http://www.houtkabouter.com/blog Don't walk the common path.... Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:30:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you that ae wondering why I'm so quite, I'm busy painting my Landy... I found this clever site that gives you info about your car based on the VIN number: http://www.clifton.nl/index.html?calvin.html Here is the output for mine: 241 Model: Land Rover, Series IIA Body type: Basic or Station wagon Wheel base: 88in Engine: petrol Model years: ... http://www.houtkabouter.com/blog/?p=53 This is similar to the "digg -effect", just this time it involves real votes.... I would have expected the IEC to antisipate that a large number of people would like to view the results, live online. I guess ensuring peacefull elections is a higher priority. I hope next time they will ... http://www.houtkabouter.com/blog/?p=50 Hi Here is another quicky: Ever ssh'd into a server and got the legal gibberish message? You can easily change it by editing the file: /etc/motd Anything you post in there will be shown when you log into a terminal via ssh. I choose to spread Tux love, so here is what most of the ... http://www.houtkabouter.com/blog/?p=49 A Quicky: I'm running VMWare in Ubuntu 8.10 and found that my arrowkeys does not want to work. For those of you who struggle to get it installed, see this post. If you are still having issues, try the VMWare-any-any patch. (I do not know who has written the patch ... http://www.houtkabouter.com/blog/?p=48 I hate spam and believe in freedom of speech. That is why I'm joining the masses. Read all about the Quality Vacation Club scam here, here and here. They are also called QVC, aka Quality Vacation Club, aka Prestige Business Solutions, aka Unique Connections, aka World Connect/VIP/VIP World Connect, aka Prime Vision, ... http://www.houtkabouter.com/blog/?p=47