Dgn's views on life

Its an important moment today..

2008-01-09T01:33:00.002+01:00

In my 1310th post on the fine Blogger system, I am moving out.

I need more control over my blog & thats something Blogger doesn't intent to provide at any rate! So I'm moving out. This will be my last Blogger & first new system post! I wont delete my account though. There s too much memories on here. And if the Cone thing ever gives out, I'll be falling back on Blogger.

As you all know, I'm in sore lack of time, so this was a quick solution. I was able to get some historical posts (first ones) and most recent posts (last 8 months) but I didnt find the time to import those in between (althouh the script is really convienient & quick at any rate..) - Damn its saddening how it always goes wrong at the last minute :(

Anywho.. the point here is.. Its time to delurk!
Come & say HI at the new place!

The New Place:
blog.cone.be

or even
gert.blogs.x-tend.be
for the professional Linux bloggings

DELURK!! :)

I need to fix some stuff!!

2008-01-06T22:14:00.001+01:00

But apart from Mini,
there s only time for Oracle & Gantz right now

:(

A Powerfull Sentence

2008-01-04T00:47:00.001+01:00

"The nice thing about America is .." is an incredibly powefull sentence.
Not so in the rest of the world, but in America, anything that follows this sentence, is automatically percieved as being positive. (or at least more positive and positive at a first impression)

The nice thing about America is that you're free to GIVE me all your money!

now THIS is a Strong sentence! Its an extreme example.. and it (probably) wont work.. But pick a better example, the right victim.. Combine it with other accepted "Good" terms, freedom for example, and you re in an even better position to get what you want :) And America is a real easy example to set here since its such a big country, people speaking the same language.. Its an incredibly interesting population for social observation.

& Its a strong sentence! :)

.. & now more work & then some sleep

Busy

2008-01-02T23:53:00.000+01:00

No time to blog

I'm school stuffing all the time
& when I'm not.. I'm working!
Only 4 more weeks

Thank god I had those 3 days of snowboarding!
3 great days by the way
There s some Great stories coming in 4 weeks :)

more work now

happy newyear n all

2008-01-01T01:09:00.000+01:00

I actually backdated this. Its the 4th now, but I was too busy & I forgot :s

2007-12-29T04:55:00.000+01:00

ooh & I put the Super Mario Bros 1st level theme on my cell for a ringtone :)
geeky, I know - lol :D

But its Sooooooo nice :)
& the funny mushroom growing thing for msg sound
teehee
wont be long till I change them back to normal, but hey, its fun while it lasts

Sleep now

2007-12-29T04:49:00.000+01:00

paid some bills, did some stuff
till finally; I got too tired to continue
so thats it I guess

off to bed :s

corruption.. its a bitch when it strikes - I need to solve this, Stat!

oh & I washed the locks - yaaaaay - big washy :/

oh & ppl ratting around in dead peoples ashes.. for ANY reason .. is NOT OK! NOT! NOT!

pee & sleep :)

Is The Industry Ready For Its 'Game Noir'?

2007-12-28T21:36:00.000+01:00

Interesting article..

The game I thought of, reading this, was Max Payne :) The Max Payne series!
Not because of the obvious .. noir story :)
but because the focus was on interesting game mechanics & a compelling storyline

Im really looking forward to more games like this. With fun & innovative mechanics and compelling and interesting story lines.
And I believe the Wii is the most likely platform to have these games. I hope they get the indy games platform going too.

2007-12-28T03:57:00.000+01:00

My perfect licence plate :) Id like that!

Rouso s getting Big :) & Thats a regular, big table!

Cat

2007-12-27T13:40:00.001+01:00

Chemo

Horible Horible Horible

2007-12-20T19:06:00.000+01:00

day!

The next X days

2007-12-20T13:21:00.001+01:00

will be all Oracle - till its done
Oracle all the way baby!

I was planning to have it finished by now
but its not, so .. YEAH BABY

.. *sigh*

2007-12-19T23:53:00.001+01:00

i have too much problems in my life to write about even one of them
im off to bed

I did it!!

2007-12-18T13:45:00.001+01:00

I finally managed to solve this one

It was tough, I had a hard time, but in the end.. it really has a nice mechanism :)
Time for the next one!

(damned pictures are loading SOOO slow - But the gimp cant help that.. cant continue till they re loaded though..)

God I hate that ass homebank software

2007-12-18T00:46:00.000+01:00

& even more so when I go trough the whole process & at the LAST moment - the system FUCKS UP
making me have to start over
that sucks
a lot

iBookDB

2007-12-17T23:54:00.000+01:00

Im excited & slightly sad right now..

This site is a great idea, a great concept. Its boardgamegeek, its IMDB, .. for books! Its what the internet was missing :) but now its here. And all it needs is people, more people & some sane management :)

I'm sad because I wanted to do this :) I talked to a friend a while ago about wanting to set this up. Sadly enough; that was before life kicked me again. (or I kicked myself again, whatever it is, its not the point - it doesnt matter - its not about who or why - its about putting it behind & going on. .. we ll repair the damage later, when there s time) When I brought it up, there was no time for such a comprehensive project. And now its too late :)
Yet there is no way of knowing if its any good until I can login. They might not be open enough.. Any user has to be able to add a book or writer or alternate title or ... they ll fail :)

Excited! because I really like & need this thing :)

Harlem Globetrotters

2007-12-15T00:12:00.001+01:00

I really want to see these guys again!!

I eat 5 year olds for breakfast!

2007-12-14T13:14:00.001+01:00

Mini had an Amazing surprise for me today :)

2007-12-14T02:05:00.001+01:00

Im incredibly happy :D
teehee

I finally got to paying this months bills..

2007-12-14T01:06:00.000+01:00

Most of them late :s

But I really loathe checking my account these days! With money coming from several places (thank you IBO - thats a special governement thing for ppl who start working), most of the time I simply dont recieve what I make before I make SEVERAL phone calls around to who knows! Its frustrating! I'll be glad to be rid of it & FINALLY have a steady income again! Every time I check is another surprise.

I know who to call tomorrow & I'll fucking kill them if I have to sacrifice my Friday afternoon on them again! Each week I spend time on those bastards, fuckwads & cocksuc those people on it cant find any jobs! They need all their time to run after their wealth fare money!! I dont want to start to imagine what it would be like WITHOUT those union guys!

*sigh*
only one more month!

And once I fuckin get those union guys going.. I 'LL FINALLY .. FINALLY!! have the numbers I need to do the math!

I'm also considering doing some advanced math on our spending to get some patterns going.. tracking it all; finding out what goes where when & at what rate. Should be interesting :)

& now enough bitching
I need to get to bed!

Vampire Energy

2007-12-13T23:27:00.001+01:00

Whow - Nice to see all that in graphs & numbers!!

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-12-13T01:35:00.001+01:00

sleep

So I made that script I was talking about earlier

2007-12-13T01:30:00.000+01:00

& from now on its studying all the way! More than a month left, better sooner than later! I really needed these couple of days though.. to relax the Doom stress.

ANYWHO.
This bash script checks the DHCP page of my DLink router, parses the data & inserts it into a file, using the format required by the linux "hosts" file (you know.. "/etc/hosts") Its not pretty to look at but it gets the job done :)

# Variables

## Location & filename for temporary files
tMap="/tmp/"
tFile="t_hosts"

## Hosts location
hPath="/etc/"
hFile="hosts"

## Webpage with IP info page
IPpage=http://192.168.0.1/h_dhcp.html
IPu=USER
IPp=PASS
IPbase="192.168.0."

## Do not edit beyond this point ;)

if [[ $tMap == "" || $tMap == "/" || $tFile == "" ]]
then
echo "Thank god I didnt trust you to fill these out wisely."
echo " (dont get over confident tough, this is an EXTREMELY basic test!!)"
echo "At least One of the following errors was found!"
echo
echo "* the map and file variable can NOT be empty!"
echo "* the map can NOT be / (the root)."
echo "Since we re doing rm -f, these settings might cost you your OS!"
echo " ;)"
echo
echo $map$file
exit 1
fi

# make sure there s no files that could screw the process ;)
rm $tMap$tFile* -f

# Remove old entries
grep -v $IPbase $hPath$hFile > $tMap$tFile.clean
grep -v "## Generated DHCP entries" $tMap$tFile.clean > $tMap$tFile.clean2

# Add comment
echo "## Generated DHCP entries" >> $tMap$tFile.clean2

# Get IPs from Router
wget -q --user $IPu --password $IPp $IPpage -O $tMap$tFile.router

if [[ -e $tMap$tFile.router ]]
then
grep "dDat" $tMap$tFile.router | grep -v " dDat" > $tMap$tFile

# Parse Files
for lijn in $(cat $tMap$tFile)
do
lijn=$(echo $lijn | grep -v "dDat" | grep -v "=")
if [[ -n $lijn ]]
then

# Get IP
ip=$(echo $lijn | grep -oE [0-9]\{1,3}[.]\{1}[0-9]\{1,3}[.]\{1}[0-9]\{1,3}[.]\{1}[0-9]\{1,3})

# Get Hostname
host=$(echo $lijn | grep -oE [\"][[:alnum:]]\{3,100} | grep -oE [[:alnum:]]\{3,100} )

# Save
echo "$ip $host" >> $tMap$tFile.clean2

fi
done

# Replace old file by the new one
mv $tMap$tFile.clean2 $hPath$hFile
fi

# remove residual files
rm $tMap$tFile* -f

Extreme caution should be exercised when using this script. Its unsafe at so many levels.. Just to name some.. It requires certain user rights to edit the "/ect/hosts". It uses "rm -f". It makes use of several intermediary files. .. Dont use it on a production machine without thorough rewrite for security! (How s that for a disclaimer :))

& who needs SVN when you can post it all to blogger!

2007-12-12T00:02:00.000+01:00

Blogging with Prism = FUN
& now off to bed :) With the lil one!

Whow!

2007-12-11T23:10:00.001+01:00

I just screwed up my map with scripts - amazing
THIS would be the right time to start an SVN repository; not to have this happen again.
not a great loss; the file I am working on is open in emacs & the rest was working stuff & a script I worked on & started using yesterday. So I still have that one :)

(rm -f $foo$bar* with both $foo & $bar EMPTY - lol)

BUT!
I'm awake now :) I'll just throw all that crap in an SVN & there we are :) No more losses.
then again, between doing & wanting to - there s still a whole lot of difference!
*sigh*

..
and SVN is crap
its just Too CRAP

The fight for Doom XIV is over

2007-12-11T22:22:00.000+01:00

and it still needs to sink in.
I can stop working & worrying on it.

Now s time for different stuff!

..

Anything worth doing
is worth doing right

.. but you have to believe its WORTH doing! :s

Thanks to Greys Anatomy, I now know that

2007-12-11T21:37:00.000+01:00

Loving each other is admitting you re both Scary & Damaged

I'll be glad when I run out of Season 2! & I hope I don't start Season 3. EVER! Not enough estrogen!

Prism

2007-12-11T21:02:00.000+01:00

I just got myself prism on my ubunbtu box. Amazing software!
I was already using it at work - daily - and its FAST! Take any application like site that might be a tad too slow. & drop it into the prism :) Its lightning!

& its amazing to have those web apps behaving like desktop apps :) (another exclamation mark? or another smily? Its really GREAT stuff!!)

This is - I guess - what web 3.0 will be all about. I never really believed - and I mean REALLY believed - in saas. Software as a Service. Applications on the internet. .. . But this is the line; this is the piece of the puzzle that was missing to get it right.

oh & for the record.. the whole web 3.0 .. this is one of those typical buzz words, the next cloud. So until they actually call the term. Untill they DEFINE the term.. anyone referring to it can go fuck themselves! :D (except me since I actually Just called it - LOL)

Resolving a hostname from the DI-624 DHCP

2007-12-10T23:23:00.000+01:00

Its an edit of the getIp script I wrote earlier.. this time it checks the DHCP page. Provide a hostname & it ll return you the IP (if its in there..)

# Variables
## Host
host="HOSTNAME"

## Location & filename for temporary files
map="/tmp/"
file="adres"

## Webpage with IP info page
IPpage=http://192.168.0.1/h_dhcp.html
IPu=username
IPp=password

## Do not edit beyond this point ;)

if [[ $map == "" || $map == "/" || $file == "" ]]
then
echo "Thank god I didnt trust you to fill these out wisely."
echo " (dont get over confident tough, this is an EXTREMELY basic test!!)"
echo "At least One of the following errors was found!"
echo
echo "* the map and file variable can NOT be empty!"
echo "* the map can NOT be / (the root)."
echo "Since we re doing rm -f, these settings might cost you your OS!"
echo " ;)"
echo
echo $map$file
exit 1
fi

# make sure there s no files that could screw the process ;)
rm $map$file* -f

# Get IP
wget -q --user $IPu --password $IPp $IPpage -O $map$file.router

# check for file existance
if [[ -e $map$file.router ]]
then
grep $host $map$file.router | grep dDat | grep -oE [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]\+ > $map$file

cat $map$file

fi

# remove residual files
rm $map$file* -f

I needed this to have synergy connect to the right dynamic IP.. It still wont work all of the time, but at least, now it ll work more!

Next up is a script to check that page & fill in the /etc/hosts file for my linux boxes.. I might make it more secure then, since it can at this time be abused since it uses temp files..

Microsoft Disses Windows to Sell More Windows

2007-12-10T19:49:00.000+01:00

Check this /. article :)
teehee

More on Microsoft's effort to put XP on XO

2007-12-06T01:03:00.000+01:00

This is SAD!

They re know for making OSes for computers with specs that wont be on the market for the next 2 years.. and now they re trying to mod one of their OSes to run on the ultimate low end high tech laptop.

Its hypocrisy, its low and ridiculous!
This is nothing more or less than sad Linux jealousy!

And lets not even consider the experience! It ll be slow and painfull. This might seem like prejudice, but by god, its based on everything they did so far! It doesnt look good! They are NOT able to write a decent OS.
And let the Only necessary argument be.. Their kernel is still One Big Enormous Blob! No modules, no whatever, no NOTHING! One piece of crap for every situation. And they re merely able to separate it for their future OSes, let alone for a specific piece of hardware. They re not going to sell!
So this OLPC version ll have the standard kernel they use on all their high end machines.
Or maybe hell froze over & all those people on that project actually succeeded in combing it all appart. Doable, but not very Microsofty.

I simply dont trust them to do or make anything worth even a penny! And I know this is a tough thing to say. I liked DOS.. VB6 was cool.. but lets be honest, these arent examples of "good" software either. Looking back at those experiences, its all one big flawed mess.. I remember DOS doing some Horible crashes. But DOS is old, so .. we can all forgive that. For old times sake even. Another example.. what about the new Office? 2007? Its not bad.. but its SO heavy. The system requirements are just too much. But thats progress apparently. That doesnt cut it for me, but .. is it worth that penny? ... well, it probably is. On the other hand, no it isnt. It has to compete with free (as in beer - I love beer, lol) And those screen thingumawhutz arent worth the €200 they expect us to pay. or is it more? So I guess.. they do sometimes make crap worth while!

Oh & I just found out why there arent oracle images with ubuntu or whatever. ... Oracle requires a specific version of redhat or unitedlinux! *sigh*
I really have a problem with software being too picky! *sigh*

Apple enabling native Windows compatibility...in Leopard?

2007-12-05T14:27:00.000+01:00

Whow - this is the next big thing.
If they pull THIS off, the guys in redmond might just as well delete their source code. ALL OF IT! If they pull this off, I might pull the oll switcheroo on them (lol - Blender's movie rules :D)

And I am incredibly happy Ubuntu 7.10 finally has VMWare support! Its late.. tough not Too unreasonably late :)

NTGent - Instinct

2007-12-05T01:02:00.000+01:00

Nice play with Dirkie :)

it was fun!! Really good
Long tough.. 3 hours

Still - Niiice!

Edit - Ok; this post was all but fair.. It was a great play & I should post a really long and wonderfull review. It was half a musical- Lots of acapella stuff n all.. Amazing!
Great actors, great acting, .. The whole thing was simply amazing!
The story had me wondering the whole time. I didnt know AT ALL how they d incorporate all the characters & how it d all fit together.. It was Nice, it was fun!

Some dutch with enough english to get what its all about..

Instinct is een bewerking van Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind, een novelle van James M. Cain (bekend van The Postman Always Rings Twice). Billy Wilder verfilmde het verhaal in 1944 tot de oscargenomineerde film noir Double Indemnity.

Just finished a whole wad of work

2007-12-04T01:25:00.000+01:00

& its A Relief!!

sleep now

upping the ante

2007-12-01T17:29:00.000+01:00

Im considering moving my blog.
I feel I should finally make more use of that domain we have..

sigh

2007-11-28T14:43:00.000+01:00

Let me quote the course document I am now reading..

"Because this field is of no use for the end user we make it also invisible"
"Modify again the prompts .."
"Leave a blank column .. so you can insert later the workfield .."
"While testing .. you will remark that there is no .. yet .."
"Enter now in the .. the command .."

And this is from 3 random pages!! This sounds like Babelfish translation, yet I know its human translated.. Its incredibly sad :s And hugely distracting!

2007-11-28T12:44:00.000+01:00

This work - school thing is stressing me out
I feel I cant do enough at work & it frustrates me. Working parttime, I feel I'm in constant lack of time. Its agonising.

I am learning interestin stuffs though.. Like being more critical about what I post and being equally critical to things that are handed to me. I really need to step that up :)

I was sick yesterday
but I'm better now
& its a Relief!

I do need to dress better. Its mighty cold outside & I'm not used to being outside like I do now. Actually most people arent! The whole car / public transportation thing really makes us ppl lazy :) We re just not used to being exposed to the ellements anyomore!

Good, now its back to school for me. Should be fun this afternoon..

2007-11-27T01:14:00.000+01:00

Stress makes beasts of us all

Beowulf was GREAT! I went in expecting SHIT & came out a happy man. The 3D was super tough I probably missed most of it. Still, the arrows flying towards you, The fog at one time, the funny trailer bee, several cool effects.. The whole experience was a lot richer!
I will see more of those 3d thingywawhuts!
It was refreshing too to see a new kind of hero.. It had this scandinavian feel to it. Nice!

We got ourselves two Oregon HR102 Heartrate Monitors for running purposes! Healty aint we!!

We re going to see Instinct (thats dutch & it surprisingly means the same) on Wednesday.. Wim Opbrouck, Elsie De Brauw, Pierre Bokma, Frank Focketyn & Katja Herbers - We re in for a treat :) I hope I can still get tickets tomorrow!

And carouso is plain Sweet :)

& im tired :( sleep now

BOOB BIG OLYMPICS

2007-11-25T22:51:00.001+01:00

OMG!! Who makes these things? Who APPROVES these things? Who enters in these things??

Just when we thought we d seen it all!

Mad Dog and Glory

2007-11-25T01:45:00.000+01:00

On tv just now.. nice!

Surprising :)

Cat

2007-11-24T19:39:00.000+01:00

chemo

Proper Fucked

2007-11-23T01:16:00.000+01:00

I stand nowhere NEAR where I should! :/

Victorias Secret Fashion Show - Great Knockers

2007-11-22T22:05:00.001+01:00

yeah, we all love Great Knockers!! :D

also on

or a search for when they take that one offline

I'm fuckin goin Out Of My Mind!

2007-11-21T00:59:00.000+01:00

I have this beeeeeeeeeep sound in my right ear - its excruciating!
Its Driving Me INSANE!
I can barely concentrate, I realy hope this ll be better tomorrow!

And worst part is I have NO clue why! It started this afternoon & its been there ever since.. Maddening! Its a bit like what you hear after a full night next to a speaker in Decadance! And that usually goes away REAL quick, so ..

..
Its awfull!

& now I need to go shower!

Big Poppa is watching

2007-11-20T18:05:00.000+01:00

Its the next step.. Forget about the Brother!

2007-11-20T01:42:00.000+01:00

My serv s back up again (eAccelerator was broken)
My intestins are acting up
Carouso s gettin BIIIG - He can reach the table with his front paws from the ground!
Im happy to report I got ampache working on the Wii.. It checks for browser & doesnt pop up if its the Wii
& the Godfather is just AMAZING!!! Im getting into it!

SO, thats it..

2007-11-18T04:50:00.000+01:00

We left a gods awfull mess; but we did it - And those who bailed out were plainly WRONG!

My anual BBQ, some months later than usual..
The belated BDay surprise succeeded also.. Yaay :) She actually didnt expect anything! Utter Surprise!

Lots of surprises.. like wii games & stuff.. a motherfucking BBQ, Kirill, Whadayamean You Smoke? I Tought You Didnt?????, people making it.. yeah! Its been a thrilling ride!

And a fun one too! And :D We ve got a whole lot of leftovers and junk to show for it.. And a Guestbook!! An insane one no less!

Are we the lucky ones? :s

sleep now!

Writing one letter with more than 2 persons is EXTREMELY counter productive

2007-11-13T16:19:00.000+01:00

I really hate it. One person who checks once & then sending it I can handle. Even when there isnt much left of the original. Whatever

But playing pingpong between several people all writing the same piece of text together.. is plain agonising!

For the better - maybe - but too much is too much!

jeech

2007-11-13T08:55:00.000+01:00

First off, we need a Working clock in the bathroom.. The stress in the shower of not knowing how late it is..

Its been one of these mornings again!
Finding out the cat was trailing a piece of crap - trying to cut it off & FAILING! I dont even Want to realise he s still trailing it along! Aarghl
& THEN finding out I forgot to take my bike out of Mini's car.. So no bike - thus using hers.. And that just DOESNT work! SHE S 30cm Smaller!

And I HATE being late at work!

..
Waiting for Firefox .. ... Finaly!

Im glad nigerian government intervened

2007-11-12T01:39:00.000+01:00

And its not about personal preference here!
It d have been outrageous to blow silly amounts of money on MS when Mandriva is already paid and bargained for! Ms is obviously not above bribery

For those interested.. here are the relevant articles. Though the battle mightnt be over yet!
* Mandriva's Open Letter To Steve Ballmer (link)
* Nigerian Government Nixes Microsoft's Mandriva Block (link)
*Linux wins Nigerian school desktops back from Microsoft (link)

Youtube upload

2007-11-11T23:02:00.000+01:00

Incredible! Those guys have incredible server farms, quickest streaming videos n all..
But when it comes to UPLOADING a video.. God Damned! It even takes eternity to commit the starting values (name, description) before the uploading!

Altough 10m & 5 tries later.. it Does work
FINALLY!

oh & we FINALLY bought ourselves a Wii :) With SSX Blur & Zelda! Yaay :)
SSX Rulez!

Just watched F&L on a bigass projection

2007-11-08T01:19:00.002+01:00

Its amazing! We re sold, we NEED a projector! & we can get one reasonably cheap too! Its just too nice! We have these HUGE white walls.. Its like having a 2m by 2m TV but BIGGER :)

yeah!

Dhiahrea

2007-11-06T09:09:00.000+01:00

Horrible!

I hope it wont be all day! Now that I Finally have my full & uninterrupted day; I don't want it fucked up by that shit (no pun intended)

2007-11-06T00:21:00.000+01:00

Back on track

I just finished some Nice;

2007-11-05T01:20:00.000+01:00

Dare I say Elite Photo editing with the Gimp!
Several pictures all combined into one - One part of one; another part of an other.. Its a job well done!

Pity nobody will notice it, but thats a good thing too :)

RoD has some nice pictures coming :D

Kissing the Windows goodbye

2007-11-01T14:05:00.000+01:00

My trusted old laptop is going Ubuntu. Total conversion here; no dual boot or whatever
& it feels right :)

Tough I do have to admit my prior linux knowlege makes ubuntu Truely usable. Otherwise I might have slight headaches..

Linux might finally be Desktop Ready tough I'll only be sure after I get it on Mini's computer for a full low level user test :)

2007-10-31T12:50:00.000+01:00

Im starting fear Vista might be the next WinME.. Its been said before on the network, but I'm starting to see more parallels. Newest error.. Audio Glitches? wtf?

advice..

2007-10-29T16:28:00.000+01:00

When you recieve a second call and put it on hold.. make sure to actually put it on hold or at least cut the microphone because its intensely Silly if the person calling you can hear the conversation you re having with your wife about whats for diner tonight; cooking? bread? ..? ....

Its beyond silly!

So..

2007-10-29T00:29:00.000+01:00

Time for a lil review of my whole situation thingy.. Basic question is.. "How am I doing at ..?"

School?
Its ok I guess. I now remember more about whats wrong with it all. I was planning on writing this letter & I'm gettig new material each day! They re all just SO POORLY organised!! Its sad :( BUT I'm doing it. Again. And .. yeah.. the countdown is on again. I'm pushing limits I tought had given out long ago. And I dont need anyone telling me "you sometimes need to do shit you dont like" because none of you can begin to imagine what these last 3 years have been for me. Viona can start to. But anyone else just doesnt know enough about it all to start immagining! So thank you for not going there :) And thank me for not whining about it when someone does (go there again)!

Work?
Fine tnx :) Only problem is - I dont have enough time to get all my work done. I'm working part time & there s just too much stuff to do versus the time I have to do it. More tasks than I can fit in my day! & this frustrates me; my bosses & probably my colleagues. And it frustrates me even more to frustrate others!
On top of that, I might not show stress - but I do suffer it. And I love a nice dose of stress! Problem is - when I get too frustrated I lose some of my endless patience and my headache and neck pain flares. Which happened this friday & took me till this morning to recuperate from!
But hey :) It ll get better!
& as long as I do one thing at a time - all the time :) everything s Allright! :D

Home?
nice :)
Viona s doing fine! The cat s allright :) (he s cute & getin huuuuuge) things are working out
Not as I planned since I still have that school stuff to take care of. But its working out :)
& talking bout that.. Im off to bed! :D

Doom?
We re writing & XIV will look Good :) Scenario s almost finished, so Yaay :) Im going to make a callendar soon tough.

On the lighter side.. check out Whorecraft.. Guess we had it comming :) Gamer porn. And Im sure there s money in it too!
& Robinson s on again - and its fun

And also *sigh* BMEzine drama is sad :/

Bernie und Ert - Vanillepudding

2007-10-26T21:57:00.001+02:00

L O L

2007-10-25T01:01:00.000+02:00

I'm glad Bio came for a visit

& I saw Ex-Drummer; after reading it earlier this week; and both the book and movie are well worth it. Both Incredibly violent tough.

REMEMBER

2007-10-24T16:49:00.000+02:00

I Must retain strict XHTML 1.0 compliance!

hammer time

I still cant believe

2007-10-24T13:22:00.000+02:00

I failed those courses!! What the fuck?

Im considering buying gloves.. Im getting old

Japanese Game Show

2007-10-23T21:48:00.001+02:00

RICH! Gotta love the lil girl in the end :)

Aint it just Horible

2007-10-22T23:41:00.000+02:00

Yesterday night, when I left for bed; I knew I was getting into trouble when I emerged all those updates & didnt update the configs. Ive been there before & had it happen .. all .. before! Its UTTER CRAP! Yet I had to had to bed & .. this kinda cost me my night.
aarghl

& the weird thing is Im not SURE why the problem happened! & I dont feel like rebooting it again, so.. *sigh*

So I can now FINALLY check my MAIL for example!

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

2007-10-21T21:46:00.000+02:00

Its incredible, the new release fixed my DVD player problem. (PX 716AL has NO linux support) He now writes, reads & plays without any problem!

Wine works well too.. I needed Picasa2 to upload my pictures of carouso to webpicasa. Just installed it under Wine & it works like a dream.. well not a dream, but Fine :)

Way to go!

i d expected more

2007-10-21T04:07:00.000+02:00

Everyone left So Early :s
Distance changes A Lot apparently..

pitty

kat is sleeping in my arms :) Cute! 5.2kg at age 5 months.. (no; he aint a fat kitten) Not bad :D
sleep now

2007-10-17T02:05:00.000+02:00

Out of my BIG todo list, there s net enough stuff going right to make me feel content with myself. and that sucks. Altough I'm working to get it alright, one thing at the time.

Only fools expect the horizon to bring better tides (what a sentence.. a horizon bringing tides.. thats so mashed up I wont even correct it - lol)

In lighter news.. Im going for some WFRP tomorrow - that ll be a happy meeting of some old friends! and I'm INCREDIBLY curious about an unimaginably cool looking game called Tannhäuser! Check it out at the geek!

& at least im back to linux :)
Ubuntu keeps on amazing me tough there s been some rough edges too. Looking forward to the Ghastly Gabbon - lol - make that "Gutsy Gibbon" :) Updates tomorrow!! (Hot Damn)

The two old croonies were late

2007-10-16T14:56:00.000+02:00

and now I'm stressing to depart for work.. aarghl

They look like two sweet ladies though! I'm going to ttry & stay on their good side tough.. considering what I heard from those people who lived here before us.. :/

I also learnt that before those people, there lived an old lady here who afterwards moved to Paris.. Paris is nice :) I wouldnt mind Paris - LOL

Gutsy Gibbon

2007-10-16T12:45:00.000+02:00

I am VERY curious!

Beneath a Steel Sky

2007-10-16T01:51:00.000+02:00

They dont make em like that anymore.. partly because they simply dont make them at all.. period.. Thank the Tao for ScummVM :)
Another great invention of that age & time is UHS - Get trough those pesky situations without ruining the game..

PCs pumping data. Dividing them over my old & new disk. I'll have space soon :) About time! & then I can reorganise whats on my desktop .. and should have been on my serv!

And now its off to bed :)

Flip Kowlier

2007-10-14T03:27:00.000+02:00

We went to see Flip Kowlier yesterday! Great fun :)

I really love some of his new songs like .. Onder nen buom

and who doesnt love his newest song.. DonderdagNacht (Shelli.. DO watch this, I want your reaction to this :))

Anywho, I finally bought some of his stuff.. some, like all 3 of his cds and a TShirt :) about time, I really love what he does!

And Im incredibly happy I finally saw him perform live!! I even considered going to see his concert a second time & by god, if he d have a second gig @ gent, I would :)

And ofcourse, I was incredibly thrilled to finally see Smetvrjis live :)

For all you english speaking folks.. you probably wont get it.. but thats because its mostly about the lyrics.. 3/4 of belgium doesnt get it either :) because its sung in a near uncomprehendable dialect :) Not mine either, but I listened to these songs for hours & figured them out :)

Anywho.. Im incredibly happy I finally saw Flip live!

2007-10-11T11:26:00.001+02:00

Someone should tell my teacher that its "child & children". And that there is no "s" anywhere in there.. So Certainly no such thing as "CHILDRENS"

..

:/

According to the "De Standaard - Belgometer" Test

2007-10-11T11:06:00.000+02:00

I'm 56% Unionist when it comes to belgium & the current day politics

.. and thats probably about right.

frustrations

2007-10-11T01:42:00.000+02:00

I just worked some for work.. and I was about to log in (I actually turned on the noisy serv to get my files - and yes its still noisy even tough I have the part I need to solve it.. Time o sweet time :/) when I realised it wouldnt work since linux doesnt take kindly to putty s port forwarding efforts.. And I dont immediately remember how to fix it, so.. :s I'll work some more on the gen I guess.

annoying

Ubuntu.. when the amazement wears off..
* I knew this but I had forgotten.. but - I actually managed to buy an eleeet DVD writer that Does NOT work decently under linux! Again .. Annoying! I dont know what I ll do to solve that. I wrote a cd earlier today & damn.. I dont know exactly HOW it worked, but it did & im just happy about that :/ The fracker freaks on reading the simplest cd. At first I was scared it was a juice problem.. but reading up on my sleek Plextor PX-716al .. its nothing more nor less than a plextor problem :(

I'm tired :(

The next day .. Edit - I remember now.. Programs (running under normal users) arent allowed to hijack ports like that. "sudo" should solve that! And also, I kinda remember writing a script on Kabouter to mount those ports there so I can use him to get to the work servs. ALSO.. I should configure it so I can project those ports on another IP than the one kabouter is using; thus effectivly creating a VPN :) Also; I cant mount p80 to p80 on kabouter since he s already running a webserv.. So one adress with p80; all the individual ssh & the SVN ports. That d be about it.. oh wait, no, the SMB ports too.. This being said, maybe I should have acces to the webserv smb go over the fileserv smb.. An idea I've considered many times before .. but just wont cut it!
.. Or maybe I should just install a VPN :/ Dont think so though.. I still feel we dont neeeed no stiiinkiiiiiin VPN :)
Its still a pitty I cant connect to kabouter from any outside location. Maybe I should get myself a fixed IP.. Or maybe telenet should stop acting like AaarseHooooles :)

An incredibly funny "unordered list of thoughts"

2007-10-10T09:20:00.000+02:00

Funny :D
got it trough someone's twitter. No need mentioning whose. (I ONLY KNOW ONE PERSON WHO USES THAT CRAP!!!! :) And he s mildly entertaining sometimes, while we re at it.)

anywho, fun :)

Toilet Trained Cat Doing Number 2

2007-10-10T00:41:00.001+02:00

I really need to get Carouso to do this :)

He s already got a healthy interest in the toilet.. with the water n all.. so thats a plus :)

Preferably without the falling in afterwards ofcourse :p

Beatrix, Hula Hoop Gipsy Music

2007-10-10T00:07:00.001+02:00

God, there s a whole hula hoop community thing going on out there.. its amazing

a new world opening up, I wont ever be able to look upon that mundane toy as I did before

The fact that both of them are young, thin and attractive probably helps the sexyness potential too :)

The hoop also gives the whole dance an extra dynamic that looks real cool :) Girls should do this at dancings :) Should be funny too.. hitting people in the face n all..:)

Hula Hooping @ The Gathering

2007-10-10T00:03:00.001+02:00

LOL!

I never thought hula hooping could be sexy.. apparently I was mistaking :)

oppinion on the dreadlock technique of putting your lock trough a hole in the base to tighten them towards your scalp..

2007-10-09T23:17:00.000+02:00

oh god..

The method described is indeed a well accepted and tried method, practiced by many people with dreadlocks. This is however NOT and I repeat NOT a good idea!

This method is for people who dont have enough patience and faith in their hair to just wait it out. Your hair will dread of itself, without any help if you just wait it out. The first 2cm (about an inch) of hair starting form your scalp wont look like dreadlock, but thats normal, it will tighten as it grows. Just wait it out & dont panic. Dreadlocks are all about patience!

Why not use this method? Because your dreadlocks wont be as nice and even as they would be if you do wait. I used this method some years ago on 2 locks and I can still feel and see where I did. The loop that formed there restricted the natural locking of the hair, which prevented that part of my dreadlock from decently forming and tightening.

While there are people who use this method throughout their dreadlocks life, those dreadlocks will look and feel less nice and less dready compared to anyones dreads who doesnt!

I advise Everyone against using this technique!

I really miss a community driven site about locks. I might start one myself soon. There s too much bull around and some community (and i mean wiki bc a forum is nice, but its not a knowledge base..) action would do well. im thinking history, techniques, maintenance, .. All the shit on one site.. available and searchable!

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Woodstock 1969)

2007-10-09T22:25:00.001+02:00

White Rabbit.. White Rabbit!!!!!!

You go chasing rabbits..

Tori Amos: I Don't Like Mondays

2007-10-09T22:12:00.001+02:00

Great cover!

Its a great song, covered by an amazing artist.. Simply beautiful :)

But I really love what Tori Amos does :)

its weird

2007-10-09T01:25:00.000+02:00

& its weird that I think it is.

but I really need a VMed windows running. I kinda counted on that. At least I can enjoy the media! Another problem is that I prefer E over the usual WMs.. ATM its standard Gnome & thats just not me :s

I'll do a lot of frackin it during the next few weeks :)

getting to know ubuntu..

2007-10-09T01:02:00.000+02:00

Weird

Wine s still disappointing though!

Linux Update

2007-10-08T23:17:00.000+02:00

I just reinstalled on a bigger disk. I like this a lot & I want it to stay, so bigger it is! & it feels right :)

Install was uneventfull
VMware installed ok n all
but it wont boot my windows partition .. yet :)

Synergy works

2007-10-08T01:18:00.000+02:00

VMs for later
& I need more HD.. 6gb is close :/

now sleep, tomorrow more junk :)

I am Amazed!

2007-10-07T23:43:00.000+02:00

I just installed Ubuntu & .. Hot damn!

I did have some problems.. Error 21 @ grub & not that much help anywhere. Luckilly its not my first Linux install ;) Otherwise this would have been nasty. My HD wasnt configured in the bios so grub couldnt boot from it, .. Pitty this wasnt detected; then again - it IS an exception

Anywho, I booted & kicked it off.. Hot damn! Its amazing. I wasnt expecting to even like ubuntu, but this is great! Linux might finally be Desktop Ready!!

I tried some distros last year on viona & they all failed most spectacularly! There were several fail points & I was preparing an interesting post about it, but thats SO dated by now, I wont even finish it for the sake of..
Anywho, one of the problems I found was to be the media codex.. This was actually the worst. People want to surf those dirty sites with videos that scream at you & that was A PROBLEM.
Ubuntu, today, automatically installed all the codecs and plugins I needed! With a few clicks (yes, yes, yes) everything was solved.

I Am Impressed!
And now that we ve tested the audio & video capabilities (I use my comp as a jukebox so audio is extremely important!) we re moving on to the more advanced stuffs :) I dont expect problems in everyday use; but im not sure what it ll do once I need VMware n all :) I might break this! lol

& next :) is installing it at work - lol
tough I probably wont :( no time for OS preferences, too much other stuffs to do! Yet i would prefer linux! with a virtual windows of course :)

Oh & this new series of survivers is SUPER EVIL!!!!!!! Im REALLY looking forward to watching! 100 ppl on an island - its bound to raise hell :)

Im pondering the plan to get my life back on track.. this is good! more soon :)

At this last feedback I actually saw what I feared had happened.

2007-10-06T14:05:00.000+02:00

Some of the questions were incredibly dubious in wording. I remember doubting but not asking what of the 3 possible scopes the question was asking for. Sadly enough, the question was so badly formulated, that asking about its meaning would on itself be immensely insulting for the person who made it. (I cant express how disgracefully I felt the question was formulated. I felt bad as if it d have been my work!) So I chose not to ask anything & answer the question as I hoped it would be.. & was wrong!

Its incredibly sad how BAD some of these exams are made up! I'm obviously expecting too much when I hope for competently made exams and courses. (Check that post I did some days ago)

GOD I hate school!

anywho, I shouldnt mind those frackers as much as I do.

GOD I HATE IT ALL

Flip Kowlier

2007-10-05T00:00:00.000+02:00

We re going to see Flip Kowlier next Friday in Gent.. Viona doesnt know yet, but .. im sure she ll appreciate me buying us a concert :) Or at least I hope so :p lol

tickets ll arive soon
& im looking forward to it

Work & school are heavy. I had an annoying mail problem today. It taught me to check up more on my colleagues. I really dont like what happened, but we re resending it, so it ll be alright. Still it bothers me

RoD meeting tonight was alright
I always feel like we dont have enough time. I need LONGER meetings - lol

& now im tired. This is the heaviest day of the week to me. Im at no place longer than 3 hours & as a matter of fact, most of the time its barely 2 hours! Its tiresome
So off to bed for me :)

I now FULLY remember

2007-10-04T11:25:00.000+02:00

why I hate going to practical classes!
* The crap they give us doesnt work
* The PCs are too protected to make it work
* Teachers are simply not prepared to deal with this kind of problems

Its agonising!
I am here to LEARN stuffs
not to try & solve their SHIT

trying Joost

2007-10-03T00:56:00.000+02:00

but my comp is too slow :(

After his 12th cup,

2007-10-02T15:51:00.000+02:00

there wasnt much more left of him than a coffee induced rage at everything and anything round and about him

He's a difficult person te be around when he s in the depths of a near caffeine poisoning.

I desperately need that new hardware

2007-10-02T01:00:00.000+02:00

Nothing fancy, a new power suply!

I wanted to get some work done tonight, but since I can hardly boot my pc, I cant login since my files are on there!

grrrrrrrrrrr

Carouso is incredibly cute :) He s sleeping on my arm as I type :)
Supercute!
Im happy the new seasons have started! Finally the story continues on Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica & Lost! (tough we re not expecting a lot of story in Losts case! They kinda .. lost .. the whole story)

Its quite the thrill

2007-09-26T10:06:00.000+02:00

to discover that a config file you wrote is 11 pages long!!!

2007-09-26T00:41:00.000+02:00

I really NEED a power suply for my server! Its making this utterly sickening sound. Instant headache! All sorts of high pitched shit.. hell!

& I'll get myself that new HD ive been needing too. I cant wait any longer. I need 1 terra extra. at least. Tough 300gb will probably have to do for now. :/

I really need to get an efficient morning routine going!

2007-09-25T09:29:00.000+02:00

Efficient, fast, ..
necessary!

Im trading Flicr for Picasa

2007-09-25T00:42:00.000+02:00

that "Yahoo user" stuff was too much
then again.. I just realized I DO have a yahoo account too.. Maybe I should.. (edit: I did.. whatever)

picasa works ok.. The software itself leaves certain points of improvement tough!

im tired
shouldnt be, slept most of the weekend
yet I am..
So im off to bed.. I guess..

Carouso is gettin Bigger n Bigger! Its starting to show he s a coon! He sbarely 15 weeks (or so) & he s the size of a normal cat! & he ll only be fully grown when he s 2!! amazing :)

It has started anew

2007-09-24T15:43:00.000+02:00

back to school :s

Carouso

2007-09-21T08:02:00.000+02:00

Life

2007-09-18T11:38:00.000+02:00

seriously NEVER gets any easier!
im starting to feel like a fool for expecting things to calm down one day soon.

Dgn's views on life

Its an important moment today..

The New Place:blog.cone.be

I need to fix some stuff!!

A Powerfull Sentence

Busy

happy newyear n all

Is The Industry Ready For Its 'Game Noir'?

Cat

Horible Horible Horible

The next X days

I did it!!

God I hate that ass homebank software

iBookDB

Harlem Globetrotters

I eat 5 year olds for breakfast!

Mini had an Amazing surprise for me today :)

I finally got to paying this months bills..

Vampire Energy

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So I made that script I was talking about earlier

Whow!

The fight for Doom XIV is over

Thanks to Greys Anatomy, I now know that

Prism

Resolving a hostname from the DI-624 DHCP

Microsoft Disses Windows to Sell More Windows

More on Microsoft's effort to put XP on XO

Apple enabling native Windows compatibility...in Leopard?

NTGent - Instinct

Just finished a whole wad of work

upping the ante

*sigh*

BOOB BIG OLYMPICS

Mad Dog and Glory

Cat

Proper Fucked

Victorias Secret Fashion Show - Great Knockers

I'm fuckin goin Out Of My Mind!

Big Poppa is watching

SO, thats it..

Writing one letter with more than 2 persons is EXTREMELY counter productive

jeech

Im glad nigerian government intervened

Youtube upload

Just watched F&L on a bigass projection

Dhiahrea

I just finished some Nice;

Kissing the Windows goodbye

advice..

So..

Bernie und Ert - Vanillepudding

REMEMBER

I still cant believe

Japanese Game Show

Aint it just Horible

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

i d expected more

The two old croonies were late

Gutsy Gibbon

Beneath a Steel Sky

Flip Kowlier

According to the "De Standaard - Belgometer" Test

frustrations

An incredibly funny "unordered list of thoughts"

Toilet Trained Cat Doing Number 2

Beatrix, Hula Hoop Gipsy Music

Hula Hooping @ The Gathering

oppinion on the dreadlock technique of putting your lock trough a hole in the base to tighten them towards your scalp..

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Woodstock 1969)

Tori Amos: I Don't Like Mondays

its weird

getting to know ubuntu..

Linux Update

Synergy works

I am Amazed!

At this last feedback I actually saw what I feared had happened.

Flip Kowlier

I now FULLY remember

trying Joost

The New Place:
blog.cone.be

sigh