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“,
Don’t Start Flame Wars Via Blogs!
A woman (blogger) was sentenced to three months suspended prison sentence and a fine of EUR 500! This happened in Arlon. Reason: neighborhood problems and they exchanged insults on a blog. Read the article (in French).
E-mail Disclosure?
One more time, a new round started today in Belgium between Flemish and Walloons… (I don’t want to start a new political debate here: I’m living in the “French” side of Belgium and working in the “Dutch” side without problems. I try to speak in Dutch and my colleagues understand
France Will Filter Child Pornography
It’s almost done. To fight child pornography on the Internet, the French government has a project of law (article in French) to filter all websites giving access to child pornography. The list will be distributed to all French ISP’s and they will have to block access to those websites (on
Passwords Are …
Thanks to Grawity.
Nessus License Updated
Nessus is a well-known security scanner used by many administrators, consultants or independant. Tenable, which promote the Nessus product, announced big changes in the licensing model of Nessus. Read all details here.
Shit Happens!
We are all vulnerable! Yesterday, it was my turn… Infected by a trojan. Up to 04:00 AM to fix the problem! The culprit was Vundo. A well-known (and quite old) Trojan which slows down the system, display pop-ups etc… Nothing very malicious but it was difficult to get rid of
The Data Retention Effect on Citizens Behavior
In Germany, data retention is already in place for communication channels such phone calls, Internet access and e-mails. A recent survey (German document) demonstrated that German citizens are aware about the way there private data are logged and changed their behavior in this way. Read comments about this survey here.
Use your GFX Memory as Swap
Modern graphics cards are now today with plenty of RAM. This memory has a very high throughput. If you don’t run a big X11 environment, why not dedicate this memory to another purpose? Swap space by example! Check out: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap.
Bad Day for “The Planet”
The Planet is a hosting provider like many others in the US. End of May, a fire incident hit one of their Houston data center. A few numbers: 9000 servers down 7500 customers affected $900000 estimated loss Read the story: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185