Nixadmins.net moved to Linode.com
by Mats Hellman on 06.May, 2011 under Nixadmins.net
After some research I decided to move the Nixadmins.net website to Linode.com. It’s been running here for a few days, in a few months we will see if this was a good or a bad move.
So far I only have good things to say about Linode. The configuration console is great and easy to use. Deploying the server took a few minutes and package installation was done in a few more minutes.
Swedish court and The Pirate bay
by Mats Hellman on 30.Nov, 2010 under Life
By now most of us using the internet have read about the case against the Swedish The Pirate Bay. Lawyers have been hunting them for years now trying to get TPB of the internet and stopping piracy. So far TPB is still in working order even if they have had to move their servers a few times due to legal threats against their ISP’s.
Anyway this isn’t what I’m about to bring up. Instead I noticed last night that many friends had a new status in Facebook with the following text
Skadestånd för våldtäkt på 14-årigflicka: 50.000 kr.
Skadestånd för Pirate Bay: 46 miljoner kronor….Kopiera detta om ni tycker nåt är galet
If you don’t understand swedish that wont tell you anything so I’ll translate, loosely it goes like this
For raping an 14 year old girl the sum of 50 000 SEK in damages
Damages to be paid by The Pirate Bay, 46 000 000 SEK
Copy this if you think something is wrong with this picture
Is this really what we want our world to look like? To give the sums some perspective google says 1000 SEK is 142$. So what do you think? Do you think the above sounds fair?
A few words to the companies sewing TPB
This will go of topic but I just have to say this, sorry.
Instead of paying, a wild guess, millions and millions to lawyers and other specialist to find out who’s sharing what to who how about taking a look in the mirror and ask yourself the question. Is our products really priced as it should be? I still think all the tv networks and music companies are looking at this from the wrong perspective. It’s not that people want to pirate. But we do want value for our money and time.
Not too long ago I read about some company wondering how TV will survive in the future since these darn pirates are downloading all their TV shows. Again, look in the mirror. I know you need to put advertising in between the shows and in the middle of the show to keep your cash flow. But when an 20 minute tv show becomes 45 minutes due to advertising I’m not interested in watching TV anymore. There is, let me say this clear, nothing worth 25 minutes of my time in advertising. So either someone like me, downloads the show or records it using TiVO or some other recording device. That way we can start watching the show 20 minutes behind and just skip the advertising.
My word of advice is, cut down on the ad-time and you will get your watchers back in front of the TV in no time.
New theme
by Mats Hellman on 10.May, 2010 under Nixadmins.net
I’ve been working on a new theme for the site for almost six months now. When you only have a few hours a week to work on it it takes some time. The theme should be easier to read than the previous one and most of the readers I have read to solve some problem. Due to that fact the reading should be easy.
There are still parts that are in development, like most of the forms and the search. But it should be functional and as I said, easier on the eyes when reading.
I’m also considering to make printing to PDF available so you can save some of the information on your local resources.
Hope the new look is satisfactory to everyone reading.
Safe web
by Mats Hellman on 04.Nov, 2009 under Apple, Life, Networking
This post is a little of topic from what I usually write but for me it’s something important so I hope you forgive me. In May 2009 I became a father to a little girl who means the world to me. 
A post on the Cisco Portal blog got me thinking about security from a different point of view. Security at home. The internet has provided us with so much good. We can get information, access our bank and get news 24/7 . But it has it’s dark sides also. When I was young my parents knew that once I was home I was safe. I had my safe haven inside my parents house where no one could get to me.
The Internet with all it’s glory also opened a gateway to our homes for the predators. Following the news you read almost weekly about police shutting down large pedophile groups, and that’s a good thing. Law enforcement units are able to hunt them down using the networks. But just as the good guys use the networks to find them, the bad guys use the networks to share their sick and twisted materials.
Sites forcing users to use Ad-blockers.
by Mats Hellman on 26.Oct, 2009 under Nixadmins.net
As some of you (the ones who don’t use Ad-blockers) might have noticed, I run Google Adsense on my site. So far the income has been very low and it has been running for almost 2 years now. The idea was to try to cover hosting expenses using advertising programs but that failed. Because of this I’m currently looking into some other advertising providers who do not provide ads that make the user feel sick.
