{"id":392,"date":"2007-08-15T15:25:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=392"},"modified":"2007-08-15T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:25:41","slug":"debian-defeat-and-denial-of-service-pt-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Debian, Defeat, and Denial of Service, Pt. I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Debian%2C%20Defeat%2C%20and%20Denial%20of%20Service%2C%20Pt.%20I\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, this has been one heck of a week. I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxworldexpo.com\/live\/12\/\">LinuxWorld<\/a>, an annual software convention held in San Fransisco, for the third time in four years, and got tons of schwag! I got to rejoice over a long anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=20070810165237718\">court ruling<\/a> that more than likely will destroy a company that tried to sue Linux out of existence. The collaborative efforts of a couple of bloggers, fighting against blind <strong>unquestioning<\/strong> consensus, managed to turn the Rabid Doom and Gloom Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmists <a href=\"http:\/\/209.218.29.87\/?p=1885#more-1885\">on their ears<\/a> (I helped, a little iency -wiency bit). I managed to complete two spa repairs that were vexing me for the last three weeks. And to top it all off,  the Subaru WRX stereo I bought on eBay was delivered a lot sooner than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>First things first. I want to talk a little bit about one of my favorite hobbies &#8211; messing around with Linux. If you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.org\/\">Linux<\/a> based operating systems, you probably will in the next few years. It&#8217;s household use, though minuscule when compared to that of Windows XP, continues to increase rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>What is Linux? I&#8217;ll try to explain as best I can without getting too technical, and the best way to introduce it is to compare and contrast it to something most computer users are familiar with, Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/windowsxp\/default.mspx\">XP<\/a> operating system and their newest offering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/windowsvista\/default.mspx\">Vista<\/a>, or to Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/leopard\/\">OS-X<\/a> (X=10). XP, Vista, OS-X and Linux all do the same basic thing; they provide the instructions to the computer so that we can use the machines to do stuff like send e-mail, surf the web, store pictures and music, and type a post about Linux!<\/p>\n<p>Linux is not actually an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_system\">operating system<\/a> itself, or OS as it is called; it&#8217;s a specific bundle of computer code and instructions that various OS&#8217;s are built upon.  Think of it as the concrete and steel that is used to create a bridge or a building. Any operating system, like buildings, can be made from different types of materials, but still they functions as you would expect a building to. Apple, Microsoft, and Linux based OS&#8217;s all have different code within them, but they do the same things and provide the same functions that make your computer so darned useful.<\/p>\n<p>About now you may be thinking &#8220;OK, these OS&#8217;s all do the same thing. Why make such a big deal about this Linux stuff, and why not just use Windows like everyone else&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a simple answer to your question &#8211; I&#8217;m a non-conforming non-conformist &#8211; by my nature, for good and bad, I generally avoid doing things like everyone else, and this includes computing!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the better answer &#8211; I love to tinker with things. I was the kid who would grab a chair to stand on, open the clothes washing machine during a cycle, and try to figure out how it worked. When dad would change the tubes in the old TV, I was right there asking &#8220;What does this do?&#8221; or &#8220;How does that work?&#8221;. As an adult, I am still the same. I buy cars that don&#8217;t work and restore them back to life (have never made a car payment in my life &#8211; see, non-conformist), and I build and restore computers. This is where Linux proves to be superior to the products sold by Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft and Apple only sell one OS current, or up-to-date, version of their OS at a time. Right now the new offering from Microsoft is called Vista. Compared to XP, it is state of the art. Apple computers are currently using OS-X, which is quite a slick and beautiful OS to behold. Each product, for me, has a downside &#8211; product cost and contractual limitations. XP works very well, but I can only legally install it on one computer at a time. Same with the newer Vista. This is a problem for me because  I usually have five or six  working computers in the house at any given time (yes I&#8217;m a total geek), and to use XP or Vista , I would have to buy a separate system disk for each computer. How about Apple&#8217;s OS-X? I&#8217;d love to use that, but I can&#8217;t, as it is designed to operate exclusively on the more expensive Apple machines and doesn&#8217;t run on normal PC computers. I plan to get an Apple one of these days (like I said before, I&#8217;m a geek) but now is not the time for that expense. I can download Linux <a href=\"http:\/\/distrowatch.com\/\">from the web<\/a>, install it on any number of computers that I want, and I can do this&#8230; for free&#8230; LEGALLY!!!<\/p>\n<p>There are more reasons to use Linux, but I&#8217;ve run out of blogging time and have to go to work now. Stay tuned for &#8220;Debian, Defeat, and Denial of Service&#8221;, Pt II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Debian%2C%20Defeat%2C%20and%20Denial%20of%20Service%2C%20Pt.%20I\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, this has been one heck of a week. I went to LinuxWorld, an annual software convention held in San Fransisco, for the third time in four years, and got tons of schwag! I got to rejoice over a long anticipated court ruling that more than likely will destroy a company that tried to sue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}