We once built a small webapp for our home where we could keep track of who munched how many tosti’s and what those cost…
Looking at a recent SQL-dump we made for backuppurposes we came across this:
23:57 <@rem> the fuck did we do here
23:57 <@rem> INSERT INTO `tostis` (`ID`, `User`, `Tostis`, `Cost`, `CostType`, `Time`) VALUES
23:57 <@rem> (3, 2, 0, 5.22, 0x613a333a7b733a343a226b616173223b623a313b733a353a2262726f6f64223b623a303b733a373a226b657463687570223b623a303b7d, '2008-02-01 18:03:23'),
23:58 <@rem> ubersecure tosti's?
I lolled… That weird hexadecimal thing, that’s “kaas” also known as “cheese” in English.
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By Daenney
– January 5, 2010
Om maar weer eens pijnlijk duidelijk te maken: klok, klepel en falende support-artikelen die een helpdesk-medewerker voorgeschoteld krijgt.
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Posted in Apple, Life.
Tagged with abn amro, Apple, leopard, mac, OS X, snow leopard.
By Daenney
– November 16, 2009
Though I am a fan of Debian and use it whenever I can in server environments it is sometimes frustrating that packages in Debian’s stable release are sometimes a tidbit outdated.
Though this generally isn’t a problem over at Inter-Actief we desperately need Python 2.6 on Debian Lenny, mainly due to the so much more excellent (and actually working) support for SSL.
After reading one hell of a lot of posts, blogs, looking around on the Debian Python project site and mail archives I concluded it would just be best and faster than actually waiting for packages by the Debian team to rebuild the python2.6 source-packages in experimental against de Debian Lenny base-system.
First and foremost I wish to express my gratitude and give credits to one of my fellow system admins at Inter-Actief and good friend Matthijs Kooijman for without his knowledge, patience and guidance it would have been one big hell for me to achieve this.
Now, let us begin…
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Posted in Projects, random.
Tagged with community, Debian, development, Inter-Actief, python.
By Daenney
– October 28, 2009
/etc/dnsmasq.conf on the gateway which is also pushed as sole DNS server:
address=/wiki.inter-actief.utwente.nl/10.10.3.17
Switch:~ daenney$ host wiki.inter-actief.utwente.nl
wiki.inter-actief.utwente.nl has address 10.10.3.17
Switch:~ daenney$ ping wiki.inter-actief.utwente.nl
PING zwarejongens.vereniging.utwente.nl (130.89.55.65): 56 data bytes
It seems that the ‘host’ command uses libc which uses nss which uses ‘resolv.conf’ resulting in the use of DNS server ‘192.168.1.1′ on the host command but the ping command seems to get its DNS-servers from somewhere else.
So, did Apple just do something funky, alter libc somehow or what the flying f*ck?
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By Daenney
– September 13, 2009
I love Safari in general. It’s speedy, looks like it was made on and for a Mac and has all basic features you need for your day to day browsing. All important web extensions such as Flash have plugins for Safari and best of all it doesn’t depend on XUL.
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Posted in Apple.
Tagged with internet, OS X, proxy, safari.
By Daenney
– June 29, 2009
I own a MacBook Pro 15.4″ unibody since mid January to which I regularly attach a Samsung Syncmaster 305T. However, the combination of this MacBook Pro and my display has caused a lot of problems, as can be seen on these pictures.
I have been in contact with AppleCare sine February about this problem and early May they decided something had to be wrong with my MacBook Pro and approved it for RMA. I got my MacBook Pro back two days ago, according to them fixed (they replaced the logicboard and a few other things).
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Posted in Apple, random.
Tagged with Apple, apple cinema display, firmware, macbook pro, samsung.
By Daenney
– June 11, 2009
I got my hands on the 10A380 developer build of OS X 10.6 (like many other people by now) and decided to install it and give it a whirl.
The installation is a breeze, as usual, fast too.
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Posted in Apple.
Tagged with Apple, development, mac, macbook pro, OS X.
By Daenney
– June 10, 2009
As a few people are aware this site and a few others of my own and some friends are hosted on an XServe G4 running Debian Lenny served from the DCG Amsterdam datacenter within the ColoClue network infrastructure.
Why Debian? ‘Cause I like to snuggle up with it at night? Partially because I just love Debian plain and simple and because it is one of the few distributions which has decent powerpc support. Yes powerpc, what did you think was†inside†my XServe G4? Exactly, a dual-CPU G4 IBM PowerPC.
Unfortunately, running on exotic hardware does bring a few issues with it such as serial console access and remote†power-cycling. Next up some details on how to get the whole†shebang†to work.
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Tagged with Apple, development, firmware, mac.
By Daenney
– May 22, 2009
We use Scrobby at home to scrobble whatever MPD plays to our Last.fm account. One problem, when we reboot the server and we forget to start scrobby manually, well, sometimes days of data doesn’t get scrobbled.
Thus I wrote a†preliminary†init-script that should fix the problem for now. It’s based upon skeleton and, I know, it’s not the best script ever nor does it follow all the lsb rules and best practices, but it’s a start, it works and I’ll fix the ‘decency’ when I have time to spare.
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By Daenney
– April 20, 2009
