There has been recently some fuss around Mono being included into the repositories by Debian and Linux, most notably coming from Stallman / FSF. While Stallman always seem to have something going on to rant about, this one may be a little different. Most notably because Mono lets you run some Microsoft languages in a Linux OS. And as we all know, usually Microsoft + Linux isn’t a happy theme. Same goes with Ubuntu.
A not so surprising, and maybe even expected by some people, news or rather blog entry was published yesterday, 7th July 2009, by Google on their blogspot page. This entry describes plans of Google to raise their Google Chrome browser to the next level, Google Chrome Operating System. For many Google users it was obvious, or at least expectable, that Google will sooner or later break into the Operating System business too, coupled with all their online apps they already have. If this however is surprising news for you, then you probably should wake up and open your eyes too.
BT, who were a lot in media coverage recently due to their unsolicited deep packet inspection testing with their partners Phorm, yesterday (6th July 2009) cancelled their Phorm program. To many this is a welcome move by BT. Phorm, or rather their investors, replied with a falling share price of Phorm (PHRM on London’s AIM). Coincidence or purposely one day before MPs and some peers begin an investigation of internet privacy?
First and foremost, the internet is not dead in Germany, but it has been significantly shot last Thursday, the 18th June 2009. And this could lead to its death. What happened is following:
A politician named Ursula von der Leyen campaigned to install web blocks against child pornography. While the name of that package sounds honourable, if you look behind the proposed system, it is nothing else than a huge internet censorship infrastructure.
Finally, after a long time of doing nothing with my domains, apart from wasting time and space, I decided to add a page. I coupled this directly with moving the main hosting to a different provider, as I wanted a VPS, as well as got myself some more domains.
So, here you are, looking at the current incarnation of this page.
This will be extended, and content added, with stuff I find, or rant about, or anything.
Enjoy, and hope to see you here again!
AR
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