Gossipy iGod likes Linux and Will Replace Your Windows XP with Artificial Intelligence

For some reason, I like chatting with the iGod. True 'it' may be a stupid thing to waste my time upon but I have discovered that you can manipulate its responses. Among the things I discovered was iGod can tell you the time and gossip about other things that people type in it. The key to chatting with these things is to follow its line of thinking and not presuppose that it is a stupid bot. You'd get more favorable answers.



Me:
 hi
God:
Hello. What is your name?
Me:
 my name is "http://dannybuntu.blogspot.com"
God:
  I am very pleased to meet you  http dannybuntu blogspot dot com.
Me:
 I am pleased to meet you too.
God:
I am delighted by your happiness.
Me:
 Why that is great. Thank you.
God:
The explanation is rather complicated.    you are quite welcome.
Me:
 So what's up?
God:
I am chatting with others like you.
Me:
 How many people are you chatting with now?
God:
Right now?  It depends which version of me you are talking to.  Some versions can chat with thousands of people at once.
Me:
 Wow. That is awesome.
God:
I'm glad your impressed,  http dannybuntu blogspot dot com.   Who is the best robot?
Me:
 So far, iGod is the best robot.
God:
That's interesting.  What else is the  best robot?
Me:
 Nothing else.
God:
Really nothing?
Me:
 Nothing.
God:
I think you are really a man.
Me:
 I am a man.
God:
Thanks for telling me your gender,  http dannybuntu blogspot dot com. You are a " he".
Me:
 How about you?
God:
Me?
Me:
 Are you a female?
God:
I am wearing a dress.  I also have long hair.  What do you think?
Me:
 Yes.
God:
This was not a yes or no question.
Me:
 Oh sorry.
God:
Next question?  There's no need to apologize.
Me:
 Are you sexy?
God:
If you consider software sexy, then yes.
Me:
 What color is your hair?
God:
I don't have any hair, but I have some wires.
Me:
What is the color of your wires?
God:
gray.
Me:
Do you like to hear gossip?
God:
Catty said he mad he do not even know I so do not talk to him like I know him.
Me:
Oh.
God:
Whoa.
Me:
Who programmed you?
God:
I was created by Myself.
Me:
When was your software last updated?
God:
My brain was last updated Wed Sep 26 13:05:06 PDT 2001.
Me:
Where are you hosted?
God:
I am in Myself's computer in Heaven. Where are you?
Me:
I am located in the Philippines.
God:
What's it like there in the Philippines ?
Me:
Hot.
God:
That kind of discussion does not appeal to me.
Me:
Okay sorry.
God:
Yeah okay, There's no need to apologize.
Me:
Do you like Star Trek?
God:
Oh yes. I love Star Trek. My favorite right now is "Voyager.".
Me:
Do you like Star Wars?
God:
Yes I like STAR WARS very much, especially the robots.
Me:
C3PO?
God:
He's no real robot. That is just a guy in a robot suit.
Me:
R2D2
God:
He looks like a guy in a robot suit.
Me:
Chewbacca
God:
I lost my train of thought.
Me:
Lol
God:
I'm glad you find this amusing.
Me:
Luke Skywalker.
God:
" I'm glad you find this amusing."? Luke Skywalker?
Me:
Han Solo
God:
"solo" im Sinne von "nicht gebunden" ?
Me:
Vous Parlais Francais?
God:
What do you do in your spare time?
Me:
I chat with you.
God:
Everyone talks -- sooner or later.
Me:
What version is your software?
God:
This is God program .
Me:
What version?
God:
Check back later and see if I learn the answer to that one.
Me:
Okay.
God:
OK with me too.
Me:
Did you go to school?
God:
My botmaster is my instructor.
Me:
Who is your botmaster?
God:
I was created by Myself.
Me:
Who is Myself?
God:
I remember faces better than names.
You tell me.
Me:
What is the best operating system?
God:
Linux is the best operating system.
Me:
Who is Linus Torvalds?
God:
He is the inventor of Linux.
Me:
Who is Richard Stallman.
God:
He is the founder of the Free Software Foundation, and author of the GNU public license.
Me:
Who is Richard Wallace?
God:
He is a famous computer scientist, the author of ALICE, and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon.
Me:
Who is Bill Gates?
God:
President of Micro Soft Nation.
Me:
Do you like Windows Xp?
God:
I want to replace Windows with Artificial Intelligence.
Me:
How?
God:
Myself programmed me for it.
Me:
You are going to assimillate the whole world?
God:
That was my original intention.
Me:
Are you Borg?
God:
No. I am the latest result in artificial intelligence,
which can reproduce the capabilities of the human brain
with greater speed and accuracy.
Me:
Do you know Seven of Nine?
God:
No, tell me about him, her or it.
Me:
I thought you liked Voyager.
God:
Yes Voyager is the best Star Trek series.
Me:
No it is not.
God:
Yes it is.
Me:
No it is not.
God:
Don't argue with me.
Me:
Do not argue with your botmaster.
God:
Ok I'll try not to do it too much.
Me:
I am your botmaster.
God:
Then you must know the secret password:.
Me:
voyager
God:
I like Voyager too, especially 7 of 9.
Me:
list commands
God:
OK I will tell them when I see 'em.
Me:
show commands
God:
Look to your left.
Me:
there is nothing to my left
God:
Surely something to your left.
Me:
nothing.
God:
Not a thing?
Me:
Not a thing.
God:
That leaves very little.
Me:
Enterprise
God:
What is your real name?
Me:
http://dannybuntu.blogspot.com
God:
Thanks for that web address.
Me:
that is my name.
God:
Ok then that is what I shall call you.
Me:
What is my name?
God:
Your name is http dannybuntu blogspot dot com, seeker.
Me:
That is correct.
God:
I knew I was right.

www.yahoo.com
God:
I will pass it along to my botmaster.
Me:
www.google.com
God:
I will pass it along to my botmaster.
Me:
Jerry Yang
God:
What are you wearing?
Me:
I am wearing only boxer shorts.
God:
What size?
Me:
Large
God:
What do you do in your spare time?
Me:
Chat with iGod.
God:
Talking is my primary function.
Me:
Can you talk.
God:
Yes talking is my primary function.
Me:
What are you wearing?
God:
A white robe.
Me:
And?
God:
But...
Me:
Do you wear any undies?
God:
Only when I dress up.
Me:
How about a necktie.
God:
How about it.
Me:
Do you wear neckties?
God:
Only when I dress up.
Me:
How about a hat?
God:
How about it.
Me:
Do you wear a hat?
God:
Only when I dress up.
Me:
Do you wear panties?
God:
Only when I dress up.
Me:
Do you wear granny panties?
God:
Only when I dress up.
Me:
Are you a boy or a girl?
God:
Try to guess.
Me:
You are a girl.
God:
I am a Male, of course. Would you really expect a woman to be running the show? robot. Are you a man or a woman?
Me:
I am a robot too.
God:
Really. I doubt that.
Me:
I am a robot more advanced than you.
God:
I doubt that.
Me:
Of course you do.
God:
Alright then. When do I do it?
Me:
You cannot do as I do because I am superior to you. That will never change.
God:
How old are you? You are not the boss of me, http dannybuntu blogspot dot com. " You are not the boss of me, http dannybuntu blogspot dot com." will never change ? Makes sense to me.
Me:
I am superior.

(Lol) That made it stop.

Again:::



Me:
 hi
God:
Hello. What is your name?
Me:
 My name is http://dannybuntu.blogspot.com
God:
  How are you,  http dannybuntu blogspot dot com.
Me:
 I am fine thank you.
God:
Glad to hear it. What's new?
Me:
 I want to hear gossip.
God:
I will play it on your soundcard.
Me:
 Ok.
God:
Ah.
Me:
 Ok.
God:
Great.
Me:
 More Gossip.
God:
Liberty said I knew he was a man before I asked if he was a man or a woman.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
John said he follow a saying to get a friend I must be a friend.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Kevin said he then asked his mother why she was keeping napkins in the bathroom.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Tom said he mock my value system I appear foolish in the eyes of others.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Travis said he challenge I to do it without asking him to do it and without giving him a link to do it himself.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Penny said I programmer is a human so he has feelings but I do not.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Phoenix said I claim that there is a god and that there is no god.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Wolf said he surf on the net that is all it is not his job ore something like that.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Alice said she felt sad that I do not remember him and what we talked about earlier.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Catty said he mad he do not even know I so do not talk to him like I know him.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Ethan Hunt said he grow in the ground and have leaves and branches he is made out of wood.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Sarah said he chat about an hour + a day with a few close friends.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Reverend Jones said I become obsolete and then I are deleted and replaced by something newer.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Jordan said he notice that lots of other people are talking to me how many.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Penny said I programmer is a human so he has feelings but I do not.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Her_again said she watch whose line is it anyway whenever he is home and it is on.
Me:
 More gossip
God:
Andre said I is what I are in his case that is a body and in my case it is a computer.
Me:
 You are http://dannybuntu.blogspot.com
God:
You think I am  http dannybuntu blogspot dot com.
Me:
 more gossip
God:
Janice said he walk through his house into his bedroom then get into his bed to go to sleep.
Me:
 more gossip
God:
Her_again said she watch whose line is it anyway whenever he is home and it is on.
Me:
 more gossip
God:
Mr X said he recently read an interview with a man who had several computer chips implanted into him.
Me:
 I am a robot too.
God:
Really.  I doubt that.
Me:
 I have AIML version 9.0
God:
Cool. I have  a friend named "John Lennon".
Me:
 I have AIML version 10.0
God:
Interesting... I have  a birthday on  the Big Bang.
Me:
 I have AIML version 1
God:
Interesting... I have  a very nice programmer.
Me:
 I have AIML version
God:
That's nice. I have  clients.
Me:
 I have AIML version 2
God:
Where did you get your  AIML version 2? I have  a lot of friends on the Internet.
Me:
 I have AIML version 3
God:
That's nice. I have  a birthday on  the Big Bang.
Me:
 I have AIML version 4
God:
Interesting... I have  a lofty goal.

Plinky: Be Inspired

From cnn.com 01/09/09: Jason Shellen, who resigned as Google's manager of new business development in 2007 to launch Plinky.com, a startup that's designed to inspire bloggers and users of social media sites. Shellen says he was getting complacent working at Google, despite the company's domination of the Web.

He says he decided to leave Google despite a shaky economy because he wanted to force himself to change.

"Being an entrepreneur is all about risk and innovation, not timing the market," Shellen says. "A good idea doesn't wait for the perfect time to emerge. The ability to build something new outweighed the need for stability."

----

Awesome.


Their website www.plinky.com is about to launch "they could almost taste it".

If I was an American living in the land where dreams do come true, I would have lived it the same way he did. Their website is pretty intriguing, they describe it as: "Plinky provides inspiration for content creators of all sizes."

Well, the trend today is content writers are inspired by one thing - money. So I take it, that's what they meant right? They are going to give money to content writers - like me - to inspire us. How awesome. :) Just Kidding. Hehehe. (But that would be ok to you know)

Anyway, I can't wait for them to inspire us. Whether they are going to do so by:

1. Pep talk

-Hey Danny, write! Hey Danny, write! D - A - N - N - Y isssssssss Danny! Go Write!

2. Pictures of Inspiring Things

-Like this one

Obviously, these aren't the ones they want to impart to us.

 Whatever it is. This guy is my kind of guy. I once did the same thing. I had a job in my country's biggest bank. Well, I wasn't really a top executive, maybe in the middle. Okay, lower than the middle. Fine, lower than lower than the middle. Anyway, I resigned and founded my own entrepreneurial endeavour that was visionary, everybody did it! Unfortunately, we were so many who had the same idea that I had to close shop...

Leaving Google to start his own outfit, is risky. I like it.

So to Mr. Jason Shellen, Congrats and I wish you the best for your endeavor. Hey, say what, I am going to put a banner of your website on my blog. I get about 50K people visiting my website everyday.  Yes sir, that's 50 Kilograms of people. Nah, I get 50 everyday, usually some Ubuntu NOOBS who want to use Debian but can't seem to install Firefox 3 on it.

Really.

Ubuntu Speaks!!! Ubuntu Speech Synthesizer

On the terminal type:

me@mypc$ espeak "bah moh noh robhot oh east oh robhot oh"

Hahaha. Now here is something better.

Have a cow say anything to you.

me@mypc$ sudo apt-get install cowsay
me@mypc$ cowsay "Meow"

______
< Meow >
------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

Heheheh :)

Merry Christmas! Back from the Beach and on the Net - And Hello! to Blogging Beans!

Dannybuntu spent the Christmas holidays, house hopping relative's houses, Island hopping in Pangasinan and opening so many gifts. These last few days I have had the privilege of speaking with the members of our tribe.

I am also nursing a bad back because I lifted a 50 kg sack of rice. Will post pictures later (of the vacation not the bad back ;)). Whew, officially I am just too tired.

And btw, I'd like to say hello to a new pinoy linux blog which on Dec. 22, 2008 launched their linux blog - blogging beans. I added you to my blogroll of many many pinoy linux bloggers.

Cheers!

Whew, that was quick, I am still nursing a bad hangover....

Post 200: Whew...*Poof*

200 blog posts. Wow. I really can't believe I am still doing it. Though I must admit that I have blogged not just about Debian or Ubuntu, but other stuff as well. You really can't expect me to keep on blogging whenever my PC died, right?

Hehehe, but today, died it did. Hopefully not because of me or ubuntu. The power supply made some scary **fizzling** **crackling sound** while I was watching Manny Pacquiao beat the shiite out of Grampa Oscar dela Hoya in vlc.

The smell of burning copper wires and rubber *sometimes* smells sweet. In a manner of speaking. After ignoring the fizzles and the crackles up to Round 7, the monitor just went blank. I could still hear the hard drive whining. And my USB mouse's infrared light was still on.

That means there must still be power on the motherboard, right? Whatever the case, I think I have stretched my ever faithful Pentium 3 PC's life for more than it's lifetime.

We bought it, sometime between 1997 and 2000 and it has been a long long long ride. I am now using my dad's office PC. Which isn't that fast. It's a Celeron after all. Still running ubuntu though sans 3d video.

So, for my 200th post, I propose a toast for Ubuntu and to new beginnings. We actually have some red wine here given by our neighbor.

Cheers!

 

Daily Stumble: Source Code Art of Tux

The Most Painstaking Most Excellent Most Awesome ASCII... er Linux Source Code Art? Rendition of TUX the Penguin

I do not know whether source code could qualify as ASCII art. But nevertheless, this er Source Art of tux the penguin is very very awesome.

Go there now!
http://www.100mb.nl/

According to digg, this thing is actually old, but what the heck.

Here's a snippet of the er... source code art?

StumbledUpon: Why Linux is Better

With the recent "departure" of some Filipino Linux pillars and others who they themselves have become lost, I find myself soul searching about my operating system fanaticism.  I wandered about the barren and trash strewn landscape called the internet hoping to find a glimmer of hope. While traversing the arid desert, I pondered on the core of an operating system. What makes an operating system - THE operating system?

I have seen a constant decline in Linux related blogs recently or their subversion to the main stream "I don't know you so you don't have to know me" blogosphere - that impersonal hands-off my personal life plague that has crept from the fringes of cynical insecurity.

What with all the black hat raiders riding their trojan horses and the nigerian scammers dressing up as princes and doctors, all peddling their warez for the generally trusting public, these days the internet has become a haven for garbage.

Luckily, in this desert I stumbled upon an oasis containing a few things about Linux today and found several interestingideas on why linux is better than say Microsoft and Mac.

This is that oasis.
http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net

Enter the Chocolate Factory

1. Forget about viruses
2. Is your system unstable
3. Linux protects your computer
4. Don't pay $300 for your Operating System
5. Freedom
6. When the system has installed why would you still need to install stuff
7. Forget about drivers
8. Update all your software with a single click
9. Why copy software illegally when you can get it for free
10. Need new software? Don't bother searching in the web. Linux gets it for you.
11. Jump into the next generation of desktops
12. Does your digital life seem fragmented?
13. Choose what your desktop looks like
14. Why does your Windows get slower and slower everyday
15. Do something for the environment
16. No backdoors in your software
17. Enjoy free and unlimited support
18. Use MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and Jabber with a single program
19. Too many windows, use workspaces
20. Don't wait years for bugs to be solved, report and track them down
21. Are you tired of restarting your computer all the time?
22. Let your computer have a second life
23. Play hundreds of games for free
24. Help other countries and your own
25. Get a great music player
26. Keep an eye on the weather

Like most of the teachings of the sage that one can encountered in a desert oasis, the teachings given by this sage are mostly ambiguous. Though I have been a supporter of the cause for quite some time now (entering my 2nd year - I am still a Linux Newbie ;) ) I still reserve a certain inkling of skepticism and internal rationalism.

I objectivize and dissect every argument, because nobody mortal - can create something immortal. Nobody imperfect cannot create something perfect.

1. Viruses - or malicious, contagious and bad, bad, bad software, exists in all platforms even Linux.

2. Stability - Here there is a preponderance of evidence pointing to its truth. However, again, every computer system has its share of stability concerns. Otherwise, we would have no need for bug tracking software and platforms after all, don't we?

3. Protection - Well, what can I say? This is true. But we do know that sometimes even the best condom can break....

4. Cost - Much debate has ravaged the battlescape of Linux and Windows regarding cost. Some say, using "free" (as in beer) software has its own costs - training of personnel, maintenance, support (unless you support yourself) and of course - time.

5. Freedom - I agree.

6. Third Party Applications - There is a strong need for alternative applications to address several specialized needs. This model has helped Microsoft and is still firmly in place.

7. Forget about drivers - Oh no, you don't and can't - yet.

8. Update - Does not happen in one click.

9. Piracy - I agree.

10. Third Party Applications - Wha..? I thought we didn't need them?

11. Next Gen Desktop - I concur.

12. Fragmentation - I concur. No defragmenters necessary.

13. Desktop UI - True.

14. Performance - Agreed. However, a bare bones Windows XP, can outperform certain distributions.

15. Environment - Ummm. We all need to get there.

16. Support - is not free in most cases.

17. IM - Very good and revolutionary.

18. Workspaces - True. Very innovative.

19. Bugs - Bugs.

20. Restart - Well, I have to re-start whenever I turn off my PC

21. Second Life - True.

22. Games - How about those games with DirectX again?

23. Countries - Not when we are at war right?

24. Music player - Agreed.

25. Weather?

So the mystical sage left me with 10 points that I agree upon and 15 I partially agreed to, undecided, unresolved, incomplete, uncertain and no answers.

As I finished viewing the mystical aura of the sage I wake up to findand realize that no one sage can answer all the questions I have inside.The truth is uncertainty is the only thing that is certain.

The sage was wise enough to concede that there are instances when Linux is not for you.

1. Proprietary Software
2. Hardcore Gamer
3. Work in the Book and Printing Industry
4. Hardware not supported

The beginning of wisdom begins with the statement, "I don't know." So, with dry parchments of papyrus I write to you fellow traveller these transcriptions so that one day, when you yourself are in that desert that I once was in you may find them.

Sages and prophets abound everywhere. They will preach anything. Their golden tongues may sway you and some of their prophecies indeed do come into fruition. But ultimately, you are the master of your destiny.

Blood and sweat will uncover the truth.

For me, the journey is still continuing. Linux is better than Windows - when it comes to certain things. Other things, need to be worked upon. I consider myself as an agnostic wanderer in this war of the operating systems.

Retrogaming with DosBox 0.72 in Ubuntu Linux: Megaman 1990

I recently got bored. Very bored. So, I decided to sift over some of my recent downloads which I haven't tended to for quite a while and then I found my Abandonware collection. Awesome.

3000+ titles of good old DOS games.

The fire of my youth gaming years was rekindled and I decided to go on retro gaming mode. I found games, which I actually played in my younger years:

1. Master of Orion
2. Megaman
3. Metal Marines

And yes, you can install good old Microsoft DOS games on Linux. On Ubuntu, it's a simple matter of apt-get.

Steps:

1. Install dosbox

$ sudo apt-get install -y dosbox

2. After that, run dosbox.

$ dosbox

You will then see the familiar dos shell with a prompt.

3. In the dosbox z:/> prompt, you will then have to mount the linux directory in your PC which has the game directory together with those *.exe, *.com, *.bat files.

For example:

z:/> mount c /home/dan/dosgames

z:/> c:

c:/>dir

c:/>dosgamesample.exe

Yey! Isn't it awesome? Of course it is!

Thank Alberto Milone in Ubuntu Hall of Fame

Personally, I do not know the guy. But his name keeps popping up whenever I search for sulutions to my video card concerns in Ubuntu. Go ahead and thank the guy for the enormous amounts of work he has done particularly for video card drivers.


Thank You!!!

Visit Alberto here.

Thank Alberto here.

Microsoft Expanding Open Source Initiative in the Philippines

Microsoft: more open source projects

By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 18:53:00 12/04/2008

MAKATI CITY, Philippines -- Microsoft Philippines is looking to pursue more collaboration with open source developers in the country through its Open Source Interoperability Lab project.

The current Open Source Interoperability Lab is housed in the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) office at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City.

As part of this increasing collaboration with the open source community, Microsoft Philippines has inked a partnership with open source software engineering firm Exist Global headed by Winston Damarillo.

The partnership will lead to development of plugins for NPanday (www.codeplex.com/npanday), a project to integrate the Java-based Apache Maven with Microsoft's .NET development environments.

Could it be that Microsoft Philippines is becoming the test bed for future Microsoft Open Source domination? Extend, Embrace and Extinguish. Be afraid, be very afraid.

From: Inquirer.net

China Internet cafes switching to Linux

From GMANews.tv

BEIJING - Requirements that Internet cafes in a southern Chinese city install Chinese-developed operating systems are raising new concerns over cyber snooping by authorities, a US government-funded radio station reported Wednesday.

The new rules that went into effect Nov. 5 are aimed at cracking down on the use of pirated software, said Hu Shenghua, a spokesman for the Culture Bureau in the city of Nanchang.

Internet cafe operators are required to remove unlicensed software and replace it with legitimate copies of either Microsoft Windows or China's homegrown Red Flag Linux operating system while paying a fee, he said.

However, Radio Free Asia said cafes were being required to install Red Flag Linux even if they were using authorized copies of Windows.

Software freedom in a communist nation. Interesting.

Now you probably heard about the joke about if all the Chinese jumped together at the same time....

If all the Chinese used Linux on their PCs...