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If you want things done properly

Posted on zo 12 maart 2006 in services • Tagged with rant

do it yourself apparently.

Two of my domains are down, because the registrars systems seem to think they expired. It's not true, of course. And a quick creditcard payment did not help either. People visiting the affected webpages are presented with a nice default search page. Great :-(


I need an UPS

Posted on wo 01 maart 2006 in hardware • Tagged with hardware

This morning, while I was still in bed, the power to my TV set etc. went up and down a couple of times. And sure, the home server was rebooted as well when I later checked it. So tomorrow I will be sure to buy a second hand UPS.


IT Crowd season 1

Posted on ma 27 februari 2006 in hardware • Tagged with blog

Thanks to a link on digg.com I was able to watch the whole first season (6 episodes) of IT Crowd. Maybe not the best sitcom in existance, but a lot better than most of them.

I'm currently trying to move about 10 GB of data from my home to …


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Data synchronisation using Unison

Posted on za 18 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with backups

Some time ago I found a small utility called unison. I used it for some time to sync my homedir on a Linux box to my Windows laptop, but later decided to go with the Winows built-in 'Offline files' thingie (bad idea, don't do it).

What is Unison?

Unison resembles …


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Rather busy but...

Posted on za 18 februari 2006 in plan • Tagged with plan

There is still some progress worth mentioning.

Unison

I've been using Unison for a couple of weeks now, to sync this site and a couple of others. No problems until now and I've added a small unison page that will be expanded later.

Windows based OpenVPN gateway

About a month …


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