Tag Archives: Tech Stuff

Ripping, tagging and encoding

| Friday, 7 April, 2006

So it seems that ripping really is about ripping (to wave format), then encoding and tagging the file. To mp3 or ogg or whatever you want. Encoding to FLAC, which is a lossless encoding is another option. Flac has the benefit of being smaller than Wave, without losing any quality. Ars Technica has nice overview […]

Gentlemen, start you engines

| Thursday, 6 April, 2006

First, I made myself a big home fileserver some time ago. I was already planning to rip my collection of over 500 cd’s. serge@hydargos:~$ df -h | grep md1 /dev/md1 671G 174G 498G 26% /DATA My previous file server was decommissioned. I still need to clean the data files, but besides some basic spare space […]

Tele Atlas Camera Van

| Monday, 20 March, 2006

This evening on Kennedy Road I drove behind a Van with several camera’s behind and on his side. As I drove further, I noticed a “Tele Atlas Road Survey” sign on the side. Apparently, it’s one of those cars they talk about here. Must be pretty cool gear. I wonder what Belgian privacy laws say […]

DR-DOS through DNS recursion

| Thursday, 16 March, 2006

Slashdot is reporting on DDoS Attacks Via DNS Recursion. As often the case over there, it’s old news. Back to the issue. Some AC nicely explains: You just send requests to the DNS server spoofing yourself as the victim’s IP. (UDP is much easier to spoof, and can be sent out very quickly.) The replies, […]

DIY GSM Repair Shop

| Sunday, 5 March, 2006

As every sysadmin with experience knows, cellular phones are telecom devices, and telecom is a responsibility for the IT guys. Especially when something is b0rken. For once, this rule was applied in my family, when dad’s cellular had a smallish problem. The ‘0‘ key didn’t react anymore. Luckily I have a Torx toolbox and after […]

Recover photographs from flash disk

| Monday, 13 February, 2006

I got myself stuck with a corrupt 1GB Compact Flash card. I suspect one of my card readers to be b0rken – need to replace that one. Broken card reader… you might guess, I got several pictures left on this card, which I didn’t copy yet to my RAID-5 enabled, snapshotted to USB disk, data […]

Tech bookmarks

| Monday, 6 February, 2006

Some nice Linux tech articles I need to read in depth when I’m less tired. As bookmarks are so old school, I’m sure it will be more easy to find them when I post the url’s here, and in the mean time share them with you. Understanding memory usage on Linux Tuning Apache, part 1

O ironie

| Thursday, 2 February, 2006

Ik probeer mij al een tijdje in te schrijven op de openstandaarden.be lijst. Ooit aan de postmaster het probleem doorgegeven, zoals men kan lezen bij de eerste weigering in de log hieronder. Deze avond eens geprobeerd of er verbetering was. Jammer genoeg niet, en dan maar pragmatisch geweest en het ip van de list server […]