to you, Agi and Debian read more...

Since I was in Cairo and liked to use internet with (Debian) linux, I tried to configure the prepayed Mobinil Sim in a Sony Ericsson MD300 USB 3G modem. read more...

An Open Source / Standards based SAN (Storage Area Network) is within reach. With a free / open source standard for AoE (Ata over Ethernet) by Cordaid, a recent Linux distribution, a standard ethernet card and switch now you can build your own SAN. read more...

Finarea / Betamax is one of the biggerst companies that offers cheap voip minutes. Ther is a nice *nix script from Enzo Michelangeli and Simon G to check your credit or freedays from your voip account. Unfortunately it was not working with my jumblo account. read more...

Sometimes my modem seems to hang or has lost its connection somehow. And after a restart it gets a connection. So I made a little script to do this automattically for me from now on. It has been build for a Zyxel 650 HW31 but can easily be adjusted to other modems that can talk telnet. Make this thing executable, and run it every hour or so by cron and it should do the trick for you to reset your modem when there was no connection possible with google.com. It should probably test for more than one address .... but I do know some people who say "internet is broken" when they can't reach google. read more...

Today I attended the NLUUG Netherlands Unix User Group Conference about storage and filesystems. The most amazing talk was about a "Jip en Janneke" cluster that only consumes 10 Watts in total. read more...

Do you like to reuse your old hardware (desktop or laptop) or would you like to have a single server to maintain which you can connect to from multiple dumb terminals? This article will guide you step-by-step to make a live image (cd or disk) that can connect to a remote server (X session on the remote server over secure ssh connection) . This image can also be used on systems where ordinary ltsp clients network boot (wireless laptop, pcmcia network cards) does not work. I imagine this would provide solutions to use an old laptops with pcmcia network or with wireless as a Thin Client device, that can connect to a central (LTSP) GNU/Linux server. read more...

This new year my old laptop gets a new use as a music server and a secure remote terminal. It took quite a while to get the the right settings to use the whole display. Also it was a struggle to get sound working. read more...