Big Phone Crash

Well, I was quite happy with my SonyEricsson k800i. Ok, it crashed every now and then... but sophisticated software, we know the drill: bugs.
And yes, I wanted to update the software, but I could not find my phonecable so that had to wait. Nothing works anymore, except for one small thing: when you press the on/off button a small red led light shows up behind the plastic glass of the infrared device (see picture below).If you press it once it will show up once and if you press it a few seconds later it will flash for six times. It looks like an error code (like the led light on your motherboard) but nowhere in the manual it is told what it means...

I'll keep you posted.

Ok, just a small thumbnail

Just this small image. Just to make this site a little bit more visually attractive. Just for this moment ;)

Flash 9 beta & Battlestar Galactica

Ok, quick, geeky, useless thing to mention, but I just have to: I finally installed Flashplayer 9 beta for Linux. I still do not understand why I had to 'wait' for the final to come out. Youtube and things work much better now and the page from my favorite TV Series on SciFi finally works (bad thing it wants flash 8, but never mind) www.scifi.com/battlestar/

In case you think I speak of the old series broadcasted in the seventies and the early eighties: you're so wrong. The all new BSG started broadcasting late 2003 with a miniseries (totals three hours). After season 1 and thirteen episodes further they decided to give you the cliffhanger of the century. Season 2 is 20 ep's. The collaboration between the UK based Sky One and SciFi is gone. SciFi is doing it alone now, budget went down (as far as I know), but still.. the ep's before the season break (why?!?! are they mad?) were incredible, after that it was clear a season three got written into the script... (or, well, never mind).

Anyway, just go watch you silly!

DDos thingies, Hacks, World of Warcraft, etc.

Well.. what a week. Doing VERY interesting things for a project which is unfortunately surrounded by secrets (until it is broad casted). So, I cannot reveal anything about that. Than the week is a little bit less interesting.
Anyway, this morning I received an email about our FTP server serving DDos attacks... The thing is that I can see clearly that there have been multiple attempts to break in the server.. but I don't know what to do about it. Then I thought: let's turn on the firewall (that it was turned off in the first place made me wonder). But then the proftpd server cannot get through anymore. I remember reading about it that it is such a hassle to configure the openSuse firewall... but now it is still turned off as otherwise I cannot serve files through FTP anymore (still get it?)

Well then. What's up with the WoW-thingie? Hmm.. I got it running on my Laptop running Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (that should not have happened as it was supposed to be an office laptop with no gaming capabilities... but where the heart goes...)

The annoying thing is that I cannot get it to run when I use my beloved XGL desktop. I have to switch back to the 'normal' 2D desktopmodus (hey, what can you care about in the first place)

Anyway, that's all for now. Nothing to see here anymore, please walk... ;)

Ilse DeLange - The Lonely One

The latest video I produced. In the lovely surroundings of the Posbank (close to Arnhem on the Hoge Veluwe, which is a national park in the Netherlands).
It was half September and the weather would be horrible, according to the forecasts. But when you watch the video, it is clear that it was a beautiful day :)

The "Next Blog"-button...

... is really fun to press. I am amazed what people are concerned about. Mostly that is positive, but I am a little scared by the amount of extremist Christian Blogs I see around (and Arabic Blogs I cannot read, so possibly those house a lot of extremist stuff too...)

LAN promo Dizkartes 2003

Jawel jonkies. Vroeger toen alles beter was en de crew al maanden van te voren begon met full colour posters op de kroeg, full colour advertenties op de site en uiteraard - de macht van goed doordachte spam mag niet worden onderschat - veel, nee HEEL VEEL mail naar iedereen die op de LAN mailinglist stond...
Resulterende in de grootste LAN ooit met 40 man... was wel enigszins aan de warme kant in de benedenbar, maar daat mocht de pret niet drukken. Grootse battles in Battlefield Vietnam met 18 tegen 18 (volgens mij was het Vietnam al, want in 1942 kon niemand vliegen behalve Dave aka. Mariachi). Misschien haal ik wat nostalgische dingetjes door elkaar, dat boeit geen reet natuurlijk.

Check eerst maar even een paar van die mooie postertjes uit het verleden. Allemaal heerlijk onleesbaar, slecht van layout en al dat soort dingen.. maar toch. Het werkte.





 

Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution

Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution

Recently I clicked on the "Music" tab in the Banshee player and clicked some more. Then I installed a program, called Last.fm. Check out their website (or read below what they think it is).

What is scrobbling?

As you listen (with iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, or others), your tracks automatically appear in your online musical profile – we call this "scrobbling."

Explore custom recommendations and personalised radio, find your musical soulmates, discuss your favourite bands, and share your musical insights with friends, family, and the world!

Homo Fabre in the Museum of Schone Kunsten in Antwerp

The idea of the exhibition was to create a different way to experience the Old Masters in combination with contemporary art and the vision of Jan Fabre.

The first piece I walked into - below - actually shocked me a bit. I was not paying attention, turned around and thought: my god! there is a guy standing with his face pushed against a painting! Then I noticed the blood and realized it was art...

The second piece shown here, was situated in a room with dim light and dead animals hanging from the ceiling over butter (imagine the butter lying right under the animal on the floor).

The long dining table set up with the heads of owls made quite an impression. It gave me the idea of chopped of human heads which were put on plates in a (distant?) past to shock people.

The last piece shown here was the body of a man made up from thumbtacks.

YouTube - Don Diablo - I Need To Know

One of the latest musicvid's I made :) Like the tunes, probably a bit too 'underground' for most people.