Reduce number of Jira notification mails
The past few months I’ve been fine-tuning a mail filter to reduce the amount of Jira notification...
Using gitlab-ci-multi-runner on OpenBSD
After contributing some small build problem fixes for gitlab-ci-multi-runner and two of it’s depe...
Configuring L2TP over IPSec on OpenBSD for Mac OS X clients
For work we required the use of a VPN for a number of Mac OS X laptops to an OpenBSD 5.6 router. ...
Using Local File Contents With Masterless Puppet
For a masterless Puppet setup I use to configure my personal computers, I was in need of a way to...
Fighting Spam with OpenBSD's spamd(8)
A few days ago I discoved OpenBSD’s spamd(8). Apparently I’ve always confused it with SpamAssassi...
Remote installation of OpenBSD from Linux
Using a trick documented here, I switched this server from Linux to OpenBSD, without a support in...
Amazed by Governement Deals for Windows XP Support
With only a few days left till the official support period of Windows XP comes to an end, I was a...
Pro Pupppet Second Edition Review
A few weeks back I purchased Pro Puppet for my Kindle (paperback version). I had been using Puppe...
Basic Concepts of High Availability Linux
When considering to build a high availability cluster based on Linux, it’s easy to find all kinds...
No need for RVM or rbenv on OpenBSD
A lot of Ruby on Rails developers install Ruby by using RVM or rbenv. Most of the time this is be...
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
The author of the following link went through great lengths (literally) to make sure you understa...
A Good BSD Versus Linux Explanation
The following link is a good written article about some of the differences between the BSDs (most...
Switched to a different Google Reader alternative: Feedbin
Last december I switched to Feed a Fever for RSS reading. I really enjoyed it, but after I while ...
Switching from Google Reader to Feed a Fever
In my opinion Google Reader has become a lot less nice to work with by completely removing the sh...
Another step in the migration away from Google Services
Last year I switched from Gmail to Fastmail. I did this because I got fed up with the changes Goo...
The perfect Google/Asus Nexus 7 case?
A week ago I finally decided which case I wanted for my Nexus 7: Poetic Slimline Portfolio Case f...
Using Nagios to monitor multiple VirtualHosts
On first sight, it doesn’t look like Nagios or Icinga can be used to monitor websites hosted on t...
Automatic Invariant Detection in Dynamic Web Applications
For the last year, I have been working on my master project and two weeks ago I finally graduated...
Symphony CMS; the Best CMS?
I’ve been looking for a good Content Management System (CMS) the last couple of days after a coll...
Dropbox on Your Own Server
I’ve always liked Dropbox, except for one thing: I don’t trust them with my data. Also, it seems ...
Crawljax 1.9 Released
We just released Crawljax 1.9, the project I’m working on for my master thesis. It’s mostly a “bu...
Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu Karmic
In my last post I described how to get the Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) to work in Ubuntu 10.04 Luc...
Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu Lucid
The new Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) doesn’t work in Ubuntu Lucid out-of-the-box. You need a newer ...
Fix Your Insecure Passwords
Everybody knows it, but nobody does it: using real secure passwords. One of the most heard reason...
Guest Blog Post Published at CDT
The launch of pleaserobme.com received a lot more media attention than we had expected. We were o...
Location spam, annoying and.. risky?
Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you...
Crawljax 1.8 released
I’m working on a cool project for my master thesis: Crawljax. Crawljax is a website crawler that ...
Update your HTC Hero radio
One week after I bought my Hero, I found out it is possible to install a newer radio-firmware on ...
WordPress 2.9 released
WordPress 2.9 was just released. All in all this seems to be a great release again, including som...
HTC Hero without Sense
A few weeks ago I bought my first smartphone: The HTC Hero. It’s been a great purchase since the ...
Howto: Live migrate to software RAID 1
Feel insecure about your data? Don’t trust your harddrive anymore? Use this howto to migrate your...
Pinnacle DVB-T stick remote
Another post about that Pinnacle DVB-T stick? No, this one is about the remote! I wrote that the ...
Pinnacle DVB-T stick on Ubuntu Jaunty
Yesterday I decided to buy the Pinnacle DVB-T Stick (also known as Pinnacle TV Stick 72e) to watc...
Fixing FreeNX on Fedora 11
Today I had some problems getting FreeNX to work on Fedora 11. FreeNX is a VNC-like system that h...
Using GNU screen as virtmanager for KVM
After my last post about KVM, somebody emailed me, asking how I use KVM’s serial console in combi...
Speeding up your website
A few days ago I stumbled upon the new Google “Let’s make the web faster”-page. I found some usef...
Boot Ubuntu livecds in KVM without VNC
This post is just for the sake of documenting this.
My first Cherokee patch
I’ve been playing with Cherokee (the light-weight web server) for a while now. I really like the ...
Google Analytics API launched!
Google just announced the public availability of the Google Analytics API. This is great news, be...
Magic c-style comments
A friend/collegea of mine had a really cool idea about c-style comments. C-style comments are mul...
Monitor Postfix with Cacti and SNMP
Today I configured Cacti and SNMP after I saw the graphs of a friend. He had graphs for Postfix, ...
Testing Ubuntu Jaunty with UXA
I’ve been testing Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now and after using it for a day or two, my memor...
Using imapproxy to speedup webmail
Yesterday, I discovered a great way to improve the speed of your webmail client. Two friends of m...
DD-WRT on the Fonera 2100
I finally got the DD-WRT firmware working on my Fonera 2100. I had been trying to get it up and r...
Hello world!
Welcome to my brand new weblog! In the future this will be the place where I post articles about ...