>> . Just because some ma and pa store can't succeed doesn't mean that the system is unfair
Thats precisely why it is unfair. If individuals cannot succeed in our economic system, if the only entities that can make money are large corporations, then something is very wrong, my friend.
Consider: Bookstores - in 1990 there were over 5,500 of them in the U.S. Today there are less than 3,500. The reason? Barnes & Noble and Amazon drove them out of business. OK, you may say, "tough break", but what is really happening is a loss of diversity in information. The squeeze of the bookstores means that all your printed information will come from increasingly fewer sources. The increase of corporatism on the internet means the same thing - less opportunity to get opposing viewpoints. Corporatism breeds uniformity. Uniformity is certainly more profitable, but at what cost? Diversity, thats what.
You may be satisfied with a world controlled by the large interests. I am not. I will vote with my voice, my vote, my dollars, and whatever other means that I have to ensure that individualism, freedom, and diversity can exist in a world increasingly controlled by large corporations.
...there is a nifty little Perl script called ip2host.
Here is the link: http://home.xnet.com/~efflandt/ip2host.h tml
And here is the script itself:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl # # ip2h.pl - 19/Aug/1995 # # by David Efflandt # # Inputs IP addresses from keyboard and outputs to screen. # Loops for multiple entries. # print "\nEnter the 4 numbers separated by periods (no spaces).\n"; print "Press [enter] key without a number to exit.\n\n"; print "Enter IP address: "; $ip = ; chop($ip); while ($ip) { @numbers = split(/\./, $ip); $ip_number = pack("C4", @numbers); ($name) = (gethostbyaddr($ip_number, 2))[0]; if ($name) { print "The host is: $name"; } else { print "This IP has no name"; } print "\n\nEnter IP address: "; $ip = ; chop($ip); }
I'd be pretty pissed too if someone used my software for this type of thing(or worse) Doesn't the GPL state you have to use software for legal purposes?
I feel obliged to bring this up since the article referred to the DOE and you mentioned Germany.
This one is a no-brainer, since we are talking about national security. It would be very irresponsible of the DOE not to monitor all communications of its employees and even contractors. We have a nuclear arsenal. Germany does not. Since Germany is forbidden by international law to deploy nuclear weapons, there is less at stake.
However, I believe Germanys law would apply just fine to the average company, as it seems to have more respect for individual privacy and dignity. We in the USA have given too much power to our corporations.
I wasn't trying to flame anybody, I just wanted to hear about some examples. I have nothing against Java. Honestly.
I've used Javascript, but my fear of slowness has kept me away from using Java for anything serious. However, I admire Java for its simplicity. I have Eckel's book "Thinking in Java" and the thing that attracts me most to it is his statement that Java would enable people to be "software craftsman" rather than operating system hacks. The language itself seems to have gotten rid of a lot of things that make C++ painful to program in.
So actually, I am interested in trying Java seriously. I just wanted some good examples of what it can do.
I've been following you guys for quite awhile - I had discovered you guys when Master of Puppets came out. I first saw you guys in concert in 86 with Ozzy Osbourne. I'm not your most diehard fan, but I've spent over $200 on concerts and albums from you guys. So, why can't I put my music on Napster and listen to it at work?
It really seems like you guys have sold out. When your first few albums came out, whether you realize it or not, your name was spread by people passing tapes around. Not only that, but admit it - you guys were all poor starving musicians at one time, and I don't think you could tell me with a straight face that you guys never made copies of someones albums or tapes in order to practice a song. You guys have done a lot of covers. Well, I was in a band once, and here's how it works. Everyone gets a tape from the person who owned the album. Then we all learned the song. Are you going to tell me that you didn't ever do this?
Given the fact that you guys once did this yourselves and that your own music was spread in this fashion, how can you justify your actions? You guys should get a clue about the internet and realize that passing your music around is only helping your sales, not hurting them.
not to mention C++ is the only standard cross-platform language.(I could be mistaken, maybe smalltalk or lisp are also standards. But Java is not.)
Java is good for designing end user systems, where the real work is done by the database. Java is good for doing websites, again, where the real work is done by the database. I'd like someone to show me an example of real software(i.e word processor, database, game, compiler, OS) that is written in Java. Silly Yahoo games don't count.
C and C++ on the other hand do that stuff well. I wouldn't want to use them for a website, however.
>> I personally wonder about this myself. I have seen references in "The Devil's Dictionary" that claim it is Kerberos, but when I checked this myself I only found the "Cerberus" variant.
I never actually heard of the "Kerberos" spelling/pronunciation until I got involved with Kerberos myself.
From: Tom Yu
"Cerberus" is the Latin spelling of the Greek "Kerberos", and according to the OED is pronounced like "serberus", but that is quite at odds with the Greek, as the initial consonant is a "k". MIT Project Athena chose to use the Greek spelling and pronunciation.
From: Jan Sacharuk
Tom Yu is correct, Cerberus is the Latin spelling. However, the fact that the OED says that the 'c' is pronounced as an 's' is an English affectation. In Latin, the letter 'c' is always hard. So Cerberus is pronounced 'Ker-ber-ous'. The letter 'u' is also slightly different, making it somewhere in between 'oos' and 'ous'.
>> the fruit of weeks of hard labor, rendered into rubbish
That was what threw me off. If it was just a copy that was destroyed, its hardly "weeks of hard labor rendered into rubbish"
Still, its less of an issue than the author makes it. You could use text(defeats the purpose of Word, however) You could choose Save As Word 95. Finally, the person at the other end could have obtained a free Word 97 viewer. Bottom line, its up to the author to make sure the intended audience can read something. No one is forcing anyone to use Word.
I don't see XML being nearly as useful for documents as it is for simply passing data between sites.
For example, slashdot puts their headlines in a XML format, making it easy for other sites to create a "slashdot headline box", adding some interesting content. Another good use would be to have a search engine for your site that outputted XML. If you rely on comparison sites like mysimon to drive traffic to your store, having the data in XML rather than HTML can make the communication between sites far more reliable.
To me, XML is about data, not documents. Also, I can recommend "XML Bible" by Elliot Rusty Harold or "Professional XML" by Wrox as a couple of interesting books if you ever decide to revisit the subject.
Even the most ignorant newbie should know to save and back up their documents. That has got to be the most basic principle of using a computer.
Regardless of the computer system, you must do this, or risk losing your work. This is not a Microsoft issue.
Furthermore, Word has always allowed you to save in plain text. With Word 97, you could have also saved it as HTML. Both are documents supported by a wide range of vendors. Word 2000 will save your document in XML. A proprietary file type enables more precise formatting, but you don't have to use it. You could even change the default file type to text if you wanted to. Although if that was what you wanted, why are you using Word in the first place?
Tough luck, remember to back up your work next time.
I'm sure slashdot does this. Take a story, such as this one, and post it normally. What do you get? A bunch of people going, "RIAA bad, mp3.com good" A few dissenters, but generally most people are going to toe The Party Line(TM). Which is why most stories on Linux, open source, MP3's, etc. are a bit one sided.
Now have Jon Katz tell the same story. Presto! Instant dissent. A large wave of slashdotters appears from the ether to pick apart every detail of the story. And you have some real debate on the issues.
I like the Katz stories for this reason alone. Jon, when are you going to write a story that condemns Microsoft? Now, that would be interesting.
we're in a process of slashdotting a site running on MS Access! C'mon, guys, thats only capable of handling like 5 people at a time.
I too got the error. Mine from submitting google.com The error itself should be easy to fix - all he needs to do is change it to a non-unique index.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The changes you requested to the table were not successful because they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key, or relationship. Change the data in the field or fields that contain duplicate data, remove the index, or redefine the index to permit duplicate entries and try again./project/SubmitReq.asp, line 48
I think you are making a broad generalization of a very specific issue here - stating that SQL Server had access to private NT APIs when in reality they likely only had access to this one. And if they only gave SQL Server the ability to use an NT login and nothing else I really don't see how Microsoft would be overstepping its bounds. They eventually published the API anyway, but I imagine they did it for their customers rather than their competitors.
Ron Soukup, a lead developer of SQL Server and the author of Inside SQL Server, has repeatedly stated that SQL Server has never used unpublished APIs to acheive its performance. This is illuminating, since SQL Server is perhaps Microsoft's most complex application program. I personally believe Ron's statement, and it would surprise me if you contested it.
If SQL Server can acheive its world dominating performance without using unpublished APIs, I really think that makes the whole "MS uses unpublished APIS to its advantage" argument moot, don't you think?
MP3.com did not break any laws. Their service only works "if the user owns an original copy of the copyrighted work".
Consider what such a law could mean.
- It could be argued that you will not be able to store your digital property online, be it music, software, or video.
- it could make it difficult to legally transfer your property from one device to another.
- another application of this ruling could mean that you couldn't transfer your digital property from one media to another. If your CD goes bad, too bad, buy another one.
I only hope that something like open source happens to the music world. Its controlled by corporations, not musicians. I imagine most actual bands and musicians would want their works transmitted freely over the net. Remember, most bands themselves are in onerous contracts with the record companies if they are signed at all. Anyone recall John Lennon's shock when he realized that he didn't even own his own songs?
I do not believe that record companies and the RIAA represent the best interests of musicians. Rather, they serve the almighty buck, at the expense of them.
>> It would be VERY BAD for customer confidence if the Monolithic Microsoft decided to port it's applications (MSO is a cash-cow after all) to another, competing OS - especially a free one.
Microsoft is the largest producer of Apple software in the world. It ported MS Office to MacOS and invested $150 million in the company about 18 months ago. I saw this as them trying to make themselves look less monopolistic.
I wouldn't be surprised to find MS software on Linux - if there proved to be a market for it. To spread their browser, they even made a version for Sun.
Before I started down my path as a programmer, I played guitar in a rock band. Back in 92 when we put our only album out, I would have loved it if my music was spread freely throughout the internet.
Do you even have a clue as to how corporate-controlled the radio stations all are? In my city, one big company controls about 90% of the radio market. So for anyone who really wants to spread their music, the internet is a Good Thing.(TM) The entire record industry is built on corporate control and manipulation. The entire concept of selling recordings is a 20th century invention. Music on the other hand, has always been around, has always been free, and one way or other always will be.
Not only that, but I would bet if anyone did a study they would find that the free transmission of MP3's works to increase a given artists sales, not decrease them.
was a Cold War project that was never completed. However, it doesn't seem to have gone away, as this(slightly old) article attests.
This is by far the longest the human race has gone without a war between major world powers. I wonder if it will be any different if we develop the technology to successfully win a nuclear war.
I mean really, the ++ in C++ refers to the additions to C, a strictly functional language.
You would have a hard time convincing me to switch from C++ to Java. C++ is faster, has pointers, templates, exception handling and other features that make it blow away Java. Yet all these features are hacks by your definition.
If I need something quick n' easy for Windows(which sadly is what I mostly get paid for) VB is great. But if I need something object oriented I think I'll stick with C++.
Not trying to flame you, I'm actually interested in what you have to say.
>> where functions do not have to declair their return types
Its not quite the same thing, since you were talking about returning a value from a function whereas this is passing values to functions, but...
This blew me away when I first saw it: in Perl you can have a function such as selectSQL() that you can pass an optional number of values to it and it reads them in as an array! In C/C++ you have to specify your parameters, C has no way to get around this, C++ can get around it if you have multiple selectSQL functions that are overloaded. In VB you can specify that arguments are Optional. I imagine that Java works much in the same way as C++ -- overloaded functions, but I haven't used Java other than for scripting.
But being able to do the Perl trick is really cool, I must say. I wish I could have a language that compiled to all platforms, was open source, easy to use as VB, as flexible and powerful as C++, and as fast as assembly. Alas, no such language exists.
OK, I know this may sound morally corrupt to some, but here goes. This scenario is based around supporting yourself as an open source programmer by selling VB stuff.
I like my open source grits as much as the next person, but as long as VB and Microsoft are still alive, why not make some money off it? Its so easy to turn just about any pile of code into a VB program. So I could be working on a perl project for most of the day and take a 1 hour break to convert my code into a program I could sell.
Consider...unlike open source, I can completely seal off the source code, package it in a nice friendly self-installing binary, and sell it as shareware.
It may not be the fastest thing out there(I think its still more of an interpreter than a compiled language) But knocking out apps is so quick, why not. The people who buy Visual Basic based applications are usually not looking for anything that requires god-like speed.
There's also nothing wrong with me posting my source code if I decide to do that.
Anyway, I know its next to prostitution but its the only way I know how to support myself if I want to get more into open source. I suppose I could be a sysadmin, but I'd rather just write code all day.
I know someone will say I should come up with something proprietary like a software/service package for Linux. However, the people who buy Windows software are used to paying for software, whereas most people using Linux would not need my services. If there's any genius to Microsoft its to target their sales toward those who don't know any better. And considering it would support a noble cause, why shouldn't I do the same?
Did anyone else notice that this story blew up the slashdot.xml file? At least in IE5, I don't know if its OK in Netscape 6.
If you have IE5 or Netscape 6, try reading slashdot.xml.
It would be interesting if it only blew up in IE.(further proof of MS not adhering to standards.) You can fix it by editing the file and taking out the á character in the word 'Máximo' in the dept. line.
thank you for clearing that up and I hope you didn't take anything personally. From your first post I gathered you took the CD install route, which doesn't work if you need to load custom drivers during the install.
my main interest is that incorrect information regarding MS only makes the open source movement look dumb. So if I see something that slams MS and is not based in fact I might try to correct it. I'm quite over my zealotry days, and I use both Windows and Linux successfully, working together in the same network.
next time i'll try to be more careful if I don't agree with a post.
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Thats precisely why it is unfair. If individuals cannot succeed in our economic system, if the only entities that can make money are large corporations, then something is very wrong, my friend.
Consider: Bookstores - in 1990 there were over 5,500 of them in the U.S. Today there are less than 3,500. The reason? Barnes & Noble and Amazon drove them out of business. OK, you may say, "tough break", but what is really happening is a loss of diversity in information. The squeeze of the bookstores means that all your printed information will come from increasingly fewer sources. The increase of corporatism on the internet means the same thing - less opportunity to get opposing viewpoints. Corporatism breeds uniformity. Uniformity is certainly more profitable, but at what cost? Diversity, thats what.
You may be satisfied with a world controlled by the large interests. I am not. I will vote with my voice, my vote, my dollars, and whatever other means that I have to ensure that individualism, freedom, and diversity can exist in a world increasingly controlled by large corporations.
Here is the link:
http://home.xnet.com/~efflandt/ip2host.h tml
And here is the script itself:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl # # ip2h.pl - 19/Aug/1995 # # by David Efflandt # # Inputs IP addresses from keyboard and outputs to screen. # Loops for multiple entries. # print "\nEnter the 4 numbers separated by periods (no spaces).\n"; print "Press [enter] key without a number to exit.\n\n"; print "Enter IP address: "; $ip = ; chop($ip); while ($ip) { @numbers = split(/\./, $ip); $ip_number = pack("C4", @numbers); ($name) = (gethostbyaddr($ip_number, 2))[0]; if ($name) { print "The host is: $name"; } else { print "This IP has no name"; } print "\n\nEnter IP address: "; $ip = ; chop($ip); }
I'd be pretty pissed too if someone used my software for this type of thing(or worse) Doesn't the GPL state you have to use software for legal purposes?
I feel obliged to bring this up since the article referred to the DOE and you mentioned Germany.
This one is a no-brainer, since we are talking about national security. It would be very irresponsible of the DOE not to monitor all communications of its employees and even contractors. We have a nuclear arsenal. Germany does not. Since Germany is forbidden by international law to deploy nuclear weapons, there is less at stake.
However, I believe Germanys law would apply just fine to the average company, as it seems to have more respect for individual privacy and dignity. We in the USA have given too much power to our corporations.
I've used Javascript, but my fear of slowness has kept me away from using Java for anything serious. However, I admire Java for its simplicity. I have Eckel's book "Thinking in Java" and the thing that attracts me most to it is his statement that Java would enable people to be "software craftsman" rather than operating system hacks. The language itself seems to have gotten rid of a lot of things that make C++ painful to program in.
So actually, I am interested in trying Java seriously. I just wanted some good examples of what it can do.
It really seems like you guys have sold out. When your first few albums came out, whether you realize it or not, your name was spread by people passing tapes around. Not only that, but admit it - you guys were all poor starving musicians at one time, and I don't think you could tell me with a straight face that you guys never made copies of someones albums or tapes in order to practice a song. You guys have done a lot of covers. Well, I was in a band once, and here's how it works. Everyone gets a tape from the person who owned the album. Then we all learned the song. Are you going to tell me that you didn't ever do this?
Given the fact that you guys once did this yourselves and that your own music was spread in this fashion, how can you justify your actions? You guys should get a clue about the internet and realize that passing your music around is only helping your sales, not hurting them.
Does anyone else find it amusing that AOL owns Netscape yet uses IE in their software? Or that the U.S. govt is the largest customer of Microsoft?
Java is good for designing end user systems, where the real work is done by the database. Java is good for doing websites, again, where the real work is done by the database. I'd like someone to show me an example of real software(i.e word processor, database, game, compiler, OS) that is written in Java. Silly Yahoo games don't count.
C and C++ on the other hand do that stuff well. I wouldn't want to use them for a website, however.
I never actually heard of the "Kerberos" spelling/pronunciation until I got involved with Kerberos myself.
From: Tom Yu
"Cerberus" is the Latin spelling of the Greek "Kerberos", and according to the OED is pronounced like "serberus", but that is quite at odds with the Greek, as the initial consonant is a "k". MIT Project Athena chose to use the Greek spelling and pronunciation.
From: Jan Sacharuk
Tom Yu is correct, Cerberus is the Latin spelling. However, the fact that the OED says that the 'c' is pronounced as an 's' is an English affectation. In Latin, the letter 'c' is always hard. So Cerberus is pronounced 'Ker-ber-ous'. The letter 'u' is also slightly different, making it somewhere in between 'oos' and 'ous'.
That was what threw me off. If it was just a copy that was destroyed, its hardly "weeks of hard labor rendered into rubbish"
Still, its less of an issue than the author makes it. You could use text(defeats the purpose of Word, however) You could choose Save As Word 95. Finally, the person at the other end could have obtained a free Word 97 viewer. Bottom line, its up to the author to make sure the intended audience can read something. No one is forcing anyone to use Word.
For example, slashdot puts their headlines in a XML format, making it easy for other sites to create a "slashdot headline box", adding some interesting content. Another good use would be to have a search engine for your site that outputted XML. If you rely on comparison sites like mysimon to drive traffic to your store, having the data in XML rather than HTML can make the communication between sites far more reliable.
To me, XML is about data, not documents. Also, I can recommend "XML Bible" by Elliot Rusty Harold or "Professional XML" by Wrox as a couple of interesting books if you ever decide to revisit the subject.
Even the most ignorant newbie should know to save and back up their documents. That has got to be the most basic principle of using a computer.
Regardless of the computer system, you must do this, or risk losing your work. This is not a Microsoft issue.
Furthermore, Word has always allowed you to save in plain text. With Word 97, you could have also saved it as HTML. Both are documents supported by a wide range of vendors. Word 2000 will save your document in XML. A proprietary file type enables more precise formatting, but you don't have to use it. You could even change the default file type to text if you wanted to. Although if that was what you wanted, why are you using Word in the first place?
Tough luck, remember to back up your work next time.
Now have Jon Katz tell the same story. Presto! Instant dissent. A large wave of slashdotters appears from the ether to pick apart every detail of the story. And you have some real debate on the issues.
I like the Katz stories for this reason alone. Jon, when are you going to write a story that condemns Microsoft? Now, that would be interesting.
I too got the error. Mine from submitting google.com The error itself should be easy to fix - all he needs to do is change it to a non-unique index.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The changes you requested to the table were not successful because they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key, or relationship. Change the data in the field or fields that contain duplicate data, remove the index, or redefine the index to permit duplicate entries and try again. /project/SubmitReq.asp, line 48
Ron Soukup, a lead developer of SQL Server and the author of Inside SQL Server, has repeatedly stated that SQL Server has never used unpublished APIs to acheive its performance. This is illuminating, since SQL Server is perhaps Microsoft's most complex application program. I personally believe Ron's statement, and it would surprise me if you contested it.
If SQL Server can acheive its world dominating performance without using unpublished APIs, I really think that makes the whole "MS uses unpublished APIS to its advantage" argument moot, don't you think?
MP3.com did not break any laws. Their service only works "if the user owns an original copy of the copyrighted work".
Consider what such a law could mean.
- It could be argued that you will not be able to store your digital property online, be it music, software, or video.
- it could make it difficult to legally transfer your property from one device to another.
- another application of this ruling could mean that you couldn't transfer your digital property from one media to another. If your CD goes bad, too bad, buy another one.
I only hope that something like open source happens to the music world. Its controlled by corporations, not musicians. I imagine most actual bands and musicians would want their works transmitted freely over the net. Remember, most bands themselves are in onerous contracts with the record companies if they are signed at all. Anyone recall John Lennon's shock when he realized that he didn't even own his own songs?
I do not believe that record companies and the RIAA represent the best interests of musicians. Rather, they serve the almighty buck, at the expense of them.
Microsoft is the largest producer of Apple software in the world. It ported MS Office to MacOS and invested $150 million in the company about 18 months ago. I saw this as them trying to make themselves look less monopolistic.
I wouldn't be surprised to find MS software on Linux - if there proved to be a market for it. To spread their browser, they even made a version for Sun.
The Microsoft Mouse may be the only quality product the company makes!
How about putting MS Bob with Windows and make everything else separate?
Do you even have a clue as to how corporate-controlled the radio stations all are? In my city, one big company controls about 90% of the radio market. So for anyone who really wants to spread their music, the internet is a Good Thing.(TM) The entire record industry is built on corporate control and manipulation. The entire concept of selling recordings is a 20th century invention. Music on the other hand, has always been around, has always been free, and one way or other always will be.
Not only that, but I would bet if anyone did a study they would find that the free transmission of MP3's works to increase a given artists sales, not decrease them.
This is by far the longest the human race has gone without a war between major world powers. I wonder if it will be any different if we develop the technology to successfully win a nuclear war.
I mean really, the ++ in C++ refers to the additions to C, a strictly functional language.
You would have a hard time convincing me to switch from C++ to Java. C++ is faster, has pointers, templates, exception handling and other features that make it blow away Java. Yet all these features are hacks by your definition.
If I need something quick n' easy for Windows(which sadly is what I mostly get paid for) VB is great. But if I need something object oriented I think I'll stick with C++.
Not trying to flame you, I'm actually interested in what you have to say.
Its not quite the same thing, since you were talking about returning a value from a function whereas this is passing values to functions, but...
This blew me away when I first saw it: in Perl you can have a function such as selectSQL() that you can pass an optional number of values to it and it reads them in as an array! In C/C++ you have to specify your parameters, C has no way to get around this, C++ can get around it if you have multiple selectSQL functions that are overloaded. In VB you can specify that arguments are Optional. I imagine that Java works much in the same way as C++ -- overloaded functions, but I haven't used Java other than for scripting.
But being able to do the Perl trick is really cool, I must say. I wish I could have a language that compiled to all platforms, was open source, easy to use as VB, as flexible and powerful as C++, and as fast as assembly. Alas, no such language exists.
I like my open source grits as much as the next person, but as long as VB and Microsoft are still alive, why not make some money off it? Its so easy to turn just about any pile of code into a VB program. So I could be working on a perl project for most of the day and take a 1 hour break to convert my code into a program I could sell.
Consider...unlike open source, I can completely seal off the source code, package it in a nice friendly self-installing binary, and sell it as shareware.
It may not be the fastest thing out there(I think its still more of an interpreter than a compiled language) But knocking out apps is so quick, why not. The people who buy Visual Basic based applications are usually not looking for anything that requires god-like speed.
There's also nothing wrong with me posting my source code if I decide to do that.
Anyway, I know its next to prostitution but its the only way I know how to support myself if I want to get more into open source. I suppose I could be a sysadmin, but I'd rather just write code all day.
I know someone will say I should come up with something proprietary like a software/service package for Linux. However, the people who buy Windows software are used to paying for software, whereas most people using Linux would not need my services. If there's any genius to Microsoft its to target their sales toward those who don't know any better. And considering it would support a noble cause, why shouldn't I do the same?
If you have IE5 or Netscape 6, try reading slashdot.xml.
It would be interesting if it only blew up in IE.(further proof of MS not adhering to standards.) You can fix it by editing the file and taking out the á character in the word 'Máximo' in the dept. line.
my main interest is that incorrect information regarding MS only makes the open source movement look dumb. So if I see something that slams MS and is not based in fact I might try to correct it. I'm quite over my zealotry days, and I use both Windows and Linux successfully, working together in the same network.
next time i'll try to be more careful if I don't agree with a post.
Hmm, I've seen some of his videos. I'd like to say right now that I'd rather not be a victim of a drive-by for downloading his music.