Links 06/02/2008: Reorganisations at Microsoft, Developments in FOSS and GNU/Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-02-06 15:48:18 UTC
- Modified: 2008-02-06 15:48:18 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Apple is just another greedy corporation in search of sweatshops and even pedophiles (especially the high-profile ones)
- Counting Unhatched Eggs Is Not Counting Chickens
- Everything here will persist as normal
- The "Infinite Bread"
- The biblical story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 has software parallels
- In Many Cases and in Many Different Ways, Technology Became Less Durable and Less Reliable Over Time
- The "modern" things are more complex. And complexity is a foe or reliability and repair-ability.
- Microsoft's LinkedIn is Losing Money, Traffic, and Hope; Now It Wants to Sell Its Users' Lifeblood (and Data)
- Let this be a reminder of what social control media really is about
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- 4Chan is one he aims for and he is siccing 4Chan trolls at people he doesn't like
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- He spoke there before; there's a very high seating capacity there
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- Richard Stallman to Give Another Talk Today in Bavaria (Bavarian Academy of Science)
- Tomorrow at 6 PM he speaks in Munich
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- Barry Kauler's Puppy Linux is in the community's hands. He now focuses on EasyOS and more.
- Half a Year After Brian Fagioli Got Kicked Out of BetaNews for Slop He's Still Doing LLM Slop and Slop Images Targeting 'Linux' (Plagiarising Original Works)
- If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- We not only saw a rise in traffic, we also saw a remarkable rise in the number of articles
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- Perhaps an opportunity for Dr. Stallman to rebut this "invention to patent" nonsense/fantasy (conflating monopolies with innovation)
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- there's nothing unreasonable about it
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- Not counting browser plugins for Web browsers
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- Links for the day
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- GNU/Linux has a considerable share and it is growing
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- Inane garbage disguised as "journalism"
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- some weeks ago
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- Each year it gets worse
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- We appreciate the honesty
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- We're going to keep an eye on future posts of his
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- They'd demonise people for speaking about freedom, no matter what they say or do
- Digital Sanitation Good Practices
- leave behind Microsoftism
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- English translation
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- expect the FSF to add more people
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Comments
jaims
2008-02-06 17:44:55
Is it possible by any means that you are being banned from dns servers or something? Since a few days ago I can\'t enter your site, all I get is an http 503 error; even Tor+privoxy is failing. I\'m now using an http proxy BTW and I\'m in Spain.
Regards and keep on that.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-02-06 23:05:59
Thanks for letting us know. Can you please obtain more information about this? Some months ago, anonymous posters made false accusations about this site claiming it was launching DDOS attacks. They filled various public forums with these bogus accusations and then had it blacklisted by Websense. The same tactics were apparently (or quite surely) used against Groklaw and against my personal site (false accusations followed by Websense filtering). If you can identify the source or level at which there is a block, then we can at least try to do something.
jaims
2008-02-07 08:08:41
Any ideas on how I could identify the level at which there is a block? The situation is still the same; can\'t get to \'http://boycottnovell.com/\' unless I use an http proxy.
I don\'t know how to check this, but I can follow your indications in order to find out what\'s happening.
In the meanwhile, there go the tracert results (using opendns as dns):
2 287 ms 245 ms 246 ms 10.4.30.1 3 122 ms 44 ms 48 ms 130.Red-80-58-117.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.58.117.130] 4 61 ms 100 ms 81 ms TdE-5-0-0-0-grtbcnes1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.9.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.9.250] 5 226 ms 98 ms 62 ms So-5-0-0-0-grtbcnes1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.9.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.9.249] 6 81 ms 99 ms 75 ms So6-0-0-0-grtparix3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [84.16.12.62] 7 * 162 ms * Cogent-1-0-0-grtparix1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [213.140.52.134] 8 62 ms 73 ms 162 ms te4-2.mpd02.par01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.69] 9 212 ms 430 ms 447 ms te3-4.mpd01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.2.102] 10 147 ms 198 ms 191 ms te8-1.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.70] 11 140 ms 286 ms 147 ms vl3495.mpd01.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.62] 12 233 ms 214 ms 172 ms opendns.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.56.50] 13 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 14 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 15 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 16 * * ^C
If I use the telefonica (my ISP) dns, the result is shorter :-) :
C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrador>tracert boicottnovell.com No se puede resolver el nombre de destino boicottnovell.com. (can\'t solve the name boicottnovell.com)
jaims
2008-02-07 08:14:05
Seems that using an http proxy doesn\'t make things easy when it comes to leave a new comment. I was trying to copy/paste the result of a tracert from my pc, but seems like something went wrong...
There I go again
2 287 ms 245 ms 246 ms 10.4.30.1 3 122 ms 44 ms 48 ms 130.Red-80-58-117.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.58.117.130] 4 61 ms 100 ms 81 ms TdE-5-0-0-0-grtbcnes1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.9.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.9.250] 5 226 ms 98 ms 62 ms So-5-0-0-0-grtbcnes1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.9.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.9.249] 6 81 ms 99 ms 75 ms So6-0-0-0-grtparix3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [84.16.12.62] 7 * 162 ms * Cogent-1-0-0-grtparix1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [213.140.52.134] 8 62 ms 73 ms 162 ms te4-2.mpd02.par01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.69] 9 212 ms 430 ms 447 ms te3-4.mpd01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.2.102] 10 147 ms 198 ms 191 ms te8-1.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.70] 11 140 ms 286 ms 147 ms vl3495.mpd01.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.62] 12 233 ms 214 ms 172 ms opendns.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.56.50] 13 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 14 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 15 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud.
jaims
2008-02-07 08:17:57
Hope it helps; I\'ll take a look over here later, if you think of something else I can check, please let me know
Roy Schestowitz
2008-02-07 08:33:19
There are two things I can think of:
I can't help wondering if the exclusion is accidental or not. Can you access http://www.suemelinux.com/ for example? It should resolve to pretty much the same IP address.
jaims
2008-02-07 12:09:51
I think you must be right; I cannot enter to suemelinux.com either (unless I use the http proxy). It\'s probably the IPv6 switch or maybe the sharks became too hungry :-)
Yes, I was aware of the 5th cable stuff; plenty of \'conspiranoia\' on the web these days about it.
I\'ll keep checking boycottnovell, the connection issue will -hopefully- solved soon.
Keep the good job in the meanwhile
Saludos
Roy Schestowitz
2008-02-07 12:29:32
login (user/pass): open; proxy10
jaims
2008-02-08 08:06:21
Saludos