Marek Mahut » 2008

Fedora QA: gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update

marek — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:06:34 +0000

Please test gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update.

* Fri Dec 19 2008 Marek Mahut <mma...@fedoraproject.org> – 3.1.3-2
- Upstream release 3.1.3
- Comedi support
- RHBZ#473928 Unowned directories

RIAA Preys on Teen in Need of Transplant

marek — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:34:07 +0000

“The Recording Industry Association of America has done a number of distressing, disgusting, and disgraceful things in its never-ending quest to fill its coffers with ill-gotten gains from every American with an internet connection. The news out of Pittsburgh, however, carries what we have to class as the most depraved stunt we’ve seen them pull so far.”

Linux Defenders alive!

marek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:18 +0000

Linux Defenders. Architected to eliminate poor quality patents and ensure that only high quality patents issue, the Linux Defenders program enables individuals and organizations to efficiently contribute to: “Defensive Publications” that codify ‘known’ inventions that have not previously been patented so that they can be brought to the attention of the patent office to ensure that later developed patent…

Lou Rosas’ bug report

marek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:21:11 +0000

Bug 17063 PackageKit does not work at all is really a funny bug report Lou Rosas really know how to get the attention.

The open road: Red Hat “deeply undervalued,” Oracle Linux “has failed”

marek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:56:14 +0000

I find Matt Asay’s new article about Mark Murphy’s analyzes on Oracle enterprise linux very interesting, quoting part of the article.

Oracle has failed in its attempt to enter the Linux market. Our recent survey of Oracle database customers reveals that only 1 out of 32 customers currently uses Oracle Unbreakable Linux. This one customer also commented that “support is terrible, it is difficult to get an answer to my problems, Oracle’s agents never understand my company.” The survey reflects a very low penetration rate in the 2-year period since Oracle unveiled Unbreakable Linux with much fanfare, including live penguins running around onstage with Larry Ellison. Resellers continue to characterize Unbreakable Linuxas a failure because Oracle ultimately cannot control the future direction of RedHat Enterprise Linux, upon which it is based.

While the Street has expected Unbreakable Linux to severely impact Red Hat, its failure ironically serves as a proof-point of the underlying defensibility of RedHat’s business model. In fact, in the two years since Oracle introduced Unbreakable Linux, Red Hat’s billings have grown at an average rate of 31%–representing clear market share gains.

Money As Debt: Currupt Banking system

marek — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:08:07 +0000

Do you really know how banking system works? Could it last forever? Where does all this money come from? When our economy system will collapse? Money as debt is a documentary movie trying to show some light on the system.

Fedora 10 released: Cambridge Launched to Explore Solar System

marek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:58:33 +0000

Fedora 10 is out! GET IT NOW! Check what’s new.

Linux distros’ homepage uptime

marek — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:44:35 +0000

Interesting report from pingdom about uptime of Linux ditros’ homepage (but also Apple and Microsoft). I’m more than happy to see Fedora and Red Hat taking leading positions in this benchmark.

Congrats Matt!

marek — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:37:30 +0000

Congratulation to my ex-CEO, Matthew Szulik, for his Ernst & Young National Winner for Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award. Matthew’s acceptance speech.

Fomalhaut B: first optical image of an exoplanet

marek — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:51:58 +0000

Astronomers discovered on picture taken by Hubble Space Telesope of Fomolhaut star a tiny dot, which has been identified as its orbiting planet called Fomalhaut B. It has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.6 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies 2.9 billion kilometers inside the ring’s inner edge and orbits 10.7 billion miles from its star.