Marek Mahut

Ok, this is too strange even for me – I have to share it.
A goat has been taken to the police in Nigeria on suspicion of attempted armed robbery in the African country’s western Kwara State. A group of vigilantes took the animal to the police arguing it was an armed robber who was trying [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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.

Interesting. Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover inc. – the company which produces BitKeeper, was quite afraid of open source competition mercurial back in 2005. Now, we know why.
From: Bryan O’Sullivan <bos <at> serpentine.com>
Subject: Why I am no longer working on Mercurial
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.devel
Date: 2005-09-30 21:40:55 GMT
As I mentioned the other day, I will not be [...]

Paris Hilton will take seat on Virgin spaceflight trip for $200,000. She also again proved how stupid she is by saying: “I’m very scared to do it. What if I don’t come back? With the whole light years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I’ll be [...]

As you might heard already, Cisco bought jabber.org… a good reason to change jabber server provider :) From now on, you can catch me at mmahut@8mag.net!