X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/e6acf1f1cb255691dfd48f4f0d3bd34d623cd103..519c5faa3d8af7ab969cfc69e551f60cfeb3065b:/blog/index.rss?ds=inline diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index ed2c3ce2a7..636565bb77 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,44 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + ColonHelp produser sue WordPress to silence critic + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ColonHelp_produser_sue_WordPress_to_silence_critic.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ColonHelp_produser_sue_WordPress_to_silence_critic.html + Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:50:00 +0200 + <p>Thanks to a blog post by +<a href="http://ramblingfoo.blogspot.no/2012/10/a-shitstorm-is-comming.html">Eddy +Petrișor</a>, I became aware of yet another "alternative medicine" +company using legal intimidation tactics to scare off critics. +According to the originating blog post about the detox "cure" +<a href="http://insulaindoielii.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/colon-help-sues-wordpress/">ColonHelp +and its producers Zenyth Pharmaceuticals actions</a>, the producer +sues Wordpress to get rid of the critical information. To check if +the story was for real, I contacted Automattic, the company behind +wordpress.com, and they reply was "We can confirm that Zenyth is +seeking a court order against WordPress / Automattic. However, we +don't believe the Terms of Service have been violated in this +matter".</p> + +<p>The story seem to be simply that a blogger checked the scientific +foundation for a popular health product in Rumania, ColonHelp, and +reported that there was no reason at all to believe it improved the +health of its users. This caused the company behind the product, +Zenyth Pharmaceuticals, to use legal intimidation to try to silence +the critic, instead of presenting its views and scientific foundation +to argue its side.</p> + +<p>This is the usual story, and the Zenyth Pharmaceuticals company +deserve everyone to know how it failed to act properly. Lets hope the +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect">Streisand +effect</a> can make it rethink its strategy.</p> + +<p>What is the harm, you might think. I suggest you take a look at +<a href="http://www.whatstheharm.net/detoxification.html">a list of +victims of detoxification</a>.</p> + + + Kontant betaling, takk! http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kontant_betaling__takk_.html @@ -1320,105 +1358,5 @@ politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p> - - Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html - Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200 - <p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the -<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> -community, I finally found time to wrap up another. This time it is -Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of -this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time -administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was -conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p> - -<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> - -<p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher -in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light" -university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning -Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with -IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I -got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry -labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in -the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self -training is anyway very important</p> - -<p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the -<a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very -special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for -all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are -recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation. - -<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu -project?</strong></p> - -<p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it -already several years ago. But since the system was still not -Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't -use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the -next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security -hole.</p> - -<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian -Edu?</strong></p> - -<p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is -very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with -the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well -engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC -and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I -can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard -platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the -head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much -hassle.</p> - -<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian -Edu?</strong></p> - -<p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less -flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but -there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the -need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some -devices that have specific software packages for another specific -distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only -Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient -and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p> - -<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> - -<p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with -mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad -combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that -<a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a> -has the same...</p> - -<p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good -only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if -something breaks. Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R -statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p> - -<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to -get schools to use free software?</strong></p> - -<P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is -cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability, -just because they are normally not open to change.</p> - -<p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able -to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers -don't.</p> - -<p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own -laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use; -we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20 -machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been -reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official -repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux. -Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p> - - -