The project Urban Audit has some nice statistical data on the different major cities in Europe.

Ook altijd al willen weten wat die zware rechtervoet u kon kosten?

Surfing on location in my own city and putting on some Youtube music as ‘mood setting’.

Nirvana: Heart Shaped Box

Lyrics:

I’ve been using courier-imap for a couple of years now. I prefer to install courier-imap on OpenBSD as it is very stable, secure, fast and low maintenance.

Unfortunately, hardware failures however can’t be solved by OpenBSD. In the last two weeks I had two clients that had a broken hard drive in their mailserver. Because these environments were relatively small they choose to use a ‘regular’ desktop instead of a decent server with RAID. Setting up a new machine and reconfiguring it takes a couple of hours. In the mean while their employees don’t have access to their e-mail.

An easy and quick ‘access’ is to restore your backuped maildirs to a shared folder. Then use Evolution (yes, they are running Linux on their desktops) to access the maildirs. In Evolution you can add a server type ‘Maildir-format mail directories’. By using this you can access your mail just like as it was sitting on a central mailserver. It’s not ideal because ‘Sent mails’ for example can end up in the wrong place … but it is a quick fix.

I’ve been running Ubuntu on my laptop for a while. When I work at home I connect it to an external flatscreen (ViewSonic VP181b).

Since the upgrade to Ubuntu 8 I’ve lost the 1280×960 resolution every time the folks at Ubuntu released a kernel update. The wrong graphics module, a crappy X-org config file or bad karma … you name it.

This is my hardware

After the recent upgrade to kernel 2.6.24-21 I had to do these tricks:

Install the i386 kernel.

Adjust your xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)

After disabling the “cloning” of screens in the “Screen Resolution” settings of Ubuntu you should be all set.

I got the error

when I wanted to read the information from my e-id.

This was because both open openct and pcscd were running. Stopping openct and restarting pcscd solved this. Depending on your hardware you can only use one of these two daemons, if they are both running then you won’t have any luck reading the card.

This worked for my type of reader

or

Joined action against the excessive surveillance by governments and businesses

11-Oct-2008,
More info at http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/242/144/