Paul Cobbaut's blog

One of my friends spent *five hours* yesterday resizing many pictures to 1280x1024. I told him to spend five *seconds* next time, running ...

Wouter configured my nas with two raid1 setups and two lvm partitions like this: md0 = sdb1 + sdd1 md1 = sda1 + sdc1 / mounted on wolf/...

My little nas is much happier now running Debian Linux . Many thanks to Wouter for setting it up and making sure there is official Debian ...

Just finished reading Wizard's First Rule from Terry Goodkind . Good book, almost 800 pages about wizards, a magic sword, a dragon, bea...

I don't have any cracked or illegal software. Most of the software I use is Free . Until today, I frequently used vmware server . Now I ...

'k had al lang zin om het stadhuis eens van binnen te zien. Ondergetekende rinkelde dus deze avond omstreeks 18u15 aan de deurbel om ee...

daily spam Number of spam mails received on @cobbaut.be. From less than 1000/day in 2008 to +2000/day last month. Luckily Thunderbird puts ...

Linux Training got a lot of updates the past two weeks (thank you financial crisis for giving me time). Added an introduction to mysql (cha...

There used to be three parties in Belgium : Catholics (orange), Liberals (blue) and Socialists (red). And even though they all split in a Fr...

/proc/bus/usb/devices is still mentioned in the manpage of lsusb, but not existing on my current Ubuntu (2.6.24) and RHEL5 (2.6.18) system. ...

Overal zijn er toffe mensen! Gisteren, 'k had nog maar net veel werk gekregen van Sabine (een toffe madam) en een beetje werk van Franco...

For free in Antwerp, a complete HP PA-RISC system. workstation HP Visualize C160 terminal HP 700/RX 20 inch monitor HP A4331D 19 inch monit...

Jarenlang is er kritiek op China omdat ze een firewall hebben zodat Chinezen enkel websites kunnen bekijken die "goedgekeurd" zijn...

Why didn't Wouter post this two days sooner ;-) Saturday at 11h03, I was 1234567890 seconds old. paul@laika:~$ date -d '1970-02-26 ...

This video won "we're Linux" contest . I preferred this one .

Good picture of Brussels! (the original picture is here )

De video van het ei van Stijn wens is online! (bijna alle fotos , videos en slides trouwens). De sessie van Pascale over internet privac...

Barcamp Antwerpen was goed, heel goed! De afwezigen hadden ongelijk.(*) Béate Vervaecke haar presentatie over Google Adwords was boeiend, ...

This youtube movie is really cool!! It's about sheep herding and playing pong . (sorry it is also advertising for Samsung) (via Rob )

One of the last days, when walking back from a market to the hotel ( google maps doesn't let me walk by the coastline... ) we saw this b...