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 [...]

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 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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently I tried to update the software of my Wii game console which was no as user-friendly as i thought it would be. […]

I recently migrated some Windows platforms to Windows Server 2003 x64 which were running Windows 2003 Server (normal 32-bit version). The reason for this was that i migrated to a new virtual platform (in my case [...]

Previous years i had running several scheduled tasks on all my servers. Recently I migrated all my Physical Large Iron Hardware (mostly servers) to Virtual Servers (VMs) in XEN. I have an OpenFiler SAN which hosts [...]

Since a while, i’m using OpenFiler 2.x and Xen 4.01 Enterprise. I use the iSCSI capabilities of OpenFiler for my Storage Repositories (SR) in Xen. Last week i had a space problem for one of my [...]

You can create a hidden (Windows) share in OpenFiler (SMB/CIFS Share) by entering the "Override SMB share name" ending with the $ sign. Do not forget to restart (disable and enable) the SMB/CIFS service. (click [...]

I had a Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 (30day edition) running. When I decided to run all updates (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com), I saw the following warnings in the Application Event Log: Event ID: 37 Type: Warning Source: [...]

Did you ever need to script ‘setting-file/folder-permissions’ or making a deployment or install script ? Or did you ever screwed-up the NTFS permissions on the C:\Windows folder (including all the subfolders) ? If so, you’d [...]

Today I took some time to write a little about ABN-AMRO’s security weaknesses. This article including it’s examples and example code (which will be posted later) are for educational purposes only. Account blocking It’s made [...]

Instead of making a wish list, I'll give you my miss list below. Most of the items should be vaporware #1 since many people are waiting years for it and the miss will be a bigger [...]

Last year i bought my new HP Ipaq 6915. Last month the touchscreen broke (couldn’t touch it anymore), first i thought it was a software problem so i did a hard-reset on the device. Too [...]

One year ago, the main domain name of my company was hijacked, fortunately we monitor those things and I was on time to prevent a little disaster. The company who initiated this hijacking was Trans [...]

Last weeks i spent some time working on a ‘new’ DNS appliance. DNS is light weight but you must have multiple separate servers for redundancy in multiple locations. Using a power consuming HP DL-360 server would be a [...]

Last night i was developing with ServerXMLHTTP. ServerXMLHTTP is included with the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) version 3.0 or later. Do not confuse ServerXMLHTTP with XMLHTTP, which is designed for client applications and relies on URLMon, [...]