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Sabam is een geofficialiseerde maffia.

| Monday, 19 December, 2005

De eerste keer dat ik van Sabam een wreed verhaal hoorde, was van iemand die zelf muziek componeerde. Deze brave jongen speelde muziek op één of andere commerciële beurs. In het publiek dus. Maar zijn eigen muziek, die hij zelf componeerde en waarvoor hij dus logischerwijze aan niemand auteursrechten verchuldigd was.

One standard is better than two.

| Monday, 19 December, 2005

The reasons enterprises standardize is for interoperation with other systems. Not only does that interoperation equate to more seemless sharing of data, it’s what facilitates easy switching to a another solution should you become dissatisfied with your current solution.

Digital TV Lock-in

| Sunday, 18 December, 2005

“Onder onze leden was de vraag gerezen wat het nut van codering was van digitale kanalen die gratis worden aangeboden. Ongecodeerde kanalen zouden kunnen opgepikt worden met alternatieve ontvangers, zodat men de Digibox van Telenet niet zou dienen te gebruiken.”

There Ain't No Such Thing As Plain Text

| Friday, 16 December, 2005

If you completely forget everything I just explained, please remember one extremely important fact. It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses. You can no longer stick your head in the sand and pretend that “plain” text is ASCII.

Rip'em all

| Saturday, 3 December, 2005

hydargos:~# mount /data
hydargos:~# df -h /dev/md1
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 671G 33M 671G 1% /data

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The days of IPv4

| Wednesday, 23 November, 2005

“Tell me, Grandpa, what was it like in the days of IPv4?” young Suzy asked as she played with the IP wireless transmitters in her golden locks of hair.

“Well Suzy,” Grandpa said, his mind on the distant past, “back then we only had 32 bit addressing, and much of it was provisioned out to various regional entities, with large corporate interests sitting on whole chunks of the space. We had these things called NAT routers.”

Ubuntu On The Business Desktop

| Thursday, 17 November, 2005

I work as a consultant in a Windows-centric work-place and we remotely administer Windows servers. We trouble-shoot Windows clients. We keep spammers out of our Exchange servers. We defrag. We update. We install antivirus programs. We eliminate spyware. I suppose it would be fair to say that Microsoft keeps us in business.