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Author: Arjan Koole
Metal digging, travel loving, dad of one, living with an awesome Scottish girl. And being an absolute Unix nerd and Mac Fanatic.
Sony’s random generator
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.
Add 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 trip. I absolutely loved it. Though we did find the hotel lacking. Not worth what they […]
Sean Tibbetts has a blog!
My friend Timea Huzar pointed me to Sean Tibbetts’ awesome blog. For those who are not in the know, Sean has been the live bass player of Kamelot, and has now become the official full-time bassist of the band. (and he deserves it!). Apparently, not many people where in the […]
bacula: 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 way you expect it. instead of doing: bacula-sd : 111.222.333.444 do: $name-sd : 111.222.333.444 where $name is […]
do 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 sorry to bother you, but do you by any chance have children under the age of […]
Spamassassin 2010 bug
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 this: ##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006] describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The […]
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 first for me – it’s more a British tradition I think, and since […]
Venezuela: ‘Dutch Antilles are ours, US and Dutch gearing up for aggression’
Venezuela president Chavez used the climate summit for his own political agenda, in a speech where he claims Venezuelan rights to the Dutch Antilles, an island group 40 miles north of Venezuela. These islands have been under Dutch control since the 17th century. Long before attempts of Venezuela to become […]
Oracle 11g for Dummies
The boss just dumped a whole stack of books on our desks. Oracle 11g for dummies for me, w000t. Never done Oracle before, though I am no stranger to Databases at all (MySQL, Postgresql, MSSQL, IBM DB2)