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Installing obs-studio with nvenc on Ubuntu 16.04

Tue, 09 May 2017 21:46:00 +0000

A quick tutorial on installing obs studio from source when using ffmpeg installed with linuxbrew.

Install Oracle java on Ubuntu 16.04

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:28:00 +0000

I wanted to try out the new version of phpstorm and see if the fonts rendered better then the last time I tried it on Ubuntu. OpenJDK has some problem with rendering fonts due to some licensing issues so I had to install oracle Java. In the past ...

Compiling brewtarget 2.4.0 from source on Ubuntu

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:43:00 +0000

First install the prerequisites: 1 2 sudo apt install libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5svg5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqtgui4 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml libqt4-sql sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5...

Installing emulationstation on Ubuntu 16.04

Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:18:00 +0000

1 2 3 4 5 6 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:emulationstation/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install emulationstation emulationstation-theme-simple sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libretro/stable sudo apt update...

Installing Windows 10 on a second ssd

Sun, 07 Aug 2016 13:35:00 +0000

For a while I’ve had an extra partition on my Samsung Evo 840 pro SSD with a Windows 10 installation on it. I’m not using it very often but when I need some windows-only software it comes in handy. I’ve used it for updating my TomTom rider and making...

Install Oracle java on Ubuntu 15.10

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:28:00 +0000

Visualising Vim startup time

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:00 +0000

I wanted to visualise Vim’s startup time because over time and with the constant triccle of new plugins Vim became slower and slower to start up. Opening vim with a local file wasn’t too slow (700ms) but when using Vim over sshfs it took seconds to...

Watching native Netflix on Ubuntu 14.04

Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:15:00 +0000

As reported Netflix now works natively under Linux. However, some people (including me) reported some troubles under Ubuntu 14.04. After following the described steps by Nathan VanCamp I got an error when opening a video: Error Code: M7063-1913. ...

Re-scheduling backup processes

Sat, 24 May 2014 18:37:00 +0000

On one of my machines the backup the backup process was disturbing running services. I didn’t want to stop the backup process so I decided to lower it’s priorities: 1 2 for pid in `ps aux | grep backup...

backporting packages for a different ARCH on Ubuntu

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:57:00 +0000

I wanted to backport mod_security from Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) to 12.04 (Precise). And not only that, I also wanted to compile it for different ARCH’s. i386 in this example. So I had to find out how to do that. It turned out that Ubuntu provides a nice...

Secrets of the Vim ninja

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:53:00 +0000

I copied the excellent Vim cheat sheet “Secrets of the Vim Ninja” from Ben Crowder and changed it a bit. I added some commands and removed the plugins section. Maybe I should add some sort of search function too. My version of the Secrets of the Vim...

Switching from laptop-mode-tools to tlp

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:54:00 +0000

I’ve always used laptop-mode-tools on Ubuntu to enance the power consumption on my laptop. It worked fairly well but one thing it didn’t do too wel is handling suspend/resume. After a resume laptop-mode-tools was often confused in which state the laptop...

OpenWrt: upgrade all packages

Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:54:00 +0000

Upgrading all packages on OpenWrt with the opkg command isn’t possible. There is no opkg upgrade --all command or anything similar. opkg upgrade expects a package as the first parameter that then gets upgraded. But with a little bash scripting we can...

OpenWrt: installing openvpn on Barrier Breaker

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:14:00 +0000

I’ve updated my OpenWrt router to the Trunk version (Barrier Breaker). I made a backup of the configuration before installing the new firmware. After rebooting the router openvpn stopped working. It turned out to be that only registered files are begin...

I've never done this before

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:22:00 +0000

I’ve never plugged someone else’s site before but I really liked this one: http://alexpeattie.com/ I was searching how to solve a specific problem in Middleman App (the new syntax highlighter Rouge) and I came accross his site. I really like the design...

Installing Privoxy with Adblock filters on OpenWrt

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:35:00 +0000

I’ve been using OpenWrt on my Netgear WNDR3800 for a while now. It’s lovely and with all the additional software you can install on it it’s even better. I’ve got for example Privoxy installed on it. Privoxy is a (non-caching) proxy with filtering...

Using the chrome myPlex Queue extension with third party cookies disabled

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 21:45:00 +0000

I was trying to use the Plex Queue extension for chrome for a while but I was having some problems. Every time I tried to use it I got this error message: You need to sign in first. I tried reinstalling it and that didn’t work. Then I tried the Plex...

Renaming the trash folder of an IMAP account in Thunderbird

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:29:00 +0000

I’ve been using Thunderbird with outlook.com / office 365. So basically Thunderbird with Exchange via IMAP. It’s been working relatively well. One little annoyance was that difference in naming folders: Trash vs. Deleted Items Junk vs. Junk Email

Installing mutt-kz on Ubuntu

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:45:00 +0000

I’ve started experimenting with mutt. I like mutt but it’s a bit conservative. There are a lot of good patches for mutt floating on the web that aren’t beging added to the mutt core project. For example: mutt sidebar, notmutch and the mutt trashfolder

Extracting pages from a pdf on Linux

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:39:00 +0000

I was looking for a way to extract two pages from a pdf. I could “print” the pdf and then export it to pdf again but I wanted a better way. Preferably something I could run from the commandline and could possibly automate. Google returned pdftk so...

Fixing Freenas disks spindown with jails

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:48:00 +0000

After installing the jails plugin together with bacula-sd and Firefly the disks in my Freenas box wouldn’t spin down. I first thought of Firefly doing something strange but that wasn’t the case. I then disabled the complete jails plugin and the disk...

git-extras and removing a file completely from the git history

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:18:00 +0000

I was searching for an easy way to complete remove a file from a git repository. I found the github answer but I found it too cumbersome. I know, I’m lazy. I tried creating my own alias but that wasn’t to my liking either. After some searching I found...

Enabling munin mysql monitor on Ubuntu 12.04

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:50:00 +0000

1 2 apt-get install libcache-cache-perl /usr/sbin/munin-node-configure --shell | /bin/bash

Certificate verify failed on a puppet client

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:51:00 +0000

1 2 Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue: Warning: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed: [unable to...

Current list of podcasts I listen to

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:50:00 +0000

I’m downloading a lot of podcasts with flexget. Here’s my current list: Big Web Show Boagworld Boagworld Boos Breaking Development Podcast Build Podcast Changelog Cloud Out Loud PHP Cloud Out Loud Ruby Coder Radio Video Creative Coding Podcast CssTricks

Installing KeepassX 2 on Ubuntu 13.04

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:35:00 +0000

I’m using keepas(x) + dropbox as a replacement for lastpass since a couple of days. I installed the version from the Ubuntu (13.04) repositories but I also wanted to try the new keepassx 2 beta. This is what I did to compile it from source: ...

Using your desktop's git author everywhere you ssh

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:46:00 +0000

At work I’m trying to push new techniques and methods. That’s also the case with git. I’m trying to convince my co-workers of the benefits of working with git. Because of the mix between old project structure (remote dev environments) and working...

Disabling the NVIDIA videocard totally in Ubuntu 13.04 raring ringtail

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:10:00 +0000

I’m having some small troubles with my Intel/NVIDIA (Optimus) graphical card on Ubuntu 13.04: Raring Ringtail. It worked perfeclty on Ubuntu 12.10. Only thing I had to do was to add the bumblebee stable ppa, install it and GO! Since 13.04 I’m having...

Determining the fastest DNS server

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:28:00 +0000

I’ve used the OpenDNS server for some time as my primary DNS server on my OpenWrt router. However, I asked myself the question if it was actually faster then my ISP’s (Zeelandnet) DNS server. A quick search online produced namebench as nice software...

Troubles with OpenVPN on iOS

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:56:00 +0000

Recently an official OpenVPN app for iOS was released. I immediately installed it on my iPhone to try it out. I have OpenVPN 2.1.4 running on my OpenWrt router and the certificates are generated by easy-rsa. I read the OpenVPN Connect documentation...

Disabling a service on boot with Ubuntu

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:34:00 +0000

Because I always forget the specific command I’m now documenting it for myself: it’s update-rc.d you fool! 1 update-rc.d puppet disable

Zeelandnet Live TV met VLC bekijken

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:10:00 +0000

Je kunt nu live tv bekijken via Zeelandnet / Delta. Hoera! Maar dat gaat of via een Android/iPhone app of via de… (wait for it) Silverlight extensie in je browser als je het op je desktop wilt bekijken. Kijk, dat je Flash gebruikt voor live streaming...

TIL about SSH agent forwarding

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:39:00 +0000

Today I discovered something I should have discovered ages (AGES!) ago… So what’s the deal? I have some servers from where I want to push to some remote git repositories (bitbucket, github et cetera). What I normally did: create a new keypair on the...

Some opengraph links

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:16:00 +0000

I’ve been implementing the opengraph protocol for my blog post pages. I wanted to be sure I implemented it right and searched for tools that could help me with this task. I came up with the folowing two: Opengraph Linter Google Rich snippet tool

running compass in the background on a server

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:50:00 +0000

A little snippet on how to use compass on a remote development server.

Set the Ubuntu Mono patched powerline font as system font in Ubuntu

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:47:00 +0000

I installed the new (Vim) powerline with Vundle. Only thing is they provide a limited number of pre-patched fonts. In the previous version I didn’t bother because I found powerline quite nice looking even without the patched fonts. But the new version...

Upgraded to an ssd

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:21:00 +0000

For the holidays I bought myself a new ssd: One of them fancy Samsung 840 pro’s: After reading up on some sites how to use a ssd with Ubuntu / Linux: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2012/04/26/setting-up-ubuntu-on-an-ssd/ https://sites.google.com...

Quickly testing a webcam on Ubuntu

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:56:00 +0000

I wanted a quick and easy way to test my new Logitech C920 webcam on Ubuntu 12.10. I didn’t want to install any extra software like Cheese. After some Googling I found the following very easy script: ...

Some handy bacula commands

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:26:30 +0000

Show what files will be backed up: 1 echo "estimate job=client.vanutsteen.nl listing client=client.vanutsteen.nl fileset=Server" | bconsole List all files...

How to repair an SQLite database

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:14:48 +0000

1 echo ".dump" | sqlite3 old.db | sqlite3 new.db Explanation: pipe “.dump” to sqlite and use that output (the dump itself) to fill the new.db database.

Cleaning up Git

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:13:21 +0000

I had this huge git repository (1.9 gigabyte) and I couldn’t discover WHY is was SO big. After reading up on some git cleaning et cetera I did a git gc. I went from 1.9g to 12mb (megabytes yes). Unbelievable… git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and...

Ubuntu & special characters

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:20:46 +0000

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html I set my Compose Key to Right Alt.

OpenWrt OpenVPN & Gnome Network Manger + tls-remote

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:12:37 +0000

I’ve bought myself a Netgear WNDR3800 and put OpenWrt on it. I’m loving it! It’s not as easy to use as Tomato but it is much, much more modular and configurable. One of the first things I did was installing OpenVPN on it. Currently I have OpenVPN running...

Gitlab reque & supervisord

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:38:16 +0000

Gitlab needs at least one resque daemon. I always forget to start it when I boot the (virtual) pc where gitlab resides. So I installed supervisord an set up this conf file: /etc/supervisor/conf.d/resque.conf ...

Upgrading OpenElec on the Raspberry Pi

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:32:12 +0000

I’ve installed openelec on my Rasberry Pi. It worked great! I upgraded regularly with the prebuild openelec binaries. The upgrade from r11493 to r11691 however went wrong. The system still booted but the screen kept black. After some awesome help...

Upgrading gitlab to the new stable

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:20:18 +0000

1 2 3 4 5 cd ~/public_html/ git checkout stable RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate bundle install --without development test --deployment sudo service nginx restart

Git: an easy way to change authors name

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:25:27 +0000

1 2 git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "LeonB" ]; then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Leon Bogaert"; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=leon@tim-online.nl; After...

Installing & using flexget

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:05:18 +0000

Install dependencies from Ubuntu repositories 1 sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-transmissionrpc Edit ~/.pydistutils.cfg ...

How to install gitlab on Ubuntu Server 12.04 (precise) the right way

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:21:08 +0000

1 2 3 4 5 6 add-apt-repository ppa:brightbox/passenger-nginx-testing apt-get update apt-get install nginx-full cat < /etc/nginx/conf.d/passenger.conf passenger_root /usr/lib/phusion-passenger;...

Fixing the "IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48" on Ubuntu (server)

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:44:40 +0000

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 touch /etc/sysctl.d/60-ipv6.conf echo "net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf = 0 net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra = 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf = 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra = 0 " > /etc/sysctl...

sudo & vim

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:33:44 +0000

I had some minor annoyance while using Vim on the commandline. Whenever I did: sudo vim my Vim plugin wheren’t loaded (root had no .vimrc). I discovered that you can add environmental variables to sudo so I added this to my ~/.bash_aliases: ...

Disabling the oneconf service in Ubuntu

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:33:20 +0000

Oneconf was eating up a lot of memory on my system. But if you purge the oneconf package it also removes the ubuntu-desktop and software-center package. And I wanted to keep those. Especially ubuntu-desktop. David Anderson had a nice post about this...

Opensource Github alternative

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:40:19 +0000

While searching for a nice Github alternative (too pricey I think) I came upon this nice alternative. GITLAB Check it out!

Changing ip address on Ubuntu server

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:13:20 +0000

Easy as pie: 1 2 ifconfig eth0 192.168.5.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.5.1

Kruidvat fotoservice installeren op Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) / Linux

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:50:53 +0000

Ik wilde een paar foto’s afdrukken op een groot formaat en het was eerste paasdag. Dus toen ben ik maar gaan zoeken naar fotosites die Linux ondersteunen. 1 van de weinige die Linux (een beetje) ondersteunt is Kruidvat. Zij bieden losse software aan...

motorrijweer.nl

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:28:59 +0000

Ik heb de eerste versie van motorrijweer.nl live gezet! ’t Is nog vrij basis maar je kunt wel al voor een paar regio’s het motorweer/motorrijweer opvragen. Op naar de volgende versies!

Combining 4 images and aligning them next to eachother

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:35:39 +0000

The workflow: make two new images out of 4: combining 2x2 to make hdr’s. Then aligning them 1 2 3 4 sudo apt-get install hugin-tools enfuse enfuse DSC_166* -o 1.jpg enfuse DSC_167* -o 2.jpg align_image_stack...

The continuing story of Zend Studio 5.5.1 (part 2)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:59:17 +0000

Everytime I install a new version of Ubuntu / Linux I’m hoping Zend Studio (the old/good one) will still be working. This time with Ubuntu 12.04 I again had to do this but it didn’t take longer than a couple of minutes. First I had to install the...

msmtp and the aliases file (/etc/aliases)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:09:10 +0000

Since version 1.4.25 msmtp has support for a aliases file. I edited my ~/.msmtprc and added: 1 aliases ~/.aliases ~/.aliases: ...

Removing the password from an (open) ssl key

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:40:24 +0000

1 openssl rsa -in www_silverpower_nl.key -out www_silverpower_nl.key.unencrypted

Securing chromium-browser with apparmor on Ubuntu 11.10

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:42:03 +0000

I wanted to make chromium (chrome) more secure. Just to be safe. I found out that the package apparmor-profiles on Ubuntu contained an apparmor profile for chromium-browser. I installed it and tried to enforce it without using the aa-enforce binary...

dump a Varien_Db_Select / Zend_Db_Select query

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:26:06 +0000

1 2 3 4 5 6 getProfiler()->getLastQueryProfile()->getQuery(); //print last executed query foreach ($adapter->getProfiler()->getLastQueryProfile()->getQueryParams() as $k =>

Nginx + sabnzbd + sickbeard + couchpotato + spotweb on my pandaboard

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:02:30 +0000

I got Apache- (mpm-itk), sickbeard, sabnzbd, couchpotato and spotweb running on my pandaboard. But apache really used up a lot of resources. So I decided to replace it with nginx. Nginx would be a reverse proxy and communicate via fastcgi with php...

Access a pandaboard with a 'screen' serial console

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:56:58 +0000

Easy as: 1 /usr/bin/screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

ACTA / SOPA / PIPA

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:13:30 +0000

Iedereen die het nog niet gedaan heeft: onderteken de ACTA petitie nu!

git add -u

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:40:54 +0000

This is a nice one: 1 git add -u This only adds already commited files to a new commit. And leaves files not in the git repository alone.

Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop and ufw

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:44:31 +0000

I decided on enabling ufw (uncomplicated firewall) on my laptop (you can’t be secure enough). Too bad it isn’t enabled by default on Ubuntu. So I had to do this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sudo ufw enable sudo ufw...

Listing contents of a tar.gz and extracting one specific directory

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:04:03 +0000

1 2 # tar -ztvf babyhuiscasita.nl.tar.gz |grep sql # tar -xzvf babyhuiscasita.nl.tar.gz ./.backup/babyhuiscasita.nl_mysql -t = list -x = extract

Asus k53sv & ubuntu power management

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:48:32 +0000

Using my new Asus k53sv with Ubuntu 11.10 resulted in 2 hours of battery time. I know the k53 doesn’t have a fancy battery (quite the opposite) but I thought 2 hours was really bad. With the power regression bug of the Linux kernel in my mind, I started...

3 useful route commands

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:24:43 +0000

To route an ip address through a (vpn) connection: 1 2 3 sudo route add -net XX.192.85.XX netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.1.1 sudo route add -net 10.76.122.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1...

3 useful route commands

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:24:43 +0000

To route an ip address through a (vpn) connection: 1 2

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Sublime Text 2
Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:36:30 +0000
I installed sublime text on my Ubuntu 11.10 box but I had some troubled loading external python modules:

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Chaning the glippy indicator icon
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:25:26 +0000
Copy the mono paste icon over to ~/.icons/Humanity/actions/22/edit-paste.svg

Using rsync with spaces
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:51:16 +0000
Something to never forget again:

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So: single quote, double quote, path, double quote, single quote

The continuing story of Zend Studio 5.5.1
Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:44:18 +0000
Everytime I install a new version of Ubuntu / Linux I’m hoping Zend Studio (the old/good one) will still be working. So I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and also this time I had to install some stuff to get Zend Studio working.

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ClipIt clipboard manager trayicon under Ubuntu 11.10
Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:19:45 +0000
In ubuntu 11.04 I had an icon at ~/.icons/Humanity/status/22/gtk-paste.svg so I would get a nice systray icon for ClipIt. But ClipIt changed something so now I had to cp the gtk-paste.svg to:

~/.icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/clipit-trayicon.svg

Install pcntl (pcntl_fork) on Ubuntu Hardy
Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:28:03 +0000
No apt-getting on Hardy :(

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Lsyncd
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:50:19 +0000
I was messing around with some python script to test a spamassassin install. It checks al the mail in the spam folder an see if it is marked as spam. Then it goes through the mail in ham/ and see if it passes as not-spam.

So I’m developing it on my...

vim on github!
Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:09:27 +0000
Vim is now on a github repository. Check: https://github.com/LeonB/vim

rsync retry (rrsync)
Fri, 06 May 2011 08:16:35 +0000
Met onze super-stabiele connectie op het kantoor wil rsync er nog wel eens uitklappen. Dus als je dan ’s ochtends kijkt hoe ver ‘ie is kom je er achter dat rsync gestopt is. Daarom een rrsync. Gebasseerd op deze link: http://blog.iangreenleaf.com/2009...

Linux printer drivers for the Dell 1710n
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:15:39 +0000
Voila: http://www.cups.org/ppd.php?L483+I80+T+Q

Nice: github resumé
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:40:43 +0000
Generate your own Github resumé

Installing banshee + removing rhythmbox from the soundmenu
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:49:48 +0000
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Removing packages marked rc
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:42:52 +0000
I got an error when building the 2.32 version for ubuntu. Some packages once where installed but got removed. But they still had the status rc.

So I purged them with the help of this blog.

I compiled evolution with the help of a Makefile that I downloaded

Zend_db
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:31:02 +0000
The last few days I’ve been spending my time on creating a website with Zend Framework. A lot of it I liked but the Zenddb stuff is is a complicated piece of crap. I’ve worked with a lot of ORM’s and db api’s but the Zenddb stuff is really the most...

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Nice guide to upgrading magento
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:15:50 +0000
http://www.nicksays.co.uk/2010/03/fool-proof-magento-upgrades/

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installing macvim with python interpreter
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:43:02 +0000
As easy as: sudo port install macvim +python :)

installing non-free-codecs in Ubuntu "Lucid Lynx" 10.04
Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:47:32 +0000
A very nice article about installing the non-free-codes (wmv, wma, et cetera) in 10.04!

Using a MCE remote with an Antec Veris Fusion case
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:33:29 +0000
I got a MCE remote and wanted to use it with my Antecct Fusion case. It has a remote of it’s own but it uses a stick for navigating and that really doesn’t work.

I found a great post about how to use the mce remote.

I only had to modprobe the lirc

Some additional info on "User account has expired" error
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:59:31 +0000
You have to also use chage:

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So my previous post about this subject is now obsolete ;)

xbmc setup
Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:33:38 +0000
I’ve managed to get XBMC running (and good!). It took me a while to get everything to my liking. Almost everything works perfectly! Except sound is still a bit of a hassle. Linux (with pulseaudio) only sends analog sound through my s/pdif connection...

Installing firefox 3.6 for karmic
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:22:50 +0000
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XBMC....
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:15:37 +0000
In reply to my last article about media centers.
Well, I installed xbmc this weekend and actually it kinda sucked. Installation was a breeze: kudos for that. But when I ran it, it hogged all of the cpu time of the second core. 100% constantly.

I’ve...

Root crontabs/cronjobs not executing or running
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:22:16 +0000
Well as the title says: the cronjobs of the root user didn’t run on one of my servers (MY MACHINE!) and it took a while to figure out why they weren’t running. It ended up to be something with locking the root account. These steps fixed the problem...

fixing a hacked site
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:16:18 +0000
One of our Joomla! sites was “hacked” with some stupid script and the fuckers put a iframe in every page :(

But with sed that was fixed in a matter of seconds:

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python libindicate
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:18:53 +0000
I saw that there are python bindings for libindicate. They’re called “python-indicate”.

There’s also a wiki about this new feature from Ubuntu. I thought about creating a plugin for weechat that uses this library. Especially because the notify-plugins...

Weechat 0.3.0 on Ubuntu 9.10
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:58:34 +0000
Ubuntu 9.10 comes with an older version of weechat. So I downloaded the stable release 0.3.0 and installed it:

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Choosing a new editor: Emacs vs. Vim
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:27:49 +0000
For php I use Zend Studio for Linux. We have a license at work for it and it is in my opinion the best editor for php. It’s relatively fast and you can use it to quickfix php over an ftp connection.

For Ruby I use netbeans. I would also like to use...

Zend and Compiz/visual effects
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:37:44 +0000
When enabling Visual effects Zend wouldn’t maximize anymore. So after a bit of googling I found a nice tutorial to fix the problem with Zend.

Courier/postfix certificates
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:26:48 +0000
The certificates of the courier imapd-ssl and pop3d-ssl were expired. After some searching I found how to renew them:

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Installing Haiku on libvirt/kvm
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:04:24 +0000
I read on OSnews about the alpha release of Haiku. It’s been several years since I installed BeOS the last time so I decided to try Haiku.

I first tried it on virtualbox but I didn’t get the networking to work flawlessly so I decided to install...

Trouble setting up digital output
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:15:18 +0000
Too lazy to type something usefull here. Just for my own reference…

Useful links:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/DigitalOut
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

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Tomato firmware
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:51:15 +0000
Tomato is a replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54GL and it rocks!

I’ve installed it on my home router and on the new router of my boss. Both had other routers ( a Belkin and a US Robotics) and a lot of troubles with the stupid things. After switching...

Rmp -> Pmpd
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:40:00 +0000
I’ve ditched Ruby for my mpd project and started using Python. Not that I like python that much more but the Gstreamer library for python is much more complete. I really wanted gapless playback and the Ruby Gstreamer libray just doesn’t support that...

Problems with suexec/fastcgid and virtualmin
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:50:45 +0000
Since a few version of virtualmin I had some problems with checking the server configuration.

The problem is that I have manually patched suexec and the php fcgid script is in /var/www and not /home.

I had this error for quite a while but last...

Problems with Zend Studio on 64 bit Linux
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:52:55 +0000
When removing Wine, lib32nss-mdns got uninstalled and Zend Studio refused to connect with any FTP server. After reinstalling the package everything worked again!

Upgrading wordpreess
Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:59:09 +0000
I had some small troubles with updating this wordpress blog. It kept wanting to upgrade via ftp/sftp. But I found this great post which has a solution.

Using sqlite in Netbeans 6.7
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:28:24 +0000
I’ve tried to use sqlite some time ago in Netbeans but I couldn’t get it working. Bot I stumbled upon a blogpost which works perfectly!

Installing non-free plugins in Jaunty (9.04)
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:29:20 +0000
Make sure you have the medibuntu repository enabled.

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Now I can play mms:// streams.

Battling spam
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:36:06 +0000
We got a lot of complaints about legitimate mails being marked as spam and therefore not being delivered to our customers. As a solution I wanted the mails to be delivered to the user’s .SPAM folder.

These is the configuration I decided on:

/etc...

Transmission daemon on Ubuntu (part 2)
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:13:18 +0000
A while ago I blogged about installing the transmision bittorent client on ubuntu 8.10. Back then, in the days, you had to install transmission and install your own daemon script. But as of Ubuntu 9.04 there’s a package for it!

As easy as:

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Crontab command problems
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:08:02 +0000
I recently had some problems with using the crontab command on two of my servers. Don’t know how it happened, but here are two links that solved my problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=625184
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3907857...

Burning from the commandline
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:58:26 +0000
I download a Debian Sid livecd on my home server/HTPC and there’s a cd burner in there. So I would like to burn the downloaded iso. There no X Server running (yet) on the box so I was searching for a nice commandline utility.

I found cdw and it really...

Installing Transmission daemon on Ubuntu
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:25:28 +0000
I wanted to install the transmission torrent daemon on my new HTPC server so I can upload a torrent and go to sleep without having to leave my laptop on. Or thinking about starting transmission when my computer (re)boots. So here’s how I installed...

Building my new HTPC
Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:46:53 +0000
This friday I got all the components of my new HTPC. With thanks to my boss :)

It consists of:

Antec Veris Media Fusion Remote Silver
Coolermaster 460WATT PSU ExtremePower Plus
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850E AM2
MDT 2048 MB DDR2...

Phoogle: a _good_ fixed version
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:55:13 +0000
Recently phoogle broke because of some Google maps update. The original creators of Phoogle haven’t updated the code (yet). And when searching online for newer, fixed versions all that showed up were crappy hacked Phoogle files by people who don’t...

MythTV vs. Freevo vs. XBMC vs. Mediaportal vs. Elisa vs. Boxee vs. Entertainer
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:30:04 +0000
I’ve been browsing for what media centre software to install on a htpc. But there are so many choices! Just to name a few:

MythTV
Freevo
XBMC
Mediaportal
Elisa

Boxee (free as in beer)
Entertainer

And they all look great! I’m gonna try to review...

Flash player 10 with 64 bit support (Alpha)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:08:55 +0000
I’m so tired that Firefox keeps crashing with every shitty Flash movie out there. But… today I read an alpha version of Flash Player 10 with 64 bit suppport (for Linux) is out. Click the link and download the archive an install it (drop flashplayer...

df reporting 100% disk usage
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:10:49 +0000
I’ve had a couple of times now that on one of my computers df keeps reporting 100% disk usage. Until now I have resolved this issue by rebooting. But today this happened on one of our servers. And I was reluctant to boot and I had to solve it fast...

Ruby on Rails: custom fields on a per-user basis
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:42:01 +0000
I’m now developing a flexible car database for a couple of hours per week. Our first customer, a Beemer dealer, has a lot of fancy requests. Well, the hired-in Flash developer has these requests actually.

One of them is that they want to save a field...

Compiling jruby from source in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:34:55 +0000
Very easy to do:

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Installing fcgid with suexec AND phusion passenger
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:44:39 +0000
It was a troublesome day today. All did not go as planned.

I had to install fcgid + suexec on one of our servers, I had delayed it too long. So I used my how-to and it still worked flawless. But I noticed I hadn’t mentioned what the right were of...

Installing flash player 10 on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:46:03 +0000
I wanted to install flash player 10 because flash player nine kept crashing on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation. So I found a nice howto on google an followed it. The article explains how to install it on a 64 bit installation of the Ubuntu operating system...

Released github widget
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:32:30 +0000
I think you all noticed my fabulous new sidebar widget: My projects :P

It shows all of my github projects. I directly turned it into a plugin for you to enjoy. You can download and read the documentation in the wordpress plugin directory.

Installing ubuntu with tftpd-hpa and udhcpd
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:33:01 +0000
I needed to install a computer for my sister. She want a laptop, but until she has the money for it, she’ll be using one of my old computers.

It’s one with no dvd/cd drive (she doesn’t know that :) ), so I had to install ubuntu over the network.
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Rails vs. Merb
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:25:12 +0000
This will be a short post: I like merb/datamapper better. It’s cleaner and faster.

But, I have to finish a project this week and merb/datamapper is not just stable yet, has less documentation, less plugins, less helpers and less features.

For example...

Setting up the "show desktop" button in Gnome
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:13:02 +0000
I’ve been using Ubuntu/Gnome fulltime now for some 2 years I believe. I never found out what the “show desktop” shortcup was. I always used the little icon. But while I was tweaking compiz I found out that the shortcut was d. I Windows it was Super...

Asset directories and capistrano
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:46:03 +0000
I have this public/images/cars directory but it gets overwritten everytime I use “cap deploy”. So in order to have my images/cars directory saved every time, I used this addon for capistrano:

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Screw tonemapping: long live enfuse!
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:26:09 +0000
Because I recently bought a new motorcycle I wanted to sell my old GS500. Most important when selling your stuff online: good pictures of the item you’re selling. So I dusted of my Nikon, gave my trusty Suzuki a nice cleaning and started taking pictures...

Deploying, merb, capistrano & passenger
Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:38:08 +0000
First of all I did a:

capify .

And used this deploy.rb

Then to setup the current, releases, etc. directories:

cap deploy:setup

Then, when I tried to login via ssh with shared key: nothing!
After some searching I found out that capistrano messed...

Installing merb on phusion passenger
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:42:50 +0000
I’ve created a little merb app for a customer. The reason I chose merb because I really like the :provides-api. The app had to generate a lot of xml, so using Merb was really nice.

But the installation on the server was a little troublesome. I had...

Brother HL-2030 & Ubuntu Hardy
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:32:39 +0000
Ah, time for my yearrly recurring troubles with my Brother HL2030. Very nice printer. But the driver support under Linux is terrible. Yes, brother released some (crapy) closed source drivers for Linux. But in my opinion that’s even worse than no drivers...

Wii sensor bar repareren
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:04:36 +0000
Ik heb twee hele lieve ratjes maar ze knagen alle losliggende kabels door :(
Nu was de Wii aan de beurt. Bijna alles weggewerkt of draadloos. Behalve de sensor bar natuurlijk. En ja hoor, die hadden ze te pakken genomen (op twee plekken zelfs). Dus...

Just some stuff
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:54:16 +0000
Just some quick links!

This links describes how to manage multiple databases with Capistrano. That’s not why I picked it though. I liked it because it shows the “<<: *” syntax of yaml.

And a repository of Ubuntu Hardy Heron debs for mod_rails/Phusion...

New virtualization server / HTPC machine
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:05:30 +0000
I was thinking about putting together a new low-energy VT-enabled HTPC. So I can use it to watch video’s, play my music on it, use it for testing purposes, put freebsd on it and a lot more. That’s why I want the VT extension. So I can install KVM/Xen...

New ticket/issue tracking software
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:41:07 +0000
I was surfing for some ticketing / project management software and it returned the following result:

Sifter
Beanstalk
Redmine
Unfuddle
Lighthouse
JIRA
16 bugs
Bugzilla
Fogbugz
Trac

Especially Sifter looks really nice! But… it isn’t open source...

Installed passenger a.k.a. mod_rails
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:43:24 +0000
Today I’ve installed Phusion passenger on one of our servers. I wanted Redmine for one of our projects so this seemede a nice opportunity to install it.

Installation was a breeze. For mod_rails as well Redmine.

So I was thinking: we have mod_rails...

Css flash messages
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:13:14 +0000
I was reading a nice article on Ruby on Rails flesh messages. It linked to an article about styling message boxes with css.

I’m a real sucker for nice message boxes. If you are too: this is a must-read.

Setting up convirt on Ubuntu Hardy with Xen running on a remote server
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:38:42 +0000
Don’t!

I first wondered why Ubuntu chose KVM instead of Xen. Well, now I now: because it’s a piece of crap. Well, maybe not Xen, but definitely the products that claim to “support” Xen.

I tried Ubuntu (error in virt-install), Debian Lenny (doesn...

Fiddling with FreeBSD
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0000
Because I use Linux on my servers + on my daily desktop (work and private) now, I don’t have an OS to play around with anymore and f*ck up.

So I’ve installed FreeBSD (only in Virtualbox for now). And it worked! Last time I tried to install FreeBSd...

Flash player 10 on Ubuntu Hardy
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:01:56 +0000
Because I’m had (yes, past tense) some issues with Flash player 9 on Ubuntu Hardy Herron, I was looking for some simple way to install Flash 10 on my installation. So I browsed the Ubuntu forums a bit and fout some howto’s. But they all involved some...

Glipper crashing on start desktop
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:45:39 +0000
Since I’ve installed Ubuntu Hardy Herron I have this problem that the Glipper applet keeps crashing whenever I’ve started my Gnome desktop. When I add glipper to the panel again, it doesn’t crash anymore (for that session). I couldn’t find a solution...

vpnc with openssl!
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:22:20 +0000
The default vpnc in Ubuntu comes without openssl support. Bugger… But with these few lines of code this is solved:

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Installing ruby 1.8.7 (and guessnet) on Hardy
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:52:04 +0000
There were some vulnerabilities in Ruby which are supposedly fixed in ruby 1.8.7. Because of that and because it’s always nice to have the latest, I installed ruby from Ubuntu Intrepid on Hardy Herron.

And while I was doing that I also decided to...

Downloading Netbeans nightly builds
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:00:21 +0000
I’m starting with Python/GtkBuilder and I wanted a nice IDE for Python. Because I really like using netbeans for coding ruby, I gave it a try for python. But the support for python is still alpha. :(

For it to work you have to download the latest...

mime_magic errors with php4
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:36:01 +0000
I went to a customer for our three-weekly sprint review, I opened my mail there and it was full with hundreds of failed cronjobs. Ah, shit! Another night at the datacenter? But it wasn’t that bad :)

The server had ran an update of php that night and...

How to make a diff/patch
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:51:06 +0000
I had to make a couple of diff’s lately and I always forget what switch to use :P

So here is it:

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Apache2 umask: testserver purposes!
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:59:21 +0000
On v2 of my website I wrote a post on configuring a webserver for testing/developing purposes. In that post I explained how to adjust the umask of Apache. I did that by changing the Apache startup script. But, of course, when apache is updated/upgraded...

rubygems: updating to 1.2.0
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:42:16 +0000
I’ve installed rubygems manually (no package manager) in my home directory. But since then “gem –version” reported that it could not it’s version. So now I’ve removed the previous installed version, downloaded the tar and reinstalled. I’ve used this...

Puppet troubles
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:17:41 +0000
I’ve installed puppet recently and I’m know trying to understand how it works and make use of it :)

If that’s not difficult enough, I encountered this weird behaviour that the –noop argument didn’t do anything. After an hour of searching I realized...

Installing Fedora core via pxe
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:00:32 +0000
I really like ubuntu and I wouldn’t try anything else if it wasn’t for Xen. I was trying to install Xen + xenman/virt-manager of Ubuntu Hardy. But xenman doesn’t install (the pulled it out of the repositories) and virt-manager gives all kind of python...

compiling suexec: the fast way (because your website is down)
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:17:23 +0000
At Tim_online we have several webservers and each of them have apache2 installed running php with fcgid (a fastcgi implementation). Why this configuration and not mod_php? Because it is reasonably fast (at leaster faster than plain cgi) an secure...

I bought a Harmony 525
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:51:33 +0000
A.K.A.: I bought a Logitech Harmony 525 remote control and a €1.49 remote saved my day!

When I say “525” in this post, I of course mean the Logitech Harmony 525.

My boss gave me a Mediamarkt gift coupon and this week I decided to buy something for...

Unattended upgrades on a Ubuntu Hardy server
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:41:37 +0000
I wanted to update my hardy servers automatically, so I could spend a little less time each week working on my servers. I’ve searched through the ubuntu wiki/documentation and I think using the unattended-upgrade package is the nicest alternative...

Building and installing the latest version of guessnet
Wed, 28 May 2008 00:37:11 +0000
A little while ago I wrote a post about the wonderful guessnet. It really works well! It integrates so nicely with GNU/Linux that I wonder why (for example) the gnome network manager doesn’t make use of it! I’ve been playing with the thought of making...

Images & why you need com_resize
Sat, 24 May 2008 23:37:18 +0000
I the release post of com_resized there was asked the question why one should use com_resize. There are three reasons to use it:

The generated images aren the size you want them to be. So they’re smaller of size than the original images.
You won...

Released callbacks 0.0.1
Tue, 20 May 2008 22:20:49 +0000
Hi all! I’ve released my first project on rubyforge. The sourcecode is on github though. For the simple reason that my git repository on rubyforge doesn’t work (yet). I hope they will fix it soon.

I’ve setup the project with the wonderful bones of...

bt45's and tire pressure
Mon, 19 May 2008 15:22:57 +0000
I always forget what tire pressure my Bridgestone battlax BT45’s have. So now to never forget:

2.5 & 2.8

(front & rear)

pushing all git remote repositories
Mon, 19 May 2008 15:13:20 +0000
I’m now working on a project that is hosted on github AND rubyforge. And lazy as I am, I don’t want to do:

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Interactive/inline editor in irb
Mon, 12 May 2008 15:26:13 +0000
I saw the MountainWest Ruby conference video: code generation: safety scissors of metaprogramming. And the speaker (Giles Bowkett) used vi from inside irb. And I’ve never liked Vi, but using an editor from within irb is nice! Especially if you’re...

40 different layouts
Sat, 10 May 2008 01:21:45 +0000
Nice: blog.html.it/layoutgala

Conky
Wed, 07 May 2008 23:39:16 +0000
If I browse some random “post your screenshots here” thread, I always think by myself: “I should install Conky one time, It looks godverdomme nice”. So I apt-get install conky. And what a dissapointment. It doesn’t work out of the box. You have to...

Resizing images from within Gnome
Wed, 07 May 2008 23:35:35 +0000
I take a fairly amount of pictures. Some months more than others. And sometimes I want to share them with relatives/friends. And everyone is using hotmail or some other crappy e-mail provider. So I want to keep the file size to a minimum. Well, then...

autoconnecting wlan on startup without gnome / network
Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:53 +0000
I usually boot up my ubuntu box with gnome, but sometimes I want to play UT (on a bare x server) or I just want to use my laptop as a server. In those cases I don’t boot into Gnome but into the terminal. But the problem is Gnome manages my wireless...

Aaahhh
Fri, 02 May 2008 15:44:20 +0000
30 April was queens day (?) and 1 may was labourday / Ascension Day. So I didn’t have to go to work. But when I came home (I live 100km from my work or so) I noticed I forgot to pack the adapter of my notebook. I had 1,5 hours of power left. So I...

2.5.1 image uploader bug
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:59 +0000
I recently upgrade my Wordpress installation to 2.5.1 and this annoying bug showed up. After some reading I installed the no-flash-uploader plugin. This plugin disables the faulty (flash) component and replaces it with a traditional uploader. So now...

Blog themes
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:03:04 +0000
I’m not a designer atall_ but this post on designing a blog theme is very nice. I really like the copyblogger theme I have now. But maybe I’ll try and create something myself. Because a unique theme for a blog is so much nicer.

Also here a post on...

com_resize on wordpress plugins
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:24:56 +0000
Because I expect a huge, huge demand of my com_resize plugin, I have put it on the wordpress site :)

Now I hope it gets approved.

Nice image resizer
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:08:24 +0000
You see all the nice (resized) images on my site? I’ve made a plugin for them to be generated. Want I wanted was to add an image in the wordpress editor. Give a height and/or width and that they would be resized automatically.

With proud I introduce...

Joomla! vs. Wordpress
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:32:55 +0000
I’ve been using Wordpress for over two months now and I’ve already written 24 posts! I thinks that’s a nice average.

When I look at my old blog: v2.vanutsteen.nl, I think my average there is about two posts every month or so.

The difference is that...

Some Wine and Hardy (post 2)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:59:40 +0000
No, it wasn’t the fault of wine. It was my fault. I installed the nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website. Wine then couldn’t find the opengl library and segfauled. So after installing the drivers from the Ubuntu repository it worked again. Now I can...

Some Wine and Hardy
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:57:22 +0000
Wine still segfaults on me with Hardy Heron! I’m gonna look if this still works:

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Disabling a cpu-core in Ubuntu
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:11:08 +0000
When we play unreal tournament GOTY it always runs bad on newer machines. One of my collegues found it the problem was the smp support of UT. Disabling all cores except the first on solved the problem. In Linux that’s like doing:

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Image resize script for wordpress
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:12:41 +0000
Wordpress is a great blog application. It has some nice free templates and the default installation has everything I need without being bloated. I miss one thing: automatic resizing of images who are too big. So I plan on making it myself. Something...

Ubuntu 8.04 released
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:48:39 +0000
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is released. And they have already provided some netboot/mini images too. I was looking for the jeos images. But that mirror seems down.

Nice! Ubuntu rocks!

Reading blog posts
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:03:22 +0000
I daily read a lot of blog posts. To keep up with what’s happening in the ruby/linux community and what’s the latests buzz in the webdeveloper world.

I’m now using google to keep track of the RSS feeds. I’ve used some desktop applications in the...

Tutorials on writing linux kernel device drivers (usb)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:10:09 +0000
My boss recently bought some inexio touchscreens. Including a nice little 12.1 inch variant. I thought about using it in my living room for controlling audio et cetera. But alas, a no go. Because there weren’t any linux device drivers available for...

Up to date on GIT
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:14:14 +0000
I’ve been using GIT now some weeks (for my ultra-secret ruby project) and I must say it’s nice. Nothing more than nice. Just like svn was nice to use (compared to old-school full backups). When I first saw the GIT commands I was dazzling with confusion...

Not installing the default nvidia drivers
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:00:21 +0000
Do you want to install the restricted modules but not the nvidia driver? I do! Because I want to install the newest & latests nvidia driver directly. Then read the following post:

http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/02/19/nvidia-api-mismatch/

But do...

Some great ideas in the ubuntu comunity
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:58:34 +0000
Lately, whenever I’m feeling bored and I don’t feel like programming or watching tv or anything (well, I can’t actually. Because my tv is not connected at the moment) I browse to the new Ubuntu brainstorm website. There are a lot good ideas for Ubuntu...

Installing all restricted extras in ubuntu
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:53:59 +0000
I always installed the flash plugin by hand, unrar all the codecs et cetera. But on the forum I found someone who recommended the package “ ubuntu-restricted-extras”. Did an apt-get install and I worked great! Installed all the stuff I needed:

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testing and Rails
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:59 +0000
As a “professional” webdesigner I know how much testing sucks and how it, at the same time, is one of the most important things to do (besides coding the stuff). That’s why I appreciate Rails' very complete testsuite so much. And now with Rspec user...

Installing jruby
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:42:36 +0000
I used this resource:

http://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/19/create-and-deploy-a-jruby-app-to-the-glassfish-gem-in-10-minutes-or-less-on-mac-os-x/

How to install jruby on Ubuntu:

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Ubuntu changed default editor
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:38:15 +0000
Ubuntu changed the defaut editor to ViM? At least: my Hardy Heron installation suddenly changed editor. This is the command you can use to determine which editor you want to use by default:

sudo update-alternatives –config editor

Where am I going to host my project?
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:59:50 +0000
In my previous blog item I asked the question: where am I going to host my (git) project? John Nunemaker mentioned github for hosting git projects. Maybe I’m gonna look at that when I’m done with my house.

The beauty of Ubuntu
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:41:06 +0000
A.k.a. “installing something that would take ages in another OS”

For a client of ours I’m doing a project. But I had to wait at my new house today for my new tiles. And at my new address I don’t have internet yet. So I made a local copy of the project...

How to play wmv files with Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:15:56 +0000
I thought about doing:

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Nothing!

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Running ut on a new x server (performance is everything)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:02:35 +0000
This was a ha(n/r)dy guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51486

So because I am always losing with UT and keep blaming it on the poor performance of my laptop I was forced to optimise UT. After fiddling with new engines, I discovered that...

Blacklisting firefox 3.0 in Hardy (and installing 2.0)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:51:01 +0000
I used the following resources to accomplish this:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208426

First add an additional deb source for feisty packages. I did it like this:

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Rhythmbox
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:52:11 +0000
I fired up rhythmbox today to play my music. I pointed rhythmbox to my ~/Music directory and it index 10% of my songs. Huh? WTF!?

Apparently not all required codecs are installed eh? I didn’t want to search through documentation and what not, to find...

How to install acroread on ubuntu Hardy Herron
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:18:13 +0000
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wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get...

Rdoc and Rails
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:38:05 +0000
With my fabulous new project: mpd_radio I’m trying to everything right: tests, documentation, the whole shebang. So I was surfing tonight for some tutorials on rdoc. But I couldn’t find a lot. Some useful links:

Rdoc markup documentation

Introduction...

What's all this git stuff anyway?
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:57:27 +0000
I’m reading a lot about git lately. Supposedly it’s the next greatest revision control software. It’s faster, better and doesn’t take the enormous amount of space subversion does. Maybe I’ll try it anytime soon but I don’t see any obvious advantages...

New blog!
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:05:43 +0000
I removed my old blog and created this brand new one! Hopefully I’m going to post a little more here. Maybe some more on Rails. And I’m planning to pick up bass guitar playing again! So maybe some new bass tabs in the near future!

ssh-agent and a server
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:00:00 +0000
My backupserver runs linux on it. When it’s backup-time it looks through some bunch of config files and logs in to the appropriate servers. The server does this with some ssh-keys ofcourse. But… then it broke… ssh-agent would not run anymore (automatically...

A lot of bugs in the new Gutsy Gibbon
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0000
There are a lot of bugs in the new Ubuntu Gutsy gibbon. For example:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/41994

I encoutered on my laptop. But also my server-install of Ubuntu encoutered some bugs.Even one in the apache2...

Gutsy, apache2 and auth_pam
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0000
In installed libapache2-mod-auth-pam and enabled it:

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Addition to ssh keys
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0000
Don’t forget to run:

ssh-add

I forget to mention it in my previous blog about ssh.

Making cron-apt work
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:48:00 +0000
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Disable annoying bell/sound in bash
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:35:00 +0000
As easy as cake:

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Installing Winbind
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0000
I you install winbind, don’t forget to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf:

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Remote sudo rsync'ing
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:36:00 +0000
Great article about adjusting /etc/sudoers to let rsync be executed as sudo without a password:

http://occy.net/node/135

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USERNAME ALL = NOPASSWD...

Two more jewels
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:39:00 +0000
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Ruby on rails: acts_as_authenticated and current_user in a model
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:41:00 +0000
I’m doing lots of Ruby on Rails development lately. I installed actsasauthenticated to create a login for my newest project. But I also wanted to add automagically updatedby and createdby fields for my models.

I used usermonitor.rb for this. But usermonitor...

How to find crap files, the size of them and how to remove them
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:45:00 +0000
I have all these little files in my modest mp3 collection that are not songs. Like m3u’s, txt-files, et cetera. But I want to get rid of these pesky little files.

First let’s see all this crap files:

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Adding locales to ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:46:00 +0000
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Gnome clipboard
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:00:00 +0000
One one the biggest thing I miss in Gnome is a good clipboard manager. Ever tried to copy something from Firefox and the closed firefox? What happened? Right! The copied piece is gone. Pfff…..

How to solve it:

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another samba/cups/windows drivers blog
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:00:00 +0000
Again tried to reinstall the printer. I used the windows admin to install printer drivers. But it did not work. I opened everything to anyone, but it did not work.

After accessing the printer via the ip-address instead of it’s hostname it worked!...

Installing Unreal tournament GOTY on Ubuntu Feist Fawn
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:00:00 +0000
tried installing Unreal Tournament GOTY editon on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. With some help of a tutorial I succeeded. But the sound and framerate were really crappy. Especially the sound.

Fixing the framerate was easy. I edited ~/.loki/ut/System/UnrealTournament...

Awstats troubles
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:49:00 +0000
I installed awstats on server but I wanted to access the same stats via multiple url’s. So I added a regex to the hostalias (via /etc/awsts/awstats.conf.local). Newly added domains worked just fine. But already generated domains did not responds to...

HAL, IVman, usbdisk and mounting
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:54:00 +0000
How to install mount and let it mount my usbdisk by default?

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is all you need!

adjusting hosts file on windows
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:56:00 +0000
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smartmontools and sata harddisks
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:57:00 +0000
I reinstalled my server and I wanted to use smartmontools to monitor my disks (the last time one of them crashed). But the smartmont deamon wouldn’t start. By adding the following in /etc/smartd.conf the problems was solved:

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Samba, Pam, winbind & the AD
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:59:00 +0000
This I had to add to smb.conf

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Ubuntu 6.10 and vsftp
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:04:00 +0000
Well, today I had to reïnstall VSFTPD. Our server crashed and I had to reïnstall a new one.

While reinstalling VSFTP I saw that the last time I did not write anything down. So for my the next time:

Ubuntu: changing from dhcp to static network interfaces
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:02:00 +0000
I installed ubuntu and it did automatically dhcp. But I didn’t want that so I changed it to static. This is what I had to change.

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Updating the mysql root password
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:01:00 +0000
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Send linux mail to an external email adress
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:05:00 +0000
Today I looked in the mail records of my linux server and I saw all this crap. So I decided to send all the local mail to my normal email account. This is what I had to do:

Make sure this is in: /etc/aliases:

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Ruby on rails, apache en mongrel
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:07:00 +0000
De laatste tijd ben ik wat met Ruby on Rails aan het kutten. Om te ontwikkelen heb ik intern een lokale server opgezet. Omdat geen van de configuraties die ik op internet vond voldeden aan mijn eisen heb ik er zelf één gemaakt.

Eerst Ruby installeren...

Brother HL-2030 and printing from Windows with Samba
Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:12:00 +0000
I wanted to make the Brother HL-2030 printer which I connected to my newly Installed Debian server available on the local network via Samba.
With the standard /etc/samba/smb.conf the printer was directly visible on the internet.
But the printerdriver...

Like the new look of my site?
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:23:00 +0000
I installed a new template for this site. I didn’t make it myself, but I like it a lot. Maybe I’ll make a new template soon, but for now this will do. Or shall I reïstall the old one?

A howto on setting up Asterisk and Amportal for debian
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:25:00 +0000
For a long time I wanted to install Asterisk on my debian server. I installed it once, with the default debian packages but that wasn’t to my likings. So here is a guide for everyone who wants to use Asterisk in combination with Amportal.

My main...

Installing a brother usb printer on Debian Sarge
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:16:00 +0000
Recently I bought myself a nice little usb laserprinter: the brother HL-2030. I read on linuxprinting.org and on other sites, that this printer worked very well on Linux.

So I downloaded the drivers from the brother website:

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Sending the hostname via dhcp
Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:17:00 +0000
By default, a Windows machine sends his hostname via dhcp to the dhcp server. A Linux machine does not do this standard. I know knoppix does it. But by default, Debian Sarge 3.1 does not. In this howto I’ll explain how to make Sarge send the hostname...

Debian sarge: how to install openoffice.org
Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:19:00 +0000
A short story this time on howto install openoffice.org on Debian Sarge. Yes, that’s quite simple, but here are the packages I like to install with openoffice.org.
I want it to use the dutch spellingcheck and to integrate with Gnome. Here is the command...

OpenSEF
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:21:00 +0000
A new project for Mambo has been started: OpenSEF. The company Xaneon has opensourced it’s SEF component for Mambo. It’s still a bèta version, but soon the stable version will be released.

I installed it and expected it to work right out of the box...

New country list script
Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:29:00 +0000
Hi,

I’ve enhanced my previous script. What it does, is that it generates a dropdownlist with countrienames and countrycodes. You can use a parameter to get a specific country selected.

You can use it like this:

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Php function for checking a string for an url
Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:27:00 +0000
Hi,
Under the link “read more” you can find a self-written function that checks a string for url’s.
I don’t know what to say more. I think it explains itself. It is very simple and I tried to make it as fast as possible.

It first checks the string...

Howto install the redhat artwork package on debian
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:30:00 +0000
Today I wanted to install the redhat artwork package on Debian Sarge stable. But to my suprise it wasn’t in the apt repositories anymore. This is what I did to make it install:

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Final exam
Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:00:00 +0000
Last friday I had my final exam where I had to defend my project at Tim_online. I presented the implementationplan I wrote and after that I had to answer the questions of the comission in an assesment. The comission existed of two teachers and an...

Quiet
Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:00:00 +0000
Well, you really notice it’s Christmas. No news at all on the Internet!

Everybody’s celebrating Christmas and nobody’s placing anything new on the web. Well, I do. But I’m not sane. I tried to satisfy my need for news on several different sites. But...

PHP5
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:00:00 +0000
Last week I installed PHP5. I was a bit afraid I would get all sorts of errors in combination with Mambo. And I got them. PHP was giving me errors that sessions wouldn’t work. At first I thought it was a rights issue.

But after some investigation...

New Gallery
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:00:00 +0000
I installed a new gallery on my site. This one. It is verry extensive but it is also quite old and well, just plain ugly. The new one, V2 is better. But there’s no mambo component for that one. So I installed gallery V1 here. After that I installed...

Herman Brood Bass tab
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:00:00 +0000
Some time ago, I posted this news item. I told that mxtabs suck because they rejected my tab of Herman Brood’s song Saturday night.

I didn’t find it fair because I thought my tab was all right. But last week I tried to play the tab I made for the...

feedback?
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:00:00 +0000
Hi! Welcome! Don’t go away… :(

Why there’s so little news on this site you ask? Well, here’s the answer: I don’t know if anyone visites this site. What kind of public. What they’re interested about. I’ve got a lot to write about. But I must pick a...

MXtabs member suck!
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:00:00 +0000
As you know I play bass guitar. If I want to play a new song I get the tab from MXtabs.
But there as no existing tab for saturday night from Herman Brood. So I submitted my tab for Herman Brood’s Saturday Night to MXtabs. But some guy called SabathSlayer666...

Another gallery added
Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:00:00 +0000
Today I tried to add another gallery to mambo. This gallery is called: gallery. A verry original name but it is a nice piece of software. You can find it at:
http://gallery.sourceforge.net

First I installed gallery, which you can see at:
http://gallery...

Photo gallery added
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:00:00 +0000
As you all can see I added a photo gallery to my site. I used Zoom for the gallery. Zoom is a nice component for Mambo. But it isn’t really mature. I installed, had to fix a bug and change the code before I could use it. And still it’s not what I exactly...

Go Mono!
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:00:00 +0000
Today I installed the new version of the mono-project. It brings the .Net technology to the linux platform. Ximian is a big sponsor of the project and that’s noticeable because the project was rapidly developped in contrast to some other open source...

Project planning
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:50:00 +0000
It’s been three days since I made a promise to post a lot of news on this site. And I really wanted to do that, but… I’ve been really busy. Again? Yes, again!
This week I had to produce a project planning. This morning I have to deliver it to the bidder...

Yes, I'm back
Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:34:00 +0000
Whoohoo! This site is back online. I had some problems with the server. After two weeks of calling, e-mailing and cursing the server has been fixed.
Maybe I’ll host this site somewhere professional. But I always have a lot of demands. And one of them...

Adobe PDFmaker
Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:35:00 +0000
When I started working at TIM_online I got a second hand laptop from them. It’s a pity isn’t a brand new one, but hey: I’m really pleased with it.
Yesterday I installed Adobe Acrobat on it. With Acrobat you can create PDF files and print to a virtual...

New Gnome is out!
Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:38:00 +0000
The new Gnome 2.8 is out for a couple of days now. I wanted to install it, but I keep hearing it has a lot of bugs still in it.

I tried to install evolution and that worked. But not (yet) the Exchange connectivity. Too bad, because I really need an...

internationalisation & communication
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:39:00 +0000
Today, just like the previous to weeks I went to school to go to the college “internationalisation” from Jelle.
Jelle is a nice teacher who can tell wonderful stories. But not today.

Because today, Jelle didn’t show up. He went home without informing...

VoIP
Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:40:00 +0000
This week I’ve been busy with Asterisk.
Arthur from TIM_Online really believes that Voice Over IP is thé next big thing and that big bucks can be earned with it. So I started fidling with it.

The developers of Asterisk say:

“Asterisk is a complete...

Drain you
Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:42:00 +0000
Today I tried to play ‘Drain You’ from Nirvana. But not a single tab on the internet was to my satisfaction. So I combined the best tabs I could find and created a new one.
Click on ‘Read More’ to see the tab I made.

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PHP
Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:44:00 +0000
Thursday I started searching the internet for tutorials on how to program object oriënted in PHP.
I found some tutorials, but I still find it very difficult to grep the why of object oriënted programming.
So if you know a good book or better, a good...

Bass guitar
Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:45:00 +0000
Some time ago I bought myself a bass guitar. My little brother started playing electric guitar about a year ago and he pushed me to play bass.

So I bought myself a Silvertone starterpackage and started practicing. The beginning was difficult. I had...

Tim_online
Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:48:00 +0000
Last week school started and this half year should be my last half year at (this) school. This half year I have a training period at a little company called TIM_online.
At the end of the period I have to write a couple of reports, but that’s to boring...

Week reports
Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:46:00 +0000
Last week I started my new job at TIM as I have mentioned in one of my previous posts.

Schools demands that you write a report every week where you track your progress, evaluate the planning you’ve made etcetera. So, this is week two and I’m already...

CVS testsite
Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:51:00 +0000
I’ve installed a cronjob which downloads the newest version of Mambo CVS and installs it on the server. You can see it at work here.

Header script almost done
Sun, 05 Sep 2004 22:53:00 +0000
Friday, I was too early at school and I filled up that time with finishing the header script. It is now almost finished and really cool.
The script looks in a directory for pictures and picks one randomly. The picture is then cropped to the right dimensions...

Banner development
Fri, 03 Sep 2004 22:54:00 +0000
What a busy day it has been. This was the fourth day at my new job. Since monday I’ve been working at Tim_online.
But I’ll tell more about that maybe this weekend. When I’ll probably have some sparetime. If I can, I’ll add the logo of TIM to this item...

Never mess...
Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:58:00 +0000
OK, here’s a golden tip which everybody knows: don’t mess with a live server! Yes, I did and I know regret it.
I didn’t write much but all I did write is gone.
But on the other hand: I can start all over and do it better. And I’ve got a subject to...

XHTML validation
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:55:00 +0000
I was so proud of the XHTML validation about this site that I placed a link to the W3C validatior in the footer.
But I didn’t realise that Mambo doesn’t generate valid XHTML though. At least not until version 5.0. So until the content of this site...

What to publish
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:57:00 +0000
OK, the site is live now (again). After picking a Content Management System, learning CSS, making a template and refreshing my php-skills the difficult part is yet to come: placing content and keeping the site up-to-date.

And what content should I...