A low technology weekend is something everybody should have once in a while. Time to clamp down on keyboard time an gently squeeze down on the " bandwidth consumed per hour " to actually spend some time with the family. Goffy (Nyana's sister) invited us for some Gourmet ( Where a combination of raw meat…
As promised 🙂 The video of our little outing at the Paradisio Zoo .. hits youtube. 🙂 Enjoy ! Related PostsNo Related Posts
A cool little story on Digg today. Somewhere somehow an adult managed to take a huge risk to photograph a children's book before it was released… And borked up big time. Of course you all know what i'm talking about. Somewhere somebody took the risk of shooting pictures of the new Harry Potter book (number…
To grab a breath of fresh air, we hopped over to the Paradisio Zoo in Ath, near Chaleroi on friday. For all af the birdie fans we shot some pictures. Check them out here. Related PostsNo Related Posts
Everybody with the words "Apple Fanboy" on the tips of their tongues can start reaching for a cold beer to swallow them down. I'm by far an Apple Fanboy. Very true : I just placed the order for my Imac (see the article below) and am waiting (although not very patiently) for the thing to…
If there is one thing I truly hate it must be attachments in Email. No seriously ? What the crap is up with that ! ! The Smtp protocol that blissfully shoves email all over the globe was invented a long time ago (in a galaxy not SO far away) by some genious ubergeek to…
Most of you know by now that I sold my last 'Home built" pc a few weeks ago. And as it is with geeks.. Money from sold off hardware .. just sitting there .. has slim chances of ever getting back to the bank. Lets face it 🙂 It's toy-money. And what do you buy…
Aaah 🙂 Vacation ! Holiday ! Time-out ! Time off ! Doing blissfully absolutely NOTHING right up to some preposterous hour in the morning. Just lying on the couch watching Kids TV ! We might be in our thirties but on a Sunday morning we like NOTHING more then plant our pijama-wearing booties in the…
With the first day of our annual vacation kicking in, it was time to celebrate. Celebrate what ? The coming of the (so far pretty wet) summer ? The annual beaching of the Nagatomian Jellyfish ? The fact that I my socks on the right way from the first try ? No, actually .. Me…
You should not believe everything you see on the internet. If we did most of us would be rich beyond our dreams, own a PHD in Philosophy, be a genuine priest, have been known to help free a prince in africa and of course have A phallus thats three meters long with stamina to match.…
I did not think I was ever going to do it, yet yesterday it happened. It sold it. The last of its kind here in the house. The last giant in a long tradition. Yep : I sold my last 'custom built' computer. Back when I started out with PC's there where almost no "oem" computers…
Too damn nice to pass up : Building your own "Falcon" using Stop Motion animation. This guy obviously does NOT have a girlfriend. Related PostsNo Related Posts
Random Chat 🙂 Starring Daniel (Captain Command line) dropping in after seeing my Ubuntu Desktop screenshot. (08:41:03 PM) Turner: no way!(08:41:10 PM) Turner: a mac OS X cross with ubuntu!(08:41:13 PM) Turner: awesome dude!(08:41:18 PM) Knightwise: Vista background !(08:41:30 PM) Knightwise: its a standard Gdesklett(08:45:24 PM) Turner: where'd you get it at…
The mark of a newbie is he who dares to dive into endless forum conversations that have been going on since the dawn of time. Who is the best ISP, Is Nokia better then Ericsson, Is Mac better then Windows, Is Kde better then Gnome.. and so on and so on. Before you know it…
If there is one thing that held me back from enjoying Linux, then it must be VI ! “Vi”is an anchient terminal program that lets you edit textfiles. Not like a word processor or anything, no : Configuration files. Now it might look very simple (or prime evil)Â if you look at it, but it…
Not everybody uses the internet as their canvas. Not everyone is a part of the web 2.0 community. Not everybody's creative ideas flow forth from the backlight of a TFT display. Some people stick to using more conventional ways of expressing their artistic feelings. Here in town for example we have an art-school. This can…
Now here is interesting news. A short while ago Google released their Linux version of Google desktop. Along with Google Earth its another popular Google app that makes the transfer to the open source world. Now as for me : I would not touch Google Desktop with a five foot pole. No seriously…
There is a certain atmosphere that one can hardly describe. A certain aura that floats around the fringes of reality from time to time. A distinct impression of god knows what. Very tangible, very real, yet very hard to explain. Yet I encountered one of these atmospheres this morning. Those moments that you…
About a year ago I got the silly idea to take an old laptop and fix it up with Ubuntu Linux. Just a simple installation : Standard Edgy Eft Linux install with Gnome and some games. Nothing too shocking right. Next up I started to tweak the GUI in order to make all of it…
In part three of our little manual we are going to get adventurous. One of the things the normal household in this day and age cannot live without is bittorrent. Sure you might raise your hands in innocence and shout “No Sir Not me !!” but when I look away ever so briefly I can just bet my bunnies that you’ll be checking on the download of your latest “educational” dvd download of Jenna Jamessons latest flick. But seriously. What I have seen many times over in the average families of today is that everybody uses peer to peer. Either its the tech savvy geek-of-the-house who knows how to download, what to open and what not, and most importantly how to preserve that precious upload limit cap, to the teenage sister who just clicks on all kinds of crap using bearshare, opens up everything, infects her pc and blows the roof off the upload limit by sharing out her entire download directory to the planet. All of this resulting in poor bandwidth for the family, extra ISP bills, infected pc’s and a headache for whomever needs to clean up the mess (yes, thats you ! )
Furthermore if you DO choose to walk the illegal path of peer to peer file sharing, you also know that in order to download stuff, the client pc’s need to be connected all the time. And with the whole kyoto thing, having three pc’s up and running to download three different mp3’s.. Its not very economical is it. So in this part of the manual we are going to set up a web based bittorent client on your Feisty family server. It will allow all the members of your family to access it via their web client (without downloading any software on their own pc’s) They can search and select the content they want to download and give the server the go-ahead to do it. The big plus is that there will only be ONE pc running to fetch the downloads for the family, its in a safe enviroment ( = NOT WINDOWS) and more importantly , YOU as the family geek can keep an eye on whats going on in the download AND upload department. Interested ? So lets get cracking and install Torrentflux on your Feisty fawn or edgy eft ubuntu server.
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When cleaning up my office this week I came across my old Software-Suitcase. A massive thing that used to be ma companion wherever I went if I had to do tech support. I remember working for the educational department and having this silver ‘flightcase’ with me all the time, because it contained all…
Same shit, different day is a very popular saying around these parts. Even I tend to fall in the routine of everyday life now and then. This morning when I chucked my Digital camera into my backpack I was silently pondering over the fact that I should pay more attention to the details of that…
Noobs will probably get only half of the punchlines, but for geeks, this is better then Garfield. "The Penny Arcade" Related PostsNo Related Posts
Ow darn ! Its been quite the hiatus hasn't it. I kneuw ! I kneuw. But I have taken the time of to sort some things out, start some projects up and get some things straightened out. One of those has been : Switching my lovely Imac (G4) that I wrote about a few posts…
There comes a time where we all go over that one hump in life that is the big 3-0. Although i'm puzzled as to why people make such a big deal out of this, cause quite frankly, its just another birthday. People sometimes say "oh Darn, I’m 30 now" but look at it this way.…
Sometimes you buy something because you need it. Sometimes you buy something because its the sensible thing to do. Sometimes you buy something that you have carefully thought about, sometimes you buy things on a whim. And SOMETIMES you buy things because you just WANT them. It does not matter if they are hopelessly out…
If I where to draw a graph of the amount of digital content that I have consumed and contributed to the net these days, one could easily say that i'm kind off on a "low streak" at the moment. Very true. Updates of the site are a bit on the late side and my voice…
Thanx to my sister in law who force fed me THIS little gift : A G3 GPRS card, enabling me to go online anywhere anytime. Now the GPRS I have enjoyed on my Palm Treo can be ported to any of my laptops with a PCMCIA slot. ( So that rules out my Macbook). There…
Lets see how good you are my culty friends, This week I have a special quiz for you. Look at the picture below and tell me who these people are. And more importantly .. WHO is missing from this picture ? The answer Yep, The answer is indeed a very time-warped Blakes…
Some nice tips and tricks on the net today on "how to tweak your OSX for speed". I mean Eye candy and all that jazz is pretty nice but let’s face it. After watching your Windows get sucked down into the dock 'Hoover style' the novelty factor tends to wear out just a little. It’s…
