sysadmin madness, in relative perspective
Count your blessings, but what if there are none? Yesterday, since it was a saturday and I have a large amount of spare time in the weekend, I decided to get busy on one of those things I never have the time to do during the week: laundry. (yay!). So, I loaded up the washer, … Read More “no such thing as a lucky break” »
Just a little update, since I’ve not been around for a while now. A lot of changes in my life. As you know Petra and I where getting a divorce, and that was final in june. Then the waiting game started, because Petra needed a place of her own. Well, she and Femke moved out … Read More “Small update” »
I would like to issue the follow message to stockholders and financial analysts: stop messing up the economy even more! Okay, pause, take a deep breath, go out into the woods if you have some nearby, or a walk in the park. Enjoy some clean air, the company of friends. Clear your mind of all … Read More “message to stockholders and financial analysts” »
I found a little snag in the contact form 7 plugin for wordpress by Takayuki Miyoshi when using it in combination with suphp. The plugin temporarily stores the captcha image in your uploads directory, and does so with permissions set to 0700, which makes sense security wise. When using it in combination with suphp though, … Read More “captcha image permission error in contact form 7” »
Yesterday ( August 16th): the day had come, a day I had been looking forward to for months: the Iron Maiden concert. The first concert ever on the well-known TT Circuit in Assen. I would like to take the opportunity to thank my ex-wife Petra for the ticket, fantastic birthday present! FTTB All right, my … Read More “Iron Maiden – Assen” »
No, I am not overloaded, though I’m not far from it sometimes, but my trusted mailserver is almost there. All day long there’s been a close to inifine flow of spam, bounces and other junk storming into my mailbox. As some of you may know, I’ve got a powerful IBM server running FreeBSD here at … Read More “overloaded” »
Vmware released it’s answer to Microsoft’s Hyper-V product today: a free to download and using 32MB diskspace of footprint Hypervisor. This can only mean that the virtualisation market is gearing up for one heck of a competition run, maybe even a full-out war. Frankly, Vmware has the lead right now, they are market leader in … Read More “vmware ESXi” »
Microsoft has released a ‘final’ version of Hyper-V, it’s virtualisation product, it seems however, only a shadow of what Xen and VmWare can offer customers when it comes to Enterprise level virtualisation. This article will explain Hyper-V, and why it’s a very poor choice for virtualisation indeed. About Hyper-V Hyper-V is Microsoft’s implementation of a … Read More “Hyper-V: why you do not want it” »
I ordered something from the Iron Maiden official store today, the tour shirt for the Somewhere back in time tour, that is currently running. They are coming to Assen, The Netherlands in August, and I have a ticket. (with special thanks to my ex-wife, who gave it to me for my birthday, thanks sweetie!!!) Here’s … Read More “new goodie, inbound” »
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