Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Dutch government wants to censor the Internet
Dutch minister of Justice, Hirsch Ballin, is being pressured by dutch christian and labour parties to force Dutch ISP’s to start censoring the Internet: A translation of the dutch NU.nl article: AMSTERDAM – The NOS [Dutch Broadcasting Institute] on friday reports that a majority of the Dutch parlement have demanded that internet providers be forced […]
Firefox, IE, Opera and Safary all equally safe?
NU.nl reports about a (English) Report about the safety of the web. In it, CA reports: Browsers are one of the most commonly used applications today. Many people believe that Mozilla Firefox is more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer, but their vulnerabilities are on par. In the first half of 2007, NIST reported 52 vulnerabilities […]
Ubuntu Linux… for your mom.
“This will be the year of Linux on the desktop!“. This has been the topic of tech-predicting articles on the web since at least 2001. It’s been repeated (and proved wrong) so many times, it’s even become an Internet meme. But ladies and gentlemen, rejoice. For the year of Linux on the desktop has arrived! […]
Grindhouse: Deathproof
Deathproof, the new Tarantino movie. A murderous stuntman and a bunch of women. A long conversation and one car chase. The verdict: Awesome. Go see it before it’s out of the theatre.
Vista problems
The battle is on! Microsoft Windows Vista sucks, and here’s the propaganda to prove it: Vista messing with external monitor: flashing screen and moving windows Myelin.co.nz Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? Slashdot.org Vista causes an array of problems USAToday The 13 main problems with Vista MediaVidea Vista: Slow and Dangerous Businessweek.com
How I get my music and movies
I don’t buy music CDs. They’re more expensive than they should be, and the prices never drop, even if the CDs are old. I don’t buy music online either, since it’s usually even more expensive than a CD, it has stupid DRM (Digital Restriction Management) restrictions, and you don’t even get the nice booklet. How […]
Nine-and-a-half facts about Vista
Here are some true facts about Microsoft Vista: Vista is the forefather of the Matrix AND Skynet Vista installations contain two full dumps of both Bill Gates and Steve Balmers DNA so they can be cloned in the future. Your installation of Vista is very safe. The FBI, NSA and Homeland Security keep a close […]
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Interesting review of a book: Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why: A review. Thus, the KJV [King James Version of the bible] consists of Jesus’ words twice refracted through the prism of translation. Second, Erasmus’s Greek New Testament was based on handwritten copies of copies of copies of copies, etc., […]
Illegal U.S. citizen spying continues
Unauthorized spying on U.S. citizens’ international tele-communications will continue, as an appeals court in Cincinnati dismissed the case brought against the Bush administration to stop the surveillance activity. The illegal wiretapping program was authorized by Bush after the 9/11 events and allows the monitoring of (amongst others?) international telephone calls e-mail. “The Bush administration is […]
Windows Vista: Slow and annoying
My mom recently bought a new budget-laptop that came installed with Microsoft Windows Vista. Now, I’m no Microsoft fan, especially not when it comes to Windows, but that’s just me. It’s perfectly fine for my mom and non-power users in general. I basically try to spend the smallest amount of time in Windows as I […]
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