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Why Should I Give Money to Backup my Data?

On the 17th of December, the Belgian citizens (like me) had the “good” surprise from our Minister (certainly not a X-mas gift)! A Royal Decree was published in the “Moniteur” about the tax on the private copy of digital data. From now (or from 1st of January, I suppose), when you buy a device with [...]

Security Code Fail

Picture taken this afternoon… No comment!

Firefox Banned in Walloon Administrations

Do you know the latest Belgian joke? As lot of Belgian citizens, I’m bullet-proof against Belgian jokes, they are part of our life. But this time, it affected me! According to the following article (in French, Google translation here), Firefox is temporary (?) banned from all the workstations used in the Walloon Administrations! Users have [...]

Hello? Anybody Home?

If you’re working in the small world of Internet Providers or perform any other business related to Internet, you are for sure aware of the major outage affecting Colt since yesterday in Europe (or you’re living on the moon!) Checkout the article on theregister.co.uk. I received feedback from several customers whose business relies on the [...]

Database Crash

Due to a database failure, the blog was empty (no post found) during a few hours. This has been fixed right now! Sorry for the inconvenience.

Stuck Payment Terminal

I’ll not trust this terminal anymore! (Picture taken in the Louvain-La-Neuve shopping center last Friday) Fail!

Lack Of Security!

I just discovered the following fully-open-ADSL router due to a typo error in the IP address! Fully open, no password, WiFi configured with WEP, fully unsecured! Even the SSID was based on the company name! The name contained “fin…” like “financial”! Fail!