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August 20th, 2011

Pukkelpop 2011

Posted by Treg in Party

… wat kan ik er nog over schrijven? Wat begon als een geweldig feest, eindigde als een waar inferno. 🙁 De tol van deze natuurramp ligt zeer hoog. Gelukkig zijn vrienden, kennissen en wijzelf ongedeerd uit de storm gekomen. We leven heel hard mee met de slachtoffers, de organisatie,…
Iedereen zag reeds de erge beelden in de media en op internet. Enkele leukere beelden kan je hieronder (ook) vinden.

July 29th, 2011

Tomorrowland 2011

Posted by Treg in Party

Soon, more blabla.

Highlights: 2 Many DJ’s, Above and Beyond, Sven Väth, Nic Fanciullii, Loco Dice, Hermanez, Barem, Sharam!

July 10th, 2011

SV650s ignition coupler broken

Posted by Treg in Moto

On a hot evening, I wanted to start an SV650s (2004) bike after a medium distance ride. It really did nothing, as if there was no battery. After downloading the technical scheme, we tested some electrical components. We couldn’t find any faulty hardware. The next step was to lift the fuel tank and remove the air cleaner box. Underneath, you can find some essential electrical components e.g. the ignition coupler. We couldn’t detach the coupler because it was melted (not directly visible outside the coupler). After a while, it got detached, but as you can see on the picture, it was burned.

Attention, you can ride the bike with a burned ignition coupler, but this can be very dangerous! For example when your bike gets turned off in the middle of a corner.

Changing the coupler is the only good fix. Afterwards, everything works without a single problem. Weird that a simple solid connection like that gets burned. Isn’t it?

April 27th, 2011

Shutter, linux snipping tool

Posted by Treg in HOWTO Ubuntu, Linux

Finally I took the time to find a descent snipping tool for linux… and I found Shutter. A very nice, quick and clean tool to take screenshots and parts of screenshots. The program offers some extra features, yours to find out.

Off course, this is open source software which on integrates nicely in the Gnome notification area. The software is available in the Ubuntu repositories. 🙂

February 26th, 2011

Energy The Network

Posted by Treg in Party

Energy The Network, opvolger van het welbekende Trance Energy vond vorig weekend (19/02) voor de eerste keer plaats in de jaarbeurs te Utrecht. Verschrikkelijk lang heb ik er naar uitgekeken, maar eindelijk was het dan zo ver.

Na een lange rit kwam we aan te Utrecht en vonden we quasi onmiddellijk parkeerplaats. Even stappen, kaarten afgeven, full body check, lockertje huren en klaar waren we. Wat mij toen reeds opviel was de per-fecte organisatie. Hier kan bijvoorbeeld I Love Techno zeker iets van leren (we hadden heel de tijd plaats genoeg bijvoorbeeld).

We begonnen de avond met een kort stukje Wippenberg en Hardwell (die eindigde met zijn sunrise remix van show me love, een goede opwarmer tbh). Zo konden we de omgeving en immense zalen (Connect, Execute en Play) wat verkennen, impressive!

Vervolgens pikten we sets van Airbase en ATB mee. ATB draaide zeer uiteenlopende platen, zoals zijn eigen 9am en zelfs the Prodigy. Vooral Lange en Ferry Corsten daarna waren echt 100% top trance spul!

Conclusie: super sfeer, super organisatie, zeer goede lineupe (trance/house)!

January 19th, 2011

Het bedrijfswagensalon

Posted by Treg in General

… snel nog de Autowereld gaan halen en hup, naar’t autosalon… euhm, bedrijfswagensalon. Inderdaad, verwacht u dus niet teveel aan fancy merken met blitse bolides maar aan kick-ass werkmateriaal. Er staan natuurlijk wel een paar mooie wagens tussen en zelfs enkele future green conceptcars. De Citroën DS4 en Volvo V60 sprongen uit het oog.

In de 2 moto zalen is in feite veel meer te zien. Geen wonder dat we 2/3 van de tijd daar vertoefden. Vooral de nieuwe Honda Hornet, Suzuki Gladius en GSX-R familie vond ik impressionant. Duur, dat zijn ze wel geworden!

November 24th, 2010

Plesk 9.x overuse policy, server wide fix

Posted by Treg in Linux, Tech

Parallels implemented an overuse policy since version 9 of its Plesk control panel for Linux. When you upgrade a Linux Plesk server (8.x) to version 9.x, all resellers, clients an domains get the “can’t overuse” policy. So, all objects which exceed a certain value get suspended. This isn’t quite what we/you want. (after the night, your overusing resellers/clients/domains will be suspended!)

So, the solution is quite simple: just set all the objects on “allow overuse”… except that this can’t be done serverwide. If you have 300 domains + 100 clients + 5 resellers, you will have to edit 405 objects manually. 🙁

The solution: you can solve this problem by executing the following scripts on the Linux box from the command line (with root privileges). The script will grant clients or domains the “allow overuse” policy.

  • Clients:

    # for i in `cat /etc/passwd |grep "/var/www/vhosts" | awk -F":" '{print $1}'`; do echo -n "$i  --  "; /usr/local/psa/bin/client_pref --update $i -overuse notify ; echo ""; done
  • Domains:

    # mysql -u'admin' -p"$(cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow)" -D'psa' -NBe 'select name from domains order by name' | while read dom; do $(grep '^PRODUCT_ROOT_D' /etc/psa/psa.conf | awk '{print $2}')/bin/domain_pref -u "${dom}" -overuse notify; done
November 22nd, 2010

Pidgin & MSN (certificate error for omega.contacts.msn.com)

Posted by Treg in Linux, Tech

Last week, Microsoft changed its omega.contacts.msn.com certificate. This gives you a login error with an already configured Pidgin IM client. Execute the following steps to fix this error:

  1. Download the following file: http://files.andreineculau.com/projects/pidgin/omega.contacts.msn.com.2.txt
  2. Move it to “.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers/”.
  3. Rename the file to “omega.contact.msn.com”.
  4. Restart Pidgin.

Source: blog@AndreiNeculau

October 20th, 2010

Tweetdeck on Linux, security problem (+fix)

Posted by Treg in HOWTO Ubuntu, Linux, Tech

While testing KDE4.5, it seemed I couldn’t use Tweetdeck anymore. The problem has something to do with storing passwords securely. Since Adobe AIR is a 32-bit application, it needs the 32-bit version of the KDE wallet client libraries in order to get the AIR ELS working properly. (Similarly on GNOME, the 32bit libraries for GNOME keyring are used.)

You can check if 32bit kdewallet client libraries are installed by testing the dynamic link dependencies of e.g. Adobe AIR’s libaddkey.so:

Code:
ldd "/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources/libaddkey.so" | grep kwallet

If you get something like “libkwalletclient.so.1 => not found” you will need to install the 32bit library. In Ubuntu 9.10 this library is in the kdelibs4c2a package, but this can be detected automatically by the getlibs package (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790):

Code:
wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
sudo getlibs libkwalletclient.so.1
sudo ldconfig

Re-run the ldd command above to check that the client library can now be resolved.

After this, erase Adobe AIR ELS and enter your account data anew:

Code:
rm -rf ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS
TweetDeck

After this, AdobeAIR shows up in KDE wallet manager with an ELSKey stored password.

I found this solution on the Ubuntuforum.org. (provided by mkalen in this topic)

August 19th, 2010

Fontainebleau Bakkery treffen

Posted by Treg in General

Woorden schieten mij te kort… Hieronder beelden van het treffen vorig weekend te Fontainebleau. Bedankt iedereen, het was super!

Puzze, misschien volgende keer minder regen bestellen zondag, of kregen we daardoor korting?

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