Vista's bad habits (again)

I posted earlier about bad Vista habits here

Vista is damaging the freedoms that the internet was based on.

The quote came from the BBC news page that is linked on the Slashdot site as well.

quote:
It claimed that "there will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards and whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista - except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista forces you to use".

via: Slashdot

Real life HTML

In you do the occasional thing in the HTML language, these pictures might give you a giggle or two. Nicely done.

Skype reads your bios?

Slashdot posted this article about Skype. It reads your BIOS (it's on your motherboard and holds a unique number, attached hardware and so on) so it seems. If this is true, then Skype is malicious and above that a lying company. In that case Skype would be exit on my machine and probably on many more..
Skype? What's up with this?

Alternatives:
Gizmo
Wengo phone
VOIP Buster
PC Telephone

Chris Langan

Here is a video (3 parts) of a very, very smart man, but.. he is wise as well. Big respect to you Chris Langan.

JVC Chameleon

personal post:
The JVC Chameleon. I liked it back in the days and i got one 2 years ago. Treated it nicely (I love my music!), but all of a sudden this piece of electronics stopped functioning ok. Most likely due to the slide-out controls. Bad move of JVC it seems. It functions on and off and it really ticks me of. So, my next radio won't be a JVC. Too bad, it was quite nice when it worked.

So to those who consider buying a JVC Chameleon.. think twice!

WDDG

A new WDDG website. Really well done!

2007!

A very happy 2007 people!

Here's a little movie that somewhat says the same.. it's kewl :) (thanx bro)

Vista DRM, pure suicide. Get Linux or Mac!

As if the clause mentioned earlier wasn't enough, vista will have more anti-user tricks on it's sleeve. Basically vista will be a dictator in a box. Happy computing!
(see also my post on the license you will get with Vista)

Oh.. if you want to see alternatives:
Apple welcome you with 'Hello.. again' and..
you can't go wrong with the Linux pinguin in your PC (or Mac).

I have been using Linux now for some months on an old laptop, i had some issues (which almost made me stop using it as i posted on this blog), but lately it had serve me very well. It does a lot of tasks i need it to do for me. Linux has become a long way, also due to the incredible Ubuntu project (respect!)
Meanwhile I did switch and i am using Mint Linux (based upon Ubuntu) now.

Oh.. Apple OSX is based on Unix, which Linux is also build upon. Just for those that would like to know.

Update: 29 Dec 2006 - 08:50
The OSSOS, the program "Open Standards and Open Source Software (OSSOS) for the Dutch government" says 'Enough!' as well. Nice! :)

Lenticular Clouds...

These clouds are just cool and weird at the same time.

Don Dixon

I've been trolling some 3D sites and related stuff and came across the site of Don Dixon. This guy makes good 3D animations, but his blog with stills and sketches is awesome.

He also has a demoreel up of his 3D work have a look at that too. (.mov)

Micro$oft Tries To Patent RSS. What!?

They want to patent it? Someone should put Micro$oft to sleep for good! RSS invented by Dave Winer, was meant to be open. It's a community tool, everybody loves it and uses it. Benefits are showing and who shows up to ruin the party? Again! Micro$oft.. forget about the patent and may Linux become the better you. You're time has been if i had to call it..

Make a Torchic!

Do you like being creative with materials and stuff? Then make a Torchic!
What is a torchic? Well, just read the tutorial here.

There's a whole gallery of them as well.

Ask X - The new way of searching

I've tested it for just a minute or two, but this looks promissing. Using handy features that CSS and Javascript provide. Ask is exploring web2.0 and they do it nicely. Read the article on searchengine showdown or visit the AskX website and have a go yourself.

Bad Vista campaign

I posted earlier about the new and upcoming Vista and why you should think twice before you decide to buy it. It seems the problem is even more serious! Unless you choose to be a slave to your software, the manufacturers and that company in Redmond (who seems to get weirder by the day) You might wanna reconsider the upgrading of your windows.
Visit The Badvista Campaign and read more

Firefox hits 25% marketshare

Way to go Foxie! I've supported it all the way and i'm glad to see where it is going.
The W3Counter (not the same as the W3C for web-standards) has the browser statistics online. This is good news for developers and the W3C. Although the W3C doesn't always favours the best choices, the fact that the Standards-bandwagon is slowly winning ground is a good thing for a lot of people. So.. IE.. grow up and start supporting standards the way you should instead of programming it just on your own behalf.

Foxie, i got nothing but love for ya!

Update 20 Dec 2006: More Firefox(graphical) stats from The Inquirer

New Firefox logo?

Check out the proposal for a new Firefox logo ;-)

Wisdom

Just a note for myself as a backreference, reminding me of the current moment. Our world needs to grow up. Intelligence is not wisdom. The world needs teachers, but it seems.. that it is a view not shared by the many. A pity, a true pity. A wasted month like we waste the planet. It surely gave me some new opinions and beliefs. People sometimes..

Americans, take your freedom of speech back

Fed up with the FCC? So are many more. Join them and speak out at fccfu.com. Also listen to the song they made, it's hilarious and so, so true.

They know what you printed (last summer)

Ok, that last summer part was just to make a cool refference, but.. some manufacturers actually can trace your printings with hidden code in your printers print. Read the article at Boing boing..

Dutch Internet connection drama

So, its that time again.. i am tuned in to deep.fm and my streaming connection is bugging me like crazy.. i sometimes so hate the connection during those moments. Someone fix that, somehow, anyhow! *sigh*

Firefox Tab catalog

If you are a Mac OSX user.. you know expose? This is the Firefox version and it is cool! If you don't know what expose is, just have a look at the Firefox Tab Catalog extension.

Goodbye Linux

That's it. I have been running several Linux builds for some while (beatrix, ubuntu, morphix, dreamlinux), due to a older laptop i always had to go for lighter builds which was ok for me. Somehow stuff never worked for me, one time it was this, the other it was that and i kept trying to fix it and to make it work and after some that it did, but.. it's tiring.. it is. So after another problem (VNC only sending capital letters) i decided to stop all of it. I want to suport linux, but it often feels i try to fix more than i hay enjoyment from it, so.. this is it. I am about to stop using Linux. For those that use linux, way to go, they need it. I wish i could do too, but somehhow it wasn't planned to be that way. Too bad.

update 14 Nov:
I gave Dreamlinux another go.. let's hope it sticks.

Turn off your TV

I knew this podcast allready, but with 9/11 being all hype and more discussed now, some of you might enjoy some thoughts shared in this podcast. Turn off your TV podcast

Dev Opera

It seems Opera has started their own dev space for their community and other developers. One thingy is, the RSS feed, it should be easier to access. It can only be found in the source(ffrom what i could see) and the path is relative(it should be a full path). For those that want it: Dev Opera RSS link.

Other than that, i really like to see how this will turn out. Nice one Opera!

via: Codedread Blog

Buy Vista, get censored! Ouch!

...ust by way of example, what about a security researcher who a year or so from now wants to compare the buffer overflow vulnerabilities of the original version of Vista with the inevitable SP1? Under Microsoft's rules, the researcher could not make public the results of the older version of the software. And if you think it highly unlikely Microsoft would actually object to the benchmarks in such circumstances, think again. In 2001 Microsoft came down on an independent lab that was about to go public with performance benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Windows 2000... read the article