" One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back-to-back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A paralyzed donkey walking by,
Kicked a blind man in the eye,
Sent him through a rubber wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all. "

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Daar draait het om: Liever Mirjam dan enig andere. Kort maar krachtig (want ik kan nu niet echt heel grote epistels schrijven). Maar ik vind je wel lief!

Kus. Ik schrijf vanavond wel hoe de film was...

Microsoft bent my Danish prime minister:

"Bill Gates told the Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen that 800 jobs would go if the country opposed the European Union's proposed directive on software patents."

Bill Gates and other communists | Perspectives | CNET News.com:

"Today's Microsoft is a megacorporation with thousands of patents. Microsoft said in court that the main competition for MS Windows is 'Linux,' meaning the free software GNU/Linux operating system. Leaked internal documents say that Microsoft aims to use software patents to stop the development of GNU/Linux."

Mirjam bedankt! Ik heb werkelijk waar nog nooit zo'n leuk cadeau gekregen :D. Gister-avond was sowieso weer super gezellig, hoewel we allebei volgens mij een beetje overdonderd waren.

P.S. ik ben gister je stempelkaart vergeten...

Currently the best Operating-system (linux), the best webserver (apache), the best browser (firefox) and the best office application (Open Office.org) are ope- source. Maybe the greatest advantage these applications have is supreme security, but somehow I fear that security-game which is currently played will still kill them off.

Microsoft has created an insecure web-experience, but few people see it that way. They believe virusses and add-ware is just something wich comes with every computer-system. This is Microsoft marketing at its best because all those things don't exists with other operating systems and applications. But the Microsoft Marketing is capable of so much more: convince everyone that the next operating system called Windows Longhorn will be the most secure platform ever. But the scary part is that it will not only be marketing. They will introduce Trusted computing!

Trusted computing will make sure only trusted applications can be run on your computer, this will be enforced by your hardware so you can't fake it. Normal applications can run on you're computer because the code is signed by ... Microsoft. That's right, the only code which you can run on you're computer must be signed by Microsoft. This will mean you can't install Linux on you're windows pc, no dual boot. Now this should not be so bad because there are still enough computers with no Trusted Computing so you will be able to do anything you want on those. But Cisco (the biggest supplier for internet hardware like routers) is planning to release a router which locks out computers which do not run on a trusted platform. So you're linux box will eventually be locked out from the internet. Free Software like Open Source software will cease to exist.

Things will probably never become that bad, but we should be aware of the silent changes. There are big players with lots of money who want to control what you can and can't do with you're computer. More control means more money for them. This goes for Microsoft because it is harder for you to switch to another software provider so they can simply ask for money, they can even ask a montly fee because no software you buy will last forever like it does now. And the same applies to Movies and Music. You will not be able to share you're music and it too will not last forever. Then they will be able to ask for the same absurd prices as they do with dvd's and cd's...

Mirjam i like you!, en ik hou van je! Een extra speciale dag vandaag, ik heb er zin aan! Kus, en ik zie je vanavond :D

Als ik de volgende documentatie/correspondentie bekijk krijg ik het gevoel dat er niemand vóór software patenten is:

Google Search: software site:europarl.eu.int

Maar waarom word de wet er dan toch doorheen gedrukt en door wie?

Idee: een programma waarmee je websites kan fixen voor Firefox. In de vorm van een xpi extensie die bij het laden van een site de patch download (met of zonder confirmatie). Daarnaast moet het mogelijk zijn om zelf snel een patch te maken. Een patch is altijd een regulaire expressie welke on-the-fly de html omvormt.

Een ander idee is een xhtml-anti-virus-proxy. Deze proxy server beveiligt tegen allerlei ongewenste indringers die fouten in IE of MSN proberen uit te buiten. Dit is vooral handig voor bedrijven die mensen geen volledige toegang meer willen geven tot het internet.