Monthly Archives: March 2006

Don't try this at home kids

When moving your network’s DHCP daemon from on host to another, make sure that the new machine, erhm, doesn’t use DHCP to get its IP address. You might be surprised at the network borkage that comes with it, *chuckle*.

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I won? I won!

7am this morning a buddy calls me out of bed saying I won the FreeMacWare contest. Seriously man, that ain’t funny. Hang on, what? You’re not kidding? Sweet! So yeah, my post got randomly selected out of about 60 entries … Continue reading

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Nostalgic

As i’m sitting here listening to ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It’ by R.E.M., one of those typically nostalgic moods flows over me. I’m instantly teleported back to a campground in The Netherlands, late at night, … Continue reading

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GPGMail finally playing nice

You can not imagine how long I’ve been trying to get that stupid unread mail bug in Mail.app fixed. Here’s the deal: if you install the Sen:te GPGmail plugin some weird issue arises where read emails suddenly get reverted back … Continue reading

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BarCamp Brussels

With HOPE2006 and WWDC2006 not being budgetable thanks to the extremely high airfares during Juli and August I’m happy to see someone is organising a BarCamp in Brussels sometime in May (exact weekend still to be determined). It looks like … Continue reading

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Minor issues with the Macbook Pro

I’ve had the Macbook Pro for about 2 weeks now and I’ve run into a few, albeit minor, hickups/problems/issues/pet peeves. I’m hoping all of these are software related and will (knock on wood) be resolved in the not too distant … Continue reading

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NetNewsWire 2.1 public beta

And we all know what that means: finally a Universal Binary! Other newsworthy enhancements include sorting subscriptions by attention and NewsGator syncing. Time to head over to Ranchero’s beta page and grab yourself a copy.

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Mac freeware top 5

If there’s something to be won, i’m all ears. So when the folks over at freemacware.com decided to hold a small competition I just had to join in the fun. Best of all, all I have to do is tell … Continue reading

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isolatr, socializing minus the annoyances

Don’t you just hate it when some asshat on AIM, Orkut, Flickr or whatever other piece of “social software” keeps messaging you and wants to just, like, chat or link to your blog? Leave me the fuck alone, kthxbye?! It’s … Continue reading

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Maxis' Spore

Forget what you know about computer games, cause Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims) and his team of super secret coders have been busy in their underground lair developing what looks like that ‘one game to rule them all’. Check … Continue reading

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