Lionel Dricot: The Fight for E-Clothing
I meet Karl Isrich in a small restaurant. You maybe heard about the company he founded, MyVirtualTaylor, a pioneer of e-clothing. You would probably imagine Karl as one of those twenty-something golden...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: NoSuchCon #1 Wrap-Up
There are so many security conferences around the world… Some people already debated about this: Is it better to restrict the annual agenda to well-known events or let people start their own? IMHO, we...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: Organizing photo libraries
The weather’s picking up so it’s time for spring cleaning around the house. When I moved back to Barcelona three years ago I took with me my old analogue photos and negatives, with the idea of sorting...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Does Facebook want its chat back?
I’m pretty pissed. A couple of months ago I configured Thunderbird to connect to Facebook’s XMPP-powered chat. I did get logged out sometimes, with mails from Facebook saying someone tried to access my...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Whee
Today, I played at TC Cantincrode in Mortsel, Belgium, in the first round. This is the first year I'm playing tennis competitively, so I was expecting to lose by a pretty wide margin. Now while I...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Simplifiez vos services pour payer moins
Avertissement: ce billet contient des recommandations pour des services commerciaux. Ces recommandations me procurent un intérêt financier via un système de parrainage. Cet intéressement, détaillé dans...
View ArticleSteven Wittens: Why Android Hates You
Why Android Hates YouUsability, Affordance and Grannies in VegasFor quite a while, I've been an Android user. After upgrading to a Nexus 4 several months ago, I'm living the Ice Cream Sandwich and...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web
When I started producing content for the web, as hobbyist film maker, I was very enthusiastic about Creative Commons licenses. But not for my videos. Someone could use them in a bad way. I didn’t want...
View ArticleKris Buytaert: Testing the RoboMow 510
A couple of weeks ago I noted fellow geek Peter Vanwelkenhuysen was talking about his #robomowtest experiences. obviously I wanted to know how he got to test one. Some tweets and mails later I was...
View ArticleKris Buytaert: Why you shouldn't hire a devops
Lately there have been a lot of organisations trying to hire a devops engineer. I myselve have been asked to fill in devops roles .. There's a number of issues with that.The biggest problem is that I...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Wildfly] Alpha is available
Dear *, Wildfly Alpha 1 is now available. [1] [1] http://www.wildfly.org/download/Frederic
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Kind reminder; mail is bi-directional
As some people don’t reply to e-mail (within an acceptable timeframe), I started out sending this kind reminder;Please pong when I ping.If not, communication (via whatever means) is pretty useless,...
View ArticleFabian Arrotin: Rolling updates with Ansible and Apache reverse proxies
It's not a secret anymore that I use Ansible to do a lot of things. That goes from simple "one shot" actions with ansible on multiple nodes to "configuration management and deployment tasks" with...
View ArticlePaul Cobbaut: pidora
Fedora on the raspberry pi ?Yes, pidora.Travelling back in time ?Yes, uptime is great too ;-)[root@raspi ~]# lastroot pts/0 192.168.1.30 Fri May 24 01:24 still logged in reboot...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: SOURCE Dublin Wrap-Up Day #1
I flew on Wednesday evening to Dublin, Ireland to attend the SOURCE conference (previously, it was organised in Barcelona). The conference was held in the Trinity College, in the centre of the city....
View ArticlePatrick Debois: Infrastructure as Code - A comprehensive overview
I've been tracking infrastructure as code for a few years now. Over the years it has gotten closer to real code.Close but no sigar yet.... We've come a long way but when you compare it to real...
View ArticleKristof Willen: Querying AIX device attribute values with the AIX kernel...
We all know that you can modify online certain attributes on AIX devices, like queue_depth on disks for example :# chdev -l hdisk15 -a queue_depth=16 However, some attributes changes need a reboot as...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Les articles partenaires ou la prostitution du page rank
L’avantage d’être un blogueur influent, outre le jet privé, les plages paradisiaques et les groupies qui se pâment à chaque fois que je sors acheter du chocolat, ce sont les ponts d’or que nous offrent...
View ArticleKarl Vogel: DAoC Random function
As I mentioned before, the generation of the RC4 key in this game can easily be instrumented to generate the secret we want.The pseudo code to generate the RC4 key looks something like this:repeat 0x40...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: SOURCE Dublin Wrap-Up Day #2
I’m writing this wrap-up from the Dublin airport, waiting my flight back to Belgium. This new edition of SOURCE is already over. What did we learn today?This second day started with Vincenzo Lozzo‘s...
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