a wonderful xmas :)
I had a wonderful Christmas this year On the 24th, my girlfriend Kirsteen flew in from Vienna, where she lives, and she stayed until the 27th. We did the whole exchange of gifts on Christmas-eve, a...
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Someone on IRC pointed me to this wonderful bug in Spamassassin, it’s easy to quickfix, but the fix itself will become a bug in 10 years, in any case, until they push an update that correctly fixes...
View Articledo companies ‘sell out’ their customers?
Normally I don’t answer ‘blocked’ phone numbers on my cellphone, but since I’m expecting a call from a company I got tempted today. It was (off course) some call center, who immediately asked: “I’m...
View Articlebacula: Fatal error: Failed to authenticate Storage daemon
When you see the backup of a (non localhost) client failing with the message: Fatal error: Failed to authenticate Storage daemon Keep in mind that bacula uses tcpwrappers, though probably not in the...
View ArticleAdd another to the list
I can finally, after being long overdue, add the UK, and more specifically: Scotland to my list of countries visited. Last month, Kirsteen and I travelled to Glasgow on a family and friends visiting...
View ArticleSony’s random generator
1 2 3 4 int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. } for people who don’t understand what this means: this is how Sony’s PS3 got hacked.
View ArticleThe only thing the iPad might be lacking
I, like many others, like the iPad. I don’t own one, and never have, because as much as I love my iPhone, I don’t like one simple thing: - it’s got no separation for users Separation for users, while a...
View ArticleSamsung Continues to Poke Fun at Apple Fans in Super Bowl Ad
A nice post from MacRumors points out that Samsung continues to poke fun at Apple users, who stand in line to get the a newly launched product. Now, as a dutch person, I am blissfully oblivious to the...
View ArticleThe evil in ‘do not be evil’ google
The words “do not be evil” have been linked to Google for a while now, and has reached near mythical proportions now with some of its users. But how much of this is true? One would argue, successfully,...
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