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For some time I am a perl fan, but perl is not that popular anymore so I decided to try and see whether I can use Python as well. After moving my systems from FreeBSD to Ubuntu and Debian (proxmox needs it) I also used the ’emerging-ipset-update.pl’ script to drop emerging treats as soon as possible. Python After or rather while following the Udemy’s ‘2020 Complete Python bootcamp: From Zero to Hero’ by Jose Portilla (Hi!) I decided that I could rewrite the perl script into python. And so I did. Below is the version that resulted from that effort. It can surely be smarter, so poke me on my email address if that is possible and I’ll update this. Thanks Jose for your great course! I appreciate it! ...

At the end of the month, my company JR-Webscripting en Hosting, will cease to exist. Justin and myself thought things over and with changes in our lives in the entire last year(s), we decided that we needed to spend our time differently. The time and effort of running your own business in the (flooded) hosting market is extremely difficult. You need scale, and offer an interesting price. And it will cost you countless hours. For us, it was worth this effort for almost 15 years, but the balance was lost not that long ago. While our reasons where not in the financial sector (In my opinion, the main reason for stopping most businesses), it does play along. The margins are small with our pricing scheme, and the benefits are low. Too low factually. What weight most for me was the investment of time that I can no longer realise that easily. ...

On my old blog, I tried to remember the passing of Freddy Mercury periodically. I failed to do that for several years. Freddy, wherever you may be, rest in peace. I still remember your music and listen to it very often. I visited the concerts of the remaining band members of Queen, it’s still amazing, even without you. One day, we will meet! Image used from express.co.uk and referenced from them: ...

As the title states (in dutch sorry it’s the original name, but you can translate it to: autumn conference NLUUG2019), I was at the NLUUG 2019. My last visit with Snow (now Sue) was when it was still in “De Reehorst” in Ede. Which appeared to have been a few years ago. One of the reasons for not visiting it more often is that I was soo much into FreeBSD that I didn’t look around that much. That changed this year when I stopped volunteering for FreeBSD. I got my RHCSA and RHCE this year and as technical field manager I decided to show my face and talk with people (and learn something myself as well). ...

Voor Sue is het opleiden van onze mensen belangrijk. Wij zorgen er dan ook voor dat onze collega’s door ons (Fieldmanagers) bezocht worden, om zaken op technisch vlak maar ook opleidings vlak door te spreken en regelmatig te plannen waarmee en hoe iemand zich wil ontwikkelen. Vervolgens maken we dat als bedrijf mogelijk door opleidingen te faciliteren, studiedagen al contractueel beschikbaar te stellen, de kosten te betalen van de opleiding EN de certificering. ...

If you would have asked me a few years ago, whether I was going to migrate my servers to Linux? I would have laughed and not even consider it. Since 2004 I have hosted all my own servers on the FreeBSD OS. I had one CentOS machine, because OpenXchange on FreeBSD was not the best experience. But now, in 2019, all my servers are running one of the Linux OS’es. Mainly Ubuntu. ...

A few years ago, I was informed that Paul Schenkeveld had passed away. That was very unpleasant news ofcourse. I knew Paul for some years, at the D-BUG or NLUUG BSD days he was one of the organisers and I was one of the speakers back then. In addition he was one of the main organisers of the 2011 EuroBSDCon in Maarssen. I always saw Paul.. and then Cor.. or the other way around. ...

So. It had been a while before I had proper time to look into the Dutch translation efforts again. History Due to various reasons not discussed here, I was not able to see to a proper translation. Rene did a lot of work (thank you for that Rene!). The PO system First of all, i am going to discuss a bit about the PO system, which is a gettext way of doing translations. It chops texts into msgstr’s (message strings) and then translates those strings using msgid’s. Same lines are translated the same, this might be a good option, unless the context changed between the lines and then you might get ‘google translate’ kind of ways. ...

So I have this situation, where I couldn’t get my kobo reader to connect to the internet and fetch updates and/or use kobo+ for example. I started debugging with Ubiquiti ages ago to see where the problem lies. In the meantime I was unable to continue with this, but I had an interesting thought yesterday. I sniffed the traffic from the hardware (mac) address of the ereader and noticed that it tried to resolve: http://www.msftncsi.com and fetch /ncsi.txt. The site is a microsoft network connection information page that informs microsoft systems whether or not an active internet connection is seen. ...

After ‘relaunching’ my Blog I have been occupied with other activities. So I just took a little time to say “Happy 2017” to all of you. Perhaps there will be more entries this upcoming year.. 🙂