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Welcome!

Well, here it is. My très cool homepage. NOT ;) I've tried to keep the navigation and layout as simple as possible; no frames and none of that fancy ActiveWhatever here.

Why? I happen to prefer speed over browser-specific layout. This means, that you should be able to navigate these pages using Any Browser you like...

Also, you should take into consideration that there are a lot of people on the 'Web that cannot access your pages with a mouse-driven graphical browser. That's why I check my pages using Bobby, an HTML validator that specifically checks for accessibility problems.

Check out the buttonbar at the top of this page for the different topics on this site. Where possible, I've used a navigation bar.

Note: the "Links" section is still being restructured. Beware of broken links...

What will you find here?

Apart from the topics as listed on the buttonbar, you can also find stuff about:

Annoyances Programming Miscellaneous

Fighting net-abuse...

Fighting Telemarketers
(they are as annoying as spammers)

Perl programming

User Interface design

Creating (or copying) Audio CDs
with a Plextor CD-ROM and GEAR Audio

Using ISDN with Linux

My adventures with RedHat Linux 5.1

Annoyances	Programming	Miscellaneous
Fighting net-abuse... Fighting Telemarketers (they are as annoying as spammers)	Perl programming User Interface design	Creating (or copying) Audio CDs with a Plextor CD-ROM and GEAR Audio Using ISDN with Linux My adventures with RedHat Linux 5.1

Security and privacy

UNIX/Linux	Windows NT
SecurityFocus Forums -> BugTraq -> archive RootShell CERT Security Audit FAQ RedHat Bug List	Microsoft Security Advisor NT BugTraq NT Security L0pht

News sites

News	New Software	Hardware
SlashDot Solaris Central UnixWorld Linux Weekly News or Daily News LinuxWorld Linux Web Watcher U-Geek	FreshMeat SunFreeware Last 50 submissions on c.o.l.a	Toms Hardware AnandTech ARS Technica CPU Review Hard OCP

Looking for the cheapest deal on books?

After some discussions on SlashDot, Steve Wells has put up a simple Price Check form that queries a number of bookstores and gets you the lowest prices. Use is simple: type the ISBN number (no dashes) and press enter to submit. You will be redirected to Steve's site, where the results are displayed. Of course, I also have some recommended books with their BookSearch prices.

Donate your CPU-cycles

If, like me, you have one or more machines running 24x7, you have a lot of CPU-cycles to spare. My file- and mailserver for instance rarely have a load of more than 25%. The remaining time could be spent on more or less useful things, by running one of these clients:

SETI@home; the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
distributed.net; a brute-force attack on DES and RC5 encryption

Fighting Spam and Junk email

Spamming and other forms of abuse, notably junk email are a major issue on the 'Net.

If you post on Usenet, you've almost certainly become a victim of junk email. The reason is, that your email address is included in each message that you post on Usenet. Certain individuals filter out these addresses, and use them for junkmailing purposes.

At a certain point, I received so many unsolicited mass-emailings each week, that I had to implement counter-measures. These include a fake From: address, and procmail scripts to filter out unwanted incoming email.

Fight net-abuse now! Join CAUCE!. The Hall Of Shame contains a list of domains that are currently on my blacklist.

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Questions? Remarks? Contact Ed Voncken evoncken@iaehv.nl