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| twitter | Scare tactics? That's the most amazing news I've seen in a long time, " Applications developed in the past five years — whether created internally or externally — typically contain at least 50 percent open-source or other third-party components, much of it undocumented by the company’s engineering or security teams, Palamida officials say." | Nov 05 03:41 |
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| twitter | Propitiatory software is ripping off the free software world in mass. | Nov 05 03:41 |
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| twitter | I'd heard of huge rip offs in the past, the Mosaic browser, spyglass, Maxsyma, etc, where private companies closed off government sponsored code. | Nov 05 03:43 |
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| twitter | This scan is something else all together. Non free software companies have a huge problem if this is true and an obvious answer - go legit and liberate their code. | Nov 05 03:44 |
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| twitter | "Borrowed" free software goes stale outside of the larger community. It would be better if these companies modularized their code and got back into the community to share better maintained software. | Nov 05 03:45 |
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| twitter | Non free code duplicates effort and costs money. To get by, they seem to have been ripping off free software. They might as well come clean and do it right. | Nov 05 03:46 |
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| twitter | Yes, that is FUD judo. The non free software world has been plundering free software for decades. They would like to use that fact to scare the PHB, and it should but not the way they think. | Nov 05 04:11 |
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| twitter | Customers should demand free software to avoid a poorly thrown together patchwork of the same thing from non free software vendors. | Nov 05 04:12 |
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| twitter | Story "Propitiatory Software is Actually Half FOSS???" floated onto the firehose. | Nov 05 04:13 |
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| twitter | Wooo hooo! Open Spectrum is much closer than I thought, http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl... | Nov 05 04:20 |
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| twitter | "When the vote came, though, it was unanimous" | Nov 05 04:21 |
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| twitter | These folks should be very happy about this http://www.prometheusradio.org/ | Nov 05 04:22 |
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| tessier | So what is this open spectrum going to be used for and what freq range is this spectrum? | Nov 05 05:59 |
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| MinceR | r4wr | Nov 05 07:14 |
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| schestowitz | Hey | Nov 05 07:14 |
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| schestowitz | Sweat Shop: Dell pressures workers into leave without pay < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/05... > | Nov 05 09:30 |
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| schestowitz | Problems at Debian or The Register exaggerating as usual? < http://www.theregister.c... > | Nov 05 10:55 |
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| schestowitz | Nokia closes plant, 'reorganises' 600 staff < http://www.theregister.co.uk/200... > | Nov 05 11:12 |
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| schestowitz | http://technocrat.net/d/2008/11/4/53421 "Lessig for Attorney General. Not at all sure we'll get that, but it is consistent with the force of collaboration that made Obama president. Maybe we could give him that new "Copyright Czar" job that Congress recently created." | Nov 05 11:26 |
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| PetoKraus | lol: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/04/... | Nov 05 12:32 |
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| schestowitz | I posted a comment in Sutor's blog (VP of FOSS and standards at IBM) I challenged him to fight software patents, but he didn't approve the comment. It figures. They are not interested in negotiation. | Nov 05 12:40 |
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| schestowitz | This is good news because Linux is well ahead at SSD support: Seagate: Enterprise SSD to Be Released Next Year < http://www.pcworld.com/article/15327... > | Nov 05 13:38 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.pcworld.com/article/153292/window... "If Windows Is a Dead End, What's Next?" | Nov 05 13:46 |
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| schestowitz | Could it possibly be true that Microsoft at least experiments with Linux as the base for win32 APIs? | Nov 05 13:47 |
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| MinceR | i think they're trying to throw win32 away in favor of .net | Nov 05 13:54 |
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| schestowitz | Mono you mean? | Nov 05 13:56 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: I can't help but think of that comment from the other day. http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/... | Nov 05 13:57 |
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| schestowitz | “I just heard that Novell is designing the OS for Windows 7. I live in Provo Utah and heard it from an insider that Novell is designing it w/ a flavor of Linux. I guess that M$ even admits that NT is loaded w/ security and stability issues.” | Nov 05 13:57 |
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| schestowitz | It makes no sense, but it's not as though it's totally impossible. We wrote about this in 2006. | Nov 05 13:58 |
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| schestowitz | What's with people putting their /OWN/ name in headlines? http://www.siliconvalley.com... | Nov 05 14:09 |
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| schestowitz | The IDC shill on behalf of BSA and Microsoft... now the media monopoly (industry): "The SMH ran an uncritical software piracy propaganda piece on 21 October (link will likely become unusable in a short time). The piece cites IDC on Australia having a piracy rate of 28%. " http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2008/11/02... | Nov 05 14:55 |
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| schestowitz | Reason for NOVL to be careful bending the rules next time: New SEC Enforcement Manual: Better Late Than Never < http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIH... > | Nov 05 14:58 |
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| schestowitz | VIA Nvidia netbook platform plans suspended < http://www.digitimes.com/news... > | Nov 05 15:06 |
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| schestowitz | Parents Think The Internet Is More Dangerous Than Drugs Or Drunk Driving? < http://techdirt.com/articles/2008... > | Nov 05 15:11 |
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| kentma | bits will rush out of the computer and infect the kids with diseases | Nov 05 15:12 |
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| schestowitz | "But security software" >>CLICK HERE<< $49.95 | Nov 05 15:15 |
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| MinceR | they might catch a virus! | Nov 05 15:16 |
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| kentma | my plumber mate turned up chez moi about a week ago, with a bunch of popups on his browser... didn't know what to do | Nov 05 15:17 |
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| kentma | it was some horrible infection for bogus anti-spyware | Nov 05 15:17 |
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| kentma | After a bit of discussion, I installed Ubuntu on the machine, but left the windows on another partition. | Nov 05 15:18 |
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| schestowitz | Good man. | Nov 05 15:18 |
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| kentma | Once I'd got the right bits installed so he could play his iTunes MP4s, plus showed him how to edit his documents, and find his online email with Firefox, he was completely happy. | Nov 05 15:18 |
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| kentma | I don't think he's booted windows since. | Nov 05 15:18 |
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| kentma | I've no idea if it's even possible to clean up such machines, but I thought it was unlikely. | Nov 05 15:19 |
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| schestowitz | The end of an era - Windows 3.x < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/tec... > | Nov 05 15:20 |
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| schestowitz | > " clean up such machines" | Nov 05 15:21 |
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| schestowitz | You mean " clean up such software"? Some people don't distinguish between h/w and s/w. They also think of computer viruses as something physical (like old-style Bugs in the mainframes). | Nov 05 15:21 |
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| schestowitz | That's why some people (like my mom) buy a new PC after/if it gets infected for a while? "You computer is slow and has viruses," asks the sales, "why don't you buy a new one?" | Nov 05 15:23 |
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| *brunomiguel hello :) | Nov 05 15:28 |
| trmanco | Hi | Nov 05 15:28 |
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| kentma | trmanco: hi | Nov 05 15:31 |
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| kentma | schestowitz: you're right, I should be more specific... I meant the windows bit, of course :-) | Nov 05 15:31 |
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| trmanco | kentma, Hi | Nov 05 15:31 |
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| schestowitz | Fedora 10 Linux previewed < http://www.heise.de/english/ne... > | Nov 05 15:31 |
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| schestowitz | Fedora is a mess though. The reviews are not positive. | Nov 05 15:32 |
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| kentma | What's Homer think about it? | Nov 05 15:36 |
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| schestowitz | I don't know. | Nov 05 15:36 |
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| schestowitz | Operating systems change though, that's for sure. Not just because of mobile O/Ses (compactness), but also the SaaS factor. | Nov 05 15:37 |
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| schestowitz | ARM concluded that a device with the Firefox Web browser has potential (they liaised with Mozilla, IIRC). Linux is used for its stability, small footprint, security, etc. | Nov 05 15:38 |
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| kentma | it's about networks, more than anything, which is what the whole mobility thing is about. Mobility is only valuable if you get connectivity with it, hence you have a complex, multi-layered stack, which will surely include some distributed applications at the top end. | Nov 05 15:38 |
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| kentma | Interestingly, for all its flaws, http has proven to be an extremely robust best-effort 1:n processor time-sharing system... | Nov 05 15:39 |
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| schestowitz | If you spend a long time producing an excellent operating system like Palm OS, then it may later turn out that the job was in vain due to moving goalposts. Remember Foleo, which was 'aborted'? Red Hat canceled (for now) its plans for a desktop O/S. Linpus is based on Fedora though! :-) | Nov 05 15:40 |
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| kentma | The 1970s desktop is total dodo land. People want data merged across multiple systems, they want to be able to access their address books from everywhere, be "always best connected", ie, least expensively, but effectively. It's more like Iain Banks culture than the cypherpunk view of things. | Nov 05 15:42 |
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| MinceR | palmos is far from being excellent | Nov 05 15:42 |
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| MinceR | it disallows normal multitasking and doesn't have memory protection | Nov 05 15:43 |
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| MinceR | and the file system ("database") is a mess | Nov 05 15:43 |
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| MinceR | ALP would change that once palm, inc. bothers to use it | Nov 05 15:43 |
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| schestowitz | kentma: not the technical people though; not everyone. | Nov 05 15:48 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: Palm OS is not excellent. It was also a dead end, so they should have picked Linux or something. Same story with Psion/Symbian, which is losing now. | Nov 05 15:48 |
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| schestowitz | Obama brings 'change' already: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10082194-92.html?... ( Unisys is ripe for the picking ); http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10082278-... ( Pioneer predicts greater loss, taps new president ); http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-100822... ( To cut costs, Dell asks workers to take unpaid lea | Nov 05 15:49 |
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| schestowitz | ve ) | Nov 05 15:49 |
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| MinceR | foleo was aborted because of a wrong business decision | Nov 05 15:49 |
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| MinceR | it could have been a great success | Nov 05 15:50 |
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| MinceR | (provided they made it non-palm-dependent in the process) | Nov 05 15:50 |
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| schestowitz | *LOL* MinceR would love this Bad Job: New MacBook trackpad not clicking for some users < http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10082... > | Nov 05 15:51 |
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| MinceR | ALP, the successor to PalmOS is linux-based (ALP became what was supposed to be PalmOS 6, afaik) | Nov 05 15:51 |
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| MinceR | it's up to Palm to make the move now | Nov 05 15:51 |
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| schestowitz | But the Macs are pretty. Who cares if they stop functioning, eh? | Nov 05 15:51 |
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| schestowitz | I'm still with Palm, waiting to migrate to what they release next, provided it interacts with GNU/Linux desktops (unlike Motorola). | Nov 05 15:52 |
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| MinceR | ah, the famous apple quality. | Nov 05 15:53 |
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| MinceR | well, fanboys keep claiming all crApple products are indestructible because they happened to see a certain PowerBook model survive a fall | Nov 05 15:53 |
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| MinceR | and things like that | Nov 05 15:53 |
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| schestowitz | 'Survive' a fall. What /really/ matters... | Nov 05 15:54 |
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| schestowitz | There goes my chance... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-1... ... they tried to hire me a few times. | Nov 05 15:55 |
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| MinceR | well, everybody knows that's what computers are for | Nov 05 15:55 |
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| MinceR | throwing around | Nov 05 15:55 |
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| MinceR | not processing and storing information :> | Nov 05 15:55 |
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| *schestowitz has more fun in hacktivism anyway | Nov 05 15:55 |
| schestowitz | I've just realised that the 'Mac guy' next even shows up with a Mac. Apparently it's all about wearing jeans and flinging stuff around with style. | Nov 05 15:56 |
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| MinceR | it's the style of the sheep. | Nov 05 15:57 |
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| schestowitz | More 'free' drugs (got a light, dude?) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-1008... | Nov 05 15:58 |
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| schestowitz | More 'free' drugs (got a light, dude?) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10082506-... "Companies will get Microsoft's software free of charge for three years and will have to pay the then-prevailing licensing costs thereafter, Lewin said." | Nov 05 15:59 |
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| schestowitz | Sounds like their 'student' program. 1. Give free utils; 2. User puts data in binary prison [...] 4. Profit! | Nov 05 15:59 |
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| kentma | the problem is that some ict spark will report a huge saving into bigcorp for *this* year, and get a massive bonus for it... | Nov 05 16:04 |
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| schestowitz | First you get high... hangover later. Isn't that another way to reason about the current financial crisis at a large scale? The marco-economists /MUST/ have seen this coming. | Nov 05 16:06 |
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| kentma | I don't know if they did. I'm not sure that anyone has truly recognised just how broken most internal corporate bonussing systems are now. Doing something which will yield benefits even in 2 or 3 years is not seen as important. | Nov 05 16:11 |
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| schestowitz | Not everyone is happen with the new licence it seems.... Open Letter to Richard Stallman < http://www.advogato.org/article/990.html > | Nov 05 16:36 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.stabroeknews.com/news/network-pr... .. Makes you wonder if Windows can cause power outage too. | Nov 05 17:11 |
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| MinceR | only if the power company allows it to | Nov 05 17:11 |
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| schestowitz | This one is the G.P.L., so it's unlikely. Then again, Microsoft RMS was recently announced, and therefore you never know... | Nov 05 17:13 |
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| MinceR | :) | Nov 05 17:14 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft: we'll manage your Linux. All your *NIX are belong to us. "Microsoft to Streamline the Monitoring of Windows, UNIX and Linux" < http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-t... > Only for Microsoft-minded shops... | Nov 05 17:16 |
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| MinceR | i'd streamline that for them | Nov 05 17:17 |
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| MinceR | with a bomb on redmond | Nov 05 17:17 |
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| schestowitz | I worry about that.. | Nov 05 17:17 |
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| schestowitz | It's the same trick they play with Novell. | Nov 05 17:17 |
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| schestowitz | Basically, just to take it off my head, Ron Hovsepian agreed to Microsoft making Linux just 'some Windows app', using Hyper-V. | Nov 05 17:17 |
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| schestowitz | In exchange for that servitude they get money and recommendations. | Nov 05 17:18 |
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| MinceR | colinux did that before them, didn't it? :> | Nov 05 17:19 |
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| schestowitz | Yes, but this one is for high-end servers. | Nov 05 17:19 |
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| schestowitz | Xandros too is part of this scam. | Nov 05 17:19 |
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| MinceR | i consider "windows server" an oxymoron. | Nov 05 17:19 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft Works... Microsoft Outlook... | Nov 05 17:22 |
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| MinceR | :) | Nov 05 17:24 |
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| schestowitz | Xmas should be bright – GPL : http://www.stabroeknews.com/news/xma... (not that GPL we all know) | Nov 05 17:27 |
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| schestowitz | LinuxInsider is feeding the Enderle shill again (they can't help it, can they?): http://www.linuxinsider.com/... | Nov 05 17:28 |
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| schestowitz | http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/20... "Blears Shoots the Blogger Messengers .. | Nov 05 17:43 |
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| schestowitz | Well, darling, could it be that bloggers unearth scandals and hypocrisy because that's mostly what you and your chums in the government seem to generate? Could it be that a more affirmative kind of blogging will emerge once your government drops its own unending flood of cynicism and spin and lies?" | Nov 05 17:43 |
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| schestowitz | http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprise... : Praise Microsoft, Receive Bribe | Nov 05 17:56 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft Jackie is batting for the Vole again (has he got his free laptop yet?): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/as... | Nov 05 17:59 |
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| schestowitz | *LOL* "Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, a division of Enderle Global Enterprises, represented by Enderle, Enderle & Enderle, and a block south of Enderle Toyota*, says Apple has made mistakes with its marketing that mirror those of the Republican party in this year's presidential race." | Nov 05 18:07 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/03/enderle-tenu... | Nov 05 18:07 |
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| schestowitz | One-man Microsoft shillstitute. | Nov 05 18:08 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente... "He also deleted the company's Microsoft Exchange e-mail database and files that the computer needed in order to boot up." | Nov 05 18:14 |
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| schestowitz | Here is the shillderle comparing Apple to Republicans: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/65008.html | Nov 05 18:15 |
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| twitter | "It's Dangerous to Assume People Are Stupid" Yeah, you should let them talk for a while and prove it. | Nov 05 18:19 |
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| twitter | "focusing Microsoft on you generally ends badly" LOL | Nov 05 18:19 |
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| twitter | I suppose that's where the trolls have gone, to "focus" on Apple. | Nov 05 18:20 |
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| twitter | Steve Ballmer must be angry that another company has more money than they do. | Nov 05 18:21 |
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| twitter | Imagine the tantrum, "I'm going to fucking Kill Apple!!!!!!! I've done it before and I'm going to do it again." | Nov 05 18:22 |
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| schestowitz | Well, they already had some peopple bury that Job p**, at least in print. | Nov 05 18:22 |
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| schestowitz | Jobs was said to have fallen ill how many times? That Slate Magazine guy too... | Nov 05 18:23 |
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| schestowitz | The proxy+mafia win? http://boycottnovell.com/2008/1... | Nov 05 18:24 |
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| twitter | Here's something funny, Enderle likes the HP mini 1000 and Vista. Here's a review of them together http://www.networkworld.com/revie... | Nov 05 18:29 |
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| twitter | "Gone is the Via C-7M processor; gone, too, is the pipe dream that any current netbook could handle Windows Vista" | Nov 05 18:30 |
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| schestowitz | The guy is a shill for the Vole. It's surprising that some people still quote him. ECT and some other cr*p publications in particular. | Nov 05 18:30 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft -> economic crisis ... Microsoft CFO outlines plan to weather economic crisis < http://computerworld.co.nz/news... > | Nov 05 18:30 |
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| schestowitz | It gets harder for them to cook the books now. | Nov 05 18:30 |
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| schestowitz | Cost reduction at Microsoft: Microsoft looking to China to create new products < http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008... > | Nov 05 18:32 |
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| schestowitz | Kids to create and infect the Web with Microsoft lock-in? Microsoft launches DreamSpark: Indian students get access to technical software at no charge < http://www.financialexpress.com/news... > | Nov 05 18:32 |
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| schestowitz | Uncle Bill offers 'free' drugs, to fill the Web with Silverblight poison (what's wrong with Web standards?): Microsoft launches innovative project: free access for students < http://www.business-standard.com... > | Nov 05 18:33 |
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| schestowitz | Almost each and every Microsoft donation is either harmful 'drugs' (dependency) or bribe (don't use the competition's product): Microsoft offers South Korea $60 million 'encouragement' to use its software < http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ne... > | Nov 05 18:35 |
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| twitter | It can also be a lie. They can yank your chain once you have signed up for an academic rate. Did you see this? http://slashdot.org/firehose... | Nov 05 18:36 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft releases faux 'study' to say security issues are not its fault and only the likes of freebie-loving Microsoft Jack repeat it: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/busin... | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| twitter | Revocation of "discount" will cost the victim a cool $70 million bucks. | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| schestowitz | Hey, _doug | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| schestowitz | We're discussing 'charity' | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| _doug | hey .. wassup .. | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft offers South Korea $60 million 'encouragement' to use its software < http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer... >; Microsoft offers South Korea $60 million 'encouragement' to use its software < http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer... > | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft launches innovative project: free access for students < http://www.business-standard.com/india/storyp... > | Nov 05 18:37 |
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| _doug | ahh .. well go figure ... | Nov 05 18:38 |
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| schestowitz | "Free access" = opportunity to trash the WWW with Linux-hostile binaries. | Nov 05 18:38 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft Plants “I’m a PC” Kiosk Outside U.K. Apple Store < http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6170 > | Nov 05 18:38 |
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| _doug | by encouraging SK to use MS software, will this, as a byproduct disuade them from using non-MS software ? | Nov 05 18:38 |
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| schestowitz | What happened to fair competition. Will they set up a toilet booth next to the shop too.... and ask Apple for toilet paper/ | Nov 05 18:39 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft plans to invest 60 million dollars in South Korea < http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/bu... > | Nov 05 18:39 |
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| schestowitz | Nice description for 'bribe' | Nov 05 18:39 |
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| schestowitz | It's not a bribe, it's persuasion money. It's 'help'. | Nov 05 18:39 |
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| _doug | "In a move that could equip millions of Indian students with advanced computer knowledge," | Nov 05 18:40 |
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| twitter | I wonder how much it cost them to set that kiosk up. | Nov 05 18:40 |
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| schestowitz | "We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference." --SweatyB | Nov 05 18:40 |
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| _doug | I live the implied .. only MS posesses advanced computer knowledge .. :0 | Nov 05 18:41 |
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| schestowitz | " Advanced computer knowledge" = ability to smoke the Microsoft pipe and spread tobacco on the precious Web. | Nov 05 18:41 |
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| schestowitz | XAML | Nov 05 18:41 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft: each PC needs more than one copy (licence) of Windows: Microsoft: Reused PCs Need Windows, Too < http://www.businessweek.com/technology/c... > | Nov 05 18:43 |
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| schestowitz | Nodbody picks Windows for backup (it has data corruption problems), so they slash the price significantly: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/mic... | Nov 05 18:44 |
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| _doug | Antitrust concerns kill Yahoo-Google ad deal .. | Nov 05 18:45 |
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| _doug | http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10082800-93.htm... | Nov 05 18:45 |
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| schestowitz | IDG has just grown a whole army of Microsoft "community" (isn't Microsoft a company?): http://edge.networkworld.com/subnets/mi... | Nov 05 18:45 |
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| schestowitz | I think I can recall Ashley arranging for a Microsoft fan club in NetworkWorld. | Nov 05 18:46 |
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| schestowitz | /s/antitrust/Microsoft/ | Nov 05 18:46 |
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| schestowitz | Shills responsible: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/15/l... | Nov 05 18:46 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft vs. Apple: Guerilla tactics real or not? < http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/mi... > Novell does this too. | Nov 05 18:48 |
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| schestowitz | "They have had over 3 years now to perfect the WGA crap and it should be “weaponized” and targeted on the software pirates world-wide. I | Nov 05 18:52 |
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| schestowitz | From "Software Jihad" < http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,10000... >. Does he know that Microsoft calls its tactics Jihad? http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/2... | Nov 05 18:54 |
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| schestowitz | _doug: check out Microsoft Jack praising Microsoft for Silver Lie, saying that Apple users owe them for the 'privilege': http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog... | Nov 05 18:56 |
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| schestowitz | They should really sack Jack Schofield for being just a marketing person for Microsoft, attacking its rivals, not just praising Microsoft. | Nov 05 18:56 |
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| _doug | never speak of the devil .. | Nov 05 18:57 |
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| schestowitz | Which one? Jack or Microsoft? | Nov 05 18:57 |
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| _doug | there is no more real journalism, just glorified adverts and regurgetated PR spinn .. | Nov 05 18:58 |
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| schestowitz | That's the thing with blogs too. | Nov 05 18:59 |
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| _doug | Their isn't a difference .. could be written in MS headoffice .. which it most probably all is .. | Nov 05 18:59 |
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| schestowitz | Under the disguise of "blog" he's just using the Grauniad to enter News Feeds with fanboism. | Nov 05 18:59 |
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| _doug | stating the obvious .. | Nov 05 18:59 |
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| schestowitz | There should be a Best of Jack page... also one for Enderle. | Nov 05 19:00 |
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| schestowitz | One to show who they are by listing posts/mistakes. | Nov 05 19:00 |
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| _doug | how dare Apple not pay MS their DRM royalties .. :) | Nov 05 19:00 |
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| schestowitz | Didn't he defend "tilting in death spiral"? Why, yes he did. http://boycottnovell.com/2008/0... | Nov 05 19:00 |
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| _doug | someone once did a fanboy page .. personally I can't be bothered reading it .. noone else is .. | Nov 05 19:01 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&a... | Nov 05 19:01 |
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| _doug | which is why he's reduced to trasing Apple/Google/Yahoo and anyone else who's name don't beging with micrso~1 | Nov 05 19:02 |
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| schestowitz | http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/0... | Nov 05 19:24 |
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| twitter | The M$ Kiosk in front of an Apple store is funny. Do they really want all of their ImAPC videos to have happy mac users as a background? | Nov 05 19:28 |
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| MinceR | obviously crApple products lack the functionality a kiosk needs | Nov 05 19:29 |
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| twitter | not as obvious as PC users being unable to make, edit and upload videos without the help of a Kiosk. | Nov 05 19:31 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: Not true. | Nov 05 19:32 |
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| schestowitz | You can run Fedora under them. :-) | Nov 05 19:32 |
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| MinceR | but fedora isn't a crApple product | Nov 05 19:32 |
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| MinceR | it exists outside their little dream world of meticulously designed (with the wrong goals of course), retarded products | Nov 05 19:32 |
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| twitter | So, a Mac with free software is no longer "crApple"? | Nov 05 19:33 |
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| twitter | M$ likes crApple for their advertising department. M$ has one of the biggest advertising budgets in history. Does that make M$ the most retarded company in history? | Nov 05 19:34 |
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| MinceR | it's crApple hardware | Nov 05 19:34 |
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| MinceR | used in a way that's blasphemous to the fanboys | Nov 05 19:34 |
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| MinceR | m$ has retarded products too | Nov 05 19:34 |
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| MinceR | but it's a slightly different kind of retarded | Nov 05 19:34 |
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| twitter | Yeah, like BSoD retarded. Further separated from fresher free software. | Nov 05 19:35 |
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| MinceR | they focus primarily on idiots too, though less so than crApple. | Nov 05 19:35 |
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| twitter | Loser + Loser = Loser. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2... | Nov 05 19:37 |
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| twitter | I wonder if a newly cleaned DoJ will let that fly or if the anti-trust will grow some teeth. | Nov 05 19:38 |
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| schestowitz | anti-what? | Nov 05 19:39 |
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| twitter | I dunno, it's been eight years since I heard about it. | Nov 05 19:39 |
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| twitter | corn growers for search corruption http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/202702 | Nov 05 19:41 |
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| schestowitz | Vanity. http://asay.blogspot.com/2008/11/... ( Why I'll never be elected ) | Nov 05 19:42 |
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| schestowitz | Is there a law for jailing those who manipulate the market like this? | Nov 05 19:43 |
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| twitter | The Yahoo side of the "merger" slog http://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_to_... | Nov 05 19:44 |
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| schestowitz | "Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies [...] The Black Leadership Forum is funded by corporate donations but does not take money from Microsoft." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/ev... | Nov 05 19:44 |
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| schestowitz | It's LawMedia. | Nov 05 19:45 |
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| schestowitz | They look at the wrong pool. | Nov 05 19:45 |
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| schestowitz | And Microsoft also pressure politicians through other means | Nov 05 19:45 |
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| _doug | ot: Russia to move missiles to Baltic | Nov 05 19:45 |
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| _doug | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor... | Nov 05 19:45 |
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| _doug | something I was wondering .. | Nov 05 19:45 |
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| schestowitz | .Maybe they thought McCain would be elected. ;-p | Nov 05 19:46 |
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| _doug | If the US wan't to defend against Iranian missiles, then why not site the 'defensive' shield near Iran instead of thousands of miles away next door to Moscow ? | Nov 05 19:46 |
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| _doug | "Mr Medvedev also said Russia would jam the US anti-missile system electronically" | Nov 05 19:48 |
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| _doug | 'Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus later said that Russia's decision to deploy missiles was "beyond comprehension"' | Nov 05 19:48 |
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| _doug | Why don't the Russians put missles in Cuba do defend against Columbia ? | Nov 05 19:48 |
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| _doug | :) | Nov 05 19:48 |
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| schestowitz | Colombia? | Nov 05 19:49 |
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| schestowitz | Or US Columbia? | Nov 05 19:49 |
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| schestowitz | Like the US military... took its 'defence' against WoMD all the day _into_ Iraq. | Nov 05 19:50 |
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| _doug | it's the assult on reason .. I object to .. | Nov 05 19:50 |
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| _doug | 'In a bid to win over future business, Microsoft has announced a programme to give some start-ups free software and support .. Those who qualify will get a three-year subscription to the Microsoft Developer Network as well as cloud services technologies' | Nov 05 19:52 |
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| _doug | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/te... | Nov 05 19:52 |
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| _doug | "One of the primary concerns for companies is finding access to our technology" | Nov 05 19:52 |
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| _doug | ??????????????????????? | Nov 05 19:52 |
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| _doug | translation: our Open systems are so open you have to pay us money to send data to other peoples computers .. | Nov 05 19:53 |
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| _doug | "Microsoft has easily saved us $10,000 (€£6,200) in software costs through this program." | Nov 05 19:54 |
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| schestowitz | _doug: yes, the startup thing was mentioned before. | Nov 05 19:55 |
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| schestowitz | Three years and it expires. That's enough time to lock you in. | Nov 05 19:55 |
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| schestowitz | MSBBC headline reads "Microsoft give start-ups a leg up". Should be "Microsoft give start-ups a leg up the arse"... the MSBBC is hugely irresponsible for not telling the full story about vendor lock-in and how it works. It read like an advert. | Nov 05 19:57 |
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| schestowitz | Here is the "Testimonial" part of the advert: "Microsoft has easily saved us $10,000 (€£6,200) in software costs through this program." | Nov 05 19:58 |
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| schestowitz | 3 years later: "we went bankrupt because all our expenses were centralised around binaries to access our clients' crucial data. | Nov 05 19:58 |
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| twitter | Casinos offer investors free drinks. "We want all of our patrons to be at their peak judgment," said company spokesman Cindy DeCross. "The casino easily saved us $10,000 in booze costs through this program." | Nov 05 20:01 |
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| kentma | How can anyone be so simply fooled? The money programme should be looking at this. | Nov 05 20:02 |
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| twitter | Here's more market manipulation in the Slog on Yahoo. http://www.forbes.com/afxnewsl... | Nov 05 20:03 |
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| twitter | You can't just make this stuff up, unless you work for a PR firm. | Nov 05 20:03 |
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| twitter | M$FT is also taking a dump today. http://finance.google.com/fin... down 3 or 4% | Nov 05 20:05 |
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| _doug | twitter: free drinks .. haaaaa :) | Nov 05 20:05 |
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| schestowitz | twitter: they'd enter debt if they buy YHOO. | Nov 05 20:10 |
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| schestowitz | Original here: http://www.reuters.com/article/americ... | Nov 05 20:11 |
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| schestowitz | "Reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Anupreeta Das in San Francisco; Editing by Phil Berlowitz" | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| schestowitz | Never heard of them./ | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| schestowitz | Oh wait!!!!!!1 | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| schestowitz | Daisuke Wakabayashi | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| twitter | They are already entering debt with stock buybacks. This will make it double secret debt. | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| schestowitz | http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/25... | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| schestowitz | Daisuke Wakabayashi is a Microsofter | Nov 05 20:12 |
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| schestowitz | Maybe they try to mess about with the stock value of YHOO again. | Nov 05 20:13 |
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| twitter | see the forbes article above for blatant manipulation | Nov 05 20:13 |
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| schestowitz | They did this before by raising hopes and then squashing them... last done with bait-and-switch from Ballmer and Microsoft (one month ago) | Nov 05 20:13 |
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| schestowitz | There is no FOrbes article. | Nov 05 20:14 |
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| schestowitz | It's Daisuke Wakabayashi (see BN URL) article for Reuters... same company that attacks FOSS now. | Nov 05 20:14 |
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| schestowitz | Thomson Reuters Sends Zotero a $10 Million EndNote < http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives... > | Nov 05 20:15 |
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| schestowitz | For more details :http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&... | Nov 05 20:15 |
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| twitter | I see, it is the same text. | Nov 05 20:15 |
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| schestowitz | ndNote reverse-engineering case looks headed to courtroom .. Thomson Reuters Releases ISI Web of Knowledge and EndNote Web in | Nov 05 20:15 |
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| schestowitz | When I tracked down Reuters I expected to see Jim or something. | Nov 05 20:16 |
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| schestowitz | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/0... | Nov 05 20:16 |
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| twitter | I hate endnote. They've been pushing that crap over biblio at some big dumb publishers. | Nov 05 20:18 |
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| schestowitz | Layoffs at NOVL: http://www.silicon.de/cio/strategie/0,39038989... | Nov 05 20:21 |
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| twitter | *bibtex | Nov 05 20:21 |
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| schestowitz | twitter: my PhD supervisor at the time had me steered to EndNote. I had to then escape it. | Nov 05 20:22 |
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| schestowitz | I found a tool that converted it to bibtex | Nov 05 20:22 |
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| twitter | glad to hear you found a converter. | Nov 05 20:22 |
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| twitter | I don't know what I would have done without Latex and Kbibtex. | Nov 05 20:22 |
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| schestowitz | http://schestowitz.com/Softwa... | Nov 05 20:23 |
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| twitter | Goes to read a spooky story of what might have been .... | Nov 05 20:23 |
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| schestowitz | [Old page] Universities that give students this drug should be abolished. Brazil already takes some steps like this. | Nov 05 20:23 |
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| twitter | The M$ people tried to push it at LSU. I'm not sure how far it got. | Nov 05 20:26 |
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| twitter | Web of Knowledge .... did not work very well either. | Nov 05 20:26 |
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| twitter | I got a lot further faster at http://arxiv.org/ | Nov 05 20:27 |
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| twitter | Don't ask me about paper publications and interlibrary loans. System was seriously broken. | Nov 05 20:28 |
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| twitter | Ugh, it looks like UK ISPs are going to allow the MAFIAA to kick people off the web http://yro.slashdot.org/article... | Nov 05 20:31 |
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| schestowitz | One minute ago I wrote about Microsoft and Australia's largest ISPs (going into bed together): http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11... | Nov 05 20:32 |
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| schestowitz | Gordon Clown will happily permit the MAFIAA to police the Internet, which is becoming the main hub of communication. | Nov 05 20:33 |
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| schestowitz | Disney: the new police forces. | Nov 05 20:33 |
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| twitter | FUD Judo http://slashdot.org/firehose... | Nov 05 20:54 |
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| twitter | Happy Mac backdrop a feature of I'm a PC ads http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?o... | Nov 05 20:54 |
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| MinceR | why not Sad Mac? | Nov 05 20:55 |
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| twitter | They are all the way in the back at the genius bar to be seen from outside. | Nov 05 21:03 |
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| twitter | All the cameras will capture is happy stuff up front. | Nov 05 21:04 |
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| schestowitz | Oh oh... Mandriva's CEO quit, I think. | Nov 05 21:07 |
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| schestowitz | Another review: http://adventuresinopensource.blogspot.com/... (iffy) | Nov 05 21:11 |
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| schestowitz | Mandriva appoints Hervé Yahi as Chairman – Chief Executive Officer < http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/compan... > | Nov 05 21:12 |
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| twitter | EeeKs, M$FT is a market leading looser, down 6% http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT | Nov 05 21:13 |
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| twitter | Dow down 5% | Nov 05 21:13 |
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| twitter | US economy lost 157,000 jobs in October. Biggest in 6 years. http://www.bizjournals.com/nashv... | Nov 05 21:15 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.junauza.com/2008/11/is-ubu... | Nov 05 21:16 |
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| twitter | " the total decline in construction jobs since the peak in August 2006 is now 455,000" | Nov 05 21:16 |
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| schestowitz | Good start for Obama, eh? Some people thought that would fix things. | Nov 05 21:16 |
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| MinceR | ubuntu can't really kill other distros as they're compatible with it | Nov 05 21:16 |
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| schestowitz | http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/arc... | Nov 05 21:17 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: it sucks up potential revenue though. It's like Oracle to Red Hat. | Nov 05 21:17 |
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| twitter | hey, I'm happy not to worry about invading Iran, and even worse health insurance. that's real change that will help really fast. | Nov 05 21:17 |
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| twitter | Ubuntu's popularity a danger? | Nov 05 21:17 |
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| MinceR | well, business is still a competition, i don't think that should change | Nov 05 21:18 |
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| MinceR | and the barrier to entry is still lower than ever | Nov 05 21:18 |
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| MinceR | as long as it's FLOSS, it will stay that way | Nov 05 21:18 |
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| MinceR | (or get lower as the likes of MICROS~1 weaken and die) | Nov 05 21:18 |
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| twitter | Oh wait, it's IT Wire. Don't tell me it's BB again. Nope Sam Vargehsee | Nov 05 21:22 |
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| trmanco | http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2121 | Nov 05 21:23 |
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| trmanco | oooo | Nov 05 21:23 |
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| trmanco | I seem to be already protected from that ... | Nov 05 21:23 |
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| twitter | IT Wire, making a story out of one guy's blog rant... a new low. | Nov 05 21:23 |
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| twitter | Ubuntu is scoring new GNU/Linux users. That's good for everyone. | Nov 05 21:23 |
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| twitter | back later | Nov 05 21:25 |
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| MinceR | indeed. ubuntu is fixing bug #1. :) | Nov 05 21:27 |
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| MinceR | (taking part in fixing it anyway) | Nov 05 21:27 |
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| MinceR | also, it isn't an ecosystem, it's a community. | Nov 05 21:28 |
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| schestowitz | http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=200 | Nov 05 21:31 |
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| schestowitz | Community_size=Community_size-1; | Nov 05 21:31 |
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| schestowitz | trmanco: Ryan is exaggerating as usual. I saw that earlier. It's a DOS flaw, no compromise. | Nov 05 21:33 |
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| schestowitz | Millionaire defends predatory capitalism? http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/227 | Nov 05 21:33 |
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| schestowitz | Business Wee picks an opportunity to bash Linux: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/tech... | Nov 05 21:34 |
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| schestowitz | Recycling... where Microsoft tries to resell Windows: http://www.businessweek.com/techno... | Nov 05 21:46 |
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| schestowitz | "Catch 'em young and they're yours for life." http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inqu... ( Microsoft wants to lure Internet startups ) | Nov 05 21:50 |
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