http://www.cyberhq.nl Sleep is for droids Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:58:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I greatly dislike using DSL modems as routers. They tend to be limited in almost every way imaginable. Unfortunately, getting a proper router with a DSL interface is very much not worth it for at home. They tend to be pricy. And then some. So in the past I've set my ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2011/10/13/really-bridging-a-thomson-tg789vn.html Coinciding closely with Apple's release of Safari 5, touting full-screen playback of HTML5 video, YouTube have disabled their use of the WebKit-API that makes this possible: webkitEnterFullScreen(). They now believe that the browser itself should provide a full-screen button. I do not. But that leaves me with full-browser-window YouTube, or ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2010/06/08/restore-full-screen-playback-in-youtubes-html5-player.html This has been tricky, but not wanting cleartext passwords to go over the wire I figured it out. Mac OS X, as of version 10.5 (Leopard), the clients have been very picky about using LDAP over SSL. If anything is 'wrong' (even though it may not be considered as such ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2010/03/25/the-secret-to-using-ldap-with-ssl-in-snow-leopard.html Well, now that Internet Tethering works again on non-carrier iPhones (i.e., those that are unlocked and not in use on an iPhone-carrier network) I've finally been able to upgrade while still keeping tethering working. This has required an update of my Vodafone carrier bundle, so that is now available on-line ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2010/02/09/vodafone-carrier-settings-for-iphoneos-313.html Update: the ipcc has been updated to work on iPhoneOS 3.1.3. It should still work on 3.0, too. With the new 3.0 iPhoneOS a new carrier bundle is needed so as to enable a few new features. So I've uploaded a new Vodafone NL Carrier bundle, in IPCC format. Because this ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2009/06/18/updated-vodafone-nl-carrier-settings.html I knew pretty soon after it was released that I wanted an iPhone. Shiny and new, so it must be made mine. It had a few show-stopper problems, however: I detest SIM-locked phones. A two-year contract is even worse. T-Mobile is shit. Luckily, all these problems could be solved thanks to the nice people ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2008/09/13/iphone-on-vodafone-nl.html Note: as of, I suspect, Lion, Time Machine will recognise this situation itself and ask if the backup history should be inherited when you connect your time machine drive to your new Mac. This is essentially the same as the below procedure. With my beloved Macbook Pro in the shop for ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2008/02/15/swapping-macs-with-time-machine.html I mean, those Philips Living Colours lamps have been out there being sold to the general public for what, just about a year now? And no one google knows about has had the idea of computering it up? Seriously? Obviously the internet has lost its cool. So now I have one of ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2007/12/25/the-internet-disappoints-me.html I'm fairly sure that in endo-speak, I'm a dinosaur now. So just to get me out of that list and prevent Planet Botfu from turning into Planet Safari_Al (though yes, I am two months late with that), some random words. Requisite. Lucrative. Tantamount. Unintrusively. Flagrant. There you go. http://www.cyberhq.nl/2007/12/16/hear-me-roar.html So if you happen to want to look at the images inside the iPhone, that is the bunch of PNGs no image viewer will shake a stick at, now you can. Just download my bit of code from svn://svn.poop.nl/pub/iphone-fixpng. Tested on OSX/Intel. There are instances where it will break, though ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2007/07/05/iphone-png-fixer-upper.html Ignorant as I am of the IMAP protocol (though I'm a native speaker of SMTP), it appears that there's a better way to tell your client to fetch new mail from the server: the IDLE command. And Michael Rothwell was nice enough to add it to Mail.app by way of this ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2007/03/05/mail-fast-redux.html I'm sending in this post from FOSDEM, which means that my biggest complaint (actually, I think only complaint) for last year has been solved: the WiFi works! Bit of a weird implementation (lots of separate networks names instead of roaming) but I can see why they chose to do that: ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2007/02/25/fosdem-wifi.html Buying two Wiis took me all of about 10 minutes. Part of those minutes were spent walking between three stores. Actually that's not entirely truthful. My friend Nadya and I had tried Wednesday afternoon at Schiphol after a store clerk said on the phone that they had Wiis in stock, only ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/12/08/getting-the-wii.html I just uploaded my 1000th photo to flickr: It's a fairly dull, flashed, slightly out-of-focus photo, but such is life: http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/12/02/flickr-milestone.html And then in the morning when you want to listen to one on the bus, you find out that all you brought with you were the earbuds. Gah. http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/11/28/so-you-have-three-ipods.html During the space shuttle Atlantis' activities in orbit, I've been watching NASA tv a lot. Some very cool stuff to see and hear. In fact the whole concept of TV from outside this world is something I like a fair deal. The most refreshing part of it all, though, is NASA's ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/09/25/refreshing.html Over the past few days I'd noticed my PowerBook G6's built-in iSight had crapped out. Whenever I wanted to use an app like PhotoBooth to check my hair (because say what you want, it is a nice mirror) I would get an error: Photo Booth cannot open because no camera ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/08/20/built-in-isight-problems.html I've been toying with leopard for a bit, and mostly I'm liking where OSX is going. Let's touch on the "big" things a bit, first. Spaces Very nice. I've been waiting for a proper implementation of Virtual Desktops on OSX and this seems to be it. There are still a few quirks ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/08/16/the-big-cat.html Not a good idea: taking the 06:40 train on Sunday from Amsterdam to Haarlem and then falling asleep and waking up just as you're approaching Heemstede-Aerdenhout. Because the next train back (a 5-minute trip) will be 45 minutes later and at that time in the morning, in a place you ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/08/06/stupid-stupid-stupid.html I've never made a secret of not liking the 'MacBook Pro' name. PowerBook just had a better ring to it. It said 'This is a powerful machine, in book form'. And the 'Power' part never had anything to do with the PowerPC: they were called PowerBooks even when motorola m68k ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/07/11/not-a-macbook-pro.html Every day, I have 30 minutes of time to waste on a train, going from Haarlem to Amsterdam or vice versa, a 15-minute trip. Sometimes, I open up a laptop to write a few more lines of code or play some gridwars or whatever. Most of the times, I'll also ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/06/28/stumbling-with-a-macbook-pro.html Ok, so just to address the two things that I thought would annoy me about the MacBook: The keyboard: not that bad. The flat keys feel a bit strange at first and the vertical return key seems to be a bit thinner, but overall it's ok. The screen: not as bad as ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/06/01/tried-out-the-macbook.html Having not attended last year's highly successful (or so I heard) BarCamp Amsterdam, I felt I had to make up. By being late every day. But anyway. It was an interesting experience. I intended to code somewhat on a DNS based remote Growl Notification Thingo I'm working on. In practise, that ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/05/22/barcamp-amsterdam-ii.html Or so far, at least. Apple has replaced their übercool iBook line of notebooks with something they call MacBook. As with any new product, a few good things have happened. For one, they're finally widescreen. About time, too. They get audio in and dvi out, and will support screen spanning ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/05/16/the-disappointment-that-is-macbook.html But still I managed to secure cyberhq.eu. Now I only have to wait for three SunRise applications to time out that PriceWaterhouseCoopers fucked up somehow, saying they don't have the documents even though I sent them on time. On a happier note, I finally found the artist I had been trying ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/04/08/eu-is-a-total-mess.html So Sun has been doing this 'Try-and-Buy' thing with their new T1-based Sun Fire T2000 server. Which means that you get to try for two months, a machine with up to an 8-core UltraSPARC T1, 16G of RAM and 2 73GB harddrives, for free. A dead frog could have known ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/03/23/sun-fire-t2000.html Even with just a pianist and (excellent, I might add) violinist accompanying her, she rocked. Seats Smack-dab in the middle on row 6. Very nice. (Well actually smack-dab in the middle was an aisle of stairs, but the seat next to that? Mine.) Also apparently neither pepsi stage nor heather's management ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/03/21/went-to-see-heather.html Went to amsterdam, got great noodles, missed the train, ate noodles, got to brussels, got to hotel, found cool small bar in dark alley, went to bed, woke up ridiculously early, went to ULB campus, saw RMS, had WiFi, stopped having WiFi, met some friends, had surprisingly nice tuna sandwich, ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/02/27/fosdem-the-short-version.html Let's add cyberhq.sg to the mix, too. All I'm after now is the .aq version, which might prove difficult to get. Actually I'm also after cyberhq.int. Anyone out there who can make that happen? http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/02/12/international-me-part-ii.html I am now the proud owner of cyberhq.hk. More internationality to come. Oh and Akismet rocks. http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/02/11/international-me.html Apparently, my website is now on some big 'SPAM-THESE-WEBSITES!' list, because over the last few days I've been getting comment spam. Not just 'more' comment spam, but comment spam, at all. I used to get none. Most of them still didn't come through because I have wordpress set up to ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/02/10/die-spammers-die.html I just wanted to give this idea some exposure: a World-Wide Photobooth, because I think it is brilliant and I should have come up with it myself. I'd like to add that I believe there are actually automator actions for uploading to flickr.com, and the watching of photos being taken can ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2006/01/27/world-wide-photobooth.html ... when it's broken.. Bleh. Somehow, three of my libraries and a lot of System Frameworks got zeroed out. (Tip: when that dialog comes up warning you of your almost full hard drive, do something about it.) Usually I'd just grab an OSX install dvd, do the brilliant Archive and Install ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/12/15/osx-is-a-lot-less-fun.html You're the kind of person who forgets a lot of crap, and you're looking for something to set Todo items in your iCal for you, while you're somewhere without actual access to your iCal. Look no more. Apple Mail allows you to set Rules on incoming mail. It has the standard action ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/12/10/mail-yourself-ical-todos.html People have been bitching lately about how Apple's Aperture is crap and how they should have never bought it.Now, these people definitely have a couple of good points. For instance, Apple's engineers apparently didn't think that being able to set curves was a necessity. I can tell you that it ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/12/06/aperture.html Work of art? Sony? Yes. Not a product, but the commercial for a product. For the Sony Bravia LCD TV to be exact. What's so special? Well, they took 250.000 bouncy balls, and launched them off a hill in San Francisco. They could have done it with Computer Graphics, but they did ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/12/02/sonys-work-of-art.html MacOS X 10.4.3 promised updated raw support for digital cameras. I happen to have one that can write raw files, but wasn't recognised by 10.4.2 and earlier. I hoped the 10.4.3 update would fix this, since Apple has announced that Aperture, their upcoming photo editor app, would support the 350D. I ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/11/04/make-osx-1043-like-the-canon-350d.html Marti Guixé and Mediamatic invite you to FOOD FACILITY, conTEMPORARY eatery for those dining in restaurant comfort with living room mentality. Based on digital search engines Food Facility is symptomatic of the change in analogue thinking and acting after the emergence of internet. We do fun stuff at work in our ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/10/24/food-facility-order-take-out-food-in-a-restaurant.html Just to say that I agree entirely with him on his copyprotected CD issue. They are evil things forged by satan and blessed by some other religion's evil dude. By buying copyprotected CDs, you are actively encouraging the record labels to produce more of those pieces of crud. So ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/10/10/post-for-tim.html Is back! Wooo! In slightly different form than before (cinnamon icecream vs. vanilla icecream with real cinnamon mixed in), but still. Woo! http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/09/17/the-cinnamon-swirl.html After the third train derailment at Amsterdam Central Station in two months, I was forced, yet again, to consider alternative ways of getting to Amsterdam. Today, I thought it would be fun to take the ferry from IJmuiden. All was smooth in the morning. The nice girl behind the ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/08/16/of-boats-and-trains.html I've been thinking lately about how my mail server should send me notifications of new mail, instead of having my client check every X minutes. I don't think it can be done with IMAP (and I'm positive it can't be done with POP) but after some tinkering I found a ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/08/09/mail-fast.html Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Not that 'I want my MTV' stuff at the beginning, skip to where the drums kick in. http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/07/29/current-favourite-guitar-intro.html I've just had, for the first time ever, a computer call me and tell me that I've won a free caribbean cruise. While I was watching an episode of Coupling. How rude. Usually I at least get a person talking to me. Anyway, the message went something like this: Congratulations! You've ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/07/26/free-caribbean-cruise.html Sony busts out version 2.0 of PSP firmware + new ceramic white PSP: I want one. This is so much cooler than the (already infinitely cool) black one. Shame they aren't officially available in europe yet, at least as far as I know. Sony needs to get with the program ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/07/21/white-sony-psp.html ... if I took the cookie dough out of the Ben & Jerry's 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough' icecream and baked it. Would the cookies be any good? http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/07/02/i-wonder-what-would-happen.html We all know the trouble: today's stupid ISPs will only give you one IP-address so to connect more than one computer, we need to use RFC 1918 IP-addresses, also known as private IP-addresses. This is all nice and dandy when all you're doing is accessing servers on the internet from ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/06/30/port-forwarding-in-macos-x.html It apparently threw a tantrum over how hot it got in my room and refused to work. After a while of trying to get my dear data off it (after installing osx on a firewire disk and booting that, of course), the mini wouldn't even recognise it anymore. I then ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/06/26/upgraded-the-hard-disk-in-my-mac-mini.html If you've ever used public transport in Amsterdam, you'll know that the drivers have a somewhat different attitude compared to PT in other cities. I was confronted with that again, this morning. Getting to work for me involves getting on a bus, then switching to a train, and lastly I get ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/06/24/public-transport-mentality-differences.html I'd say it was pretty cool. Not entirely true to the book (as usual). For instance there are a few annoying love-scene moments (as usual) that need to go (as usual). But apart from that, I enjoyed the hitchhiker's guide movie quite a bit. Special crowd, too. One dude had ... http://www.cyberhq.nl/2005/06/16/more-on-towels.html