Here are some pictures of a network card hit by a stroke of lightning. A costumer called us complaining that the internet is down.
Some of the solder of the NIC hit the SCSI card at the next PCI slot and caused a SCSI bus reset, but the machine was still running.
Check out Googles Zeitgeist (scroll down a bit). It's very odd that the statistics of Google are so very different to everything else I've seen so far. Our website (not at all OSS related) has about 600k visits a month and I can see "alternative" browsers rising. IE looses 1 percent every month.
You definitely missed the Linux Audio Conference in Karlsruhe/Germany. There is a lot of development going on at the moment. Even commercial companies like Lionstracs and Native Instruments are getting more and more interested in Linux.
Robotic Parking (Gerhard Haag, $40,000 donation to the IAS, Peggy Guignon alias Margaret Guignon alias Peggy Haag, $40,000 donation to the IAS; WISE 1999 and 2001 directory): Gerhard Haag has been written about extensively in the german book "Der Sektenkonzern" (see my summary). He was the manager of Stahlbautechnik Neckar GmbH, which he had bought from Krupp in 1989, and had introduced scientology management techniques, and forced his employees to take scientology courses. The result was a large scale fraud, as later described by Jeanette Schweitzer, a former employee. (He lost a lawsuit in which he attempted to prevent her from talking about the fraud). In 1991 and 1993 his company was caught hiring illegal aliens. In 1993 he was convicted for threatening his maid. He claimed in court that he was penniless, and fled the country. He went to Albania, where he tried to introduce scientology management into the government ("Project A" / Bulgravia). When Albania was informed of his background he was told to get out. He then went to the US, and first settled in Clearwater. The patent from his company is registered to one Heiner Schween (not a Scientologist; here is his company). Read also this article from the St. Petersburg Times.
I'm the Senior IT Manager of a well known software company in Germany. Whenever it comes to install Windows on a workstation computer (servers are running Linux), it's the job of my assistant, because I would become seriously ill, if I would touch Windows. The other day I asked him, what he thinks about the M$ EULA and he answered: "EULA? What's that?"...
Nobody really seems to be interested in those legal stuff like EULAs and thats the reason why noone sees the evil in M$.
I don't care if a specific media player is bundled with an operating system or not. If it is a crapy windows media player bundled with windows or xine with xandros or whatever, though this is not comparable.
Microsoft should be ordered to stop enforcing computer manufacturers and dealers to bundle its Windows with hardware.
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Here are some pictures of a network card hit by a stroke of lightning. A costumer called us complaining that the internet is down.
Some of the solder of the NIC hit the SCSI card at the next PCI slot and caused a SCSI bus reset, but the machine was still running.
Check out Googles Zeitgeist (scroll down a bit). It's very odd that the statistics of Google are so very different to everything else I've seen so far. Our website (not at all OSS related) has about 600k visits a month and I can see "alternative" browsers rising. IE looses 1 percent every month.
They list Steinberg, but ignored Native Instruments, the producer of Reaktor. Very incomplete.
You definitely missed the Linux Audio Conference in Karlsruhe/Germany. There is a lot of development going on at the moment. Even commercial companies like Lionstracs and Native Instruments are getting more and more interested in Linux.
I'm the Senior IT Manager of a well known software company in Germany. Whenever it comes to install Windows on a workstation computer (servers are running Linux), it's the job of my assistant, because I would become seriously ill, if I would touch Windows. The other day I asked him, what he thinks about the M$ EULA and he answered: "EULA? What's that?"...
Nobody really seems to be interested in those legal stuff like EULAs and thats the reason why noone sees the evil in M$.
The mentioned article is actually part of a Special Report called Linux Spreads Its Wings.
I don't care if a specific media player is bundled with an operating system or not. If it is a crapy windows media player bundled with windows or xine with xandros or whatever, though this is not comparable.
Microsoft should be ordered to stop enforcing computer manufacturers and dealers to bundle its Windows with hardware.