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I’m certainly not addicted to web stats. This blog has a Google Analytics marker but I don’t follow the statistics on a regular base. After all, I’m blogging for fun and I don’t need to keep my audience at a certain amount or don’t need to attract more visitors – even if a growing audience [...]

To surf the web, you need a specific application: a browser. Today, this piece of software is delivered by default with all operating systems and becomes more and more used, even for non-related Internet stuff (Lot of applications or devices are manageable using a web interface). For some companies, the browser will even replace the [...]

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 [...]

It is never too early to give some security recommendations! My first daughter became a fan of a book series called “Max & Lili”. Those comics books (only available in French if I’m not wrong) are written by Serge Bloch and Dominique de Saint-Mars. Each volume focuses on a specific theme (around school, friends, family, [...]

A new law is in the pipe in Belgium. Like snail mail or mobile numbers, the Federal authorities would like to implement the portability of e-mail addresses and homepages when the user changes of Internet Service Provider (for a period of six months). The goal of this law is to make the Internet market more [...]

As described by the Internet Storm Center in the last Sunday diary, my name server was also hit by this attack today. 380000 queries for “.” where sent to bind. For those who’re not experienced with the DNS protocol, querying for a dot (“.”), ask the name server to answer the list of the root [...]

The popular service Youtube is a wonderful tool to promote all kind of information. But some countries find this too dangerous for multiple reasons (mainly political and/or religious). Have a look at the map below. It represents a world map of countries were Youtube is/was blocked: I’m the owner a rootshell.be, a service which offers [...]

Firefox 3 is out! It seems that the World Record of downloads in 24 hours will be difficult to accomplish…

A page of the Internet history will maybe be turned off soon. Three major ISPs in the United States (Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable) announced they will stop access to Usenet! (or access will be limited to the Big-8). The youngest of us have probably never used a “newsreader” to access Usenet via the [...]

Today, I received a mailing (partnership between ING and Steptone) to promote open career opportunities at ING. Well, I receive a lot of mailings but this one was quite special… It said: For more information about career opportunities, visit www.ingitcrew.be.. I really liked the slogan “Doing Well by Doing Right“, check out: Problem? Don’t try [...]