niels / Software / #linux

enlightenment?

Inspired by David’s urge to maximize eye candy on his newly installed Linux machine and old memories of a cutting edge Enlightenment DR16 I decided to check out its latest version. Although still beta, the latest version is called E17. It’s a complete rewrite and has been in development for quite some time now. Based […]

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niels / Hardware / #voip

Unlocking Pilmo Voicefinder

A while ago I posted a small HOWTO on how to use Pilmo and the Pilmo Voicefinder with Asterisk. In response to that I got some requests on how to unlock the Voicefinder. Although there is no need to unlock it when using my instructions, here’s how: Download an original Addpac firmware from http://www.addpac.com/addpac_eng/customer.html Just […]

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niels / Software /

Personal Livestream

Two weeks ago XS4ALL introduced ‘Personal Livestream‘, allowing their customers to share their own audio/video stream with an unlimited number of viewers within XS4ALL and a handful on the rest of the Internet. Sounds good? Unfortunatly their website tells you the service will only work with Windows as the service requires Windows Media Encoder. Sound […]

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niels / Software / #voip

Pilmo and Asterisk

The last few years I’ve been using Pilmo as my voip provider and am quite pleased with it. The good thing about them is that they supply me with a regular Dutch phone number including a normal area code and not some weird number in one of the dedicated voip number ranges. The bad thing […]

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niels / Blog / #vpn

Super Freeswan and Windows XP

Wanted to throw out WPA for several reasons, I switched to IPSEC for my wireless network which includes a Windows XP machine… This is just a quick reference for myself so I don’t have to figure it out all over again when I add a Windows machine to the network. On the Freeswan box Edit […]

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Resume

Link to outdated resume has been removed. Since I had to dig up my resume anyway, I’ve put it [online].

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niels / Blog / #email

E-mail replies

Outdated links to lists removed. Not getting reply to your email? Make sure to check my [blacklist] and [ignorelist].

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niels / Hardware / #acer,#laptop

Acer Travelmate 634LC

For those of you buying an Acer Travelmate 634LC I’ve put online some info on having it run Debian GNU Linux. Not as fast as my Medion laptop but it’s more power efficient and has a bigger screen (15.1" 1400×1050). ##Quickspecs Mobile Pentium IV 1.8GHz ALI Chipset 15.1" TFT 32MB videocard with TV-Out 512MB DDR […]

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niels / Blog /

Guestbook

Outdated links to guestbook removed. The almost antique [Guestbook Service] has been slightly updated and moved to the [BroZus] server.

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