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Saturday, 04 September 2004 |
News.com reports on Microsoft's comments about the impact of Linux on thier business in thier most recent quarterly report.
It's a double whammy when it comes to Linux. Unit sales are lost (espeically in the server segment) and the remaining units sell for less. As excited as that might get those rooting for Linux as the underdog, Microsoft is far from going down for the count.
Microsoft still posted a net income of $1.2 billion dollars for the first quarter of this year and is sitting on $56 billion in cash and short term investments. By comparison, RedHat posted a measely net income of just under $11 million dollars for the same period.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Thursday, 02 September 2004 |
A posting on slashdot today mentioned the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. I had all but forgotten about this project. They crawl around the web and periodically archive sites in their current state.
Much to my surprise, they have archives of reusch.net and jason.reusch.net going back to 2001!
In other reusch.net news, a man named Roland Reusch contacted me this week. He lives in Dusseldorf, Germany and just happens to share the same last name. We exchanged a few emails and he now hosts roland.reusch.net from his house. Guten tag, Roland!Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
Today on Meet the Press when confronted with the current casualty count in Iraq - 924 dead, 6,087 wounded - and asked if the war in Iraq justified the loss this is how Dr. Condoleezza Rice responded:
"Now, it is true that stockpiles have not been found in Iraq, but I think we've gone all the way over to the other side in assuming somehow that Saddam Hussein was not a weapons-of-mass-destruction threat. Of course he was."
Huh? Don't you have to posses WMDs before you can credibly threaten to use them?
She then persisted by trying to link Iraq to the September 11th plot:
"On September the 11th, we were brutally attacked by people who had an ideology of hatred so great that they, with a few people, threatened to try and bring down our way of life."
The terrorists couldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams their actions would result in another 924 lives and thousands wounded, the loss of constitutional freedoms to the patriot act, and the burden of financing a war on our economy.
When Tim Russett pointed out no connection has ever been found between Iraq and terrorism against America, she responded:
"There is no linkage between the plot of September 11 and Saddam Hussein's regime that we see. But I think it would be wrong to say that there is no linkage between what happened to us on September 11 and the instability and lack of hope and lack of freedom in the Middle East. And Saddam Hussein's regime was one of the prime elements in that kind of Middle East. Now, we have a chance to build a different kind of Middle East."
Before America invaded Iraq, no American had ever been killed by an Iraqi terrorist. The majority of the September 11th hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, none of them were from Iraq. And if her statement is true, American policy would justify invading anywhere a lack of hope and freedom prevails. How about most of Africa, China, North Korea, or downtown Detroit?
A lack of hope and freedom is not the same as harboring terrorists. Seeking to posses WMDs and is not the same as possessing WMDs. A gathering threat is not the same as an imminent one. Saying something is so does no make it so. Don’t fall for the spin.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
Real recently made their audio format playable on iPods by hacking FairPlay, the digital rights management scheme used by iTunes.
There is a long history of hacking iTunes. CodeWeavers recently got it to work on Linux, and the Hymn project allows you to completely remove the protections on iTunes audio files.
How this plays out legally should be intersting. As Cory Doctorow points out DRM schemes are not only bad for business, they just don't work. It's not possible for someone to use the media they purchased without giving them the key to decrypt the media.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
Yellow Dog Linux is making a business out of doing just that. Several other distros make running Linux on non-intel platforms possible (Debian is a good example) but Yellow Dog makes it easy.
You can even buy brand new Apple computers with Yellow Dog installed.
Have you tried Linux on a Mac? How did it work out?
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