www. is deprecated
Use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.
Author Archives: Serge van Ginderachter
G5 Powered XBOX at E3
Microsoft hides G5 computers powering an XBOX 360 kiosk, instead of showing off, well, ehrm, … the XBOX360.
Death to Passport, hail OpenID
OpenID is a distributed identity system, but one that’s actually distributed and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business.
Debian Sarge May release status
And if everything goes well, we’ll be ready to release at the end of the month.
If everything *doesn’t* go well, then we’re hopefully looking at the first weekend in June instead.
Blogging at IBM
IBM is planning to introduce what could be the largest corporate blogging initiative so far, in a bid to encourage its 320,000 staff to become more active in online tech communities. While other companies are frantically trying to prevent their employees from maintaining blogs, IBM seems to have realized the potential benefit that thousands of in-house bloggers could bring to promoting its products and services.
Open Source Star Wars
May the Force Be With You, and You, and You
Quotes for May
Open Source is niet enkel een brok legalese die je boven je code plakt, het is een Way of Life. Als je er niet echt in Gelooft, kan je het niet verkopen.
HP Linux notebooks in Europe
Hewlett-Packard (HP) offers its notebook customers in Europe the option to choose a customized Linux version for its products. The Ubuntu distribution is specifically designed to support the hardware used in HP notebooks.
Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings
The survey indicates that IT decision makers value “reduced dependence on software vendors” as the most important advantage of open source. This indicates that software buyers must feel some level of dependence on proprietary software vendors, from which they desire freedom. Such dependence includes reliance on the vendor for maintenance and support and the necessity for the buyer to accept version upgrades that the buyer may not need or want.
Bier met een EULA
De Westvleteren Trappist is enkel voor particulieren te koop, waarbij iedere koper zich engageert het bier niet verder te verkopen.