Lunch appointment

Yesterday, I had a lunch appointment with Bert Hubert. It was actually the 2nd time we met each other IRL. About 2 years ago he had given a cool presentation about some technology… He was also the first and until now the last one who ever kept m…

A sneak preview of the new version

As I had wrote into my previous posting, I am working on a new version. From this point I am working on release 0.0.3 of the SIS tool. The SIS-tool is at this moment closed source pending on a descision of my boss regarding choosing a license typ…

Unknown Storage devices in the registry

With the tool I had written to gather information about windows computers there was a little ‘problem’.

On the computer on one of my collegues there are 3 records with not-identified storage devices. After analysing his registry keys I saw the next key:

##?#{E9C3AF91-1F3B-474f-B307-1ECE7FF4AF41}#OneTouch_II&B611JNEH1394;{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}

It was the a key from the Maxtor OneTouch application to synchronise data on the external drive.

So I decided to not implement it

Google Adsense on the blog

As you can see, I added Google Adsense to this blog. One of the fun things is, that one of my friends (Netherlabs) is also using Adsense to promote their company. Yesterday their ad was on the blog

And we’ve got new features

In a perl script I wrote for my boss, I added 3 lines of code… so I got rid of the ‘not-defined’ applications.For those who do not know we’re I am talking about…I wrote a tiny perl script for the Win32 platform to scan the registry and create …

PPTP Trouble

On one of the servers, the PPTP connection fails… (looks like random) He’re you have a part of the logmessage:> pid 54629 (pptp), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)> pid 66766 (pptp), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)> pid 78…

Blog-spam

And again… In one of the previous posts I noticed blog-spam… and again… I had a long queu of a lot of comments to be approved… By they we’re all classified as p0rn So I removed them all and set in the webserver a deny to my log from any ip…

The use of smileys

One of the websites I visit often is Tweakers.net. They got a really nice pack of smileys , but their are some conditions to use them.One of the conditions is that you have a credits page with the credits to Tweakers.net… So… as you have maybe…

Credit Smileys

The next smileys are owned by Tweakers.net:, , , , , , , , and .The use of the smileys above is only allowed when:The website has no commercial purposesThe website does not have material which is not tolerated by Tweakers.Net (i.e. warez, child p…