Archive for October, 2006

Remote assistance failing to start with IE7 installed

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

My collegue Bart Petroons found a workaround.
The solution can be found on www.petroons.net

After all it was “just a perfect day”

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

After a very difficult start, today became a pefect day….

Former PriceWaterhouseCoopers IT Team get together

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

It has been a very long time that I’ve met with my collegues of the former PriceWaterhouse/PriceWaterhouseCoopers IT Team.
On Jan Rosseau’s initiative we finally got back together. It brought back some memories……it was one of the best teams I was part of.
Joining the team in 1996, core members were Jan Rosseau, Gunther Lelie, Jeannine [...]

Fedora Core 6 releasing soon

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Fedora Core 6 is about to be unleashed in a week so here is already a sneak peak.
View slide show here

New infrastructure pre-design

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

It was time to review my infrastructure and here is the new (basic) design! Of course some information has been left out.
This basic design includes also IP Telephony and an SSL Secure Gateway/VPN.
For small companies (<50 users) this design is more than complete, even in a managed/hosted environment (more information about managed services can [...]

October 08, 2006 : elections for municipalities and provinces

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

And these are the results in my home town O.-L.-V. Waver.

Music Maestro!

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

This band’s name originates from the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Formed in 1995 by Róisín Murphy & Mark Brydon, they were responsible for innovative musical sounds.
In 2004, Moloko mutually parted ways, with Murphy launching a solo career.
One of their songs is now playing on lucvansteen.net, in a somewhat other version.
Listen and enjoy [...]

SkillTeam benoemt Business Development Manager Nederland.

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

De ICT-dienstverlener en 100% IBM-dochter, SkillTeam, heeft Richard Berkel (32) benoemd tot Business Development Manager Nederland. In die functie is hij verantwoordelijk voor de geplande groei van SkillTeam’s activiteiten op de Nederlandse markt en de uitbreiding van de klantenkring in deze markt. De invulling daarvan baseert hij op 10 jaar commerciële ervaring bij Imtech [...]

Changing your network interface speed on Fedora

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

In a previous post I’ve talked already about setting the interface speed. However, when you boot the system the setting is gone.
To set the interface speed, duplex or auto negotiation on Fedora system boot up (make settings permanent), you need edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file for eth0 interface.
Step 1 :
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Step 2 :
Append following line: [...]

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