It’s been a while, but we’re back in business! I had to take the server down for a complete reinstall, since I didn’t trust it anymore and didn’t want to risk being abused for distributing nasty spam or kiddyporn. Since … Continue reading →

A few days ago I noticed someone defaced the part of my server that’s also running this weblog. As I didn’t have the time to really get into it, I removed the defaced part, updated all of my software and … Continue reading →

When reading fizzgig’s post, I wonder: was it there before? Well, at least there is a decent way to disable using the default gateway for VPN on Mac OS X. No need to go to all that stuff I wrote … Continue reading →

One of OpenSSH’s great features is ssh public key authentication. For those of you who are as lazy as I am, and don’t want to type in and remember all kinds of different passwords for different hosts, it is the … Continue reading →

Het bestaat ondertussen al een tijdje, maar net heb ik het even geïntegreerd in mijn weblog: gravatars. Als je er zelf ééntje hebt aangemaakt op gravatar.com en dan reageert op een weblogpost van me, komt je avatar hieronder te staan … Continue reading →

Any user of Mac OS X will love the way it uses to produce special characters with the keyboard: you press alt+(a logical key) and, for accented characters, follow it up with the character you want the accent to be … Continue reading →

Recently, I’ve been having some trouble getting my VPN connections to work the way I wanted them to on my Mac OS X Tiger machine. Windows users have a tick box “use default gateway on remote network” for this purpose. The VPN tunnel will then only be used for traffic to that subnet, not for all outgoing traffic. Us Mac users are not so fortunate, since such a feature does not exist in the internet-connect utility. However it is possible. It simply requires some knowledge of the point-to-point daemon (pppd). This howto guides you through the process of getting it all to work.

Long expected, finally Apple puts their stuff where there mouth is, and introduces the long-expected Intel Macs. The new iMac’s fine, but screw that. Look at that new Macbook Pro! It’s faster, thinner, has a new power connector and last … Continue reading →

Hitachi is so proud of their revolutionary new way of storing data on magnetic harddrives perpendicularly, they want the whole world to understand what it’s all about. Watch this hilarious movie to see what I mean ;) For more information … Continue reading →

Eindelijk klinken m’n vijanden bij Quake III niet meer als smurfen. Niet dat ik het spel vaak speel, maar irritant is het wel ;) Hoe ik het gedaan heb? Met Mike Vande Ven zijn oplossing voor de Quake 3 Sound … Continue reading →