January 2009
Kevin Mitnick doesn't travel light
Uber hacker Kevin Mitnick recently found himself detained after a trip to Colombia. The CNet article describes how Kevin felt. Personally, my jaw hit the floor when the article listed what was in his luggage: two laptops, a UMPC, three or four harddriv...
First impressions: Sabayon Linux Four Oh!
Two years ago I ran into Sabayon Linux for the first time. Version 3.2 was about to be released and I gave Sabayon a spin on my laptop. The article on my Dutch website about my experiences is still attracting a lot of readers, which indicates a consi...
December 2008
The Cost of Free
Furious! This describes the response of a portion of the Dutch free and open source afficionados when hearing about the idea that OpenOffice.org might get advertisements as part of the binary package. Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), who launched ...
November 2008
The Power of Procurement
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October 2008
Upcoming live blog: The Power of Procurement
On november 6 and 7 I will be covering the conference The Power of Procurement via live blog and twitter. This conference will focus on the role (open) standards should play in ICT procurement policies and practices with governments, businesses and ind...
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The three worst Linux distributions?
Well, it seems there are some more writers out there that (a) love Linux and (b) debunk distributions that fall way short of their own goals. On the Internetling blog Gregor lists the three worst distributions he knows.
gOS is on three:
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September 2008
Peer2peer software not automatically infringing
The Center for Democracy & Technology asks the court in a case against Limewire not to deem peer2peer software illegal simply because illegal use is possible. I would say this should be blatantly obvious, especially in a country where people wear ...
A touch of irony: uTorrent for Mac leaked on The Pirate Bay
I can only consider it a touch of irony that a program that rose to popularity due to the need to have a good program to dowload Linux distributions and legal music/movies (none of the illegal stuff, no doubt) has already been pirated. On the PIrate B...
Sanity on Linux security
Ah, this is one article to my liking. No “Linux is secure, so why bother” but some down-to-earth sane advice on Linux security. Or do you think all those security applications wound up in the repositories by accident?
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New Lobbying group calls for internet filtering
The Threat Level blog runs an article about Arts+Labs, a new group of industry lobbyists that think net neutrality isn’t the right way to go.
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New Lobbying Group Calls for Internet Filtering
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I just love Dropbox
I am doing some serious editing on one of my books this weekend. For that I go from computer to computer. I put all the files in my Dropbox and it works great with almost instant synchronization.
The more I work with Dropbox, the more the coming 50 Gb ...
OpenCourseware and teaching
One of the finer things of being involved in ‘open’ is the feeling that you are really involved in something greater, in a world where people and organizations actually want to contribute because it is the right thing to do. Yes, ego comes ...
August 2008
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Ubuntu 8.04 W2L final released
The Ubuntu 8.04 W2L edition has been build to accompany the second edition of Probleemloos overstappen op Linux, a Dutch book about migrating to Linux. The Ubuntu DVD aims at providing a panoramic overview of what Ubuntu has to offer as to desktop envi...
Google fools around with iGoogle
Between one refresh and the next Google decided to alter my iGoogle page. Fortunately it came with some explanation. The tabs on the top have been replaced by a navigation bar on the right. According to the information page, reading the news and chatti...
Ubuntu 8.04 W2L edition RC released
The Ubuntu 8.04 W2L edition has been build to accompany the second edition of Probleemloos overstappen op Linux, a Dutch book about migrating to Linux. The Ubuntu DVD aims at providing a panoramic overview of what Ubuntu has to offer as to desktop envi...
Missed the HOPE convention? Listen to the audio recordings
From July 18th till 20th 2008 the seventh Hackers of Planet Earth conference was held in New York City. These conferences are sponsored by 2600 The hacker Quarterly. For those who missed the conference, or couldn’t attend it, the audiorecordings ...
EU sells out civil rights to USA?
Apparently the war on terror is all the excuse a government needs to put the civil rights of it’s citizens out with the trash. The Guardian reports about a secret EU security draft that contains:
the sharing of vast amounts of intelligence and i...
"Knowledge is power. Hide it well"
One of my favorite games is Warhammer 40.000. I prefer it over Command & Conquer since Warhammer forces you to think about the units you build up and puts a cap on the amount of units you can build. And a gung-ho attack usually doesn’t work. ...
Back to Basics
One derives many benefits from a holiday. A simple true-ism, of course, and not really the greatest of insights. I use my holidays not only to relax and spend some quality time with Agnes, but also to stand back from the day-to-day developments and act...
July 2008
Xubuntu + BeOS like theme + Remastersys = PC/OS?
This must have been the briefest test run a Linux distribution had on my box. Frankly, when I noticed GRUB on the CD it already was out of the window. For good measure I continued until the live desktop, only to confirm the massive suspicion I had. Thi...
Should Mandriva 2009 use the new KDE Kickoff menu or the classical menu?
Mandriva 2009.0 installs KDE4 with the classical KDE menu, a decision I can only applaud. It isn’t decided yet whether this decision will stand until the final version. The Mandriva Community seems to be running into a tie, as the votes for eith...
The first few days on Mandriva 2009.0
by 1 otherWith the first few days (and couple of hundred updates) under the belt I can say a little bit more about my first impressions with the Alpha 2 release of Mandriva 2009. I started last Sunday and have been using it pretty much as the default since. You ...
