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Month: May 2005

Home › 2005 › May
General

Voting Statement

blogmaster May 31, 2005 Tagged with About Me, Politics

Tomorrow the Dutch will have to cast their votes in an importantreferendum about acceptance of a European constitution. I will vote “Yes”; in favor of the new constitution. But I ham nothappy about it. Most of the discussion and propaganda …

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General

Episode III

blogmaster May 18, 2005 Tagged with Movies, Review, Star Wars

White dresses, black dresses and a muppet with a speech impediment is.

Technical

Silent Computing

blogmaster May 18, 2005 Tagged with Satire, Technology

I would love to build myself a very silent computer. But I’m affraid that in my hands such machine would become a little messy.    

Technical

Postfix errors (GSSAPI) after migrating to Tiger.

blogmaster May 18, 2005 Tagged with Mac OSX, Mail, Networking

I reckon that other people might run into this problem as well. So why not document my workaround for googlersto find it. I have configured postfix on my laptop to act as a smart relay. My mailclients use localhost as …

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General

Plaster Casters

blogmaster May 11, 2005 Tagged with Humor, Music

I recently bought "The Real Frank Zappa Book", the autobiography ofa musician I admire for his music (I will probably blog about thatanother time). On page 104/105 the Plaster Casters are introduced: The way the Paster-Casters worked was, one of …

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General

RSI

blogmaster May 10, 2005 Tagged with Humor, Satire

The guy in the picture shows that postitioning your keyboard to high and using an HP730 can lead to severe repetative strain.

General

Waste of time

blogmaster May 9, 2005 Tagged with DNS, Secret Working Group, Waste of Time Department

I hope Virtual Bert catches on. Virtual Bert has been on the Bert site for quite some time but it just doesn’t catch on. Maybe this Virtual Bert is a bad idea. A waste of time most certainly. I also …

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Food and Cooking

Spoiled and not so spoiled…

blogmaster May 8, 2005 Tagged with Book(s), Food, Review

After last weeks debacle with the Saint Émilion Grand Cru we decided to open yet another 1996 wine this weekend.This week’s “Craves” (Château Lagupeau) was fortunatelly not spoiled and although we cooked a normal dinner we did enjoy it. Its …

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General

Vancouver Test

blogmaster May 4, 2005 Tagged with Satire

The next IETF will be in Paris, the one after that will be in Vancouver. I just found this list. You know you’re from Vancouver (BC) when…. Your coworker has 8 body piercing and none are visible. You make over …

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General

Bonjour… Au revoir!!!

blogmaster May 3, 2005 Tagged with Apple, Language, Mac OSX, Networking, Satire

Apple renamed Rendevous to Bonjour. I do not understand marketing people. Rendevous has a much classy sound than Bonjour and covers what the protocol does. Bonjour just doesn’t work for me. What would have worked is "Ça Va". Has a …

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