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		<title>Thank You, Dear Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, dear reader. Thanks for making Yet Another Linux Blog one of the top Linux Blogs on the planet!  It was an average day over 8 years ago that I began to host my own blog at linuxblog.sytes.net (thanks No-Ip.com!) on a PII that I inherited from one of my friends.  Slackware Linux hosted [...]]]></description>
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<p>Thank you, dear reader.</p>
<p>Thanks for making Yet Another Linux Blog one of the top Linux Blogs on the planet!  It was an average day over 8 years ago that I began to host my own blog at linuxblog.sytes.net (thanks No-Ip.com!) on a PII that I inherited from one of my friends.  Slackware Linux hosted the project then and I wanted to use my new blog to explore the Linux world posting tips, tricks, and how-to&#8217;s on my way.  Millions upon millions of pageviews and 6 hosting changes later, we arrive here&#8230;at the end of 2011.</p>
<p>So am I throwing in the towel since I didn&#8217;t post regularly in 2011?  Heck no.  I&#8217;m going to continue learning and posting, exploring and writing.  In fact, I&#8217;ve made it a resolution to do more posting this year than I ever have to develop my writing as I begin to supplement my technical writing portfolio.  Technical Writing would be my profession of choice if this were a perfect world&#8230;getting paid to help people is something I find very satisfying.  For now, I freelance and am looking to possibly make freelancing become my full time job.</p>
<p>Once again, thanks for making Yet Another Linux Blog be a stop in your browser&#8230;thanks for making it be a blip on your RSS reader&#8230;.thanks for your support and continued reading <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/thank-you-dear-reader/" rel="bookmark">Thank You, Dear Reader</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on December 26, 2011.</p>
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		<title>Self Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Yet Another Linux Blog silently turning 4 years old this past December, I began to examine what I&#8217;ve posted over the years and have tried to take a step back to examine what I&#8217;ve accomplished here&#8230;first, from a design perspective.  Please understand that these links go to the internet archive so they may take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With Yet Another Linux Blog silently turning 4 years old this past December, I began to examine what I&#8217;ve posted over the years and have tried to take a step back to examine what I&#8217;ve accomplished here&#8230;first, from a design perspective.  Please understand that these links go to the internet archive so they may take a while to load:</p>
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<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041223112139/http://linuxblog.sytes.net/">How Yet Another Linux Blog looked in 2004</a></li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060425053415/http://linux-blog.org/">1st Major Redesign of YALB</a> &#8211; Happened around April 2006.</li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060821073538/http://linux-blog.org/">2nd Major Redesign of YALB</a> &#8211; Around August 2006</li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070220213508/http://linux-blog.org/">3rd Major Redesign of YALB</a> &#8211; Happened around February 2007</li>
<li>Current State of Redesign &#8211; how the blog looks on the date of this post, March 18, 2009.</li>
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<p>Next, I looked at some of my most popular posts.  Most of these were written quite a while ago.  2 of them are reviews, one is an opinion piece and the last 2 are how-to&#8217;s:</p>
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<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/Enlightenment-17-Review/">Enlightenment e17 Review</a> (an older review done by guest editor Misunderstruck)</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/ClarkConnect-Enterprise-Linux-for-Your-Home/">ClarkConnect, Enterprise Linux for the Home</a>.  A Review of version 3.2</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/Install-extra-Themes-and-Icons-in-PCLinuxOS/">Installing Extra Themes and Icons in PCLinuxOS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/PCLinuxOS-What-Sets-it-Apart-Part-I/">What Sets PCLinuxOS Apart from Others?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/KDE-and-Xorg,-Fonts-and-DPI/">KDE and XOrg, Fonts and DPI</a></li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/Host-Your-Own-Domain-and-Webserver-using-Apache/">Host Your Own Webserver at Home</a></li>
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<p>And then, there are the most commented articles.  The winner here is Ubuntu articles&#8230;but that&#8217;s a dubious honor in my opinion as most of the comments weren&#8217;t particularly friendly:</p>
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<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/why-ubuntu-isnt-for-new-linux-users/">Why Ubuntu ISN&#8217;T for New Users</a> &#8211; Done in 2006 and why I felt at the time, Ubuntu didn&#8217;t offer new users the best out of box experience.</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/experiment-15-ubuntu-504-hoary-final-rating/">Ubuntu 5.04 Final Rating</a> &#8211; An experiment where I took my wife and made her use Linux for a week and give each distro a rating.  Ubuntu bombed on this one.  Of course, the community came back with lots of name calling and &#8220;why didn&#8217;t you do this dummy&#8221; to help her as a new user.  To this day she despises Ubuntu for the comments left there by their community members.</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/enlightenment-17-review/">Enlightenment e17 Review</a> &#8211; Once again, guest editor Misunderstruck&#8217;s review of e17.  Lot&#8217;s of positive feedback and some questions.</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/is-ubuntu-ce-needed/">Is Ubuntu CE Needed?</a> &#8211; I questioned what the point of having a separate distro versus a Meta-Package.  If you recall the release of Ubuntu CE, you&#8217;ll remember that there was some controversy surrounding the motivation of doing this as well as a quick release of Ubuntu Satanic Edition.</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/why-open-source-isnt-succeeding/">Why Open Source Isn&#8217;t Succeeding</a> &#8211; My take on what made open source fall short of achieving its goal&#8230;in 2004</li>
<li><a href="http://linux-blog.org/why-open-source-isnt-succeedingpart-ii/">Why Open Source Isn&#8217;t Succeeding, Part II</a> &#8211; A follow up and clarification of the first article&#8230;done so boneheads that &#8220;don&#8217;t read too good&#8221; could understand &#8220;more better&#8221; what the article intended.</li>
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<p>It&#8217;s been many years, many reviews, many editorials, and many blog revisions.  Through it all, I&#8217;ve tried to stay focused on what matters to me&#8230;sharing knowledge with others.  I don&#8217;t have any plans to stop blogging and am looking at starting another blog soon that covers Windows administration stuff as well (I work in a mixed environment of Unix/Linux/Windows now as a server admin).  I feel that even if the software isn&#8217;t free, the knowledge on how to use it should be.  Thanks for reading!</p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/self-musings/" rel="bookmark">Self Musings</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on March 18, 2009.</p>
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		<title>Switched to WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve migrated to wordpress from serendipity. You may notice a few comments have been lost in the migration. However, not much else should be missing. I&#8217;ll continue to work on a custom theme for the site during the next week or so. I may write up a &#8220;reasons why I switched&#8221; article as well and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve migrated to wordpress from serendipity.  You may notice a few comments have been lost in the migration.  However, not much else should be missing.  I&#8217;ll continue to work on a custom theme for the site during the next week or so.</p>
<p>I may write up a &#8220;reasons why I switched&#8221; article as well and post it if anyone is interested&#8230;but that&#8217;s solely if anyone is interested.  Otherwise, I&#8217;ll keep this as the only reference to it.</p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/switched-to-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">Switched to WordPress</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on September 3, 2008.</p>
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		<title>Microblogging, Status, and Blogging 2.0</title>
		<link>http://linux-blog.org/microblogging-status-and-blogging-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I asked readers how they plugged their blog and/or microblogged, web 2.0 style. Some microblogging readers recommended that I check out Ping.fm. It was exactly the service that I needed; the ability to simultaneously post status updates on twitter, pownce, facebook. I specifically look for services that don&#8217;t require that I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my previous post, I asked readers how they plugged their blog and/or microblogged, web 2.0 style.  Some microblogging readers recommended that I check out <a href="http://ping.fm">Ping.fm</a>.  It was exactly the service that I needed; the ability to simultaneously post status updates on twitter, pownce, facebook.  I specifically look for services that don&#8217;t require that I install anything on my desktop (I like IM much more).</p>
<p>The only problem with this is that ping.fm is in beta stage&#8230;and a closed beta at that.  So, I began to read various different blogs to try and find any other service that might do the same thing as ping.fm.</p>
<p>During my search, I cam across <a href="http://www.profilactic.com/">profilactic.com</a>, which is a central aggregate place similar to <a href="http://friendfeed.com">friendfeed.com</a>.  The interesting part about profilactic is that it plugs into ping.fm and every single user can be part of the closed beta for ping.fm!</p>
<p>This means that you can microblog/status message bebo, blogger, brightkite, facebook, hi5, Jaiku, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, Myspace, Plaxo Pulse, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, and Xanga through one single interface OR through Instant message (there is a ping.fm bot).</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the kicker&#8230;profilactic.com supports 186 sites as well as the ability to create a custom site.  There are too many to list.  <a href="http://www.profilactic.com/sites.jsp">Check out their supported sites.</a></p>
<p>So, you can utilize ping.fm to instant message status updates or microblog and instantaneously have it sent out to close to 200 different sites all at once.  This is handy for me since I like to use pownce a bit more than twitter but my coworkers use twitter more.  My status updates are still broadcast (on 60 second delay) on twitter through my instant message to the ping.fm bot.  Ping.fm also supports the iPhone and has the ability to have custom triggers.</p>
<p>To take advantage of these great services, head over to profilactic and signup.  When you&#8217;re setting up your sites, you&#8217;ll be able to plug into ping.fm (it will require that you signup using the profilactic beta password that profilactic will provide for you during setup).  Don&#8217;t forget to <a href="http://www.profilactic.com/mashup/devnet">visit my lifestream</a> and add me as a friend <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   Happy micro/status/blogging!</p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/microblogging-status-and-blogging-20/" rel="bookmark">Microblogging, Status, and Blogging 2.0</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on June 19, 2008.</p>
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		<title>How do YOU Plug Your Blog to Web 2.0?</title>
		<link>http://linux-blog.org/how-do-you-plug-your-blog-to-web-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been drastically neglecting a few areas of my blog.  The main one is plugging it into social networks.  I&#8217;ve been using things like twitter, pownce, and stumbleupon&#8230;but I haven&#8217;t truly plugged my blog into these services. Now there are so many&#8230;I don&#8217;t even know how to plug them all in Which services are most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been drastically neglecting a few areas of my blog.  The main one is plugging it into social networks.  I&#8217;ve been using things like twitter, pownce, and stumbleupon&#8230;but I haven&#8217;t truly plugged my blog into these services.</p>
<p>Now there are so many&#8230;I don&#8217;t even know how to plug them all in <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Which services are most important?  Which ones are you, the reader, using?  Thus far, the easiest way I&#8217;ve found to manage things is to choose one service like Tumblr or Pownce and aggregate all other services into it.  THEN to use friendfeed.com to envelop them into a stream.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m curious as to how others are managing things&#8230;I&#8217;d like to make Yet Another Linux Blog reach a larger audience and I think that this is a good starting point.  So if you have suggestions, please let me know <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/how-do-you-plug-your-blog-to-web-20/" rel="bookmark">How do YOU Plug Your Blog to Web 2.0?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on June 13, 2008.</p>
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		<title>Become a Featured Blog at BlogBridge.com Linux Topic Guide</title>
		<link>http://linux-blog.org/become-a-featured-blog-at-blogbridgecom-linux-topic-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to have your blog about Linux become a featured blog on the BlogBridge.com Linux Topic Guide? How about a front page link in the &#8220;Blogs I Read&#8221; column on Yet Another Linux Blog? If this piques your interest, read on. I&#8217;ve been a BlogBridge user for quite some time since discovering it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Would you like to have your blog about Linux become a featured blog on the BlogBridge.com Linux Topic Guide?  How about a front page link in the &#8220;Blogs I Read&#8221; column on Yet Another Linux Blog?  If this piques your interest, read on.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been a <a href="http://www.blogbridge.com/">BlogBridge</a> user for quite some time since discovering it with the version 4 release.  It has consistently been the best RSS feed reader I have used since that time.  I accept no substitutes.  They offer the BlogBridge service for free which allows you to publish feeds on BlogBridge.com publicly and share feeds/tags of posts.  You can also download Topic Guides to hit the ground running with pre-populated feeds.  I am an author of one of those feeds.</p>
<p>Previously, <a href="http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/161-Blogbridge,-Simply-the-Best-RSS.html">when I reviewed BlogBridge,</a> I was asked to be the <a href="http://library.blogbridge.com/folder/8296-linux-feeds">Linux Topic Guide at blogbridge.com</a>.  Specifics on how this works:  I keep tabs on various Linux centric blogs and publish my feeds to blogbridge.com.  Then, when someone installs Blogbridge, they may select the Topic Guide that I publish with pre-populated feeds of interest.  If you&#8217;re a BlogBridge user, you can also track down the linux feed or visit the Linux Topic Guide page at Blogbridge.com to see what sites are featured there.</p>
<p>In these past few years I&#8217;ve been doing this, many Linux sites have come and gone.  I&#8217;ve changed jobs, states, and distributions.  Since all of these changes have taken place, I&#8217;ve missed the launch of some great Linux blogs and websites.  Therefore, I&#8217;m asking you, the reader to help me find new and exciting blogs and sites that I can feature for BlogBridge.com <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p>Take a minute to compare your feedlist to mine or <a href="http://library.blogbridge.com/folder/8296-linux-feeds">visit BlogBridge Linux Topic Guide</a> and compare. If you feel your site is worthy or know of a site that should be featured, please leave a comment with information on why you feel it should be featured. Remember, we&#8217;re going for Linux feeds here so the content should be Linux based accordingly.</p>
<p>This is a good chance for those Linux websites that may not pull good traffic despite excellent content to get their place on the map (at least the map at BlogBridge). I&#8217;ll be reviewing all the submissions and will choose 5-10 new sites to feature based on content I find at the blog of nomination. I will also be adding a direct link to the &#8220;Blogs I Read&#8221; section on the front page of Yet Another Linux Blog <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Thanks for helping and let me know what you read!  Let&#8217;s find those hidden gems in the blogging world of Linux! <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/become-a-featured-blog-at-blogbridgecom-linux-topic-guide/" rel="bookmark">Become a Featured Blog at BlogBridge.com Linux Topic Guide</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on February 1, 2008.</p>
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		<title>YALB &#8211; A Look Back after Three Years</title>
		<link>http://linux-blog.org/yalb-a-look-back-after-three-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quietly and without fanfare, Yet Another Linux Blog has reached the ripe old age of 3 years. I started it small and hosted at home during May of 2004. Back then it was hosted on a domain called fatalfame.org (since expired). In December 2004, I switched domains to linuxblog.sytes.net and switched to Serendipity for blogging [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quietly and without fanfare, Yet Another Linux Blog has reached the ripe old age of 3 years.  I started it small and hosted at home during May of 2004.  Back then it was hosted on a domain called fatalfame.org (since expired).  In December 2004, I switched domains to linuxblog.sytes.net and switched to <a href="http://www.s9y.org/" target="_blank">Serendipity for blogging</a> (hence, lost data from May 2004 &#8211; Dec 2004) and it is that month that houses my <a href="http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/1-My-Current-Distro.....html" target="_blank">first and oldest post</a> on the s9y platform&#8230;and it&#8217;s also the month I discovered Technorati and pingbacks <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  which gives rise to being indexed for the first time then.  The oldest snapshot the internet archive has is December 2004&#8230;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041223112139/http://linuxblog.sytes.net/" target="_blank">take a look at how the blog looked then</a> (warning, slow loading).</p>
<p>Back then, it was all about trying new Linux desktops and finding things that worked for my wife and I.  Today, it&#8217;s still all about the Linux Desktop.  YALB hasn&#8217;t changed its focus and has made some weak  minded enemies along the way, but still is managing just fine.</p>
<p>Today, I&#8217;d like to take the time to reflect a little bit and post some links of my favorite posts, as well as share some statistical information about YALB.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The New Distro is Microsoft</strong></span></p>
<p>These companies are now paying Microsoft. Sure, Microsoft is paying them as well&#8230;but the kicker is this: These companies are paying Microsoft <strong>for Linux.</strong></p>
<p>Oh, but ask the CEO who made the deal if they think Linux infringes patents and they&#8217;ll say &#8220;No way! We don&#8217;t think Linux violates any patents&#8230;we&#8217;re just paying <em>in case</em> Microsoft tries to sue us&#8221;.  Well, let&#8217;s put this into perspective shall we?</p>
<p>If I was a store owner in Anycity, USA and paid the mob to not rob my store blind&#8230;you know, not because they were robbing it&#8230;but just in case. Does that mean that I&#8217;m not part of the money that the mob uses to do their dirty deeds? Does that make the cash I&#8217;m sending back to them clean? Should my conscience be clear?</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m not saying Microsoft is the mob&#8230;I&#8217;m just using that as an example. But they do have a good racket going on here. They get many highly publicized deals where Linux appears to be &#8216;giving in&#8217; to Microsoft. Microsoft looks to be reasonable with these deals as well saying &#8220;hey, we won&#8217;t sue you&#8230;see, we&#8217;re the good guys&#8221;. <em>The bottom line is though that Microsoft has no claims on Linux at all&#8230;if they did, they would have revealed it already.</em> The reason they don&#8217;t reveal anything is because they don&#8217;t have anything to reveal.  It&#8217;s all talk and no walk.</p>
<p>What about the Community?</p>
<p>These companies forgot one thing&#8230;the power is with the consumer. The power is in the community. Ubuntu realizes that&#8230;they&#8217;ve embraced the community and look what&#8217;s happened! The community holds the power to make or break&#8230;the power of spoken word cannot be underestimated. These companies have either forgotten that or don&#8217;t care. My guess is that they don&#8217;t care&#8230;they worry about making money and not about the tread marks they&#8217;re leaving up the back of the community. The community isn&#8217;t part of their formula even though it should be the common denominator.</p>
<p>The open source business model hasn&#8217;t been around for very long and many are still learning about it. The one no-no that these companies have completely ignored is that they have alienated their own PR system; their own word of mouth. In the end, they didn&#8217;t look at what it could cost them to do this deal or they didn&#8217;t care. One thing is certain by looking at many examples in the last 20 years&#8230;the community doesn&#8217;t forget.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>MS Now Makes Money from Linux</strong></span></p>
<p>Microsoft has carved a niche way for itself to make money off of Linux. Are you one of those that are paying Microsoft to use Linux? Are you helping them establish an umbrella Linux distribution made up of all the Linux distros signing up to be a part of their &#8216;protection&#8217;? If so, congratulations on buying your new Microsoft Linux. Have fun over there with Novell, Xandros, LG, and whoever else believes the vaporous and non existing threats from a callow company trying to keep itself meaningful. For myself, my family, my friends, and my distribution&#8230;we shall never pay any company that brokers this patent protection deal with Microsoft&#8230;you can take that to the bank.</p>
<p>UPDATE 06-14-2007</p>
<p>Looks like I was right!  <a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6190846.html" target="_blank">Linspire has also signed</a> a patent racket er&#8230;protection agreement with Microsoft. Up next, the other two big hitters in Linux&#8230;Mandriva and Ubuntu. 1 down, three to go Microsoft.</p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/yalb-a-look-back-after-three-years/" rel="bookmark">YALB &#8211; A Look Back after Three Years</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on May 20, 2007.</p>
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		<title>Penguin Pete&#8217;s Blog, your source for FUD about YALB</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If any of you read Penguin Pete&#8217;s last two blog entries [1] [2]&#8230;you&#8217;ll find two of the most FUD filled posts about YALB on the web. He&#8217;s on the warpath&#8230;for no reason at all and has begun a smear campaign against me here. I haven&#8217;t done anything to attack him personally&#8230;yet that&#8217;s exactly what he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If any of you read Penguin Pete&#8217;s last two blog entries [<a href="http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?p=289&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1" target="_blank">1</a>] [<a href="http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?p=290&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1" target="_blank">2</a>]&#8230;you&#8217;ll find two of the most FUD filled posts about YALB on the web.  He&#8217;s on the warpath&#8230;for no reason at all and has begun a smear campaign against me here.  I haven&#8217;t done anything to attack him personally&#8230;yet that&#8217;s exactly what he&#8217;s done with his latest blog entries.  Pete claims I&#8217;m a partner with the tux500.com project and that helios from Blog of helios and I are perpetuating this as a scam<br />
across the web.  Let&#8217;s get some facts on this topic immediately:</p>
<ol>
<li>I am not part of this project</li>
<li>I do not collect money or have access to collected money on this project</li>
<li>I will not be part of this project as my plate is full</li>
<li>I&#8217;ve posted <a href="http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/198-Indy-500-and-Linux-Not-Newsworthy.html" target="_blank">a single blog entry</a> about said project that was syndicated at various places around the web&#8230;this is normal&#8230;there are many sites that mirror YALB such as <a href="http://swik.net/Linux/YALB" target="_blank">Swik</a> and the <a href="http://blogs.linux.org.bd/" target="_blank">Linux Blog Aggregator</a>.</li>
<li>I submitted this single blog entry on Lxer.com who published it</li>
<li>Tuxmachines.org also published this same post</li>
<li>The project <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-04-11-020-26-OS-CY-0003" target="_blank">is being tracked</a> monetarily by Linux Today&#8217;s editor, Brian Proffitt, and Lxer.com&#8217;s editor-in-chief, Don Parris. (why hasn&#8217;t Pete went to them on this? Are they part of the scam too?)</li>
<li>Ken aka helios is my personal friend and I posted my previous entry as support of his project like any good friend would do.</li>
<li>If I found out the project was a SCAM, I&#8217;d shut it down.  I host lobby4linux.com and could snipe it out in one fell swoop.  If anyone has concrete evidence that it is a scam other than pure speculation, please email me devnet at mypclinuxos.com</li>
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<p>So Pete is trying to draw major correlation between me and this project so that he can lump me in as part of his theory about it.  I wouldn&#8217;t normally care, but it seems that he can&#8217;t stand up to the criticism he&#8217;s getting as he&#8217;s disabled comments.  The interesting thing is he&#8217;s referring to it as comment SPAM when he has captcha enabled&#8230;which means he was getting a ton of comments he didn&#8217;t like and shut them down.  He could also turn on moderation (I have automoderation after a specific time here) so that he could catch the offending spammers and publish everything else.  I do that here as well.</p>
<p>See, when I blog, I open myself up to positive perspectives like those from avid readers.  But I also open myself up to negative perspectives like those from Mr. Pete.  That&#8217;s fine..he&#8217;s welcome to post anytime on this website&#8217;s comment system.  He&#8217;s welcome to trash any topic of discussion I post about.  I&#8217;ll never disable comments on any article because I do not have to censor anything anyone says to fit my message or make me appear to be right.  If someone has a problem with a post&#8230;by me posting it publically, I have opened myself up to what they have to say.  People are free to respond as they see fit to whatever topic of discussion I post about.  It seems that by shutting down comments to his latest posts, Pete proves that he does not have these standards for freedom that I do.</p>
<p>So bookmark it folks&#8230;those two entries in Penguin Pete&#8217;s blogs can say whatever they want about the Tux500 project&#8230;that&#8217;s his right.  But trying to lump me in with it is an outright lie.  It&#8217;s untrue libel and FUD.  Those two posts are your helping of FUD for the week.  Hopefully, you see past it.  Comments are open on this post and I&#8217;ll answer whatever questions readers have.</p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/penguin-petes-blog-your-source-for-fud-about-yalb/" rel="bookmark">Penguin Pete&#8217;s Blog, your source for FUD about YALB</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on April 17, 2007.</p>
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		<title>Indy 500 and Linux Not Newsworthy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a HUGE piece of news out there for Linux as an operating system&#8230;and I have only seen it published on Lxer.com, Linuxtoday.com and Digg.com. LINUX IS GOING TO THE INDIANAPOLIS 500!! This is HUGE for ALL Linux distributions&#8230;not just one. This is something that can show all those people out there what the Linux [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a HUGE piece of news out there for Linux as an operating system&#8230;and I have only seen it published on <a href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85530/index.html" target="_blank">Lxer.com</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007041102026OSCY" target="_blank">Linuxtoday.com</a> and <a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Is_Going_To_The_Indianapolis_500" target="_blank">Digg.com</a>.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>LINUX IS GOING TO THE INDIANAPOLIS 500!!</strong></span> This is HUGE for ALL Linux distributions&#8230;not just one.  This is something that can show all those people out there what the Linux community is all about&#8230;collaboration, community, camaraderie, and drive&#8230;.drive that can&#8217;t be found in commercial ventures.  But where, oh where, is the community reporting this news?  The interesting thing is, they aren&#8217;t&#8230;and It&#8217;s very odd as to why they aren&#8217;t reporting this and rallying around it.</p>
<p>Perhaps they&#8217;ve just missed it&#8230;and in that case I hope they pick up on it soon.  Perhaps they don&#8217;t know much about it?  In that case they need to head over to Tux500.com and read all about it.  Don&#8217;t know what the Indy 500 is about?  Once again, <a href="http://tux500.com/geeklog/article.php?story=20070412102529995" target="_blank">Tux500.com explains it for you</a>.</p>
<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know what this is about and who haven&#8217;t clicked on those Tuxme500.com links above&#8230;allow me to explain a bit.  I encourage you to head over to that website after reading through this post.</p>
<p>My friend helios who authors &#8220;<a href="http://blog.lobby4linux.com/" target="_blank">Blog of helios</a>&#8221; and is admin over at <a href="http://lobby4linux.com" target="_blank">lobby4linux.com</a> has unveiled a huge project of getting Linux to <a href="http://www.tux500.com/goal.php" target="_blank">sponsor an Indianapolis 500 racecar</a> in this years Indy 500.  Of course, Ken isn&#8217;t working alone&#8230;the website tux500.com has been launched to track donations and become a center of operations for the initiative.  The goal is $350,000 for full sponsorship of the Indy Car.</p>
<p><em>Crazy?  Maybe.  Innovative? Yep.  Attainable?  With help, it could be.  Without Linux news websites and enthusiasts getting the word out though it will fall flat on its face.</em></p>
<p>I mention this because this isn&#8217;t a local thing&#8230;it&#8217;s not just being displayed in a few places that post Linux news&#8230;this is being displayed on a larger scale.  It&#8217;s also got an <a href="http://www.tux500.com/team.php" target="_blank">entire marketing team</a> behind it.  This is a first for Linux&#8230;generic Linux.  This isn&#8217;t about a distribution.  This isn&#8217;t about a flavor you like to run on X laptop or Y Desktop.  This is about LINUX. odorless (hopefully), colorless, neutral Linux.  All communities should see the benefit of this.</p>
<p>As I mentioned, this isn&#8217;t local.  Speedtv (yes&#8230;the US cable channel) has picked up on this marketing drive and has <a href="http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/indycar/36640/" target="_blank">published an article on their website</a>.  The <a href="http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2007/04/12/043577.html" target="_blank">Auto Channel has also picked up on it</a>.  Motorsport.com <a href="http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=248407&amp;FS=IRL" target="_blank">has jumped into the fray</a>.  UPDATE: <a href="http://indy500.com/news/story.php?story_id=8602" target="_blank">Indy500.com has now published an article</a> about Linux and it&#8217;s sponsorship as well.  As of the publishing of this article though&#8230;I&#8217;ve only seen this huge news hit 2 major Linux website.  This is exposure that Linux hasn&#8217;t ever had.  To be associated one of the largest <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indy_500" target="_blank">Sporting events</a> in the world (from Wikipedia &#8220;having the largest attendance and one of the largest radio and television audiences of any single-day sporting event worldwide).</p>
<p><strong>Worldwide. </strong>Largest audiences and attendance.  Is anyone listening to what this could mean for Linux?  Is this microphone on?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m flabbergasted as to why more Linux news sites haven&#8217;t picked this up.  I&#8217;m floored as to why no one is lobbying Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell, IBM, Mandriva, Xandros, Linspire, and other Linux companies to donate what they can.    Those companies could secure a logo for 25k on the side of the car.  They could donate 50k and put 25k toward this initiative AND get their logo spread on the car.  What will they do?  Do they believe in Linux as much as the community they are a part of does?  This is huge&#8230;it can&#8217;t get any bigger and it seems we&#8217;re sitting on our hands here.</p>
<p>The goal is $350,000&#8230;which is a large sum of money.  However, from the <a href="http://www.tux500.com/faq.php" target="_blank">Tux500.com&#8217;s FAQ</a> page, $25,000 can garner a Linux sponsorship&#8230;which is also good exposure.  So at the very least, we can get Linux into the limelight as a sponsor.</p>
<p>Now I know some of you may be saying &#8220;How do I know that my donation is getting spent on this and not to grab someone a Ferrari?&#8221; and you&#8217;d be right in asking that question.  I&#8217;d like to put this to rest right now.  The paypal account used to house donations has third party access from two well respected Linux journalists/editors&#8230;Don Parris of Lxer.com and Brian Proffitt of Linuxtoday.com.  They will be <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-04-11-020-26-OS-CY-0003" target="_blank">operating as auditors for the fundraising of this endeavor</a> and will see all funds in and out of the account.  Mr. Proffitt has also &#8220;agreed to verify any public statements made about the current fund amount when asked&#8221;.</p>
<p>Lobby4Linux.com also announced that donations were being tracked by distribution.  This means that when you donate, you input your favorite distro that you&#8217;re donating on behalf of.  The demographics of these donations will be released after fundraising is over.  So, for those of you who want go get some exposure for your distribution&#8230;there is a way for you to do so.</p>
<p>Not only that, but graphics designers have a chance to design the logo that is going onto the car&#8230;this could be huge for whoever that may be.  It could launch a career of a little known designer.  So if you&#8217;ve got elite graphics skills, get to designing!  The deadline is April 30, 2007.</p>
<p>To all of the Linux news websites out there&#8230;I challenge you to report Linux news and let the community know about it.  To all bloggers out there, this is a chance to help push Linux into areas it&#8217;s never been and onto TV sets of 5.5 million Americans and even more people worldwide.  Help Bob Moore and Ken aka helios, the two catalysts and organizers of this huge push for Linux, attain that goal and get Linux onto that car!  It can be done&#8230;but it needs your help to do so.</p>
<p>Reference Websites:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://blog.lobby4linux.com" target="_blank">http://blog.lobby4linux.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lobby4linux.com" target="_blank">http://lobby4linux.com</a></li>
<li>http://tux500.com</li>
<li><a href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85530/index.html" target="_blank">http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85530/index.html</a></li>
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<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/indy-500-and-linux-not-newsworthy/" rel="bookmark">Indy 500 and Linux Not Newsworthy?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on April 13, 2007.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="/uploads/CinemaDisplaypaint.Thumbs.png" alt="" width="110" height="110" />As you might have noticed, we have a new look currently.  This theme is a temporary one as I build the next one from scratch.  I&#8217;ve been theme shopping for the last couple of months and noticed that there isn&#8217;t a whole heckuva lot to choose from that a million people aren&#8217;t using already.  So the only way that I can make sure that Yet Another Linux Blog is unique is if I do the theme myself.  Of course, this means that I have to learn a whole new set of .tpl files, new CSS calls, and start sketching things out on a sketchpad that I haven&#8217;t bought yet <img src='http://linux-blog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If anyone has any feedback on the current theme, please let me know&#8230;I can change it pretty easily or hack it to pieces on a whim.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been somewhat busy having launched http://mypclinuxos.com as a PCLinuxOS projects site to assist the PCLinuxOS development team with various projects and to provide the community with a platform on which to develop their own projects.  Therefore, I haven&#8217;t had a ton of time to blog as of late.  I should be back to a normal schedule within the next month or so.  If not, this blog might go dormant for a while until I am able to relenquish my administrative duties at mypclinuxos.com.  I have a review of a server distro I started a few weeks ago, but I haven&#8217;t finished it yet.  Hopefully, I will be able to get that review out in the next week or so.  I won&#8217;t hold my breath, I&#8217;ve got a ton of stuff going on at the projects site that keeps me oh so busy.  Thanks for reading and sticking with me through the lean parts of this blog.  Cheers.</p>
<p>Devnet</p>
<p><a href="http://linux-blog.org/whats-up-with-the-new-look/" rel="bookmark">What&#8217;s Up With the New Look?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://linux-blog.org">Yet Another Linux Blog</a> on May 3, 2006.</p>
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