The HOULDEN REPORT for Saturday February 18,2017
The HOULDEN REPORT
The whole report is wrapping around a 360.
Politics: trump nailed the presidency.
Software wise: Linux has the winning hand over Microsoft's tight gorilla grip of users of windows 10 (a failed version of windows).It has seemed that they tightened the grip on their operating system so that their users cannot remove the operating system from their machines.this tactic is wrong.It is becoming a situation where not only does Microsoft own the operating system,but also takes over the complete device entirely. Literally Owning not just the software and device,but the user as well.Making the user literally become the zombie servant to the master Microsoft.
As a result of this action,Users have indeed looked at other alternatives like the iPad or iPhone from Apple with their iOS systems or Mac OS X.. and then to Linux with well over 300 or so distributions world wide (www.distrowatch.com http://distrowatch.com/ and http://alternativeto.net/software/distrowatch/ ) just to find out more and what they would like for their computer.Granted,My Distribution of taste is linux mint mate but I like the fact that linux is flexable,open sourced,and free to distribute.You can even create your own operating system using linux. I can just see it now "Linux Mint 18.02 Houlden edition" ... Let's entertain this a second. I would incorporate two browsers, Vivaldi and TOR and remove the Firefox browser. I would then implement the HEX CHAT IRC Client,the DISKS client and wireshark for communications and networking.I'd then implement Audacity to record and edit audio files,and Brasero for cd/dvd burning.I would then add in the Cairo dock to go on the desktop.and i would finally top it all off with Ubuntu web apps to make it instantly work with gmail and Facebook with ease. Id also add the" e4defrag / "code to the scripts so it will keep things tidy and this script and code to not only keep files tidy but to also clean out old kernels and excess junk that might be on the drive (Instantly) " sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo sh mintcleaner.sh && sudo e4defrag / && exit" telling linux to upgrade,update,clean,and tidy up,and then leave the terminal.
That's how i like it... simple. (as opposed to what i will be doing with a Clent's Lappy) lets explain.
the client had originally windows 8.1 on their pc. And they were content with it.They did their updates and found Microshaft in their infinite wisdom had installed windows 10 without their consent in which caused their machine to bog down to a crawl.The machine is only two years old,64 bit HP laptop with a touch screen. One can only imagine the hell they went through trying to remove win 10,only for it to come back.
So, they sent it to me to clear the drive of the pesty windows 10. I blasted the HDD entirely and now got a copy of windows 8.1 (with activator) and i get the solid task of putting it all together.Microsoft shut down all of the sites with activators for win 7.8,8.1,and 10. so i had to reach to a "dark room" to find it all hehe. This is why I am stating Blatantly that if you do not want to be (as hackers say ) "PWNED" then DO NOT BUY A WINDOWS MACHINE. The fact that Microsoft says "We Love Linux" is a outright Lie. I found that last year alone there were about 20 thousand copyright infringement cases being litigated between Microsoft and the open-source community (aka Linux).
What ever happened to the days when they say a customer buys a computer,they OWN it and have the right to use their Computer in any fashion that they see fit? instead we have corporate morons like Apple and Microsoft saying that the average user is a idiot and does not know what they want and then they try to push their Ideologies onto the consumer for a ridiculously high price! In all of my years working in computers (1986 on till today) this is just wrong how Microsoft and apple threat the consumer base. I sort of have to wonder what it would be like if instead of folks going to iProducts and Windows,they all decide to go android or linux? I think they would see a change in the tune.BTW it IS happening. More and more folks are going open source then ever before.
Nearly 3% of all desktops are being run by Linux.Nearly all of the internet is run on Linux Apache Servers and Android has the second largest consumer base with Apple being number 1,Android at number 2, and Microsoft being number 3.This is getting very interesting. What is even more Interesting is all 3 are derived from the Unix operating system from the 70s.haha shocker. I say cut the crap and go unix.. or linux... :D anyhow Enough of my rants... till next time... peace out... Mike
The whole report is wrapping around a 360.
Politics: trump nailed the presidency.
Software wise: Linux has the winning hand over Microsoft's tight gorilla grip of users of windows 10 (a failed version of windows).It has seemed that they tightened the grip on their operating system so that their users cannot remove the operating system from their machines.this tactic is wrong.It is becoming a situation where not only does Microsoft own the operating system,but also takes over the complete device entirely. Literally Owning not just the software and device,but the user as well.Making the user literally become the zombie servant to the master Microsoft.
As a result of this action,Users have indeed looked at other alternatives like the iPad or iPhone from Apple with their iOS systems or Mac OS X.. and then to Linux with well over 300 or so distributions world wide (www.distrowatch.com http://distrowatch.com/ and http://alternativeto.net/software/distrowatch/ ) just to find out more and what they would like for their computer.Granted,My Distribution of taste is linux mint mate but I like the fact that linux is flexable,open sourced,and free to distribute.You can even create your own operating system using linux. I can just see it now "Linux Mint 18.02 Houlden edition" ... Let's entertain this a second. I would incorporate two browsers, Vivaldi and TOR and remove the Firefox browser. I would then implement the HEX CHAT IRC Client,the DISKS client and wireshark for communications and networking.I'd then implement Audacity to record and edit audio files,and Brasero for cd/dvd burning.I would then add in the Cairo dock to go on the desktop.and i would finally top it all off with Ubuntu web apps to make it instantly work with gmail and Facebook with ease. Id also add the" e4defrag / "code to the scripts so it will keep things tidy and this script and code to not only keep files tidy but to also clean out old kernels and excess junk that might be on the drive (Instantly) " sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo sh mintcleaner.sh && sudo e4defrag / && exit" telling linux to upgrade,update,clean,and tidy up,and then leave the terminal.
That's how i like it... simple. (as opposed to what i will be doing with a Clent's Lappy) lets explain.
the client had originally windows 8.1 on their pc. And they were content with it.They did their updates and found Microshaft in their infinite wisdom had installed windows 10 without their consent in which caused their machine to bog down to a crawl.The machine is only two years old,64 bit HP laptop with a touch screen. One can only imagine the hell they went through trying to remove win 10,only for it to come back.
So, they sent it to me to clear the drive of the pesty windows 10. I blasted the HDD entirely and now got a copy of windows 8.1 (with activator) and i get the solid task of putting it all together.Microsoft shut down all of the sites with activators for win 7.8,8.1,and 10. so i had to reach to a "dark room" to find it all hehe. This is why I am stating Blatantly that if you do not want to be (as hackers say ) "PWNED" then DO NOT BUY A WINDOWS MACHINE. The fact that Microsoft says "We Love Linux" is a outright Lie. I found that last year alone there were about 20 thousand copyright infringement cases being litigated between Microsoft and the open-source community (aka Linux).
What ever happened to the days when they say a customer buys a computer,they OWN it and have the right to use their Computer in any fashion that they see fit? instead we have corporate morons like Apple and Microsoft saying that the average user is a idiot and does not know what they want and then they try to push their Ideologies onto the consumer for a ridiculously high price! In all of my years working in computers (1986 on till today) this is just wrong how Microsoft and apple threat the consumer base. I sort of have to wonder what it would be like if instead of folks going to iProducts and Windows,they all decide to go android or linux? I think they would see a change in the tune.BTW it IS happening. More and more folks are going open source then ever before.
Nearly 3% of all desktops are being run by Linux.Nearly all of the internet is run on Linux Apache Servers and Android has the second largest consumer base with Apple being number 1,Android at number 2, and Microsoft being number 3.This is getting very interesting. What is even more Interesting is all 3 are derived from the Unix operating system from the 70s.haha shocker. I say cut the crap and go unix.. or linux... :D anyhow Enough of my rants... till next time... peace out... Mike
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