Do you remember the major stink a while back over the DRM-crippled Sony CDs? Apparently Sony has decided to try to get some of their money back from the company that sold them the spyware packages. Frankly, I think they deserve each other.
The Popularity of Windows Vista
I’m apparently not the only one that feels like he’s being railroaded into using Vista, and is looking for alternatives.
Blog Comment Spam Deluge
I’m not sure what attracted the spammers’ attention, but a couple of my older blog posts have suddenly become spam magnets. They’ve gotten a steady stream of spam comments over the last couple days, obviously automated posts that are primarily full of nonsense sentences (“These experiences in those pay medical placidyl premises.”), and that also contain dozens of URLs.
The Spam Karma package catches and disposes of all of them before they’re ever seen or posted. I could easily ignore them if I wished to, but it’s more fun to mock the spammers for wasting their resources. 😉
Just how do you pronounce Linux?
Linniks, line-iks, leeniks… all three seem to have their adherents. I use the third pronunciation myself, because long ago (and long before I started using the OS), a friend of mine said that that was how Linux Torvalds pronounced it (and he was right, as you can hear for yourself). I figured that if anyone would have a right to say what the proper pronunciation was, it was the guy it was named after. But apparently many people disagree.
It’s a good thing that Linux zealots have a common enemy to unite them, or subjects like this could lead to holy wars. And Linux zealots already have enough fronts to fight holy wars on (KDE vs GNOME, emacs vs vi, ext3 vs JFS vs XFS vs Reiser, LILO vs GRUB, and the perennial favorite of which distribution is better, just to name a few of the most popular ones).
It’s spelled Linux, but it’s pronounced “Not Windows” — Usenet sig, original author unknown
The Jungle, Part III
The jungle continues to widen. Tread cautiously, people.
“Sick to death of the bloody iPhone? Click here”
“Canadian air security gets some perspective on ‘bad words'”
Hey, Canadians seem to be getting a grip on reality. Unlike some countries I could name.
Man dresses as tree to rob bank
And again I say, un-freakin’-believable.
“Laser innovation speeds up hard disks”
“Researchers in the Netherlands say they have come up with a way of using lasers to speed up magnetic hard drives by a factor of 100.” Neat! And we’ll need that too, with the sizes of disks that are on the way.