My thoughts on all stuff digital and electronic
Today one of my co-workers was victim of a major problem on the dutch railway service from and to Amsterdam; he came almost 2 hours late at office because of a ‘computer malfunction’ which resulted in the signaling and switches wouldn’t work. Apparently the computer that is responsible for dealing with these systems suffered a hard disk crash.
Dutch readers, check nu.nl for the story.
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The last couple of months Internet Service Providers in the Netherlands have been skulking about in regards of messing with the liberties of their customers: at least two Internet Providers have decided to silently block outgoing mail traffic (SMTP). Through this draconian measure they hope to fight spam that is being sent through infected or abused workstations.
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Today Sun Microsystems announced, that the Java platform is to become open-source. The source code of the Java environment will be opened up for developers under the GNU public License; the same license as used for the Operating System Linux.