The penguin Loves musician / (aka "De pinguïn houdt van muzikanten")

Last weekend I was one of the presenters at the T-dose conference 2013 held in Eindhoven / The Netherlands. It was about my experiences using free/open source tools for my music hobby. It is entirely in Dutch but Google translate is most likely you friend, here are the slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/fritsvanderholst/de-pinguin-houdt-van-muzikanten-t-dose-2013

I had about 20 people watching so that was OK.
Possibly I will do the presentation again at some other venue. 

Ubuntu updates and Sitecom Cloud security woes

Recently I ran into trouble updating my Ubuntu systems at home. Suddenly certain packages could not be downloaded from Ubuntu official servers. So I switched to the national mirror.... no avail. The another European mirror... same problem.  So that was really weird, different mirrors showing the exact same problem.

Packages I could not download had DRM in their name or SSL or other cryptography related names.  Also a weird and strange coincidence.. So it started to feel like the problem is most likely at my side..

I did buy a new Sitecom switch recently... and that it hit me. I did turn on Sitecom Cloud Security trial to see whether I liked it! Maybe the Cloud Security filters those packages?
Turned it off.... and yes problem solved!

I have no idea why on earth official, signed debian packages are filtered by Sitecom  Cloud Security... but don't count me in for a subscription to this service.