2007 Lunar Eclipse on VLC! :D

Who needs Windows Media Player 11 to view the web stream of the lunar eclipse this year on Discovery Channel Asia website? All you need is VLC!

Windows? Few Flaws?! What a Sick Joke!

I think it’s time to break my blog vacation And what better way than some FUD assault Seriously, Window$ has fewer flaws, what an idiotic statement! How can you trust an operating system when it’s source code is shrouded in secrecy. The impression I get from this is that they are hiding things from the sorry average Window$ user. Example, one can do a web search on undocumented Windows low-level programming functions which may be used to bring havoc to a Window$ system by a crafty cracker (some say that the WMP vulnerability was really an undocumented Window$ function).Also, frequency of patches does not really correlate to anything, really. So what if in the open source world, patches are done quite frequently (and I might add, pretty fast too, some in a matter of hours). It’s how fast the patches are given to the end-user that really counts. Can you say the same to Window$? Nope, it’s just every next month most of the time. Which brings me back to my first point. What’s the use of having a few patches if your source code is a public unknown. I bet the Window$ is plagued with bugs, that’s for sure. Couple that with Microsoft’s problem hiding policy, you got a recipe for disaster.

Seriously, Micro$oft should stop wasting their money picking on Open Source and try to focus that energy and resource on making better software. I think they need a drastic change of software development model. And that’s for real.