sudo make me a patent (only another 234 to go microsoft)

With scox in tatters, how do you a software giant defend your crap against linux ? Linux is open to all.

Well Microsoft essentially have been patenting the commands of a linux box – essentially a command called sudo, and a command called gksudo which is an gui for sudo.  There are some real idiots in the us patent office.

Recently ms was also passing off a software loader as their paid software when it had an open source licence.

It’s not good enough to show up the idiots in the patent office, and be caught stealing, while threatening to sue the linux community.

Regcure from Paretologic the latest thing making microsoft usuable

I was called out of the monkey house to fix our professors computer who’s exploits have been mentioned in this blog.  We have computers running linux and so the world of windows vista always brings weirdness to our day should it invade it compared with our serene peace we have with our computers.

Vista and windows 7 needs a hefty computer to run it, and not that long ago professor  bought a new dell pc (ready for vista) and got mind fucked by all and sundry converting an old pc from xp to vista it’s detailed here (my blog).

Quite how he gets a machine that could run about 500 nasa spacecraft to the moon at once and make crawl is something i find amusing, this has been achieved in various ways including with three firewalls just so your ’safe’. This computer also connects via a router, so a firewall is not really necessary anyhow.

Its been a while since i have been to professors office, and the thing that was out-of-place was something called regcure which i had never even bothered to even know existed until yesterday (linux does not have a registry).

Naturally something else was not working and even HP could not get there usb thing to perform which he paid them to do and probably the reason for the visit.

So this state of the art pc was running v e  r  y  s l o w l y, no programs were loaded on startup, networking and getting a wired dhcp lease took three minutes, loading any program took forever while i assume regcure did some paranoid checking

Heres the thing while im sure regcure is probably ok but  in the hands of an idiot its downright dangerous – and professor had no clue how or who and why installed it for him.

So after fixing a few things and installing sp2 on vista, and the hp device, i decided to dump regcure.  five or ten reboots (we don’t do that in linux very often) later and networking was faster, and programs actually loaded more speedily.

So to all you microsoft windows experts (yes even you msm computer  magazine journalists*) who think windows is amazing please don’t recommend this crap since i have to clean it off.

Its not my job to worry that a reg entry without anything in it (eg blank) is my problem, i didnt compile the crap and so i have no idea if i could break x.exe by doing so. Take the hp device drivers if they are so bad for vista that they need constant re-installing then any Microsoft operating system is doomed to be fucked about by ‘experts like regcure’ that make windows o/s’s a joke where it works it’s a bloody miracle.

Humans.

* windows 8 needs pimping

Darl of scox is terminated!

About time (my blog) – hint if you want to wreck your business hire him.

bluetooth sucks.

802.15 should be a joy, not just for windows users, or mac users but all users after all its a standard like ethernet, alas this standard has been gang raped by Microsoft.

Bluetooth for cavedwellers makes short range radio communication between say a phone and a headset/computer and mouse etc. Easy ! no wires in theory

Alas some fuck head at bluetooth.org decided that linux compatibly and bluetooth was bad, no doubt theres some pressure from the microsoft to do this so i am very late to this.

It took me about two days of googling for something that might work with linux in the form of a usb adaptor. Thats encouraging isnt it?  Lets face it they don’t want people like me using it.

Lets face facts, LInux supports bluetooth, but the people who certify it, dont like to advertise that it does work with Linux.

Seeing as i have become an expert on this crap by accident, i note that windows users also have problems with bluetooth being a number of software libraries and the like, plug and pray time anybody.

Clearly buetooth is not a standard deserving to computer support and it should go back to its ghetto of mobile phone users.  I hope that a better short range radio standard is invented and will make bluetooth devices obselete.

I did get bluetooth to work,but i have no intention of embracing this microsift crapware

Its a shame that inteligent people at Bluetooth have fucked it up.

Indeed i could have bought many adaptors to try but thats not the point why should buying something so basic require so much research. if i had windows then the problem of the right software come to play – not easy for anybody

idiots.

Netbooks – Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

an asus 1005ha, also available in pink.

The netbook (my blog) was a hard choice in the end, I wanted a mix of the new and be able to run linux.  The recent 12″ netbooks** suffer from poor wifi (no n only g) and no i don’t want an asus 7 series when one can do better than that – no disrespect the the asus 7 and 9 series is intended but hardware moves on.

My ideal base spec to start with was the asus 1000h which had a decent 10″ screen, n running linux – but the place i was going to buy it from sold out, they did have them with the solid state disks (better performance over a conventional disk). It has a huge battery too running 9 hours (say 6 hours between charge, try getting that on a normal laptop).

There was a lot of difference between it and a dell mini (n and linux) and the asus. Dell lost as it had half the memory, and no bluetooth.   I also have issues with Dell, and didn’t want an Microsoft supplied linux version (see the above link). Netbooks do also vary in price +/- £ 40 (no amazon is not cheap) and since i have to pay the windows microsoft tax even though i won’t use it and its bloody hard to get a linux netbook as is i went to my normal place for hardware.

The next target spec I was aiming for was a asus 1000he after my first target 1000h was not available , but the bad numbering from asus means the 1005ha  is apparently ‘better’ than the 1008 asus netbook model in a number of respects, confused ?

An asus 1005ha was procured which has a 9 hour battery,bluetooth (not on the dell mini with linux) but no solid state disk.

So for £ 300 i have a machine  (i started the exercise at 370+ excluding extra ram) with 2gb ram, and an unwanted copy of windows xp thrown in.

Of note: solid state disks are interesting technology to watch when they do go mainstream and even though pricey at the moment, but i am sure the 160 gb conventional disk won’t be wasted.

In reality the netbook does not disappoint, the keyboard is a little small, but very usable.(lets just say a 7″ keyboard is pushing the envelope, a 10″ keyboard is much much better) but i will nitpick at the mouse button, and the n wifi range is rather limited compared to say a laptop (i experimented with different kernels – some are better than others).  Screen is brilliant and the unit really is compact.

There is little crap associated with the asus, a small (intelligent?) power brick and a power cable, unlike some laptops which can accumulate a ton of related stuff (just in case).

Documentation is sparse and can be discarded.

Windows xp is awful on the unit, I opted for eeeubuntu which is nice except that networking needs some hand holding, the ubuntu netbook remix image i could not get install from a usb drive it had compression errors.

A nit pick with eee ubuntu i had with the camera in the unit does work but is rather hidden in eee-ubuntu.

The amusing thing about the whole microsoft fucking asus (try buying a linux supplied netbook from them now)  debacle is that xp is supplied on a dvd disk since the unit does not have a dvd disk drive (eg its an extra) it just shows the threat is on these class of devices which have scared the shit out of microsoft.

However once you scrape the windows stickers off the unit the unit retains some of its dignity better.

5/5 bananas

Remember just because a pc is sold with a monopoly crap item as well don’t assume that it will be used, and that also means we wont be purchasing microsoft office either.

* not cock size, song from the film resovoir dogs. ** once called a laptop

Europeans sign the petition to get a chioce of computer operating systems

Lets not pay Microsoft for stuff we dont want – Please it is here.

Why is buying a netbook so hard ?

Bananas in the Falklands is in the market fora netbook computer running Linux, and no windows xp will NOT do.

Dell fail - no sale

If you see this and the image to your right (external link) then it appears the Dell seem to think Linux is a microsoft product.

This would make my life much easier since yes I can purchase a linux netbook without paying the evil ms tax but you cannot buy the newer models from the larger retailers either in a shop or online without buying the windows tax as well – odd that.

I hate Dell with a vengeance and the issue abouve put me off purchasing a mini netbook with a 10 inch screen [dells ctb bumps up the price greatly too]. Moreover try an purchase a Eee pc 1000 with just linux on it, no it mean a eec pc 1000ha or other model.  See where i am coming from ?

I will buy the computer without Microsoft and if that means not going to a big website/shop then that is there loss and not mine.

It is also interesting to note that the Novell/Microsoft ‘Suse linux’ distro is not offered either.  Proof positive that Microsoft wants Novell out of business.

Rupert Murdoch your Chinese spy

Somehow this does not come to me as a surprise (bbc).

Mr Murdoch seems to wish to destroy the art of the honest newspaper employee, and the business of news making it into a one man dictatorship.

Sig Heil Murdoch

The fud ’show’ (thats scox) might end today

Sco (scox) was an american business that did what all desparate businesses do they sue people and that was there only product, they lost.  To support scox Microsoft paid and put money there way to do anti Linux things and they generally fucked it up (search on Sandeep Gupta* , or sco in this blog)

Today is the day when voluntary bankruptcy, might go permanent in America becuase of no progress in making the comic busines viable, and so end this stage of fud from microsoft, and force them to start some new replacement fud.

Darl Mcbride is our man of the hour, along with some of his relatives in a law firm he comissioned will make sure that none of the debts scox owe will be paid, at least the the Mcbride family have done well symphoning off assets of scox.

Steve Balmer is now the man with the fud to watch.

* who now works for Microsoft

sp2 for vista – a user said this to me

the computer is a bit slow now

I hate Vista, but that is what my user of vista said to me.

I’m also beginning to wonder how much of ‘orginal’ Vista is now left, it feels like every other day something or other in Vista needs fixing.