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Er zijn een aantal zaken aan te merken op de nieuwe belasting op mediadragers (zie o.a. vandaag.be:

• De taks is ongrondwettelijk want hij schendt een van de basisprincipes van onze zogenaamde rechtsstaat, namelijk het vermoeden van onschuld.
• De taks is verwarrend voor de minder helderdenkende medemens, die hem zou kunnen interpreteren als een vrijgeleide voor piraterij.

Wondering why nothing much has been happening here? Take a look at http://herman.vandeputte.net ;-)

The city of Schoten has always been an early adopter where free software is concerned. It plays this part very well. Not only does the city integrate free software in its IT environment whereever possible (e.g. Asterisk for IP telephony, Zarafa for the E-mail server): it also gives back to the FLOSS community and thus sets the example of how to be a perfect free software user.

With the hands-on labs the city does even more than just giving back: it is building its very own community of IT-professionals from cities, schools, companies in the social economy and volunteer organizations.

And the winner is... Sun Management Center!

As I have a calling in life to fill this kind of gaps, it won't do complaining about it: I'll have to write a new book. Or at least a decent manual about the command line interface. The one-chapter explanation in the official Sun docs simply DOES NOT HELP at all. But, as I've said, no ranting. Just a plan to write about

• Adding and removing agents
• Loading and unloading single and multiple instance modules
• Getting module attributes
• Managing alarms
• Adding and deleting rows