A while ago I wrote this article about what should happen for creating a better local market for the IT industry.
Meanwhile, I started my own company to do consultancy and support for Linux and *BSD systems.

Trying to help out with the difficulties of buying and selling on the web, I started this new project to collect information about dubious sales and items.

Check out FakeItems.ORG.

This is a short rant about something that has been annoying me for years now. 'Security experts' often argue that security is not a product but a process. While I agree with the intention here, I disagree with the saying.

Geeklog is a popular and very flexible and secure weblog package written in PHP. While flexible, and going a long way towards a full content management system, Geeklog is also big, feature rich, and leaves some things to desire when it comes to performance. In this article I explain some of the things I did to optimize my FreeBSD/Apache2/PHP4 based Geeklog installation.

Suggestions for a European policy for creating, maintaining and strengthening a local software industry

In the previous part I explained why some of the most popular suggestions for fixing the spam problem will not work.In this part I will start defining how the problem can be solved.

You have e-mail? then you definitely heard about, and experienced yourself this thing called spam. Having your mailbox flooded by advertisements that you didn't ask for, and that are often of a rather dubious nature.

Quite a few years ago now, SUN came up with this really cool idea, make a language and a runtime environment that are portable to almost any platform, and that would allow transfering binaries between platforms and run them directly by means of using bytecode.