No coke? Ok, here is a weird story. On Sept 13th some men kidnapped the 37 year old daughter of a Dutch millionaire, Claudia Melchers. Her father, Hans, owner of a Dutch chemical company is worth about 460 million Euros. There – supposedly – was no contact with the kidnappers, and a few days later, on Sept. 15th she was suddenly released again: no ransom paid. After a few day police arrested some men that were involved and today they arrested to ‘mastermind’ behind it all on the famous Copacabana beach in Brazil. Now what makes this case so interesting […]
Need for speed
Oh yes: 8mb! Oh yes. These are the moments I do not regret getting my 8mbit ADSL and leaving behind the shitty service of UPC cable Internet 🙂 As I have mentioned before I do experiment a lot with Linux. I find it a fascinating OS because – in general – it’s rocksolid, has hardly any pesky virii (yes, that’s spelled correctly) and the best of all: it’s FREE! To experiment with my USB 2.5″ harddisk (40gb) I needed the latest CD version of Knoppix: a Linux distribution that runs straight of the CD. So I looked up a mirror […]