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BIND misery

| Wednesday, 27 July, 2005

I somehow must have managed to change something in my named.conf some (long?) time ago, without properly restarting my Bind name server. Fact is, since yesterday, after a reboot, some queries were ok, some were not.

MSAccess to MySQL migration

| Thursday, 21 July, 2005

As I switched to OpenOffice for my main Home almost a year ago, I didn’t have any means to access my old MS Access databases anymore. I’ve been looking some time on how to migrate the data over to MySQL, but only now I found out about a nice, stable and free tool to work that out easily.

1984

| Saturday, 16 July, 2005

Want to buy the new Harry Potter book ? Sure ! By buying the book however, you are implicitely agreeing to this EULA, which states that you cannot discuss the contents of this book (plot, characters, ending) with anyone else. After all, the author of the book would not want you to ruin the experience for everyone else. Its only fair !

Corporate bloggings

| Friday, 15 July, 2005

an interesting interview with Sun’s chief information officer Bill Vass, about his experiences as the CIO of one of the world’s best-known high-tech company. Amongst others, Vass talks about corporate blogging.