Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

Bill Gates and Open Source

Published by Eric on June 24, 2008 under Geek Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Video

I think it goes without saying that I am a huge supporter of Open Source but believe it or not I am also a big fan of Bill Gates. You’ve got to respect what he did for the industry and what he does for the world through his charities. The guy is a geek’s version of Michael Jordon. I don’t agree with everything the man does obviously but I think the guy has a great mind and he will be missed in the computer industry when he finally moves on.

Anyways, I enjoy watching Bill Gates talk but I kind of caught something interesting in this last interview I was watching.

Here is a link to the interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7462156.stm

At about 1.45 Bill talks about how finding the source code for an operating system took him and Paul Allen to the next level on tinkering. I thought to myself how fortunate we were that he had that oppurtunity to look at and study an operating systems source code. It would have been a real shame if the ability to look at source code was deprived from Bill Gates. I wonder how many great thinkers Linux has or will inspire by offering them a similar opportunity.

Browser Discrimination

Published by Eric on June 15, 2008 under Firefox, Geek Stuff, Microsoft, Rant

It’s amazing to me that I still stumble across sites like this. Especially “real” sites from “real” companies. This is a media company none the less. The funny thing is, running Internet Explore under Windows is one of the last combinations I actually use. Even under Windows, Firefox is my default browser. The show I was trying to check out was called “The IT Crowd”. Seeing how I live in the US and don’t get “Channle4″ chances are the only way I am going to see it is to stream it. Now the reality is I can easily move to one of my Windows boxes or even fire up my virtual Vista desktop on my current desktop but I am not going to do that out of general principal. Sorry Channel4.

Just a short little rant.


http://www.channel4.com/

Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation

Published by Eric on June 8, 2008 under Geek Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source

Interesting article over on ZDNet. I don’t know what surprised me more, “Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation” or to hear Microsoft actually has a “open-source and Linux team”.

Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation

The Website is Down, Check The X-Box

Published by Eric on May 24, 2008 under Funny, Geek Stuff, Microsoft, NotMyPosting

Gaming consoles these days are down right powerful machines. I’ve read stories about people running Playstation3 Cluster Farms and other fun projects. This is a funny story I came across about a University using an X-Box for a web server.

The website is down because someone removed the X-Box