Linux 2010

   This site was produced with Debian GNU/Linux 6 "Squeeze" + "SID"
       And Sidux 64 bit Linux distribution.
       Both Linux distributions utilize network installation technologies.
       Individual Member of the Linux Foundation

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    The picture above is a snapshot of a computer desktop. It is one of mine that was taken a few days ago.
It is a distribution of Linux based on the main family group called Debian Linux. In this case the distribution is 64 bit Sidux.
It is custom made basically from a base distribution build from a live CD and then customized into whatever type of computer the builder desires using network (internet) packages made for Linux systems based on Debian GNU/Linux. The packages (applications and Programs) of which greater than 25,000 are available using a compiling/integrator tool called apt-get make it work together as a single system. Linux is not prone to viruses. It is what most of the most powerful computers in the world use.
Linux runs on just about all of the worlds most sophisticated networks and is the backbone of computing virtual future. It is not a question of if, it is one of integration speed.

    If that seems like science fiction, then this page may be of interest to you. If that sounds like a computing system you would like to know more about, then this page may answer some questions. Linux is what is modern... Linux is what the future is... just know that you have a choice to move into that powerful realm now!

OK, something of a disclaimer here... I am not going to sell you something tangible here. This is a non commercial page just for the fun of it. Just because integrity comes from the inside, I wanted to make that clear... JENA Technologies have no products with any software. This page is here because as someone who has built over two thousand computers in the past... I have some practical experience and some of that experience can be seen as a pointer that has some merit. Also, I share a patent in a type of computing technology.
    My name is Michael Crock and the patent is a fixed combination of hardware and integrated dedicated software for a specific set of tasks, not a software patent by itself... just so that you know that I am not just a user fan boy, without a logical reason to know what I know, I actually have a long past with computers... I have made thousands of custom configured Microsoft Windows based computers including some with XP SP2 (pain zone) but most going back to MS DOS 6.22, NT 3.51, Win 3.11wfw, Win 98 and NT 4 and a testing version of NT 5 (becomes XP)... While I worked as a contract employee at Intel in the late 1990s (MD-6 CV lab Jones Farm, Hillsboro, OR) I was a configuration testing builder (and more) of powerful PC and small servers that would be pushed to the breaking point of the Windows software installed on the test computers, Like crash test dummies, all of the broken bits would be analyzed. The goal was to develop the P-6 Processors Intel made and make them better and help Windows run better with special fixed instructions in the P6 processor to account for known flaws in MS Windows. A relationship in those years existed that some people call Wintel. The truth is Intel makes Microsoft perform better than it otherwise would and Microsoft is dependent on the X86.
At that time AMD and Cyrix X86 CPU's did not enjoy the same performance with MS Windows because they were not fused and flagged as closely... funny they gave a more accurate picture of what the truth was and paid the penalty of smaller market share.

    I was introduced to Linux (red hat 4.3 and 5.2) by the engineers at Intel while I was there, I installed lots of computer operating systems on many different computers... and I learned what was good and not so good about most of them on X86 based systems.
I took my knowledge of Linux and its potential based on the grand model of Unix with me... and I could never look at a MS Windows based computer the same ever again.
Its like learning to cook well. Would a knowledgeable chef want to make baloney sandwiches after 18 months of eating them.

Linux is not just a different Kernel and Operating System platform. It is an ideal of trying to make perfection with superior mathematics in the clear with plain English applied logically and with the best of intentions and goals, by design. Based in a realm of a meritocracy in a capitalist based world with commonwealth ideals held close to the heart of its developers... all over the world. A real community of a Darwinian prove it or be passed up achievers of common cause. Wonderful Humans reaching higher than they can... not giving up... Aways making it better, faster... reducing flaws is a goal. Many eyes, catching all the flaws as seen and making them go away.
Here is a specific example of those dynamics in motion:
    The kernel of Linux is the largest, fastest moving software project in the history of Computers.

And this is a point to note well. Much of Linux is made by hackers (white hat) to be cracker (black Hat, villains) proof... Security is built in by evolutionary design...
Contrary to some popular excuses as to why virus and Linux do not mix, the fact is simple, excellent design combined with very high permutations of wild configurations make it a very healthy, Analog: It is not a mono culture, rich and diversified living in a natural dirty jungle it is just resistant to mass contamination because it is so diversified itself.

Example of focused effort towards Linux security:
     the NSA Security Enhanced Linux SE Linux - see (yes, The Nation Security Agency )
    http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/index.shtml

Example of unfocused security by diversity and a constant moving target that is just tough as nails by design:
    http://www.levenez.com/unix/

Born in the Internet Ocean, Linux thrives and grows in the waters it knows and we call the world wide web. It was meant for it, Thats its comfortable home.

The internet:
A great browser, Firefox 3.5.6 (In Sidux it is called Iceweasel)
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   Firefox / Iceweasel is upgradeable to use many plugins for many types of media formats and yes flash in 64 bit Linux is a reality now.
     note: Iceweasel is enhanced with additional security features and is specific to Debian and specialty distributions like Sidux.
Google Earth below
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One of my favorite Places to be, kibbie near Yosemite.
Combination of a web based application with its execution on the desktop is Google earth (32bit example shown)
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You can "fly to" and zoom in as close as the big eye in the sky will allow.
A very nice view of Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Google Maps/ street view is also very powerful.
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Using Linux is a safe secure way to use the internet, always practice good security policy and the common "user" is as safe as can be. Unbreakable, no, but as good as it gets.

Motion Pictures and Linux:
     I saw Avatar in Imax 3d the other day, Linux ( Uncredited ) made it technically possible.
     2003 - http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/video_linux_hollywood/
     2008 - http://www.linuxmovies.org/index.html
   2010 - http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/332337/how_do_they_do_it_avatar_special_effects/

Implication, Linux is good with graphics...
How about a powerful if somewhat technical desktop application like GIMP:
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Office applications are king of the desktop, for now.
    http://www.openoffice.org/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
    http://www.sun.com/software/openoffice/index.jsp
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I made some reference to 64 bit computing, It is not just 32bit doubled, oh no...
massive difference, great, extreme... it is best simply explained here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit
It is everything a modern desktop can be for speed and power, if it is really a 64bit system.

Once I have everything sorted out... no going back, ever.

Super Computers:
Linux is were High Performance Computing is found.
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Fact is, Linux is for Supercomputers. http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/os
That is why the Motion Picture industry use it.
Linux is the grand scale.

Using Linux on the Desktop is not as common as on a super computer, not yet.
But if you use the internet, you use it a great deal of the time.

Open Source? And the internet?
Apache is Open Source
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/201001/index.html
It is all around you.
Do you see what is fading... are you surprised.
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Something I wrote some years ago as a way to show how powerful an Open Source idea is.

It has nothing to do with computers but the general model is the same.
a collection of people need a tool to communicate, something a little more useful than clubs and stones and a tad bit more polite than swords.
No One entity owns it. Those who use it find it growing and changing the more it is used.
It is also available just for the trouble to learn it. If you are reading this, then you are already there...
It makes thought as we know it possible.
Language... lets try English, almost any will do.. but this one like Linux, comes in many flavors.

What is this Idea... I think that I can safely call it open community design by collaborative effort for a common goal.

English is a pretty good example of what happens with an open source model. (Open source is not a free for all developmentally, it is a meritocracy, this is just to express the idea of growth by common cause.) The English language is a common wealth concept, always was... it just developed over a thousand years of progressive change to be the worlds most communicative and dominant spoken language with no absolute owner... It dominates because it works and changes with the culture that speaks it. Not just the English or American culture but any culture that uses it, anywhere in the world.

Is English owned? No.
Is English developed in a closed and secret environment with proprietary tools? No.
Is English controlled by powers from on high that dictate a license to use it, or is it demanding of fees to use? No.
Is English perfected? It is in perpetual development... by its users.
Do the people who use English self improve the existence of English by constantly improving the manor of its use? Yes.
Why? English is used for communication between people in multiple modes of use, such as verbal, written and it can be transmitted electronically, Optically and by other means.
Can you make money speaking English? Yes.
Do you have to make money to speak English? No.
Is it a secret to know what the words are and what they mean? No.
Is it a secret to develop new words for English? No
Is English breakable... I mean to say, Is it dependable and reliable for its intended purpose? Yes.
Why? It is Open Source in order for it to be usefully developed by those who would like to use it... It is free to use as you wish to use it.
Why? Because it makes universal communication possible.
It is not breakable? ... Not as long as the source code remains open to all to see and keep a community check on it in the light of day, so to speak.
    The analog in Computing terms is Open Source and its largest collective project is this social phenomenon called Linux
Linux is an Idea made manifest into a way of doing something tangible and in the light of day.

What else... Mathematics... 2+2=4 Now I must ask you.

What would you think about a society controlled by a company or government for that matter, that required a secret key... or some dude in black robes and self serving crown of gold on their head telling you to pay them a royalty to think, talk or count your pebbles with...
Did you know that there was a time when some organization of great unjust undeserved power wanted to destroy the printing press, as an idea. why?
Did you know that only a highly educated society with real knowledge of a real world can have any hope of managing a technological democracy. why?
Did you know that some countries in the world do not allow money to be used to influence the politicians running for political office. Why?

We live in a world were electronic communication is communication.
The Internet is the common square of dialog and the collective eye of the people of the earth now.
Is that something only the select, the elite, the rich and powerful should have total domination of.

Or is it really the commonwealth of the world.

Computers, cellphones, even your cars... have something called an operating system in them.
what if all of a sudden they just stopped. lets say that the company that owned the operating system just decided they did not like you anymore.

Maybe you said something they did not like, You know that if they own the system you used to create your idea on and it requires a key to use...
They, not you, own the idea. All other considerations are academic.

What if you used a computer were all of its workings were a secret place using a secret language for the operating system and if it is broken you have no chance of making it work again because only the secret society that made it can allow you a new purchased one because even they do not know how to fix it.
What if that company or group just disappeared. What if that company or group pissed off the ruling government and they made it go away.
What could you say to your communicator/computer, what could you do to make it work again, if the druid priests and there language just disappeared.

Everybody on the planet does not need to know how all of this stuff works... but enough people do need to, in order to keep freedom and ideas alive.

It is all connected... and if you do not like the idea of stones, clubs and swords as a means of communication...
then ideas, language, and the means of expressing them and understanding them need to be kept open to see and understand.

Lots of people and companies make money integrating Linux into the world... Lots of people just want to be in control of their own communications capabilities...
I am just a proponent of were that truth of Linux power, to get the job done well and with fun in the doing... is.

You do have the choice. It does exist. if you are reading this... then there is a way. You are already on the great information highway, you can own your own car.
you can even make it from scratch... if you want to. As long as Open Source and Linux exist, as long as the hardware is available too.
Knowledge is power.

Even a sword can be made out of dirt, if you know how.

Linux is a ring of great power but with no one ring to rule them all... by design.
You are what you do, that is part of the secret of clean thoughts and clear intentions.

More soon..



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