How Jeroen Zomer sees IT

If it ain’t broken, it’s no fun

Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in work | No Comments »

One of the reasons I like computers, is because there is so much failure. I enforce some analog superiority over the digital failure to fix it. I like computers because I am capable of fixing them. Fixing problems is very ...

Passwords are not safe

Friday, January 4th, 2008 Posted in work | No Comments »

I was recently confronted with a new password policy: my password needed to be a combination of 8 to 12 characters with only numbers and letters. And the numbers were not allowed to be at the beginning or end. My ...

Guerilla SOA

Friday, December 21st, 2007 Posted in work | No Comments »

Talking freely about SOA has always been a bit embarrassing. I live in The Netherlands and the acronym SOA stands for "Sexual Transmitted Disease" in Dutch. STD translates into SOA. So when I talk about SOA, I immediately know if ...