SCO, IBM, Novell, AT&T and SuSE in the #os IRC channel

25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: Geeky | 0 Comments 

If any of you knows what's been going on for a while now with SCO, "their" Unix rights, IBM, Novell and so on, you'll love this one...

 w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
 /msg atnt haha. idiot.
 whoops. was that out loud?
 rotfl
 lol
 why r u laffin at me?
 dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
 wtf?
 hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
 haha, your linux sucks.
 lol
 lol
 lol
 no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
 your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
 Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux fur IBM.
 can we do linux with you?
 Ich bin nicht sicher...
 *cough*
 Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
 can we play?
 we're bored... we'll go too.
 sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
 redhat: you should join!
 Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
 haha. no.
 lamers.
 what about you debian?
 we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
 no one wants my linux!
 i got owned.
 u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
 i'm going back to unix.
 yeah! want to do unix with me?
 haha. no. lamer.
 lol
 snap!
 :~(
 hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
 wtf?
 yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
 lol
 heraus laut lachen
 lol
 shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
 go ahead. baby.
 andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
 oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
 actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
 wtf? we bought it from u.
 whoops. our bad.
 i own u. haha
 ibm: give me all your AIX now!
 whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

HP to integrate support for WMA in iPod (updated)

25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: News | 0 Comments 

Not long ago I wrote here that Apple had licensed the iPod to HP. Well, now HP has announced that HP is working closely with Apple to provide support for Windows Media Audio files for the iPod. Now, isn't that good news? I think it's the icing on the iPod cake, making it surely the most elegant and useful, feature-wise, player in the market (price notwithstanding)

Now, in a foreseen move, Microsoft has dismissed the move and commented that this is a bad move for consumers because this will limit their choices to Apple products. If you are capable of reading between lines, this basically means that customers will be limited to Apple products instead of Microsoft products (what a surprise!) and that they're now pretty much screwed, since rumors say that M$ is about to open a new online music service and HP will install preinstalling iTunes in every new computer, which is a bad thing.

In my case, I couldn't care less about those folks from Redmond say. If I ever have a Mac, I'll buy an iPod

UPDATE 13-01-2004: Turns out that this wasn't true news. Or perhaps it was but looks like something has changed... So, no more WMA for the iPod.