Archive for August, 2006

Steal This Film!

Published on August 28, 2006 in BitTorrent and Sitenews. 0 Comments

I just saw a fantastic documentary that has just been released that shows very well how the piracy-movement is breaking down the copyright laws in Sweden. As you might now, the biggest BitTorrent-tracker in the world is the Pirate Bay. In june 2006 it was taken down by swedish police.

The Pirate Bay was up and running again after a few days, and the whole incident was incredibly imbaressing to the swedish government.

Download Steal This Film, and see for yourself how the file-sharing community is changing how the film- and music industry has to make their billions.

Kerala (Indian State) has decided to go 100% Linux

Published on August 27, 2006 in Linux. 0 Comments

Acording to this article Kerala (Indian State) has decided to go 100% Linux.

After the cola ban it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of Kerala. Children in 12500 high schools in the state will not be taught Windows. Instead instructors are lining up Linux for them. Kerala has 99.9% Literacy.

There is a growing trend to leave the proprietary software all over the place, and I am really happy to see that the business platform of Open Source Software is getting stronger and stronger.

This will happen when you die.

Published on August 26, 2006 in Life and death. 5 Comments

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a handbook telling you what will happen to you when you die? A sort of manual telling you in detail how you will spend eternity?

I am not gonna preach about what the bible or the koran for that matter says about these issues. I am about to reveal to you what I have believed in since the age of 15 - 16, and how this believe has guided me through life so far.

I belong to “the church of I don’t know’ers”. Never heard of it? No? Are you sure? Of course there is no such church, because not knowing is the same as not believing you might think. The answer to that question is “not neccesarily”.

Let me give you a bit of background to how I came to the revolutionary conclusion that I don’t know what will happen to me when I die.

I grew up in a very religous family. My father became a christian at the age of 26. His believe in Jesus Christ as his personal savior was very much so - being litterarily saved from becoming an alcoholic as his father. My point is not to babble away about my fathers believes, but rather to give a background to the extreme worshipping of Jesus that I grew up with.

Now, with the background above - how did it happen that I decided to leave the religion I was thought from my childhood? I mean, my two brothers and my sister are christians, so what made me reject the truth that I was thought?

The answer is logic. As the classical philosophers based their philosophies on their logic, so do I. I started reading “adult” books early in life. By adult-books I mean books written for adults, and not for children. Initially I read these books because I thought it was cool to be different (not because I had a genuine interest in them). Later on I saw that I had developed differently than my siblings.

When I was in primary school I loved asking the teacher about the questions that was tumbling around in my head. My favourite one was (and still is): What is time, and why does it exist?

Forgive me for blabbering a bit there ;)

Back to the subject: What will happen to you when you die?

Have you ever though about the possibility that nothing will happen. Is it possible that when we die, we don’t exist any more? My goodness! Does my life really matter so little?

Ask yourself: Does an ant wonder what will happen to it when it dies? No? Why not? Do you think the ants go to an ant-heaven when their life is over, or do you think they simply stop existing? I believe they simply vanish.

Another question: If there was a God ruling over our lifes, do you think it would matter to him/she/it what we believe in? Put in another way: Does it matter to you if the ant believes that you exist?

A lot of questions there..

I believe that it does not matter at all if I believe or not. If there is a God, he does not need me to believe in him to exist. If my soul goes to some place when I die, it will do so regardless of what I believed in this life.

What do you think? Am I totally off, or did the above make you think about it?

If you think your english is bad

Published on August 26, 2006 in YouTube. 0 Comments

Then you should check this one out. A real perl in bad english. The translation is so horible, that even I have problems getting any meaning out of it.

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That’s pretty f@#%ed up, dude!

Published on August 26, 2006 in YouTube. 0 Comments

Video clip from South Park featuring a crazy Mel Gibson back when he release The Passion of the Christ. Any chance Trey and Matt will release an episode about Mel’s DUI?  I must admit: South Park is not as funny as it used to be, could it be that I have seen TOO MANY episodes? ;)

15 seconds of fame

Published on August 26, 2006 in Google Video. 0 Comments

This guy obviously is willing to do whatever to get his 15 seconds of fame. So, here you go dude ;)

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It looks t me that there is a trend going towards people pretending to be crazy - filming themself while pretending. I don’t believe much in this kind of staged crazyness.

What do you think? Is this guy as crazy as he seems?

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The evolution of the dance

Published on August 25, 2006 in Entertainment. 0 Comments

A really funny, and well done video showing the evolution of the dance since Elvis shaking his legs, via Michael Jackson to todays dance style. This guy really know how to do it :)

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Phishing (stealing access codes) to Wachovia Bank

Published on August 25, 2006 in Joomla!, Phishing and Sitenews. 2 Comments

To all Wachovia customers:
You have probably reached this page because you have clicked on a mail where you could log into your account at wachovia.com

Wachovia has been notified by my that basicus.com was hacked, and that I discovered a phishing-script running on my server. They did not take my mail seriously, and were kind enough to reply about what to do if I recieved a fraudient mail. I seriously recommend that you have a closer look at this bank’s security measures, because I gave them a good oportunity to investigate the phishing-script that was running on this site.

Go to wachovia’s website directly by typing in their web-address in the address-bar of your browser. DON’T click on links in mails that looks like they are legitime - type the address manually!

To Wachovia’s representatives:
I sent you a mail to warn you about this phishing-script, and even offered to send you the script-files so you you could examine them. All I got was two standardized replies about how to handle fraudient mails.

Well - you should have read what I wrote.

This script is probably spreading to many Joomla-based websites - and there are hundred-thousands of them.

To Joomla-owners:
Please check in your components folder if you see a folder with the following structure. If you do, they have gotten to you as well, and you need to delete the folder and the scripts in it to avoid getting abused by some phishing guys trying to use YOUR server for their criminal activities.

The folder structure looks like this:

Root - > components -> com_wachovia - > auth - > AuthService

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The King is dead - long live the King!

Published on August 23, 2006 in Link Networks. 0 Comments

Since the very beginning of Link-Vault, we (Devenia) supported their link building network. For quite some time it looked like it was gonna become the killer link-network of all times. And actually they did deliever the goods for a few months.

Then something happened. They became lazy, and stopped responding to the userbase on the forums. Also the link placements started having trouble, and the problems just became more and more obvious.

I was looking at this with bigger and bigger concerns, and actually I saw a possibility that we might loose all the inbound links we had gained from the member sites. The King was dying.

Then, in august Receivelinks.com became a reality.

This new network is picking up on everything that Link-Vault promised us, and has already fulfilled all the features promised by Link-Vault. I am incredibly releaved that Billy (the owner of Receivelinks.com) has done such a fantastic job as he has.

Thanks Billy - the new king of link building networks!

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A complete (almost) rebuild of the site

Published on August 22, 2006 in Sitenews. 0 Comments

Basicus.com had become a chaos of everything and nothing. On top of everything -  Joomla, witch was running the site got hacked several times the last couple months. So, I had to do something about it.19.08.2006 basicus-com-hacked19082006.gif

You are therefore looking at a new site, based on WordPress again.

I have also made a change to the bittorrent links that used to be here. The rebuilded BitTorrent directory is kind of empty still, but I will rebuild it with all the recources it used to have. Actually I am maintaining it mostly for my own convenience, but I have seen that many of you use it.

Otherwise this site of mine is gonna get a more personal touch than before. I will eventually also use it as a storage for pictures for family and friends.

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