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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?

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Quick KDE 4 Post

I just finished setting up KDE 4 from SVN and have been messing around checking it out, and I must say it has gotten to the point where I am going to start running it full time on my desktop. This will allow me to not only follow development much more closely, but it will also allow me to start reporting the bugs I run across, and start fixing some of the bugs I have been seeing. My main project will definitely be KHelpCenter and the Docs and as my time starts to free up a bit more here, I am going to start hitting it a little heavier than I have in the past month or so. So as I go through and do my updates, I plan on documenting my griefs, my joys, and my updates as I roll along. For a parting gift, I will leave you with a quick screenshot of the current Kontact in KDE 4, Konsole running my Irssi screen, and a very addicting game called Knetwalk. Enjoy!

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Release Party Pictures

HERE are some pictures from yesterday’s (Sunday) Ubuntu 7.10 Release Party and Install Fest. It was a good time, and probably the busiest yet. We were interviewed for the local paper and plus I did an interview on Saturday with another news paper. It seems our event was posted in either the Chicago Sun Times or the Daily Herald, as 2 people showed up saying that is how they found out about it. Good to see nobody still reads them papers :)

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