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Hi, my name is Jan Verhoeven. I set up this site because of my many interests. Perhaps some people out there may be interested in a few of the topics I researched or in completing one of my many orphaned projects. Starting is more interesting than finishing when you have a creative mind.

When browsing this site, please keep a constant eye on the 'LINKS' or 'Navigator' frame on the right. It is context sensitive and makes browsing this site a snap.

Also bear in mind that (in principle) me and my family run our lives with as little microsoft products as possible. Our daughter, which is in secondary school) sometimes requires the use of the Internet Exploder when visiting the school's website. It sometimes looks like microsoft is the biggest sponsor of dutch educational system.
If interested, take a look in the Philosophy file. You will find an explanation there why I have a picture of The Joker in this place....

Let's not blow things out of proportion..

I have succesfully compiled the ACK compiler for Modula-2, Pascal and C on a Linux platform.

I am working on fine tuning and extending the MHC Modula-2 compiler. It's a wonderful compiler and I'm getting the knack of exttending things with simple Java.

As of 12 may 2010 I'm being blacklisted again by Google. They hold back 80% of traffic. Probably more.

I found a Modula-2 compiler that does not produce assembly code, but Java bytecode. It looks very promising and it allows me to create cross platform applications. read about it in the MHC Modula-2 section.

After careful consideration I decided to give Java a second second second chance. On Amazon I got myself a few cheap books and now I'm programming in Java again. If looking for a text book: get yourself a copy of 'Thinking in Java'.

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software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster

What's this about 'Fruttenboel'? What does this typical maximum-security-level Unix-password mean? Well, let me explain. It's part of the local vocabulary. The word is only known in a small area in the south of The Netherlands. Around Tilburg to be precise.

The word WAS intended to function as a kind of password, but then, all in a sudden, it was the name of the subdomain at Geocities... And then I kept it. And now I don't want to change it anymore.
Fruttenboel is an expression when people here reach a dead-end and don't know how to commence (at that time) so they say something like: "You know what it is? It's a big 'fruttenboel'. And that's what it is!" So a 'Fruttenboel' is a kind of messy and seemingly chaotic situation. But a situation that CAN be mastered, in the end. So the best example of a true fruttenboel, is the present internet... Isn't it?

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The browser that you got for free with your copy of MS Windows (aka Internet Exploder) is not compatible with the standards of the world wide web. Therefore it is possible that at unpredictable moments, your browser will give the framestomper the impression that it is abused. And the webpage you requested will not be served.
This is what it is all about: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/178066 The problem has been here for over 10 years. Yet MS is so megalomaniac to ignore it and just wait until the rest of the world has changed enough!

Many people who still haven't seen the light are still using the free operating system and the accompanying browser. And they complained... So now I removed the HTTP referer check from the framestomper. MS won. As usual.