Michael Doornbos

Archive for October, 2006

26 Oct, 2006

Spent some time in NY this week

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Spent some time in NY at the Infosec conference (More on that at the Imapenguin Blog today). We got some play time after the show for a while:

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23 Oct, 2006

Firefox 2.0 a little early

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It’s not on the website yet, but the ftp servers have the releases up already. It’s officially supposed to be released Oct 24th.
New features are here.
Sweet!

Riding the train home from a meeting in the city today I sat next to a guy with a huge IBM laptop with a 12” screen running windows 95. I felt like I needed to switch seats to keep from getting infected with spyware and viruses just from sitting that close to him.

17 Oct, 2006

Linux still isn’t my primary desktop

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From 1998 to 2005, various Linux and FreeBSD desktops including KDE, GNOME, Blackbox, etc were my primary desktop. Then in the spring of 2005, my wife bought a Mac. I used it for maybe an hour one night and bought one the next day.
I use Linux for servers exclusively (notice I don’t use [...]

02 Oct, 2006

Just what WOULD Jesus download anyway?

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Apparently, someone has created an “Ubuntu for Christians” including parental controls and bible study software.
More intriguing is the question, “what would Jesus download?”.
As the original universe hacker, don’t you think god gets to say: “Yeah, I coded that whole universe thing.”