Posts by Tripolitan

Ubuntu UNITY is GNOME-MORE: 'One Linux' dream of phone, slab, desktop UI axed

Good Riddance

Unity didn't make sense to me so, I never used it and made it a rule to remove on all my fresh installs since it came out, in favor of Gnome Flashback.

Ubuntu demotes Gnome for Unity netbook look

Ditto

Used them all since Caldera & RH5.2, Mandrake was way ahead of Ubuntu in ease of use. I don't miss recompiling or configuring sox at all...

Microsoft confirms Russian pill-pusher attack on its network

Why Not?

Q1-How come this doesn't happen to Red Hat, Canonical, Mandriva, Novel or Oracle...?

A1- Because it is in Microsoft's best interest to put on-line, Linux devices in a compromise-able state so we can all read about it.

Q2- How come "... the machines weren't unplugged from Microsoft's network until Tuesday, almost three weeks later, shortly after The Register article was published. "??

A2-See A1 and "...shortly after The Register article was published" : Mission accomplished.

Believe me, Microsoft's Marketing Engineers know exactly what they're doing.

MS Marketing know exactly what they're doing

It is not conspiracy, it is a very plausible explanation to a scenario that can only happen at Microsoft. This is aided by the fact that they did not remove the devices from their network for 3 weeks and only after the issue was in print, or on-line.

This was a lab experiment in a controlled environment, at Linux's arch enemy, designed to be discovered, compromised and consequently, exposed in media. There is only one beneficiary from this: Microsoft.