Some stupid virus is exploiting my e-mail address as reply-to address (again). Some poor windows user is infected. (It’s not me!) If you get one or more e-mails from me with this subject: “Registration Confirmation”,
please check the raw headers of the mail! Please copy these to a new
e-mail message and mail me. I only got some bounces from hotmail with
no headers from the sender… I don’t have to say that you DO NOT want
to open the attachment…

Please, take a look at a Mozilla based browser like Firefox or Netscape. There are several reasons for you why. MSIE is not RFC compliant, several normal HTML, DHTML, CSS2 and JavaScript methods don’t work or does something different than it should do when MSIE is RFC compliant. An other thing is that MSIE is loaded with bug and security issues. And we’re still waiting for Microsoft to solve those. Most of the Mozilla based browsers are GPL/open source projects. That means that the geeks and hackers can view the source and find bugs and security holes faster and solve the problem with a patch, wich can be mailed back to the project developers, so they can implement it.

We webdevelopers are now building for every site two versions of the layout, one for normal browsers and one for MSIE, just because Microsoft thinks that RFC stands for ‘Read F*ck’n Complain’… So they don’t read those…

There are some fake e-mails send with some random @daantje.nl addresses. When the email doesn’t have a known signature of mine, and it has a small attachment, just delete the message and DON’T open the attachment! Please beware, it’s some kind of virus and it uses random known from and to addresses from other infected michines. It’s not me that’s infected, but some other poor sole(s) I comunicated with.Neat way to check if you are sending mail without your knowledge, apt-get install ettercap or some other network scanner…

UPDATED 13 aug 2003! Removal tool is available for ‘Blaster’ worm! My brother and some friends just called me today, they are running Windows XP and there computer is shutting down out of the blue… They get a count down box and the computer is shutting down when it’s to 0. Now I did some research… It’s a worm named ‘blaster’. You should activate or install a firewall! Look here for more info and the worm removal tools: http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.aspI think those worms and virruses are a great thing. Why? Because I think it’s the only way to force you to think about your security and the developers about there source code, architecture and fast bug fixes! Don’t be a sheep! Think it trough when your installing or downloading something! Is it tested right? What security issues can be found at google? What is the reputation of the software? Did YOU read the manual??

Just found a nice and handy way to get rid of all that spam, using fetchmail, procmail and this nifty script! Get it here: spastic.sourceforge.netNote: After installing it, all my mail bounced. After I had changed the .forward file and removed the ‘exec’ command to: “| /usr/bin/procmail”, than I could reseave mail again…

I’m participating in an online demonstration against the acceptance of software patents in Europe. This change in law threatens many GPL software contributors living and working in Europe, and is a detriment to the progress of our industry as a whole.

I’m moving all my personal domains to BE-hosting.nl Having some technical difficulties with my old provider… G-art.nl…