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I've put my list of Books online.

So, I've read there's another virus on the loose. *g* When will this end? I'll tell you: never. At least, not until these virusses do some radical damage. They aren't destructive enough against the right targets. Right now, these virusses do create a lot of problems and damage to infrastructures and companies. The problem is, home users don't give a shit. There are lots of sites out there which educate the people on how to avoid such virusses, but do they read them? Do they learn from previous virusses? Hell no. Why should they care, all the virus does is replicate. It doesn't delete all their digital camera pictures, mp3's, downloaded movies or porn, so they don't give a rat's ass.

When the propagators of these virusses, the home users, start feeling the pain caused by these virusses, then they will take the time to think for a couple of seconds and do something about it. E.g. install and REGURALY UPGRADE their virusscanners, stop clicking of everything that say's click me, run the WSH files that will protect their inboxes from crap.

Disclaimer: I haven't actually looked at how MyDoom propegates at all, so I might be totally off on this. But since I'm not seeying as much as a glimp of this virus, I suspect it spreads in the usual fashion

There's an interesting article on C# and it's design goals on artima.com. In the article they talk with Anders Hejlsberg, the projectleader for the development of C# at Microsoft. They talk about the differences of C#, Java and C++ and why they made some of the choices they did. Really teaches you a lot on C#. You will need to have some knowledge about C++ and Java though.

Go fetch WTP v0.7.0 while it's still hot! Changes include some bugfixes, better errorchecking and register_globals=off compatiblity. FTP servers on different ports and anonymous ftp access are also supported in this release. Next to these, I rewrote some parts and cleaned up other parts. Hope you enjoy it.

There! I'm done. My last school project is over, and we've once again been able to scrape together a rather nice grade. 75/100 For the course we had to give about Linux Kernel Internals and a 80/100 for the Researchreport. I've finally gotten almost all of my grades for all the other courses. All that now remains is to complete my last exam-internship.

During that internship I'll also have to find the time to complete two courses which I didn't complete in the last year or so. Won't be too much of a biggy I guess. I hope. ;-)

In the meantime I'm working on WTP. Doing a small code-cleanup and making everything more uniform. Added support for register_globals=off while I was at it. Just needs some testing and lots of bugfixes before I pour it out onto the world and call it version 0.8. Soon I hope.

Now I'm off to the bar where I will consume large ammounts of alcohol and smoke lots of tabacco, against the advise of our government. Because I feel it's quality of life that matters, not quantity. Dumbass-governmental-health-freakish-hippes!

I just released Proms v0.9 (Changelog). I've got the flue at the moment, so I might have forgotten some important thing in this release which might break it. I ran a quick test though, and everything seemed fine.

Pieterpost v0.10.8 released.

For the past half year we've been working on a research topic and constructing a course extracted from the research report. This is the last project I'll have to pass so I can start my last internship. After that I will have graduated from the HAN university.

The courses I have followed so far (we all have to follow 3 courses done by fellow students) were pretty interesting. On monday I attended BioPython, which was actually more biology than python, but quite interesting nontheless. I've always liked biology, and especially evolutionairy theories. So BioPython and it's biology introduction were pretty nice (lots of gene stuff).

Today I attended the User Interface Design course, which was about the interfaces of websites. I can't really say I learned all that much new stuff, since I already designed my share of websites. But it did ring a bell or two about bad user interface designs for this site. Obviously, I've corrected most of them by now. My excuse for not testing those things earlier: This site is still in development, mmkay? ;-)

Tomorrow I'll have to show up for yet another course, which will be Active Directory Design. Very curious what's that going to be about. After that, on thursday, I'll have to teach our own course: The Linux Kernel Internals. We've researched things like the memory manager, schedular, virtual filesystem, etc for the last half year. I hope people will like the course, though judging by the content of the other courses, ours might be a little on the heavy technical side. Bah, who cares… Thou shalt code die-hard C. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Years ago I worked for a small company named Terrazur (back then it was named Assist-Online, actually). There I continued something which I started with Zetion. This something happened to be our graduation project from college. At Terrazur I worked as an intern on improving and adding various modules to Covide (at one time called Quin!Net… aaah, sweet memories).

Anyway.. After my internship there I continued to work on it for a while as a Holiday job, and after that I left the company. Since then it has grown and grown… into a very nice webbased groupware product. A friend of mine, sometimes referred to as mafkees, still works there, and he had a little announcement to make:

Covide is going open source. Pending consultancy from an employee of the dutch Chamber of commerce, they will decide on a license under which it will be released. I am of course hoping for something GPL compliant like the Perl Artistic License or perhaps LGPL or even GPL. The project will be served by sourceforge at http://covide.sourceforge.net. Exiting!

Once again, even though Terrazur is only a small company, it is setting presedences in it's target market. This is a sure sign that companies are starting to feel confidence enough in Open Source that they are willing to engage in it. As the chief-executive of Terrazur, Willem Masier, obviously understands: The money is in the support, hosting, consultancy and customization, not in the software itself. This is especially true for small companies who wouldn't make a dime selling shrink-wrapped software and having to compete with giants like Microsoft.

Press release (dutch).

Well, it's online! The first official layout of electricmonk.nl, which will in time replace nihilist.nl and todsah.nihilist.nl. Totally different that I first imagined, but that's because I thought the other design tended to be a little crowded. Yaknow, like, *BAM* Huge sheets of text shoved in users' faces. They don't tend to like that very much. This is better, I think.

There is, as always, still some work to do on this site. I just remembered that that's exactelly what I said when I went live with my last site. (Go check the news archive their to see if I'm right.) Amonst other things I still need a printer-friendly version of each page and a content-management system for the news. Hope I'll get around to it eventually. Otherwise, it'll have to wait to the next website I release.