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Introducing Linux to Joe Average
eco2geek writes "The local "alternative newspaper" is running a cover story titled 'The Rebel Alliance: An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution.' I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything, but the article does give the average reader a good introduction to what Linux is, why it's important, and some of the politics surrounding it. (The article also mentions 'the frenetic Slashdot.org.' :-)"
Luki.org, a German organisation for the spread of the word of Linux in Christian Churches, created a very good "Uberzeugungsmappe", a convincement paper for Joe Enduser. It is slightly outdated and probably not available in English but you could try to tranlate it via Babelfish and correct the mistakes.
Download the German paper in OpenOffice Format or as pdf. More about the Luki-Organisation in English
It would be very helpful to get an English translation of this very good LUKI "Uberzeugungsmappe" paper
The sad part is the national government is in bed with Microsoft.
Wow, you need to take off the tin-foil had buddy.
I've been working for 26 years on govt. contracts using just about every flavor of *NIX you can think of. There's no great love for Richmond any more than there is for other large companies. Now if you're talking about lobbists being in bed with govt...that's an entirely different story.
Just another day in Paradise
AFAIK, the copyright on Tux belongs to its author, Larry Lewing (he doesn't explicitly states that, but art works are copyrighted by default, right?), who then granted permission to everyone to use/modify it, provided he and The Gimp are acknowledged.
Using a little hack called page five of a four page story:
http://www.willametteweek.com/story.php?story=4764 &page=5
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
You know, the Windows fans are always the first to blame Sendmail if there happens to be a bug in it. (Typical *NIX fan reply is a gigantic yawn and something along the lines of "switch to Qmail or Postfix already, dammit, those things are already time-tested".)
In this case, they're just jealous that most of the E-mail - including viruses - on the Internet is carried by Sendmail, and they can't blame it for this viral outbreak. The logic goes like this: "My operating system is vulnerable - but if those darn Sendmail servers didn't carry those E-mails to my inbox, I wouldn't have anything to worry!" Logical, huh?
More articles of same author (Paul Thurrott):
;-)
here
And here is thurrott@winnetmag.com his addy, in case u wanna say "hello"
Dephine URL
Clam Antivirus is a GPL anti-virus scanner that can be set to scan all passing mail.
Oh, and it was the first AV software to have a working definition of MyDoom (which they labeled "Worm.SCO.A") - faster than all of the commercial antivirus vendors.
Chalk another one up for Open Software. Working together you can analyse virus code faster!
Well shit, who would have thought it...
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything...
Why not? The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is in Portland. I'd think that counts for _something_. Then there's Intel's first real [huge] Linux farm which was instrumental in designing and modelling the Pentium 4 (howdy DPG). Not to mention several Linux developers, coders and doc maintainers and that Randal guy (hey, Randal).
Sign me,
A BiOFH who will always call PDX home
- I am made of meat.
Linus Torvalds can go anywhere. It's probably no accident that he and the The Open Source Development Lab are in Portland. (Beaverton is one of the towns that are part of the metropolitan area of 1.4 million people called Portland.)
Portland has the largest bookstore in the world.
Portland has one of the largest and most successful dealers in contemporary art in the world. The gallery has a funny name, but shows the work of over 1,100 artists.
Portland has the largest park inside a city in the world. The park has over 74 miles of wilderness hiking trails.
Portland is the home of Pink Martini, a band that writes multi-cultural songs. One of Pink Martini's songs was once one of the most popular songs in France. You can listen to the music video.
It's a 55 minute drive from downtown Portland to the ski areas. "World Class Skiing in Your Own Backyard."
The K-12 Linux Project, in Portland, is one of the more successful projects for giving Linux to average users, who in this case are students.
Portland borders on the confluence of the Willamette River and the Columbia River, one of the largest rivers in the world. The Columbia River Gorge, on the eastern edge of Portland, is a world class wind-surfing area.
On the other hand: Q. Why do hippies come to Portland? A. Because there are no jobs.
Many people don't like the months of rain every year. They say Portland is the perfect place for slugs and ducks. (However, the rain cleans the air.)
Think of back-scatter: when a virus hits a mail server, and the server bounces the message (to the forged sender address)
For that exact reason I advice people to have the send an error message at once rather than first accept the email and then produce a bounce message. If your mailserver send an error message at the end of DATA, the error message is send directly to the worm. So no mail server will ever produce a bounce in that case.
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?