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Yesterday evening I went Bowling with Denise in Spijkenisse, I remember being there once but when we entered I didn’t see anything familiar, so perhaps I was wrong at that point :).

The lanes looked very nice, good shoes that one needed to change because of the underground, I have seen worse and good help where possible with ordering drinks and that kind of things.

We had a fantastic evening, we had a lot of fun, and I would to recommend this to anyone that would like to have a nice evening without too much hassle but with great fun!

written by Remko

The project is doing rather well recently. Mostly that is because Rene had done a lot of work (and Wouter also started joining us) on translating and updating the current versions. I am running a little behind on his updates because of busy days, which seems to happen more often. So I decided to take the opportunity and request a commit bit for Rene. The Documentation team reported that they had received the request so far, but no progress had been yet there. Hopefully they will agree with the bit so that I have a bit more time and options to work on different things.

Will keep you posted about this!

written by Remko \\ tags: docnl, FreeBSD

As most people I am a fan of good music (Rock in my case) and movies where possible. I do this to relax and make sure that I can keep managing things

For this I had setup an cool environment in my room to make sure I can enjoy that experience. First of all I have a linksys 24port managed switch (with 4 gbit ports) which makes sure that all my hardware can be attached to it and have some spare ports. These are splitted into a few VLAN’s to make sure there are certain barries that one has to cross before being able to use resources

Within one of those vlans is a fileserver (Guardian) together with a tiny device from conceptronic. This device is connected to my television (the device is HDMA ready) and connected with digital coax to my Logitech speakerset (500watt’s sustained, 1000 watt peak).

I have stripped many of my DVD’s and the DVD’s within this house towards the fileserver, and I play them throgh the conceptronic device. With that I gain digital quality for the sounds (Which is obviously better then the stereo output that I normally have for my movies) and I am able to easily select which movie or music I want to experience through the multimedia setup.

The connection from the multimediabox to the fileserver is arranged through NFS, which makes streaming media easy. Playing a movie takes around 8mbits of data, which is a good ratio for the amount of data that is being streamed.

I didn’t need to do a lot to set this up, just attach a few cables and make sure things are visible through the shares (Which is dead easy if you used nfs before).

written by Remko

After a recent announcement I was testing Wordpress 2.7 which looks very cool so far. I used the same method as I am using now for my current blog on a different URL and all things appear to be working still (except a few plugins here and there, but they need to be updated I think). The new layout looks very neat although I prefer my Leopard admin skin instead

Tom also looked around on the new pages and he was also impressed as far as I could tell. I will be testing it a bit more in the foreseeable future to see what we can do with it so far Kuddo’s to the Wordpress team!

written by Remko \\ tags: Evilcoder, Leopard skin, Tom, Updating, Wordpress

A while ago I wrote a dutch blog regarding the dutch telecom provider Pretium (can be found here). They lured my granny into an account with them and luckily we were bright enough to stop them immediatly. That story luckily ended well; for many others however it didn’t yet.

Recently I was called by Pretium myself; after hearing their name I informed them that I am not going to do any business with them and I hung up.

Apparently that is not informative enough; my dad was called a few days later with the same story (they initially didn’t say their name, but they started with “you have an KPN account now right?”); after he inquired for their name and they told him, he also responded with ” I am not doing business with you”.

So their activities are still ongoing, please be aware. Do not let yourself get fooled by them, just tell them to go away. At some point it will stop.

written by Remko

Today I was in Eindhoven as reported, on a different spot then previously because we needed a more accessible place. I always knew that much work was surrounding Eindhoven, but it seemed to have dramatically increased lately. Many parts of the road was under construction, so hopefully that will result in nice highways at some point.

The meeting itself was interesting, many things that I am going to have a look at and so on. Within a few weeks we will return to the spot to do the team meeting again, so I can create a trilogy at some point (and more :)).

written by Remko \\ tags: Eindhoven, road works, Work

Now after the weekend I need to write up some more posts: Archeon (Where Luca, Denise and I Went to), Belgium (We went to a park last weekend) and something work related “Building up NMIS monitoring”.

Hopefully I come to get quickly!

written by Remko

Tommorrow I’ll head over to Eindhoven once again to visit a teammeeting. This time at a different location which should be more accessible lets see how that will go.

written by Remko

On the 11th of October it was that day. That day that we were going to drive to Arnhem to see Marco Borsato in concert with his “Wit Licht” tour. We were going there with the six of us, Denise, Martijn, my parents, Justin (the J from JR-Hosting), and myself. Justin joined us later because he needed to work first and then headed over by train.

While driving towards Arnhem we had dinner near Geldermalsen (hi snow office!) and continued driving towards the city of Arnhem, where we arrived at 17.30 in one of the parking spaces reserved for the concert. For the cost of 10E we could park the car all night long and take the coach towards the Gelredome (the stadium); where we arrived at 18.00hours.

At 18.30 we entered the stadium and waited till 19.15 till Justin arrived (I sat on my brother’s neck, which made it possible to see a lot of the stadium and Justin saw me because of that as well); he was Just in time to see the concert starting

Marco played all known songs including a few new ones which are terrific! At the end of the day I didn’t had much voice left but it was worth it! Eventhough the “Rood” concert was very different (more happened on stage etc) this was a worthwhile event!

After the concert we had a tad of bad luck when the coach was unable to go away, after being stuck for an hour we finally got at the parking lot where our other car was almost in Rotterdam already.

Tired but happy we arrived in Rotterdam a good hour and a half later. Thanks Marco and all that were there!

written by Remko \\ tags: Concert, Denise, jr-hosting, Marco Borsato, Wit Licht

Rewritten a bit to sound less grumpy:

Gallery2 is a piece of interesting software. Till version 2.3 I used it with great joy, it was fast, did what I wanted it to do and yay all happy things. Now version 2.3 is out, nice options, looks nice, till you open the slideshow. I have very big pictures uploaded to the gallery, when you open the slideshow it loads these BIG pictures. Sadly there is currently no way to select smaller pictures.

My joy ends a bit there, because I have large gallery’s with large pictures, which means a very long wait. I really -like- the new slideshow, but I feel sad that the new slideshow does not offer me the option to resize pictures. I really really hope that this future comes out soon, this costs bandwidth and user experience :(.

written by Remko