Custom 404

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Dec 032004
 

I follow closely who and what visits this blog and other parts of my webserver. “What” being virusses and/or spyware. There are lots of 404 entries (page not found), because the requested page is something along the line of “c:/winnt/system32/cmd.exe”. Of course, that is not on my server.
Programs or browsers requesting such non-existing stuff, will be presented with this page. Real users can accidently request non-existing pages, but virusses SHOULD be treated differently.

So I was looking into creating a more sophisticated 404-page, one that actually detects what the requested page was, and in case of suspicion of a virus, send them an image of “the finger”, or something. Or a link to a good anti-virus program of course B)

Searching around the net for some info, I found this site. Dedicated to custom 404-pages. Cool.

 Posted by at 09:28

Mail not working

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Dec 022004
 

For some reason, I cannot use mail. Nameserver looks ok, ping to the server is ok, mailserver runs fine, but I can’t send mail. I restarted the mail-daemon, restarted the complete server, but nothing.

:-/

Update: I tried about everything: I’ve reset (powerdown/powerup) all network hardware, restarted the PC’s, disabled all anti-virus/firewall software, but I can not send or receive any mail.

Update 2: I’ll be damned. I restarted this PC *AGAIN* and now it works. Windows XP rules. NOT!

 Posted by at 23:34

Windows XP – tip

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Dec 022004
 

Show your desktop, and click on “My Computer” (Deze computer). Don’t release the mousebutton, but drag the icon to either side (up, left, right) of the screen so that it partly disappears. Now release the mousebutton.

Ta-daaaah! (file:///C:/WINDOWS/Media/tada.wav)

You’ve just created a new toolbar.

 Posted by at 15:04

Creativity

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Dec 022004
 

When you want to accomplish something, you have to be creative. As a matter of speaking, or literally. This blogpost has some tips. Read them, you will notice that some (or all!) of the tips can be very useful.

 Posted by at 12:15

Bernhard is gone

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Dec 012004
 

A controversial man, that’s what he was. He died this evening, our Prince Bernhard, at the age of 93. Cancer. I hope that one day they will find a way to end its aggression, or to even cure this horrible disease. But then again, the aggressiveness of the disease prevents a lot of suffering.

*sigh*

 Posted by at 23:59

1.6 Terrabyte!

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Dec 012004
 

I blogged about the LaCie Bigger Disk earlier: it’s a 1 Terrabyte external disk-box. There’s a 1.6 Terrabyte external disk (4 x 400 Gigabyte internally) now and it’s from IO Data. It’s more expensive than 2 Lacie Bigger disks, but it’s a lot smaller: it has the size of shoebox.

Thanks /.

 Posted by at 17:50

Speedlinq – cheaper!

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Dec 012004
 

I had a little email-conversation with Speedlinq about their new subscription price. I pay €75/month for a All-in 8064 connection (8064 down/1024 up) already for about a year, but their new price is only €55/month. And they have a special offer: the first 3 months for even less.

They offered me to change the subscription from All-in 8064 (old price) to All-in 8064 (new price) for the small sum of €70! So including the not-given special price that would cost me more than €100 to get a cheaper subscription.

I told them exactly that, and that switching to another provider would cost me nothing.

They came back to me and offered to change the subscription for free. No special offer, but at least no extra charges as well. Of course I agreed to the offer.

 Posted by at 16:29

Note to Feeder Reader

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Dec 012004
 

No, I will not update my links to make them PocketPC compatible, since they allready are. Use AvantGO, like I do, and you can read these pages on your PocketPC powered device (like my iPaq 3870) wherever you want…

Now stop filling up my referer-hits: if you don’t like it here, don’t come here.

Thanks for listening.

update: The creator of Feederreader has read this post, and is actually working with me (via a conversation that can be followed in the comments of this post) to give Feederreader-users a better reading experience on their PocketPC. Ain’t blogging great?

 Posted by at 13:03

Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 Special Edition

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Dec 012004
 

Microsoft has put together a special edition (I guess that’s how they came up with the name for it) of Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003. Not only does it include VS.NET Pro 2003, but also Windows 2003 Server (Standard Edition), SQL Server 2000 (Developer Edition) and the Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office. All for the upgrade price of US$549 or a full price of US$799. I guess that basically means that you get the Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000 and the Studio Tools for Office for free.

This is the link the Dutch Microsoft pages about this special edition.

 Posted by at 10:14

IBM Cloudscape V10.0

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Nov 302004
 

IBM is giving away Cloudscape, an Open-Source Java RDBMS. It’s platform independend (if you can run Java, you can run Cloudscape) and it has a small footprint (about 2Mbyte) so it can be used for smart-devices (PDAs, cellphones).

If you live in the US or in Canada, you can even participate in their challenge where you can win an Apple iPod.

Click on the title to go to the download page and the challenge page.

If I find the time, I’ll try to find out if it’s worth your time. I have a trial version of Borland JBuilder 2005 somewhere on a DVD, so perhaps that’s a good combo to try out. JB2005 and Cloudscape.

 Posted by at 23:20
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