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Power usage in my home

Posted on ma 22 mei 2006 in home • Tagged with homelab

Item Watt
Trinity media PC 76 Watt (IDLE) 100 W (gzipping) 68 W (HDD sleep)
KPN TV settop (dual tuner) 14 W (on), 13 W ('off')
KPN TV settop (single tuner) 7 W (on), 5 W ('off')
iBook charger 2 W (IDLE)
Phone chargers 0 W (no phone connected )
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Bye bye Postfix, hello Qmail

Posted on vr 21 april 2006 in services • Tagged with cloud, debian

I switched to postfix about a year ago for most of my mail stuff, but have decided to move back to qmail. The Postfix + MySQL combo does work, but I think it is slow and error prone. So back so qmail+vmailmgr it is ;)

Finally getting to the point where …


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Linux on the Scouting Desktop

Posted on ma 17 april 2006 in scouting • Tagged with debian, hardware

I spent the weekend in Harderwijk, as a leader of a Internet related Scouting activity. We were unable to bring too much fancy new hardware, because of insurance issues so I was stuck reclycling a couple of Pentium II systems. As I already got rid of all my Windows CD-ROMs …


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Site moved again

Posted on ma 17 april 2006 in webapps • Tagged with blog

This site is now hosted from a dedicated server in Zurich, Germany. I will report on the quality of this new provider in a couple of months


Gotta love those open source guys :-)

Posted on vr 07 april 2006 in open source • Tagged with hardware, debian

When running the ybin -v utility to update the boot menu on my iBook, I got the following output:

ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda6'...
ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda3'...
ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/hda6...
ybin: Installing primary …

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