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It was dark, raining cats and dogs. It was the time. It was now or never… He has no option. He looked back and stared, easy, at Redmon. He couldn’t stifle a tear, it was so hard after so many years… But he had already taken the decision. He can’t feel anything but sorry for his people. As a matter of fact, he was sure they were going to find another one, better than him, stronger, faster, more reliable. Nevertheless, even though he knew that, it still hurt. He didn’t want to leave… But he had to, he was no longer doing any good there. He had to leave, and the sooner, the better. He crossed the street and stopped by at the bar where he had always met with his friends, MAC and so on. He sighed, and went ahead. He started remembering while walking…

Once, he was the only option.
Once, all the people wanted him.
Once, he was, by far, the best.
Once…

A car tooted the horn and almost hit Windows Vista. He cursed all the insane drivers, but it didn’t matter. It wasn’t about a car, a driver… He was tired, he couldn’t stand this any more. It was being too much for him. At the beginning, nobody could have imagined it was going to go so far, nobody could have imagined that GNU was going to be a threat to Windows, much less in Vista. But this is technology and what’s good today, is probably bad tomorrow. He arrived at his destination. He started formatting himself (he couldn’t be discovered. It was the first and the most important rule: his code must remain secret, always. No exceptions). When he had almost being converted to NULL positions, he managed to finish with his pain, finally. Nobody will never be able to programme him again, he didn’t worth it. Free software had win the battle and now, another era was coming and there was no place for him.

Goodbye, and good luck, Microsoft

…SaMy*^46

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From the desk of Samy,

At the moment of choosing Windows or Linux everyone will have his own preferences … But this spot, released in 2003 by IBM, it’s awesome. I liked it and I wanted to share it with you. Judge yourself.

…SaMy*^38

I guess Richard Stallman would say… GNU/Linux

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From the desk of Samy,

First of all, we should know what SSH is:

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two computers. Encryption provides confidentiality and integrity of data over an insecure network, such as the Internet. SSH uses public-key cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and allow the remote computer to authenticate the user, if necessary.

This means that you may need to access from wherever to either your home-computer or work-computer. Using SSH protocol and Linux on the OS side, it’s easy. Anybody can use this protocol and he will be able to login remotely and execute commands (VNC is a alternative: it uses graphical mode, but data is not encrypted). I wanted to access my home-computer (reasons are besides the point), so I had to install a SSH server on my computer. As it gave me headache due to a silly thing, I’ll show you how you must do that.

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From the desk of samy,

On April/4/2008, Richard Stallman came to UAB to give a conference about GNU. You can view the WHOLE conference in Spanish at the end of this post (and some pictures as well). I strongly recommend you to view the video as it’s quite interesting.

A brief introduction to who Richard Stallman is:

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms”, is an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

Let’s come back to the conference.

RMS came to UAB to introduce and clarify for us what free software really means, and why we should use it. First of all, I would like to advise you that RMS is a showman. But never mind, don’t lose the thread. Some teachers introduce RMS… While he felt asleep on the table.

The first reflexion was:

- Does this program respect my freedom?

Starting from this question, we should know what a program which respects our freedom means. If it does so, it is a free software (from now on free software is going to be FS). Otherwise, it is a privative software (from now on privative software is going to be PS). So, FS is the one which respects our freedom according to the notes below:
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