sysadmin madness, in relative perspective
We’ve come to expect some great deal of FUD from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation. But his minions (no offense intended) seem to have picked up on the art, and are doing so quite nicely. According to Jeff Jones, strategy director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, Windows vista beats Sun Solaris and Linux … Read More “Microsoft: Windows safer / more secure then Linux, Sun Solaris” »
Okay, some of you might have felt a tremor on the 10th of August. And in case you where wondering: that was the Novell vs SCO verdict being dropped off by the judge 🙂 This 109 pages of legal words are like the hand of God (or whatever deity you favour) smacking SCO down. GrokLaw … Read More “SCO falls… extremely hard” »
According to CNet the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a defendant who is contesting a drunk driving charge. The defence may review the source code of the breath test machine, in this case the Intoxilyzer 5000EN by CMI. Interestingly the case of who owns the source code, the state of Minnesota, or … Read More “US Judge: defendant may evaluate source code breath test” »
As I mentioned earlier, I am a new dad. (well, for almost 2 months now 🙂 ) Our little girl is growing at a mind boggling rate, gaining a staggering 200 grams per week! 🙂 Since she was rather much underweight when she was born, she’s on a fast track to make good on her … Read More “little girl growing fast” »
Okay, so recently my wife gave me a nice samsung flat screen HD ready 66cm TV, great thing, excellent picture, a joy to watch tv on. (specialy, when you’re addicted to CSI:* and Discovery Channel / National Geographic Channel – like we are). But, as the title of this post suggests, someone other then us … Read More “burglars suck” »
on the 7th of june, 2007, my wife Petra gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. We have decided to call her: Femke The little one was a bit small and under weight for a baby that was almost carried full term, so she was kept at the hospital for a couple of days and … Read More “I am a daddy” »
I haven’t gotten around to posting here much, due to being very busy at work. We just finished the physical move to a new data centre (we used to house at PSI / Shuberg Philis), now we have a nice 60m2 cage at easynet. We had some problems with a power outage at the office, … Read More “busy” »
So, the key is out in the open, everyone who is handy, can now decrypt a HD-DVD, and use it’s content. Maybe now the MPAA (and the RIAA, since those two operate quite similar) will see that encrypting media will not work for them, only against them. People will always want to make backups, and … Read More “HD-DVD Key, the end of silly copyprotection” »
VMWare announced a new beta of their Fusion product for Mac OS X, one of the more interesting features of this beta is the hardware 3D support. (DirectX 8.1 only for now). This is an interesting development to say the least. I’ve heard rumblings that that other Mac virtualisation company, Paralells, was working on a … Read More “vmware beta’s DirectX support in Fusion” »