Archive for August, 2005

Time to migrate

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Within a couple days I will migrate my little server that I have now to a Dell PowerEdge 4600.
On the sidebar I will display the date(s) this site will be unavailable.

Take a break – Play a game

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Kill or be killed!
Start playing here.

Building an Small Business server (all in one)

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Established IT companies target only the SMB’s that have 100 and more employees because of their business model.
But what about the small companies, let say from 1 to 50 users. These companies need an up-to-date but low-cost IT infrastructure.
Can this be accomplished? I’m sure it can!!
The following procedure will allow [...]

One for the gallery section

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

This weekend we went to Maanrock…and yes, I’m proud to say that they’ve put a picture of my daughter, enjoying the concert of the KetNet-band, on their site.

How to exit Lotus Notes by using script

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Closing down Lotus Notes Client is often useful when performing scripted migrations.
The easiest way to close down the client is to use the WIndows API to “press” Alt-F4.
Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2
Const VK_MENU = &H12
Const VK_F4 = &H73
Declare Sub KeyEvent Lib “USER32″ Alias “keybd_event” _
( Byval V As Integer, Byval S As Integer, [...]

Preventing a burn-out!!

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

The clock goes off and you dread getting up to go to work: lately you have been feeling that way.
You don’t know why, you actually love what you do. But for some reason lately you have no energy and no desire to go to work.
All the excitement is gone.
You don’t want to work another [...]

Search and replace a string in vi.

Friday, August 19th, 2005

This tip can come in handy when you are editing files with vi.
To search:
/ STRING
To replace:
First occurrence on current line: :s/OLD/NEW
Globally (all) on current line: :s/OLD/NEW/g
Between two lines #,#: :#,#s/OLD/NEW/g
Every occurrence in file: :%s/OLD/NEW/g

Take a break – Play a game

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Having stress? Time to hit your computer!
Bust your computer

A drawing by Hendrik (my son)

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Speeding up Firefox

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

When using Firefox on ADSL/Broadband, things can really be done to speed up Firefox:
Step 1:
Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, [...]

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