Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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DataQ v0.2 released
Version v0.2 of DataQ has been released. Changes in this release include: Access control. PHP Client library added (LGPL) Rewrite of configuration file reader Several small bugfixes.
Data retention is no solution!
I believe that: Data retention is an invasive tool that interferes with the private lives of everyone; Retaining personal data on everyone is an illegal practice in terms of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as it is disproportionate; Security gained from retention may be illusory, as it is likely that traffic […]
Comfortable Mp3 tagging with EasyTag
I’ve searched for years for a good Mp3 tagging utility. They all failed on some points: Too slow (in either the User Interface or the updating of tags) Confusing User Interface No IDv2 tagging No mass-tag-updating No way of renaming files according to tags No way of reading tags from the particular way I name […]
Why Freshmeat.net is obsolete
Back in the good old days, Freshmeat.net was the source for getting your daily dosis of new Free Software/Open Source Linux programs. A single visit a day would keep you up-to-date on the lastest important software releases in the Open Source community. Freshmeat’s target audience has always been hard to describe. In the beginning it […]
Taking Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) for a test-drive.
NOTICE: Please substitute all occurences of the text ‘1.1’ in this article with ‘1.5’. The reason? They’re skipping v1.1 and going straight to v1.5. Too bad I didn’t find out about this Roadmap earlier. About Deer Park Deer Park, the development codename for the upcoming Firefox v1.1 release, hit the Alpha 2 stage last Sunday. […]
SecureSHell File system
Okay, I’m on a linking rampage here. Sorry. (I hate link-logs). But this is pretty cool, and I’ve been looking for it for a long time. Mounting a remote filesystem over SSH: shfs. Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell […]
Open Source Web Design
Aaaaand, yet another interesting project: Open Source Web Design. For those unfortunate souls that have to make it through life without any artistic skills whatsoever. Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier […]
Debian System Administration Tips and Resources
Cool site: Debian-Administration.org This is a simple weblog which is designed to contain interesting and useful information related to the System Administration of Debian GNU/Linux systems. Whilst there are several sites where users can post questions and have answers contributed by other users there are no other sites on the web which are specifically targetted […]
The most important development documentation…
The most important development documentation might not be functional specifications, technical specs, use cases, design diagrams or UML graphs. Since the most work done on finished applications is bugfixing and very small feature enchancements, it’s usually not much of a problem doing without these. But taking over a project without any knowledge on the build […]
Uptime record
I’m no Operating System uptime geek, I really don’t care too much. But this is still pretty cool, my alltime record: [todsah@sharky]~$ uptime 12:36:59 up 256 days, 50 min, 3 users, load average: 1.75, 1.72, 1.24 If only I had a UPS.
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