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01.11.09

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 10th, 2009

Posted in IRC Logs at 5:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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tessier_ I know you do daily links and IIRC there’s a ton of those also. Jan 10 00:01
schestowitz I could assign a number to each, to symbolise magnitude or whatever. Jan 10 00:04
schestowitz tessier: turn your phone to Android: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/319/1… Jan 10 00:06
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GoblinRFD Hi Roy! Jan 10 00:08
schestowitz Think of it as G1 without the lock (that’s the premium). Jan 10 00:09
schestowitz Hey, GoblinRFD. Did you see the last post? Jan 10 00:09
GoblinRFD Not yet.  Looking in a mo. Am I right in thinking you are compiling a list of people who are alleged to have received free laptops? Jan 10 00:09
schestowitz Read it now. Jan 10 00:09
GoblinRFD ok Jan 10 00:10
schestowitz It’s relevant Jan 10 00:10
GoblinRFD Interesting lookup result! – This really is the Indiana Gregg incident all over again.  Is Novell so silly as to not even attempt to hide its IP? Jan 10 00:12
MinceR if they weren’t so inept, they wouldn’t have become a tool for m$ Jan 10 00:13
schestowitz :-) Jan 10 00:14
GoblinRFD Another great post to add to the collection Roy.  Im sure you will get loads of libelous abuse because of it (a good indicator that youve hit the truth) Jan 10 00:15
GoblinRFD Roy, Ive been away from here for a while, “doing my bit” and have received an interesting email (and a few pieces of info) on our completely truthful bloggers that recieved MS “gifts” Jan 10 00:17
schestowitz I flagged all the older comments from that chap as “coming from Novell headquarters” or something. Jan 10 00:17
schestowitz Really? Jan 10 00:17
schestowitz Got a copy? Jan 10 00:17
GoblinRFD Firstly, I was informed by my emailer you were collecting a list of laptop recievers…is that correct? Jan 10 00:17
GoblinRFD If so, you may wish to add:  John Obeto  …… link to follow. Jan 10 00:18
GoblinRFD http://absolutevista.com/blogs/absolutevi… Jan 10 00:19
schestowitz Haha. Jan 10 00:19
schestowitz I think I know the guy Jan 10 00:19
schestowitz Microsoft Subnet? Jan 10 00:19
GoblinRFD Now whats interesting on this page is that, there is a poster called “adacosta”…could this be my good mate Andre Da Costa. Jan 10 00:19
schestowitz Ha! Jan 10 00:20
GoblinRFD but it goes deeper! Jan 10 00:20
schestowitz I think that’s him. He attacks Linux. Jan 10 00:20
schestowitz Wait.. Jan 10 00:20
schestowitz Let me check to be sure. Jan 10 00:20
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GoblinRFD Andre da Costa claims on his blog he wasnt at the PDC 2008 Jan 10 00:20
GoblinRFD I took a screen grab of his blog incase he changed it. Jan 10 00:20
GoblinRFD however: Jan 10 00:20
GoblinRFD according to this site: Jan 10 00:20
schestowitz Ha! Jan 10 00:20
schestowitz Yes, that’s him!! Jan 10 00:20
GoblinRFD http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com… Jan 10 00:21
schestowitz He attacks Linux A LOT Jan 10 00:21
schestowitz And now it turns out that MS bribes him too Jan 10 00:21
GoblinRFD this site claims that Andre was there and have quoted him making a comment about WIn 7 Jan 10 00:21
GoblinRFD Roy, I believe the person sending me this stuff (and theres more to come) is a little apprehensive in giving it out openly.  He has asked me to pass around, and obviously I will. Jan 10 00:23
GoblinRFD Hes a decent chap, and he is an honest individual with a keen interest in the truth (like yourself) Jan 10 00:23
GoblinRFD Alot of the stuff is not suitable for my blog, since I consider my blog to be more of an overview, whilst yours is in depth.  I think my blogs future is more challenging unhanded techniques on a poster to poster basis, whilst yours delves into the finer points and inner workings.  As I say, there is more to come. Jan 10 00:25
schestowitz http://www.networkworld.co… Jan 10 00:27
schestowitz Can you pass me that mail? Jan 10 00:27
GoblinRFD sorry afk for a second Jan 10 00:30
GoblinRFD yep, but in terms of the sender, Ill have to check with him first. Jan 10 00:31
GoblinRFD if you would like, I can PM you the contents of the email now. Jan 10 00:31
schestowitz Thanks. Jan 10 00:31
schestowitz Please. Jan 10 00:32
*Received a DCC CHAT offer from GoblinRFD Jan 10 00:32
GoblinRFD you should have it now. Jan 10 00:33
schestowitz Got it. Jan 10 00:34
schestowitz Saves. Jan 10 00:34
schestowitz LOL Jan 10 00:35
schestowitz Good ones Jan 10 00:35
schestowitz You can do me a favour, which would help you too Jan 10 00:36
GoblinRFD go for it Jan 10 00:36
schestowitz I posted about 50 posts about shills with proofs or examples. Jan 10 00:36
*DCC CHAT connect attempt to GoblinRFD failed (err=Connection timed out). Jan 10 00:36
schestowitz If you can track them down and build an index, that would be worth putting up as a static page Jan 10 00:36
schestowitz They link to one another, so by following URLs forwards and backwards you’ll sooner or later find them all Jan 10 00:37
GoblinRFD Great idea, Ive got plenty, and as you can see from the mail that chap is certainly helping highlight them. Jan 10 00:37
schestowitz I write many posts, but unlike Groklaw, I rarely take time to tidy them up and sort them by topic. Jan 10 00:37
schestowitz I’ll post a couple more tomorrow. Jan 10 00:37
schestowitz I want to do some links (Linux news) Jan 10 00:37
schestowitz Before I fall asleep on the desk Jan 10 00:38
GoblinRFD Ive made quite a few friendships with my blog, and I have quite a few people informing me when I am being insulted. Jan 10 00:38
GoblinRFD np, Ill speak with you tomorrow more. Jan 10 00:38
schestowitz Cool! Jan 10 00:38
GoblinRFD Ive got my guilty pleasure to indulge in now…… Jan 10 00:38
GoblinRFD World of Warcraft! Jan 10 00:38
schestowitz Some people have already volunteered for some indexes Jan 10 00:38
schestowitz Wine? Jan 10 00:38
GoblinRFD Yep! Jan 10 00:38
schestowitz That’s OK Jan 10 00:39
schestowitz Don’t drink /too/ much Jan 10 00:39
GoblinRFD Recent article on my site: “World of Winecraft” – highlighting how much better it is through Wine Jan 10 00:39
schestowitz It leads to leaks.. memory leaks. Jan 10 00:39
GoblinRFD a guilty pleasure, which I hope doesnt make me a lesser person!!!!!! and if anyone wants to argue, Ill take em on with my level 38 Pally!!!! Jan 10 00:40
GoblinRFD Goodnight Roy, speak to you tomorrow. Jan 10 00:41
schestowitz gn Jan 10 00:41
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tessier_ I need to flash my freerunner and try using it for a while. Jan 10 00:52
tessier_ I’ve had it for 6 months now and never really used it. Jan 10 00:52
tessier_ The software still needs a lot of work. Jan 10 00:53
schestowitz It’s the hardware that counts Jan 10 00:53
schestowitz G1 is tivoised Jan 10 00:53
schestowitz OpenMoko is open for you to ‘wipe’ when you want to test the distro du jour Jan 10 00:53
schestowitz Or build you own :-) Jan 10 00:53
tessier_ Yep. Jan 10 00:54
tessier_ And I’ve wiped my openmoko a couple of times now. Jan 10 00:54
schestowitz That’s good Jan 10 00:54
schestowitz Who wouldn’t thunk it 10 years ago? Jan 10 00:55
schestowitz Phone=whitebox Jan 10 00:55
tessier_ It’s just barely possible now. Jan 10 00:55
schestowitz “Dude, how’s the hardware detection on your handset? Have you compiled a new kernel on it?” Jan 10 00:55
tessier_ The freerunner doesn’t have a camera or do 3g because there are no open chipsets for them to choose. Jan 10 00:56
MinceR gn Jan 10 01:26
PetoKraus gn Jan 10 01:32
tessier_ btrfs has been merged into Linus’ mainline kernel! Yeay! Jan 10 01:41
tessier_ btrfs is Linux’s answer to ZFS. This is a significant event. Jan 10 01:41
PetoKraus why is it better than jfs/ Jan 10 01:41
schestowitz It has more letters Jan 10 01:42
schestowitz It even gets pronounced BETTER FS Jan 10 01:42
schestowitz Or Butter Jan 10 01:43
tessier_ PetoKraus: It is way different from jfs. Jan 10 01:45
tessier_ PetoKraus: In the same way that ZFS is way different from JFS. Jan 10 01:45
PetoKraus yeah Jan 10 01:45
PetoKraus so… what’s the benefits for me, home user, with one 160GB HDD Jan 10 01:45
tessier_ For one thing it obsoletes hardware RAID which I really like. It totally changes the way we do LVM/MD(RAID)/filesystem Jan 10 01:45
PetoKraus that’s my question ;) Jan 10 01:45
tessier_ The benefits are many. First we can assume you don’t value availability because you only have on HDD. :) Jan 10 01:45
tessier_ If you don’t have backups of that data (right now where is your backup?) then we can assume your data isn’t important either so we can do whatever we want with it. :) Jan 10 01:46
tessier_ But seriously, snapshots, faster performance, subvolumes, there are many things which you would benefit from. Jan 10 01:46
PetoKraus which servers would benefit from Jan 10 01:46
PetoKraus i’d benefit from faster performance only Jan 10 01:47
tessier_ You don’t use multiple filesystems? You dump everything on / ? Jan 10 01:47
PetoKraus / /home /boot Jan 10 01:47
PetoKraus but yes Jan 10 01:48
tessier_ So btrfs would allow you to manage your space more easily. LVM works but resizing on the fly only works for expansion. Jan 10 01:49
tessier_ It also makes multiple copies of important meta-data which is safer. Jan 10 01:49
PetoKraus i see the point in other environments Jan 10 01:51
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schestowitz tessier: small difference for average home users, IMHO. Does btrfs reuse fs code from Linux? Which implementation? Jan 10 01:59
tessier_ schestowitz: No it does not. It is a completely fresh implementation. Jan 10 02:01
tessier_ And eventually average homeusers will probably be running btrfs whether they like it or not. Jan 10 02:02
schestowitz Sounds wsteful. Jan 10 02:02
tessier_ I suspect it will ultimately be the default in many distributions. Jan 10 02:02
tessier_ Wasteful how? There wasn’t much to be salvaged. It works very differently. Jan 10 02:02
schestowitz Oracle powa Jan 10 02:02
schestowitz MS FSs stay primitive and fragmented Jan 10 02:03
schestowitz They promised in 2001 what they called WinFS Jan 10 02:03
schestowitz No word about it still.. not even in Vista Service Pack 7. Jan 10 02:03
tessier_ btrfs also has checksums all throughout the filesystem so that data corruption can be found. The size of drives are going up but the uncorrectable error rate is staying the same. Jan 10 02:03
schestowitz It’s amazing that more or less one guy manages this. Jan 10 02:03
tessier_ It is now possible to build a RAID5 that is likely to be impossible to rebuild in the event of a disk failure. That is a big problem. Jan 10 02:03
schestowitz I know another one who tried and went insane. Jan 10 02:04
tessier_ heh…. Jan 10 02:04
tessier_ I think he started out insane. Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz Heh. Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz At least btsfs isn’t called Masonix. Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz *btrfs Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz Or… Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz :-) Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz FreeMasonix Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz Freemason. Jan 10 02:04
schestowitz Secret societies and all… like Hans and that wife-swapping cult. Jan 10 02:05
tessier_ FreeMasonix…hahaha….that would drive the Linux using conspiracy theorists absolutely nuts! Jan 10 02:09
schestowitz It’s Free… It’s Chris Mason… it’s… Linux! Jan 10 02:11
PetoKraus gn mates Jan 10 02:15
tessier_ night Jan 10 03:01
schestowitz me stuck doing links Jan 10 03:04
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Omar87 Hi all. Jan 10 07:29
Omar87 So why doesn’t Microsoft just buy Novell? Jan 10 07:29
Omar87 Instead of Yahoo that is. Jan 10 07:29
ushimitsudoki Why would MS buy Novell? They dont’ want to own anything Novell does. They just want to use Novell. Jan 10 07:33
ushimitsudoki Microsoft doesn’t want any GPL-based products Jan 10 07:33
PetoKraus mornin Jan 10 08:27
PetoKraus wrk wrk :) Jan 10 08:27
PetoKraus is the Palm’s OS open source? Jan 10 08:34
ushimitsudoki i don’t think so Jan 10 08:37
PetoKraus why is it listed as “Linux Debut” then? Jan 10 08:39
ushimitsudoki oh? is this a new something? link? Jan 10 08:39
PetoKraus http://boycottnovell.com/2009/0… Jan 10 08:40
PetoKraus schestowitz: ping ;) Jan 10 08:40
ushimitsudoki ah i guess the new “webOS” has a linux kernel Jan 10 08:42
schestowitz Omar87: if Microsoft buys Novell, then everyone loses trust in Novell and gives it no room for mono-spreading and such. Jan 10 09:05
schestowitz PetoKraus: yes, it has Linux in it, be it open or closed Jan 10 09:06
schestowitz If they alter the kernel, they’ll need to share the patches or be getting those bangings on the door from gpl-violations Jan 10 09:07
PetoKraus schestowitz: yeah, same old story Jan 10 09:07
PetoKraus i hope they are sane Jan 10 09:07
PetoKraus and are not gonna force any lawsuit on them Jan 10 09:08
tessier Old Palm-OS wasn’t open source. Jan 10 09:12
tessier The new Linux based one is probably somewhat FLOSS but I bet Palm fucks up again by layering a ton of proprietary goop on it that no developers want to deal with. Jan 10 09:13
Omar87 schestowitz: You’re gonna love this: http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/… Jan 10 09:38
Omar87 Hey everyone, the link I just gave Roy contains photos from our Linux install festival a couple of days ago, check ‘em out! :) Jan 10 09:39
schestowitz I saw seomthing about Jordan the other day Jan 10 09:40
Omar87 BTW, I’m the one with the huge orange coat. Jan 10 09:40
schestowitz I think it was yesterday’s post about anti-Linux. Jan 10 09:40
schestowitz Microsoft’s memos. Jan 10 09:40
schestowitz Wait.. Jan 10 09:40
Omar87 ok Jan 10 09:40
schestowitz Oh, cool. Nice setting, too. Jan 10 09:41
schestowitz Search this page for “Jordan”: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/0… Jan 10 09:41
Omar87 Thanks. :) Jan 10 09:41
schestowitz Microsoft plays you for fools/tools. Jan 10 09:42
schestowitz It does this in many countries. Jan 10 09:42
schestowitz “Free” srugs. Jan 10 09:42
schestowitz durgs Jan 10 09:42
schestowitz *drugs Jan 10 09:42
Omar87 Yeah. :) Jan 10 09:49
Omar87 Hopefully, our fight against them will be effective. Jan 10 09:49
Omar87 All we have to do is keep pushing through continuous arrangements of events like this. Jan 10 09:51
Omar87 For example, next semester, we’ll be holding our yearly open source day. Jan 10 09:52
schestowitz I’ll carry on documenting dumping techniques. These prove helpful to some, even in the mainstream press. Jan 10 10:00
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tessier dumping techniques? Jan 10 10:22
schestowitz Yeah.. :-) Jan 10 10:24
schestowitz Bill Gates Invades the Land of Linus, Uses Dumping Techniques : http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/17/finlan… Jan 10 10:25
schestowitz Now we can align internal document with evidence from the press. Jan 10 10:25
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PeterKraus hello lads Jan 10 10:29
Omar87 schestowitz: Here’s the link again, just in case you wanted to use it as resource for any further posts. http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/article.php?id=41 ;) Jan 10 10:39
schestowitz Yes, I have it ready for posting later Jan 10 10:39
Omar87 Great. :) Jan 10 10:39
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PeterKraus Omar87: nice wee article Jan 10 10:42
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Omar87 PeterKraus: excuse me?: :) Jan 10 10:50
schestowitz http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/10/… Jan 10 10:50
schestowitz wee=small Jan 10 10:50
Omar87 schestowitz: oh, okay. :) Jan 10 10:50
PeterKraus Omar87: i’m just talking about the linked story Jan 10 10:59
kentma1 “wee willie winky” Jan 10 11:03
kentma1 in his nightgown Jan 10 11:04
kentma1 etc. Jan 10 11:04
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ZigggyFish hello Jan 10 11:24
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schestowitz MinceR: Microsoft corrupted Hungary education. Wanna see? Jan 10 12:16
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MinceR schestowitz: i think i’ve seen some of it but i’m interested in more evidence Jan 10 13:05
schestowitz http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/10/ho… Jan 10 13:06
schestowitz I’ll post more later, also about Hungarian education Jan 10 13:06
schestowitz *LOL* http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/01/10/so… Jan 10 13:13
schestowitz “The FBI has been forced to transfer agents from its counter-terrorism divisions to work on Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion fraud scheme as victims of the biggest scam in the world continue to emerge.” http://business.timesonline.co.uk… Jan 10 13:17
schestowitz http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22582/1148/ “To me, as a person of Indian origin, the news about the massive fraud at Satyam , the Indian outsourcing company which has fairly large contracts in Australia, not to mention the US and the UK among others, comes as no surprise.” Jan 10 13:21
schestowitz Nice video demo of the Palm device: http://www.osnews.com/story/20747/Pa… Jan 10 13:28
schestowitz Dana trolls for traffic with a hostile headline: Is Palm webOS too little and too late? < http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-s… > Jan 10 13:31
schestowitz Open source bloggers catch up with Peter O’Kelly, who picks up his reward now: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1790 (attack ODF, then get paid by the convicted monopolist) Jan 10 13:36
ushimitsudoki1 From that Dana article: “One thing I’ve learned covering open source for four years here is that it is often the business model of last resort.” Jan 10 13:37
ushimitsudoki1 is there any real examples of that? Jan 10 13:37
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schestowitz He’s saying that a lot Jan 10 13:37
schestowitz He’s no friend of FOSS Jan 10 13:37
schestowitz It’s ZDNet Jan 10 13:38
schestowitz Just look at L’Unix blog (‘Paul Murphy’). It’s anti-Linux. Jan 10 13:38
ushimitsudoki I’m just wondering if there are some examples of a company failing, making some sort of OSS push, and then going out of business? Jan 10 13:38
schestowitz I know many proprietary companies that die all the time. Jan 10 13:38
ushimitsudoki Yeah, but he’s making it out like this is a common occurance: “Too often open source is to business what patriotism is to a politician, the last refuge of a scoundrel. In both cases the innocent concept is harmed by those hiding behind it.” Jan 10 13:39
schestowitz I don’t know what to make of it. Jan 10 13:39
schestowitz It sometimes feels like very obviously he just writes for hits, because that’s what he’s paid for. Jan 10 13:40
schestowitz And he even admits that cetain thing evoke more emotion. Jan 10 13:40
ushimitsudoki I think I will post the question in that article – I’m a bit unsure what to make of that assertion as well Jan 10 13:40
schestowitz So if you look at his headline, you’ll see a pattern Jan 10 13:40
schestowitz He always questions open source… in an “Open Source” blog. Jan 10 13:40
schestowitz He uses Windows BTW. Jan 10 13:40
schestowitz Proprietary apps… but he said he would try using some open source ones. Jan 10 13:41
schestowitz If you post that question, then you feed him. He’d do more of the same. Jan 10 13:41
schestowitz There was a period of time when almost nobody commented Jan 10 13:41
schestowitz It put him in a squeeze (maybe job at risk) Jan 10 13:41
schestowitz He said that they are paid also for criteria like # of comments Jan 10 13:42
ushimitsudoki ah Jan 10 13:42
ushimitsudoki i see Jan 10 13:42
schestowitz I don’t know if he began provoking more after that point (early 2008, IIRC), but ht sort of ‘recovered’ Jan 10 13:42
schestowitz Never trust ZDNet! Jan 10 13:42
schestowitz Never. Jan 10 13:42
schestowitz They don’t write for truth Jan 10 13:42
schestowitz They wirte for $$ Jan 10 13:43
schestowitz Truth does not make ## Jan 10 13:43
schestowitz $$ Jan 10 13:43
schestowitz Comments make $$ Jan 10 13:43
ushimitsudoki maybe i will blog it then … it’s not a big point, I was just wondering if there were any actual examples of what he is talking about Jan 10 13:43
schestowitz So it ‘incentivises’ provocation Jan 10 13:43
schestowitz If it were not for Shane paying the hosting bill of BN I’d removed the ads a long time ago. Jan 10 13:44
schestowitz Woohoo!!! Jan 10 13:46
schestowitz http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/P-I_m… Jan 10 13:46
schestowitz So that must be why Todd Bishop escaped. Microsoft’s fan press is dying. Jan 10 13:46
schestowitz Hmmm.. the author is “By John Cook”, but it’s in Todd’s blog, with his bio too. Jan 10 13:49
MinceR geekings Jan 10 13:53
schestowitz Apple and Microsoft are one: Apple, Microsoft: Best frenemies < http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/App… > Jan 10 13:55
schestowitz Environment activists get kicked out: http://www.pcworld.com/article/156848/.htm… Jan 10 14:05
ushimitsudoki i did a little blog about the ZDNet article, nothing fire-y, just asking for cites: http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/op… Jan 10 14:12
ushimitsudoki don’t want to jump to any conclusions Jan 10 14:12
schestowitz Cool. Jan 10 14:13
schestowitz Saves us all the trouble of doing a rebuttal. Just linking to one.. Jan 10 14:13
schestowitz I think that Susan Linton (TuxMachines) reads you. Jan 10 14:14
ushimitsudoki I just recall some talk from a smaller country on the OLPC that they didn’t want to be a “dumping ground” for linux machines – the implication being that win xp olpc was desired Jan 10 14:14
ushimitsudoki and i think the zdnet sort of ties into or feeds that mindset Jan 10 14:15
ushimitsudoki that’s why it raised a flag for me Jan 10 14:15
ushimitsudoki yeah tuxmachines is a good site Jan 10 14:15
schestowitz My favourite news site. Jan 10 14:15
schestowitz Wolvix needs help: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linu… Jan 10 14:21
schestowitz “I’ve got the bill postponed until Monday 05.01.2009. It won’t help me much, but I won’t loose the connection until then. Also Oithona has offered me to upload the site and forums to his private web host, so I’ll put the site up there before I go offline.]]” Jan 10 14:21
schestowitz “Interesting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating. I’m not aware that the author sought any input from Sun; I’d be pleased to explore some of the things he’s asked.” < http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/th… > Jan 10 14:40
schestowitz “Obama picks RIAA’s favorite lawyer for a top Justice post [Simon:] Well, at least this shows Obama’s team isn’t unduly influenced by the opinions of key supporters. Pretty bad news for progressive thinking, though.” Jan 10 14:40
schestowitz “Police set to step up hacking of home PCs [Simon:] Oh for goodness sake, surely someone has both a clue and a conscience in British politics? Most upsetting phrase? “step up”. They are already doing it.” http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/ent… Jan 10 14:41
schestowitz I heard of a brother of a friend who wanted to work for the MI5 and got accepted. He was a cracker. Jan 10 14:42
schestowitz http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/mic… “So either they’re saying that they didn’t expect Windows 7 beta to be popular and their infrastructure doesn’t scale, or they’ve let this happen on purpose to generate a little buzz. In other words, in order to make Windows 7 desirable, first you make it unobtainable….” Jan 10 14:46
ushimitsudoki You can believe MS will me working PR overtime for Win7. They really dont’ want another PR failure like Vista was Jan 10 14:48
schestowitz Any word of WebOS/Palm price? http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS34… Jan 10 14:49
schestowitz ushimitsudoki: I posted this in the morning: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/1… (it summarises by bringing together older posts as well) Jan 10 14:50
ushimitsudoki yeah i saw that … i even read a few of that dude obeto’s posts. that’s not even subtle shilling … in one he called vista “the best OS in the known universe” or some such hyperbole Jan 10 14:52
schestowitz Wow(C) Jan 10 14:54
schestowitz Last night: Microsoft delays first Windows 7 public beta < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2… > Jan 10 14:56
schestowitz Microsoft is poor like Wolvix… it need to ‘prepare’ for downloads Jan 10 14:57
ushimitsudoki Yeah, I think that dude from opendotdotdot hit that nail right on the head – it’s just a tactic to make it look like the demand is even higher for the beta Jan 10 14:57
ushimitsudoki not that i don’t think MS fans are eager to see the beta … just that the tactic is to amplify that feeling Jan 10 14:58
schestowitz Sun’s bash has just been canceled: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/0… Jan 10 15:00
schestowitz I wrote about Gavin Clarke before. Jan 10 15:00
schestowitz He’s there in the Register promoting Microsoft’s ‘party line’ a little too often and it became more apparent when he started his podcast series with Mary Jo Foley. Jan 10 15:01
schestowitz Indian Government to Appoint Satyam Board Members < http://www.pcworld.com/article/156795/in… > Jan 10 15:04
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schestowitz Palm and Sony Trump Apple < http://www.pcworld.com/article/156823… > < coming from Windows fan (self-professed almost), Mike Elgan Jan 10 15:12
MinceR so Mike Elgan was in the “hate” phase of the love-hate little microsoft cycle when he wrote that? Jan 10 15:13
schestowitz Mono poison – new video promoting it: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T5HOSWBu3mI Jan 10 15:14
schestowitz From “cobbweb”.. Jan 10 15:14
Omar87 schestowitz: Wow, I see the channel is growing and the number of visitors is increasing. ;) Jan 10 15:21
Omar87 I’m happy for that. :) Jan 10 15:22
schestowitz Thanks! We hopefully impact things for the better. Jan 10 15:22
PeterKraus uuh, HP seems to have unveiled new toys Jan 10 15:22
schestowitz 160-170,000 hits per day, on average Jan 10 15:22
PeterKraus DV3Z – 13.3″ ultraportable amd-puma based laptops Jan 10 15:23
schestowitz Linux option? Jan 10 15:23
PeterKraus the two things why i’m not buying it right away is: no ieee1394, no money Jan 10 15:23
PeterKraus schestowitz: good joke. Jan 10 15:23
schestowitz Here’s why I ask: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/11… Jan 10 15:24
MinceR hm the Pre does have some interesting qualities i’ve missed Jan 10 15:25
PeterKraus schestowitz: nice! Jan 10 15:27
PeterKraus MinceR: you know what i like most about the design? Jan 10 15:27
PeterKraus TACTILE RESPONSE! Jan 10 15:27
schestowitz MinceR: I’m posting the stuff about Hungary Jan 10 15:28
MinceR yeah, it has a real keyboard Jan 10 15:29
schestowitz I need you to do me a favour and just read it to spot typos. Jan 10 15:29
PeterKraus MinceR: you are saying it as if it was nothing special Jan 10 15:30
PeterKraus ;) ( Jan 10 15:30
MinceR well, i have a qtek 9100 Jan 10 15:30
MinceR so it’s not so special to me :> Jan 10 15:30
PeterKraus :) Jan 10 15:31
PeterKraus i just like some vendors remained sane Jan 10 15:31
schestowitz It’s posted now. http://boycottnovell.com/2009/… Jan 10 15:32
MinceR schestowitz: checking Jan 10 15:34
MinceR schestowitz: i see nothing wrong with the main text Jan 10 15:38
MinceR (haven’t read the appendix yet) Jan 10 15:38
schestowitz Fewer people read it. Jan 10 15:38
schestowitz It’s good for archival purposes. I also put the full text in USENET where people will hopefully read and discuss. Microsoft really does not want this to become common knowledge; it would get them in legal mud, potentially. The EC is/was aware of it. Jan 10 15:39
schestowitz trmanco: it feels like the Microsoft Munckins from USENET got laid off or something. Jan 10 15:42
schestowitz http://www.fsdaily.com/Opposition/Microsof… Jan 10 15:44
schestowitz It’s one vote short of front page. If only I knew who “komrad” is… he submits many links to us… another person in Mixx does the same. Jan 10 15:45
schestowitz LXer doesn’t fancy us as much as LinuxToday.. and even Slashdot Jan 10 15:45
trmanco yeah, some Jan 10 15:47
schestowitz I have just 3 unread items in Seattle P-I Microsoft blog. Jan 10 15:47
trmanco its not what is use to be Jan 10 15:47
schestowitz ALL 3 of them are about VISTA 7 Jan 10 15:47
trmanco for now Jan 10 15:47
trmanco LOL Jan 10 15:47
schestowitz I’m glad this publication is dying, as posted a moment ago in BN Jan 10 15:47
trmanco bbl Jan 10 15:48
schestowitz It’s like an advertising blog sometimes. Jan 10 15:48
MinceR schestowitz: the “large table” pages do contain some OCR errors, i’m not sure if that’s a problem Jan 10 15:49
schestowitz Marty Jo Foley: 3 items unread Jan 10 15:49
schestowitz 2/3 are about VISTA 7 Jan 10 15:49
MinceR like “_S.!.n_.g_a_p_or__e3″ Jan 10 15:49
schestowitz She must be nervous these days… she already has her own domain registered, as though she prepared to leave ZDNet Jan 10 15:50
schestowitz She already left Ziff Davis after their bankruptcy (or just before) and then landed in ZDNet Jan 10 15:50
schestowitz Todd Bishop just of Seattle P-I before it’s imminent death.. and now he’s in TechFlash. Jan 10 15:51
schestowitz *jumped Jan 10 15:51
schestowitz *its Jan 10 15:51
schestowitz MinceR: I didn’t do the tables because it’s too much work. I took screenshots the last time, but it’s a lot of work for too little gain. Jan 10 15:52
MinceR ok Jan 10 15:52
schestowitz “_S.!.n_.g_a_p_or__e” — is that the file I need to download for a cracked version of Vista7? Jan 10 15:52
schestowitz Vista7: “Just like Vista, cr4ck3d by _S.!.n_.g_a_p_or__” Jan 10 15:53
MinceR lol Jan 10 16:01
schestowitz Anarchoblogs is back << http://mutualist.blogspot.com/200… >> Jan 10 16:13
schestowitz Omar87: nice new picture in the blog Jan 10 16:41
trmanco back Jan 10 17:33
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twitter good morning.  Great EDGI work! Jan 10 17:42
twitter M$’s pollution of school systems is really grating. Jan 10 17:42
schestowitz I have several more Jan 10 17:43
schestowitz EDGI is part of a series. I’ll connect them at the end. Jan 10 17:43
schestowitz If we lay the ground by linking and grouping the exhibits, then we can sort of reverse-engineer the case that Comes never had the change to establish and present (Microsoft settled within weeks). Jan 10 17:44
schestowitz bbl (in 2.5 hours) Jan 10 17:45
trmanco http://tuxgeek.me/2009/01/windo… Jan 10 17:45
NeonFloss if anyone wants to help me write a letter/package trying to persuade the local school board in my area to switch to Linux the please msg me. Thanks (: Jan 10 17:54
Omar87 schestowitz: Thanks. :) Jan 10 17:55
Omar87 schestowitz: The one with the olive green sweater you mean? Jan 10 17:56
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twitter Neon, look into the Indiana school system.  http://slashdot.org/~twitte… Jan 10 17:59
twitter Talk to the people who did the program and see if they can share their material. Jan 10 18:00
twitter Good luck! Jan 10 18:00
NeonFloss thanks! Jan 10 18:01
NeonFloss great Jan 10 18:01
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DarkUranium hi Jan 10 18:04
twitter http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20081229 Jan 10 18:52
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schestowitz Omar87: yes, the previous one lacked clarity. Jan 10 20:12
schestowitz hi, DarkUranium Jan 10 20:12
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schestowitz Omar87: this one is a vote short of front page: http://www.fsdaily.com/Opposition/Microsoft… Jan 10 21:09
DarkUranium sry, was AFK Jan 10 21:10
schestowitz Reader says: “Bravo for that transcription work – most of those PDFs are too low-res to OCR, so I know just how much work goes into doing that. The very great advantage of publishing the full text is that it is indexed immediately by Google.” Jan 10 21:57
schestowitz “I’m convinced there are dozens if not hundreds more interesting documents in the Comes list waiting to bre analyzed & transcribed, and even 5 years later are of value to MS customers, competitors, and users…” I already have about 30 more stacked up for processing. Jan 10 21:57
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Tallken hey schestowitz Jan 10 21:59
Tallken you there? Jan 10 21:59
Tallken If I needed to find MS Evangelism How-to Docs throughout BN, for which tag should I search? Jan 10 21:59
schestowitz Yes, I’m gere. Jan 10 22:00
schestowitz I’ll get you some URLs. Jan 10 22:01
schestowitz You can follow them back and forth to find the rest. Jan 10 22:01
Tallken no no no Jan 10 22:01
Tallken no need for trouble Jan 10 22:01
Tallken I found what I was looking for :) Jan 10 22:02
Tallken http://boycottnovell.com/cat… Jan 10 22:02
Tallken schestowitz, ping Jan 10 22:02
schestowitz http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01… Jan 10 22:02
schestowitz See the links at the bottom for example. Jan 10 22:02
Tallken ok, thx :) Jan 10 22:05
neighborlee_ hmmm interesting, windows ‘7′ beta is out ;0- Jan 10 22:19
neighborlee_ my friend installed it,,she says its ‘ok’ I guess…2.6gb download.. Jan 10 22:19
schestowitz It’s just Vista with makeover… like Ubuntu 8.10 to 8.04 Jan 10 22:22
schestowitz So there’s not much chance of screwing things up Jan 10 22:23
trmanco schestowitz, Ubuntu at least got a knew kernel Jan 10 22:23
trmanco new* Jan 10 22:23
Tallken cya later! Jan 10 22:23
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schestowitz How not to sell Linux… “Why Picking a Linux Distro is Like Picking a Girlfriend” < http://desktoplinux.wordpress.com/… Jan 10 22:48
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schestowitz http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2009/01/… Jan 10 23:22
twitter noobs talking about GNU/Linux … that describes half of the Wintel press.  The other half are so hostile they talk about things they never use. Jan 10 23:27
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schestowitz Do you still have that walmart text? Jan 10 23:32
twitter oh sure Jan 10 23:35
schestowitz It’ll take me a while to get there (maybe weeks). I do EDGI first Jan 10 23:36
twitter The ordinary text has a few typos.  I also have html here http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/221041 Jan 10 23:36
schestowitz I’ll also do quick post about Vista7 and the death of Vista (BadVista) Jan 10 23:37
schestowitz typos are OK Jan 10 23:37
schestowitz We have the PDF for precision Jan 10 23:37
twitter want it emailed? Jan 10 23:37
schestowitz I have lots more on the walmart item. Jan 10 23:37
schestowitz Yes, please Jan 10 23:37
twitter OK Jan 10 23:37
MinceR i hope the FSF is planning a campaign against vista7 too Jan 10 23:41
schestowitz Sure. Jan 10 23:43
schestowitz I’m writing about that too Jan 10 23:43
schestowitz I’ll add the blip.tv “Vista Sucks” video, as ogg Jan 10 23:43
twitter it’s on the way Jan 10 23:46
schestowitz Thanks, I got it. Jan 10 23:59
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