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This blog is to talk about computers. Share my opinions about operating systems, software, processor architectures, and other things.

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- April 07, 2018

Greatest enterprise computer hardware and software
Might produce some more pages later.
Sorry I was a week late on my posting schedule. Sorry for my lack of responsibility.

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Ideas for IT companies

- June 09, 2018

Ideas for Microsoft Include Vulkan in Windows. Clustered file system called MsCFS. Supporting POSIX and FUSE, NFS and SMB, and Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI. POSIX subsystem(s) similar to SFU, so other OS's besides Linux such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and/or OpenIndiana could be installed. Microsoft's own X server and client for Windows Subsystem for Linux, so graphical applications can be run. Sound as well. Free and open source base version of Windows. Still have proprietary commercial versions. Accept contributions to Windows from others. Sell the source code of Windows separately and at an additional price, and allow modifications and just not allow redistribution of the source. Desktop OS based on Google's Fuchsia, to either complement or supplement Windows 10. Linux distribution, perhaps called "Microsoft Enterprise Linux." Based on maybe Red Hat Enterprise Linux, at least for enterprise. Based on Debian/Ubuntu for desktop. Based on Arch for Internet of Things...

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track you

- May 13, 2018

Google tracks you. Google tracks your search queries and sends them to third parties and advertisers. Google is also a third-party tracker on 75% of sites. So Google is not just tracking what you search, but also what websites you visit. Based on that information collected, Google follows you around with ads. Google tracks you even in Incognito Mode. So it is not really "incognito." DuckDuckGo on the other hand doesn't track you - period. It doesn't collect any private information. Not all websites respect the "Do Not Track" signal. DuckDuckGo is not just a search engine, but also a browser extension that blocks trackers. It states the privacy practices of the website you're on unless the privacy practices are unknown. It shows you the privacy grade. You can also make a whitelist of what websites you want to be tracked on. Google tracks you. I don't know about Bing or Yahoo! DuckDuckGo doesn't track you. Take your privacy back at DuckDuckGo Sorr...

Promote against iTunes/Apple Music and for competing products like Spotify, Amazon, and others

- April 28, 2018

I promote against iTunes and Apple Music. Promote for Amazon, Spotify, Google Play, Groove Music, and Pandora. iTunes is not available for Linux. Nor is it available for Windows Phone. GNU/Linux is a great, flexible OS. Linux is better than Windows and Mac at many things. The more popular Apple Music becomes, the fewer people move to Linux. Apple doesn't play nice on platforms other than MacOS, TVOS, and iOS. Apple Music also doesn't have a web player. Apple tries to push us to the Apple community. iTunes also uses M4P, making it not easy to transfer your iTunes music to other music players. Get a premium subscription with iTunes Match, so you can convert M4P to MP3 and AAC. Edit: Apple removed the DRM in 2009. But music downloaded before 2009 will still have DRM. Promote also for music players that support non-MPEG, non-restricted formats. Too bad Style JukeBox was discontinued. I would like it to be recontinued, that is, have development restored. Also, promote for Clementine...