Jul 23 2008
This website is hosted on a VPS server from flexservers.nl. For those who do not know what a VPS is; a VPS is a Virtual Private Server. You get a part of a physical server as if it is your server. Big advantage is that you have “full” control over your server and you can [...]
Jul 06 2008
You must read this article by Richard Stallman on the BCC News website about Bill Gates retirement (BBC article). Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and from the article you can see that he sees Microsoft as and Bill Gates as Dark Vader.
I agree with his argument about the Microsoft Tax [...]
Jun 22 2008
In the past I have tried a number of Linux distributions. All those reviews ended with the feeling; “nice for a geek but I don’t think the rest of world wants to go back to the commandline and non consistent GUI’s”. Linux has gone a long way since then and now that Novell is claiming [...]
May 16 2008
Read this article by Robert Scoble. It is about the import and export of your personal data which you place on ’social’ websites/services like Facebook, Plaxo, Hyves, Google Friend Connect, etc.
Again it shows that US based companies have a very different view on the privacy of information compared with European companies and the European ‘governments’. [...]
May 09 2008
Scoble wrote about “the beautiful noise of Twitter and FeedFriend” in a reaction to a blog entry from David Risley who complains about the noise these systems produce.
I wrote about the Twitter service before. Twitter is like standing in an overcrowded bar where everybody is talking loudly, not listening to anybody but everybody has an [...]
Mar 31 2008
I saw an entry on Robert Scoble’s blog about a new browser by AT&T called Pogo.
You would ask, why on earth do we need a new browser if we already have, IE6, IE7, IE8, FireFox 2 and 3, Safari, Opera, …. Well, maybe we need a new browser which is compliant with all the standards. [...]
Jan 23 2008
Apple move over! This device by Radius turns the iPhone into an old brick.
Link to article in Reuters.
Never has a product by Apple been made out of style so quickly.
Jan 15 2008
Not much news on the MacWorld 2008 (link to Engadget site).
Some updates on the (flop) MacTV, a new toaster / thin laptop and some new media content (movies).
Big deal.
Jan 15 2008
So somebody opened up a smart card, what is the big deal? This was to be expected. Any security measure is a balance between the cost of making a system 100% secure and how often en what the costs are when somebody breaches your security measures.
DutchNews.nl - Hackers break into transport smart card
Technorati Tags: smart [...]
Jan 04 2008
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Jan 03 2008
You have got to read this! [link to document]
Jaron Lanier states that the open-source model will hold back radical, unique and one of a kind new designs. As an examples he uses Linux with it’s many distribution versions, the iPhone as a product and the scientific practice of doing research and publishing your result at [...]
Dec 17 2007
It sounds really nice, the adoption of open-source software and open standards to cut cost and the dependencies on individual companies. Anyone who looks further into this sees that it is more the case of “using only those open standards so certain companies are excluded”.
Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Technorati Tags: Open-Source,Microsoft,Netherlands