Paul Cobbaut's blog

Wow now this is a good book! Soul of the fire , fifth book in the Sword of Truth series, and definitely the best of the first five (reading...

Yes it has been a long time since the last blogpost. Yes linux-training.be needs a lot of updates. But it has been a busy couple of months ...

Is uw dak goed geisoleerd ? Controleer het hier: http://zoominopuwdak.antwerpen.be/ (thermographic image of rooftops in Antwerp)

The PATH variable usually does not contain the . directory, which means files in the . directory cannot be executed without ./ afaik $ cat w...

Last year I was excited about the LHC , but it had an itch . It's supposed to be fixed now! Let the black holes come ;-) (old but good...

I haven't blogged yet about my new phone running Android . I tried the My Tracks application again today, and it works flawlessly. Onl...

(Simpele kopie van boskabout ) Alle mensen werden ooit geboren. Ik ben een mens. Ik werd ooit geboren. Volgens dezelfde logica kan je zeggen...

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...