Archive for May, 2006

May 31 2006

Some old pictures from the Waddenzee

Published by Bob Beela under Nikon, Photography, Travel


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May 28 2006

Mambo experience

Published by Bob Beela under Blogs, Open Source

So, I finally made the decision and moved one of my websites from PHPnuke to Mambo [link].
I have all the basic functionality and kept most of the data and users from the old site. I’m pleased with it.
How did I do it?
First I did some research on the functionality of Mambo and Joomla. How easy [...]

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May 23 2006

I don’t need an iPod, I have an iRiver

Published by Bob Beela under DRM, Podcasting, Technology

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May 17 2006

Hirsi is leaving us

Published by Bob Beela under News, Politics

So, now we know; we have a really strict immigration law in the Netherlands and an even stricter immigration minister.
Yes, you may enter the country but you you must tell the truth about your name, place of origin en age. If you don’t, you won’t get access, even we if we find out years later.
Does [...]

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May 12 2006

DRM versus Free world: 1:0

Published by Bob Beela under News, Technology

Bummer.
The French have watered down their proposal to force suppliers to open up their DRM systems (Apple and Microsoft e.g.).
[link]
Chicken!!!!

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May 12 2006

Will they never learn?

Published by Bob Beela under Politics

Here we go again, I told you so, I new it!
Merkel has said that when Germany takes over the chairmanship of the EU, they will try to get the EU constitution accepted.
No thank you, France en the Netherlands already said NO once. We are not going to do that again.
[link]

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May 05 2006

Mambo testtrack

Published by Bob Beela under Blogs, Technology

As I wrote in the previous entry, I am in the process of testing Joomla and Mambo. I want to replace the PHPnuke software I use for a couple of sites. Joomla didn’t work for me so I moved to Mamboserver.
Yesterday I tested the 4.6 RC1 version. I dumped that one quickly because it complained [...]

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