Paul Cobbaut's blog

Vakbonden hebben in het verleden zeker hun functie gehad om op te komen voor basis mensenrechten voor arbeiders. Dat is gelukt, ondertussen ...

Today is my 42nd day as a Mobile Viking . Call, sms and internet work perfectly and it is at least 50 percent cheaper than Belgacom Proximus...

Dinsdagavond gaf ik op cvo tsm een inleiding van een uurtje over vrije software . Het event is gefilmd en zal binnenkort online komen. De s...

Some things in life, like iSCSI , are simple! iSCSI is a protocol that allows you to have SCSI over IP. The iSCSI Target The host conta...

In the news today: Taxi drivers will now have to pay a daily fee to play radio (or even music on CD for which they already paid). The fee go...

A reminder for myself on how to configure bluetooth for NXT devices . Turn on all devices and activate bluetooth on the Linux, then: $ hcit...

Packages installed after default ubuntu install (personal bookmark). root@mac:~# history | grep 'aptitude install' 11 aptitude ins...

8th of June is tomorrow already! My humble contribution is to teach networking students tonight about ipv6. It will be mostly theory since ...

Selecting an image on Google Image Search regularly minimizes the browser and pops up this annoying dialog. Running Linux you know this is f...

Some people convinced me to do a talk^Wtutorial tomorrow at loadays . It will be about bash ! Maybe I will use some slides from this downlo...

Default zfs properties can be read with zfs get . root@sol11aa ~# zfs get -r quota rpool/mita NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpoo...

Radio 1 this morning discussed a proposal to split Flanders into nine provinces. Disregarding the fact that I oppose the eight layered gove...

Yesterday I tried setting up orca magnifier on a freshly installed (fully updated) Ubuntu 10.10. The moment you check the magnifier checkbo...

A friend gave me an excellent French series of comic books called Uchronie(s) . Or is it three series ? Each series is about a different c...

Inkscape is an easy (and free ) tool to create scalable vector graphics . It is much fun using it, it is even more fun sharing the results....

bell21# cd /usr/share/man/ bash: cd: /usr/share/man/: No such file or directory bell21# cd /usr/share/ bell21# file man man: dire...

create a zfs file system on four disks root@sol10u8 /# zpool create zzz c2t0d0 c2t1d0 c3t0d0 c3t1d0 root@sol10u8 /# zfs create zzz/data42 po...

There are enough blogposts mourning OpenSolaris (or hoping for Illumos ). What follows are some real world experiences in dealing with Orac...

Mensen houden zich soms bezig met nutteloze dingen. Zo verzamel ik (niet echt actief, maar toch) een besteksoort (heet dat wel zo) die vroeg...