Author: Joop Beris
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New location and new look
It’s been a while in the works but I’ve finally changed some things around here. First of all, this blog has been moved to entirely new site. It is no longer in a co-location hosting centre but instead now lives on its own small server in my home. I’ve added an SSL certificate for encryption…
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Je suis Charlie
Earlier today, gunmen entered the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, gunning down 12 people in cold blood. The reason: the magazine published cartoons of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. This is why it is necessary to speak out against fanatical religious beliefs and to defend the right to free speech. That’s what…
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Why I am an atheist – part 3
This is the third article of an intended series during which I will explain why I am an atheist. The first part can be found here, the second part is here. 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…
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Why I am an atheist – part 2
This is the second article of an intended series during which I will explain why I am an atheist. The first part can be found here. 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…
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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..