A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy and in respects interesting 2009. You can fill in freely what that means for you personally, as it seems very strict resolutions might be contra-productive (goals not met resulting in a bad self-esteem and such). For me it's going to be an …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Is it just me or do those kids have too much to spend on fireworks? Of course they're free to spend their money on whatever they want, but to have more noise and light shows two days before it's actually the end of the year is a bit overdone in …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
So a few weeks ago I made a graph of the nightly spam-learning events of spamassassin on my Spam folder. I updated it today:
Of course the graph is clickable for a large version again. It also contains a trend line. You can see the noticeable drop in spam levels …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
I did some digging in the logs of this weblog and dumped some page view listings per day. With some gnuplot magic, that's easily turned into a simple graph. So here is the development of the number of page views over the years of dammIT:
The weird line from 2006-04-28 …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Fear not, this is still the dammIT you know, except that it looks a bit... new. I felt bored a bit and next thing I knew I had restyled it all ;) Kudos go to Bas for providing really useful feedback on colours, layouts and such and even designing the new …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
When playing a newly-bought audio cd (bought directly from the artist, Jennifer Grassman - movieclip of one of her beautiful songs), I was annoyed at the amount of noise my DVD-drive made. Turned out the solution was easy:
eject -x N /dev/cdrom
where N should be replaced with a speed …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
A snippet from #xfce-debian on freenode:
Zhenech | HE: you missed the irony, I meant it as "it is great - you can vote FD" :) aquatix | s/irony/sarcasm Zhenech | ok :) aquatix | lot of people use the word `irony' incorrectly ;) Zhenech | actually my sister (13) asked me some days ago whats the …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Well, not quite magically as I updated our router to the latest snapshot of DD-WRT, but apparently a lot has been fixed since version 24 SP1. If you have issues with your router running DD-WRT, try the latest snapshot too. More info in this forum thread.
Now... on to some …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
It's about to be the evening before that over-hyped Christmas thing. It might be way commercial nowadays, but it's still a fun time to slow down, enjoy your loved ones and contemplate the upcoming dinner and Life in general. (Like that girl you had a crush on years back, wondered …