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Nigerian goat detained for armed robbery to steal a Mazda 323

marek — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:08:35 +0000

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 to steal a Mazda 323. The vigilantes claimed the robber had used black magic to transform himself into a goat so that he could escape arrest. Read more…

WTF?!

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.

religion respect

marek — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:41:52 +0000

Larry McVoy is affraid of open source

marek — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:48:40 +0000

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 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 contributing to Mercurial
development for a while.  Several people have asked me why.

At my workplace, we use a commercial SCM tool called BitKeeper to
manage a number of source trees.  Last week, Larry McVoy (the CEO of
BitMover, which produces BitKeeper) contacted my company's management.

Larry expressed concern that I might be moving BitKeeper technology
into Mercurial.  In a phone conversation that followed, I told Larry
that of course I hadn't done so.

However, Larry conveyed his very legitimate worry that a fast,
stable open source project such as Mercurial poses a threat to his
business, and that he considered it "unacceptable" that an employee of
a customer should work on a free project that he sees as competing.

To avoid any possible perception of conflict, I have volunteered to
Larry that as long as I continue to use the commercial version of
BitKeeper, I will not contribute to the development of Mercurial.

As such, Mercurial can stand entirely on its own merits in comparison
to BitKeeper.  This, I am sure, is a situation that we would all
prefer.

Paris Hilton, stupid space cadet

marek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:35:46 +0000

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 like, ‘Great. Now I have to start all over.‘”. Paris, honey, this is not star trek, ok?

New jabber account

marek — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:42:31 +0000

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!