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Date: Sun, 6 November 2006 10:58 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Hurricane Paul of October 2006
This is an interesting story about hurricane Paul. On October 23, 2006, in the morning around seven o'clock my friend Herry Latief from the Netherland sent me an SMS message in my cell phone. He asked me to make some letter design for the cover of his friend's book, also to arrange his photo to look like a painting for his own book. Since it was approaching the big day for the Moslem after a one month fasting of Ramadhan, so several offices and shops were having holidays including the Internet shop My Com that I used to visit. They were closed since October 21 and would open again on October 30. While Herry's request was having the dead line of October 29. It made me have to visit another Internet shop, the Vibra Net nearby Pondok Labu market. Formerly I used to get there too, but in the recent two years I preferred to go to My Com because it is closer to my place. Around eight o'clock I left home to go to Vibra Net. After around three hours, I finished the design and sent it to Herry's email. In the evening at Fox News there was the hurricane news, the tropical storm Paul had turned to be come hurricane Paul. It was like reminding me about my previous relationship with a Metro TV presenter Rahma Sarita in 2001. After writing some letters to her, and I thought she was not interested in me, I made a letter called "the last letter" in the same Internet shop Vibra Net. A few hours later when I tried to contact her, the response was the news of her already getting married. Later on I found out that she was married to a police officer. So the name of tropical storm Paul that turned to become a hurricane on October 23 Jakarta time, or October 22 in the U.S., was like reminding me to that moment of her marriage with a police officer. Thank God the next day hurricane Paul was downgraded to tropical storm again, with no significant danger to the U.S. mainland. Like you could see in the above picture from accuweather, the time when tropical storm Paul turned to become hurricane Paul was on 8 PM October 22 U.S. time, while the time I went to Vibra Net was around 8 AM October 23 Jakarta time.
Date:
Sun, 6 November 2006 11:25 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Microsoft Truce with Novell
Visitors examine Microsoft Corp's new 'Windows
Vista' operating system on laptops at a booth
during the World PC Expo in Tokyo October 20,
2006. Microsoft Corp. is entering into an
agreement with Novell Inc. that will allow
open-source Linux software to work with the
company's Windows software, the Wall Street
Journal reported on Thursday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Nov 02 11:46 AM
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, left, speaks at a a news conference as
Ron Hovsepian, CEO of Novell Inc. listens, Thursday, Nov. 2,
2006, in San Francisco. Microsoft and Novell have reached a
technological truce that promises to smooth the way the still-dominant
Windows operating system and the increasingly popular open-source Linux
system work together.
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 02 4:44 PM
US software giant Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer gestures
during a press conference, May 2006. Longtime US computer
software rivals Microsoft and Novell unveiled an alliance to
make their competing programs interoperable.
AFP/File via Yahoo! News - Nov 02 4:49 PM
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (R) greets Novell President and CEO Ron
Hovsepian before a news event to announce a set of collaboration
agreements for Microsoft's Windows and Novell's Linux interoperability
and support in San Francisco November 2, 2006.
EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES NO ARCHIVES REUTERS/Lou
Dematteis/Microsoft/Handout Reuters via Yahoo! News - Nov 02 4:41 PM
Microsoft Backs Novell's Linux Platform
Thursday November 2, 10:50 pm ET
By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer
Microsoft Embraces Novell's Open-Source
Software Platform, Forming Technological
Truce
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.
has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source
software platform, forming a
technological truce between two longtime
antagonists who want to make it easier
for the still-dominant Windows operating
system and the increasingly popular
Linux system to work together.
The agreement announced Thursday between
the world's largest seller of
patent-protected software and a leader
in the open-source software movement has
potentially important business,
technical and legal implications.
"This builds a very important
intellectual-property bridge between the
open source and proprietary sides of
software," Brad Smith, Microsoft's
general counsel, said shortly before the
companies formally announced their
alliance in San Francisco.
Financial terms of the arrangement
weren't disclosed.
The alliance is primarily aimed at the
growing number of major companies and
government agencies that rely on
elements of Redmond, Wash.-based
Microsoft's Windows and Linux to run
their computers.
"It all comes down to recognizing there
is a mixed environment out there,"
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve
Ballmer said during a Thursday press
conference.
The partnership's impact on consumers
appears to be inconsequential except for
a commitment to improve the interaction
between Microsoft's top-selling suite of
Office software and a free alternative
known as OpenOffice.
Microsoft's stamp of approval, extracted
after six months of negotiations,
represents a coup for Waltham,
Mass-based Novell as it touts the
advantage of its version of Linux over
other varieties made by competitors such
as Red Hat Inc.
After news of the deal leaked, Novell's
shares shot up 92 cents, or 15.7
percent, to close Thursday at $6.79 on
the Nasdaq Stock Market, where
Microsoft's shares dipped 4 cents to
finish at $28.77.
The above story of hurricane Paul becomes more interesting with the
recent news of Microsoft truce with Novell Inc.
After I obtained the news about Rahma's marriage with a police officer,
a few months later I found the name of her husband, Naufal. A
name that sounds a little bit like Novell Inc., the software
producer of Linux, a long time competitor of Microsoft.
And the recent news about Microsoft agreement with Novell Inc. took
place after the above hurricane Paul, as if it was inspired by such
moment.
According to the news, it was followed by "......Novell's
shares shot up 92 cents, or 15.7 percent, to close
Thursday at $6.79 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, where Microsoft's
shares dipped 4 cents to finish at $28.77.......". Now this
is like resembled to "Paris
Going Down for Dow Jones First Time 12,000".
Thank's, A.M. Firmansyah Tel. +62812 183 1538 | |||||||||||||||||||||
