dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

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Spam WTF

I just checked a log file from my mail server and noticed quite a bunch of deliveries. Turned out one address on my domain was being spammed with over 13 thousand identical spam messages. In a couple of hours. Resulting in: -rw-rw---- 1 [username] mail 108385920 May 29 13:18 …

Slacking-n-hacking

Did some studying today for an exam I have in about a day now. It's quite boring, but I need to focus as I want to get it's freaking grade... Anyhow, I've been hacking a bit at overload too. I've updated the overload project page with a roadmap [heheh, feeling …

Drs. GF

We are just back from Utrecht where my girlfriend got her 'doctoraal diploma' -- say her Master. So that's Drs. GF for me now :)

New overload snapshot online

OK, I just updated the live version of overload. It now has a better support for UTF8, new artwork [shamelessly ripped from the default Gnome iconset], the option to add feeds [only works in the html version yet], search and read saved items [only in XUL rich client yet]. Some …

Visiting my first niece and updating overload

It was a family day today: first we went visiting my gf's brother and his girlfriend, the fresh parents of Anne. I made some pictures, but I won't tire you with to much footage of this sweet child [sweet as in: "she made no noice as she was sleeping all …

I'm an uncle

Now that's weird. Now I'm an uncle. Or better: my girlfriend has become an aunt. Yesterday at about 11PM Jeske - the girlfriend of my gf's brother Johan - gave birth to a beautiful [I guess ;)] and healthy daughter, Anne. Congratulations to you and your firstborn! Life won't be the same now …

Star Wars III - nice :)

So I went to the cinema with the GF and enjoyed "Revenge of the Sith". Yeah, I actuall enjoyed the movie. I've seen the new three Star Wars movies [again] in the last 2 weeks and they went from quite bad [movie 1; the acting was quite horrible sometimes] to …

aquamorph development

I read g1powermac's posting about Clusterix, and was of course reminded about my own livecd, aquamorph. The project has stalled a bit over the last months, and I want to update it using mmaker [or maybe the nice ibuild, but I like mmaker a bit better because of it's simple …

overload's rich client

As I said in my previous post, I have been working on project overload today. There's a new version online. Be sure to check the Rich client [see topnav], as that's where the work of today has gone into. Suggestions and bugs can be posted here, or in the bugtracker …

More XUL fun

OK, while doing some work at work [*cough*] I've revamped the XUL Rich client version of overload. It's not in the live version yet, but it will be very soon. Check some screenshots of the evolution of the overload feedreader. I need to give the xhtml frontend some love again …

Serious Holy Shite

Microsoft Reveals Xbox 360 Specs. I had seen those already on Engadget, but couldn't believe the triple core PowerPC processors at 3.2GHz. That's more than in the top-of-the-line Apple Powermacs! And that for a measly 300 dollars. If this is hackable, please fix me a Debian install on one …

XUL Fun

I've been playing with XUL yesterday, and have come up with a rich client for overload feedreader, which you can check in the new snapshot I've put online [log in and choose "Rich client" in the top navigation]. In this snapshot you can now subscribe for a new user also …

Developing an information based system

I've been busy lately; the obligatory working days, doing some examinations [late in the evening... what's the use of that?], visiting family and working on my overload project. I've been working off and on that application since the 17th of March, and it's getting a bit mature, at least for …

What's up with SUVs?

Just a random blurp: I kinda like those SUVs; they are spacy, powerful and sort of cool. However, there's no real use of them, safe for some people who like/have to be driving off-road and want a roomy car at that. However, here in The Netherlands, only a …

overload feedreader

OK, I've put a first snapshot of my overload RSS feedreader online. To log in, use the combo demo/demo, with which you should be able to browse around a bit. Don't do anything fancy now, because it's not quite stabilized. Lots of things don't work yet [like find and …

Relaxed, sleep deprived and -- Firefly!

The weekend was fun; lots of relaxing, but not that much sleep [too much fun until too late in the evenings :)]. They had a seriously nice swimming pool complex in the park, so we spent half a day there. The rest was consumed with doing other fun stuff, gaming [the …

Functional programming and weekend fun

How come I find myself sitting behind a SunRay ultrathin client on the University when it's such a nice day outside? Partly because I'm way busy this week and wanted to do the theoretical computer science assignments today and partly because of a misunderstanding from my part of the schedule …

Tine 2005 -- part deux

So I spent my day at the RAI walking along the booths of The ICT Network Event, TINE, along with Wouter, a friend of mine. We got stuffed with loads of goodies and gimmicks [see the gallery for pics of all of it] and had too many chats with marketingpeople …

TINE 2005

I went to TINE 2005 today. This is an event for ICT professionals, where you can ogle at huge server racks, backup systems, nice Apple hardware, boothbabes and lots of goodies. It was quite fun, chatted a bit with all those buzz-fuzz dudes and saw a few nice things. An …

Building a web GUI - using images for buttons?

I'm building a feedreader -- as you may have noticed -- and am considering using some graphical buttons instead of text links. I'm rather fond of text links, as they are light, clean etc etc, but a good icon can be way more explaining while taking less screen estate. Anyone having thoughts …