cat /dev/rand > /dev/dsp

From http://www.bash.org/?5300

<tatclass> YOU ALL SUCK DICK
<tatclass> er.
<tatclass> hi.
<andy\code> A common typo.
<tatclass> the keys are like right next to each other.


To real life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW586BLYzr8

Does anyone knows a company with so many ramifications? It’s Google Maps, Google Base, Google Video, Google Reader…
Whats next? The moon?
The base is all theirs, no doubt on that! Can you deduce what’s next?

Ok, knowing Steve Ballmer knows that fucking kill google might just not be that easy, he’s already looking for new targets to fucking kill.

Come on, can’t he just moderate himself?….

Just red something about Microsoft doing the spindoctor dance on purpose.
Pseudo-leaking to generate pseudo-hype is a thing from the past. And not too moral, they should be minded about that.
Anyway, here’s the letter and a quote (from osxcode).

Microsoft has always had to anticipate changes in the software business and seize the opportunity to lead.

Ten years ago this December, I wrote a memo entitled The Internet Tidal Wave which described how the internet was going to forever change the landscape of computing. Our products could either prepare for the magnitude of what was to come or risk being swept away. We dedicated ourselves to innovating rapidly and lead the way much to the surprise of many industry pundits who questioned our ability to reinvent our approach of delivering software breakthroughs.

Five years ago we focused our strategy on .NET making a huge bet on XML and Web services. We were a leader in driving these standards and building them into our products and again this has been key to our success. Today, over 92% of the Fortune 100 are utilizing .Net and our current wave of products have XML and Web services at their core and are gaining share because of the bold bet we made back in the year 2000.

Today, the opportunity is to utilize the Internet to make software far more powerful by incorporating a services model which will simplify the work that IT departments and developers have to do while providing new capabilities.

In many ways this is not completely new. All the way back in 1998 we had a company meeting where we outlined a vision in which software would become more of a service over time. We’ve been making investments since then — for example, the Watson service we have built into Windows and Office allows us and our partners to understand where our users are running into problems and lets us improve their experience. Our On-line help work gives us constant feedback about what topics are helping our users and which we need to change. Products from MSN like Messenger and Hotmail are updated with new features many times throughout the year, allowing them to deliver innovations rapidly. Our Mappoint service was a pioneer in letting corporations connect up to a web based API on a subscription basis.

However, to lead we need to do far more. The broad and rich foundation of the internet will unleash a “services wave” of applications and experiences available instantly over the internet to millions of users. Advertising has emerged as a powerful new means by which to directly and indirectly fund the creation and delivery of software and services along with subscriptions and license fees. Services designed to scale to tens or hundreds of millions will dramatically change the nature and cost of solutions deliverable to enterprises or small businesses.

We will build our strategies around Internet services and we will provide a broad set of service APIs and use them in all of our key applications.

This coming “services wave” will be very disruptive. We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us – still, the opportunity for us to lead is very clear. More than any other company, we have the vision, assets, experience, and aspirations to deliver experiences and solutions across the entire range of digital workstyle & digital lifestyle scenarios, and to do so at scale, reaching users, developers and businesses across all markets.

But in order to execute on this opportunity, as we’ve done before we must act quickly and decisively. This next generation of the internet is being shaped by its “grassroots” adoption and popularization model, and the cost-effective “seamless experiences” delivered through the intentional fusion of services, software and sometimes hardware. We must reflect upon what and for whom we are building, how best to deliver new functionality given the internet services model, what kind of a platform in this new context might enable partners to build great profitable businesses, and how our applications might be reshaped to create service-enabled experiences uniquely compelling to both users and businesses alike.

Steve and I recently expanded Ray Ozzie’s role as CTO to include leading our services strategy across all three divisions. We did this because we believe our services challenges and opportunities will impact most everything we do. Ray has long demonstrated his passion for software, and through his work at Groove he also came to realize the transformative potential for combining software and services. I’ve attached a memo from Ray which I feel sure we will look back on as being as critical as The Internet Tidal Wave memo was when it came out. Ray outlines the great things we and our partners can do using the Internet Services approach.

The next sea change is upon us. We must recognize this change as an opportunity to take our offerings to the next level, compete in a manner commensurate with our industry responsibilities, and utilize our assets and our broad reach to reshape our business for the benefit of the users of our products, our customers, our partners and ourselves.

Bill

The PMPodcast is a show that features a lot of stuff related to PM Institutes and some to PM.
It’s host, Cornelius Fichtner, is a weird-accent fellow, generally very pleasing to hear to. He also maintains a weblog, but I’m still to read it.
If you have an iPod, some mindless work to do and you’re looking for interesting stuff to hear, check this one out.

His own self-brag:

The Project Management Podcast, an “internet radio show”, is hosted by Cornelius Fichtner, PMP and brings project management topics to beginners and experts. The show is an entertaining and educational mix of both current trends and best practices in project management. Using a podcatcher software such as iTunes or iPodder you can subscribe to the show and have it automatically downloaded to your MP3 player. No player? No problem! You can also just listen to the show on your computer speakers. Individual episodes and subscription links are available at http://pmpodcast.blogspot.com.

Ok, if a random Dean Allen I just came across on the web can do it, Microsoft is getting obsolete really fast.

See it happrning @ Textism: Word HTML Cleaner.

There is no such thing as a good reason for using Internet Explorer willingfully.
To those of you out there who still

• are not aware of the “informational” danger, or
• take crappy paid solution but not almost good free solution, or
• you’re simply trying out your patience (either in a competition or just for the sheer fun of it)

just switch over to mozilla firefox! There’s many reasons for you to do so.
Please, think of the kittens. And web-developers.

For those of you rejoicing in hearing someone to encourage switching to mozilla firefox, consider taking more drastic measures.

I personally won’t change because I’m just too satisfied with my own standard browser (Safari) for going though the trouble of changing it.
But, not everyone uses a good OS and X like me (pun very intended).

When I was reading WordPress’ documentation I stumbled upon this:
Post Password

Well, this conclusion struck me a bit odd. But the again, from common knowledge comes:
Rutabaga

One might just not agree with all the conclusion we encounter. Yet, we always manage to ridiculize them. And have a rather jolly time doing so

Spot the differences between Apple and Dell.
Just like everyone said, Apple should start thinking about real business and be more like… you know, Dell…

This is an introductory post.

I’ve brought this blog up to have a simple place to spread out some ideas (like free software being mass-proprietary and open software being stuff that’s never good enough).
I’ve also invited a friend along, mv BOFH (João Vale, IRL). Trustworthy friend and fellow BOFH @ junifeup.pt, always providing some less absurd and moderated points of view than my own.

I guess that’s about it. Expect some rant really soon. More on everything else later.

PS: Isn’t f*cktard a lovely word?