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Forged Evidence: Copy (it) right?

Interesting developments in the BREIN vs. The Pirate Bay case,  see brokep’s blogpost. It looks like they faked evidence (download PDF) in order to connect Fredrik Neij to Reservella, the company owning The Pirate Bay since a couple of years, in order to direct all the costs and fees to …

Asking Europe for an Open Internet

Sign this petition, it’s vital. France recently accepted a 3-strikes law for internet users, and the UK is about to implement a (washed-down, but still) version of it. This is unacceptable! 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual. Internet users are entitled to access, send and receive the …

Poster design

I designed a poster for the improv team I’m in, Preparee. Without too much ado, I think it’s hands-down one of the better ads I’ve made using The Gimp and Inkscape, which are both free (and open-source) image editing packages.

WICD: An alternative network manager

There are lots of things to like about the GNOME desktop environment. It’s free, it’s highly consistent and backup up with excellent development ethics and a wide range of supported applications. It comes as no surprise that it is the default desktop in a lot of Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, …

The Pirate Bay Pingpong

Yesterday, The Pirate Bay ‘s ISP uplink was taken offline by the Swedish authorities due to the pending (!) trial against the original founders. Related services like Openbittorrent, which was hosted on the same fiber, went down too. The court order can be found on the website of Piratpartiet here …

Mezzanine

I’ve been planning on reviewing some of the records which changed my way of listening to music. You could say they have set new bars to compare to or opened an unkown section of the musical spectrum for me. Today: Mezzanine by Massive Attack. Released in 1998, this is considered …

Building a PmWiki Calendar

Over the last few months, I’ve been building a calendar/event system on top of PmWiki. For our impro group, we needed a central system to store all events and internal deadlines. At first,I hesitated to implement it in PmWiki syntax. Since PmWiki is a flat-file wiki system, no database would …