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Tonight Daniel Gerzo was asking around for prebuild mirror pages for FreeBSD. I figured I could do a little test from that. It had been years since my last ” mirror ” of www.freebsd.org which was never added to an official list. My mirror runs in Germany at the Hetzner colocation facilities. The address is http://freebsd.evilcoder.org, lets see how many hits this will get without being added to anything, and how influencal Google and derived projects are . Note that at this point it’s just a project to see what this link (and the one in the link section) will do traffic wise and how it affects search patterns that will end up at my host instead of others.

You should order yourself a copy of the BSD Magazine _FAST_! You can find it here http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdmag.05?id=YtVdjmGH&mv_pc=108 make sure you do that as soon as possible to get the magazine in your possession. Why? Because I wrote in it? Because they need it? Because the community needs these kind of things! The magazine only costs a few bucks, it’s worth spending that few bucks!

In continued preparation to the FreeBSD 8.0 Release, the tree had been frozen by re@. This means that development had been slowed down a lot because everything needs to be reviewed by the Release Engineers first. This step will make sure that the system will get as stable as possible before a fork will be done to RELENG_8. Stay tuned!

Ofcourse, the entire world talks about “the king of pop”. He passed away last night. The guy who did “bad” isn’t anymore. The sarcastic thing is that he was about to make a great comeback with a -lot- of concerts. Concerts on one place The o2 arena in London. Too bad no one can ever enjoy the comeback. Rest in Peace MJ.

And again an NU.nl link that gets my hair standing up. “Stichting Brein” is the dutch RIAA organisation (or whatever it is spelled). This party is the face for all those lobbyists that want to keep some things upstanding instead of doing the market (lower price, more demand). They are absolute -morons-. The article I just read means: “We demand closure for The Pirate Bay from the Netherlands”. If that will happen, we are nothing better then China, or better, we are worse! China is known to filter traffic, the Netherlands should be a democracy in which those things should not happen. This should STOP.

URL http://www.nu.nl/internet/2028662/stichting-brein-eist-afsluiten-piratenwebsite.html

I was shocked with horror just a few moments ago. I read a newspaper article about a commission that wants to include an additional internet fee so that online newspapers can be payed. This is just insane, newspapers no longer sell their newspapers because people can get it for free online and free news papers. Now to save their sorry asses we need to pay more. They failed. If I fail to pay my bills I cannot ask my readers to pay for me right…. It’s just shocking that people even -think- about it. Newspapers had their time they made a lot of money through that, now the internet medium is coming up and they need to find a proper way to find the resources. One of them being the ads, and potentially placing the information behind closed sources which you can only access after paying. I will -not- be paying for the failure of someone else. Same goes for music- fee’s. Screw them. CD’s and DVD’s are way too expensive, people do not want to pay that much for it, so they seek alternatives, the lobbyists want to try to make sure you KEEP paying. This has to end!

URL: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2027713/heffing-op-internetaansluiting-om-kranten-te-steunen.html

This weekend I photographed a bit again. I made some nice pictures from a rose and some other flowers that I noticed during the day.
One thing that shouldn’t be missed are the birds that are flying in and out of our little birdhouse in the garden. Very cool to see.

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Somewhere on the internet I host several Gallery instances for myself and others, to be able to easily show pictures to others. Hence the reason for me setting up a G2 after it came out. The gallery2 instances served me from the beginning till now, on both Apache servers as Nginx servers. Now that G3 has beta1 out, I decided to give my own set of ~7000 pictures (16gb) a go. I replaced the instance and got a working setup. I cannot seem to create a new album yet to import some missing pictures (that I never uploaded to G2). But all with all. G3 seems to be lightweight and working properly. test it

The only thing that I needed to add to nginx.conf btw is:

if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/path/to/index.php/(.+)$ /path/to/index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
}

and it works out fine. Compared to:

location /v {
rewrite ^/v/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=$1 last;
}
location /d/ {
rewrite ^/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=$1&g2_serialNumber=$2&g2_fileName=$3 last;
}
location /rss/ {
rewrite ^/rss/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=rss.Render&g2_name=$1 last;
}
location /srss/ {
rewrite ^/srss/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&g2_itemId=$1 last;
}
location /c/add/ {
rewrite ^/c/add/([0-9]+).html(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=$1 last;
}
location /c/view {
rewrite ^/c/view/([0-9]+).html(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=$1 last;
}
location /admin/ {
rewrite ^/admin/(.*)$ /main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin last;
}

for Gallery2, this made it easier

In preparation for tommorrow (fathersday) we bought our third and final fishstick, erm fish ofcourse. And we named this golden fish: iVis (which means iFish). Since we are really into apple (we now have a Macbook Pro and one Macbook, and my little iBook), an iPod and an iPhone, so this would be the best name for him . He is already up to speed with the other fishes, so that’s OK!

Just a little ago we returned home after picking up Denise from School (schoolkamp), the moment she entered she didn’t entirely realise what had been done to our house. So I offered her to continue into the house. That moment she slowly but surely saw the new curtains that I had placed (With the help of my parents to get the holders in position and to get the proper size for them). She liked it Luca then took her upstairs to show the bedroom, she liked the curtains there as well! When she arrived back down, she didn’t see the curtains behind them (which can be rolled), so I showed it and she was filled with joy . It’s nice to see that the hard work had payed off so well!