The power of the Source: Dark Side

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The picture of the Dark Side of the Source

The main and more powerful OS until now from the Dark Side of the Source (Windows XP) comes with a picture that has become pretty famous for being its default wallpaper. It is a picture called "Bliss" taken by Charles O'Rear at the Napa Valley, east of Sonoma Valley, county of Napa (Californa, United States). Charles O'Rear is a photographer from USA, he has worked for the National Geographic for more than 25 years. In year 2000, Microsoft bought this picture, paying 200 million dollars for it.

But things are usually quite different in those Napa Valley Hills, actually that wavy green hill is covered with a bunch of vines. Between 1990 and 1995 the vines from Napa Valley got infected by a plague called Phylloxera, which forced people to remove a 30% of the vines growing instead the nice green grass showed in the famous picture.
O'Rear took that picture while he was driving down the 12/121 road just stopping by on one of the sides of it. So, let's see how it looks right now:

"Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be.
As is your faith in the dark side of the Force."
Master Yoda

Saturday, March 21, 2009

IE8? Nice job Microsoft!

Here they come again, with their right new Internet Explorer 8. But just a few days after the great release Nils, a German Jedi hacker of the open source, has hacked the ultimate navigation tool wining the 5000$ and the laptop offered at the 10th annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.

He managed to break into Microsoft's safest browser yet using a yet-unknown vulnerability a few hours after IE8 was launched as the browser was running on a Windows 7 Beta platform.

By the the contest policies, details of the vulnerabilities are kept confidential until the vendor releases a patch. They say they will work closely with the vendors to solve the problems.

Up to now, Microsoft has released a statement saying that they are investigating reports of possible vulnerabilities and actions will be taken if confirmed.

"Oh, great warrior, hmm? Wars not make one great."
Master Yoda

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Apple

Today I am going to talk about how the dark side of the source decided one of the most famous and most appreciated symbols, THE apple.

Apple's first logo lasted from 1971 to 1976. It was designed by Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, and it shows Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree:

It didn't last much time, mainly because it was replaced the colored Apple designed by Rob Janoff in 1976. It's believed that this apple is a tribute mixing Isaac Newton's discoveries of gravity and the separation of light by prisms:

Another known explanation for the bitten apple exits, and it refers to the mathematician Alan Turing, who was founded dead apparently because of eating a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten beside his bed. Most believe this was a suicide. His mother, however, strenuously argued that the ingestion was accidental due to his careless storage of laboratory chemicals. The rainbow colors are attributed to Turing's homosexuality.

In 1998, with the iMac the monochromatic logo was released, conferred to the insistence of recently returned Steve Jobs. Right now no color is prescribed throughout Apple's software and hardware line.

"Already know you that which you need."
Master Yoda

Friday, February 20, 2009

Windows vSHITa

I was using this shity O.S from the dark side of the source, in a friend´s computer and suddenly Internet stopped working, and when I looked at the task bar... waaaaaaah!, there was the old windows bar!! It´s hidden right under the new one!! What a piece of crap!!