Here's another example of overprotection. You ever notice on the TV-news every time some guy with an AK47 strolls on to a school yard and kills three or four kids and a couple of teachers, the next day... the next day the school in overrun with counsellors, and psychiatrics, and grief counsellors, and trauma therapists trying to help the child cope. Shit, when I was in school, someone came to our school and killed three or four of us; we went right on with our arithmetic: "35 classmates minus 4... equals 31". We were tough.
~ George Carlin (You Are All Diseased, 1999)

sábado, 18 de abril de 2009

Sobre las pelotudeces "legales" de Microsoft

UPDATE: Al final resulta que sí puedo poner linux, BSD o lo que se me cante en mi máquina, la restricción no vale, pero como soy el único que no le tiene fobia a la consola en, digamos, toda la empresa, vamos a poner el proxy con windows hasta que les enseñe a los demás...


Hace un rato estuve al teléfono con mi jefe (laburo en sistemas para una escuela), y me dijo que no podemos usar linux ni para el proxy ni para mi máquina de trabajo porque "el que le vende las licencias le dijo que no se pueden usar sistemas operativos no microsoft". Ahora bien, eso aplica si microsoft dona computadoras, pero no veo ninguna forma legal de que puedan mandar sobre el uso que se le da al hardware...

Comparto con ustedes algo divertido y vagamente relacionado. Para los que puedan escucharlo en inglés, les recomiendo verlo en youtube

I was at Agenda 2000 and, one of the people who was there was Craig Mundie, who is some kind of high mucky muck at Microsoft, I think, vice-president of consumer products or something like that.

And, I hadn’t actually met him. I, bumped in to him in an, in an elevator… And, I looked at his badge and said, “Oh, I see you work for Microsoft.”
And he looked back to me and said, “Oh, yeah and what do you do?”

And I thought he seemed just a sort of a tad dismissiveI mean, here’s the archetypal, you know, guy in a suit looking at a scruffy hacker. And so I gave him the thousand yard stare and said,

“I’m your worst nightmare.”

~ Eric S. Raymond, in Revolution OS (2001)

viernes, 3 de abril de 2009

chau y hola

Chau *ubuntu
Hola Arch

Chau Firefox 3.x
Hola Opera 10

Puede que nos volvamos a ver con firefox, pero en mi máquina probablemente *ubuntu no vuelva a correr