Author Archives: n3wjack

creative commons

Even though I ran into the Creative Commons licenses before (at Electrobel for instance) I never really thought of it to use it for a blog license until I ran into Neil Turners blog after some Google search. Not a bad idea actually, even if it’s just because it looks kinda cool to have a [...]

mozilla firefox v1.0PR released

Mozilla Firefox has released it’s milestone v1.0 browser. Sweetness! Some really nice features have been added to this version, such as live bookmarking of RSS feeds, the extended search options, and a slick upgrade procedure provided by the setup program, and that built in popup blocker I couldn’t live without anymore. If you haven’t switched [...]

openwares.org spyware

This is a bad thing I happened to bump into today. The people at openwares.org are apparently offering open sourced software with mal or spyware included. The guys at methlabs.org developing peerguardian for one have come across tampered versions of their open source software. Even download.com has falled for this trap, and is distributing a [...]

sampling is bad mkay

Something scary I read on Wired today : A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work � even minor, unrecognisable snippets of music. Though the article focuses mainly on rap artists, who are making big bucks using unknown samples from older funk (or whatever) [...]

complete your Warp collection

If you’re belgian, and you’re into Warp (and Ninja Tune) get your ass down to the Music Mania in Ghent and complete your collections for only € 9.5 per CD, or € 16.5 for a double CD. There are some gems there to pick for a really nice price. Older work you never ended up [...]

pukkelpop 2004

The Pukkelpop festival is always a great way to end the summerholidays. Had a lot of fun there with friends, saw some good bands, and heard some great music. The boilerroom was huge this year, and we spend quite some time there bogeying down to the funky beats. Besides obviously loving the drum’n’bass sets from [...]

mc stfu

Bad MC’s on drum’n’bass gigs, I can rant about them for hours. But this DOA thread pretty much sums it all up. Be sure to check out post number 5 by avoidinertia, his hilarious piece of prose is really worth the read!! :)