Posts by Cyfaill

Return of the thing

I remember this scene from the movie “The Thing”... The thing was a cloning life form the tried to simulate the sibilance of the real life form by displacement of real cells with a cheap knockoff... it didn't even have DNA.

Sometimes it didn't quite work out, if what it was cloning was sick or contaminated.

...So out from under a table came a variation of a failed clone of a person. It has the legs of a crab or big spider and the upside down head of a man. It steps out hoping that no one will notice.

One of the real people (Palmer) turns around and with an astonished look says “you've got to be F**king kidding... R.J. MacReady spins around with the flamethrower that he has strapped to his back and just looks at it for a second. He snarls with disgust and makes the thing all warm and toasty with the flamethrower...

Kind of reminds me of Vista... and maybe the solution does too.

Fear not The GPL is not being railroaded here.

This is a minor license called the Artistic license, and this is just preliminary stuff for this case only.

The powerful GPL (General Public license) that Linux is mostly wrapped around is not even related or relevant here... Other than to say that maybe those who chose to use the "Artistic license" should have thought about what license to have used in the first place :)

Anyone from the OSI noticing the importance of what gets approved.

Microsoft is Microsoft, watch your backside.

Until and unless people in government positions actually learn something about technical specifications and the ramifications of what those choices mean to society in the long term, then really poor choices like this will occur. Additionally given the unmitigated power and pure corruption of purpose that really lies at the ruthless heart of Microsoft (to be expected), then the ability of any state government to resist that evil, delivered with the kind of force that Microsoft is willing to use, requires people in government to have the backbone equal to the task... which they don't.

ODF is/was a light at the end of a very long tunnel, it actually is OPEN.

The deceit propagated by Microsoft with its pure lock-in file formats serve but one purpose... serving power to Microsoft at the expense of the human communication efficiency and freedom of choice.

Only a highly educated population can have the knowledge required to manage a technological democracy...

Allowing a system such as OOXML to take hold in a standard focused on "openness" demonstrates that the population in government is not there... and not ready, willing or able.

2 down, more attacks to come.

Is it not obvious what the game plan is...

Every formal Linux distribution that is a formal company will be placed into extreme pressure to capitulate to the corrupt power of Microsoft.

This is a tactic designed to destroy Linux by destroying the company's that produce distributions of Linux.

It works like this... No self respecting user of Linux will tolerate infestation of Microsoft code into the clean code that is in Linux. (yes, its clean)

Therefor any company that crawls under the sheets with Microsoft will be abandoned by its users.

The company dies, Microsoft wins.

Take a close look at Novell... even Open SuSE is now in decline.

This is a tactic of divide and conquer.

It is an attempt to divide the community and make it weaker by creating casualties of this war and causing a serious distraction of attention to the real work of making a better Linux community.

The only company distributions that will survive are those with the guts and integrity of purpose to just say no to Microsoft's dirty money.

The pure community distributions such as Debian are immune.

Many distributions of Linux are true communities and are as such, resistive to invasion.

I actually think that in a short while this type of action will actually backfire on Microsoft. People who use Linux are smart.

And like a smart people who have a community even a diverse one as the Linux communities are... see their world under attack... they will, like most democracy's do.. take a little while to galvanize their thoughts, get mad, feel unjustly attacked and then forge a better sword of defiance by unifying together.

It is the only way to defeat tyranny.

Make no mistake about it, Microsoft is not joining a better and smarter world of unified communications and collaborative computing technologies.

It is trying to destroy that Open Source world of true standards of compatibility with mobster like behavior, Roman Empire like tactics, and the fortunes of its previous grip on the entire world of the Micro PC that has made it richer than some small countries.

This is just an indication that Microsoft is so afraid of the future, it wishes to destroy it.

It is actually an indication of Microsoft failure to adapt.

And like the Roman Empire it is going into decline and fall to a world that is no longer afraid of a dissipated and overextended mono culture of decadence and greed.

Take a real close look at the trends in the computing world and you will see that it is one that represents a very diminished Empire of Microsoft.

That is why Microsoft is at war with the future.

Microsoft's IE will never be secure, Don't trust it, ever.

Netcraft's anti phishing tool bar is pretty good.

Added to a respectable web browser such as Firefox and running in a respectable Operating System such as Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 or 4.0 (Any good Linux will do very well) such as we use, you would have a pretty good chance of being warned as to being on a phishing site.

I've seen it work.

Of course it is very advisable to look at the whole URL and being sure of were you are.

The best tool is your own intelligence, and knowledge.

But if you are just depending on tools to warn you... at least use good ones.

Your description of your system does not impress me with its "safety".

extend embrace extinguish

As Microsoft runs into the rapid end of life for “products” like Vista...

Its desperation to remain in the game means that its business practice of invasion via Trojan horse techniques places them into the business structure like an massive viral infestation parasite. The big difference though is that it clones the standards that already exist but with the twist of perverting the structure of the real standard just enough to fool the organism. By the time the organizational business relationships realize that they have been invaded by a hostile life form it is often too late and the host dies. Its almost impossible to remove a Microsoft invasion if it gets its roots into a dynamic business system. Take a look at the scores of business and products destroyed by Microsoft.

The “Microsoft relationship with Novell” is just this sort of poison pill.

The Linux community is very wise to the technique Microsoft is employing.

Lets just see if Dell has the guts to take a stand and actually offer a cleaner version of Linux Like Ubuntu to the general public or are they going to offer the now contaminated Microsoft/Novell version of Linux.

Linux will survive because it is an idea and not a product represented by any single entity. But I am not so sure that Novell or Dell will after Microsoft gets finished sucking the life out of them. And leaving a world of broken standards and incompatible communication protocols in their path of pure destruction. Microsoft is altogether evil.

How you ended up were you are.

Well let's see about this,

I would like to select the default set of Worms, Virus and Trojan exploits that will default to the selected de-facto operating system of no choices.

Having done that I will be selecting the assortment of secondary company's who produce the de-facto default no choice anti virus suites that are needed to keep the first selection running with marginal acceptability.

Since I am a wimp and did not study the options to make a wise choice in information technologies I will not be using the mind that I have and just go with the flow along with all of the other cows and lemmings into the slaughter house and over the cliffs of a world were most people just *are* statistically below average in intelligence by default.

Actually I agree with your assessment of people with great sadness.

But I think that you will also find that the really sharp ones out there actually plan to use the interfaces that are appropriate for the need of their company's and customers, sometimes it means the use of Windows and sometimes not.

As an example; when I produce a letter (Debian GNU/Linux OS), it will be done in OpenOffice with the ISO standard in text documents (.odf) for archive grade use and just print that and mail it... Unless it is electronic in nature to be sent, in which case I will save a copy as a .doc and send it to the average computer user who is to receive it and is likely using windows, and has no choice in what their office application can see.

Thinking about what is good for the use needed is why 100% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run on some form of “nix” Linux and Unix and a dash of Mac... look it up if you can.

Also the majority of the Internet runs on Apache server Applications running on some form of “Nix” as well.

Did you actually do any research on this or did you just go with the flow with what you think would make Microsoft happy. Yes Microsoft products on the “desktop” environment is very dominant and then point out to you that half of the world is statistically average and below in intelligence and thus just go with the flow.

Pathetic.

Dell is too late for this one buyer.

Here is my only experience with Dell Computer.

First off, I build Linux computers only, but they are a little costly because they are top drawer systems.

This story happened last week on Thursday April 12 in Portland, Oregon USA.

Richard, a friend asked me if I could build a Windows XP system for his daughter in California. (She is a student in a university)

Her Windows computer was very old and was dying, I had just rescued all of her files from the computer as the hard drive had failed... I used a Debian Linux system to force it relinquish its data to rescue efforts successfully.

He asked me to help build a new system for her. My price was higher (With the Retail Windows XP I could get) than they wanted to spend and I offered to help them buy an “appropriate” XP system instead. I know that the sweetheart deals made by the big boys like Dell in bed with Microsoft could best my price anyway, using Windows.

Richard, I and my wife went to a Dell Direct Store at the Portland Lloyds center to help Richard pick out and buy a computer around the $1000.00 price point.

We found this pathetic kiosk which apparently was the “Dell Direct” store in the middle of the mall pathways. Never mind the aesthetics, we are on a mission.

I previously saw the web site promoting only the Microsoft Fistula system and was sure that I could get them to relent to my authority on the subject anyway.

We went to this Kiosk with me wearing my Red hat cap. (just to give them advanced warning of my flag, I knew that the Debian Logo would not be recognized so... Red hat it was for the cap.) And we presented our case and desire to buy a “quality” Dell computer with Windows XP Pro installed with StarOffice or OpenOffice if possible. ISO Standards are important after all.

After wearing down the poor little attendant that we speared and finally getting him to give up on promoting the latest DRM infection from Microsoft, they showed us the Open Source solution which consisted of FreeDos, at the same price as the full meal deal, but without the patty in the middle (Windows). He finally showed me that indeed as a corporate customer they would offer a Windows XP pro system in the $3,000.00 price point.

Even I, could build a dual boot Linux based media bending road monster eating the Internet, with little windows tagging along for laughs, for that kind of money... but that was not the point.

It was a sad and dis-hearting adventure for all of us and we all were angered at the treatment we got. Dell is Dull as far as I am concerned.

We waved a final goodbye to the hapless sales person who was in no position to close an easy $1000.00 sale because XP was verboten.

We walked out and went to a competent VAR in the area... Budget Computer in Beaverton, OR. and for under $1000.00 they built a good dual core computer for the college girl in California. With MS Windows XP Pro licensed and all of that other muck... Oh yes with OpenOffice and Firefox as well. Happy ending after all :).

So now I hear that Dell will offer that XP Stuff again. Too late bucky.

Debian 4 Rocks

I installed a Debian 4 - 64 bit version about two months ago as a testing snapshot.

And I intend to use the 32 bit i386 (i686) as the Desktop and Networking workhorse for our company.

It really is a WOW system, Fast and powerful, Debian 4 is a towering testament to the dedication of its developers. Provides the best representation of the fantastic world of Linux productivity with reliability and security inherent in its design.

The office productivity gained with the use of the ISO world standard compliant OpenOffice 2.0 is perfectly suited to getting tasks done.

Good HP printers just work, Nikon cameras download pictures great, and of course networking is the middle name of Linux by design.

Debian is the heartbeat of so many other distributions of Linux, the whole world is a better place for its existence. Fantastic news.

Pamela Jones = Integrity

Nonsense... Her “blog” of the truth is justified and backed up with facts.

All of the results of this long trial was set in stone by SCO group and its own actions, which are now headed for judgment soon in the courts.

This reflexive lashing out by SCO group reminds me of the dark shadow world demon from deep below in the mines from “Lord of the Rings” lashing out to the wizard who is preventing it from leaving its dark world and causing a greater destruction in the world of the living.

Soon SCO Group will be nothing more than a mark in the dustbin of history, were it belongs.