Jaaa! Ik heb een echt y2k probleem gewonnen:
2008-06-04 (#)
Google recently published that they are now available via IPv6. Nice idea.. but for now only available via a separate name: ipv6.google.com. They don't dare take the plunge yet of publishing an AAAA record for www.google.com. That would be really adopting IPv6 and finding those clients that can't deal properly with advertised IPv6 addresses without outside IPv6 connectivity.I can understand that that change would have major implications. Indeed, clients being unable to reach it, Akamai needing to support it, load balancers to support it. But the announcement skips these important issues about really taking IPv6 into production and just says 'we do something with IPv6 now'. Yes, but you are not integrating it fully yet.
2008-03-11 (#)
Did some work on The Virtual Bookcase. First of all Amazon notified me that amazon web services was going to disable version 3 of the API which I was still using (yes, a year after the first notification that it was going to be ended .. not that much time for virtualbookcase at the moment). So time to do some PHP programming and redo the stuff for version 4. I also noticed that the bot for the russian search site Yandex was causing high amounts of hits but would not even return a direct link to www.virtualbookcase.com when searching on virtual bookcase at yandex. So I wanted to disable Yandex in robots.txt but I could not easily find the right name to put in robots.txt because all the help at Yandex is also in Russian. Finally I found some hints at this page describing robots.txt in russian that the right User-Agent probably is Yandex. And the robots.txt for cisco.com agrees.
2008-03-10 (#)
I found an interesting tidbit in the apache-config today: after setting the AuthLDAPBindPassword directive I could find the password in the server-info output. Which was to be expected, but still an interesting side-effect.
2008-01-24 (#)
A few updates to the weather maps recently: The maps are now generated each hour and there is a list of the recent weather maps.
2008-01-09 (#)
Another instance of me thinking so seriously about a project that I started a webpage about what I want to do and how and collecting the knowledge and ideas that I already have: building a wardriving box. I first thought of a small PC for project sundial, the self-powered weather station and gps time receiver but I got the idea that this could also make a really nice Wardriving box which would do just that.
2008-01-07 (#)
Yesterday I found some time to install the new 1-wire sensors in a place where I am interested in the temperatures: the attic where the home server gosper lives and started fetching data into rrdtool databases. The assorted sensors at home page now shows some of the available temperatures. Sensor 2 lies in the open area right below the top of the roof.
2007-11-23 (#)
Updates to the logic behind the weather maps at http://weather.idefix.net/ and updates to the stations list. Data is now fetched from multiple sources and with a lot of searching I found the locations of a number of stations such as EHFS (Vlissingen), EHSC (Lichteiland Goeree) and EHKV (oilplatform K14-FA-1C). Starting tomorrow morning the updates will be visible in the generated maps.
2007-11-13 (#)
The weather keeps me interested and I have been working on processing weather data (ofcourse using Geo::METAR). Roger Burton West did a lot of work on visualizing weather data and I updated the result for Geo::METAR. Resulting maps now available on http://weather.idefix.net/. Stuff to add: caching, getting data from several sources (at least one metar for the Netherlands isn't available via the US national weather service) or using different sources.
2007-10-30 (#)
I upgraded to Apache 2.2.x at home so now http://koos.idefix.net/, http://webcam.idefix.net/ and other sites at home can all be reached on IPv6 addresses. One downside: logresolve (the postprocessing apache log resolver) has absolutely no idea about IPv6 addresses.
2007-09-25 (#)
Mijn Asterisk projecten hebben allemaal eigen paginas waar scripts en uitleg staan. Even een overzichtje: project 002: sprekende klok, bel een podcast en project belspel: hou bellers aan de lijn bezig. Sommige dingen zijn een beetje 'af' (maar kunnen natuurlijk nog verbeterd worden), andere projecten zijn net aan wild idee. Reacties zijn welkom.
2007-06-29 (#)
Following Wimbledon on the BBC I noticed the signs with www.wimbledon.org on the courts. Some neat work on live scores on that website: wimbledon live scores in flash 9 and wimbledon live scores for other browsers. Mighty impressive work there by IBM: the page is up-to-the-second with the current scores, and a few thousand hits per second more or less isn't going to be a problem. And with other browsers they mean all other browsers: it even gives a good view in lynx.
2007-01-22 (#)
For a while I had the webcam running from work pointing at a moderately nice view from the Kruyt gebouw pointing at the construction work for the new 'FE' building of the Hogeschool Utrecht. Since I used my standard webcam-scripts, there is a full archive, now online: Archive of webcam pictures from when the cam was in the Kruyt building. Enjoy, or something. I like this one: 8 am morning fog in October.
2007-01-14 (#)
Jason Scott pulled a nice stunt when he was confronted with loads and loads of links to an image on his site.. he Goatse'd them all.. and found out in the process that the real culprut was a stupid design site offering 'free myspace layouts'. I had the same happening with idefix.net in 2002 and wrote about deep linking and bandwidth theft. As Jason shows: you link to my urlspace, I control what comes back, and you may not like it.
2006-12-08 (#)
While checking the logs of The Virtual Bookcase to see if I made any errors in the pages, I noticed another webbot requesting loads of pages, the bot related to Webclipping.com. I looked at their site and noticed that they are no search engine, they just scour the web looking for people having opinions about their paying customers. Which means: those requests by their spider will never result in visitors to The Virtual Bookcase. I only want to allow webbots that result in visitors to the site. So, I wanted to know what to put in robots.txt to stop them.. couldn't find that on their website so I asked via e-mail. The answer is (paraphrased): "We decide on our own which sites to visit.". My answer is to block them.
2006-12-06 (#)
I finally redid a lot of the page design on The Virtual Bookcase. All is done with stylesheets now (no more crummy html 3.2 with tables in tables for making borders) and I created a bunch of new graphics for the site. I learned new stuff about graphic design, photographing and working with The Gimp in the process. For example, the bookcase-image in the background of the header took me about an hour to set up, photograph and adjust to get the result I wanted. I do like the current result although I am pondering some more changes. Time also goes into testing whether a neat stylesheet or image trick also works in other popular browsers (not everybody uses Firefox).
2006-04-04 (#)
Several times I received e-mails asking for links on this site to sites with sex toys (all people with websites get link requests probably, I just get weird ones). But, sofar, nobody told me what page exactly made them request a link. And when I asked in reply which page made them ask for that link they went 'uh.. link to us from any page!' which was not a usable answer. This weekend I got a request that was specific enough, they wanted a link from the Friday afternoon link page to their webstore. Just a webstore, not a real good Friday afternoon page. Ehm. No.
2006-03-17 (#)
The little annoyances in life: today I wanted to change the fontsize of the context menu in Firefox. I tried, and tried, and tried, and never found it. It has to be done somehow in userChrome.css. I can change the font-size for one item:#context-back: { font-size: 8pt !important; }but I never found the right code for 'all context menu items'. Well, now I just have* { font-size: 8pt !important; }to make the entire Firefox UI a bit smaller on my laptop, but I still haven't found the right css name for just the context menu.
2006-03-16 (#)
Doing lots of little stuff at The Virtual Bookcase. Updating pages to be a little more google-friendly, debugging some code to make stuff work again (seems php isn't too stable as a language, which made stuff fail in interesting ways). And keeping up with the book news. And finding out the stylesheet wasn't giving the wanted overviews in MSIE. Oops there.
2006-02-28 (#)
Useful link: check blacklist status of your favourite URLs with Secure Computing Smartfilter. Found via Boing Boing: ISPs in Iran, Tunisia also use SmartFilter (which blocks BoingBoing as "nudity").
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