Don’t forget!
 by in Belegana, Humour, Random Rantings |
Tomorrow is Burn The US-Flag Day!
(Artwork blatantly stolen from Sean Coon)
Got flag? Got gasoline? Have fun!
Burn The US-Flag Day, Protest, Activism
Freedom: the net slowly closes in…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands |
In the Netherlands, there’s this new law that ‘the man‘ wants introduced. Of course, it’s one of those repressive laws that get introduced because of this so-called “War On Terror” — which, logically, cannot ever end.
Do we all want to be lead to the slaughters into the war that nobody can win?
Yeah, the [...]
Quote Of The Week #2
| by in Arts & Poetry, Quote Of The Week |
This week, the fictional character Emmanuel Goldstein (from Orwell’s book 1984) writes this in his book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, chapter III:
The social atmosphere is that of a beseiged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consciousness [...]
Quite a busy afternoon today…
| by in General |
This afternoon, when I was off work, I grabbed the old UNIX terminal to build myself a prototype of an idea I had some time ago. At this moment, the article describing the concept is password-protected so not everybody can read it.
The solution itself is quite elegant and it probably has been thought of [...]
Protected: Increasing storage by reducing the data (delta-compressed storage)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
When things get too complex to comprehend…
| by in Humour, Internet & Technology, Software |
…stuff like this happens. This was already posted on The Register last friday — but in case you missed this excellent act of stupidity, here is a quote:
This tale kicked off yesterday when Tuttle’s city manager Jerry Taylor fired off an angry message to the CentOS staff. Taylor had popped onto the city’s web site [...]
Distributed compiling is fun!
| by in Computers & Hardware, Software |
This weekend I had a kernel 2.4.26 -> kernel 2.6.16 upgrade gone terribly wrong leaving me with a laptop without any network support: the latest version of ndiswrapper was incompatible with the version I had installed various files in /etc/ndiswrapper and I found that out after the reboot.
Anyways — to make a long story even [...]
OpenOffice 2.0 kept crashing when selecting a font…
…and after it seemed that it kept happening after installing the latest 2.0.2-version, I had to look further.
The stupid thing was — if I logged into my gf’s machine (the machine having issues), and set the DISPLAY variable to point to my own X-server — nothing bad happened, no matter what font I selected! Weird, [...]
Another day, another trojan — yet not so usual
The Register reports on Deutsche Bank and the (Dutch) Postbank being targeted by a new piece of spyware.
This one, dubbed Trojan-Spy.Win32.Bancos.pw reportedly intercepts HTTPS traffic and captures so-called TAN tokens. These tokens are pieces of information that should identify a banks real customer to finalise a banking transaction.
If infected by this piece of malware, and [...]
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Today, after recently reading this fascinating review on Noam Chomsky’s book, “What Uncle Sam Really Wants“, I picked it up.
I just finished reading it and, like after reading any Chomsky piece, it leaves me with more of my suspicions confirmed and amazed… Amazed at what the US has done, the media’s willingness to look the [...]
Ice-caps melting faster than forecast
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links |
According to an article in The Star, two studies yesterday warned, that
Global warming of only a couple of degrees Celsius projected by the end of this century is enough to trigger widespread melting of the massive Greenland ice cap and the partial collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
[..]
The findings are a stunning about-face from previous expert [...]
Gmail — growing pains?
| by in Internet & Technology, Software |
Recently I have been getting these a lot:
Today, too, I got an internal server error when I wanted to view an image somebody mailed me…
Gmail, Google, Growing Pains
Theme changed
| by in General |
This morning I tinkered around with the customised theme I use on this site (initially simply based on WordPress Classic). I recently discovered the tonus-theme that supports inline comments through AJAX.
Tell me what you think…
WordPress, Themes, Tonus, AJAX
Names of people illegally growing weed will not be published online
Today it was reported on the radio that the idea to publish the names of people illegally growing marijuana has been revoked.
Apparently, privacy laws do not allow such a thing…
Weed, The Netherlands, Privacy
I’m looking outside of my window at work…
| by in Animals & Nature, The Netherlands |
…and I have to say the weather looks awfully nice — seems like the spring-season really has started.
That gives me positive feelings. (Believe me, I haven’t had those for a while now — guess it’s some ‘winter-depression’-style thing).
This weekend the clock will be adjusted an hour ahead (daylight savings) — meaning it’ll be lighter [...]
Slackware 10.2 + WINE 0.9.10 + GoogleEarth = OK ;)
| by in Software, Space & Beyond |
I tried it earlier, to no avail, but today I downloaded the latest version of WINE to try again to see if Google Earth works.
I didn’t have to go through this hassle of re-installing everything. I just upgraded the WINE package and started up Google Earth, using:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32,usp10,msvcrt=n” wine Google/Google\ Earth/GoogleEarth.exe
As you see, there are some [...]
Southpark: The Return Of Chef
I just watched the episode and it is excellent. I won’t bother you with any spoilers but the following quote sums it all up quite nicely:
“It’s not Chef we should be angry at for leaving us — we should be angry at this fruity little club.”
In a quite metaphoric and ’subtle’ way, Scientologists are still [...]
Another fine non-working solution to a non-issue
| by in Animals & Nature, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, The Netherlands |
The Dutch local government in Limburg has decided, some time ago, that all the people that illegally grow marijuana will be publicly ‘burned at the stake’ by posting their name and address on an internet website.
The name of the website is ‘www.hetgroenegoud.info’ (tr: www.thegreengold.info). Yeh, as if that is really going to work. Can these [...]
Quote Of The Week #1
| by in Arts & Poetry, Quote Of The Week |
The Quote of the Week section is a new section which I have just created. In this section I will occasionally post interesting quotes from famous historical figures, real and fictional.
Today, it’s Albert Einstein’s turn — the man renowned for his Special Theory of Relativity:
“The pioneers of a warless world
are the young men (and women)
who [...]
Surprise: Bush Lied… *again*
Once again, more controversy over Bush, namely his reasons to go to war in Iraq:
Asked by veteran reporter Helen Thomas, “Every reason given [ for the war in Iraq ], publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war?”
Mr Bush replied: “And [...]
