| tessier |
Obviously the Linux OS is faster than XP, particularly at boot-up and shutdown, but the simplicity of it all is also very appealing and with the extra storage you get from sticking with Linux, this is definitely the version we’d recommend - you can always install XP yourself after all. |
Jun 16 00:16 |
| tessier |
http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebo… |
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Jun 16 04:55 |
| ZiggyFish |
good afternoon |
Jun 16 04:55 |
| schestowitz |
Hey, <ZiggyFish> |
Jun 16 05:49 |
| ZiggyFish |
schestowitz: hello. hows are you |
Jun 16 05:49 |
| schestowitz |
Better than Microsoft and Novell.  |
Jun 16 05:50 |
| ZiggyFish |
lol |
Jun 16 05:51 |
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Jun 16 06:05 |
| schestowitz |
Miguel and the Boys bring more Mono to OOo… http://tirania.org/blog/archiv… … with this bridge, even some OOo tasks could become dependent on Novell’s Mono. |
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Jun 16 07:24 |
| tessier |
We need a SCO Deathwatch |
Jun 16 07:28 |
| tessier |
And have a sort of betting pool on when SCO will officially cease operations |
Jun 16 07:29 |
| tessier |
I don’t see them possibly being bought as they have too many liabilities and no assets |
Jun 16 07:29 |
| schestowitz |
Hmmm… |
Jun 16 07:29 |
| schestowitz |
I saw a comment from PJ yesterday about SCO spending all that’s left after a frivolous lawsuit. The SCO stories have become dull. It’s just hotel bills and such stuff. |
Jun 16 07:30 |
| tessier |
Maybe one for MS also but it would have to relate to their first money losing year or something similar. They won’t cease operations for a very long time. |
Jun 16 07:30 |
| tessier |
Yeah |
Jun 16 07:30 |
| tessier |
What’s the next major even in the SCO trial? |
Jun 16 07:30 |
| tessier |
The judge is currently deliberating something isn’t he? |
Jun 16 07:30 |
| schestowitz |
Well… |
Jun 16 07:30 |
| tessier |
I forget which SCO case that was |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| schestowitz |
Novell/SCO is due to be announced. |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| ZiggyFish |
it’s a shame to see SCO die |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| tessier |
I know there are several things ongoing and several things waiting as dependencies on SCO/Novell |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| schestowitz |
There was another documented cr*pped out last week, unexpectedly. |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| tessier |
ZiggyFish: meh…I’m looking forward to being out of SCO’s misery. |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| tessier |
It’s been going on for years. I can’t believe I have been following it this long. |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| schestowitz |
I think that looking at SCO at this stage is almost a waste of time, but… |
Jun 16 07:31 |
| schestowitz |
(Bear in mind PJ wants it to linger on and waits for {the fat lady to sing}^TM) |
Jun 16 07:32 |
| schestowitz |
There’s the issue of Novell inheriting Linux, which could in turn be used by Microsoft. Maybe. |
Jun 16 07:32 |
| ZiggyFish |
Linux cannot be inherited |
Jun 16 07:33 |
| schestowitz |
Unless Microsoft makes use of imaginary property. |
Jun 16 07:33 |
| ZiggyFish |
even then. all distributions need to do is remove that software (Linux is owned by the community) |
Jun 16 07:34 |
| schestowitz |
<tessier>, Groklaw has static pages for SCO timeline/s. <ZiggyFish>, Microsoft plays law now. Marketing and law topped by vicious business practices. It’s the only thing it understands. |
Jun 16 07:35 |
| ZiggyFish |
schestowitz: then the EU plays law as well  |
Jun 16 07:36 |
| ZiggyFish |
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787… |
Jun 16 07:37 |
| tessier |
The SCO bankruptcy timeline shows a lot of applications for compensation as pending |
Jun 16 07:38 |
| tessier |
Does that mean those people haven’t been paid yet? Doesn’t that mean Novell could still get their money? |
Jun 16 07:38 |
| schestowitz |
Well, play and enforce are not the same thing. Government official: “The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates the two.” |
Jun 16 07:38 |
| tessier |
Or will those people have to be paid before Novell somehow? |
Jun 16 07:39 |
| schestowitz |
Whose money might Novell get? SCO is broke and it spends all that’s left. |
Jun 16 07:39 |
| tessier |
It isn’t broke yet as they still have a building to operate out of and lawyers doing their bidding |
Jun 16 07:40 |
| tessier |
When all that stops I will believe that they are broke. |
Jun 16 07:40 |
| ZiggyFish |
Novell wont’s get any money (AFAIK there is no novel products in SCO products) |
Jun 16 07:40 |
| tessier |
They are spending the license money they owe Novell |
Jun 16 07:40 |
| tessier |
ZiggyFish: I thought when it was ruled that Novell has SYSV not SCO the SCO Source license money came into dispute? |
Jun 16 07:41 |
| schestowitz |
By the way, <ZiggyFish>, Charles Cooper is a bit of a troll sometimes. He adds drama. |
Jun 16 07:41 |
| ZiggyFish |
tessier: haven’t been following the SCO, story |
Jun 16 07:41 |
| schestowitz |
<tessier>, I am not too sure. I don’t know the details too well. |
Jun 16 07:42 |
| ZiggyFish |
schestowitz: yeah, but his points are still valid |
Jun 16 07:42 |
| schestowitz |
It depends a lot of perspective. Law too is just man-made ‘rules’. Usually, those who are wealthy write those rules. |
Jun 16 07:44 |
| schestowitz |
I judge his writings based on previous things he wrote about MS-EU. |
Jun 16 07:44 |
| ZiggyFish |
true |
Jun 16 07:45 |
| schestowitz |
He is one of the seniors there and CNET is close to Microsoft. Even closer now. Paul Allen ownership, Microsoft deal, then Yahoo. |
Jun 16 07:47 |
| ZiggyFish |
so who at CNET isn’t close to Microsoft |
Jun 16 07:48 |
| schestowitz |
Good question., Even Asay isn’t distant from them. |
Jun 16 07:50 |
| schestowitz |
Maybe a few blogger might sometimes criticise Microsoft Tim Tiemann is there, but he hardly ever blogs. |
Jun 16 07:51 |
| ZiggyFish |
my point is, if there is no one on our side take their comments and turn it into a comment that benefits us |
Jun 16 08:00 |
| schestowitz |
Who is “us”?> |
Jun 16 08:02 |
| ZiggyFish |
the Linux community |
Jun 16 08:02 |
| schestowitz |
hate writing long articles. How about you? In fact, I think that going forward I’ll just blog more. PJ stopped writing articles as well. |
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Jun 16 08:40 |
| mark_antony_kent |
hi |
Jun 16 08:40 |
| schestowitz |
Hey, <mark_antony_kent> |
Jun 16 08:42 |
| mark_antony_kent |
gr33tz (okay, no more 1337 h4×0r speak hehe) |
Jun 16 08:43 |
| schestowitz |
Well, we use shorthands though. I’ve just posted something new about Mono. Novell wants it everywhere on the desktop. |
Jun 16 08:43 |
| mark_antony_kent |
They’re very much persuing a proprietary vendor model. One has to consider that Novell might be a Microsoft experiment as a possible future for MS - should Novell be successful, then MS will buy them and a migration to SuSE with Patents will ensue. |
Jun 16 08:45 |
| schestowitz |
The press will soon be filled with a lot of Novell PR and OpenSUSE announcements. There’s probably need for education about the problems associated with SUSE due to Novell’s swpatents deal. |
Jun 16 08:45 |
| schestowitz |
Yes, that too. But Microsoft will mix both, just as it did with FAST (corruption investigation over there ATM). It realises that Windows’ future is uncertain and some will never embrace it. |
Jun 16 08:47 |
| schestowitz |
See http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2008/0… . Similar situation with Nokia (Symbian vs Maemo+Qt+GTK) |
Jun 16 08:47 |
| mark_antony_kent |
As per my message to Mitch (don’t know if you saw it), the destkop world is dead - it’s a legacy technology, the next generation stuff is all about appliances and mobility, Microsoft haven’t really covered either. I’ll check your link. |
Jun 16 08:48 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Ah, yes - I think Ari made a mistake there, to be honest. I think that he’s genuinely trying to explore ways to make Nokia more open, just as I am at my $employer, but some posts are better left unposted! |
Jun 16 08:50 |
| schestowitz |
Lots of promises from the Windows Mobile people recently (they didn’t even hire a ‘voice’, e.g. analyst). They are still nowhere, but they seem to have an insider in Vodafone now. |
Jun 16 08:51 |
| schestowitz |
Bear in mind that Microsoft’s head of the mobile unit quit the company some months ago. He was there for almost 10 years, IIRC, so it’s a major blow that’s very telling. |
Jun 16 08:51 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Voda are a very large company, so it will always be possible to find someone who’ll stake their next bonus on a linkage with a particular compony. MS still have a lot of cash, and middle-managers are desperately constrained because of the way organisations form, so outside partnerships often look like a better way of getting a bonus “this” year. |
Jun 16 08:52 |
| schestowitz |
It wasn’t a post. He spoke about it publicly. Then again, he was demonised by a journalist and expresses his disappointment in this ‘damage control’ blog post. |
Jun 16 08:53 |
| schestowitz |
As I understand it (I’m not sure anymore because of a recent report), Microsoft’s former head of the Mobile Division/Unit will be running Vodafone, so you probably can foresee the impact. |
Jun 16 08:54 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I’ve spoken at the same events as Ari in the past, and have found him to be an honourable character. I think the idea he’s trying to get across is that businesses are struggling to migrate from their current business models onto new ones based around open-source. I still think he made a grave error presenting this, though. |
Jun 16 08:54 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Ahhh - that’s interesting. This is a direct attack on Android, I think. I doubt it will be effective, though. The google bus is too big to stop. |
Jun 16 08:55 |
| schestowitz |
Yes. |
Jun 16 08:55 |
| schestowitz |
I believe that Trolltech was about stealing parts of the rivals’ stack. |
Jun 16 08:55 |
| schestowitz |
Think of Sun’s grab of an ingredient of LAMP (MySQL). |
Jun 16 08:55 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I think of the present situation as a graph with two lines, one increasing, and one decreasing over time. As the open-source “increasing” line has become visible to the decreasing proprietary line, then the proprietary companies need to take action in order to survive. As the lines approach each other, due to cross soon, if not already, then it seems inevitable that major open-source projects will be bought |
Jun 16 08:58 |
| schestowitz |
Well, Qt was lunch money for a company as large as Nokia. It remains ton be seen what hey will do with it. |
Jun 16 09:00 |
| schestowitz |
(or *to* it) |
Jun 16 09:00 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I suspect that they’ll leave it alone for now. It’s not mainstream to Nokia, who are predominantly a hardware vendor. |
Jun 16 09:01 |
| schestowitz |
Yes, but to sell their hardware they need to ensure other offers (e.g. HTC+OHA) don’t eat their dessert. |
Jun 16 09:02 |
| schestowitz |
Apple and Sun too have some great hardware, but it’s expensive and some people go for the lower-end PCs and servers. |
Jun 16 09:03 |
| mark_antony_kent |
True, but Nokia’s hardware is mainly mass-market consumer, whereas Apple and Sun are both niche players - hmm, not entirely true, Apple have managed to go mainstream with the iPod, but nothing else yet. So far… |
Jun 16 09:05 |
| schestowitz |
Then there’s the software. Sun offers a place for Windows and Linux as well while Apple does its flings with Microsoft at times (maybe due to practical needs). Nokia may be similar in the sense that its bread and butter (Symbian) isn’t enough for everything. Can Symbian do tablets? |
Jun 16 09:08 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Symbian started out on Psion machines - I’ve still got a Psion5mx which runs a late version of EPOC which is the previous name for Symbian. Symbian remains single-user and proprietary, though. |
Jun 16 09:12 |
| schestowitz |
That’s no way to develop software. It’s too expensive. One has to wonder what keeps it floating other than large investments and universality. Windows Mobile has its share of pains too (growing pains). |
Jun 16 09:14 |
| schestowitz |
Twice in the past month or so Nokia praised mobile Linux, but it was probably thinking about its tablets. |
Jun 16 09:15 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Personally, I think that Symbian’s days are numbered - there’s no long-term value to developing your own OS. |
Jun 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz |
How much (%-wise) do they have in Symbian. Didn’t Nokia have like 60% in it? Maybe more? As Symbian loses market share (assuming that happens), its funding will shrivel. |
Jun 16 09:19 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I think that Nokia were the major holder. Psion and Ericsson were the other two, but Psion pulled out. |
Jun 16 09:20 |
| mark_antony_kent |
fyi, According to Google, MS have paid 18 dividends to shareholders since 2002, from 9c to 11c/share. |
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| mark_antony_kent |
Mornin’ [H]omer |
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Jun 16 09:23 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Some names just don’t stick |
Jun 16 09:23 |
| schestowitz |
Is Psion still in existence? |
Jun 16 09:23 |
| mark_antony_kent |
http://www.psionteklogix.com/ |
Jun 16 09:24 |
| schestowitz |
I’m not sure it’s him. Actually, I’ll check. |
Jun 16 09:24 |
| mark_antony_kent |
ah, pse do… |
Jun 16 09:24 |
| schestowitz |
Yes, it’s him. |
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Jun 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz |
Palm too is moving to Linux, hopefully away from Microsoft slavery. |
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Jun 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz |
But Palm worked for years on its own PalmOS-compatible stack and now there’s LiMo and OHA around. Poor Palm… I still have their products. |
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Jun 16 09:29 |
| [H]omer |
Yes, it’s me |
Jun 16 09:29 |
| schestowitz |
The FreeNode staff talked about disruption cause by a (script) “kiddie”. I wondered if that’s related. |
Jun 16 09:32 |
| [H]omer |
lemme check the logs to see what happened |
Jun 16 09:33 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
hi [H]omer |
Jun 16 09:34 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
I appear to have had my T changed to a 1 |
Jun 16 09:34 |
| schestowitz |
Server error? |
Jun 16 09:35 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
maybe, or some timeout of some kind. I use the linux kernel profiling to mix 2 adsl lines, so I think sometimes links perhaps get chopped if there’s no apparent activity. I’ve not found out how to hold them up, and whilst I’ve put up a few permanent routes to things, some things do drop out. |
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Jun 16 09:38 |
| schestowitz |
See the new comment on the Novell item: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/… |
Jun 16 09:38 |
| schestowitz |
In short, it’s likely that, as you said moments ago, Microsoft can experiment with Novell and put its APIs where it needs them. |
Jun 16 09:38 |
| mark_antony_kent |
MS understand large corporate politics extremely well. They know that there’s always someone who will be blind to future consequences if their bonus is going to come in. |
Jun 16 09:39 |
| schestowitz |
Who might this be specifically? |
Jun 16 09:40 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Oh, just middle managers generally. The further up the stack you get, the higher the bonuses get, so the more money there is at stake. What gets lost in HR analyses of these situations is that the bonus system has created a generation of senior middle managers who are entirely focused on the complete short-term, because that’s how they’re bonused. The best thing which could happen to foss would be for the |
Jun 16 09:43 |
| schestowitz |
Hovsepian received a bonus shortly after signing the deal, IIRC. |
Jun 16 09:44 |
| schestowitz |
I can’t recall the details exactly (we have this documented), so I won’t say anything further… could otherwise be defamatory. |
Jun 16 09:44 |
| mark_antony_kent |
he did, yes. rather proves my point. When one’s got (not me!) the possibility of a 6-figure bonus, then long-term issues probably look a lot less sexy. |
Jun 16 09:45 |
| [H]omer |
Hmm, I see what’s going on. Lotta netsplits on Freenode. At 1.25AM the netsplit caused me to be booted, and my client failed to ident in time, so I lost the nick until a few minutes ago when I reclaimed it. |
Jun 16 09:46 |
| schestowitz |
People quickly forget all those small and supposedly uninteresting ‘details’ after the dust settles. There’s also the danger that Novell apologists will outweigh the oppositions. I sometimes see characterisations like “Zealots” and “conspiracy theorists” used to defend what Novell did. |
Jun 16 09:46 |
| mark_antony_kent |
[H]omer: does freenode allow the registering of nicks? |
Jun 16 09:47 |
| [H]omer |
mark_antony_kent, yes indeed |
Jun 16 09:47 |
| [H]omer |
type “/msg NickServ help” |
Jun 16 09:48 |
| schestowitz |
To go further, complacency is a huge risk. What if it was /assumed/ that swpatents are here to stay (everywhere) and that Mono is too prevalent to be eradicated. The same goes for Moonlight, whose acceptance drives prevalence (Web infection, buh-bye open WWW). |
Jun 16 09:48 |
| [H]omer |
I’ve just woken up. Need coffee Back in 5 |
Jun 16 09:49 |
| mark_antony_kent |
schestowitz: I agree, there’re big stakes being played for here. This is the real test of the GPL, legal cases are not, in the grand scheme of things, that critical - whether mono, silverlight, xps, ooxml and swpatents can be beaten off are the real test. It’s a huge game! |
Jun 16 09:49 |
| mark_antony_kent |
[H]omer: okay |
Jun 16 09:49 |
| schestowitz |
Novell has essentially become a ally, only obliged to both sides in this case but serving also as a bridge. |
Jun 16 09:52 |
| schestowitz |
Novell is not alone though and it’s a relief that no more Linux vendors surrendered for so long. SJVN told me that he thought everyone would sign a deal within a year. |
Jun 16 09:53 |
| schestowitz |
Remember Corel? Same thing. People forgot about Corel though. Microsoft has, in some sense, paid them to stop competing. |
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Jun 16 09:55 |
| mark_antony_kent |
The Corel thing was pretty awful. It seems surprising that competition authorities in Canada didn’t take that one up. In fact, perhaps they still could? |
Jun 16 09:55 |
| schestowitz |
I wasn’t watching anything at the time, but I was sent some information by a reader who is desperate to tell her case. |
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Jun 16 09:57 |
| schestowitz |
Bear in mind that at the time Corel said it would stay committed to Linux. You know, like Novell said that software patents were not the centre of the deal (”we agree to disagree”) and that it was all about “interoperability”. Then, people forget, and things evolve. |
Jun 16 09:58 |
| schestowitz |
Hovsepain said this just 2-3 weeks ago: “Our partnership with Microsoft continues to expand.” |
Jun 16 09:58 |
| schestowitz |
Not “continues”, mind you but “continues to _expand_.” |
Jun 16 09:59 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
The Microsoft and Novell guys put on a show where the Microsoft chap claimed that Novell supported (Microsoft’s patent claims), and the Novell chap stood up and claimed that he didn’t. It was very well rehearsed, and I’d be surprised if it had really fooled anyone, but what do people recall about the event? |
Jun 16 09:59 |
| schestowitz |
They have a FAQ up. The OpenSUSE folks seem to love it. |
Jun 16 10:02 |
| schestowitz |
It’s up on novell.com, so you really know it’s objective. *rolls eyes* |
Jun 16 10:03 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
hehe |
Jun 16 10:04 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Ahh b*gger … blasted filling fallen off back of a wisdom tooth again! |
Jun 16 10:05 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
sh1t. |
Jun 16 10:05 |
| [H]omer |
Yeah, I know what that’s like. I spent £600 on dental work last year. Every filling had to be replaced |
Jun 16 10:07 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
yuk! It’s not cheap, and it’s not pleasant either… |
Jun 16 10:08 |
| schestowitz |
I dread the day when I’ll have to get fillings. I’m still doing alright. |
Jun 16 10:08 |
| [H]omer |
I don’t exactly have Hollywood teeth, if you know what I mean |
Jun 16 10:08 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
I probably wouldn’t have had any or many, but for a dentist a few years ago who tried to get me to have fillings I didn’t need… it put me off dentists for a few years, which was a big mistake. |
Jun 16 10:08 |
| [H]omer |
same here |
Jun 16 10:09 |
| [H]omer |
Especially that last one |
Jun 16 10:09 |
| schestowitz |
Look at the bright side. US justice has no teeth at all. Not claws, either. |
Jun 16 10:09 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
hehe ! |
Jun 16 10:09 |
| [H]omer |
I look forward to dentures, then I can forget about dentists for good |
Jun 16 10:10 |
| [H]omer |
:) |
Jun 16 10:10 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Ah, well, yeah… in the end… |
Jun 16 10:10 |
| [H]omer |
Who’s stupid idea was it to place nerve endings *inside* a tooth anyway? |
Jun 16 10:11 |
| [H]omer |
God has a sick sense of humour |
Jun 16 10:11 |
| PetoKraus |
:) |
Jun 16 10:11 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Nah, it’s all Darwin’s fault. If it hadn’t been for him, I’d've been intelligently designed! |
Jun 16 10:11 |
| [H]omer |
lol |
Jun 16 10:12 |
| [H]omer |
“It’s the engineers fault” |
Jun 16 10:12 |
| [H]omer |
Isn’t it always |
Jun 16 10:12 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Absolutely. Never trust an engineer. |
Jun 16 10:12 |
| [H]omer |
Never pay them either …. (bastards) |
Jun 16 10:13 |
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Jun 16 10:13 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Um, I seem to have left again. |
Jun 16 10:13 |
| [H]omer |
I hate it when that happens |
Jun 16 10:14 |
| schestowitz |
No, that’s Mark’s ghost. |
Jun 16 10:14 |
| [H]omer |
dammit - I’ve been without my laptop for so long, I’ve forgotten how to use the smallish keyboard |
Jun 16 10:14 |
| [H]omer |
Typing is down to about one word a minute |
Jun 16 10:14 |
| [H]omer |
Did I mention my laptop fiasco? |
Jun 16 10:15 |
| [H]omer |
That’s quite a story |
Jun 16 10:15 |
| [H]omer |
Basically … it was overheating, so I sent it into Acer. This was at the beginning of February |
Jun 16 10:16 |
| [H]omer |
4 weeks later they sent in back … unrepaired |
Jun 16 10:16 |
| [H]omer |
So I sent it in again |
Jun 16 10:16 |
| [H]omer |
This time they repaired it, but the DVD didn’t work and the graphics were messed up |
Jun 16 10:17 |
| [H]omer |
So I sent it in again! |
Jun 16 10:17 |
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Jun 16 10:17 |
| [H]omer |
This time the sound didn’t work, and the CPU temp sensor was broken |
Jun 16 10:17 |
| [H]omer |
So I sent in in *again* |
Jun 16 10:17 |
| [H]omer |
Finally after four attempts, 12 motherboard exchanges, and about 3 months, they managed to repair it |
Jun 16 10:18 |
| [H]omer |
Gah!!! |
Jun 16 10:18 |
| mark_antony_kent |
12 exchanges? that must be some kind of record… |
Jun 16 10:19 |
| [H]omer |
No kidding |
Jun 16 10:19 |
| [H]omer |
Oh, and I had to *pay*, as it was out of warranty |
Jun 16 10:19 |
| [H]omer |
£350 IIRC |
Jun 16 10:19 |
| [H]omer |
Working fine now though |
Jun 16 10:20 |
| PetoKraus |
fingers crossed. |
Jun 16 10:20 |
| [H]omer |
Although I dropped it last week, and bits came flying off the DVD cover |
Jun 16 10:21 |
| [H]omer |
Haven’t found all the bits yet  |
Jun 16 10:21 |
| schestowitz |
They pulled an XBox360. |
Jun 16 10:21 |
| [H]omer |
There’s an LED cover missing (tiny bit of translucent plastic) |
Jun 16 10:21 |
| [H]omer |
Ya. Actually I’d *hate* to be an exb0rks customer |
Jun 16 10:22 |
| [H]omer |
What a pain that’d be |
Jun 16 10:22 |
| [H]omer |
They have to pay too |
Jun 16 10:22 |
| [H]omer |
How’s that class action suite going? |
Jun 16 10:22 |
| [H]omer |
The server’s taking a dump. Damn, I should really re-schedule that for another time. Monday morning is not ideal. Things slow as Hell ATM |
Jun 16 10:26 |
| mark_antony_kent |
on phone… |
Jun 16 10:26 |
| schestowitz |
Is there a class action? |
Jun 16 10:27 |
| [H]omer |
Two … AFAIK |
Jun 16 10:27 |
| schestowitz |
I know about the Vista class action, but XBox still ongoing? |
Jun 16 10:27 |
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Jun 16 10:27 |
| schestowitz |
Not a word about it in the press for many months, if true. |
Jun 16 10:27 |
| schestowitz |
Mark’s ghosting is scary. |
Jun 16 10:28 |
| [H]omer |
Here’s one: http://www.informationweek.com/news/sof… |
Jun 16 10:28 |
| schestowitz |
Homer, that’s from last year. |
Jun 16 10:28 |
| [H]omer |
I’m surprised there isn’t one specifically for the overheating issue, especially as the Vole has now admitted fault. These both seem to be about scratched discs. |
Jun 16 10:29 |
| schestowitz |
I watch Microsoft closely and I assure you it has been hush-hash. Maybe it’s a small lawsuit? I really don’t know |
Jun 16 10:29 |
| [H]omer |
Isn’t it still ongoing though? |
Jun 16 10:29 |
| schestowitz |
To be honest with you, if Microsoft pulls some quiet settlement (bail) outside the court, that wouldn’t surprise me. The publicity hit is very costly. Recall Iowa. |
Jun 16 10:30 |
| [H]omer |
I think the Vole’s “settlement” was to commit to spending more money on warranty repairs |
Jun 16 10:31 |
| schestowitz |
It took them a bloody year just to acknowledge that they had a design problem (the $1,000,000,000 charge). Days beforehand, criminal Robert Bach did some inside-trading. He was never probed or punished because he’s rich. |
Jun 16 10:31 |
| [H]omer |
hm, typical |
Jun 16 10:31 |
| schestowitz |
Perhaps that was the settlement. I don’t watch it closely. The XBox (and 360) is a bad toy that cost the company billions. Zune is in the headlines now because of the Canada reach, but it’s pathetic really. It became synonymous with ugly and defective. |
Jun 16 10:32 |
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Jun 16 10:33 |
| schestowitz |
Microsoft has not had any good news in ages. I said this before, esp. in recent weeks. It’s like nothing’s moving there. It was _VERY_ different a year ago It was more vibrant. |
Jun 16 10:33 |
| schestowitz |
I sometimes jokingly think that it’s true that they just concentrate on patenting now. |
Jun 16 10:33 |
| schestowitz |
Perhaps the developers just write write write instead of develop. |
Jun 16 10:34 |
| [H]omer |
I thought MS “developers” were just “Purchase Controllers” (i.e. assimilation agents) |
Jun 16 10:35 |
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Jun 16 10:37 |
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Jun 16 10:37 |
| schestowitz |
It is true. |
Jun 16 10:37 |
| schestowitz |
Have you seen the following post? Wait.. I’ll get the URL.. |
Jun 16 10:37 |
| schestowitz |
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/14… |
Jun 16 10:38 |
| [H]omer |
I mean the Vole doesn’t actually “write” anything … except FUD of course |
Jun 16 10:38 |
| schestowitz |
Doug sent me the pointer, I did the text. Watch it closely and be amazed (well, *you* wouldn’t, some would). |
Jun 16 10:39 |
| [H]omer |
Yes, WRT “Surface” … well Microsoft claim “innovation” because they … wait for it … *licensed* the technology from the inventor |
Jun 16 10:42 |
| [H]omer |
So “innovate” == “license” now |
Jun 16 10:43 |
| [H]omer |
LOL |
Jun 16 10:43 |
| [H]omer |
Then there’s this whole thing of them trying to patent human behaviour. Jeez! |
Jun 16 10:44 |
| schestowitz |
I didn’t know they ‘licensed’ anything. What was the idea anyway? I can only guess. |
Jun 16 10:44 |
| schestowitz |
An apparatus for input using motion of hands? |
Jun 16 10:44 |
| [H]omer |
Multi-touch screens AFAIK |
Jun 16 10:44 |
| [H]omer |
I think Engadget had the original story. Lemme find it |
Jun 16 10:44 |
| schestowitz |
What about multi-touch. Neanderthals too could draw with both hands, so we have prior art methinks. |
Jun 16 10:44 |
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Jun 16 10:44 |
| [H]omer |
Here’s a pointer: http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/200… |
Jun 16 10:47 |
| [H]omer |
“Actually, while Apple I’m sure has many patents on the iPhone, the multitouch stuff has been around for awhile, most prominantly from a guy named Jeff Han and his company Perceptive Pixel.” |
Jun 16 10:48 |
| schestowitz |
Yes. I cite 2 or 3 cases of prior art (with Linux even) in the pointer to an IRC discussion (at http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/1… ). It’s not new. |
Jun 16 10:50 |
| [H]omer |
“Multi-touch technology dates back to 1982″ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wi… |
Jun 16 10:52 |
| [H]omer |
Microsoft “innovation” my ass |
Jun 16 10:53 |
| schestowitz |
Xerox maybe? Glyn Moody said he was shown it back then. |
Jun 16 10:53 |
| schestowitz |
Surface/Milan was a Gates pet project, you know? Fantasy world for the Gates Press. |
Jun 16 10:54 |
| [H]omer |
Has anyone actually bought one of the Vole’s $10,000 coffee tables? LOL! |
Jun 16 10:54 |
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Jun 16 10:54 |
| schestowitz |
Microsoft wanted the project killed, but Gates insisted otherwise. |
Jun 16 10:54 |
| schestowitz |
Good question. The only target ‘audience’ is some hotel lobbies and now Microsoft brags about a deployment in a casino or two… maybe more. It ought to make you happy. They burn cash to buy public perception that Microsoft does exciting things. |
Jun 16 10:55 |
| [H]omer |
Yeah, Gates is a real “visionary”. He’s quite the “Nostradamus” too. His predictions are infamously inaccurate. |
Jun 16 10:56 |
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Jun 16 10:56 |
| [H]omer |
I have to go do a job. Back in about half an hour. |
Jun 16 10:57 |
| schestowitz |
Ballmer made a predication last week: newspapers to be gone in 10 years. |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| PetoKraus |
haha |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Gone where? |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| PetoKraus |
DRM! |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| mark_antony_kent |
hehe |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| PetoKraus |
self - imploding one-read paper. |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| schestowitz |
Readers in Seattle P-I complained about every word coming out of Gates’ mouth going in print. |
Jun 16 11:00 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I always knew that voice to text was a bad technology. |
Jun 16 11:01 |
| schestowitz |
Microsoft has technology (patent) for cam-cording a TV viewer for ads and restrictions. |
Jun 16 11:01 |
| schestowitz |
Wait until the newspaper only ‘works’ for one person. |
Jun 16 11:01 |
| schestowitz |
And forced you to read the ads. |
Jun 16 11:01 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Perhaps they’ll be hard-wired to your synapses |
Jun 16 11:02 |
| schestowitz |
Well, they have a patent on monitoring people’s emotion at work. |
Jun 16 11:02 |
| mark_antony_kent |
a dedication monitor, and a loyalty guage |
Jun 16 11:03 |
| schestowitz |
Hmm… have you seen the patent? I can get you a link summarising it. Microsoft seems to be moving from s/w to sci-fi. |
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Jun 16 11:06 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I’ve not studied it, no |
Jun 16 11:07 |
| schestowitz |
Other patents from Microsoft are joint to simple API stuff. |
Jun 16 11:09 |
| schestowitz |
They produced extensive documentation that shows you how to ‘connect’ to Microsoft and what accompanying patent you must pay for (per protocol). That’s the type of scam that started with the Novell deal. |
Jun 16 11:10 |
| schestowitz |
Increasingly, as software becomes more of a commodity to many, Microsoft realises that all it has to claim is “innovation” (even if it fakes some). It looks back at its code and tries to convert that into USPTO files that are in reality deserve the wastebasket. That’s their business plan assuming that the cost of office and Windows will fall further. |
Jun 16 11:12 |
| mark_antony_kent |
They’re trying to squeeze their cash-cow for as long as possible. |
Jun 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz |
Windows is already as cheap as $18 (excluding what Microsoft calls craplets). In its SEC filing, Microsoft expresses such concerns. Remember that most of Microsoft’s business units lose money, not make any. Without software as a have-no-choice-but, Microsoft lives on its fat supply. |
Jun 16 11:13 |
| mark_antony_kent |
They are in a lot of trouble. I think that a management change would do them a lot of good. |
Jun 16 11:15 |
| schestowitz |
No. They have nobody suitable. Even Mary Jo Foley said so and explained why. |
Jun 16 11:19 |
| mark_antony_kent |
They have cultural problems internally which would need fixing, but I don’t think that promoting from within the ranks will fix their problems either. Maybe there is no fix… |
Jun 16 11:19 |
| schestowitz |
They are stuck with a hubrid-infected man; nobody else seems to know the diverse business though. Additionally, without an element of a bully, Microsoft can’t stay relevant. It’s aggression that they thrive in. Recall OOXML FIasco^TM.. |
Jun 16 11:20 |
| mark_antony_kent |
If they can get new management now, they might have enough cash to help them over a culture change, away from bullying and towards cooperation and competition. Maybe. |
Jun 16 11:21 |
| schestowitz |
What business model? Lockin for software? |
Jun 16 11:23 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Good question… they need to move towards a model based around development and support and integration. The death of the desktop will take them with it otherwise. |
Jun 16 11:24 |
| schestowitz |
Bear in mind that _by all means_ they recognised this, which is why they explore expansion with consoles, portable music players, etc. They lack focus because they are having a techno-sexual rump, unable to find anything that’s profitable. XBox 360 will ultimately be the same failure its predecessor was. |
Jun 16 11:24 |
| schestowitz |
Integration and development of *what*? These terms apply to modular bits like FOSS. Also, they seem to be fixated on Google (ad+search). |
Jun 16 11:25 |
| mark_antony_kent |
They might’ve had some success with Xbox if they’d not tried to re-use Windows; or tried to do their own hardware - they’re not really up to it. Integration and so on does imply a quite new model, I agree. |
Jun 16 11:26 |
| schestowitz |
Current model: licencing. Red Hat tax, Samba tax, cross-licensing with embedded device manufacturers. |
Jun 16 11:27 |
| mark_antony_kent |
yup - milking the cash-cow. |
Jun 16 11:28 |
| schestowitz |
Oracle and any other wise business (including Microsoft’s recent acquisitions) integrate their solutions with GNU/Linux. Don’t you think Microsoft is scared of it? What to do…? Shove the Windows API in there. |
Jun 16 11:28 |
| mark_antony_kent |
If they could get away with it, it would guarantee them some income, I’m sure. Not ethically, of course… but I’m not sure how worried about that they are. |
Jun 16 11:30 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Your News article on Philanthropic priorities from philanthropy.com was quite amusing… |
Jun 16 11:32 |
| schestowitz |
Gates is leaving (sort of), indicating that paperwork will replace some development and political games be necessary. |
Jun 16 11:32 |
| schestowitz |
I’m surprised that there were no attacks on/against it. Yet/ |
Jun 16 11:33 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Against BG leaving, you mean? |
Jun 16 11:34 |
| schestowitz |
No, against my post about the uncovered part of Microsoft Fundation. |
Jun 16 11:36 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I don’t know about you, but I get the feeling that the trolls are beginning to run out of wind, at least, at the moment. Are they being called back for some great announcement? |
Jun 16 11:36 |
| schestowitz |
I think they resort more often to personal insults. |
Jun 16 11:37 |
| mark_antony_kent |
Which is a good indication that they’re entirely out of technical or economic argument, and have recognised it. |
Jun 16 11:38 |
| schestowitz |
They try to drive away the crowd. Passing on of one’s demoralisation. |
Jun 16 11:38 |
| mark_antony_kent |
This is why the digests are good. They leap out of google because of the large number of links and relevant content. |
Jun 16 11:39 |
| schestowitz |
Yes, keywords and all. |
Jun 16 11:43 |
| schestowitz |
They tried to harass you through your employer for a while (against the digests), but that stopped. |
Jun 16 11:43 |
| schestowitz |
Intimidation is another pattern showing weakness. Have a read: |
Jun 16 11:44 |
| schestowitz |
http://www.groklaw.net/artic… |
Jun 16 11:45 |
| mark_antony_kent |
um, willdo |
Jun 16 11:45 |
| mark_antony_kent |
ta |
Jun 16 11:45 |
| schestowitz |
This one is newer (from another one who was smeared and harassed by Microsoft. He was here on IRC a fortnight ago): http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/20… “Lets see how the Microsoft machinery reacts to this set of interesting news, and see how they spin in. How much has this fiasco cost them? What did they get out of it? A chance to be more open? Can you see a change yet?” |
Jun 16 11:46 |
| mark_antony_kent |
I agree, no signs of any change at the moment. |
Jun 16 11:48 |
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Jun 16 11:58 |
| schestowitz |
[Pardon the lag… just been chatting with a colleague.] Are you referring to Microsoft or the Windows trolls? |
Jun 16 11:58 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Microsoft for “no change” and trolls at “gone fairly quiet, away from technical and economic issues and onto silly personal attacks”. |
Jun 16 11:59 |
| [H]omer |
They know they can’t win on technical issues |
Jun 16 11:59 |
| schestowitz |
Ah well.. things have changed a lot in the past year. When I was in COLA in 2006 we had no upper hand. |
Jun 16 12:00 |
| [H]omer |
And Microsoft’s economic dominance are due to racketeering, as several antitrust proceedings prove |
Jun 16 12:01 |
| schestowitz |
Marketing = perception of technical merit; Patents = perception of technical ownership. Microsoft works hard on both, but none if technical progress. |
Jun 16 12:01 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
You’re right, the board is very much tilted in favour of the foss world, now. It’s even become possible to put some pressure on proprietary companies to be at least a little more away of the foss community’s requirements. |
Jun 16 12:01 |
| schestowitz |
<[H]omer>, the EU is nothing to rely on. The financial injury incurred by Neelie is nothing compared to a disaster like XBox360. |
Jun 16 12:02 |
| schestowitz |
I don’t know if you guys ever follow BN.com, but I only write there about issues that I view as important, long-term. It’s not about the Linux device ju jour or the new feature Linux has. It’s about dirty tricks to change law and play with /people/ (not objects). |
Jun 16 12:04 |
| schestowitz |
Microsoft lost the technical battle long ago (with some exceptions). It’s especially stuff like Wine and virtualisation that makes them very weak and fragile. Windows just becomes an /application/, not a platform. |
Jun 16 12:05 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
I’ve always found the lnog term stuff to be the most interesting, but it’s often reflected in what’s happening today. Did you see my recent message to mitch on the 3-technology problem? |
Jun 16 12:05 |
| schestowitz |
Isn’t Mitch a Mac person? I typically cross out (set to ignore) everything that comes from the Mac boards. |
Jun 16 12:06 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Not seen him before, but he responded to one of my “desktop is dead” posts with a stack of ill-informed remarks, so I did some explanation… |
Jun 16 12:07 |
| [H]omer |
Talking of Wine … I resurrected one of my old Windows games yesterday - “Little Big Adventure”. No way to get it to work on XP AFAICT (scrambled video and no audio), but it works on Linux under WIne perfectly |
Jun 16 12:08 |
| schestowitz |
I think I saw that. In fact, 15 minutes ago I sent an article to Datamation’s editor and it contains bits about demise of the desktop. |
Jun 16 12:08 |
| schestowitz |
I *loved* Little Big Adventure. The graphics was amazing at the time. |
Jun 16 12:09 |
| schestowitz |
VESA! |
Jun 16 12:09 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
[H]omer: Part of the 3-technology problem is consolidating legacy on current generation - wine is brilliant because it provides an excellent means of doing so for win32 stuff - dosbox does the same for dos programmes. |
Jun 16 12:09 |
| [H]omer |
I’m not aware of that phrase “3-technology”. What does it pertain to? |
Jun 16 12:10 |
| schestowitz |
Meanwhile, the British Library is running Win3.1 virtualised to access old documents. What a bunch of *. They should move to ODF. |
Jun 16 12:10 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
ahahaha - you need to read my posting in response to mitch |
Jun 16 12:10 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
I need to ressurect my brief bloggin attempt and write more of this down. |
Jun 16 12:10 |
| [H]omer |
What thread was that, on COLA? |
Jun 16 12:11 |
| [H]omer |
I k/file a lot of the Mac stuff |
Jun 16 12:11 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
It wasn’t a mac discussion, it was about the “death of the desktop” |
Jun 16 12:12 |
| schestowitz |
here’s the URL: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os… |
Jun 16 12:12 |
| [H]omer |
Ah OK … *that* thread |
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Jun 16 12:14 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
that’s part of it, but doesn’t seem to have the conversation with mitch in it. |
Jun 16 12:15 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
I note that people are still trying to link my day job with Microsoft… nothing could be further from the truth. |
Jun 16 12:15 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os… |
Jun 16 12:16 |
| [H]omer |
Right, I get it now. It’s about the predictable nature of transitions from the past to the present and the future (a.k.a. history repeating itself). |
Jun 16 12:18 |
| schestowitz |
Oh, that’s a thread I had set to “ignore”. |
Jun 16 12:18 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Pretty much, yes. There’re some very wide issues here, though - if you’re running a large business, then these things correspond to huge amounts of money. I can go into a lot more detail about the model with respect to where innovation takes place and where consolidation takes place. Amongst other things, it desmonstrates why Wine was *never* a threat to linux… |
Jun 16 12:19 |
| schestowitz |
Nice theory there. There was an article last year about gates leaving because he saw Microsoft as the next stagnating IBM. Google is a possible.. well, candidate for inheritance. Sun and Oracle — who knows? |
Jun 16 12:20 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Thanks! I’ve been showing it at presentations for some time - most people go “hey, wow, I’d never thought of it like that before”. It also fits the “disruptive technology” model of chistensen very well, and even explains why cash cows and rising stars need to be on separate technical platforms. It’s a very very good model. |
Jun 16 12:22 |
| schestowitz |
IBM moved to licensing (s/w patents) too. They too are suffering at the moment. |
Jun 16 12:23 |
| [H]omer |
Yes, although the specific future of technology is not predictable, societal changes *are* based on patterns of use and demand, therefore one can predict the direction in which one should steer technology |
Jun 16 12:23 |
| schestowitz |
And finally, there *is* a Google Linux, but it doesn’t come in the form people expected it (GNU/Linux distro for ‘the desktop’). |
Jun 16 12:24 |
| schestowitz |
brb |
Jun 16 12:24 |
| [H]omer |
Web based? |
Jun 16 12:24 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Agreed. The idea that you cannot “predict the future” is, really, more than a bit naive. I think that you can readily say where consolidation is taking place, and you can recognise what is innovation and what is consolidation (usually confused). Google have done a really good job of spotting the innovation opportunities, but are rapidly becoming “today’s technology”; mash-ups seem to be looknig more like |
Jun 16 12:25 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Along with appliances and mobility. |
Jun 16 12:26 |
| [H]omer |
Just catching up on COLA |
Jun 16 12:28 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Interesting seeing on google how I’m still being stalked… |
Jun 16 12:29 |
| schestowitz |
I haven’t posted in COLA today. I will come around to it later on. Too many things got in the way, so juggling a little… |
Jun 16 12:29 |
| schestowitz |
How so, Mark? |
Jun 16 12:29 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Oh, you know, the follow-ups with out-of-context quotes and out and out lies. |
Jun 16 12:30 |
| schestowitz |
I noticed yesterday that about 70 times so far this month people came to my personal site (dunno about other site) by searching for my surname. |
Jun 16 12:30 |
| schestowitz |
Oh, I thought you meant something else then. |
Jun 16 12:31 |
| schestowitz |
There was an ambiguity there (see if you can spot it) |
Jun 16 12:31 |
| mark_antony_ken1 |
Nothing worse than that, yet. |
Jun 16 12:31 |
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Jun 16 12:34 |
| schestowitz |
Here is something quite nifty. A little like a ‘LinFS’ (aka the now deceased WinFS): http://nhnfreespirit.kollide.net… |
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