September 2008

I am. Spooky. How deep the rabbit hole is? How much of your own life can be traded for the commodity of web X.0 ?
First this Chrome thing with nr. 11 statement that owns all of the data comes in and out of browser. They say it was a mistake and will be corrected. Now this name tagging in picassa…..
Until now google only owned you in text web and now they will own you on photos too. I know many people who are trying to not show their real faces associated with their real names. But I do have their photos in my picassa albums. I am a kind person so I will not tag their names. Am I an unique character? Or will someone tag their names? How long will it take then until google will find and will tag all their photos on the net?

Are you sure about what photos of you are out there that you’d prefer to keep anonymous? I am pretty sure there are some I’d like to remove before my q=michael%20tabolsky in google picks them up.

Having all this global community and friending all the world is fine for me, but sometimes .. sometimes I think I’d better off to the old anonymous web where I could just say “I am gfdsa” and nobody could know what’s behind it.

Bottom line, I’m seriously thinking to move away from google, It will be a costly operation that will force me to pay more to hosters, but I just don’t trust this provider of free beer.

A really nice page that shows in numbers who Canonical ( the company behind Ubuntu Linux driven by Mark Richard Shuttleworth, for the rest of us ) really is. Or at least it is my last argument in hating the pathetic distribution that sucks life essence from GNU/Linux.

I’ve been always saying Ubuntu is a pure damage to the free software movement, it is worse than microdoft, novell, oracle and whatever you can bring up from googling linux. The most terrible thing ever.

100 patches to kernel in 5 years. Now, who this company is? exploiter. Period.

That is a normal tactics to catch the train in commercial world. Good job Mark. Great Business Canonical. Community? sure, scared newbies who don’t know what’s the difference between Linux and Ubuntu desperately looking for My computers icons or whatever they had on their Redmond powered boxes. PR? Popularization? give me a break. Ubuntu looks like shit, (does not) works like shit and you know what was the conclusion I’ve got to with a couple of my friends? That Canonical is either a microdoft or aple  spread that is targeted to destroy Linux as desktop platform. I still hope that was a result of logics lacking facts, but it seems so true….

Please, support the contributors, support the ones who creates and not resells, not exploiters. Remove that stinky ubuntu and install something from the top of the list.

Thank you for reading.

Big news, really big this time. The company that leads the proprietary VoIP is opening the doors gates for the standards. Predictably  you have to pay for entrance. Ironically, they do it with the company leading the open VoIP, Digium:

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AstriCon 2008)—September 25, 2008—Digium®,
creator and primary developer of Asterisk®, the leading open source
telephony platform, and Skype™, the leading global Internet
communications company, today announced the beta version of Skype For
Asterisk, which will allow the integration of Skype functionality into
Digium’s Asterisk software and enable customers to make, receive and
transfer Skype calls from within their Asterisk phone systems.

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Good? Has to be good somehow. Not impressed. We’ll see.