LAX, LA's airport caused big trouble for 17,000 passengers last week, due to computer malfunction. What happened ? One single computer inside the customs office crashed. The networkcard of that...
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The chinese government has a different look on things. After having been a control freak over anything people might think of doing, they have finally picked up on something a certain german gentleman...
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Currently, a lot of people believe that virtualization is the latest religion. If you read this site often, you might already know that I don't believe in that. But than again, I am not a...
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Years ago I was working in an office environment on a high security level. As a consequence, we had no internet access. In order to be able to find stuff on the net anyway, I developed a little script...
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One of the hottest things around in IT is the environment, or how to act as if you care about it. Even companies that don't care at all play the game - as being green will generate money, and...
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France has just announced to triple the amount of 'public surveillance' cameras. I cannot help but wonder about the impact on their network and hardware that will have to support this extra...
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Evolution is a process that takes many thousands of years. We, animals as well as plants, adapt slowly to the ever changing environment we live in, to fit better and maximising chances for survival....
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I have written about virtualization before here, but I would like to take the discussion one step up. All hardware and software manufacturers treat virtualization as if it is the latest religion in IT...
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Startups. A word that doesn't mean a thing to some, and means the world to others. The others are entrepeneurs, or investors. In order to have a startup, you need the right ingredients. And the...
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In the old days, the data produced by customers was hardly ever more than what you could put inside a generic unix server, and in cases where it wasn't enough we could make use of disk cabinets...
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About ten years ago, the term ITIL made a lot of people look very angry. Most sysadmins I knew saw it as an invader in there holy territory and refused to work by it's rigid rules, that seemed out...
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Sun, the company behind the world's most succesfull unix based on the berkely unix, has made some interesting moves the last couple of years. One of the most remarkable one was the opening of the...
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WorldWideWireless. This word means paradise to me, and probably to a lot of people like me as well. What is it ? Boingo, one of the biggest hotspotproviders in the world, has understood that timebased...
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Green power is a hot subject at the moment. I don't understand why it is hot right now, because in my opinion it should have been hot years ago. But apparently it is now. The consequences hereof...
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Sending and receiving email is one of the things we spend most of our time at work on. Therefore email has become one of the most important pieces in corporate infrastructure - we can't do...
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In the E-Commerce Times, Andre Burger explains on how wireless networks and techniques integrate into common business environments rapidly. This makes me think about something the integration of...
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Every day, thousands and thousands of applications re being developed worldwide. Out of that pool, only a handful survives per month. As with all inventions, some of them have the potential but they...
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The web is more and more an open place where writers put up their thoughts, companies gain money thru advertising and webdesigners charge crazy rates to create fabulous eyecandy. And, oh yeah,...
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Apple refuses to classify the iPod as an mp3 player. They are right in doing so, but this has some consequences online : searches for mp3 player in google don't point to apple.For several years...
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In , Michael Arrington suggests olderr people are scared by modern cellphones, and prefer older phones or simple phones that are made for only on thing : making phone calls.Jitterbug. Promising...
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After having heard and read of this terrible shooting, I had to take a little break from posting. I am back today. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the victims, the survivors and their...
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