Ford sucks. No, really, we mean it. Long and hard. And Ford swallows. Spit. Skeptical? Don't just take our word for it. Just ask the guy who registered fordsucks.com. Or the guy who registered classicvolvo.com and wound up facing a legal battle. (Yes, Volvo is owned by Ford, as is Mazda, Lincoln, Mercury, Jaguar and Aston-Martin.) Or you can ask Wally Rawson, a third-generation seller of replacement parts for Ford cars and trucks. Wally registered 4fordparts.com and 4fordtrucks.com as part of his parts business. Ford sued him. At the same time, Ford sued Hans Rekestad (the guy in Sweden running ClassicVolvo.com). The fordsucks guy was also named in the same lawsuit.
--SNIP--
Ford didn't just sue. Ford asked for $100,000 in damages. Not for all these cases put together - $100,000 per address! And Ford won't just let any of these people give up the names and walk away. Ford won't reimburse them for their registration and renewal costs.
Wally Rawson (the parts guy) didn't want to be bothered with the lawsuit, so he just gave Ford both names. Ford is still suing him. Ford tells him he can't crawl out of the soup until he pays Ford $6000.00 ($3000 per name). The fordsucks guy, evidently, decided it would be cheaper to pay the blackmail than to fight it out in court.
They expect to find some people living in there, but only end up interviewing a couple of bums who live there.
And the news is where? I expected it to take 15 minutes to drive to work today. I was wrong, it took 25, there was construction. I should write an article about my trip and post to slashdot.
Mod me down if you want, but this story isn't worthy of a real comment.
This is the same guy who is angered by the question about what Caldera does not give back to the Open Source community in the recent slashdot interview. He tells of how much "merketing" caldera has given to Linux, and how we should be greatful.
That shows how much he understands the Open Source world. I remember when Caldera was considered a "bigger" more reliable Linux distribution than RedHat back in the kernel 1.2 days. Look at the two of them now, and the business/respect they have. If he thinks "marketing" his own product is enough giving back to the open source community, he deserves to fail. Calera should have died a long time ago. He bites the hand that feeds him...we have bitten back. I am afraid he will stunt (if not completely destroy) UnitedLinux's growth like he did Caldera.
Ransom Love will destroy any hope UnitedLinux had. I hope he does not take SUSE down with him. He has never from day one understood anything about how to run an open source related company. Just look how popular Calera is with "Open"Linux (quotes are intentional.) They have boughten SCO, which is a horrible OS with a mainframe like following, and is slowly destroying that too. They had some cool technology years ago, like Linux NDS which was never widly used because nobody wanted to "tie themselves" to Caldera. He seems intent on creating vendor lockin, which is exactly what his market wants so badly to avoid.
Love seems to shoot himself in the foot each time he opens his mouth. People are complaining about the slashdot interview. That was one of the best interview he ever gave...go search for more, you'll see. This guy does not belong in the Linux business, he just doesn't understand it. What's even worse is he thinks he does.
This move of his saddens me. It also makes me want to go out and purchase some RedHat stock. All of RedHat's serious competition is about to die. I hope SUSE can maintain itself, and not sellout to Love's screwball mindset. I thought they knew better.
I don't know whether "gator" specifically does this or not, but I know programs like it do. Amazon.com affiliate sites for quite some time have been complaining about hijack-ware. When someone clicks on a link to amazon from an amazon affiliate site, the link is changed to include the spyware companies amazon id instead of the site linked from.
The Amazon affiliate therfore looses any commision made on the sale. This is 100% unknown the the user of the software. It would be one thing if the user knowingly installed it, but 99% of the time or more they don't even know it is there. Web site ads are no different. It's one thing if the user knowingly installs it. They have that right. If it is installed without their knowledge, it is outright theft from the website that is being visited.
I found this crap installed the other day. I had no idea anything was wrong until I went to Verizon to pay my phone bill. A popup ad came up (Verizon's online bill payment sites doesn't work with mozilla.) I figured, damnit, seems everyone has this crap now...but it was an ad for cingular wireless, a Verzion competitor. I was quite pissed to say the least, and I can't for the life of me get rid of the damn thing. (Yes, I know I need to download adaware or something like that.)
Think about if you were buying merchandise in a store. When you approach the cash register a salesperson from another company completes your sale, and keeps the money. All without the knowledge of the store you are giving your business to, or even you for that matter. Never mind that would be almost impossible to have happen...on the internet it isn't. This is not only wrong, but outright theft of goods and services and should not be legal if it is.
Maybe I don't understand business as much as I think I do, but whatever happened to growing a business. All these (especially internet) business that take a boatload of cash and thy to "hatch themselves into the world" fully grown keep going bust. How does a website that only hosts articles get many millions of dollars in debt before turning a profit? It's not like they have warehouses of inventory to maintain. It's a freekin' server cluster the content management and writers. Half the people reading this could probably build the business infrastructure in a month or so.
Marketing costs? Ok, ya got me there, but that many millions worth? How much are they paying their writers? How much Salon content couldn't they have hired english major to write at a fraction of the cost?
I think the world needs to start going back to "building businesses", which has become a lost art. Make the model work...THEN take it to the multi-million level. Not throw in millions, then figure out a model that works.
My most hated bug is the Internet Explorer update, or patch. (All of them) Each new version, something else is broken. One of the latest "critical" security patches brakes the ability to open TIFF images correctly in the IE6. Spent an hour tracing the source of that problem down today. Resolution is a registry hack. Like we want to be walking web users through hacking their registry...I don't think so. Don't even get me started on it's png issues.
We have a spider that comes crawling around our cubes every now and then. We don't kill him, figuring he helps keep the other bug populations inside down. We call him our little web developer.
I hate PDA cellphone combo devices, but I have to say the scratchpad looks like it's in a nice spot. I don't know how easy it really is to use the touchpad, seeing how the screen is above the hinge, but the overall design is (to the best of my knowledge) the first phone designed like this.
The scratch-pad may be more "ergonomic" to use than a real PDA!
The basic design looks nice. It runs PalmOS too. I may have to find one of these at a store to play with. To bad no direct connect (Nextel), otherwise this phone would be really worth my checking into.
This I feel is the start of the second Internet boom, just this one will be for real. All the companies with no hope of making a profit online are gone. The ones that are left either make money, or at least have a pile of cash they are sitting on.
Buying your couch online is out...earth to owner, couches cost A LOT more to ship than books, and people want to sit in them first. Commerce on the web that makes sense is in. eBay is probably the first in the second stream of successful internet companies to start gaining attention.
Can't wait to see more real profits from the internet...
Reminds me of my last job when we fired someone from finance. I had to go confescate his PC, and every "storage medium" I could find from his office while he was in HR. Not quite the same, but he went on the "death march" and his machine just "vanished" from his office.
I think a tablet would be great for sales people. Instead of having everyone stare at a lap top screen, rotating it back and forth, a tablet makes much more sense.
A tablet does not put up a "wall" between the client and the sales person like a laptop screen does. A tablet would be very nice for me to take to normal meetings. A Tablet could not replace by Laptop for a few reasons, and it doesn't make sense to have two machines like that, so I guess the tablet is out for me.
>>as part of IBM's recent Server Group "resource action."
Does that mean IBM is trimming all non-essintial non-server based roles? I have wondered for a long time why IBM is still in the PC business. It seems like they don't sell very many end user machines. While it is common is some circles to have Thinkpad laptops, I have not seen one myself in a couple years.
I have never though it was really a business IBM wanted to be in. I wonder if this means maybe they agree.
If you want the learn about the J2EE EJB container services, I highly reccomend O'Reilly's Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition), I have both the second and third additions, and think they are both great.
I'm a J2EE developer. I mostly use JSP/Servlets, but I have a couple EJB container apps where it makes sense. I've made a selection of books I think people interesting in getting into this market should own.
Changing topics, I have been experimenting with a servlet container called Resin, which people in the industry seem to regard as the fastest for JSP/Servlet apps. Development License is free, production license is $500 IIRC. Worth looking into once JSP/Servlet performance becomes an issue for you. It is not Open Source, but it looks to be a very high quality product, which runs fine on Linux.
I can't find my keys, and they expect me to be able to manage these?
Portable Storage is kind of like other portable devices, there is a size that is too small. The super small Motorola flip-phone? Too small for me, I'd lose or break it.
What might make more sense a a group of these in a cd-player magazine type configuration. It's big enough to keep track of, and holds a crapload of info. Not small enough to fall in between your couch cushions never to be seen again. Just think of how much change you find behind, or beside the driver seat in your car. I can wash my car every couple weeks with what rolls out of my pockets.
So, HP wants to officially offer Linux on all of it's Itanium, and lower servers? Itanium is going to replace much of HP's higher end server line as well if I remember my facts correctly.
This sounds very similar to IBM's linux on all IBM "backend server" offerings. You have to remember, these will be all of what used to be the offerings of both HP and Compaq when considering the market scope of this.
BTW - Oracle just matched BEA System's price/performance record for the java application server benchmark. Oracle ran with an all Linux solution on HP Proliant hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
Click the link. May not be the best "jump point", but the page contains a link to www.fordreallysucks.com.
May be run by the same person.
-Pete
Ford sucks. No, really, we mean it. Long and hard. And Ford swallows. Spit. Skeptical? Don't just take our word for it. Just ask the guy who registered fordsucks.com. Or the guy who registered classicvolvo.com and wound up facing a legal battle. (Yes, Volvo is owned by Ford, as is Mazda, Lincoln, Mercury, Jaguar and Aston-Martin.) Or you can ask Wally Rawson, a third-generation seller of replacement parts for Ford cars and trucks. Wally registered 4fordparts.com and 4fordtrucks.com as part of his parts business. Ford sued him. At the same time, Ford sued Hans Rekestad (the guy in Sweden running ClassicVolvo.com). The fordsucks guy was also named in the same lawsuit.
--SNIP--
Ford didn't just sue. Ford asked for $100,000 in damages. Not for all these cases put together - $100,000 per address! And Ford won't just let any of these people give up the names and walk away. Ford won't reimburse them for their registration and renewal costs.
Wally Rawson (the parts guy) didn't want to be bothered with the lawsuit, so he just gave Ford both names. Ford is still suing him. Ford tells him he can't crawl out of the soup until he pays Ford $6000.00 ($3000 per name). The fordsucks guy, evidently, decided it would be cheaper to pay the blackmail than to fight it out in court.
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I thought that page was worth a read.
They expect to find some people living in there, but only end up interviewing a couple of bums who live there.
And the news is where? I expected it to take 15 minutes to drive to work today. I was wrong, it took 25, there was construction. I should write an article about my trip and post to slashdot.
Mod me down if you want, but this story isn't worthy of a real comment.
-Pete
This is the same guy who is angered by the question about what Caldera does not give back to the Open Source community in the recent slashdot interview. He tells of how much "merketing" caldera has given to Linux, and how we should be greatful.
That shows how much he understands the Open Source world. I remember when Caldera was considered a "bigger" more reliable Linux distribution than RedHat back in the kernel 1.2 days. Look at the two of them now, and the business/respect they have. If he thinks "marketing" his own product is enough giving back to the open source community, he deserves to fail. Calera should have died a long time ago. He bites the hand that feeds him...we have bitten back. I am afraid he will stunt (if not completely destroy) UnitedLinux's growth like he did Caldera.
-Pete
Ransom Love will destroy any hope UnitedLinux had. I hope he does not take SUSE down with him. He has never from day one understood anything about how to run an open source related company. Just look how popular Calera is with "Open"Linux (quotes are intentional.) They have boughten SCO, which is a horrible OS with a mainframe like following, and is slowly destroying that too. They had some cool technology years ago, like Linux NDS which was never widly used because nobody wanted to "tie themselves" to Caldera. He seems intent on creating vendor lockin, which is exactly what his market wants so badly to avoid.
Love seems to shoot himself in the foot each time he opens his mouth. People are complaining about the slashdot interview. That was one of the best interview he ever gave...go search for more, you'll see. This guy does not belong in the Linux business, he just doesn't understand it. What's even worse is he thinks he does.
This move of his saddens me. It also makes me want to go out and purchase some RedHat stock. All of RedHat's serious competition is about to die. I hope SUSE can maintain itself, and not sellout to Love's screwball mindset. I thought they knew better.
-Pete
I don't know whether "gator" specifically does this or not, but I know programs like it do. Amazon.com affiliate sites for quite some time have been complaining about hijack-ware. When someone clicks on a link to amazon from an amazon affiliate site, the link is changed to include the spyware companies amazon id instead of the site linked from.
The Amazon affiliate therfore looses any commision made on the sale. This is 100% unknown the the user of the software. It would be one thing if the user knowingly installed it, but 99% of the time or more they don't even know it is there. Web site ads are no different. It's one thing if the user knowingly installs it. They have that right. If it is installed without their knowledge, it is outright theft from the website that is being visited.
I found this crap installed the other day. I had no idea anything was wrong until I went to Verizon to pay my phone bill. A popup ad came up (Verizon's online bill payment sites doesn't work with mozilla.) I figured, damnit, seems everyone has this crap now...but it was an ad for cingular wireless, a Verzion competitor. I was quite pissed to say the least, and I can't for the life of me get rid of the damn thing. (Yes, I know I need to download adaware or something like that.)
Think about if you were buying merchandise in a store. When you approach the cash register a salesperson from another company completes your sale, and keeps the money. All without the knowledge of the store you are giving your business to, or even you for that matter. Never mind that would be almost impossible to have happen...on the internet it isn't. This is not only wrong, but outright theft of goods and services and should not be legal if it is.
-Pete
Maybe I don't understand business as much as I think I do, but whatever happened to growing a business. All these (especially internet) business that take a boatload of cash and thy to "hatch themselves into the world" fully grown keep going bust. How does a website that only hosts articles get many millions of dollars in debt before turning a profit? It's not like they have warehouses of inventory to maintain. It's a freekin' server cluster the content management and writers. Half the people reading this could probably build the business infrastructure in a month or so.
Marketing costs? Ok, ya got me there, but that many millions worth? How much are they paying their writers? How much Salon content couldn't they have hired english major to write at a fraction of the cost?
I think the world needs to start going back to "building businesses", which has become a lost art. Make the model work...THEN take it to the multi-million level. Not throw in millions, then figure out a model that works.
-Pete
My most hated bug is the Internet Explorer update, or patch. (All of them) Each new version, something else is broken. One of the latest "critical" security patches brakes the ability to open TIFF images correctly in the IE6. Spent an hour tracing the source of that problem down today. Resolution is a registry hack. Like we want to be walking web users through hacking their registry...I don't think so. Don't even get me started on it's png issues.
-Pete
We have a spider that comes crawling around our cubes every now and then. We don't kill him, figuring he helps keep the other bug populations inside down. We call him our little web developer.
I'm serious.
-Pete
I guess the US p2p users will have to setup anonymous reflectors in the UK. Ya gotta love the global age we live in!
-Pete
All in one day, one county considering making DOS's legal (for P2P networks), one county trying to ban the practice.
Interesting.
-Pete
A search for "slashdot" returned slashdot.net as #3. Have you been there lately?
It is a placeholder page (in german) for the domain from a registar.
Yeah, that's crappy logic. I do have to say though, I read through the usgs page and it was interesting.
-Pete
Remember when IBM was hauled into court for marking up city sidewalks with the love/peace/linux thing?
Now we'll see love/peace/linux/<802.11b info>.
Free lov^M^M^MBandwidth for all!
-Pete
RedHat has an OpenSSH errata security fix from 5/22 HERE. Anyone know if this is the bug in question?
-Pete
I hate PDA cellphone combo devices, but I have to say the scratchpad looks like it's in a nice spot. I don't know how easy it really is to use the touchpad, seeing how the screen is above the hinge, but the overall design is (to the best of my knowledge) the first phone designed like this.
The scratch-pad may be more "ergonomic" to use than a real PDA!
The basic design looks nice. It runs PalmOS too. I may have to find one of these at a store to play with. To bad no direct connect (Nextel), otherwise this phone would be really worth my checking into.
-Pete
This I feel is the start of the second Internet boom, just this one will be for real. All the companies with no hope of making a profit online are gone. The ones that are left either make money, or at least have a pile of cash they are sitting on.
Buying your couch online is out...earth to owner, couches cost A LOT more to ship than books, and people want to sit in them first. Commerce on the web that makes sense is in. eBay is probably the first in the second stream of successful internet companies to start gaining attention.
Can't wait to see more real profits from the internet...
-Pete
Reminds me of my last job when we fired someone from finance. I had to go confescate his PC, and every "storage medium" I could find from his office while he was in HR. Not quite the same, but he went on the "death march" and his machine just "vanished" from his office.
-Pete
I think a tablet would be great for sales people. Instead of having everyone stare at a lap top screen, rotating it back and forth, a tablet makes much more sense.
A tablet does not put up a "wall" between the client and the sales person like a laptop screen does. A tablet would be very nice for me to take to normal meetings. A Tablet could not replace by Laptop for a few reasons, and it doesn't make sense to have two machines like that, so I guess the tablet is out for me.
-Pete
Maybe this will help my Covad stock. I'd love to see Cavad haul them into court.
-Pete
>>as part of IBM's recent Server Group "resource action."
Does that mean IBM is trimming all non-essintial non-server based roles? I have wondered for a long time why IBM is still in the PC business. It seems like they don't sell very many end user machines. While it is common is some circles to have Thinkpad laptops, I have not seen one myself in a couple years.
I have never though it was really a business IBM wanted to be in. I wonder if this means maybe they agree.
-Pete
If you want the learn about the J2EE EJB container services, I highly reccomend O'Reilly's Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition), I have both the second and third additions, and think they are both great.
-Pete
I'm a J2EE developer. I mostly use JSP/Servlets, but I have a couple EJB container apps where it makes sense. I've made a selection of books I think people interesting in getting into this market should own.
Go to http://www.starvingmind.net/tech.php and check them out.
Changing topics, I have been experimenting with a servlet container called Resin, which people in the industry seem to regard as the fastest for JSP/Servlet apps. Development License is free, production license is $500 IIRC. Worth looking into once JSP/Servlet performance becomes an issue for you. It is not Open Source, but it looks to be a very high quality product, which runs fine on Linux.
-Pete
I can't find my keys, and they expect me to be able to manage these?
Portable Storage is kind of like other portable devices, there is a size that is too small. The super small Motorola flip-phone? Too small for me, I'd lose or break it.
What might make more sense a a group of these in a cd-player magazine type configuration. It's big enough to keep track of, and holds a crapload of info. Not small enough to fall in between your couch cushions never to be seen again. Just think of how much change you find behind, or beside the driver seat in your car. I can wash my car every couple weeks with what rolls out of my pockets.
-Pete
While it is not $15, Casio has fit a black and white digital camera into a watch that can save 100 pictures, if memory serves me.
About $250 I believe
Casio's Camera Watch.
-Pete
So, HP wants to officially offer Linux on all of it's Itanium, and lower servers? Itanium is going to replace much of HP's higher end server line as well if I remember my facts correctly.
This sounds very similar to IBM's linux on all IBM "backend server" offerings. You have to remember, these will be all of what used to be the offerings of both HP and Compaq when considering the market scope of this.
BTW - Oracle just matched BEA System's price/performance record for the java application server benchmark. Oracle ran with an all Linux solution on HP Proliant hardware.
HP is pulling an IBM...how interesting.
-Pete