June 2008 Archives

Jun 29, 2008

Bad Karma…

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Jun 26, 2008

Neo Freerunner is almost here!

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If there is one smart phone I find worthy of buying it’s got to be the Neo Freerunner. It’s the world’s only phone that runs an Open platform and is built from Open hardware. When I checked the OpenMoko.com website today I noticed it was entirely rebuilt and was featuring the final specifications for the [...]


Jun 23, 2008

Firefox 3 and the awesomebar

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Firefox 3 being officially released, the buzz around the latest version of everyone’s favorite browser is at its highpoint.
The Mozilla team really did some great work and I think Firefox 3 has the best marketing campaign ever for an Open Source product. The features overview on the Mozilla website is done very professionally and the [...]


Jun 19, 2008

OpenID gaining popularity

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OpenID, the open way of authentication yourself is gaining more and more popularity. Two sites I use often, sourceforge.net and slicehost.com are now OpenID enabled!
I’ve blogged about OpenID before, here’s an introduction.


Jun 19, 2008

OSCON 2008

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OSCON, the anual Open Source Convention is something I have yet to visit. I can only imagine how great it would be to attend a convention dedicated to the wonder that Open Source is.
OSCON 2008 has a great program, just to name a few:

Ubuntu at OSCON
There will be a number of Ubuntu related talks this [...]


Jun 19, 2008

Iraqi children receiving candy

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Unfortunately the fat one takes it all…
He has some good moves though

Klik hier om het <a href=”http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/mysp4c3/Iraakse_Kindjes_Krijgen_Snoep_Hulk_Fight_.aspx” mce_href=”http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/mysp4c3/Iraakse_Kindjes_Krijgen_Snoep_Hulk_Fight_.aspx”>video filmpje</a> te bekijken


Jun 19, 2008

Tags? Categories? It’s all just a mess!

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I’ve been putting some more time in this blog lately and have just finished cleaning up the categories. I also changed my theme…. again. If you’re following this blog you might start to think it’s being maintained by a woman, it just keeps changing looks
One problem I’m having is now that my categories [...]


Jun 19, 2008

Firefox 3.0 vulnerability

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Ouch…. Only 5 hours after the official release:
What we can confirm is that about five hours after the official release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17th, our Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x. We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it [...]


Jun 18, 2008

Movie: In bruges

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Looks great!
IMDB Page

In Bruges
by mamouang


Jun 18, 2008

Python 3000

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Python 3000, the next big version of the Python scripting language will introduce some awesome new features.
It’s import to know what this next version of Python isn’t a direct replacement for the 2.x series. It will be more than a year, maybe even two years before Python 3000 is officially released and even then the [...]