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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.

DebConf11 Banja Luka

July/august 2011: DebConf11 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. See also debconf11.debconf.org.

Landelijke Open Gemeenschappelijkwonendag

zaterdag 21 mei 2011 (jaarlijks 3e zaterdag mei): Landelijke Open Gemeenschappelijkwonendag. Zie Landelijke Vereniging Centraal Wonen.

Festival Au Desert

Festival Au Desert: yearly festival; 3 days of music in the Mali desert near Timbuktu, january 2011.

STRP 2010

STRP Festival, Eindhoven, 18 - 28 november 2010.

LISA 2010

24th Large Installation System Administration Conference, November 7–12 2010, San Jose, CA; by USENIX.

NLUUG

De NLUUG najaarsconferentie over Security & Privacy vindt plaats op 11 november 2010 in de Reehorst, Ede.

T-DOSE

6 and 7 November 2010 at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven: T-DOSE.

Atelierroute Eindhoven

za 2 en zo 3 oktober, van 11.00 tot 17.00: Atelierroute Eindhoven.

Burgers 20 jaar

vr 17 sept - zo 19 sept: feest: 20 jaar Burgers Eindhoven.

Incubate

zo 12 sept - zo 19 sept, Tilburg, Incubate festival of music and independent culture.

OS-BBQ

11 September 2010 in de achtertuin van Fred Mobach in Den Akker: OS-BBQ.

OMG WTF BBQ

Saturday 2010-08-28 → Monday 2010-08-30, Cambridge UK: Debian OMG WTF BBQ.

news

mercredi 1 septembre 2010

Sinds vandaag weet ik dat de Duykenspaalse Heiweg prachtig is.

jeudi 26 août 2010

New uruk release: uruk-20100823.tar.gz. You can read about what's new in this release.

I've build and uploaded a new uruk Debian package, uruk 20100823-1. You can read more about the changes in the Debian package.

The new uruk package will enter the Debian archive. I'll prepare a request for a freeze exception, so that it might show up in the upcoming Debian squeeze release. (Debian lenny ships uruk 20080330-1.)

mercredi 18 août 2010: kookhoekje

't Is ongelofelijk maar waar: na meer dan zes jaar is er weer een aflevering van Joost's Kookhoekje verschenen. Overheerlijke Nassi deze keer.

mardi 29 juin 2010: caspar

New caspar release: caspar-20100624.tar.gz. You can read about what's new in the latest caspar tarball. Again lots of thanks to Wessel Dankers for his help in this release.

I've uploaded a new caspar Debian package: 20100624-1, targeted for Debian unstable. It will likely appear in the Debian archive tomorrow, and will likely end up in the upcoming Debian squeeze release. (Debian lenny ships caspar 20070729-1.)

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 lenny 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.

dimanche 6 juin 2010: rwanda

Downtown Kigali, by Jenny and Randy aka hellotrain on their blog The Other Side of the FenceI'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.

mardi 11 mai 2010: draai

New draai release: draai-20100511.tar.gz published. draai is a command line music player, implemented as a wrapper around mpc(1). A new draai Debian package is published too: 20100511-1, targeted for Debian unstable. It will likely appear in the Debian archive tomorrow, and will likely end up in the upcoming Debian squeeze release.

You can read about the changes in the Debian package, and about what's new in the draai tarball.

If you'd like to use draai on your Ubuntu Linux system, you're lucky: draai gets shipped with the "lucid" release.

Melchior, Vuurfeest

Melchior, april 2010, door Yndra Tijdens het 6e vuurfeest maakte Virginie mooie foto's van o.a. Melchior.

Bullit opening

Bullit
EindhovenBullit openingsfeestje donderdag 1 april 2010, Stratumseind, Eindhoven

caspar 100

26 Feb 2010: caspar's 100th anniversary!

Carnaval

za 13 t/m di 16 februari: Eindhoven de Gekste! Pwned!

vrijdag 12 februari: djjoostvb @ Wei

Avond in Wei, Eindhoven, met 2 leuke bandjes.

fosdem 2010

The weekend of the 6 and 7 February 2010 in Brussels: FOSDEM.

Paris, M'Bilia Bel

Discovered the beautiful soukous as sung by Tabu Ley Rochereau and M'Bilia Bel M'Bilia Bel

Zondag 24 januari: Jean Bosco Mwenda, Eekboek

Jean Bosco Mwanda aka Mwenda Wa
Bayeke Discovered Jean Bosco Mwenda's beautiful Congolese acoustic guitar music.

And did some Eekboek Debian uploads, too.

donderdag 21 januari 2010: DJ joostvb @ Burgers

Donderdag 21 januari vanaf een uur of 21.00 in woon/werk-pand Burgers, Hertogstraat 2, Eindhoven, tel 040-2113953: DJ joostvb's lange liedjes a'lhamisi

Dinsdag 29 december: Melchior

Melchior door CSer Toni, maart 2010Melchior is in da house.

midwinter

Maandag 21 december 2009: midwinter.

Sun 13 Dec 2009

Converted caspar's VC stuff from CVS to git.

vuurfeest

Zaterdag 12 december 2009: 5e vuurfeest.

Dec 2009

Genoot van prima sfeer in Grubbestein, tussen Heijen en Gennep.

Sun 22 Nov 2009

Rende 5 km in 24:30 bij de Warandeloop. Ik eindigde als 15e van de 74 deelnemers, met een gemiddelde snelheid van 12,6 km/h. Prachtig evenement; lekker gelopen.

Fri 13 Nov 2009: DJ joostvb

(O.a.) DJ joostvb draaide bij Wei in Eindhoven.

Fri 30 Oct 2009

IJsbrand door Sven Guckes, oktober 2007 IJsbrand heeft het tijdige voor het eeuwige verwisseld.

Thu 1 Oct 2009: DJ joostvb @ Burgers

DJ joostvb draaide jazz in Burgers Eindhoven.

Wed 26 Aug 2009

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.

Sun 16 Aug 2009: poeziefestival westelbeers

Zondag 16 augustus: 1e herfstdag activiteit in Cultuurboerderij Pasmans, Voldijnseweg 8, Westelbeers, tussen Tilburg en Eindhoven, tel 013 5142653 / 06 40409337. Inkom vanaf 14.00u, begin programma 14.30u: optreden van Troiska, de band uit Wit-Rusland. Bezielende organisatie: Sjef Wiersma. (Ik was er niet bij :( )

Aug 2009: har2009

13 t/m 16 August 2009: enjoyed HAR2009.

Thu 6 Aug 2009

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 :)

Sat 1 Aug 2009: debconf9

joostvb at DebConf9 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.

Thu 9 Jul 2009: draai

After 2 years of development, the draai Debian package got uploaded to the Debian archive on Sun 21 Jun 2009, closing Debian Bug #519838: "ITP: draai -- A command line music player". draai is a wrapper around mpc(1).

It is now being examined by the Debian ftp masters. I expect it to get distributed to the mirrors before August 1.

Wed 8 Jul 2009

Really scary stuff: Door-to-door searches in The Hague.

In The Hague, we want pleasant and safe neighborhoods. For this reason, we are inspecting all homes in your neighborhood. For each address, we will see if the rules and regulations are met.

Hrm, perhaps I should emigrate to this beautiful country.

Zondag 5 juli

Cultuurboerderij Pasmans, Westelbeers, om 11.00, om 13.00 en om 15.00 uur: toneelvereniging Keskenoate speelt een nieuwe voorstelling voor kinderen vanaf 4 jaar. Verder zijn linosnedes en beelden van Lianne de Lepper te zien, en wordt in de tuin de installatie "Zacht beeldverhaal" van Marlies van Zeben, Joachim Rooijackers en Mien Paridaans gepresenteerd. Ikzelf heb t helaas moeten laten zijn voor wat het was.

Sun 21 Jun 2009

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.

Wed 17 Jun 2009

Fietstocht gemaakt. Fiets- en wandeltochten staan sinds vandaag op de buitenpagina.

Sat, 13 Jun 2009

Patched ogg2mp3; see also the patched script.

Vrijdag 29 mei: DJ joostvb

Robin uit Nijmegen organiseerde een benefiet voor de vergeten kinderen uit bulgarije in Burgers. O.a. DJ joostvb draaide.

9 April, 2009: Trail of Dead

donderdag 9 april: ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Vera, Groningen: het dak ging eraf. Ook genoten van de gastvrijheid van Liesbeth Cavé.

March 29, 2009

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.

March 22, 2009

1e lentedag activiteit Cultuurboerderij Westelbeers: Poeziefestival Westelbeers. Poetry Slam met de dichters: -Tom van Popering, -Martin Beversluis, -Acg Vianen, -Peer Smits, -Maarten Gulden, -Ad van Schijndel, -Ronny Dijksterhuis, -Willem Adelaar. Juryleden: Rien de Graaf, dichter, Maggy van Zon, liefhebster en Johan Jansen, leek. Met muziek van: Lizet van Beek, zang, met liederen van Kurt Weill en Bertold Brecht; zie www.deblauwehond.nl. En Dorè van Deijck, piano, zie www.dorevandeijck.nl. Kijkwerk: Maggy van Zon. Bezielende organisatie: Sjef Wiersma.

Helaas moest ik deze keer verstek laten gaan :(

March 15, 2009

Published new Lire release (since about 1 year), lire-2.1.tar.gz as well as Debian package: lire 2.1-1. 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 squeeze (the current testing). lenny (the current stable) ships 2.0.3-1.1. Version 2.1-1 will also likely get shipped with Ubuntu. You can view some Debian developer information about the package, and browse its Version Control repository.

March 5, 2009

DJ joostvb draaide jazz in Burgers, visuals: VJ Jack Uzi.

Februari 21, 2009

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.)

Februari 20, 2009

Kempi in de Effenaar was geweldig. Nuulll-Veeeertig!

February 2, 2009

Boerderij
IX 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.

January 29, 2009

Released pgp-kspkeyserver-0.0.1.tar.gz.

January 28, 2009

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.

January 27, 2009

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.

January 24, 2009

Zaterdag 24 januari draaide ik als DJ joostvb bij TACLIVE Eindhoven, met verder The Calorifer Is Very Hot! uit Italië. Het gebeuren was gratis toegankelijk en vond plaats in TAC, Vonderweg 1, bij het PSV-stadion in Eindhoven.

Veel dank aan Flip met de Hoed voor het organiseren van TACLIVE.

January 22, 2009

DJ joostvb draaide een korte set bij Burgers.

January 12, 2009

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.

January 8, 2009

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.

December 21, 2008

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.

December 17, 2008

Published smallmailclient_0.2-beta-1_all.deb, a Debian package for the mail client for the Small Sister privacy system.

December 17, 2008

Published a new systraq release: systraq-20081217.tar.gz as well as new Debian package: systraq_0.0.20081217-1_all.deb. You can read about what's new in the latest systraq tarball. This version (or a later one) will likely end up on Debian squeeze (the current unstable). (lenny (the current testing) ships 0.0.20070301-4); etch (the current stable) ships 0.0.20050213-8; 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.

December 16, 2008

john campbell kicks ass, see "Paul who is a ghost who is on a plane" and other pictures for sad children comics.

November 27, 2008

Vannacht is, ondanks luidkeels en algemeen protest, de zilveresdoorn op de vijfsprong in Tilburg gekapt. God hebbe zijn ziel.

Je kunt nog gezamelijk gaan treuren:

kunstenaars op de bres voor behoud van de boom op de vijfsprong

Aanstaande vrijdagmiddag vanaf vier uur treden diverse muzikanten, schrijvers en dichters op voor het behoud van de boom op de Vijfsprong. Ook zij vinden het schande dat de boom gekapt moet worden.

Toegezegd hebben reeds: stadsdichter Frank van Pamelen, troubadour Jacques Mees, multi-instrumentalist Zjef Naaijkens, dichter/schrijver Jasper Mikkers, accordeonist/zanger Michaël Breukers.

Zij en anderen treden vanaf vier uur vrijdagmiddag op op de Vijfsprong.

Meer info: Jasper Mikkers: Politiek vandalisme in Tilburg; en op tilburgers.nl.

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November 24, 2008

/usr/sbin/sendmail 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. /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

November 3, 2008

Found out about this nice and insightful article on How to recognise a good programmer at Daniel Tenner's blog.

November 2, 2008

Vandaag stuurde ik een "bezwaarformulier EPD" op. Zie hier wat Thijs Kinkhorst, en, al eerder Karin Spaink (ook hier blogde ze erover) erover te zeggen hebben. Het boek Medische Geheimen van Karin Spaink heeft me trouwens al in 2005 overtuigd van de onzin van dit soort plannen. En onlangs vatte Olf Kinkhorst het mooi samen:

[...] de vraag die niemand stelt. Hier volgen er een paar om vast te stellen wat een EPD nu eigenlijk oplevert:

November 1, 2008: DJ joostvb

Vrijdag 31 oktober van een uur of 18:00 tot een uur of 04:00 draaide ik als DJ joostvb in Burgers, Eindhoven.

De soundcheck, die ik daar op maandag 13 oktober deed, smaakte naar meer.

Ik draaide onder andere: Cumbia, Country, snoeiharde techno, prehistorische jazz, old school engelse grindcore, Rembetica, Krautrock, felle 60-ies bebop, zwoele vocale Jazz van o.a. Chet Baker, Bach, Mugam uit Azerbaidjan, oer-Raï van Cheikha Remitti en Italodisco op z'n Grieks. De keiharde compomisloze noise was er deze keer een beetje bij ingeschoten.

October 15, 2008

Updated pages: the GnuPG in 5 Minuten document; Software and Documentation page.

October 14, 2008

xkcd gets it.

October 12, 2008

Ik heb eindelijk het filmpje gevonden dat Source21.nl van me maakte over PGP. Dank aan John Jaarsveld voor de tip.

October 11, 2008

Which version control systems are used by Debian developers? These:

 % apt-cache showsrc $(apt-cache pkgnames) | grep \^Vcs | \
    grep -v Browse | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      6 Vcs-Mtn
     18 Vcs-Arch
     41 Vcs-Darcs
     59 Vcs-Hg
    135 Vcs-Cvs
    398 Vcs-Bzr
   2156 Vcs-Git
   5970 Vcs-Svn

In 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.)

October 11, 2008

My current SCM-preference list is:

  1. git
  2. bzr (Bazaar)
  3. svn (Subversion)
  4. tla (GNU Arch)
  5. darcs (I am currently not using this)
  6. hg (mercurial) (Never used that)
  7. rcs
  8. cvs

(I am trying hard to keep the number of systems I am using concurrently down. I'm failing though: six is ridiculous.)

October 11, 2008

Ik genoot van de Volksopstand tegen bedreiging privacy. Veel dank aan vereniging VrijBit.

September 21, 2008

Het Poeziefestival Westelbeers was geweldig! Deelnemende artiesten: Ko de Laat (ook op tilburgz.nl), Rien de Graaf, Peer Smit, Daniëlle le Mer / Danielle Lemaire, Yvette Michelbrink, Ed van der Hamsvoord , Tijs Rooijakkers, Jannes de Kort, Keskenoate, Open Dicht Bus van Sjef Wiersma. Ik vertelde er dit over:

joostvb just arrives back home from the best art/poetry festival ever. it's so überkewl, they even don't have a website. they haven't got a name for the festival either. joostvb will join the organising crew next time, and do his DJ joostvb act.

Net als bij OCC liepen ook hier de kippen los rond, waren alle financiële bijdragen op vrijwillige basis en net als bij Debian was het onderscheid tussen publiek en uitvoerenden onduidelijk. En zo hoort het!

Op zondag 21 december 2008 zal het weer plaatsvinden.

September 1, 2008

My EeePC (model 901, 20 GB SSD, 1 GB DDR2, Intel ATOM), hille.mdcc.cx, bought Augustus 15, is now running Debian GNU/Linux. I've wiped the preinstalled Xandros/EeePC Linux: that's really not my cup of tea.

August 31, 2008

I've enjoyed a stay at the UK, including a visit to this years Debian BBQ party in Cambridge. If you ever visit cambridge, be sure to go punting to The Orchard in Grantchester. It's one of the nicest things one can do in life. If you're a couchsurfer, be sure to visit Jacob Berkson in Brighton.

August 21, 2008

Sander Bos completed his study at Hogeschool Zuyd. I've mentored him during his internship at Tilburg University, in the Unix Admin team: a very valuable and enjoyable experience. Both me and Sander have learned a lot! Today I joined the Afstudeercommissie, and attended his nice final presentation.

August 20, 2008

Did a sponsored upload of version 1.17-5 of V.E.R.A., the Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms. Thanks to Sven Joachim for the packaging work.

August 10, 2008

The company ad 1810 now has its own website.

August 6, 2008

Uploaded Debian GNU/Linux FAQ version 4.0.3 (and 4.0.4). Thanks to Simon Paillard, Jens Seidel and the other translators, and to Frank Lichtenheld, for their nice work.

July 10, 2008

I've enjoyed the ETH0 event, and organised a PGP Keysigning Party there.

June 24, 2008

Work on the Secure List Server project, mailman-pgp-smime, which aims to include OpenPGP and S/MIME support in Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager, got started. This project has been awarded in the April 2008 NLnet funding selection. I am happy :)

June 14, 2008: TAC

Op zaterdag 14 juni 21:00 tot 2:00 was ik de DJ op een TACLIVE avond. Er waren verder optredens van Toby Goodshank en van Dizzy Spells Martian.

Je kunt een blik werpen op de playlist: dan weet je precies wat je gemist hebt (als je er niet bij was).

Veel dank aan Nicole voor het organiseren van TACLIVE.

June 8, 2008: CouchSurfing

Since April 6, 2008, I am a CouchSurfer. This project kicks ass!

June 6, 2008

Uruk RPM uruk-20080330-1.x86_64.rpm released.

June 5, 2008

Released tremble 0.0.3.

May 5, 2008

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.

April 10, 2008

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.)

April 6, 2008

Found back a 1998-08 post of mine. Jee...

March 23, 2008

I've found some new old poetry.

March 21, 2008

Published ad1810-autoindex, a small (and still somewhat buggy) shell script useful if your webserver has no (or limited) autoindex support.

March 1, 2008

DJ Joost bij TAC, 2008-02-29

Op vrijdag 29 februari van 21:00 tot 2:00 was ik de DJ op een TACLIVE avond. Er waren verder optredens van de fenomenale Greg Haines (UK) en Wouter van Veldhoven. Het gebeuren vond plaats in TAC, bij het PSV-stadion in Eindhoven.

Cumbia, Country, snoeiharde techno, prehistorische jazz, Rembetica, Krautrock en The Boards of Canada waren te horen tijdens mijn set. Het was een zeer geslaagde avond. Ik vertelde er dit over:

randy newman fans waren er, en ornette coleman fans, en t barste natuurlijk van de boards of canada- en biosphere-fans. jaren 30 jazz sloeg iets minder aan. keiharde compomisloze noise lag ook wat moeilijk, geloof ik, en bach ging dan weer wel. o, en zowaar een woody mcbride fan. en les rita mitsouko fans. dat was t, geloof ik :)

Veel dank aan Nicole voor het organiseren van TACLIVE.

February 14, 2008

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.

January 23, 2008

I am working on muladhara. Details will follow Real Soon Now.

December 11, 2007

Since November 29, 2007, qmail is Free Software; djbdns, daemontools, publicfile and other djbware will follow. It'd be cool if a FHS compliant qmail package could get shipped with Debian lenny. A Free dns cache would truly rock, too. I've collected some references and a copy of a video, documenting this very good news.

Update: Since 2007-12-29, djbdns is Free Software: "I hereby place the djbdns package [...] into the public domain.", as is daemontools.

See Debian bugs 453680 (ITP: djbdns), 453684 (ITP: daemontools), 457318 (ITP: qmail), as well as bug 453620 about the qmail-src package.

September, 2007

The beginnings of the modern right cross
demonstrated in Edmund Price's The Science of Self Defense: A Treatise on
Sparring and Wrestling, 1867

I've started boxing at Kees Tempel's very nice boxing gym.

May 9, 2007

I am getting more and more annoyed by advertisements on the websites I visit. Therefore, I hereby state: the mdcc.cx website will never carry any paid for advertisements. See also: The Wikipedia articles on Adbusters and Buy Nothing Day, search results for "Ad-creep" and "Google Ads" as well "A somewhat tart analysis of consumerism" by Paul Lutus called Consumer Angst.

November 12, 2005

The comparison of IPtables frontends, which used to be maintained on this site's uruk page, has (finally!) been moved to the Debian Wiki page on Firewalls. See also Debian Bug #339865.

august 7, 2001

[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.

about

Joost van Baal

...is maintaining this site. Read about Joost.

mdcc.cx

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.)

hosting

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.

machines

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.

xs4all, chello and connectivity

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 :)

powered by...

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.


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