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Dark theme in Flatpak apps

November 16, 2022 less than 1 minute read

To get flatpak’s to honor your systems dark mode and not show you horrible white menubars, you can use this little snipplet:

Deploying a Mastodon server on Oracle Cloud

November 5, 2022 3 minute read

I’ve been meaning to test out Mastodon again for a while. It’s is best described as a federated version of the blue bird platform (Twitter), while not being Twitter. No ads, no algorithms.

Using JACK for lower-latency audio on Linux for piano practice

February 21, 2021 3 minute read

About a month and a bit in me learning the piano, I’ve had to rethink my remote piano learning setup. The latency was at points really annnoying (sometimes nearly a second) - it’s confusing when you hit a key and only hear it when you’re hitting the next key. So, time to look for a lower-latency setup.

Learning the piano, and playing with MIDI & PulseAudio on Linux

January 16, 2021 6 minute read

I’ve always wanted to learn the piano. Finally, in 2021, I’m following up on it :)

EDID for ViewSonic Vx2025wm

July 20, 2018 2 minute read

I recently reinstalled Fedora on my desktop machine, which has (amongst others) a ViewSonic Vx2025wm screen connected to it. It’s an oldie, but still works (quite well). Unfortunately, Linux just complained that it didn’t get a proper EDID out of it, and refused to activate it - might also explain why Windows doesn’t recognise it as a PnP monitor - I guess the chip fried somewhere along the ...

Hibernate after suspend (on Fedora)

December 22, 2017 1 minute read

I recently found out that Windows has this nice feature where, after suspending your laptop, it’ll go to hibernate after a while to preserve battery. Seems like a really cool feature, saves your battery too, so I wanted it on my linux installation. I’m using Fedora 27 right now. To get it working, you’ll first need to verify that your suspend to ram and suspend to disk actually work. There are...

ASUS UX305UA and Linux

April 15, 2016 2 minute read

The ASUS UX305UA is an ultrabook with the Skylake microarchitecture - the (as of writing) latest iteration in Intel processors. Unfortunately, Skylake support on Linux wasn’t really a granted thing the time the device got released. Fortunately it’s gotten a lot better of late.

Using adb with a OnePlus X on Linux…

February 6, 2016 less than 1 minute read

… is not really that hard. Just annoying. Since OnePlus’ USB ID is not in the default adb list, you need to add it yourself: echo "0x2a70" >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

Managing TP-Link easy smart switches from Linux

August 30, 2015 2 minute read

I’ve recently acquired some TP-Link ‘Easy Smart’ managed switches - cheap, decently built (metal casing), and a lot of features above the usual unmanaged stuff:

XPS13, Linux, suspend and Intel Rapid Start Technology

April 13, 2013 1 minute read

As an addendum to my previous post on how to install Debian Sid on the XPS13, I’ve been having issues with suspend - the laptop would sporadicaly not go to sleep properly on lid close, or it wouldn’t come out of suspend afterwards.

Dell XPS 13 and Debian Sid

April 7, 2013 6 minute read

I purchased a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, to replace my ageing Apple Macbook 2,1. After six years of daily use, it’s (over)due to retire.

Mounting box.net with webdav under Linux

December 17, 2011 less than 1 minute read

I recently got a Box account with 50 gB of online storage (see this thread on XDA on how to get one).

Adobe AIR 2.6 and Debian Sid 64-bit

November 27, 2011 2 minute read

I wanted to get Adobe AIR to work on my 64-bit Debian Sid installation, to try out some other twitter clients, more specifically Saezuri. (On a side note: the offering of twitter clients on linux is … mediocre. Bad, even. The (imho) best one is Pino, but it has problems of it’s own).

Running Linux on an Apple Macbook 2,1

May 2, 2010 5 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on an Intel-based Apple MacBook, 2007 model.

Multiseat on Debian

April 4, 2010 5 minute read

Since I have a rather well-scaled desktop PC (nothing really fancy by today’s specs, but it’s underused as it is), and my gf sometimes wants to use it, and sometimes we both want to use it at the same time, I decided to turn it into a multiseat configuration.

Using an Alcatel X200 under Linux

October 12, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I recently purchased an Alcatel Onetouch X200 3G USB modem, to be able to use internet on various locations where there is no wired or wifi available. Works fine under Windows/Mac OS X, bit more of a hassle under Linux.

World of Goo!

March 7, 2009 less than 1 minute read

A good friend of mine introduced me to a new game: World Of Goo!

Linux on the Apple Macbook

January 3, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I was bored recently, and decided to install Linux on my Macbook. I opted for the distribution I like best - Debian (unstable/Sid).

Reading DRM'ed Adobe Ebooks on Linux

September 3, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Sade linked me to this nice ebook by Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere. Unfortunately, you need Adobe Digital Editions for it, which only exists for Windows and Mac. Since she’s a Linux user, that one didn’t really fly with her.

Iodine (dns tunnel) on your Mac (to escape those evil firewalls)

July 7, 2008 1 minute read

Here’s a short how-to to get the iodine dns tunnel working on your Mac.

Funpidgin

May 16, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Thanks to a post on Frank Goosens’ blog I discovered FunPidgin! A fork of Pidgin, a multi-messenger client formerly known as Gaim.

Linux on my MacBook

January 13, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I’m currently trying to get Linux (Debian Sid) working on my MacBook… it’s installed, but still needs lots of tweaking.

Fixing your VMWare's guest clock

December 30, 2007 less than 1 minute read

If you’re using VMWare on a variable-speed processor (like all most modern cpu’s these days) you might have noticed that sometimes the guest OS runs a lot faster (causing the guest clock to run faster and all kinds of weird effects).

Vmware console on Debian Lenny

December 30, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I just installed VMWare server on my gf’s linux-laptop, but the server console didn’t want to start for some reason… Just came back to the command line, nothing happening.

arm-linux crosscompiling on Debian Sid

September 29, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Here’s a simple howto on how to install an ARM crosscompiling environment on your Debian Unstable:

Vmware and Linux-2.6.22

July 20, 2007 less than 1 minute read

If you’re rolling your own kernels, and upgraded to 2.6.22, you might have bumped into a compilation issue:

Gallery-Remote

May 27, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I was trying to get GalleryRemote installed today on my Linux installation (because for obscure reasons, using the java applet in gallery directly crashes my browsers), which wouldn’t run. Attempting to run the installer gave obscure errors like: awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dirname: error while loading shared li...

Linux, distcc and Mac OS X

May 1, 2007 less than 1 minute read

If you’re like me, and have Fink installed on your Mac and compiling away all those wonderful unix applications, and you have a desktop nearby running linux (with more processor power being unused), you’ll want to setup distcc so you can harnass all that power.

Fight image spam with FuzzyOCR & Spamassassin

February 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I guess you all know about Spam Assassin. It’s a wonderful tool that allows you to filter out tons of spam easily.

Running Linux on a Dell Latitude D610

September 4, 2006 9 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on a Dell D610 laptop.

Running Linux on an Acer TravelMate 800 series laptop

August 23, 2006 10 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on an Acer Travelmate 800 series laptop.

What I've been doing…

October 27, 2005 1 minute read

What have I been doing the last times… well…

September in Spain

September 28, 2005 2 minute read

On tuesday, 20 september I took the plane (yes, I gave it back ;p) once again to spain, to visit Diana :) :)

atvsync 0.1

July 24, 2004 less than 1 minute read

ATV Sync is a simple script that allows you to easily synchronise the premade ATV PalmOS databases to your PalmOS-powered handheld.

phpComics 0.4

March 3, 2004 less than 1 minute read

This is a collection of scripts that allow you to download complete archives of web-published comics.

htmlpop! 0.5

December 6, 2002 less than 1 minute read

This script allows you to download POP3 mailboxes over an HTTP interface. I wrote it to allow me to get my mail through the company’s http proxy server.

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phptelemeter

phptelemeter 1.36-beta3 released

July 17, 2012 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.36-beta3. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.36-beta2 released

October 27, 2011 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.36-beta2. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.36 beta 1 released

July 18, 2010 less than 1 minute read

I’ve released phptelemeter 1.36, beta 1. Beta because it doesn’t have everything yet that I want, but it needed to get out there due to lots of changes by Telenet.

phptelemeter 1.35 released!

October 27, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.35. This version only has a few changes, but I wanted to get it out there:

phptelemeter 1.34 released

August 2, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.34. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.33 released!

June 1, 2008 less than 1 minute read

After nearly 8 months of no release (if you don’t count the 1.33-beta1), I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.33. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.32 released

August 24, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.32. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.31 released

July 26, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.31. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.30 released

April 6, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.30. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.29 released

March 5, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.29. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.28 released

January 11, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.28. This version includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.27 released

December 12, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.27. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.26 released

October 30, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.26. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.25 released

September 8, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.25. This release includes the following bugfix:

phptelemeter 1.24 released

July 24, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.24. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.23 released

June 18, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.23. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.22 released

May 31, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.22. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.21 released

May 26, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.21. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.20 released

May 19, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.20. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.11 released

April 3, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.11. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.10 released

February 28, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.10. This release includes the following changes:

phptelemeter 1.01 released

January 28, 2006 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.01. Brown paper bag release!

phptelemeter 1.00 released!

January 27, 2006 2 minute read

I’ve just released phptelemeter 1.00. The first ‘stable’ *cough*

phptelemeter …

March 10, 2005 less than 1 minute read

I’ve started a new project, a php based ‘meter reader’, for Telenet, to be able to get the usage statistics in an easy way instead of having to log into their site all the time…

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android

My history in gadgets - update 2025

February 19, 2025 less than 1 minute read

An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020, 2020 bis and 2022 updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2022

August 1, 2022 less than 1 minute read

An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020 and 2020 bis updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2020 bis

September 1, 2020 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis and 2020 updates:

Activating VoLTE and VoWiFi on Orange (Belgium) on the OnePlus 8 Pro

June 29, 2020 1 minute read

Orange, my ISP, supports VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi) on a limited set of devices. Unfortunately, OnePlus is not one of the manufacturers.

My history in gadgets - update 2020

June 26, 2020 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2019 bis updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2019 bis

December 31, 2019 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2019

June 26, 2019 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015 and 2016 updates, I bring you… edition 2019! (mostly because I forgot to update stuff)

Installing microG services (as Play Services replacement) on the Asus TF101 tablet

February 21, 2017 2 minute read

I still have an Asus Transformer TF101 tablet in use - running MarshMallow - but after a Play Services upgrade, in which Google inserted some NEON instructions (which the TF101 does not support) , a lot of “Play Services has stopped working” popups showed up - making the tablet nigh unusable. Initial tests blocking upgrade of the services yielded no success, and a lot of programs demand the ne...

My history in gadgets - update 2016

July 15, 2016 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014 and the 2015 update, now the 2016 update. Who would have guessed!

Using adb with a OnePlus X on Linux…

February 6, 2016 less than 1 minute read

… is not really that hard. Just annoying. Since OnePlus’ USB ID is not in the default adb list, you need to add it yourself: echo "0x2a70" >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

My history in gadgets - update 2015

June 2, 2015 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets” post from a while back, and the 2014 update:

My history in gadgets - update 2014

May 12, 2014 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets” post from a while back, as things have progressed a bit meanwhile ;)

Compiling Android / CyanogenMod from source

March 11, 2014 less than 1 minute read

On the HTC Desire S, I’ve been using an unofficial build (made by Flinny) of CyanogenMod 10 for a while - happily so.

Android Backup & Restore

July 15, 2013 1 minute read

You’ve just gotten your shiny new Android Phone, and you want to migrate to it. There are several options, including Titanium Backup to move stuff, but Google also has you covered (party): Android Backup & Restore. You can find this setting on your phone, under “Settings” and “Backup & Restore”. This thing backups several things, but far from all:

Manually flashing an OTA-update

December 23, 2012 3 minute read

I recently acquired a second-hand HTC One X. A week or two back HTC decided to release the JellyBean update for the phone, all was well. Yesterday, another update was sighted on XDA, and since it seems like this one gives better battery life, I didn’t feel like waiting another 3-5 weeks before it became available in my country, so I searched on how to manually flash an OTA.

Copying over your wifi access points on Android

October 23, 2012 1 minute read

In case you have just bought a new phone, rooted it, and want to copy over all your wifi access points, there are a few options:

S-OFF and Jellybean on the HTC Desire HD (Ace)

September 23, 2012 less than 1 minute read

I acquired a secondhand HTC Desire HD, a nice phone (albeit a bit heavy). Comes with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Sense. I’m personally not much of a Sense fan, and I wanted to move to a newer Android release, so I looked around on how to achieve S-OFF.

Reset android lockscreen to slide

September 22, 2012 less than 1 minute read

You’ve just reconfigured the security lockscreen settings on your (rooted) android phone, and then forgotten eg. the PIN code to unlock it? It happened to me yesterday.

My history in gadgets…

January 4, 2012 2 minute read

As a geek, I’ve always been quite the gadget freak. The fact that my father was also interested in the newest toys didn’t help.

How to RUU your Desire

June 19, 2011 2 minute read

I’ve always been a fan of the 3rd party roms that are available for the different Android based phones. Unfortunately, it seems mine has developed a bit of a quirk: sometimes, when unplugging the USB cable, it will reboot. Or it no longer detects it as ‘external storage’ when putting it in USB-drive mode.

Enter the HTC Desire

December 10, 2010 2 minute read

A little while back I finally caved in to all the peer pressure and got my second Android phone, the HTC Desire. It’s faster than the HTC Hero, which I’ve been using sofar. My girlfriend wanted that one, so it’ll have a good home :) and I can keep it updated to the latest firmwares.

Hello there, Froyo (Android 2.2)

September 10, 2010 less than 1 minute read

Google released Android 2.2 - codename Froyo (for Frozen Yoghurt), giving Android users a nice speedboost.

Android 2.1 (Eclair) on the HTC Hero…

June 8, 2010 less than 1 minute read

I’ve bought an HTC Hero a while back. Rooted it too, so I could edit the sms database. Loving the phone.

Rooting the HTC Hero

December 13, 2009 2 minute read

Note: This is at your own risk. If you fry your phone, your problem, not mine.

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debian

Adding en_BE locale to Linux

May 15, 2022 less than 1 minute read

I live in Belgium, but I prefer english as my default locale. Using the en_US or en_GB locale brings problems of it’s own - not having the right system (metric) or wrong start of week day..

ASUS UX305UA and Linux

April 15, 2016 2 minute read

The ASUS UX305UA is an ultrabook with the Skylake microarchitecture - the (as of writing) latest iteration in Intel processors. Unfortunately, Skylake support on Linux wasn’t really a granted thing the time the device got released. Fortunately it’s gotten a lot better of late.

Using adb with a OnePlus X on Linux…

February 6, 2016 less than 1 minute read

… is not really that hard. Just annoying. Since OnePlus’ USB ID is not in the default adb list, you need to add it yourself: echo "0x2a70" >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 “Wheezy” gone stable

May 5, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Debian Wheezy has been released today.

XPS13, Linux, suspend and Intel Rapid Start Technology

April 13, 2013 1 minute read

As an addendum to my previous post on how to install Debian Sid on the XPS13, I’ve been having issues with suspend - the laptop would sporadicaly not go to sleep properly on lid close, or it wouldn’t come out of suspend afterwards.

Dell XPS 13 and Debian Sid

April 7, 2013 6 minute read

I purchased a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, to replace my ageing Apple Macbook 2,1. After six years of daily use, it’s (over)due to retire.

Adobe AIR 2.6 and Debian Sid 64-bit

November 27, 2011 2 minute read

I wanted to get Adobe AIR to work on my 64-bit Debian Sid installation, to try out some other twitter clients, more specifically Saezuri. (On a side note: the offering of twitter clients on linux is … mediocre. Bad, even. The (imho) best one is Pino, but it has problems of it’s own).

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 “Squeeze” gone stable ;)

February 6, 2011 less than 1 minute read

Running Linux on an Apple Macbook 2,1

May 2, 2010 5 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on an Intel-based Apple MacBook, 2007 model.

Multiseat on Debian

April 4, 2010 5 minute read

Since I have a rather well-scaled desktop PC (nothing really fancy by today’s specs, but it’s underused as it is), and my gf sometimes wants to use it, and sometimes we both want to use it at the same time, I decided to turn it into a multiseat configuration.

Autoswitching network interfaces

March 8, 2009 2 minute read

Since I’m a lazy git, I want my laptop to automatically switch back & forth between my wired and wireless interfaces. Seems that stuff like Network Manager can do that for you, but it’s not really my thing. I don’t like stuff where you need a GUI to configure it, a duplicaton of network configuration, and it also tends to hang my machine. No idea why, though. After an afternoon of fiddling...

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” released, Squeeze incoming :p

February 15, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Linux on the Apple Macbook

January 3, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I was bored recently, and decided to install Linux on my Macbook. I opted for the distribution I like best - Debian (unstable/Sid).

Linux on my MacBook

January 13, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I’m currently trying to get Linux (Debian Sid) working on my MacBook… it’s installed, but still needs lots of tweaking.

Vmware console on Debian Lenny

December 30, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I just installed VMWare server on my gf’s linux-laptop, but the server console didn’t want to start for some reason… Just came back to the command line, nothing happening.

arm-linux crosscompiling on Debian Sid

September 29, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Here’s a simple howto on how to install an ARM crosscompiling environment on your Debian Unstable:

Gallery-Remote

May 27, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I was trying to get GalleryRemote installed today on my Linux installation (because for obscure reasons, using the java applet in gallery directly crashes my browsers), which wouldn’t run. Attempting to run the installer gave obscure errors like: awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dirname: error while loading shared li...

Oh, I forgot…

April 13, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Fight image spam with FuzzyOCR & Spamassassin

February 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I guess you all know about Spam Assassin. It’s a wonderful tool that allows you to filter out tons of spam easily.

Goodbye Microsoft!

January 29, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Now we have a very simple way for the Windows-people to turn to linux: A windows installer to install Debian ;)

Running Linux on a Dell Latitude D610

September 4, 2006 9 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on a Dell D610 laptop.

Running Linux on an Acer TravelMate 800 series laptop

August 23, 2006 10 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on an Acer Travelmate 800 series laptop.

September in Spain

September 28, 2005 2 minute read

On tuesday, 20 september I took the plane (yes, I gave it back ;p) once again to spain, to visit Diana :) :)

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mac os x

Nokia 3109c and Snow Leopard (iSync 3.1)…

November 11, 2009 less than 1 minute read

As I detailed in my previous post on how to get this phone working with Leopard, upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard broke things again.

Status update!

August 14, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Short summary of what I’ve been busy with:

Using XMLTV with EyeTV

January 7, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I bought an Elgato EyeTV Hybrid a while back, and I was using the tvtv.co.uk service to get my EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data.

Automounting SMB/CIFS shares on Mac OS X

September 20, 2008 less than 1 minute read

For my PVR/HTMAC project, I wanted to auto-mount several shares from my NAS. After some searching I ran across this hint on the Mac OS X Hints website, which works perfectly:

Mac mini PVR

September 19, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I recently acquired a Mac Mini, which I’m going to use as a PVR.

Add recent applications as a Stack on Dock

September 16, 2008 less than 1 minute read

On TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) they’ve got a nifty tips section, with today this tip that I rather like:

Cloning woes

August 30, 2008 less than 1 minute read

After yesterday’s clone I noticed some applications behaved erraticly, amongst which Preview, Thunderbird, Appfresh… rather irritating.

Bigger disk!

August 29, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Upgraded my Macbook with a bigger disk: from an 80gb Toshiba MK8034GSX drive (with which it came delivered) to a (secondhand) 320gb Hitachi HTS543232L9A300 (what’s in a name…). Long live diskspace! ;)

Iodine (dns tunnel) on your Mac (to escape those evil firewalls)

July 7, 2008 1 minute read

Here’s a short how-to to get the iodine dns tunnel working on your Mac.

CoRD and xrdp

June 29, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I was trying to get xrdp running on my Linux box, so I could takeover the screen from the outside world. The rdp protocol is a (huge) bit more performant than VNC, which is why I wanted to use it.

Nokia 3109c (Symbian S40) and iSync…

June 26, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I got a company phone, a Nokia 3109 Classic, which is nothing less nothing more than a standard company phone. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles I’d like to have, but it works.

Changing Terminal.app ANSI colours

November 11, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I use Irssi on my mac with Terminal.app in Leopard. All very nice, except that in Terminal.app, the dark gray colour used in my Irssi theme shows black. Black on black doesn’t work very well.

Leopard ships on october 26th

October 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Apple has confirmed the 26th as the releasedate for Leopard!

GPRS/3G connections using Mac OS X

October 7, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Here’s a simple howto to get your Mac internet-connected using GPRS/3G on your bluetooth-equipped phone. I’ve only tested this with my Motorola V3 and Vodafone (Spain), so no guarantees about the other providers, but the main part should be the same.

Installing X11 on Mac OS X

May 1, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve been trying for a while to get the Apple X11 installed on Mac OS X. I just couldn’t figure out how.

Linux, distcc and Mac OS X

May 1, 2007 less than 1 minute read

If you’re like me, and have Fink installed on your Mac and compiling away all those wonderful unix applications, and you have a desktop nearby running linux (with more processor power being unused), you’ll want to setup distcc so you can harnass all that power.

Hack a Mac

April 20, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Anyone want to Hack a Mac and get paid for it? Well, now you can:

Leopard delayed until october…

April 13, 2007 1 minute read

From http://www.apple.com/hotnews/, there’s an Apple Statement:

Typing spanish on a Mac

March 21, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I finally (well, no, I got the answer from my thread on mac-forums.com) found how to type spanish characters on Mac OS X (thanks to the wonderful Study Spanish site):

Handy Mac software

March 19, 2007 less than 1 minute read

A few days onwards with my spiffy new macbook, I’ve discovered a lot of useful tools:

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new year

Happy new year MMXXII!

December 31, 2021 less than 1 minute read

Happy new year Y’all!

Happy new year MMXXI!

December 31, 2020 less than 1 minute read

Happy new year Y’all!

Happy new year MMXX!

December 31, 2019 less than 1 minute read

Happy new year Y’all!

Happy new year MMXVI !

December 31, 2015 less than 1 minute read

Happy 2014!

December 31, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Seasonal greetings!

December 23, 2012 less than 1 minute read

Happy 2012!

December 31, 2011 less than 1 minute read

Happy New year MMXI !

January 1, 2011 less than 1 minute read

Happy new year and may all your wishes/dreams/… come true! (except those that I don’t like. Seriously. :p)

Happy 2000 + 3! + 2²

December 31, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Well, happy new year to all of you! May your wishes/desires/hopes/ come true!

Happy [(X)|(Newton)|(Christ)]mas!

December 24, 2008 less than 1 minute read

It’s that time of the year again, where we all are (supposed to be) happy, cheery, exchange gifts, blabla you know, what not :p

Happy 2000+2^3 !

December 31, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Well, new year 2008 all!

Merry (x|newton|christ|…)mas and happy new year!

December 25, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Depending on what you (don’t) believe, today is Xmas, Christmas or newtonmas. Or even something completely different, if you want it to be!

New year in Madrid

January 8, 2006 2 minute read

I spent my new years in Madrid, went there the 28th (evening). After an uneventful flight, we went to Diana’s place, didn’t do much and went to sleep.

Happy New Year 2006!

December 31, 2005 less than 1 minute read

Have fun on this eve and the rest of the year!

And thus, it's 2005…

January 9, 2005 less than 1 minute read

Well, what can I say? Best of wishes to everyone for 2005, and hopefully less violence/war/stupidity/suffering in the world.. Tho we really didn’t start of well, with the disaster that happened (and the medical disaster that’s starting to happen now) in the middle east with the Tsunami.. I hope that solutions are worked out quickly to make sure the needs get resolved…

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macbook

My gripes with macOs

February 16, 2025 4 minute read

For work I have to use a Macbook. This is due to reasons I won’t go into in this rantblogpost, but suffice it to say that there’s currently no other option. It’s a Macbook Pro, previously an Intel variety, now it’s one of the Apple Silicon persuation.

Dell XPS 13 and Debian Sid

April 7, 2013 6 minute read

I purchased a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, to replace my ageing Apple Macbook 2,1. After six years of daily use, it’s (over)due to retire.

Running Linux on an Apple Macbook 2,1

May 2, 2010 5 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on an Intel-based Apple MacBook, 2007 model.

Status update!

August 14, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Short summary of what I’ve been busy with:

Updating Boot Camp to 2.1

February 16, 2009 less than 1 minute read

For a reason not to be mentioned here, I needed to install Windows XP (legal license) on my Macbook. Easily done, Boot Camp Assistant, install windows, install drivers, the works.

Linux on the Apple Macbook

January 3, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I was bored recently, and decided to install Linux on my Macbook. I opted for the distribution I like best - Debian (unstable/Sid).

Bigger disk!

August 29, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Upgraded my Macbook with a bigger disk: from an 80gb Toshiba MK8034GSX drive (with which it came delivered) to a (secondhand) 320gb Hitachi HTS543232L9A300 (what’s in a name…). Long live diskspace! ;)

Linux on my MacBook

January 13, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I’m currently trying to get Linux (Debian Sid) working on my MacBook… it’s installed, but still needs lots of tweaking.

Mac is back… again…

November 24, 2007 less than 1 minute read

After they screwed a screw in my previous repair, it’s back again. I’ve checked it, nothing’s loose, everything seems to be in order. Let’s hope it is!

… and back to Apple…

November 14, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Grmble.

My Mac is Back!

November 9, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I put it in for repair after hairline cracks started appearing in the front bezel and on the bottom.

Typing spanish on a Mac

March 21, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I finally (well, no, I got the answer from my thread on mac-forums.com) found how to type spanish characters on Mac OS X (thanks to the wonderful Study Spanish site):

Yay!

March 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Yesterday I went to FEM Computer Systems in Aalst, Belgium - a local computer store that sells PC’s and Apple stuff. After my wonderful time in another store, I was kinda weary, but for nothing :) The service is great, they treat people like they should be treated :)

Switch? No thanks.

March 14, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Since I sold my trusty 3-year old Acer Travelmate 803, I was going to go and look in some stores for new laptops. Hopping around in Ghent, I walked off to the Fnac, noted the offers there (nothing that really drew my attention), and then to the Switch computer store (an authorized mac reseller). Their non-mac offerings are not too great (you can better go to another store), so I waited my turn ...

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apple

My gripes with macOs

February 16, 2025 4 minute read

For work I have to use a Macbook. This is due to reasons I won’t go into in this rantblogpost, but suffice it to say that there’s currently no other option. It’s a Macbook Pro, previously an Intel variety, now it’s one of the Apple Silicon persuation.

Running Linux on an Apple Macbook 2,1

May 2, 2010 5 minute read

This page documents my attempts (and successes!) to get Linux fully working on an Intel-based Apple MacBook, 2007 model.

Nokia 3109c and Snow Leopard (iSync 3.1)…

November 11, 2009 less than 1 minute read

As I detailed in my previous post on how to get this phone working with Leopard, upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard broke things again.

Status update!

August 14, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Short summary of what I’ve been busy with:

Linux on the Apple Macbook

January 3, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I was bored recently, and decided to install Linux on my Macbook. I opted for the distribution I like best - Debian (unstable/Sid).

Automounting SMB/CIFS shares on Mac OS X

September 20, 2008 less than 1 minute read

For my PVR/HTMAC project, I wanted to auto-mount several shares from my NAS. After some searching I ran across this hint on the Mac OS X Hints website, which works perfectly:

Mac mini PVR

September 19, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I recently acquired a Mac Mini, which I’m going to use as a PVR.

Iodine (dns tunnel) on your Mac (to escape those evil firewalls)

July 7, 2008 1 minute read

Here’s a short how-to to get the iodine dns tunnel working on your Mac.

Nokia 3109c (Symbian S40) and iSync…

June 26, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I got a company phone, a Nokia 3109 Classic, which is nothing less nothing more than a standard company phone. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles I’d like to have, but it works.

Mail.app tips & tricks

June 4, 2008 1 minute read

I still haven’t found any mail client I really like on the Mac… I’ve been using Thunderbird now for a while, but it doesn’t really have what I want in a mail client. I guess I’m spoiled, since I’m used to using KMail at home (and I’m forced to use Lotus Notes at work - a horrible client from a usability point of view).

My Mac is Back!

November 9, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I put it in for repair after hairline cracks started appearing in the front bezel and on the bottom.

Leopard ships on october 26th

October 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Apple has confirmed the 26th as the releasedate for Leopard!

iPhone rant

October 1, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Really. What’s up with iPhone owners these days? They buy an overpriced piece of equipment, knowing:

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cars

Crap parkers

July 26, 2008 less than 1 minute read

You know what I really hate? Crap parkers. People that have a car, and that, according to them, needs to take up atleast 1.5 parking spots. Parking so badly that you - parked nicely in between the lines, in the bloody center - can’t get in or out of your car anymore, save by crawling in the car over the seats.

Smog-alert!

February 18, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Today the government of Flanders imposed another “Smog alert”, atleast until tomorrow evening.

We can has licenseplate?

February 11, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Insurance - part 2

February 9, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I do hate insurance companies.

Insurance!

February 7, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Ok,

Thank you for polluting

November 30, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve often wondered why people insist on letting their cars run when:

Prius prejudice

November 17, 2007 less than 1 minute read

What’s with people and their prejudice against the Prius?

It's decided! It's ordered!

November 15, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Today I went for another testdrive with the Toyota Prius, longer this time - 2 hours - to see how the car handled in all the usual traffic, and also to be able to judge the seats, the radio, the cruise control, the multi-info-display, everything.

Cars - part 2

November 6, 2007 1 minute read

Continuing from my previous post, I’ve now visited a bunch of car manufacturers: (all cars are diesel fueled except the hybrid)

Cars, cars, cars

November 4, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’m in the market for a car.

Work - the neverending story

October 30, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Well,

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gadget

My history in gadgets - update 2025

February 19, 2025 less than 1 minute read

An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020, 2020 bis and 2022 updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2022

August 1, 2022 less than 1 minute read

An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020 and 2020 bis updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2020 bis

September 1, 2020 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis and 2020 updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2020

June 26, 2020 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2019 bis updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2019 bis

December 31, 2019 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 updates:

My history in gadgets - update 2019

June 26, 2019 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015 and 2016 updates, I bring you… edition 2019! (mostly because I forgot to update stuff)

My history in gadgets - update 2016

July 15, 2016 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014 and the 2015 update, now the 2016 update. Who would have guessed!

My history in gadgets - update 2015

June 2, 2015 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets” post from a while back, and the 2014 update:

My history in gadgets - update 2014

May 12, 2014 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets” post from a while back, as things have progressed a bit meanwhile ;)

My history in gadgets…

January 4, 2012 2 minute read

As a geek, I’ve always been quite the gadget freak. The fact that my father was also interested in the newest toys didn’t help.

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work

One week of working!

November 24, 2007 less than 1 minute read

After one week of working again, here’s a quick .. urr.. reviewish kind of thingy:

Worky worky!

November 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Today, my stay of 1.5 months at home comes to an end, and I’m going back to work! Yay!

Work - the neverending story

October 30, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Well,

So long… and thanks for all the fish!

September 30, 2007 1 minute read

As some of you might already know, last friday was my last day of work for Tri-enniuM (and ergo, Reuters and KBC). I went to say goodbye at our head-office in Rotterdam on the 25th, gave a farewell drink for the collegues at KBC on the 26th, and finally left the company on the 28th. It’s still somewhat strange, being that this was my first job after leaving school. Oh well, we move on in life…

Uhm.. thanks CTG ;)

August 9, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I know some companies are thankful when an employee chooses to work for them (like I did - choosing to go work for CTG)… but it’s a first that the employer actually sends flowers to your home address with a thank you note :P

Change of work!

August 1, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’m changing employers…

Work-event: Karting!

May 26, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Today we went Karting with work in Brussels Kart, a karting / expo / restaurant thing in Groot-bijgaarden (just outside of Brussels).

Allnighters at work

April 7, 2005 less than 1 minute read

Okay, first time I spend an entire night at work, because of a multicast routing problem. It took us a while to diagnose and to figure out where it went wrong and why it did… And having spent a 12h shift before, and then after would’ve been quite deadly ;p

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toyota prius

It's here!

February 14, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I finally got our brand new Prius! It’s damn pretty, drives smoothly… <3 ;)

We can has licenseplate?

February 11, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Prius Preview

January 25, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Today we went to get the papers for the Prius, and got a sneak-preview at it too ;) (no, the pic ain’t blurry, you’re just drunk! :p)

I can haz Prius? I can!

January 22, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Wh00t!

Prius prejudice

November 17, 2007 less than 1 minute read

What’s with people and their prejudice against the Prius?

It's decided! It's ordered!

November 15, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Today I went for another testdrive with the Toyota Prius, longer this time - 2 hours - to see how the car handled in all the usual traffic, and also to be able to judge the seats, the radio, the cruise control, the multi-info-display, everything.

Test-drive with Toyota Prius

November 12, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Today I managed to get a testdrive with the Toyota Prius (thanks to Garage Holvoet in Dendermonde).

Cars - part 2

November 6, 2007 1 minute read

Continuing from my previous post, I’ve now visited a bunch of car manufacturers: (all cars are diesel fueled except the hybrid)

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proxmox

Enabling native IPv6 on Proxmox and LXC using SDN

September 15, 2025 3 minute read

In my original deployment of Proxmox on my VPS I only enabled IPv4, and I was using socat to forward traffic from the IPv6 address of the host to the internal IPv4 addresses of the containers. Not ideal, since this masks the external IP addresses, and also creates some latency and additional CPU load when processing IPv6.

Proxmox, LXC, and Debian Trixie

August 8, 2025 3 minute read

I run Proxmox Virtual Environment as my virtualisation platform. On top of this I use virtual machines using KVM and Linux Containers using LXC - both of which are natively supported on ProxmoxVE.

VPS Proxmox Love

April 15, 2025 6 minute read

Where I (re?)discovered Proxmox for LXC hosting on a VPS

Understanding LXC user/group mapping

February 5, 2022 3 minute read

I’ve been moving some docker containers back from the VM I put them back to Linux Containers (LXC) because of I/O performance and cpu consumption reasons (caused by that I/O).

Migrating Proxmox/ZFS from raidz1 to mirrors

January 15, 2022 4 minute read

The Proxmox box at my home is also being used as a NAS, with Samba and NFS doing the sharing. It had 4 WD Red 6TB PMR drives, in a raidz1 configuration, giving me a net capacity of 18TB (give or take a few).

Moving docker to a VM

January 2, 2022 1 minute read

In the original design of my Proxmox box I opted for running the docker containers straight on the host. For a lot of reasons, this is actually a Bad IdeaTM, and it’s been one of my goals to migrate these to a VM at some point.

Adding a SLOG to ZFS

November 15, 2021 2 minute read

I’ve noticed that quite a few of my VM workloads and NFS workloads are rather slow on my Proxmox box, due to the facts that it’s sitting on spinning rust (also known as hard disk drives) a lot of those are synchronous writes

Enter Proxmox and ZFS

May 7, 2020 6 minute read

Following up on my Exit Synology post, I’ve decided it’s time to move from a consumer grade NAS to something a bit more sturdy. I’ve also been running out of memory on the Synology NAS with all the things that I wanted to run on it… so time for something else.

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nokia e65

My history in gadgets…

January 4, 2012 2 minute read

As a geek, I’ve always been quite the gadget freak. The fact that my father was also interested in the newest toys didn’t help.

Firmware update for Nokia E65

June 2, 2008 less than 1 minute read

From Symbianworld:

Handy codes for Nokia E65

April 23, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Mostly because I keep forgetting…

Nokia E65 software update

November 13, 2007 less than 1 minute read

There’s a Nokia E65 software update available, updating the mobile to version 2.0633.65.01.

Symbian software update!

October 24, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I’ve just updated my list of applications I use on my Nokia E65. Go take a peek!

Software for the Nokia E65

July 27, 2007 less than 1 minute read

After owning my Nokia E65 for about a month, here’s the list of apps I installed on it:

Using Voipfone.co.uk on Nokia E65

July 6, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I recently bought a Nokia E65, a very classy, handy, and feature-packed phone. One of the reasons I went with this one is because it has WiFi, which I want to use for making internet-calls. The SIP client is a bit of pita though to configure, but I finally managed to get it working.

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fedora

Adventures with rootless Podman containers

December 13, 2023 9 minute read

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rootless Container

SSH’ing to Unifi equipment with Fedora 37

March 27, 2023 1 minute read

Connecting to Unifi equipment (Switch 8/AP AC Pro) from Fedora37 fails out of the box with a very useful error Bad server host key: Invalid key length. This is because the dropbear used on these devices is woefully out of date, and still requires the use of ssh-rsa (with SHA1), which has been deprecated by OpenSSH in 2021,

Installing Displaylink drivers on Fedora 37

January 1, 2023 1 minute read

I have an Asus ZenScreen MB16AC which uses Displaylink as its display technology. On usb-c you can just plug this in and it’ll work, but on my ancient laptop I only have usb-a ports. The display does come with an USB-A to USB-C convertor - so let’s try ;)

Adding en_BE locale to Linux

May 15, 2022 less than 1 minute read

I live in Belgium, but I prefer english as my default locale. Using the en_US or en_GB locale brings problems of it’s own - not having the right system (metric) or wrong start of week day..

Easy power management on Fedora with powertop, tuned and udev

August 31, 2019 2 minute read

A simple trick to get Linux to switch between tuned profiles to optimize your battery life. The tuned profile is created using a tool called powertop2tuned, which (on Fedora) is part of the tuned-utils package.

EDID for ViewSonic Vx2025wm

July 20, 2018 2 minute read

I recently reinstalled Fedora on my desktop machine, which has (amongst others) a ViewSonic Vx2025wm screen connected to it. It’s an oldie, but still works (quite well). Unfortunately, Linux just complained that it didn’t get a proper EDID out of it, and refused to activate it - might also explain why Windows doesn’t recognise it as a PnP monitor - I guess the chip fried somewhere along the ...

Hibernate after suspend (on Fedora)

December 22, 2017 1 minute read

I recently found out that Windows has this nice feature where, after suspending your laptop, it’ll go to hibernate after a while to preserve battery. Seems like a really cool feature, saves your battery too, so I wanted it on my linux installation. I’m using Fedora 27 right now. To get it working, you’ll first need to verify that your suspend to ram and suspend to disk actually work. There are...

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wordpress

WP Table Of Contents plugins

February 15, 2018 less than 1 minute read

I was using the rather nice Table Of Contents+ WordPress plugin to auto-generate tables of content on certain posts/pages, but that has since been abandoned. Luckely Steven A. Zahm took over development, and presto, we have the Easy Table of Contents plugin. You can peruse the sourcecode on GitHub.

Tweaking WooCommerce payment workflows

December 15, 2016 2 minute read

I’m playing part-time webmaster for the choir I sing in, and as such, am getting up close and personal with WooCommerce. Quite a nifty shopping cart, but it does require a lot of tweaks to really make it work to your liking - unless you’re willing to shell out a lot of cash. The latest modification was changing the workflow of the payment gateways - more specifically, the BACS gateway (Bank Ac...

Now-reading for WordPress 2.7

December 23, 2008 less than 1 minute read

After upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.7, the Now Reading plugin didn’t work very well anymore.

WordPress Widgets!

November 25, 2007 1 minute read

I just finished creating three new WordPress Widget Plugins. Some are conversions of older plugins I made for WordPress, one is brand stinkin’ new.

What I've been doing…

October 27, 2005 1 minute read

What have I been doing the last times… well…

New blog!

October 10, 2005 less than 1 minute read

As you might have (not) noticed, I’ve migrated this blog from using sphpblog to WordPress.. It seems a lot more maintained, and well, it’s nicer overall :)

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sid

Dell XPS 13 and Debian Sid

April 7, 2013 6 minute read

I purchased a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, to replace my ageing Apple Macbook 2,1. After six years of daily use, it’s (over)due to retire.

Adobe AIR 2.6 and Debian Sid 64-bit

November 27, 2011 2 minute read

I wanted to get Adobe AIR to work on my 64-bit Debian Sid installation, to try out some other twitter clients, more specifically Saezuri. (On a side note: the offering of twitter clients on linux is … mediocre. Bad, even. The (imho) best one is Pino, but it has problems of it’s own).

Linux on my MacBook

January 13, 2008 less than 1 minute read

I’m currently trying to get Linux (Debian Sid) working on my MacBook… it’s installed, but still needs lots of tweaking.

arm-linux crosscompiling on Debian Sid

September 29, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Here’s a simple howto on how to install an ARM crosscompiling environment on your Debian Unstable:

Gallery-Remote

May 27, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I was trying to get GalleryRemote installed today on my Linux installation (because for obscure reasons, using the java applet in gallery directly crashes my browsers), which wouldn’t run. Attempting to run the installer gave obscure errors like: awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dirname: error while loading shared li...

Fight image spam with FuzzyOCR & Spamassassin

February 16, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I guess you all know about Spam Assassin. It’s a wonderful tool that allows you to filter out tons of spam easily.

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christmas

Christmas concert Arte Musicale - Praise

November 22, 2012 less than 1 minute read

On the 26th of december we’re giving our annual christmas concert in the OLV Sint Pieterschurch on the Sint Pietersplein in Ghent.

Christmasconcert Arte Musicale

November 19, 2011 less than 1 minute read

As some of you might (not) know, I’ve recently joined a choir, called Furiant, which is part of the Arte Musicale group. (I already play in a pipe band (the Flemish Caledonian Pipes & Drums))

Happy [(X)|(Newton)|(Christ)]mas!

December 24, 2008 less than 1 minute read

It’s that time of the year again, where we all are (supposed to be) happy, cheery, exchange gifts, blabla you know, what not :p

Merry (x|newton|christ|…)mas and happy new year!

December 25, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Depending on what you (don’t) believe, today is Xmas, Christmas or newtonmas. Or even something completely different, if you want it to be!

Xmas tree!

December 9, 2007 less than 1 minute read

We got our xmas tree! (and the obligatory decorations, and lamps, ofcourse!)

Geen kerstgedoe voor 15 december!

November 5, 2007 less than 1 minute read

No christmas stuff before december 15th!

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phone

My history in gadgets - update 2019

June 26, 2019 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015 and 2016 updates, I bring you… edition 2019! (mostly because I forgot to update stuff)

My history in gadgets - update 2016

July 15, 2016 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014 and the 2015 update, now the 2016 update. Who would have guessed!

My history in gadgets - update 2015

June 2, 2015 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets” post from a while back, and the 2014 update:

My history in gadgets - update 2014

May 12, 2014 less than 1 minute read

An update on the “My history in gadgets” post from a while back, as things have progressed a bit meanwhile ;)

My history in gadgets…

January 4, 2012 2 minute read

As a geek, I’ve always been quite the gadget freak. The fact that my father was also interested in the newest toys didn’t help.

Phone versus gingerbread

December 26, 2010 less than 1 minute read

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home assistant

Using Cloudflare ZeroTrust and mTLS to securely access Home Assistant via the internet

June 28, 2024 6 minute read

I’m a big fan of Home Assistant, and until now I only had it accessible from inside my own network. Outside access was only possible through a WireGuard VPN. This works, but isn’t very practical - definitely when I quickly want to check something, or need to diagnose something while on the road, having to toggle the VPN & hope that the DNS resolution works (which sometimes it doesn’t) - the...

Disabling Home Assistant fallback DNS

August 12, 2022 less than 1 minute read

For some obscure reason the Home Assistant folks decided to add fallback DNS functionality to the Homeassistant Supervisor. This meant that it would fall back to using Cloudflare’s DNS servers if/when the DNS servers you regularly use weren’t responding or acting weird. That was done with good intent, but it is a breach of privacy, trust and giving up a part of local control - something Home As...

Adding the Xiaomi Roborock S7 to Home Assistant

March 31, 2022 1 minute read

We’ve had an iRobot Roomba 625 roving the house doing the vacuuming now for over two years and have been happy with having it around. It definitely helps keeping up the vacuuming, but it doesn’t do anything else.

Chromecast Radio control using a Logitech Harmony Elite (and Home Assistant)

October 17, 2020 3 minute read

Building further on my CC Radio, I wanted to integrate this with my Logitech Harmony Elite (+hub) remote, so that no interaction is needed with Home Assistant itself to work the radio.

Chromecast Radio with Home Assistant and Node-RED

January 9, 2020 4 minute read

Telenet, our local cable provider, decided that analog cable radio is dead and everyone should switch to either DAB (Digital Radio over the air) or DVB-C (Digital Radio via coaxial cable). For me, that’s a bit of an issue: DAB radio is fine, but requires good reception. Our house is rather well insulated so radio reception is crap at best DVB-C radio would require buying yet another device...

Generating a Plex Auth Token using curl

June 16, 2019 less than 1 minute read

I recently started using Plex, and since I’m also using Home Assistant, and Home Assistant can do stuff with Plex, I wanted to combine the two.

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docker

Using IPv6 outside of Docker with Docker

September 25, 2025 1 minute read

I recently activated IPv6 on my Netcup VPS, and in the process of setting it up on all my LXCs I noticed that for “reasons” the IPv6 default route would vanish after starting Docker (switching it all over to Podman is on my TODO list), effectively breaking the IPv6 connectivity on this LXC.

Reclaiming My Digital Sovereignty, Part 1 - VPS Trials and Container Tribulations

March 15, 2025 7 minute read

Where I am increasingly skeptical about using US-based providers, find a European VPS provider, test out some initial hosting architecture but decide against it, and other ramblings…

Adventures with rootless Podman containers

December 13, 2023 9 minute read

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rootless Container

Moving docker to a VM

January 2, 2022 1 minute read

In the original design of my Proxmox box I opted for running the docker containers straight on the host. For a lot of reasons, this is actually a Bad IdeaTM, and it’s been one of my goals to migrate these to a VM at some point.

Managing your digital/paper documents with Paperless-ng

May 8, 2021 less than 1 minute read

Close to when we were moving I decided to do something about my rather huge paper archive (bills, receipts, …). I set about digitizing it all using a flatbed scanner, my cellphone and Swiftscan (formerly known as Scanbot) to turn them all into PDF’s.

Allowing macvlan-networked docker containers to access the host

August 18, 2020 1 minute read

This post is more a reminder for myself than anything else ;)

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windows

Using WiiMotes (and classic controllers) on Windows

August 17, 2015 1 minute read

After the latest lan-party with some friends, where we played a lot of Rocket League, it dawned on me that this game (and numerous others) is probably a lot easier to play with a game controller instead of the mouse/keyboard combination. And as I have the WiiMote and the Wii Classic Controller lying around, I thought I’d have a go at getting these to work on Windows (as opposed to buying someth...

Updating Boot Camp to 2.1

February 16, 2009 less than 1 minute read

For a reason not to be mentioned here, I needed to install Windows XP (legal license) on my Macbook. Easily done, Boot Camp Assistant, install windows, install drivers, the works.

Strange problems with windows 2k3…

April 16, 2008 1 minute read

I’m wondering if anyone out there can help me with this one…

Svchost hogging yer cpu

June 17, 2007 less than 1 minute read

In case you’re using Windows (or Microsoft) Update, you’ll probably have noticed that your PC sometimes grinds to a halt after bootup. Checking with task manager usually reveals that svchost.exe is abusing your CPU, pegging it at 100%.

September in Spain

September 28, 2005 2 minute read

On tuesday, 20 september I took the plane (yes, I gave it back ;p) once again to spain, to visit Diana :) :)

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google

Connecting your Chromecast to wired networking - DIY

December 30, 2015 1 minute read

I’ve had a Google Chromecast (1st generation</a>) for a while now, connected over WiFi. Works great, although sometimes the wireless reception cuts out, or the signal gets saturated. Since I’m mostly streaming from a device which sits less than 10 cm away, it is also rather stupid to have all those packets going back and forth to my router, causing unnecessary load. Google has...

LG Nexus 5

May 8, 2014 less than 1 minute read

I’ve always been a fan of the “stock Google” look of android, also often referred to as AOSP (Android Open Source Project) - a clean look, no bells and whistles added by the vendor of the device in question. The ‘vendor’ looks usually change the look of the Android OS, add (unneeded?) applications, and add their own launcher. There are several vendor skins, like Samsung’s TouchWiz (pictures), H...

Android 2.1 (Eclair) on the HTC Hero…

June 8, 2010 less than 1 minute read

I’ve bought an HTC Hero a while back. Rooted it too, so I could edit the sms database. Loving the phone.

Gmail goes IMAP

October 24, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Finally!

Ahem…

November 3, 2005 less than 1 minute read

You know what you get when you do a Google search on the word ‘Failure’?

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lolcat

You can haz cheezburgr too!

June 11, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Meetings…

April 13, 2008 less than 1 minute read

This is sometimes so very true:

My trust…

February 9, 2008 less than 1 minute read

The Bible…

January 2, 2008 less than 1 minute read

… in Lolcatian!

Lulzkat tranlashun!

August 10, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Wanna learn Lolcatian? Then try the lolcat translator!

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zfs

Moving ZFS to a Dell Perc H310 HBA

April 20, 2024 1 minute read

A friend of mine gave me a Dell Perc H310 HBA nearly half a year ago which was flashed to IT-mode, which basically removes all the fancy RAID functionality from the card and turns it into a dumb HBA, just showing all the disks to the operating system. A good guide to flashing Dell Perc cards can be found on https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html.

Using ZFS snapshots instead of BackupPC

January 25, 2022 2 minute read

One of the docker containers I’ve been using is the wonderful BackupPC for agentless backups. This thing works quite well, allowing me to backup laptops around the house without too much hassle. It’s a bit work to set it up properly, but it works and is fast.

Migrating Proxmox/ZFS from raidz1 to mirrors

January 15, 2022 4 minute read

The Proxmox box at my home is also being used as a NAS, with Samba and NFS doing the sharing. It had 4 WD Red 6TB PMR drives, in a raidz1 configuration, giving me a net capacity of 18TB (give or take a few).

Adding a SLOG to ZFS

November 15, 2021 2 minute read

I’ve noticed that quite a few of my VM workloads and NFS workloads are rather slow on my Proxmox box, due to the facts that it’s sitting on spinning rust (also known as hard disk drives) a lot of those are synchronous writes

Enter Proxmox and ZFS

May 7, 2020 6 minute read

Following up on my Exit Synology post, I’ve decided it’s time to move from a consumer grade NAS to something a bit more sturdy. I’ve also been running out of memory on the Synology NAS with all the things that I wanted to run on it… so time for something else.

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containers

Using IPv6 outside of Docker with Docker

September 25, 2025 1 minute read

I recently activated IPv6 on my Netcup VPS, and in the process of setting it up on all my LXCs I noticed that for “reasons” the IPv6 default route would vanish after starting Docker (switching it all over to Podman is on my TODO list), effectively breaking the IPv6 connectivity on this LXC.

Adventures with rootless Podman containers

December 13, 2023 9 minute read

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rootless Container

Switching to Traefik and step-ca (from nginx-proxy)

October 30, 2023 3 minute read

I’ve been using nginx-proxy as a reverse proxy for my docker containers for a few years, where I manually generate and inject the necessary SSL certificates to make stuff work. The certificates were generated on my Opnsense box. A bit tedious, but manageable.

Understanding LXC user/group mapping

February 5, 2022 3 minute read

I’ve been moving some docker containers back from the VM I put them back to Linux Containers (LXC) because of I/O performance and cpu consumption reasons (caused by that I/O).

Moving docker to a VM

January 2, 2022 1 minute read

In the original design of my Proxmox box I opted for running the docker containers straight on the host. For a lot of reasons, this is actually a Bad IdeaTM, and it’s been one of my goals to migrate these to a VM at some point.

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within temptation

Memories (Within Temptation)

January 19, 2005 less than 1 minute read

In this world you tried Not leaving me behind. There’s no other way. I prayed to the gods let him stay. The memories ease the pain inside, Now I know why….

The Swan Song (Within Temptation)

November 12, 2004 less than 1 minute read

Winter has come for me, can’t carry on. The chains to my life are strong but soon they’ll be gone. I’ll spread my wings one more time.

In Perfect Harmony (Within Temptation)

July 12, 2004 less than 1 minute read

In a world so far away At the end of a closing day A little child was born and raised Deep in the forest on a hidden place Mother never saw his face

Our Farewell (Within Temptation)

July 12, 2004 less than 1 minute read

In my hands A legacy of memories I can hear you say my name I can almost see your smile Feel the warmth of your embrace But there is nothing but silence now Around the one I loved Is this our farewell?

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stable

Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 “Wheezy” gone stable

May 5, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Debian Wheezy has been released today.

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 “Squeeze” gone stable ;)

February 6, 2011 less than 1 minute read

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” released, Squeeze incoming :p

February 15, 2009 less than 1 minute read

November 5, 2022 3 minute read

I’ve been meaning to test out Mastodon again for a while. It’s is best described as a federated version of the blue bird platform (Twitter), while not being Twitter. No ads, no algorithms.

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palm tungsten t3

My history in gadgets…

January 4, 2012 2 minute read

As a geek, I’ve always been quite the gadget freak. The fact that my father was also interested in the newest toys didn’t help.

Palm Applications

June 16, 2004 less than 1 minute read

Hmmm… In my quest for useless applications to put on a Palm, I’ve come across SSH2 for Palm - an SSH2 client, PalmVNC - a VNC client ;p and upIRC - an IRC client…. totally pointless to have on a palm if you don’t have a flatrate gprs connection or the like. ;p

Palm Tungsten T3

June 5, 2004 less than 1 minute read

Got my Tungsten T3 a few days back, great machine - works very fast. I’ll do a review on it when I’m more accustomed to using it - it sure is different from my old m500…

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software

Software for the Nokia E65

July 27, 2007 less than 1 minute read

After owning my Nokia E65 for about a month, here’s the list of apps I installed on it:

Handy Mac software

March 19, 2007 less than 1 minute read

A few days onwards with my spiffy new macbook, I’ve discovered a lot of useful tools:

Palm Applications

June 16, 2004 less than 1 minute read

Hmmm… In my quest for useless applications to put on a Palm, I’ve come across SSH2 for Palm - an SSH2 client, PalmVNC - a VNC client ;p and upIRC - an IRC client…. totally pointless to have on a palm if you don’t have a flatrate gprs connection or the like. ;p

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motorola v3

GPRS/3G connections using Mac OS X

October 7, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Here’s a simple howto to get your Mac internet-connected using GPRS/3G on your bluetooth-equipped phone. I’ve only tested this with my Motorola V3 and Vodafone (Spain), so no guarantees about the other providers, but the main part should be the same.

What I've been doing…

October 27, 2005 1 minute read

What have I been doing the last times… well…

Motorola V3

July 26, 2005 1 minute read

A few weeks back I finally decided to get me (yet another…) new phone.. and I decided on the Motorola V3. Coming from using a multitude of phones from different vendors, this one took me the longest to get used to. It has a different style phonebook, the menu system is totally different, … Intuitive, yet different. The manual, on the other hand, is totally crap. Half of the things aren’t explai...

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ebay

Yet Another Illogical Legal Conclusion (YAILC)

June 4, 2008 less than 1 minute read

In another episode of totally wonky legal battles, eBay was found guilty of selling counterfeit Hermes handbags by a french court.

I sold it on eBay…

January 18, 2007 1 minute read

A while back (basically, in december) I decided to sell my Cisco Catalyst C2924-XL switch on eBay. Since I’ve done plenty of auctions before there, no problem! So, the item got sold to someone from the EasyHost company. Fine by me, I don’t really care who buys my stuff, as long as they follow up ;)

Spinningwheel!

March 10, 2006 less than 1 minute read

Is it a plane? A bird! No! It’s a spinningwheel!

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jasperina de jong

Poppenkast - Jasperina De Jong

December 24, 2008 1 minute read

From the musical “De Engel van Amsterdam”.

De Opstand Der Bloemen - Jasperina De Jong

December 24, 2008 1 minute read

Wij zijn de tuin van het echtpaar de Bondt Aardige lui dat gaat best Wij staan in redelijk vruchtbare grond En krijgen steeds volop mest Maar dat is tevens een ernstige grief Onze ideeën zijn alternatief En ook al zijn er de hondjes heel gul ‘t Is altijd kunstmest, kunstmest, kunstmest Steeds weer dat chemische spul Wij zijn helaas niet ingesteld Op harde actie en geweld Maar door de zwoele voo...

Krijg de kleren…

March 28, 2006 2 minute read

Thanks to my mum I discovered and can appreciate Jasperina De Jong (a dutch cabaretier, who no longer performs unfortunately) a lot.

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ikea

Cage change

January 6, 2008 less than 1 minute read

We made another change to our cavies’ cage: we put it on a table (so we see them better and they see us better):

What we've been doing…

September 3, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Diana’s been here since the 27th of july, and we’ve been busy bees sofar ! Ofcourse the necessary amount of relaxing and just enjoying the time, too :)

April 2006

April 16, 2006 4 minute read

Saturday, 8th On saturday, I went to pick up Diana, and we drove straight on to Ikea in Zaventem, to look for some general stuff and to check out their couch department. We decided on the Lund Valla couch (the red one), which comes in a handy do-it-yourself package :D It’s very comfy, you do need the pillows tho. Otherwise the back is a bit hard.

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cage

Cage change

January 6, 2008 less than 1 minute read

We made another change to our cavies’ cage: we put it on a table (so we see them better and they see us better):

Cavies de luxe

September 30, 2006 1 minute read

Seems they did like the changes I made to their cage… I had to modify a bit still, because appareantely they took to pooping on one corner of the cage, where the stairs used to be. Oh well, moved to the other side, and I added some cardboardish panels to the sides of their ‘loft’ so the hay doesn’t spill out so much anymore :) I also made their floor ‘complete’ because for some reason Nero insi...

The Cavy Cage

September 16, 2006 less than 1 minute read

Today I decided to change some things to their cavia cage, and see if they like - use it.

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lunarpages

Hosting move

February 5, 2010 less than 1 minute read

I’ve moved hosting, from Lunar Pages to OVH. Lunar Pages is a good hosting, but their overselling and price hikes in the last few years made me look for something else.

Grmble!

December 25, 2007 less than 1 minute read

I hate having to go through the blog to correct posts!

Lunarpages upgrade :0 :)

January 11, 2007 less than 1 minute read

Oi!

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crap

Belgium: FAIL!

December 19, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Once again, Belgium is the laughing stock of the EU.

Come flush with us!

October 30, 2007 3 minute read

… or the story of our two-week vacation in Madrid.

Second Life

January 28, 2007 less than 1 minute read

After all the hipe that’s being created around the virtual online game Second Life, I decided to give it a quick spin. Quick being very quick here, since after around 30 minutes I bailed out and deleted the game.

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