For -many many- years I am a big fan of the original Queen music, with the famous leadsinger Freddy Mercury. Like last year, I’ll write a little in Memorial for Freddy.
I still deeply miss Freddy, I would have loved to see the band in action, live. Sadly I cannot and will never ever be able to see it. Hopefully you are still resting in piece, and rocking the stars!
Sinds lange tijd ben ik ingeschreven in het bel-me-niet register, of zijn voorloper ‘infofilter’. Toch ben ik onlangs -meerdere- keren gebeld door Voorlichtingsbureau Financiele Dienstverlening. Ik heb meermalen aangegeven dat ik ingeschreven ben bij het bel-me-niet register en dat ze in overtreding zijn. Willens en wetens werd ik toch meerdere keren gebeld.
Zijn er meer mensen die door dit rare bedrijf benaderd zijn ondanks dat er ingeschreven is bij het bel-me-niet register? Overigens raad ik dan aan om bij consuwijzer een klacht te deponeren; en als je wilt hier een berichtje achter te laten… dankjewel 
A couple of days ago Ken Smith changed the branch information for 8.0-RELEASE to -RC3. This is the final Release Candidate which is unlikely to last for more then a week, unless some serious show stopper is found ofcourse. So ‘gentlemen, for the pride of your nations, start your engines’, because we are going to blast in the near future!
Stay tuned!
A few days ago the FreeBSD team released RC2 of the 8.0 version. This is the fore-last before 8.0-RELEASE will see the light. Some problems had been ironed out, especially that had fallout of the NULL mapping removal option. PIE was one of the things that broke, things like Samba seemed to be affected.
This had been resolved now, and everyone is advised to test -RC2. -RC3 will also follow in around two weeks from now, closing in on the -RELEASE version. Stay tuned!
p.s. I am also writing a “Welcome to FreeBSD 8″ article. This is currently being reviewed by my employer (which supported me in writing this) and will be published soon..
This weekend I had a little project, wiring the bottom floor with Ethernet. There was a telephone cable patched towards the bedroom upstairs, so I figured it would be possible to put an ethernet wire through the same pipe. This could have been possible, after extracting the TV cable it worked fine. After getting in the Ethernet cable, the pain started. I cut off the RJ45 connectors and tried to made new ones (hey, the RJ45 doesn’t fit through the pipe!). WRONG. It wasn’t as easy as people had been telling me. Somehow I couldn’t do it. After 6 hours of fiddling, I was through my stock of connectors and messed up the cable terribly. I also was very grumpy at that stage.
Somewhat later I traveled to Alternate, and ordered 100m patchcable and new connectors. I took out the old (prefab) cable, and pulled the new one through it (as an experiment actually because the TV cable was unable to get back upstairs again, grmbl). I tried putting on a connector, and without much hassle this worked in < 5 minutes. So I went downstairs and tried to make the second connection, which took me a bit longer because the wires weren't coorporating, but within 20 minutes I had wired the cable; and connectors! I now have working ethernet downstairs without needing to drill. The PS3 had been connected to it, as well as the telephone (or actually the ADSL line, because that was living in my bedroom first). No more blinking lights when I am heading to bed, just a few wires here and there.
Now the next challenge is to bring back TV to the first and second floor (it’s splitted in my bedroom). Lets see how we can arrange that!
So, now a while after the disconnect of ”lukemftpd”, I only got one response from Ed Schouten mentioning that I could have done it with a ’src.conf’ setting. I decided not to do that, but that were all reactions. So given that, it might be that people are either not noticing it, or something else is wrong. I would have assumed that at least several people would complain that their lukemftpd doesn’t work any longer, or at least no longer gets installed.
+1 for success
Wordpress just released a new version, 2.8.5 The hardening release. Evilcoder.org and relevant surrounding blogs had been updated already.. How far are you with the upgrade process?
I received many congratulations via various ways on my anniversary. I would like to thank you all for the warm comments / reactions / emails etc. Eventhough I do not celebrate it, it gives me a warm feeling that people think about someone who became an year older
Thanks a lot people!
Remko
A while ago I started a little test with http://freebsd.evilcoder.org, this is a mirror of the official www.freebsd.org tree, and shows the same files etc. I linked this a few times from my main blog (which you are reading now), and followed the activity. The maximum of unique users was 213, which is quite a lot for a non official mirror ..
Some minutes ago my age changed from 25 to 26 . This means I am yet another year smarter… right? right? right people?
There aint going to be a party though, I do not celebrate this already for a long time! A few people that I specially invited will stop by though, and I will head out for dinner out of the house this night with my (soon to be) wife and kiddo
Cheerio,
Remko, aged 26.
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