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| schestowitz | anivar: I posted an update abouts swpats in India yesterday. | Jul 31 09:23 |
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| anivar | i read it | Jul 31 09:24 |
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| schestowitz | Do you know the OSIndia guy? Is it you? :-S | Jul 31 09:24 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: it is my friend venkitesh Hariharan | Jul 31 09:27 |
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| anivar | he works with Redhat | Jul 31 09:27 |
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| anivar | India | Jul 31 09:28 |
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| schestowitz | A moment ago I posted this < http://boycottnovell.com/2008... > to show that Microsoft clearly bets on patents to compete. | Jul 31 09:30 |
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| anivar | hmm.. | Jul 31 09:31 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: Did u seen ramji's performance in OSCON? | Jul 31 09:32 |
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| anivar | http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/07300... | Jul 31 09:32 |
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| schestowitz | I'm about to write about it. | Jul 31 09:32 |
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| *schestowitz looks | Jul 31 09:32 |
| anivar | schestowitz: do it | Jul 31 09:33 |
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| schestowitz | Yes, that's one of 2 articles I was gonna cite. | Jul 31 09:33 |
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| schestowitz | The other one is from El Reg. | Jul 31 09:33 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft let's us talk to 'barbie dolls' PR types while it's doing dirty laundry at the back. This is bad. | Jul 31 09:34 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: Also see M$ strategee withy eee pC | Jul 31 09:34 |
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| anivar | see this article http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/07300... | Jul 31 09:34 |
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| anivar | no not that link | Jul 31 09:35 |
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| anivar | http://www.techtree.com/India/News/E... | Jul 31 09:35 |
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| schestowitz | I wrote about the Eee PC twice recently. | Jul 31 09:36 |
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| anivar | ok | Jul 31 09:36 |
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| schestowitz | Free Softrware Magazine seems to have covered it too after I made the front page of FSD and sent the stuff to PJ. | Jul 31 09:36 |
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| anivar | good | Jul 31 09:36 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: nee to move now | Jul 31 09:37 |
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| schestowitz | Don't worry about it. Microsoft sacrifices margins here | Jul 31 09:37 |
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| *anivar away | Jul 31 09:37 |
| schestowitz | Its margins declines from 85% to just 45%. It's not sustainable. | Jul 31 09:37 |
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| schestowitz | np, will cya later. | Jul 31 09:37 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: "Welcome to our first real taste of Trusted Computing: With Vista | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | Enterprise and Vista Ultimate, Service Pack 1 refuses to install on | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | dual boot systems. Trusted Computing is one of the many things that | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | got cut from Vista, but traces of it remain in BitLocker, and that is | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | the problem. The Service Pack patch to your system will invalidate | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | your Trust chain if you are not running the Microsoft-approved | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | Microsoft-trusted boot loader, or if you make other similar unapproved | Jul 31 10:30 |
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| anivar | modifications to your system. The Trust chip (the TPM) will then | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | refuse to give you your key to unlock your own hard drive. If you are | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | not running BitLocker then a workaround is available: Switch back to | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | Microsoft's Vista-only boot mode, install the Service Pack, then | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | reapply your dual boot loader. If you are running BitLocker, or if | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | Microsoft resumes implementing Trusted Computing, then you are S.O.L." | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/07... | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| schestowitz | Yes, thanks. | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| schestowitz | I was sent this by a reader by E-mail. Here's my take on this. | Jul 31 10:31 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: Link Lafcon video too | Jul 31 10:32 |
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| schestowitz | "I just spotted this piece of news. The war Redmond is waging against GNU/Linux intensifies: http://apcmag.com/vista_sp1_wont_ins... " | Jul 31 10:32 |
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| schestowitz | "I'm sure they will ridiculously attempt to justify this step for security reasons (but what best security measure than running a virus-resilient OS instead of windows in order to perform a sensitive task with safety than having a dual boot system - for example for online banking or to recover data from a windows partition after suffering a winOS crash-)" | Jul 31 10:32 |
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| schestowitz | "Long time since I sent you news but I keep reading BNovell regularly. As always, thanks for your brave effort at unmasking the maneovers against software freedom and keep up the good work! Hope to have some spare time and appear over the IRC some time soon..." | Jul 31 10:32 |
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| schestowitz | My reply: "I'm surprised that /. picked it so many months after it had been published. I started a huge thread about it in USENET, but nothing in bn.com because OOXML was more urgent a problem at the time. Should we cover it now?" | Jul 31 10:32 |
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| anivar | http://it.slashdot.org/it/0... | Jul 31 10:32 |
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| anivar | http://www.lafkon.net/tc/ this is the lafkon video link | Jul 31 10:33 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft loves to use 'security" as an excuse. | Jul 31 10:33 |
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| schestowitz | It did this with OOXML (old file types expire for "security reasons"... instead of fixing them, Microsoft blocked them) | Jul 31 10:33 |
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| anivar | yea | Jul 31 10:33 |
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| schestowitz | Then it tried to fight hypervisors in the same way. First blocking them, then using a EULA (!!!) to restrict it as if a contract would stop crackers. | Jul 31 10:34 |
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| schestowitz | Should I cover this despite the fact that it's old news? | Jul 31 10:34 |
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| anivar | You tube link of LafKon Trusted computing video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QuptMSA1rs | Jul 31 10:34 |
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| schestowitz | Havne't seen it yet. | Jul 31 10:35 |
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| anivar | It clearly attack the "Trusted" model | Jul 31 10:35 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: cover it | Jul 31 10:36 |
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| schestowitz | Oh, I saw that. | Jul 31 10:36 |
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| schestowitz | Seen it several times. | Jul 31 10:36 |
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| anivar | i am using it in my presentations | Jul 31 10:36 |
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| schestowitz | Will do. | Jul 31 10:36 |
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| schestowitz | anivar: it's posted now: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/07/31/... | Jul 31 12:00 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft and Intel screw Portugal again (not for the first time): http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/in... | Jul 31 13:08 |
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| schestowitz | They probably plan the same type of thing in Russia, if the government permits. The children there are already exposed to Free software, so 'gifts' are given, like free drugs. | Jul 31 13:09 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: see http://openmanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/07/... | Jul 31 15:52 |
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| schestowitz | Thanks, Anivar. I've just come back. Did you see what I published earlier? | Jul 31 16:43 |
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| anivar | schestowitz: yes | Jul 31 17:02 |
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| schestowitz | I've found some more interesting things about it, but making fun is somewhat of a distraction. It's very revealing when Microsoft lies in its marketing endeavors. | Jul 31 17:03 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversyst... | Jul 31 17:21 |
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| schestowitz | Well, well, well... Microsoft has found itself another SCO-like vector...? | Jul 31 17:22 |
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| schestowitz | Great news from the Mozillians! http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492 | Jul 31 19:23 |
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| schestowitz | Ogg deployment on over 20% of the machines. http://www.tgdaily.com/co... | Jul 31 19:24 |
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| moparx | that is a great development :) | Jul 31 19:54 |
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