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May 7th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

I've been quite absent over the last few weeks, simply because of lack of time. I recently moved to a new house - or should I say "old" house? This house was originally built in 1938… That's even older than I am!
Up to now it has been an exciting experience, especially since I like [...]

January 2nd, 2011 by Niels Horn in

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September 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

My previous post became announcement #1000 on Oncle Jean's Slack Linux Fans site.
This was not a question of perfect timing, just of being lucky
Slack Linux Fans is an interesting site to follow the latest happenings of our favorite Linux distribution. You can also follow Slack Linux Fans on Twitter.

July 2nd, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

I'm not really that fanatic about football, but one of the questions I'm always asked when I tell people here in Brazil that I'm from the Netherlands is: "And what if the Dutch team plays against Brazil?". Well, today this finally happened, after so many years.
So since it was clear this game was going to [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

As you probably noticed, I changed my blog a bit. The biggest change is not in the visible part, but in the software that runs this blog.
After just over a year on Google's Blogspot, I decided to run my blog on my own site instead of redirecting it. And since I am a strong believer [...]

January 2nd, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

2009 is gone, 2010 has started.
Lots of sad news here in Rio, after all the rain that has fallen here over the last few days, but life goes on
In just a few days I will officially be on vacation, so I might not have too much time to write here, but I still [...]

October 2nd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

The city where I live - Rio de Janeiro - will host the 2016 Olympic Games.If you want to see some nice images of the place where I live, check this video:

September 26th, 2009 by Niels Horn in |

It has been a year today I started this blog, so I thought it was about time to change the lay-out a bit.I made it more-or-less like my homepage, so that people feel, well, "at home"

October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , , ,

For some time I've been reading texts on the history of Slackware, Linux, UNIX, etc. It all started with this old Slackware version I found and my quest to get this (and several older) versions working in a Virtual Machine on my modern desktop.
I've been using virtualization and emulation for several years, both professionally and [...]

September 28th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , , |

The internet is an amazing thing. Sometimes we forget too fast how things used to be before the internet. Yeah, I know, I'm getting old… I started working with computers when there was no such thing as the internet.
Today I was 'Googling' and by coincidence found a page talking about some software I wrote several [...]