Josef “Jeff” Sipek

You might have already seen this image, but in case you haven’t…

Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even had setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center.

During a break, we decided to make some fun of Microsoft and dragged Linus over there. When we arrived there, Linus was sold immediately on the product as you can see in the picture. At least that’s what the sales guy thought. He obviously had no idea who he was dealing with. But in the end Linus surprisingly did not buy a copy. Wise man!

Few weeks ago, a new Stargate show started airing: Stargate Universe.

So far, I’m undecided about it. Even though there were 4 episodes so far, nothing really happened. The plot so far: a bunch of people get stuck on a ship in the middle of nowhere with no hope of ever getting home. They didn’t encounter any aliens, visited only a single planet, and spend a whole lot of time exploring & saving the ship they’re on.

I hope it’ll get better soon.

I commented a month ago about some statistics that OkCupid has done. And they have done it again!

This time, they looked at how your race affects whether people write you back.

Few days ago, a new company was created: TurboHercules.

As the name implies, they package up Hercules (an IBM mainframe emulator), and provide support for it. They are targetting the platform as a disaster recovery solution.

It shouldn’t directly affect the open source project in a negative way (just like Red Hat cannot prevent people from continuing their work on the Linux Kernel). At the same time, it’ll change the way people look at Hercules.