Like everyone else these days I need to have a blog where I can write about boring and generally uninteresting stuff.
22 Jan 2012
As long as I have been using IPv6 on FreeBSD (Since FreeBSD 4.x i think) IPv6 has basically been configured the same way in rc.conf. I usually either configure my systems with a static address or use stateless autoconfiguration.
13 Nov 2011
Convergence is a secure replacement for the Certificate Authority System. It verifies certificates on web sites based on what notaries located around the Internet observe without any need for centralized validation.
06 Feb 2011
For a while now I have been wondering if Google, Bing, e.t.c. have crawlers that are IPv6 enabled. I'm fairly certain that they won't try to access dual stacked sites using IPv6 but that doesn't neccesarily mean that they are incapable of indexing IPv6 only sites.
01 Jul 2010
As of today, I will be working at Safeticket ApS. I will be writing code as usual for the most part.
05 Apr 2010
Having IPv6 connectivity I found that I would like to both use it more and also know if the websites I visit are IPv6 enabled. I found two add-ons that helps me do both.
29 Apr 2009
I found myself needing to enable softupdates on the root filesystem of a FreeBSD machine where I didn't have console access. As this is a little tricky I wrote a small RC script that I am now sharing here.
28 Nov 2008
Occasionally I have the chance to use the nice big loudspeakers at the office without anyone being bothered. I have a premium account for my favourite net radio station but have no desire to expose my credentials by placing my playlist on the Windows XP machine to which the loudspeakers are connected. So I wrote a small stream proxy to work around that small problem.
04 Oct 2008
Firefox 3 has improved fullscreen mode to the point where it is almost fullscreen. All that remains is the toolbar and tabbar at the top being hidden away and ready to appear when you move your mouse to the top of the screen. Unfortunately this takes up 5 pixels of the screen height and I was looking for a way to get rid of that too to really use the entire screen.
27 Oct 2007
I have a Dell Latitude D610 at work. I don't use its own display very often but when I happen to do it is a bit annoying that the display does not turn on after the lid has been closed. When I tried to search for a solution I found a number of fixes for Linux but none for FreeBSD.
28 Mar 2007
I have a Dell Latitude D610 to do my work related stuff on. At work I have two 20" LCD monitors, both with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. It took quite a bit of experimenting to get Xinerama running, so I decided to share my X.org configuration.
24 Feb 2007
A week ago I wrote that I hadn't been able to find any network clipboard applications that worked well in order to allow me to share the clipboard between the host and the QEMU guest OS. Yesterday I got a bright idea about how this can be done in a simple way with widely used and maintained tools.
18 Feb 2007
I found out that it wasn't actually that hard to get the emulated USB tablet working inside my SuSE Linux guest.
17 Feb 2007
Presently you have to run QEMU with a slightly lower resolution than your real desktop or run it in full-screen mode to get a decent experience out of it. With a patch I have written and a few tricks it can work a bit better.
11 Jan 2007
In the middle of November 2006 I contacted a recruitment agency about a job that looked interesting. Last week, 7 weeks later I got the job. Compared to my experience with the Google hiring process this was much more pleasant.
21 Oct 2006
The FreeBSD base system contains everything neccesary for a minimal functional operating system. However it contains a little more than that and since some of the developers started talking about importing OpenLDAP into base I have been thinking about a way to avoid installing that on my machines.
05 Oct 2006
Three months ago I received an email from a Google recruiter containing two job descriptions. She asked me whether they looked interesting to me. I answered that they did and entered the Google hiring process. The first part of it went well but the last month or so has been an experience I wouldn't recommend to anyone.
13 Jul 2006
For too long I have had plans to take a look af pf(4) to figure out
whether I liked it or not. Today I managed to build a working pf
ruleset that was not only better than the old ipfw ruleset but much
shorter as well.
04 Jun 2006
After several months I finally got around to the soekris I bought back in February. It is now taking care of all my mail reading needs and seems to run stable and reliable.
28 May 2006
Who would have believed it? I now have a blog. My plans for it is somewhat vague at the moment, but I'm pretty sure that I will find something to write about shortly.
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