Daniel de Oliveira

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Acording to The Register and Windows Vista Team Blog Site, Microsoft will release SP1 for Windows Vista with “a lot of improvements in security and performance.

<ironic mode>Maybe the SP1 will format your actual vista installation, migrate all data and install a new and clean realease of a linux distribution called “Linux Vista”, to obtain better performance. IMHO, is the only way to get more perfomance using this load of crap.</ironic mode>

Quiz:

75% Geek

$2350 in Cadaver Calculator

40% in Chances of Surivival in a Zombie Apocalypse

73% Coffee Addicted (As usual)

52% Movie Addicted

Next week I’m leading the “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft” panel at Mix07 in Vegas, my first Microsoft conference. Naturally, I’ve been pondering the topic so I don’t end up on stage with my pants around my ankles. The more I think about it, the more I think Microsoft loves open source—and not just because they’re fools if they don’t.

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Microsoft has started a project for their partners to help identify the personas of different Linux users in an attempt to sway them toward Microsoft products. In addition to the web site there is a podcast on the market research behind the project, again directed at Microsoft’s selling partners

Source: Slashdot

Funny… After look at the Microsoft’s Site, I see something like a “desperate cry” of some big company…

Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.

The press release, issued late on Wednesday, announced that UK-based bank HSBC has agreed to adopt technology from Novell and Microsoft’s recently announced partnership.

In the release, Matthew O’Neill, group head of distributed systems for HSBC Global IT operations, states that the bank’s existing Linux environment is more expensive to maintain than its Windows environment. “Some will be surprised to learn that our Windows environment has a lower total cost of ownership than our current Linux environment.”

HSBC claims it will achieve cost savings by reducing the number of Linux distributions it uses and by improving the interoperability of its open-source operating system deployments with Windows. “Our decision to simplify our mixed-source environment with Microsoft and Novell will allow us to reduce the cost and complexity,” said O’Neill.

Although it is unclear at this time which Linux distributions the bank is using, the fact Novell is associated with a statement that claims Linux has a higher total cost of ownership than Windows will surprise and anger many in the open-source community.

Previously, Novell has been a vociferous proponent of the cost savings offered by open-source software. Speaking at BrainShare, the company’s annual user conference in Barcelona in 2004, Novell chief Jack Messman claimed that Microsoft’s exhaustive licence fees for Windows have prevented end-user organisations and independent software developers from directing cash into more “innovative” software.

“I am of the opinion that innovation has been slowed because of Microsoft. It has sucked $60bn out of our industry that could have been used for innovation,” Messman said. “My vision is that companies won’t have to spend so much on operating systems which have been commoditised and spend more on innovation.”

But after a long and bloody tussle with Microsoft over patents that both parties held on each other’s software, Novell announced in November last year that it was laying aside its past differences with the Redmond company and launching a partnership.

The companies said that they will collaborate on development of specific technologies, for example to help Windows work with Novell’s Suse Linux. The companies will create a joint research facility at which they will build and test new products, and work with customers and the open-source community.

The research will include Novell offering a version of Suse Linux Enterprise Server with optimised virtualisation features for Windows Server Longhorn, expected to launch later this year.

Novell’s Microsoft-friendly makeover was marked by the dismissal of its chief executive Jack Messman, who was let go in June last year. However, his replacement, Ron Hovsepian, has not completely resisted the odd dig at Microsoft.

Speaking at a press conference in Sydney recently, Hovsepian said he was pleased by the slow uptake of Microsoft’s desktop operating system Vista.”We’re excited by the muted reaction to Vista,” he said. “We’re going to attack [Microsoft] vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can,” Hovsepian said.

Vista was five years in the making, so the code behind it is very complex according to Hovsepian, whereas open source is more nimble and flexible. “And we have got to take advantage of that.”

The HSBC announcement will see the bank, which has 9,500 offices and 284,000 employees in 76 countries, sign up to a three-year support subscription to Suse Linux Enterprise Server from Novell.

Despite the marked differences in approach between open-source supporters and proprietary companies such as Microsoft, HSBC’s blended approach to using the software is not uncommon. Speaking at a conference last year, Phil Dawson, Gartner research vice president, said that the analyst group was increasingly receiving feedback from its clients showing that there is a real growth in companies that want to run open-source software stacks on top of Windows, or proprietary software on top of Linux.

“The traditional approach has been an all-commercial Windows stack or a full open-source, Linux-based stack, but these are two extremes of the pendulum. The real growth is in the middle ground,” Dawson said.

Source: ZDNet  and Slashdot

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Ok, wait a sec. Novell is too stupid to claim that a software (not from novell) are better than your own product?! Second, this affirmation is the most stupid point in history, saying that Windows is cheaper than linux. Stupid… Very Stupid… And Humor flagged in my wordpress. A little example.. “I prefer buy Vista by $300 than using linux for free… yeah… its more cheaper.. Maybe we can talk about companies, and talk about the horrible Linux Enterprise OS from Novell and Red-Crap”.

“OpenBSD is known for its security policies, and for its boast of “only one remote exploit in over 10 years”. Well, make that two, because Core Security has found a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the OpenBSD kernel. Upgrade your firewalls as soon as possible.” 

Source: Slashdot and Core Security

“Only two remote holes in 10 years” becomes a parody.. Everyone knows that the default install have another bugs that OpenBSD people doesn’t want assume, but whatever. I don’t care about it, since I prefer a professional solution than a joke called *bsd.

It’s possible someone be more stupid than this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oGaZIKYvo

Ballmer is too much stupid.. It’s great to se him as CEO of Microsoft: A Monkey at front of a very Funny Enterprise, that *ASSUMES* your laughs at users. C’mon Mr-Developers, give me a phone of $99 that can be equipared to iPhone, you fucking moron.

Maybe he can see this video 6 months later.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but people are scared about “clicking on a hoax”? I just click on some buttons in Alek’s Controllable Christmas Lights, and as I can see, I’m the only one that.. hahahaha.

http://www.komar.org/christmas/maps/

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.”
3. Specify that your drive-through order is “TO-GO.”
4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
5. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
6. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”
7. Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what you think.”
8. Practice making fax and modem noises.
9. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and “cc” them to your boss.
10. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
11. Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with prophesy.”
12. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
13. Disassemble your pen and “accidentally” flip the ink cartridge across the room.
14. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
15. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you “like it that way.”
16. Staple pages in the middle of the page.
17. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.
18. Honk and wave to strangers.
19. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.
20. TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
21. type only in lowercase.
22. dont use any punctuation either
23. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
24. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times.
    “DO YOU HEAR THAT?”
    “What?”
    “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
25. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
26. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce “No, wait, I messed it up,” and repeat.
27. Ask people what gender they are.
28. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
29. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
30. Sing along at the opera.
31. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.
32. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about “psychological profiles.”

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