Digital Identity
This post is going to be a rant because I really need to vent. If you are expecting a factual recount of the events that came to pass or have no feeling for the linguistic phenomenons known as irony and sarcasm this post is not for you so please leave this blog through the following link.
If not, please read on.
Posted in random.
– April 22, 2010
Recently we ran into a seriously weird problem at home.
Just to clarify our setup: we have a cable-modem that does about absolutely nothing, connected to a Debian Stable box with 2 interfaces that acts as our gateway, firewall. NAT.
First, DNS queries were randomly dropped or had serious issues trying to resolve which is extremely annoying as it slows down your internet experience quite a bit.
That turned out to be an issue we still haven’t figured out completely, it seems to have something to do with rtorrent opening a ridiculous amount of sockets and keeping those open so the kernel just kills or throws away other sockets it can’t handle anymore which turned out to be our DNS requests.
The other, far more troubling problem was that some sites, for no apparent reason were excruciatingly slow or just would not load at all.
Posted in random.
– April 11, 2010
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.
Posted in random.
– January 5, 2010
Om maar weer eens pijnlijk duidelijk te maken: klok, klepel en falende support-artikelen die een helpdesk-medewerker voorgeschoteld krijgt.
– 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can in server environments it is sometimes frustrating that packages in Debian’s stable release are sometimes a tidbit outdated.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…
Continued…
– October 28, 2009
One of the things I like to do is play with technologies, tinker with my home network to get it up to perfection and do exactly what I want.
Half a year ago I decided I wanted to have full IPv6 connectivity in my entire home network by the end of 2009, this is a guide on how I (with the help of my housemate Rem) did just that.
Posted in Projects.
– 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?
Posted in random.
– 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.
Posted in Apple.
– 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).
– 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.
Posted in Apple.
– June 10, 2009
