This morning, Monique Pels passed away after a long period of illnes. Even though I've only met Monique a few times, she always left the impression of being a strong, witty, and loving person who enjoyed every minute of life. I can only imagine how big this loss must be for her family, relatives and friends. My …

Okay, I found the answer to my problem. Mounting an USB drive on OSX which is formatted as Fat32, will not behave nicely when being accessed through samba. Trying to start multiple copy processes simultaniously will cause seemingly random "file locked" errors. I just formatted the drive as HFS+, and the …

I am very close to migrating the data on my bulky PC to my new Mac Mini fileserver and mounting the IDE drives in the USB drive brackets. Once I've done this, I will have the screenshots and data to write a nice "how to" on using the Mac Mini as a file server. There is however one slight problem which could …

The past 5 years (or more, I can't remember exactly) I have had a windows server which provided 4 "shares" or "network disks" to the users of my local network. Simplicity was it's power. All network users would connect with the default windows "Guest" account to prevent complicated logon …

Funny overview of John Swift's reviews at Amazon.com... I have not actually... Have fun...

Do you still want "that last lens and that's it"? According to the statistics on this page, you probably already have the right lens in your camera bag. Chances are that you are using your cheapest lens most often. The best quote from this page must be "The cost of the lens is inversely proportional to …

A while ago, I bought a Miglia TV max for my Mac Mini. With it, you get EyeTV, the PVR recording software. I was very happy using it, but I recently discovered that all exported MPG files are missing the last part. Arg! This is a VERY serious bug. It also means that each and every recording I have archived on my …

For those of you trying to request a password from the user at the command-line, without the password being displayed on-screen, Java 6 finaly has the answer, along with better access to the console. I hope that soon we will never see this hideous construction to do the same again.

Trying to view his Steveness in the Apple WWDC 2006 Keynote addres? Me too, and haven't been lucky for 3 days in a row. I actually managed to view 3 minutes of distorted, half-audio presentation, but then it died, and has given me an error 400 ever since. It's not nice to see Apple not being able to cope with the …

We zijn al redelijk ver in Nederland met de regelgeving. Steeds meer regeltjes die dingen regelen waarvan je zou kunnen bedenken dat als je normaal gezond verstand hebt, dat zelf ook kunt bedenken. Gordels om bijvoorbeeld. Als je dat niet doet, wie heb je er dan mee? Jezelf! Moet de regering nou echt gezonde, volwassen …