News archive June 2001 - Koos van den Hout

End of an era: the 2-wire leased line giving me a fixed IP and a 33k6 link at home shutting down.

The Register has the [link expired] details on how to disable WinXP/IE/Office smart tags in your webpages.

I found an old document listing all the [link expired] hostnames on the Internet when such a listing fitted on one page.

Wat je nog eens tegenkomt op Internet, kamervragen en antwoorden over grootschalig afluisteren van telecommunicatie in Nederland (type Echelon). Interresant leesvoer.

On the same day I got my casema account data so my cable modem is now working and the news that xs4all ADSL will be available in September..

The cable modem is connected.. but no login data yet so I can't start a session. Duh. Extra blinkenlights in the house. And the installer had to find out by trail and error that my cablemodem is connected to connection number 34. The records of the cable company Casema (aka Ziggo) are that lousy!

Updated the helper script for playing shoutcast streams to randomize the server and work with realplayer for Solaris.