Europees record: snelste supercomputer

Snelste supercomputer van Europa: de nieuwe supercomputer van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen met 27,4 teraflop per seconde.
bron: HCC!magazine

Wereldrecord: in beslag genomen XTC

Grootste inbeslagname XTC: vijf miljoen tabletten
bron: nu.nl

The comment spammers have won

I’m so tired of the spam comments on my blog that I’ve completely removed the possibility to comment on my posts. I’m giving up, for me the criminals who continually try to use my website for their businesses have won.

If you want to comment on anything I put online, please do so on your own blog. If you don’t have one, there are lots of free offerings to get one, like Blogger and MSN Spaces.

If you want to leave me a personal message you can use the contact form.

Record: Benzines en diesel

Drie records op één dag:

• 1 liter Shell diesel: € 1,025
• 1 liter Shell benzine, super plus: € 1,413
• 1 liter Shell benzine euro ongelood: € 1,359

bron: nu.nl

Beware of Flash player settings

If you thought blocking cookies was enough to stop sites from gathering information, watch out for local shared objects in the Flash player. This is a place the Flash player can use to store data, if you allow it to. As with cookies, the technique itself isn’t harmful, it all depends on what is done with it. And if it’s up to United Virtualities it will be used for the same purposes that make people block cookies, that is gather user information.

But there is a way to configure what the Flash player is allowed to do. With the Macromedia Flash Player Settings Manager you can control its privacy, security and storage settings. I changed all settings so nothing is allowed. And by using the FlashBlock extension all Flash movies are blocked until I decide I want to see one. The advantage of using Firefox.

Record: Dieselprijs

1 liter Shell diesel: € 1,015
bron: nu.nl