I’ve moved this blog from directnic.com to my own VPS. This blog is using Serendipity, which consists of a bunch of files for the webserver and a MySQL database. (I during the move I noticed that t...

…and it fucks up most of the sites I visit daily. Apparently AOL offers the open-source Dojo framework on its Content Delivery Network and many sites make use of it. Come on, AOL, change your IP ...

As I’ve explained earlier I have my incoming and sent mail in a single IMAP folder. To make this folder more readable I use a Thunderbird mail filter to add a “Sent” tag to the outgoing mail. This ...

I’ve decided to make a small Wake-On-Lan program that I can register as a scheduled task in order to wake up my NAS. This task must be executed every minute or else the NAS will shutdown again, so ...

For some reason none of my domains DNS names resolve to IP addresses anymore. I wonder if it has something to do with China’s new policy, see China Imposes New Internet Controls. It basically boil...

I’ve installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop (next to Windows 7) and actually, it’s a pretty usable platform. I don’t think there are many things that I do under Windows 7 that I cannot do under Ubuntu....

I’ve been using IMAP for my email for years now. I like it, because it allows me to access my mail from any device, anywhere on the globe. But what’s been bothering for all those years is that, whe...

Bought this nice 1TB Buffalo NAS and Windows 7 keeps nagging me to set up a backup schedule so I thought: cool, backup to the NAS! No: You can only save your backups on a network location on Windo...

But only because the server got a new IP. Let’s see how long it takes for the new IP to get blocked.