dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

Articles



On mobile platforms

So Palm killed their Foleo before it was even launched. Too bad, as I thought it was a nice little laptop. [Also, check Engadgets plea to Palm and Palm's response, which likely caused the Foleo to be scrapped] I'm not entirely sure how stupid the Foleo was; they marketed it …



The 2007 Desktop Linux Survey

Be sure to get your vote counted at the 2007 Desktop Linux Survey. I was voter 30492, so it's getting somewhere already :) I like how over 30% of the users don't even care about running windows apps on their machines.



Spam, GetLive and other crap

I just reached the 15000 spam messages for this year in my spam folder. That's about 15007/211 = 71.12 messages a day. Fun, fun. Thanks the Light for SpamAssassin. In other news, I just installed the GetLive script in replacement for the trusty old gotmail script to retrieve messages …

Synching your devices and applications: Funambol

I got the Funambol SyncML server working with my SonyEricsson M600i smartphone this evening. This software [formerly known as sync4j] enables you to synchronise all kinds of [mobile] devices and PIM software with SyncML. Like my M600i and Evolution [however, I didn't get the SyncEvolution synchroniser working with Evolution 2 …

27th of July: sysadmin appreciation day

Check the System Administrator Appreciation Day site, and go to the nearest server room/basement/closet-with-pale-guy-at-a-noisy-computer and show them you appreciate it they don't ruin your day by disconnecting everyone from the network except them and their buddies to play their favourite game without lag. Well, at least they didn't …


Thunderbird Tango icon theme

I'm using Icedove 2.0 for a while now [the Debian GNU/Linux version of Mozilla Thunderbird], and as I'm using the excellent Tango icons for everything on my system, I also had a Tango theme for my mail program. However, it was a tad buggy, so I went out …

Restless

After reading Bloempje's posting about her restlessness, I was inspired to write about my own. I'm currently working on some assignments in Minix 3, and trying to get my bachelor thesis in shape. Also, I'm advancing with talks about an internship for my Masters research project. The company I'm talking …


Happy fair use day!

From today on Boing Boing: Happy fair use day! Go quote something! Fair use is the smallest part of the public's side of copyright. Sure, we have the right to quote, time-shift, format-shift, transform and so on. But the big piece is all the stuff that copyright shouldn't/doesn't touch …

Dr. Who

I have a craving. A television channel here in the Netherlands aired the first season of the new Dr. Who episodes a good two years back, but I've not seen any new ones after that. As my girlfriend prefers not having to concentrate on English after a day hard work …

Music at night

People turning on their music at 7:20AM [when you finally have a slower day] should die. If they do so at 3:30AM, they should die horribly... Fun, having neighbours above you...

Failure in design

This week, a "Do Not Disturb" sign was hang on every door knob in our street. It was an advertisement for anti-burglary protection. However, this campaign could have very well a negative impact, as for example, a house across our street had it hanging there for two days straight - meaning …

Observations in public transport

The other day, I was sitting in a metro racing in the general direction of my university. The girl sitting opposite me was chewing bubble gum. In itself, that's far from special, but do people realise they really don't look intelligent when chewing that material loudly with an open mouth …