Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

Fedora it is

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

As I mentioned in my "Dear Microsoft" rant-thing, I was planning on moving away from Windows. The first thing I wanted to look into, was FreeBSD, and I did. After installing it and getting a wonderfull commandline, I started poking around. That was somewhat of a fail; I could get neither ...

Dear Microsoft

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Dear Microsoft, for a while now, you have been promoting your new Windows 7 as the operating system everybody should use. Understandable, because Windows XP really does need to be replaced, and Windows Vista just isn't what it should be. As a Windows Vista user, I've been wanting to upgrade. Not just ...

Life Changes

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

A bunch of things changed in my life recently. Some big changes, other small. The first of these, is the half year internship at GeoTax I started on september first. At GeoTax, they develop software to help municipalities execute a bunch of Dutch laws. My job there is that of ...

A flowchart everybody can understand

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Computers are complicated, I understand that. Getting that stupid software to do what you want it to do can be a huge problem. Thank god anybody who does anything related in any way to computers (or anything technical, really) will know how to do it. Right?