Planet Fedora UK

I’ve seen this on a few blogs now, so i thought it was about time i had a go. As the title suggests ask me anything and i’ll endevour to answer it.

I’m using this in the Get to know a Fedora Ambassador/user series, perhaps you could try it too?

Obvioulsy i’m keeping the comments moderated to filter out the stupid questions i’m bound to get :p but feel free to ask away!

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Through no fault of their own (or maybe just a liitle) my brother in law got, what we at first thought was a virus on their pc. It’s a little strange as i know they keep their virus definitions up todate, they need to really as it’s their business pc. Off i trot to fix it, what i found blew my stack.

Ok so it wasn’t a virus, at first i thought it was due to the pop ups that showed it was infected with some pretty savage beasties. Funny thing was no body knew what XP ANTIVIRUS PRO was, it’s not something that we’ve installed? Trusty google to the rescue, it was bloody malware. Somehow it was installed on their machine and started everytime you started a web browser or did anything internet related. Took me about an hour of research and cleaning…..major suckage.

I left them happy campers with a clean working machine.

So what did i do next? Well i went home, backed up my laptop and removed the Vista installed that i dual boot fedora with. Surely MS can do something better currently to prevent this? I’m not sure if it’s Windows that is so crap for allowing this, or that the malware/virus writers are just good at integrating their code with it? Is it down to education as well, do we need to better teach people on how to use their pc? Teach them about social engineering yada yada yada. Needless to say i’ve removed vista from my laptop and have it totally dedicated to Fedora.

Now comes the shout “Why didn’t you tell them about Fedora?” Actually i did, but it’s not something they could use. They have too many packages that they need that are windows only, i suppose i could find or code workarounds, but that would take time…..

Bloody Windows, Bloody Malware, Bloody Virus Writers…..

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He is one of the Free Software Foundation’s biggest advocates. This video is dated September 2008, which was to mark the 25th Birthday of the GNU project. A good overview of Linux, Despite the apparent irony of having an Apple Mac sat in front of him (??).

I suggest you follow him on Twitter (where does he find the time to tweet?): @stephenfry

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On the 1st and 2nd of May 2012 there is an unconference being held in Liverpool – OggCamp 10. An excerpt from the site describes what this is:

“More formal conferences have the usual people speaking every time; an unconference is an opportunity to interact with new and interesting people. You are guaranteed to learn something, but we have no idea what! At an unconference there won’t be a published list of speakers before the event. Watch this site though, and we might publish names of people who have said they’re planning on turning up and giving a talk. And that can include you!”

If you’re going, you might want to go a day earlier and attend the “special free cuture gig” – good company, good music, good vibes what more do you want to start the weekend!

Ii’ll be going, not to do a talk, but to revel in the atmosphere of what is going to be an awesome event. If you want to say hello, give me a slap, buy me a beer, then come along…..preferably not to do the slap You can’t really miss me i’m quite tall Hope to see you there!

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