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Voddler browser plugin

Adam — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:02:05 +0000

Install this Voddler search engine in your Mozilla Firefox to search movies quickly:

Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

Adam — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:48:29 +0000

Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. The extension tells the browser to always use the encrypted https protocol if it is available.

This is a small but important step towards protecting your privacy. It will be effective against the EU’s Data Retention Directive that is drawing closer every day, and that will force all Internet service providers to save all the Internet traffic from your computer. (The extension will naturally not protect agains Google’s or Facebook’s snooping).

Install the HTTPS Everywhere extension now!

Found art: Robotron

Adam — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:15:46 +0000

Das Erzeugnisprogramm Dezentrale Datentechnik

Trying to use www in WordPress MU

Adam — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:46:17 +0000

For some strange and irritating reason, the developers of WordPress MU have decided that users of said product are not allowed to access their own web server using a web address beginning with www.

Fortunaltely, the system is open source so this amazingly stupid setting can be deactivated (comment out a few lines in wpmu-settings.php). It’s just that you have to remeber this change when you update the software.

Read more if this is of any interest to you:

http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/forcing-mu-to-use-www/

(And I don’t think it’s a bad idea to use URLs without www, it’s just that it’s not up to the developers of WPMU…)

Thoughts on the iPad

Adam — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:51:02 +0000

Last week, Apple announced the long awaited iPad. I guess I was a bit disappointed that it turned out to be a big iPod instead of a small computer.

I had naïvely been hoping for the iPad to be an open platform, but just like on the iPod/iPhone all applications have to go through the app store and be approved by Apple.

Photo: Michal Zacharzewski

William Gibson, godfather of Cyberpunk!

Adam — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:43:18 +0000

Here’s a cool clip about William Gibson and Cyberpunk. It’s really old, but that makes it even better.

Thanks to: Mattias Elftorp!

Richard Stallman

Adam — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:21:38 +0000

Richard Stallman (original: Chrys)

av Mathias Friman

4 Laws that Shape the Future of the Internet

Adam — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:32:31 +0000

Illustration: sxc.hu / gerard79

Moore’s law – The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit is doubling approximately every two years.
Metcalfe’s law – The value of a communications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.
Godwin’s law – As a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory – Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad