Pakku’s Blog

The first NAS (Network-Attached Storage) I bought was a Sitecom MD-250, like the one on the picture. This was a cheap solution for what I wanted: to store my files centrally so that i could access it any time. Unfortunately it broke down last week on almost exactly the same time I was planning to publish a post about it. It broke kind of because it was overheated . This wasn’t due to the place it stood nor it was Sitecoms fault. You see, there was this tiny little fan of about 1 by 1 inch which made a lot of noise, cause it ran at 3500 RPM, so who wouldn’t screw this thing loose! Read the rest of this entry »

Since a few weeks it is me an honor to carry around the HTC Touch Diamond. For me it is the ultimate smartphone for both personal and business/school use. Not only is the HTC Touch Diamond one of the most popular smartphones, in some, like The Netherlands, it is even more popular than Apples IPhone 3G.

A review on the HTC Touch Diamond: Nothing is perfect, how close did HTC come? Read the rest of this entry »

The presentations on Medialogy are all done by high positioned people, who know their subject well and did all something in the development of new media technologies. I introduce you… Read the rest of this entry »

Every year a student union participating in SNiC in The Netherlands organizes a big symposium for the students of the Dutch universities who do a computer science related study. This year the student union Inter-Actief from Enschede, the Netherlands, organized the symposium, the subject: media and ICT, a for now almost undiscussed subject, but applications seemed to be endless. Read the rest of this entry »

Some classes in my study are captured on digital video to help you with your study, so in this case not only the PowerPoint presentation is online but also the presentation itself, which can be very useful. Read the rest of this entry »

We all know them when we see them, but mostly we don’t know the name. We use it to verify if you are a human being or not. I’m talking about CAPTCHA, the characters and numbers you have to enter when you sign up for something. But to make it harder for the computer to decode what’s on the image, they use several tricks, like in mine, using multiple colors. As a users we mostly find them iritating, basicly because we mostly can’t read them, but are there good sides about the fact that these images are getting very hard to read? Read the rest of this entry »

UAC (User Account Control), the most discussed feature of Microsoft Windows Vista, said to be made to be a pain in the ass for it’s users, but most of all needed to be the ultimate layer of security, but is now popping up almost every second of your computing time. Is UAC taking control over you? Is UAC going beyond it’s purpose? Read the rest of this entry »

Exactly 1 year ago I started blogging. In my opinion my articles became better and better and I would love to continue doing this. The previous url http://pakku.wordpress.com is replaced with http://www.pakkusblog.com.

Next to this, the blog has gone in a sort of make over. The design is renewed and I added some new stuff.

Pakku’s Blog has now a shop andcan be find on http://pakkusblog.spreadshirt.net or it’s items randomly at the sidebar.

This website now also has a subscription to the online encyclopedia Britannica Onlineand is seen as the online encyclopedia which has the only true and right information available. I’m not yet sure how to implement this feature, but this will be soon applied.

Which also soon can be seen are pod- and vodcasts about various subjects. If you would like to comment on articles, you still can, but I have implemented a new feature which let you comment just by authorizing yourself with your own OpenID (see other post: Will OpenID be the future?)

So there is much to check out on this renewed weblog. Let’s start with the 2nd year posting.

Pakku

Open standards are worth living for, they are so important these days, we (mostly developers) can’t imagine a life without them. But why is there still some rumbling in the sky? Read the rest of this entry »

We’re making our way to web 2.0 and everything is going smoothly. Well we at least think it is. None of you probably know that our migration to web 2.0 can become a major problem for the future web experience. Wow wait up, our web experience will become a major problem in the future? Wasn’t web 2.0 not all about the best web experience we could ever imagine? Read the rest of this entry »