Fag On FOSS

You can hear the sounds of foaming in rants from the various Apple magazines here, to the “I can barely spell but John Dvorak is a sensationalist w*nker” style bogs here. Poor old Dvorak has also been cartoonised here. It’s the acme of Apple fundamentalism. µ

Hack claims Apple to ditch own OS for Windows

Im happy to be classed as the trash of the blogsphere. No, really.

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I nominate James Dumay for Ordinary Committee member of SLUG. He is fun and enthusiastic, so I think he’d bring this to SLUG activities

- Pia

Aww thanks!

Guys I might be a loudmouth Queen - but I’d love to help put on SLUG. Its either this or I come to slug for the next 12 months in drag. Yes Bruce, ill be sitting with you.

technorati tags: agm, nominations, slug, linux users group, lug, sydney, nerds, queer, queen

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If you fail in life, fail and fail again.

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The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I’m convinced he may be right.

Column from PC Magazine: Will Apple Adopt Windows?

technorati tags: John C. Dvorak, idiot, ad-whore, FUD, Lunacy, Windows, Mac, OSX, OS X, PC Magazine, Yakov Epstein, sensationalist, cheap, whore, I-hate-the-media

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This rant come to you courtesy of the Microsoft relaunch of thier Passport service, this time tweaked to hold the key on the local client, rather than the server and renamed InfoCard.

OpenPGP, anyone?

Innovate?

Bruce, Sorry to be blunt (or rude, whatever), but when money is involved there is no “fairplay”. Maybe you could build a product based on OpenPGP that can compete with Passport? By all means, it isn’t really the technology thats used that is “innovative” - its how its packaged up and sold to a market that makes it innovative.

technorati tags: microsoft, passport, universe, my life is a montage of pain and humiliation, marketing, innovation

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As a consultant, I’ve been using and recomending SuSE to my smb customers since version 6.X
Mostly, this recommendation was due to its stability and its KDE-centricness, that made it specially useful for desktop users.
Gnome is OK for servers, but it’s impossible to business desktop users.
It looks like I’ll have to try Mandrake.

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Novell Open PR - KDE and GNOME

um… What?

The comments and points here are rather interesting (apart from the usual morons this kind of article attracts).

Alot of the comments seem to be geared around Novell being “a follower”, ie, using a specific technology over another. “Following” isn’t really thad bad in my opinion - if its good technology and it seems to be in common use, why differentiate just to be “different”. In Novell’s case its using GNOME over KDE. Another comment as follows provides an interesting id

I think it has little to do with being a follower and more to do with being able to get government contracts. Gnome has gone to great lengths to meet the usability requirements for disabled persons which can be the difference when it comes to getting government contracts.

Novell Open PR - KDE and GNOME

This blog post is not supposed to be one of those opensource discussion writeup ma-jiggys - just thought id write a little about it.

technorati tags: Novell, gnome, kde, idea, moron farm

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Another “journalist” to put on my craplist. Don’t worry, Andrew Orlowski. Linus will change his mind once he gets over the gender reassignment therapy he received from Santa for Christmas.

technorati tags: gender reassignment therapy, transsexual bloggers, Andrew Orlowski, GPL, GPLv3, register, journalism, craplist, lollerpops, stallman, opensource, freesoftware, tranny

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Lets not forget. People choose to forget class acts like this somehow.

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