http://mrpogson.com One man. Closing, all the windows. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:59:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/with-love-from-m/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/with-love-from-m/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:59:13 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10126 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } M$ expresses its love for users by announcing critical (remote code execution…) vulnerabilities in every version of their OS from XP to “7″ and versions for servers. Happy Valentine’s Day. Hope you don’t get hacked before you manage to update… That’s a bit like a boyfriend telling a lady she should get checked for STDs [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/with-love-from-m/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/liam-maxwell-opensource-software-is-not-three-guys-in-a-shed-anymore/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/liam-maxwell-opensource-software-is-not-three-guys-in-a-shed-anymore/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:44:40 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10123 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Amen! Who is Liam Maxwell? He’s the IT guy who’s redoing IT for the government of the UK. The complete quote: “Opensource software is not three guys in a shed anymore. There are a lot of misconceptions about open source but open source is the future model for delivering IT.” He’s got that right. Millions [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/liam-maxwell-opensource-software-is-not-three-guys-in-a-shed-anymore/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/oracles-future-as-foretold-in-oracle-v-google/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/oracles-future-as-foretold-in-oracle-v-google/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:38 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10118 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Judge Alsup has required Oracle to allow Google to depose five or Oracle’s engineers, one of whom is Hinkmond Wong who wrote in a blog, “”For the other commenter who thinks Android is “based on Java”, you are incorrect. While it is true that the programming language for Android is the Java programming language, the [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/oracles-future-as-foretold-in-oracle-v-google/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/bruce-byfields-valentines-gift/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/bruce-byfields-valentines-gift/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:25:16 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10115 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Bruce Byfield at times provokes me with harsh criticism of FLOSS but today he has done a good job of describing the chaos of the GNU/Linux desktop and giving a recipe to produce harmony and love: Don’t Invent Problems to Solve Make All Functionality As Accessible As Possible Extend Features, Don’t Remove Them Give Users [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/bruce-byfields-valentines-gift/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/i-love-free-software/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/i-love-free-software/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:55:19 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10111 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } The world needs software. Everyone seems to use computers one way or another. FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) is the best way to supply that need. Everyone contributes what they can to FLOSS and shares with everyone else. Free Software is software that includes permission for the user to Run the software Examine the software [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/10/i-love-free-software/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/09/bundling-will-lenovo-do-the-right-thing/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/09/bundling-will-lenovo-do-the-right-thing/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:38 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10105 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Lenovo has been ordered by a French court to refund licensing fees for that other OS and costs to a customer who bought a personal computer with that other OS installed when the customer wanted to use GNU/Linux on his personal computer. A previous decision that the customer should have returned or not bought the [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/09/bundling-will-lenovo-do-the-right-thing/feed/ 28 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/wow-new-hampshire-gets-floss/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/wow-new-hampshire-gets-floss/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:58:16 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10101 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } “it is in the public interest that the state of New Hampshire consider using open source software in its public computing functions.” That’s from the preamble of a bill that just passed through both houses in the state’s legislature. The preamble is concise and eloquent touching on everything that’s wrong with Wintel without mentioning M$ [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/wow-new-hampshire-gets-floss/feed/ 28 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/want-a-third-rate-server-put-that-other-os-on-it/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/want-a-third-rate-server-put-that-other-os-on-it/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:22:37 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10097 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Netcraft has again published it’s hosting survey. It shows that other OS is still far less popular than GNU/Linux. Only 7 out of 43 reports uses that other OS while GNU/Linux counts 28. I dug deeper into the table to have an idea why. Netcraft keeps statistics on snap: DNS lookup, Connection time and First [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/want-a-third-rate-server-put-that-other-os-on-it/feed/ 21 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/m-v-nook-hammering-or-being-hammered/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/m-v-nook-hammering-or-being-hammered/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:37:45 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10087 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } M$ v Barnes and Noble took a comical turn this week. M$ decided to drop several of its claims of patent violation. They now only have three claims left and those three are weak, terribly weak. Patent #6,957,233: Making annotations in read-only documents Chuckle. In Computer Science 101, students have been taught about data structures [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/08/m-v-nook-hammering-or-being-hammered/feed/ 2 http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/06/usability-of-gnulinux/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/06/usability-of-gnulinux/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:33:17 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=10072 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Der Spiegel Online has an interesting article on usability of GNU/Linux for ordinary mortals. Unfortunately, it’s only in German, but Google Translate gives us the gist. The authour, Frank Patalong, was innocently using his PC running that other OS yesterday when it locked and demanded payment to continue… He had a router, firewall and anti-virus [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/02/06/usability-of-gnulinux/feed/ 14