In continued preparation to the FreeBSD 8.0 Release, the tree had been frozen by re@. This means that development had been slowed down a lot because everything needs to be reviewed by the Release Engineers first. This step will make sure that the system will get as stable as possible before a fork will be done to RELENG_8. Stay tuned!
On June 26, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
On June 26, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
Ofcourse, the entire world talks about “the king of pop”. He passed away last night. The guy who did “bad” isn’t anymore. The sarcastic thing is that he was about to make a great comeback with a -lot- of concerts. Concerts on one place The o2 arena in London. Too bad no one can ever enjoy the comeback. Rest in Peace MJ.
On June 23, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
And again an NU.nl link that gets my hair standing up. “Stichting Brein” is the dutch RIAA organisation (or whatever it is spelled). This party is the face for all those lobbyists that want to keep some things upstanding instead of doing the market (lower price, more demand). They are absolute -morons-. The article I just read means: “We demand closure for The Pirate Bay from the Netherlands”. If that will happen, we are nothing better then China, or better, we are worse! China is known to filter traffic, the Netherlands should be a democracy in which those things should not happen. This should STOP.
URL http://www.nu.nl/internet/2028662/stichting-brein-eist-afsluiten-piratenwebsite.html
On June 23, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
I was shocked with horror just a few moments ago. I read a newspaper article about a commission that wants to include an additional internet fee so that online newspapers can be payed. This is just insane, newspapers no longer sell their newspapers because people can get it for free online and free news papers. Now to save their sorry asses we need to pay more. They failed. If I fail to pay my bills I cannot ask my readers to pay for me right…. It’s just shocking that people even -think- about it. Newspapers had their time they made a lot of money through that, now the internet medium is coming up and they need to find a proper way to find the resources. One of them being the ads, and potentially placing the information behind closed sources which you can only access after paying. I will -not- be paying for the failure of someone else. Same goes for music- fee’s. Screw them. CD’s and DVD’s are way too expensive, people do not want to pay that much for it, so they seek alternatives, the lobbyists want to try to make sure you KEEP paying. This has to end!
URL: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2027713/heffing-op-internetaansluiting-om-kranten-te-steunen.html
This weekend I photographed a bit again. I made some nice pictures from a rose and some other flowers that I noticed during the day.
One thing that shouldn’t be missed are the birds that are flying in and out of our little birdhouse in the garden. Very cool to see.
On June 21, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
Somewhere on the internet I host several Gallery instances for myself and others, to be able to easily show pictures to others. Hence the reason for me setting up a G2 after it came out. The gallery2 instances served me from the beginning till now, on both Apache servers as Nginx servers. Now that G3 has beta1 out, I decided to give my own set of ~7000 pictures (16gb) a go. I replaced the instance and got a working setup. I cannot seem to create a new album yet to import some missing pictures (that I never uploaded to G2). But all with all. G3 seems to be lightweight and working properly. test it 
The only thing that I needed to add to nginx.conf btw is:
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/path/to/index.php/(.+)$ /path/to/index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
}
and it works out fine. Compared to:
location /v {
rewrite ^/v/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=$1 last;
}
location /d/ {
rewrite ^/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=$1&g2_serialNumber=$2&g2_fileName=$3 last;
}
location /rss/ {
rewrite ^/rss/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=rss.Render&g2_name=$1 last;
}
location /srss/ {
rewrite ^/srss/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&g2_itemId=$1 last;
}
location /c/add/ {
rewrite ^/c/add/([0-9]+).html(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=$1 last;
}
location /c/view {
rewrite ^/c/view/([0-9]+).html(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=$1 last;
}
location /admin/ {
rewrite ^/admin/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin last;
}
for Gallery2, this made it easier
On June 20, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
In preparation for tommorrow (fathersday) we bought our third and final fishstick, erm fish ofcourse. And we named this golden fish: iVis (which means iFish). Since we are really into apple (we now have a Macbook Pro and one Macbook, and my little iBook), an iPod and an iPhone, so this would be the best name for him . He is already up to speed with the other fishes, so that’s OK!
On June 19, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
Just a little ago we returned home after picking up Denise from School (schoolkamp), the moment she entered she didn’t entirely realise what had been done to our house. So I offered her to continue into the house. That moment she slowly but surely saw the new curtains that I had placed (With the help of my parents to get the holders in position and to get the proper size for them). She liked it Luca then took her upstairs to show the bedroom, she liked the curtains there as well! When she arrived back down, she didn’t see the curtains behind them (which can be rolled), so I showed it and she was filled with joy . It’s nice to see that the hard work had payed off so well!
On June 19, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
After a work-week without Denise, she will return home today. From what I can say she cannot read this message yet so we have a few surprises for her amongst them: I did the entire house, cleaned it from the top to the bottom. I vaccuum cleaned, did all laundry, washed the windows, ironed the washed items, did the grocery’s, played with Luca. Really; from monday till today I did not have had more then 15 minutes for myself. I made sure that we could eat on time very day, which Luca enjoyed very much because he was able to play afterwards; I am trying to think of a schedule that enables us to eat as soon as possible after arriving at home (that might mean that we’ll be cooking one day in advance for the next day), and trying to think of something that enables us to continue till 1900 hours (for example) and then have the rest of the evening off; and most of the weekend as well.
And there are a few more surprises, which I will write about later today; we do not want to spoil them before she’s at home right? 
On June 17, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko
Let op, dit belooft een erg grumpy post te worden. Als je daar geen zin in hebt, kun je beter deze post niet lezen
Vandaag las ik dat een aantal pensioenfondsen overweegt om de deelnemers te korten op de uitkering. De uitkering waar de mensen zelf voor gespaard hebben, jarenlang. Zo hebben de meesten voor VUT/Prepensioen en gewoon pensioen gespaard. Een grote groep 50+’ers die net niet overal in mee kon doen (de pech generatie) heeft al meerdere keren naast de pot gepist, en nu blijkt dat de actieve deelnemers ook gekort gaan worden. Ik begrijp dit niet. Mensen geven hun zuur verdiende geld in handen van een pensioenfonds, en in de beleving van bijna iedereen gaat dan dat geld in een fonds, waaruit “VEILIG” belegd wordt om rendement te maken zodat je later met pensioen kunt en tig jaar van je leven kunt dekken.
Niet alleen wordt je dalijk gedwongen door onze regering (Die overigens hier zelf maling aan heeft zal uiteindelijk blijken, zulke smeerlappen zijn het wel) om langer door te werken (tenzij je natuurlijk meer dan genoeg verdiend, als minister bijvoorbeeld, want dan boeit het je niet en stop je gewoon op een gegeven moment), tot je 67e, en korten financiele instellingen de uitkeringen waar ze zelf in geblunderd hebben. De topsalarissen worden niet 123 aan banden gelegd, maar wanbeleid bij deze bedrijven wordt ook niet echt afgekeurd of onderzocht, men doet er maar wat soepeltjes om. Ook het wanbeleid van de regering houd stand in ons totalitair regime. De regering en de elite eromheen houd alles strak in de hand, en het klootjesvolk wordt onderdrukt. Mooie democratie wat eigenlijk gewoon niet zo is.
Het wordt tijd dat we ons eens gaan verzetten hiertegen, het kan en mag niet zo zijn dat een regering standpunten uitdraagt die niemand (de meerderheid, die telt in een democratie?) steunt, kilometerheffing, hogere pensioenleeftijd, wanbeleid steunen van bedrijven, zelf wanbeleid voeren, Europese Unie NEE (herinneren we ons dit nog? dit wordt door de strot gedrukt, het heet nu alleen anders), auteursrechten shit (iemand die denkt dat het voor de regering is, no way, het gelobby van grote labels zorgt ervoor dat dit speelt, de resultaten lopen terug, en terecht, de marktwerking geeft aan dat de prijs te hoog is, dus dat om de vraag te vergroten de prijs omlaag moet, men gaat andere toevluchten zoeken want het KAN goedkoper, in plaats van dat dat wordt bewerkstelligd, wordt iemand dalijk bestraft omdat hij muziek en dingen download, maak dan de prijs goedkoper!) etc etc.
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