Microsoft, Intel and the OLPC

According to the free dictionary a predator is:

1. An organism that lives by preying on other organisms.

2. One that victimizes, plunders, or destroys, especially for one's own gain.

Corporations are predators, they find a victim, let it play around, get comfortable and when the victim thinks 'everything is ok' and takes a little more space than the predator allows then the predator strikes and destroys the victim, the difference is that the 'animal predator' does in most cases it to feed, the 'corpredator' does for fear that the victim grows strong enough to become a threat.
Enter the OLPC. Mr Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. Enter the fat-cat multinational 'corpredators' microsoft and intel: the OLPC is becoming a threat: it's cheap, it's using AMD chips instead of intel and it's running Sugar, a free operating system devised by geeks for the love of it instead of windows, so they got scared and tried to kill it, read the complete story here

Live CD list

I just found this site, there's a quite long list of Linux distros that run off cd ( there are some that i didn't even know myself... blasphemy!!! )
Here is the link

Ubuntu update

It's been almost 6 months since i installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my desktop, to be honest, it hasn't been an easy road running Ubuntu (had better luck with Open Suse for example) but being a diehard i decided to stick and take my chances (considering the fact that Suse/Novell sold their soul to the biggest software manufacturer)
Was is worth it? Hell yeah!! i've been able to finally run Virtual Box and test other Linuxes without having to install everything (or even insert a cd to run in live mode), bluetooth? no problem, i can access my Nokia phone without a problem, had succesfully run some of my favorite games under Wine (they've gone a long way, keep up the great work guys!!!) and i'm able to manage my entire network from my desktop (all the window-based systems are now my slaves, MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!) this is but just the iceberg's tip, Ubuntu has become an excellent distro and the growing Community offers support and help for just about any problem one can have.
I had just upgraded to latest release 8.04 and it went like a breeze, test drives will be run again soon and the results will be posted... Ubuntu rules!!!

As a personal note, yesterday was finally confirmed that we're becoming a little girl!! My wife is on her 6 month and little Emily is on her way to world domination!! :-)