Pure water
January 7, 2010
Posted by Roel in : Life , add a comment
Because i was renewing things in my home, after the electricity, it was time to do the water installation.
I decided to place a TwinTec XL2 water softener. I’m dreaming about a clear glass shower wall, a clean kettle without scale, drinking Perrier from my kitchen tap, clothes that feel softer, using less soap in my washing machine, equipment (like washing machine, kettle,..) which uses less energy and no more skin irritations.
The TwinTec XL2 removes all calcium and magnesium elements from the water. The advantage of a TwinTec XL2 above a AquaCell water softener is that it has a much higher water throughput and a separate salt resevoir.
Here you see an animation of a water softener and a movie how it works (in Dutch).
Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver
November 7, 2009
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 398comments
Gira has a made beautifull Homeserver and FacilityServer. Unfortunatelly it’s quite expensive (about € 2400,- for their Homeserver3 and the Facilityserver is even more). Is this device made of gold ?
The opposite is true, the Homeserver3 exists of: (more…)
Myth Busters: Benzine getankt in een Dieselauto ?
September 14, 2009
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Na 35 liter benzine in een Volvo XC90 D5 (diesel) te hebben getankt.. toch een helder moment gehad en gestopt.
Het eruit pompen is niet mogelijk omdat de tank met een soort ventiel/vacuüm zit, ook bestaan de meeste brandstoftanks tegenwoordig uit 2 kleinere tanks wat zorgt voor een beter evenwicht in de auto (ANWB monteurs noemen dit een “Vanessa” tank, inderdaad genoemd naar de voorgevel van mevr. Breukhoven). De ANWB kan de auto zelfs niet leegpompen en zal die dus gewoon bij de dealer afleveren. De dealer zal er een kleine € 300,- voor rekenen. Dit hoeft echter niet! .. (more…)
Touch Screen seems broken or misaligned?
September 13, 2009
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I always wear a screencover/seal on my phone untill I went to a Smoking Eel party recently (”NK Palingroken“), my phone was so oily that the screencover just slide off.. the screencover was dirty and messed up so I put the phone in my trousers without screen protection.
A few days later I thought the touch screen was broken, the screen itself did work but it didn’t react when touching it. I thought a reset would work.. NOT.. a hard reset.. Still nothing..
I noticed it sometimes react on a touch.. but totally weird.. at the wrong place. Did it un-align in my pocket ?
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Posting Binary data (automate a file upload)
July 22, 2009
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I used the following code for posting/uploading binary data (example: upload a file for an email attachment in webmail). It can also be used to send MMS messages to an Internet MMS Gateway.
Code is in VBScript which can be run without the use of additional components.
Example1 (upload)
Example2 (mms)
If you however like to use a component, try ASPFusion’s AdvHTTP. You don’t need all the code and don’t need to bother about the fact that VBScript is not BinarySafe.
Acronis True Image Server hell!
December 21, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 1 comment so far
In my search for an easy, stable and manageable backup tool, I tested Acronis True Image Server 9.5 (Enterprise Edition).
My goal was to backup several Windows 2003 servers and some Linux CentOS 5.2 servers.
I experienced a lot of problems and weird things;
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Gallery2 Cron-job to automate “build-all-thumbnail/resizes”
July 29, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 3comments
Below is a script for Gallery2 to automate the building and resizing of thumbnails and resizes. Schedule it as a cron-job (cut and paste it to “gallery2-rebuilt” in your “/etc/cron.daily” folder).
You can even schedule this script from a remote linux machine which does not host the Gallery2. Dependencies are minimal (no CURL used)!
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Project: New Wi-Fi Accesspoint
June 14, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 1 comment so far
Because of the problems i had with getting my Wii Game Console onto Wi-Fi and the fact that i screwed-up my Asus Accesspoint by connecting it to a to heavy cable so the plug broke.. I decided i deserved a new Accesspoint.
VBScript: Be carefull using Doubles or Singles!
May 27, 2008
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Most of us decided to use (ASP) VBScript to quickly write a script or build a simple website, writing code in a ‘higher-level’ has the advantage to keep our mind on the functionality of the script or website and forget about the low-level technical stuff.
Unfortunately, we have to worry about the following issue (example is using Classis ASP/VBScript)
Response.Write CDbl(112.51)<>CDbl(94.55+17.96)
‘Answer: TRUE -> WRONG!!
Response.Write CCur(112.51)<>CCur(94.55+17.96)
‘Answer: False
The correct answer is FALSE.
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Wii and WiFi errors (52035,..)
May 6, 2008
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Recently I tried to update the software of my Wii game console which was no as user-friendly as i thought it would be.
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