News archive 2000 - Koos van den Hout

Using the Internet to find information about my domain name case has shown me again what a great thing the Internet is in sharing information, making it available and being able to find it.

I wish everybody visiting this page (more visitors then I expected) Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar / a Merry Christmas and a Happy Newyear.

I received a letter from a lawyer representing the publishers of Asterix & Obelix basically telling me that IDEFIX is their trademark in certain areas and that since I do nothing serious with idefix.net I must be holding it to mislead people searching for information about idefix so I should give up the domain name for free to them right now. I'm looking for legal help on this matter. I also updated the main page to help other people who cannot think further then a domain name being for a website on www.domainname/ (mutter mutter).

Huhhuh, he said election

My page in the Elite Warez Network at Cetis has been removed. The other place you can still find it is http://www.bofh.net/~koos/warez.html.

I bought a car today, a Volvo 440 dl

Received the DVD of Creature Comforts today. It's some of the older stuff from Aardman Studio's and it's really great.

Small update on the GSM as GPS project after playing for a while with a phone and a datacable.

I had my first snowboard lesson today at skipiste nieuwegein.

Baaaad experience with restaurant Dulac in Amsterdam. Eeeeew! Never again.

NAIT filed for bankrupcy, so out of a job again, looking at my possibilities.

My cats went for a checkup, and they are ok. They just really really really dislike the vet.

Stephen King compares physical therapy to torture therapy and I sort of agree, although my knee therapy shows improvment

Idefix is now download mirror for Opera for Linux.

Slight update to the page of Sending e-mail from Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures.

Chicken Run is echt een fantastische film.. aanrader

Have a good laugh, visit the top ten lists

I did not pass the ICANN first round and I am taking the good advice 'Technical people should be shielded from the political process of ICANN'

The idea for the GSM as GPS project.

You can visit my Brainbench scores to see what tests I did

New books and more updates for The Virtual Bookcase. Have a look, you will like it.

Disclaimer for company mail

I finally got idefix.net registered so my homepage URL is now http://idefix.net/~koos/. Almost 2 URL changes within 2 weeks...

My webpage moved to a different server.. some stuff might be broken

I am self-nominating for ICANN membership. Read my reasons why.

Helper script to play live shoutcast streams under Unix webbrowsers with xmms

New webcam at work.

Filter ruleset to make sendmail filter out the Outlook date header overflow exploit

Old economy and new economy as explained by Dave Barry

Decision on new job! I'll be working at the New Amsterdam IT groep

Updated stuff behind The Virtual Bookcase so it is now more flexible and better.

Mirrorred television samples of Enschede available at ftp.cetis.hvu.nl/pub/enschede

New style homepage. Because I felt like it.

The banner above is because Saturday May 13th 2000 a big disaster happened when a large fireworks storage exploded in Enschede killing at least 17 people, wounding over 900 and destroying 400 homes.

My pgp key which you can add with newer versions of pgp with pgpk -a http://idefix.net/~koos/pgpkey-koos.txt

A new e-mail virus is going around since this morning ... I wrote a quick fix using sendmail .mc files.

Funny screenshot I made at home (173k png)

An alternative DNS root is TINC

How to eliminate capslock in X.

I am leaving Cetis/Hogeschool van Utrecht and changing jobs. My work at Cetis will end around the end of May 2000. No America plans anymore but a needed change in my work.

I removed the Cetis webcam.

The Virtual Bookcase has been restyled and got it's own domain-name and webserver at http://www.virtualbookcase.com/.. come see what is new!

I am restyling The Virtual Bookcase so it will look a lot better and be more readable for visitors

I bought a secondhand Compaq LTE 5100 laptop which now runs Debian GNU/Linux complete with X running on it

Ik heb m'n rijbewijs eindelijk!