Noervig.dk

9 years ago a guy called Peter Veileborg played some games and surfed the web and not unlike most gamers and Internet users he had an alias that he identified himself by. He decided to buy a domain with his alias called orango.dk and for the past 9 years he’s been using this domain for mail and a small private webpage.

Earlier this year a new company started offering web services from their website Orango.nu. Recently they got greedy and wanted more. They wanted orango.dk as well so it could redirect visitors to orango.nu. Disregarding all moral and proper respect to this private person who had his personal website through 9 years they abused their power as company and convinced the Danish domain name appeal committee to take away the domain from Peter and hand it over to the company.

This has unleashed a storm of protests and harsh remarks on hundreds of Danish blogs and news sites. Not only because of the immoral behaviour and disrespect this company has shown but because no private person can feel safe anymore from this kind of domain name hijacking. All the money and work you put in to buying a domain name, setting up a server, building a website, establishing a mail-server, spreading the new name and mail addresses and so on can now be taken away from you as a private person if some random new company with low moral decides they want the name. And there’s nothing you can do or say about it.

A few days ago the owner of gratisdns.dk, Peter Larsen, contacted Peter Veileborg and offered to help him bring this to court. I sincerely hope they win so we can feel safe again when spending time and money on creating new websites.

You can read more about this on the following site (in danish):
http://www.comon.dk/nyheder/Domaene-ejer-mister-navnet-efter-ni-ar-1.247341.html

Google has launched a new OS called Chromium OS. It’s mostly suited for netbooks in it’s current state and it aims at being simple, fast (7 seconds boot time as it is now) and secure. One of the new (hopefully) cool features is that all applications and files will be online. I havn’t had time to try it yet but you can download an early beta from http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

Installed a new plugin to post videos from various sites like YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe and so on.

Looks like it works

By the way, this is currently my daughters favorite video. She’s 2 years old and every night before she goes to sleep she insist on watching this video while she brushes her teeth. The song is “Please don’t go” by Barcelona and the video is shot by Jon Rawlinson.

After 15 years my good old server finally gave up on me and broke down. Not completely sure what pushed it over the edge because all the hardware still works perfectly and I was able to pull out all the data from the hard disk. But a week ago it just became unresponsive and refused to come back up after a reboot. I’ve been thinking about replacing it for years but I’m also a firm believer in “if it ain’t broken don’t fix it” … also I had a lot of more exciting stuff to do than to rebuild a server completely

I decided to start all over with new hardware, different OS, new mail system and new webpages instead of trying to recover the old stuff. The new hardware is a bit overkill for my needs so I’ve installed VMWare ESXi and made my new server a virtual machine. Not that I really need it but the snapshot ability is great if something breaks when I fiddle with things. The new OS I picked is CentOS. Gentoo Linux was my favorite for many years but I had one too many problems with Portage / Emerge and CentOS seems much more mature and well established. I’m also trying out Dovecot as my new mail server. It was recommended by a friend and so far it’s looking very promising.

After a week of setting up a new mail system and restoring all the old emails and accounts I had a few hours to set up a new Wordpress Blog and a few other of the old web sites. So consider this my return, hopefully I’ll be a bit more active on blogging this time