Archive for September, 2005

Google Blog Search

Friday, September 30th, 2005

New from Google. Still in beta but it seems to work.
Click this link to go to Google Blog Search

Sending mail via Lotus Notes by using VBS

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Found this really cool Visual Basic script on the internet.
Just pass the required info when you call the script ie address to send it to, subject, text body and path to attachment.
You will also need to point it to your mail database (check your notes client under location document and the mail tab).
This [...]

Allowing a XMPP URI in FireFox

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

For Firefox and Mozilla, you simply have to add two keys to mozilla’s configuration.
This can be done via prefs.js or via the about:config page inside your browser.
To hook up a handler for the xmpp URI scheme, you need a boolean key network.protocol-handler.external.xmpp set to true, and a string key network.protocol-handler.app.xmpp that points [...]

Sign up for FREE instant messaging on itspots.dyndns.org

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

THIS SERVICE HAS MOVED TO IM.SKTLAB.BE
lucvansteen.net is providing now a public Jabber Server for FREE.
Signing up to this free service is easy and straight-forward.
Just create an account by using your jabber client (eg Pandion) on itspots.dyndns.org. That’s all really.
Make sure you spread the word!! Happy chatting!
FYI: my instant messaging address is lvansteen@itspots.dyndns.org

Take a break – Play a game

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Fly with an helicopter. Can you get over 1000?
Start this game here

One for the gallery section

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

On August 12 2005 a former manager of me at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Jan Rosseau, got married and threw a dinner party afterwards.
This picture was taken that evening. On the picture we have Nicole, Lieve, Gunther, yet another Lieve (my wife), Luc (me) and Filip.

Consolidating servers with Xen

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

“Xen is a virtualization technology available for the Linux™ kernel that lets you enclose and test new upgrades as if running them in the existing environment but without the worries of disturbing the original system. The author shows you how to install Xen using Fedora Core, but once installed, everything works the same in [...]

Creating your own Yum Repository

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Yum is a powerful tool that greatly improves package handling on RPM-based Linux distributions.
It can be usefull to have your own repository internally to avoid lots of Internet Traffic.
You can download this procedure by clicking the button :

eciadsl driver for FC4 SMP

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

EciAdsl is a Linux driver, for Globespan based ADSL USB modems.
An example.
Baush USB Modem, which has no Linux driver, can now be connected to a Linux box by using this driver.
I’ve created a RPM for FC4 SMP. The driver can be found here
Version is the latest stable one, eciadsl-usermode-0.10-1.
An installation procedure can be [...]

Background music

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

Listen to music, made in Belgium, when surfing lucvansteen.net
Now playing “Mad about you” by Hooverphonic
Listen now:

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