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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.

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  [...]

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Vim remap ex-mode key

I’ve become in the habit to miss shift-a in vim (edit at end of line), and instead pressing shift-q which brings you to the ex-mode. To get out of that, you need to type the command “visual“. Quite long and annoying. Quick look at the help pointed me to the vimrc_example.vim (:help vimrc_example.vim). And this [...]

Having fun with IRC daemons

Sooo.. after a talk with my boss, I decided to implement one of the things he once did. An IRC server module which on connect gives you a random 3L1t3 hackers handle. 1245 -!- Code-dUde [] has joined #darkwired 1245 -!- fast-Fate [] has joined #darkwired 1245 -!- wet-chillA [] has joined #darkwired 1245 -!- [...]

New IRC daemon

Today I switched the IRC Daemon on darkwired. From old unreal to the shiny new inspircd. Inspircd is pretty easy to configure although it is a pretty big config, it is quite easy to understand and it did not take long to get it up and running. Big plus on that one! Ofcourse no first [...]

Germans and my Name

Germans are used to Johann I guess… But alas, my name is still Johan without the second n.

Violation

I am in violation of german law: http://kismac.de/

My German phone number

Keeping up with the one post per month… I present: My new German Mobile phone number! 0049 17696209986 Still using my old P900 for this. My dutch number is out of service until I find a good phone for it. (switching Sim’s once in a while) using a way back old phone for my dutch [...]

Nginx userdir list

Our Nginx server was without a proper ~user listing. While this is default in most apache configs, its not in Nginx. My friend Dominiek made a hack with a ruby script. This would have worked fine if had some more work but memory usage was pretty bad (especially for big files). So, I started on [...]

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Vim tags not sorted error

Vim has a pretty nice (although not that smart) completion command, Ctrl+n. Lately I’ve been getting this error: E432: Tags file not sorted This error is pretty annoying as it interrupts your work with an error. Googeling for this gave me no solution. Then I searched for files named tags (which are a lot), and [...]

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As I keep working on school projects getting my points. As I’m getting more and more familiar with ReST, I like it more and more! But I’m also becoming more and more aware of its limitations. Don’t get me wrong, ReST will do everything for most document needs, but it lacks features to be used [...]

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