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  jnitodo
  squidefender
  Wormwarner

Latest books read:
  • Lincoln Child - Deep Storm
  • Lee Child - The Hard Way
  • Mike Lawson - Dead on Arrival
  • Preston & Child - Still Life with Crows

Latest movies seen:
  • Death Race
  • The Objective
  • Deception
  • Hellboy - The Golden Army



23 September 2008

yellowbullet 20:55: Today it is 5 years ago that I registered the jeroen.se domain.
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25 August 2008

yellowbullet 17:46: Since a few weeks I use the jnitodo todo list manager for managing my todo list. jnitodo was written by myself, so it matches my requirements quite well and it might match yours!
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13 August 2008

yellowbullet 12:51: Yesterday I ran into a bug in my Samsung S1060 digital camera. If you press the view photos button while the red-eye flash pictogram is flashing white and red it hangs and becomes unresponsive.
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11 August 2008

yellowbullet 12:59: While migrating my account to another machine which uses openldap authentication I ran into the problem that cron were not working on the new machine. A quick look in the logs revealed the following error:
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29 July 2008

yellowbullet 17:50: I often get the question how I manage to survive my long commute time during the week. This question is often raised when in a conversation it becomes clear that I travel over 4 hours per day by train. In this blog post I will try to give a small insight in how I manage this.
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09 July 2008

yellowbullet 13:23: Just a quick blog post about how to run a command like uptime in more than one screen window. Just do crtl-a then
:at "#" stuff "uptime\015"
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28 June 2008

yellowbullet 21:58: I just reached the 1000 kilometer mark with my recumbent bike. It took me 46 hours and 24 minutes, averaging a 21.55 km/h speed. The last month however my average cycling speed is increasing, so I should do the next 1000 kilometer in less time.
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Dark Clouds over the dutch part of the internet

Dark clouds are gathering over the dutch part of the internet. Yesterday (2007-02-16) the largest ADSL provider in The Netherlands blocked port 25 traffic. A logical step from their perspective probably. It is even an understandable step. I also do think that the intentions are good. But this action is principally wrong.

First of all most spam is send from spam zombies these days and those run on Microsoft Windows machines. But the people which are hurt the most by this action are the people running their own mail server. Most of those people run some version of Linux/Unix/BSD on those systems. Those people are also very often the ones who have to deal with heavy loads of incoming spam. This means in fact that the people who suffer the most from the spam problem are punished for it. Again.

Secondly most people pay for an internet connection. Not for some kind of http service over TCP/IP on port 80. In fact the whole change means a degradation of service.

Speaking of port 80 by the way. A lot of spam zombies are infected via port 80 and port 443 traffic. So it seems a better idea to block those ports. After all it is better to cure the cause than to fight the symptoms. But this would probably cause to much complaints from customers.

But as often happens in history a small minority is punished for the stupidity of the masses. This time by a internet that gets more and more crippled. What will be next?

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