Author: Joop Beris
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Why I am an atheist – part 1
This is the first article of an intended series during which I will explain why I am an atheist. Much of this is based on my own, personal thoughts and experiences with religion, mostly Christianity, because that is the religion I have been exposed to the most. While this is not intended as an attack…
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Installing the VMWare View client on openSUSE 13.1
If, like me, you like to use the openSUSE Linux distribution, both personally and professionally and you need to connect to a VMWare View environment, you’ll be unpleasantly surprised: there’s no supported client for openSUSE or other RPM based distributions. There is however, an Ubuntu package..
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PDF file print protected?
Having a PDF file that is print protected is annoying. If you run into this nonsense and you happen to use Linux, the following command will save you, provided you have Ghostscript installed. Note though, that this command can not strip the password out of documents that are password protected against opening!
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Governed by your inferiors
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
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I told you so…
It’s December 22, 2012. Thank goodness we’re all still alive. Not that I ever believed the world was coming to an end, of course.
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How dangerous is the ITU?
The ITU, the International Telecommunications Union is the UN agency for Information and Communication Technologies. The ITU is “committed to connecting all the world’s people – wherever they live and whatever their means”. Sounds like a very noble commitment, doesn’t it? It’s odd then, that the potentially biggest threat to the free and open Internet…