Grab your calendars and mark the following dates :
T-Dose 2009 will be held on 3 and 4 october in Eindhoven again.
Last year we had a nice Drupal track, some great MySQL talks and , a great unplanned Cloud talk , and different other interesting talks, so this year promises also to be very interesting.
(PS. Drupal Themers.. you might want to propose a new theme for the T-Dose site, who knows you’ll even win something)
For the first time , 2009 will be the year that Belgium will have it’s own Security Conference, BruCon has just announced Christofer Hoff as a KeyNote speaker , BruCon will take place on 18 and 19 september… obviously in Brussels ;)
While we mention VirtSec I obviously should plug my own upcoming VirtSec talk at the LSec Secure Virtualization seminar on next Friday 13th
Last Wednesday after the LSec event with Bruce Schneier and the R ans S from RSA , we already had a mini AdHoc GeekDinner in Leuven, one that pretty would have matched Philips requirements for having it called Geek dinner
Philip has been ranting this week about different events titled “Geek” not attrackting real geeks. that know hex and binary is but merely atrackting the Startup/Web crowd, now there’s nothing wrong with both crowds, and I happen to be part of both but it can cause strange situations Geekdinner.beTom K arranged a nice deal with De Troubadour so foodwise it promises to be great.
I`m one of those guys that really doesn’t like to agree with certain EULA’s
While it’s sad enough that Dell still fails to sell an Ubuntu based laptop in Belgium and claims they have to charge extra for removing the irrelevant software from Redmond hence trying to trick you into paying more money for freedom there are things you can work around easily, I won’t be accepting the EULA that comes with those new boxen.
Over the past few years I have joined several social networking sites and continue to use a few of them regularly. These sites serve different purposes for me and I have started to come up with strategies of whom to connect with where. Here are the general guidelines that I have developed (subject to spontaneous change and arbitrary override).
On LinkedIn I only link with people that I know in person , worked with in real life or have worked with online intensively in different open source projects. , have communicated with over different media. there are couple of exceptions in my connections from my early days when I didn’t have my own set of rules yet. (Some of them have been unlinked now actually)
LinkedIn is my personal Addressbook, not a public Phone guide :)
I only follow people who inform and/or entertain me on Twitter and I don’t care about followers, so don’t expect me to follow you back.
(I`m not using Identi.ca anymore .. given no relevant userbase)
On location based services (like Tripit, Dopplr ), I connect to people that I would genuinely like to meet up with when traveling and who I trust not to rob my house when I am away. If we haven’t met yet, but you want to meet this is the place to connect !
(Forget about Dopplr.. only Tripit for now..)
Yes, I did Poken, but obviously only with people I meet in person, and I`m still waiting for that first Poken with someone I don’t know yet. (I was close but … :)) (Update: Poken is kinda obsolete, and my battery is s dead anyhow)
Sadly I`m using Facebook again , I only connect to people I know, and I generally Ignore all group invites, and block all applications. I’d actually prefer not using it at all.
Im keeping an Eye on [Google+](/blog/plus.google/index.html) .. but Im not seeing much action
I’m so not Plaxo, Xing and Ecademy anymore, I sometimes log on there, once every 6 months hoping nobody was stupid enough to send me a message there ..
To me Wink, Spock, Naymz and some others I forgot are Dead
I join new social networks often with no intention of actually using them, but just to make sure Tom doesn’t sign up impersonating me
Over the past few years I have joined several social networking sites and continue to use a few of them regularly. These sites serve different purposes for me and I have started to come up with strategies of whom to connect with where. Here are the general guidelines that I have developed (subject to spontaneous change and arbitrary override).
On LinkedIn I only link with people that I know in person , worked with in real life or have worked with online intensively in different open source projects. , have communicated with over different media. there are couple of exceptions in my connections from my early days when I didn’t have my own set of rules yet. (Some of them have been unlinked now actually)
LinkedIn is my personal Addressbook, not a public Phone guide :)
I only follow people who inform and/or entertain me on Twitter and I don’t care about followers, so don’t expect me to follow you back.
(I`m not using Identi.ca anymore .. given no relevant userbase)
On location based services (like Tripit, Dopplr ), I connect to people that I would genuinely like to meet up with when traveling and who I trust not to rob my house when I am away. If we haven’t met yet, but you want to meet this is the place to connect !
(Forget about Dopplr.. only Tripit for now..)
Yes, I did Poken, but obviously only with people I meet in person, and I`m still waiting for that first Poken with someone I don’t know yet. (I was close but … :)) (Update: Poken is kinda obsolete, and my battery is s dead anyhow)
Sadly I`m using Facebook again , I only connect to people I know, and I generally Ignore all group invites, and block all applications. I’d actually prefer not using it at all.
Im keeping an Eye on [Google+](/blog/plus.google/index.html) .. but Im not seeing much action
I’m so not Plaxo, Xing and Ecademy anymore, I sometimes log on there, once every 6 months hoping nobody was stupid enough to send me a message there ..
To me Wink, Spock, Naymz and some others I forgot are Dead
I join new social networks often with no intention of actually using them, but just to make sure Tom doesn’t sign up impersonating me
And sadly I`m seeing more and more people doing it wrong.
To a lot of people Open Source means that they have a piece of software that does almost what they want and which they can modify to their best wishes and use internally.
So they fork locally,, they don’t redistribute their code , but they aren’t contributing their changes back upstream, chances are these changes wouldn’t be accepted upstream anyhow as they are really customizing the code for their specific cases. At first sight this doesn’t look so bad , at second sight ..
I ran into this page yesterday. Yep that’s my name, with an obsolete affiliation and the only content on the page is the abstract I sent in for a conference Sys-con organized back in 2006, needless to say they never got back to me with any information regarding that conference, no positive or negative news.
Ulitzer seems to plan on launching 6,000 new author sites for the leading technology authors and software industry rock stars. Yeah , I bet they can find 6000 old profiles from people online …
I covered this one before .. but as it struck twiced today .. I think it’s worth repeating. Both my collegue Karl and Trent ran into the same problem , within hours hours of eachother, a missing or failing reverse dns mapping that caused performance issues .. and a lot of log entries..
Karl denies having a second life in Perth but I`m not really sure about that …
But I guess they both have to agree… Everything is a fscking DNS problem.
(I noticed other people using that spelling this weekend, on stage in the Janson)