Archive for June, 2007
It used to be hard to find a PC loaded with Linux, but that is no longer the case. The big news, of course, is Dell. The PC manufacturer has officially opened the open source shop, offering factory loaded and Dell supported PC’s with Ubuntu and FreeDOS.
There’s a lot of other interesting news in this post too, like a worm that targets USB drives—to spread information about AIDS and HIV, and the coolest looking Linux PC that fits in the palm of your hand…
Continue Reading June 28, 2007
American style democracy is showing many flaws and weaknesses—something that it began doing quite some time ago. However, since the start of the 21st century, hairline fractures have turned into major cracks in the foundation. And they continue to grow.
Our government is failing in all the fundamental requirements and responsibilities of a government: national defense, secure borders, opportunities, looking out for the interests of those who consent to be governed, and providing for future generations into posterity…
Continue Reading June 28, 2007
Author George Orwell’s “Big Brother” from his novel 1984 was born quite some time ago. Big Brother has been growing up, and at long last, he’s getting ready to head out and take on the world.
In Britain, it is a reality and getting worse every day. Already, according to an article appearing on Red Herring’s site, remote controlled helicopter drones are being added to the surveillance apparatus of a nation where there is the equivalent of 1 monitoring camera for every 14 citizens in place already.
Briton’s live in the most monitored society on the planet. America is not far behind…
Continue Reading June 26, 2007
Here is a list of the 2K Bloggers community members so far. They still have a few openings to fill the 2000 members out. If you’re not a member of this blogging community you should be!
I thought I would share a little link love and post the list now rather than waiting for it to get completed. I have discovered some really great blogs as a result of being a member of this community. Even if you don’t join, you will discover a lot of fantastic blogging to read…
Continue Reading June 18, 2007
The recent split of the Palestinian government could be the best thing to happen as far as developments between Israelis and Palestinians are concerned. A bit of smart politics and some long term vision could turn take this conflict from a seemingly endless middle-game to the end-game.
How? Well, divide and conquer does not always mean to imply that conquering must be done with fighting. As Sun Tzu put it, the best general isn’t the one who wins 100 fights, but the one who is successful in defeating his enemy 100 times without having to fight…
Continue Reading June 18, 2007
I happened across an article on Red Herring yesterday and thought I would go ahead and share a link after thinking on it overnight. I mean, there are open source meetings about strategy and coping with Microsoft pretty regularly these days—so why share yet another link to another article on the topic?
Well, it mentions those open source companies who are striking deals with Microsoft in order to protect themselves against potential litigation in the future by the company. That means it mentions a few companies whose products I won’t be using. Well, at least I had intended not to. But there was one particularly disturbing mention in the list of companies.
Zend Technologies, who handles the PHP programming language recently struck a deal with Microsoft as well. It was bad enough seeing Novel, the makers of Suse, and XandrOS making deals with Microsoft instead of joining the rest of the open source community and calling the Redmond company’s bluff. Now, the company behind the scripting language of choice for a lot of people has joined the unholy alliance out to destroy open source…
Continue Reading June 16, 2007
OK, the title of this post says it all. I suggest you take a look and create your own opinion.
I’ve seen dog turds on sidewalks that would have made for a more pleasing design…
Continue Reading June 5, 2007
Let me get this straight. In Lebanon, the army—which is the army of a largely Muslim nation—is doing battle with other Muslims, right? And they are doing battle with terrorists? And these terrorists are in Palestinian refugee camps?
And, according to the Lebanese army, these terrorists are using civilians as shields?
Continue Reading June 2, 2007
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