jan 03 11:45 |
| oiaohm |
Yes it got funny I had trolls there begging for me to leave because I was undermining there fun. |
Jan 03 11:46 |
| mib_o21sxr |
hola |
Jan 03 11:46 |
| schestowitz |
Hey there. |
Jan 03 11:47 |
| mib_o21sxr |
good articles of late |
Jan 03 11:48 |
| schestowitz |
oiaohm: in which blof? Redux? |
Jan 03 11:48 |
| schestowitz |
*Hehe. Blog, not bloff |
Jan 03 11:48 |
| oiaohm |
Did in redux as well. |
Jan 03 11:48 |
| schestowitz |
mib_o21sxr: thanks, I have some more about Microsoft, but errands to run… which get in the way |
Jan 03 11:48 |
| oiaohm |
He was too simple really did not have the IT skill of the first Linux hater. |
Jan 03 11:48 |
| schestowitz |
Which was the first one? Miguel de Novell knows her/him |
Jan 03 11:49 |
| mib_o21sxr |
Keep up the solid facts and tight arguments…don’t let the detractors distract you! |
Jan 03 11:49 |
| schestowitz |
Thanks. When they nitpick and don’t comment on important posts or issues, then it means all is correct |
Jan 03 11:49 |
| mib_o21sxr |
You see the OLPC stuff in the Comes vs Microsoft files? |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz |
??? |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz |
Really? |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| mib_o21sxr |
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowacon… |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| mib_o21sxr |
maybe something there |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz |
Let’s see |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz |
Martin taylor… |
Jan 03 11:50 |
| mib_o21sxr |
take a look …not sure if it’s enough to blog on , but i like the proposal and him giving away the back-up startegy if XP is rejected |
Jan 03 11:51 |
| schestowitz |
Grrrrrrr……. |
Jan 03 11:51 |
| schestowitz |
The anti-Linux guy…Ballmer’s buddy |
Jan 03 11:51 |
| schestowitz |
Bad English… |
Jan 03 11:51 |
| schestowitz |
Is there an OCRed version? |
Jan 03 11:52 |
| oiaohm |
There are a lot of anti-Linux guys. Best fun I ever had was going head to head with the 1 lead developer of reactos who really loves Windows. He had the idea that he would beat me. |
Jan 03 11:52 |
| oiaohm |
Yes he did know both sides quite well. |
Jan 03 11:52 |
| mib_o21sxr |
I haven’t see one yet … I’m still working my way through the archives. About halfway done |
Jan 03 11:52 |
| mib_o21sxr |
it’s tiring work |
Jan 03 11:52 |
| schestowitz |
Orlandao Ayala! |
Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz |
He’s now their main man.. |
Jan 03 11:53 |
| oiaohm |
To be correct loves NT design hates how windows is built. |
Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz |
And Mundie’s there too |
Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz |
Windows is badly built |
Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz |
Microsoft has regrrets |
Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz |
But it has libailities related to backward compat. |
Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz |
*liabilities |
Jan 03 11:54 |
| oiaohm |
That is wrong for some sections. |
Jan 03 11:54 |
| mib_o21sxr |
Oh I have IDC actually sending the draft of thier TCO report to MS for review and comment as well |
Jan 03 11:54 |
| mib_o21sxr |
if you haven’t seen that one |
Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz |
Which Rashid is this? I can recall Mary Jo Foley talking about one. VP or something.. |
Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz |
http://www.microsoft.com/presspa… |
Jan 03 11:55 |
| oiaohm |
Bad spinlock system in windows NT fixing does not break backward compad and would free up 14 percent more cpu time. |
Jan 03 11:55 |
| schestowitz |
Will Poole is there. |
Jan 03 11:55 |
| schestowitz |
He was made head of “Unlimited” “Potential” |
Jan 03 11:55 |
| mib_o21sxr |
rashid is VP of Microsoft Research i think |
Jan 03 11:55 |
| mib_o21sxr |
that’s “MSR” in the emails … pretty sure |
Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz |
Then he left to ‘occupy’ NCOmputer, which he’s likely doing his service to Microsoft |
Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz |
oiaohm: see their research on Singularity. Win is a Pig |
Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz |
Richard (Rick) F. Rashid |
Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz |
MSR = Richard (Rick) F. Rashid? |
Jan 03 11:57 |
| mib_o21sxr |
no MSR = Microsoft Research |
Jan 03 11:57 |
| mib_o21sxr |
they are funding Media Lab and MIT and discussing that in the email |
Jan 03 11:57 |
| schestowitz |
I haven’t read that through |
Jan 03 11:57 |
| schestowitz |
But this reminds me of the Kenya incident |
Jan 03 11:57 |
| oiaohm |
Singularity research is because Microsoft could is the writing on the wall. Single CPU type OS was doomed in time. |
Jan 03 11:57 |
| schestowitz |
Threatening to decrease or affect funds if some demands are not met |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz |
In one case it was OOXML |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| mib_o21sxr |
“This could be a very significant investment, with the discussion indicating that it would be somewhere between $10MM and $30MM” |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz |
Here they talk about finding to something and the selling of Windows |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz |
They try to muck about with charitable means using money… like bribes or blackmail |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| mib_o21sxr |
yuo |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| mib_o21sxr |
yup |
Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz |
Education Open Source |
Jan 03 11:59 |
| mib_o21sxr |
the whole EDGI program is basically a bribery slush fund |
Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz |
Again with the posturing. |
Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz |
Does anyone have OCR software?? |
Jan 03 12:00 |
| schestowitz |
We need to publish this. It’s important. Thanks, mib_o21sxr |
Jan 03 12:01 |
| oiaohm |
Fun thing about these tight times sluch funds will have to be justified.(Sorry no OCR here) |
Jan 03 12:01 |
| schestowitz |
brb |
Jan 03 12:01 |
| mib_o21sxr |
np i have quite a bit more as well on other topics |
Jan 03 12:01 |
| oiaohm |
That document is so microsoft. |
Jan 03 12:05 |
| mib_o21sxr |
yes … reading through all the archive is tedious as all get out, but there are a few gems there |
Jan 03 12:23 |
| oiaohm |
Embrace, extend and extinguish tatics have not changed that much over the years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_ex… |
Jan 03 12:28 |
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Jan 03 12:38 |
| schestowitz |
Watch the Mundie E-mail in page 2 |
Jan 03 12:40 |
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Jan 03 12:43 |
| schestowitz |
MinceR will love this: My biggest tech disappointment of 2008: MacBook Air < http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10129… > |
Jan 03 12:50 |
| MinceR |
r4wr |
Jan 03 12:53 |
| oiaohm |
I still remember see the guy on youtube cutting bread with a MacBook Air |
Jan 03 12:53 |
| oiaohm |
There is such thing as making a device too small. |
Jan 03 12:53 |
| schestowitz |
That comes from a Mac fan even. |
Jan 03 12:55 |
| schestowitz |
Small can be impractical |
Jan 03 12:56 |
| schestowitz |
This is a work device, not a fashion accessory |
Jan 03 12:56 |
| oiaohm |
Netbooks + me are impractical. I am 6 foot 4. |
Jan 03 12:56 |
| oiaohm |
Thing I wonder are all reviews of Netbooks shortter than me. I cannot type effectively on a netbook keyboard. |
Jan 03 12:58 |
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