20080826
Dems leave Linux users in the dark
As much as I support Barack Obama for President, the Democratic National Convention Comittee screwed the pooch by choosing to use Microsoft Silverlight instead of Adobe Flash for their video needs. The decision is in conflict of an article the DNCC called The 2008 Democratic National Convention: The Most Technologically-Savvy Event Of Its Kind.Silverlight does not allow Linux or UNIX users to view online video like Flash, Windows Media, Quicktime, or Real can.
So why only support Windows or MacOS? No other software is bias against the users' operating system software preference. If the Obama website supports Flash video, why doesn't the DNCC?
This is why I refuse to do any programming on Microsoft IIS, ASP.Net, or SQLServer. (That and I don't know jack about ASP.Net in the first place. I mean, come on? $300 for software or free? Which would you pick if you were a poor starving college kid?) If that is going to affect my job search, then good! I'd rather do programming the right way (Apache + PHP + MySQL), rather than the easy way.
At least the DNCC got one thing right: Using an open source CMS called Silver Stripe
In short, Silverlight = BAD, SliverStripe = GOOD.
In terms of Joe Biden as VP, while I do not agree with his stance for supporting RIAA or MPAA, at least he is not Carly Fiorina who nearly destroyed Hewlett-Packard a few years ago with her ability to micromanage. If McCain has 7 houses from marrying his trophy wife, and Fiorina has 5 private jets (two she had to give back) that she bought by showing 5000 HP workers pink slips, what are the chance that McCain will NOT become the next president of the United States? Nearing 100%. Ask anyone working in the Tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley (San Jose,CA), who Carly Firornia is and they'll likely say she makes Hillary Clinton look like a saint.
In terms of technology, I believe that any politician who plans on making any technology decisions and has a bias against hackers needs to read "The Conscience of a Hacker", at least one technical book (i.e. HTML for Dummies), and needs to under stand the workings of email, cell phones, and the Internet. We don't need anymore Ted Stevens-like senators who don't know jack about technology but are put in charge of a Senate Committee responsible for Comererce, Science, and Transportations just so they can be spoon fed what the NTCA tells them and prays to God that no one finds your emails (cough!MattBlunt!cough!)
Labels: linux, microsoft, politics, shovelware, software
posted by Bushido Hacks 8/26/2008 09:52:00 PM (0) comments top
20080202
Yahoo! will NEVER merge with Microsoft, so quit asking them, Microsoft!
In what has to be the umpteenth time that Microsoft has asked Yahoo! to merge with them, rest easy Yahoo! users as this will NEVER happen.Since Yahoo! started in 1995, Microsoft has made several bids to buy Yahoo! all of them were denied. Even as Google dwarfed Yahoo! and Microsoft, Yahoo! still denied to merge with Microsoft.
As Microsoft still fightst to keep its foot in the door, it's goal is to "embrace, extend, and extinguish". Something Yahoo! knows about Microsoft quite well, considering most of MSN has been a less-than-user-friendly parody of Yahoo!
As much as I am still p.o.'d at Yahoo! for destroying my first webpages that were on Geocities, I still support there decision to say no to Microsoft, which is currently struggling since Google is the new leader of the pack in the tech sector.
Labels: business, google, microsoft, yahoo
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/02/2008 12:21:00 AM (0) comments top
20040802
A must have for Linux users: Microsoft fonts - Click!
If there is anything more bureaucratic and hypocrictical it's Microsoft's selfish and eletist bias against other software and operating systems. Such is their case against Linux users.They are very close to pulling a Metalica/RIAA move and calling Linux software piracy when it isn't. While their futile attempts to sue Linux users by paying SCO to sue companies that use Linux (AutoZone, DaimlerChryster, Lowes Home Improvement, UPS, etc.)
If their is anyone they should sue, it is Redhat for profiting off of free software for non-commercal users. (Some one at the North Carolina Linux Distributer needs to re-read the GPL license they swore too.)
But that is not why I am here this morning! I'm here to give you something that most distros do not have because of a Microsoft EULA agreement: THE CORE FONTS!
Face it, you feel like the odd man out when you are at a message board and it says you can pick Arial, Impact, Tahoma, and Verdana but you can't.
So what should you do? Follow the instructions in the link. Note that after you have built the 5MB RPM file from the 6KB spec file, the RPM will end out at file:/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch. You should also download and install the cabextract package. You should then restart your computer after you have installed the core fonts.
Labels: fonts, linux, microsoft
posted by Bushido Hacks 8/02/2004 09:29:00 AM (0) comments top
