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I’m a geek in his early twenties, writing about cool tech stuff, not so cool tech stuff (complaints) and sometimes something from my personal life.

Configuring the Buffalo AP’s as a Bridge

Configuring the Buffalo WHR-HP-54G as a bridge is quite easy, given that you can get Tomato firmware on there. The default Buffalo firmware doesn’t support bridging or, I couldn’t find it. only thing I found was WDS bridging which is not what I want.
Install Tomato
You need to install an alternative firmware, fortunately most WRT derivatives [...]

Setting up Suse LTSP with DHCP on another server

At work, I have been tasked with setting up a Linux terminal server to lighten the load of our exsisting Windows server.
LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) is quite a nice piece of software. It makes good use of PXE netbooting, but it should also work with RDP.
Get Suse
Download the openSUSE-Edu-KIWI-LTSP-live-unstable.i686 iso from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/
Why Suse? It [...]

G1, the review after usage

So, i have been using the G1 for some time now, and thought it was time for a somewhat more in depth review. I’m writing this post on my G1 with postbot.
Lets start with the keyboard. The keyboard is quite comfortable, and I can almost type blind on it. I can feel where the keys [...]

The G1 Experience

Yesterday when I got home there was a nice present waiting for me. My G1 Phone arrived! I ripped open the packaging and found a phone that was smaller than I expected from the images from the internet.
First tries
Popping in the sim card and the battery was easy, turning it on was a bit harder… [...]

Wichteln, aka, random christmas presents!

Why i hate the apple mighty mouse

I’ve been explaining myself a lot lately for my deep hate for the apple mighty mouse, so here is are a few points on why i hate it.

Scroll wheel gets dirty and is hard to clean
I have never had a mouse with a scrollwheel before where the wheel needed cleaning. Apple doesnt give any better [...]

Default paramater values with python

Default argument values for functions are a nice shortcut in python. They save you from writing many wrapper functions and make the code more readable and also easier to use. They can be used wrong though:
>>> def foo(a=[]):
… a.append(‘bar’)
… return a

>>> foo()
['bar']
>>> foo()
['bar', 'bar']
Like described in idiomatic [...]

Removing the link boxes from Latex’ Hyperref (and color)

Aah Latex… A love hate relation ship. Working on my thesis I use the hyperref package for some nice linking support in my document. unfortunately this also causes them to get link boxes around them. Here’s the code to remove them:
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks,%
citecolor=black,%
filecolor=black,%
[...]

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HAR inspired Python Pygame fun

I have always wanted to do some stuff with Pygame. When i saw the logo on the HAR2009 wiki I whipped up a little python program that draws squares and fades between colors. It looks pretty cool!
Needed: Python, Pygame
Downloads: har_squares

[edit]Seems i have uploaded the wrong file… My apologies to the original writer. The right file [...]

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Drakonen.com

Finally i had the impulse to buy my own domain: drakonen.com. I ‘moved’ my blog to this domain which took a simple symlink. Making Nginx do a moved permanently redirect was a bit harder though, and caused quite some frustration. But here it is:
server {
server_name     drakonen.digigen.nl;
if ($http_host = ‘drakonen.digigen.nl’ ) {
rewrite  ^(.*)  http://drakonen.com$1  permanent;
}
}
This can [...]

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