Public Library | Jos Visser

What this is

A long-lived document archive rather than a polished publication portal.

What to expect

PDFs, HTML essays, Dutch-language columns, and technical writing from several different periods of the site.

Where to start

If you only open a few items, start with Living Without Windows, Romanian Diary, zenhowto, and OnProxyTunnel.

Site writing

Essays and archive pages moved off the homepage

Series

Living Without Windows

A late-1990s chronicle of trying to run daily life, customer work, and office interoperability from Linux in a Windows-dominated world.

Travel writing

Romanian Diary

A Dutch travel diary from Bucharest, written with the same mix of observation, technical curiosity, and sharp edges found elsewhere on the site.

Witness account

Ground Zero

A personal account and photo essay from New York in November 2001.

Photo archive

Aldea Felina

A photo page about volunteering at a cat shelter near Denia, with the original gallery and captions preserved.

Featured

Articles that still stand out

Essay

How to design and implement unmanageable and insecure systems

A deliberately sharp piece on bad systems design that still reads like a signature article from this archive.

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Project article

On proxytunnel

The library copy of the proxytunnel article, preserved alongside the project page.

Systems

Kernel-based random number generation in HP-UX 11.00

The library copy of the HP-UX random article, covering the Linux-compatible /dev/random work for HP-UX 11.

Columns

Java, Doctor Unix, and preserved documents

Java columns

Dutch-language software magazine writing

A run of Java columns written for Dutch Software Release Magazine, covering topics from applets and IDEs to C#, tooling, and the human side of programming.

Waar blijft het Javaambachtsgilde? Het applet-loze internet Java en C# Extreem Java programmeren Foutjes in Java (1) De geest is uit de fles! De geschiedenis herhaalt zich Gratis Java Het IDE-virus Kloppen en hakken of structuur? De menselijke factor Programmeren is een uiting van emotie Puur of melk? Wat kan een Java-tool? Write Once, Run for the Hills...

Doctor Unix

Alternate identity, same voice

A set of columns written under the Doctor Unix persona, many of them originally published through the NLUUG e-zine orbit and preserved here as PDFs.

Dr. Unix runs into corporate security Is Linux really Unix? Why Linux will replace most proprietary Unices File locking under Unix On character sets, the euro symbol, and dead keys Rock Linux: Not for woozies! Running DOS and Windows under Linux Viruses under Unix

Archive quality

Preserved as documents, not remastered

These pieces stay in their historical formats rather than being republished into a uniform editorial shell.

Comal Has Been Set Free On NT Password Security JBoss: The Open Source Web OS Nederland is geen Open Source land Lezing (scanned lecture) Security is dood Delivering Quality at NLUUG Conferences Het bouwen van een veilige web server Een boekje open over High Availability Internet Information Shop Het Open Source Fenomeen Unix failover clusters Pleitnota voor Petertje Computersoftware B.V. Welcome to the Tribe S/390 TCB structure printer (Xephon article)