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Crypto law in Belgium

| Saturday, 8 April, 2006

Wouter, IANAL, but I might add some remarks to your findings on Belgium crypto laws. First, the Wassenaar agreements in se have no direct enforcement. Read their FAQ: How are regulations on export controls implemented in the WA? Export controls are implemented by each individual WA Participating State. Although the scope of export controls in […]

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Ripping, tagging and encoding

| Friday, 7 April, 2006

So it seems that ripping really is about ripping (to wave format), then encoding and tagging the file. To mp3 or ogg or whatever you want. Encoding to FLAC, which is a lossless encoding is another option. Flac has the benefit of being smaller than Wave, without losing any quality. Ars Technica has nice overview […]

Gentlemen, start you engines

| Thursday, 6 April, 2006

First, I made myself a big home fileserver some time ago. I was already planning to rip my collection of over 500 cd’s. serge@hydargos:~$ df -h | grep md1 /dev/md1 671G 174G 498G 26% /DATA My previous file server was decommissioned. I still need to clean the data files, but besides some basic spare space […]

Open Source vs Web 2.0

| Wednesday, 29 March, 2006

I’m shamelessly copying this one from kb, as there’s no clue I could add to it: Don Marti on Open Source and Web 2.0 stuff: There’s some overlap between being a “Web 2.0” company and being an “open source” one. Here’s where I think Web 2.0 goes further than open source. If open source is […]

Belgische IPOD wet?

| Friday, 24 March, 2006

Nu net op RADIO 1. Interview met Guy Kindermans van Datanews. Geeft uitleg over de lock-in van IPOD. Frankrijk overweegt een wet te stemmen hiertegen zoals we al een tijdje weten. “Alle digitale rechten systemeen moeten met elkaar kunnen spreken.” Een open standaard voor DRM dus. Nu lijkt er sprake dat bij ons Spirit een […]

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Infosecurity

| Thursday, 23 March, 2006

As I told earlier on, I went to Infosecurity yesterday. The fair to find everything you need to fix the flaws in Windows. It was bigger than previous years. Exhibitors seemed to have more money than before: bigger, noisyer, flashyer. Several of them even had budget for actors, clowns, and other people to convince you […]

WHAT…..THE…..FUCK…..

| Wednesday, 22 March, 2006

I went to Infosecurity today. Take my word for it, I had my dosis of Enterprisiness. I’ll get back to that later. But this and then this really are a nice couple of WHAT THE FUCK?? OMFG Ok, you want an appetizer? public class SqlWords { public const string SELECT = ” SELECT “; public […]

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