Everybody Dongfan Chung Tonight
Feb 12th, 2008 by epth
It struck me as I was browsing my iGoogle page just now exactly how much of a geek I am. I was interested in all the slashdot stories — every single one! Not only that, but I think you all might want to hear what me, the very definition of “some nerd,” thinks about them. How geeky is that?
1) The New York Times is reporting that the Blackberry network is partially down for the second time in less than a year. Potentially up to half of Blackberry users aren’t able to receive e-mail or surf the internets. Hey! I’m a Blackberry user! What about me? Sadly, my Blackberry appears to be functioning as normal. It’s ironic that little old unimportant me can get his e-mail while million-dollar douches across America have their business deals put on hold. Take that, white people.
2) Remember Vista, the operating system that nobody liked because it didn’t go well with their old and/or cheap equipment? Well, it’s finally being updated to Service Pack I. This is news in and of itself, but the fun part is that Microsoft isn’t making SPI available to Technet subscribers until March (Technet being a paid service from Microsoft for approved software developers), even though pirated copies of the thing are all over the net. Some technet subscribers, desperate to test their programs on the new Vista Service Pack, might turn to piracy. As always, Microsoft stinks.
3) Are you familiar with the name Dongfan Chung? Well, he’s a Boeing engineer who stole our valuable Space Shuttle secrets and gave them to his people, the Chinese. Some of my best friends are Boeing engineers, and I wonder how they feel about this, and if they knew this dude, and if they feel sometimes like they’re working at SD-6.
4) Anti-virus software company Trend Micro is facing a huge nerd boycott over their patent suit against the open source software ClamAV. Clam just happens to be the “it” antivirus among the Linux crowd, and Trend Micro suing them is just stupid and pointless. What do they hope to accomplish suing free software? Well, we’re up in arms now. Just try to take our free software from us, we dare you.
In other news, that sound you just heard was Trend Micro completing their crash from the world’s #1 Antivirus company (circa 2002) to a monster worse than even Norton (but still better than McAffee). I can’t believe I ever recommended them to anyone.
