If you are around today, October 27th, at 19:00 UTC, join me in #ubuntu-classroom on IRC to get an introduction to Ubuntu Documentation. I have a few words to say first about documentation and then I will open the floor up to questions that I can hopefully answer for you. After doing the 2 Kubuntu sessions this week, it seems the popular route is an open forum almost. Seems more productive to me, just as long as 50 people don’t ask a questions at once 🙂 Hopefully I will see you there, if you can’t make it, don’t worry, we will have the logs up shortly after for your viewing pleasure. Take care and have a great day!
Why InfoWorld (Still) Sucks – Part 1: Editor(s)
haha, I had to do it. He is still at it, and his latest one is worse than the rest. It is more of an attack towards all applications for Linux, however the editor throws Ubuntu in it as if it is our fault. However, I think the best reading is the comments. I swear, some of them I can picture the commentor actually crying as they type the post. And you can tell who is either an American or one of the LUGRadio guys in disguise with all of the F words being thrown around. Here are just a couple snippets of my favorites quotes:
Holy Crap! I thought you were joking. This guy really is on the Microsoft payroll!
Randall C. Kennedy is the Director of Research for Competitive Systems Analysis and Contributing Editor to the InfoWorld Test Center. A 20 year IT veteran (his client list includes Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and IBM), he specializes in enterprise desktop computing technologies and issues.
You’d think that this would make me madder, but it really makes the whole thing seem kind of chickenshit and inconsequential. No IT newsite that has any pretense to being reputable would allow a microsoft employee to do a four part hatchet job on Ubuntu. You’re throwing away any chance you ever had at credibility for a few cheap hits based on a manufactured controversy, you poor bastards.
Infoworld will be a good name for this site when it becomes one of those sad little search portals.
and:
Randall,
Nearly there in your 5-piece series. Have to say that I am enjoying them immensely.
I am fiercely opposed to the death-penalty, and was saddened to read about the prisoner executed in Texas yesterday because…
…”his lawyers had suffered a computer breakdown and were unable to file the appeal within regular working hours, and had begged Judge Keller for more time. Ms Keller refused.” [Guardian Online, 25 Oct 2007]
Normally when Windows crashes at work (3 or 4 times today – which is more than usual) it is not serious. At home so far not managed to crash Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10.
Classic! You know what I have come to learn, we Linux people are pretty damn passionate, witty as all hell, and down right hilarious at times. If you want to read the post, it is HERE.
FYI: InfoWorld is horrid
If you didn’t already know that of course. Anyways, I use the all so familiar iGoogle and have “Ubuntu” select to load up in a block on the page so I can see what everyone is saying. And it never fails that InfoWorld always has an “Ubuntu Sucks” article. Well this week is way different. The guy writing the articles is so biased it isn’t even funny. But he is succeeding. You can look through all of his posts, and he doesn’t have that many comments. Then you can look at his Part 1 through 3 posts and see he has attracted so many people. He is definitely getting his hits on. Well I decided to see what this has written in the past, and right smack dab on his front page is an article about someone ripping in Windows Vista. This is what he had to say about the guy who ripped into Windows:
I just got through reading yet another “Microsoft must abandon Vista to survive” scare pieces at a competitor’s web site. Talk about your lightweight content! This guy didn’t even try to provide any sort of hard data. He just spewed his anti-Microsoft bile all over his blog page. And while I’m by no means a Windows “fanboy,” I simply have to respond to some of the more common bullet “points” that seem to keep cropping up in this type of journalistic flatulence:
Now after reading that, go and read Why Ubuntu Still Sucks Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Everyone one of his attacks are directly at Ubuntu. One of his attacks is against Compiz. And his basis for his attack, a freakin’ YouTube video. Ya, he took what he looks at on his Vista desktop and compared it to a YouTube video. Can you believe these people actually get paid for writing for InfoWorld?
