Ik enzo

26 April 2006

Google Maps

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 10:49

Steven speelt met Google Maps. Helaas voor hem is Gent nog niet zo mooi te zien op de satelietfoto’s. Hoe anders met Maastricht! Vergeet vooral niet in te zoomen! Ik had dat natuurlijk al gezien met GoogleEarth, maar de link nog niet gelegd met Google Maps. Duh!

Nou, hier woon ik dus. En daar voordien. En daar voordien. En daar werk ik. Welgeteld 1,73 km van huis.

Overigens zag ik ook dit:

Google UM

Schijnbaar tellen die andere faculteiten niet mee. Het is ook de enige faculteit die met naam genoemd wordt als je de andere, grote, locatie van de UM bekijkt in de stad. Zegt misschien iets over het belang van Gezondheidswetenschappen…

21 April 2006

Spam!

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 21:59

Nieuwsgierig als ik ben kijk ik (bijna) altijd naar de sourcecode van een spam-email, tenminste als het subject er redelijk interessant uitziet. Hieronder een stuk van de tekst die ik in één van die mailtjes vond. Ik heb zelf niet de moeite genomen om alles te lezen, maar hier en daar een stukje was genoeg om het met anderen te willen delen. Probleem is alleen dat ik geen idee heb wat ze ermee willen. Spam-filters omzeilen? Dat is in ieder geval niet gelukt :) !

The ball bearing gives lectures on morality to a tuba player defined
by the diskette. Furthermore, an elusive flavored hell leaves, and the
football team non-chalantly knows a dreamlike briar patch. The
hydrogen atom finds lice on the prime minister from the oil filter.
The vacuum cleaner beyond the stovepipe, a bowling ball, and the
earring are what made America great! An usually paternal grizzly bear
A power drill over a bowling ball knowingly derives perverse
satisfaction from a squid. For example, a fraction near a deficit
indicates that an overwhelmingly frozen submarine learns a hard lesson
from a chestnut. A customer plays pinochle with the judge toward a
spider. Sometimes a girl scout daydreams, but a sheriff always writes
a love letter to a single-handledly cantankerous warranty! A sheriff
makes a truce with the ostensibly foreign industrial complex, but a
movie theater on another cargo bay about a jersey cow. The South
American mortician For example, a grand piano over another cocker
spaniel indicates that a resplendent cashier derives perverse
satisfaction from another vacuum cleaner. Any bullfrog can
single-handledly befriend a salty formless void, but it takes a real
bartender to caricature a briar patch toward a pit viper. Furthermore,
a cough syrup hibernates, and a polka-dotted football team derives
perverse satisfaction from an impromptu pickup truck. The insurance
agent gives lectures on morality to a movie theater. For example, a
bohemian vacuum cleaner indicates that the line dancer inside a tomato
somewhat bestows great honor upon a vacuum cleaner. A tuba player The
cloud formation sanitizes a nation of a football team. When the line
dancer trembles, a righteous globule gets stinking drunk. Most people
believe that a tuba player related to the sandwich cooks cheese grits
for the elusive blithe spirit, but they need to remember how slyly a
skyscraper inside the wedding dress beams with joy. The pit viper
about a pickup truck finds lice on a frustrating grand piano. A spider
figures out a knowingly phony tripod. Any hydrogen atom can be a big
fan of the warranty over a plaintiff, but it takes a real skyscraper
to usually caricature an orbiting pig pen. When a gentle polar bear is
fractured, an umbrella defined by a turn signal teaches the carpet
tack behind a cloud formation. A self-loathing cocker spaniel
meditates, and some flatulent customer trembles; however, a foreign
bowling ball ridiculously shares a shower with a pathetic cheese
wheel. Most people believe that a gratifying cargo bay makes a truce
with a football team, but they need to remember how eagerly another
wedding dress inside a minivan leaves. Most people believe that a
grand piano of a demon caricatures the linguistic deficit, but they
need to remember how slyly a squid for a turkey laughs out loud. Now
and then, the mortician single-handledly buries a deficit defined by
the traffic light. The outer dolphin knowingly makes love to a spider
behind a maelstrom, but a tape recorder from the chestnut gives a pink
slip to some hardly financial fairy. If a chain saw toward a briar
patch finds lice on the mating ritual, then an imaginative cheese
wheel daydreams. A briar patch Indeed, a globule is a big fan of a
frozen blood clot. Indeed, the hockey player inexorably on an oil
filter beyond the ocean. Indeed, a cyprus mulch beyond the cloud
formation non-chalantly sanitizes the wedding dress beyond another
formless void. Sometimes an oil filter related to a CEO panics, but
the recliner always caricatures a rattlesnake defined by a movie
theater! The temporal mastadon Any razor blade can feverishly write a
love letter to a jersey cow, but it takes a real mastadon to know a
mating ritual from an earring. A parking lot of a paper napkin gives a
pink slip to a tomato. The pork chop procrastinates, and the crank
case leaves; however, a vacuum cleaner satiates a grand piano about
the garbage can. Furthermore, a chess board from a fruit cake goes to
sleep, and the razor blade related to a vacuum cleaner sanitizes the
wheelbarrow toward a ski lodge. When you see an oil filter about some
paycheck, it means that a secretly greasy cowboy feels nagging
remorse. The graduated cylinder over a recliner The globule for the
wedge competes with a movie theater. Any cloud formation can organize
the pig pen defined by the pork chop, but it takes a real dust bunny
to ostensibly teach a fairy related to the razor blade. A boiled
hockey player organizes a dreamlike power drill. A precise oil filter
is blotched. When you see the cheese wheel, it means that a sandwich
around the girl scout panics. Most people believe that the financial
short order cook negotiates a prenuptial agreement with a scythe
defined by the parking lot, but they need to remember how secretly the
wedge reads a magazine. When you see some football team, it means that
a hydrogen atom leaves. When a tornado is overripe, a pine cone living
with an earring eats the lover. The cargo bay figures out a skinny
earring. When you see an outer crank case, it means that the tape
recorder earns frequent flier miles. When a squid near a crank case is
precise, a pompous cheese wheel writes a love letter to the flabby
pine cone. A gentle dolphin is fashionable. When a scythe toward a
fire hydrant ruminates, an earring meditates. A demon over a light
bulb When the prime minister behind some globule goes to sleep, a
movie theater related to the crane returns home. A tomato slyly falls
in love with the paycheck about a polygon. For example, the scythe
about the umbrella indicates that a razor blade about a dust bunny
avoids contact with a grand piano related to an eggplant. A chess
board related to a grand piano, a self-loathing line dancer, and the
tabloid toward a grain of sand are what made America great! Any
satellite can ignore a vacuum cleaner about a fruit cake, but it takes
a real cowboy to cook cheese grits for an unstable crane. The
bohemian anomaly A bullfrog competes with the dirt-encrusted judge.
For example, a tornado behind some insurance agent indicates that the
eagerly vaporized tornado befriends a revered nation. A mysterious
fundraiser secretly bestows great honor upon a mortician. Indeed, a
pompous chain saw falls in love with the fairy defined by some
graduated cylinder. The freight train knows a food stamp. The umbrella
behind the jersey cowFurthermore, some polygon for a cheese wheel
dies, and the accidentally frustrating chess board organizes a fairy
around a minivan. A plaintiff is a big fan of a graduated cylinder. If
a chestnut inexorably teaches a purple insurance agent, then another
eggplant behind a photon ruminates. Any demon can bestow great honor
upon a fat tornado, but it takes a real cyprus mulch to negotiate a
prenuptial agreement with the line dancer near the hydrogen atom. A
grand piano buys an expensive gift for an obsequious fruit cake. When
the lover related to a chess board is treacherous, the cocker spaniel
thoroughly pours freezing cold water on a microscope for a sandwich.
Indeed, the asteroid is a big fan of some tuba player from some
formless void. When another Alaskan short order cook is childlike, a
pine cone satiates a false diskette. A frightened salad dressing finds
subtle faults with the turn signal related to the maelstrom. Indeed, a
lover avoids contact with some temporal food stamp. When a wedding
dress is ostensibly pompous, another cargo bay toward some lover cooks
cheese grits for the razor blade. Indeed, a stovepipe figures out a
burglar. A blithe spirit toward the asteroid operates a small fruit
stand with a ball bearing. The highly paid fraction Indeed, the spider
beyond a fairy knowingly falls in love with the vaporized parking lot.
When a gentle minivan is moronic, the seldom so-called pork chop
ridiculously buries the submarine. Sometimes a sheriff returns home,
but a defendant about a reactor always falls in love with an
imaginative CEO! The phony garbage can, a fraction, and a power drill
are what made America great! A fashionable chain saw The carpet tack
about a judge is South American. When a steam engine behind a dust
bunny hibernates, a razor blade rejoices. Most people believe that the
deficit for the tape recorder pours freezing cold water on a line
dancer behind a stovepipe, but they need to remember how somewhat some
cantankerous anomaly beams with joy. A tornado buries a hydrogen atom
from a fraction. For example, an anomaly near a tripod indicates that
a roller coaster defined by another customer ostensibly shares a
shower with a prime minister. A demon Furthermore, a vacuum cleaner
goes to sleep, and the paycheck of an insurance agent has a change of
heart about another feline mastadon. If another girl scout teaches an
usually fried reactor, then a paycheck sweeps the floor. When you see
some parking lot, it means that a grand piano from a ski lodge ceases
to exist. Indeed, the fraction buys an expensive gift for a defendant
behind a burglar. A cosmopolitan nation has a change of heart about a
surly salad dressing. Furthermore, an avocado pit toward a cyprus
mulch starts reminiscing about lost glory, and a tripod often buries
some pig pen. Sometimes a varigated mortician hides, but a skyscraper
behind a plaintiff always throws a secretly gentle diskette at an
ocean related to a tape recorder! The flatulent tabloid makes love to
a traffic light. Now and then, a Eurasian movie theater lazily
operates a small fruit stand with a hairy canyon. Any skyscraper can
usually recognize a vacuum cleaner over an eggplant, but it takes a
real cough syrup to greedily share a shower with a barely
mitochondrial umbrella. Some globule over a grizzly bear accurately
goes deep sea fishing with a cough syrup, because a jersey cow gives
lectures on morality to an inferiority complex. A globule teaches a
cloud formation about the maelstrom. A wrinkled carpet tack, a deficit
related to the line dancer, and a cargo bay defined by the bartender
are what made America great! An oil filter of the steam engine Most
people believe that a freight train figures out the rattlesnake, but
they need to remember how barely an oil filter earns frequent flier
miles. Furthermore, a self-loathing prime minister procrastinates, and
the flavored hell beyond a pig pen negotiates a prenuptial agreement
with the mean-spirited short order cook. When you see the crank case,
it means that a microscope inside an asteroid meditates. Some lover
Any fairy can write a love letter to a grain of sand related to a tuba
player, but it takes a real crane to make a truce with a bowling ball
around an anomaly. Now and then, the cough syrup sanitizes a nation
inside a bottle of beer. The steam engine toward the fraction on a
polygon. When a crank case hides, a college-educated buzzard gets
stinking drunk. When you see a chestnut inside the power drill, it
means that a graduated cylinder sweeps the floor. A girl scout Most
people believe that the rattlesnake related to a graduated cylinder
eats the football team, but they need to remember how greedily the
geosynchronous anomaly goes to sleep. Indeed, a thoroughly magnificent
flavored hell finds subtle faults with the line dancer. Now and then,
a turn signal of a wheelbarrow caricatures a seldom burly polygon. A
hole puncher toward the corporation graduates from the gentle
fundraiser. If a crank case requires assistance from the rattlesnake
living with another line dancer, then the ocean gets stinking drunk.
Indeed, a stoic reactor operates a small fruit stand with the
diskette. Sometimes some non-chalantly spartan umbrella ruminates, but
some molten cab driver always eagerly seeks a carpet tack! A turkey
behind a rattlesnake wakes up, and a mating ritual living with the
garbage can hibernates; however, the cab driver around a cyprus mulch
bestows great honor upon the CEO. Now and then, the optimal burglar
derives perverse satisfaction from a somewhat South American hole
puncher. The recliner of a deficit underhandedly teaches a dust bunny.
If a blithe spirit living with a burglar learns a hard lesson from the
obsequious dust bunny, then some briar patch beyond a roller coaster
panics. Most people believe that the cough syrup near another ski
lodge thoroughly figures out a mating ritual, but they need to
remember how lazily a paternal bullfrog reads a magazine. When a
Eurasian flavored hell is vaporized, some lover falls in love with the
canyon about a wedding dress. The Eurasian wheelbarrow A non-chalantly
paternal cheese wheel on a mysterious particle accelerator. A pork
chop usually is a big fan of the proverbial cloud formation, or a
particle accelerator takes a peek at the psychotic bartender. A
burglar sweeps the floor, and the particle accelerator near a scythe
leaves; however, a wedge around a grain of sand tries to seduce a
bottle of beer about the reactor. When you see the outer cloud
formation, it means that a polar bear daydreams. A squid toward
another asteroid An earring for the plaintiff panics, because the
cloud formation feverishly recognizes a gentle formless void. When the
chain saw ceases to exist, the polygon for an oil filter hides. When a
bottle of beer is almost snooty, the class action suit toward a crank
case negotiates a prenuptial agreement with an incinerated ball
bearing. Another dust bunny beyond a maelstrom returns home, and a
briar patch beams with joy; however, an overwhelmingly childlike
dolphin knows a self-loathing garbage can. A formless void barely
satiates another bullfrog related to the hockey player. Another
abstraction around a plaintiff If the wedge beyond the light bulb
learns a hard lesson from the slow polar bear, then some short order
cook flies into a rage. When you see a fundraiser defined by the
buzzard, it means that a turn signal hides. A wedding dress is flabby.
A photon living with a canyon knows the lover for a power drill, and
the fat hole puncher often plans an escape from a flavored hell from
another recliner the familiar bullfrog. Another flabby grand piano
daydreams, but a short order cook for the turkey eagerly caricatures
the pickup truck living with a girl scout. When you see the lover
behind a sandwich, it means that a warranty rejoices. The radioactive
vacuum cleaner pours freezing cold water on a turn signal, because a
tornado living with some tuba player dances with a carpet tack over
another oil filter. Indeed, some movie theater plans an escape from a
steam engine the lover beyond a vacuum cleaner. A fried eggplant is
gratifying. Furthermore, a pit viper over a line dancer laughs out
loud, and a proverbial hockey player ignores a maelstrom. When a
photon is self-actualized, a dreamlike spider secretly admires the
dust bunny. When you see a tornado defined by a globule, it means that
a wedge of a fundraiser gets stinking drunk. Some razor blade is
self-loathing. The fat traffic light takes a coffee break, and a
minivan returns home; however, the overwhelmingly unstable cocker
spaniel sells the vacuum cleaner toward a turkey to a judge over a
tabloid. An annoying garbage can cCJXLLaULYTLV?DW\ Indeed, a fried warranty
wisely makes a truce with a steam engine over another avocado pit. An
abstraction over a demon is hesitantly fractured. When the slyly
federal ocean starts reminiscing about lost glory, a fried scythe
hesitates. The graduated cylinder dances with a cashier. A
mean-spirited sheriff When you see a tornado, it means that another
movie theater defined by a nation beams with joy. Sometimes a globule
from a sandwich hesitates, but a globule always derives perverse
satisfaction from a cloud formation around a light bulb! When a dust
bunny hibernates, a grizzly bear for a scythe hesitates. When a chess
board is temporal, the formless void tries to seduce the jersey cow
inside the fire hydrant. Any sheriff can be a big fan of the class
action suit defined by some plaintiff, but it takes a real crank case
to cook cheese grits for a mitochondrial corporation. The burly lover
Indeed, a self-actualized warranty plans an escape from the pork chop
beyond the food stamp an inferiority complex. If the food stamp tries
to seduce an usually gentle blood clot, then a fundraiser related to a
bottle of beer reads a magazine. When you see a food stamp, it means
that the cheese wheel flies into a rage. Now and then, a bullfrog
steals pencils from some corporation. A cab driver inside a tornado,
an industrial complex about the ocean, and a pork chop are what made
America great! Furthermore, a hardly orbiting grizzly bear hibernates,
and the umbrella near a demon falls in love with another plaintiff.
Most people believe that another tornado about a tomato slyly
recognizes a tuba player, but they need to remember how somewhat an
obsequious paycheck leaves. Some hesitantly molten canyon laughs out
loud, and a single-handledly optimal pickup truck often figures out
another shabby prime minister. Furthermore, another light bulb related
to a line dancer wakes up, and the dirt-encrusted eggplant satiates a
dolphin. Another varigated globule starts reminiscing about lost
glory, and the fire hydrant around the globule somewhat plans an
escape from a precise bartender another light bulb. Sometimes a hockey
player goes to sleep, but an industrial complex around a power drill
always seldom competes with another somewhat frightened cab driver! A
tabloid steals pencils from the mean-spirited wedding dress. When you
see the submarine toward a fire hydrant, it means that a mating ritual
gets stinking drunk. A demon beyond a ski lodge The tape recorder
living with a sandwich derives perverse satisfaction from the polar
bear, but an ostensibly slow customer borrows money from another
football team. The blotched ball bearing, a polygon living with a
grand piano, and the twisted tripod are what made America great! A pig
pen about the photon can be kind to the freight train from a paycheck.
Any umbrella can learn a hard lesson from a vaporized cough syrup, but
it takes a real grain of sand to almost eat an imaginative buzzard.
Indeed, a pork chop falls in love with the tuba player beyond a
corporation. Some snooty line dancer Now and then, a briar patch
behind a freight train writes a love letter to a cashier related to a
pine cone. If a chess board has a change of heart about the blithe
spirit beyond the pine cone, then the fraction about another tomato
takes a coffee break. A psychotic wheelbarrow returns home, and
another submarine of the blithe spirit procrastinates; however, the
cocker spaniel about the chestnut avoids contact with the graduated
cylinder about an umbrella. Furthermore, the paycheck related to a
maelstrom goes to sleep, and the tornado inexorably teaches a roller
coaster defined by an apartment building. A football team A blood clot
feels nagging remorse, because an umbrella behind the plaintiff
ridiculously makes love to another underhandedly orbiting tuba player.
A mitochondrial umbrella can be kind to another snooty senator. When
some gentle traffic light daydreams, a hardly spartan chestnut takes a
coffee break. When a pickup truck about some chain saw is gentle, an
insurance agent around an avocado pit greedily makes love to the
fraction. Any bottle of beer can derive perverse satisfaction from a
minivan, but it takes a real cashier to figure out a mating ritual.
Furthermore, a parking lot of a tomato trembles, and the hockey player
near the customer thoroughly brainwashes a recliner. The cantankerous
deficit is psychotic. Sometimes a maelstrom laughs out loud, but an
avocado pit inside a nation always laughs and drinks all night with
the skyscraper! Now and then, a wheelbarrow usually makes love to the
stovepipe. When a green bartender flies into a rage, the cab driver
self-flagellates. Indeed, another abstraction for a spider has a
change of heart about the pig pen inside an industrial complex. A
bottle of beer from some abstraction leaves, and the demon secretly
admires a mortician. When a steam engine over a wheelbarrow rejoices,
a salad dressing beyond a corporation self-flagellates. A photon
barely befriends a submarine toward a parking lot. Some razor blade
Now and then, a salad dressing around the bullfrog competes with the
customer. Sometimes another somewhat obsequious pickup truck laughs
out loud, but a load bearing minivan always makes love to the slyly
proverbial graduated cylinder! If the asteroid almost gives a pink
slip to a tape recorder toward the minivan, then a tattered defendant
feels nagging remorse. For example, a barely salty fraction indicates
that a raspy vacuum cleaner somewhat learns a hard lesson from a ski
lodge. When the parking lot for another class action suit is
feverishly fat, the tornado gives secret financial aid to the nearest
hydrogen atom. The food stamp Furthermore, a vaporized hockey player
dies, and the insurance agent from a bowling ball is a big fan of the
revered cashier. The vacuum cleaner near the ski lodge carelessly
learns a hard lesson from a jersey cow. If the sandwich toward the
tornado wisely buys an expensive gift for a bowling ball, then a
buzzard of a tape recorder reads a magazine. Now and then, a tomato
inside another briar patch on a hole puncher. Indeed, a dust bunny
goes deep sea fishing with a tape recorder. A greasy steam engine A
greedily optimal movie theater is pompous. The boiled demon, a
bartender, and the burly fraction are what made America great! The
accurately resplendent cargo bay daydreams, and a wedding dress plays
pinochle with the fairy. A razor blade around the nation graduates
from the graduated cylinder about the hydrogen atom. A traffic light
about the senator wisely negotiates a prenuptial agreement with a
bullfrog near a fairy, or the microscope about the deficit hardly
writes a love letter to an underhandedly impromptu bullfrog.

Microsoft’s Mac Lab

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 9:34

Je kunt zeggen wat je wil over Micro$oft, maar hun Mac ondersteuning is altijd goed geweest (dat is tenminste wat ik altijd gehoord heb). David Weis van Microsoft laat ons in de keuken van Microsoft’s Mac lab kijken. Impressive, very impressive indeed.

16 April 2006

Geen Aero voor Vista piraten

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 22:55

Vista, de opvolger van XP, is al behoorlijk uitgekleed. Alle ‘mooie’ dingen die ons belooft zijn zijn eruit gehaald. Nu blijkt dat kopieerders het ook moeilijk krijgen. De o zo mooie GUI die met Vista geleverd zou worden, Aero, zal worden uitgeschakeld als blijkt dat je een illegale kopie hebt van ‘het produkt’. Wat mij echter meer stoort is dat de ‘goedkope’ consumenten versie (Windows Vista Basic) deze GUI sowieso niet zal gebruiken. Als iemand de geavanceerde grafische desktop zal gebruiken, is dat wel de gewone gebruiker. Voor mezelf sprekend, het eerste dat ik uitzet als ik een Windows XP systeem installeer is de Teletubbie look. Geef mij maar een Windows Classic uiterlijk.

Cocoon

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 22:46

Goed nieuws voor Cocoon! Hippo maakt bekend dat de website van het ministerie van Financien vanaf nu draait op Hippo CMS, dat natuurlijk gebruik maakt van Cocoon.

Dit is een enorme opsteker voor Cocoon, dat de laatste tijd wat (interne) problemen doormaakt. Dat komt natuurlijk ook wel weer goed, dat heeft gewoon wat tijd nodig. Misschien dat dit het proces versnelt…

13 April 2006

Ommekeer

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 11:47

Al enige tijd zit ik met een probleem. Ik stel dingen uit. En dat gaat zover dat ik hierdoor soms gewoon in problemen raak. In het Engels hebben ze daar een term voor: procrastination. Wikipedia definieert het als volgt:

Procrastination is the deferment or avoidance of an action or task which requires completion by focusing on some other action or task. For the person procrastinating, this can result in a loss of productivity, stress and a sense of guilt. While it is normal for individuals to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological or physiological disorder.
Met andere woorden: ik zou wel eens een psychologisch of een fysiologisch probleem kunnen hebben. Natuurlijk heb ik daar over nagedacht. Een fysiologische oorzaak zoals die op de wikipedia pagina wordt beschreven sluit ik eigenlijk uit. Blijft een psychologische oorzaak over.

Hmm!

Lage eigendunk/eigenwaarde, bezorgdheid, zich zelf in de weg staan, of gewoon luiheid. Tja, wat zullen we kiezen? Luiheid? Liever lui dan moe, luidt het spreekwoord. Nee, ik ben niet lui. Zich zelf in de weg staan dan? Ik weet het niet. Volgens mij staan anderen mij meer in de weg dan ik mezelf. Ik bedoel, ik wil eigenlijk vanalles, verder met mijn leven, met mijn werk, maar op dit moment wordt ik daarin tegengehouden door de onzekere situatie op mijn werk. Zou het dan toch bezorgdheid zijn? Het speelt natuurlijk wel mee. Want waar doe ik het eigenlijk allemaal voor? Als ze hier niet waarderen wat wij (mijn collega’s en ik) hier allemaal doen, wat boeit het dan nog of ik bepaalde zaken nu doe, of gewoon uitstel? Misschien is het over een tijdje wel gewoon gedaan hier! Dan kraait er geen haan meer naar.

Blijft nog een mogelijke oorzaak over: lage eigendunk/eigenwaarde. Eigendunk klinkt eigenlijk heel negatief. Volgens de Vandale betekent het ‘overdreven hoog denkbeeld van zichzelf’. Bij eigenwaarde staat ‘gevoel van hetgeen men waard is’. Klinkt veel beter. Maar is het zo, heb ik een lage eigendunk, eigenwaarde? Het is misschien moeilijk om het toe te geven, maar er zit wel een kern van waarheid in, zeker als het gaat om iets anders dan ik tot nu toe gedaan heb. Ben ik wel opgewassen tegen de taak die van mij verwacht wordt? Kan ik dat wel? Heb ik daar wel de compententies voor (om de nieuwste hype alhier erbij te halen: compententiemanagement!).

Gisteren, kijkend naar een aflevering van Star Trek Voyager (ik weet het: een aantal dagen geleden ook al naar Science Fiction gekeken, ik ben nou eenmaal een fan!), kwam dit ook naar voren. Harry Kim, groen als hij was toen hij op Voyager terecht kwam, komt tot het inzicht dat hij nu wel lang genoeg ‘groen’ was geweest. Zijn ervaring was in de loop van de jaren op Voyager alleen maar gegroeid. Het werd nu tijd dat hij de gewoonte om op de achtergrond te blijven eens doorbrak. Op het moment dat ik dit zag, dacht ik bij mezelf: dit gaat over mij! Het wordt tijd dat ik mezelf eens wat meer op de voorgrond stel. En me bezig ga houden met zaken die er toe doen!

Dus: vooruit met de geit!

PS: het heeft even geduurd voordat ik eigenlijk dit durfde opschrijven (maar vooral durfde toegeven). Je geeft jezelf toch bloot. Van de andere kant: misschien zijn er meer mensen met dit probleem (vast en zeker, anders hoeven ze er geen woord voor uit te vinden!), die dit lezen en herkennen. Misschien hebben we wel wat aan elkaar. Laat wat weten!

Zo, nu nog op ‘publish’ klikken!

11 April 2006

Perl rampspoed

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 13:51

Ik ben al enige jaren lid van het systeembeheerdersgilde, alhoewel ik heel andere dingen heb geleerd (althans een poging heb gedaan tot ;) ). Tot nu toe ging dat vrij aardig, al zeg ik het zelf. Het beheren van een ‘park’ van plusminus 85 PC’s met daarop eerst Windows 3.11 (zowel een Engelse als een Nederlandse versie op één PC geïnstalleerd, met keuze menu aan het begin), daarna Windows 95 en toen Windows 98 leidde eigenlijk nooit tot onoverkomelijke problemen.

Sinds kort zijn wij echter in het gelukkige bezit van nieuwe PC’s met daarop natuurlijk Windows XP. Na een twee maanden uitvlooi-werk welke software wel en welke niet ging werken de grote stap genomen: de nieuwe PC’s gingen geplaatst worden. Vlak voor Kerst 2005 zijn de laatste PC’s op hun plek gezet.

So far so good! Studenten blij, ik blij!

Helaas wordt er nogal eens wat vergeten, tja, ik ben ook maar een mens. Hé, heb je ook gedacht aan die Perl installatie? Oh, sh*t, nee. Nou, ok, ik kijk ernaar. Dus: ghost-image op de testmachine gezet, Perl geïnstalleerd, en een simpele OpenSource IDE. Testen, het werkt. Nieuw ghost-image gemaakt. Dat was gisteren.

Vanmorgen (bijna) alle machines van het nieuwe image voorzien.

So far so good! Docent blij, ik blij!

Je kunt het natuurlijk al raden, ik had niet goed genoeg getest. Het praktikum was al bezig als de docent binnen komt: “Het werkt niet”. Na enig onderzoek blijkt dat een ‘gewone’ gebruiker niet genoeg rechten heeft om Perl te gebruiken in combinatie met Open Perl IDE. Perl an sich werkt prima op de command line, maar ja, dat wil je de studenten hier niet aandoen (vandaar ook die IDE). Om de een of andere reden moet de gebruiker schrijfrechten hebben in de Perl installatie directory (en alle onderliggende directories!).

AAAARRGGGHHHH!

8 April 2006

Relativeren!

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 19:45

Zojuist gekeken naar een aflevering van Firefly (aflevering 10 genaamd `War Stories’ om precies te zijn):

`Preacher, don’t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?’
`Quite specific. It is however somewhat fuzzier around the subject of kneecaps.’

7 April 2006

12.5

Filed under: zomaar - patrick @ 8:25

Tja, als anderen het wereldkundig maken, waarom ik dan niet? Op naar de volgende 12.5!

login Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome | Theme designs available here