Kobol My First NAS At the start of this year I began thinking about a dedicated storage solution for household use. Currently I use a multi purpose server running 24/7 for home storage,
Networking Freedom Internet on Cisco modem This morning I changed to another internet service provider (ISP) known as Freedom. When into tech news in the Netherlands you've must have heard about the XS4ALL story, if not
Dell Dell XPS 13 still going strong For some months now I use a Dell XPS 13 laptop as my daily driver and I am still quite happy with it. The main reason was roaming the office
Fairphone Fairphone3 Liberation In the beginning of November last year I received the successor of the Fairphone2, but as explained in the post I wrote, I was a little hesitate to start using
Philips Fixing LED lighting Six years ago I had to purchase lighting for a new home. Apparently I chose lamps with integrated LEDs, not so smart, I know. A week ago both broke down
firmware Firmware overload On the 9th of december I received a notificaton about new firmware for my laptop. As mentionted on my previous post I would take screenshot to show how it looks
firmware Firmware happiness I am quite used to install operating system updates on deb and rpm based Linux distros. This is usually a simple update && upgrade. But firmware updates on Linux
Fairphone Hier ben ik. After some delay my new phone finally arrived today. Normally I'm little excited when a new toy enters the house, but yesterday I discovered there is no Google free version
Dell Linux pre-installed laptop Yesterday I received my first laptop which had Ubuntu pre-installed. It is a Dell XPS 13 developer edition (7390). The idea is to replace the large workstation under the desk
Containers Containers everywhere Today I'm one step closer to my goal to host all services in containers on my home system. I ditched non-containerized Wordpress in favour of Ghost and did so by
Photography My first super blood wolf moon Today was the first time I have witnessed this natural phenomenon through the lens of my old and dusty Nikon DSLR camera. Because of the good forecast I decided to
Security Certificate on Yubikey4 This instruction is primarily intended for my own documentation, but published here it can serve others as well. My personal (client) certificate was generated using the Mozilla Firefox browser. To
forum Forum Shutdown Due to security concerns and declining usage I decided to shutdown the forum running on my home server. So if you were looking for it, don’t look any further
Networking Baby jumbo frames on VDSL by XS4ALL Last week I acquired a new modem because the old one supplied by the provider was acting strange and I wanted it. The new modem is a Cisco 887VA router
Databases ADRCI incompatible schema version This issue arises when migrating from Oracle 12.1 to 12.2. I could not easily find the info how to fix this issue, so I’ll share it in
Arduino Securing MySensors network Some months ago I decided it was time to secure my steadily growing MySensors network. As described on the MySensors website this can be implemented by using a software or
Home automation MQTT and openHAB adventure Some people asked me to share my MQTT setup in regard to openHAB and I agreed to do so. In this blog post I will explain and describe in more
Home automation Fixing runaway setpoint value It’s not really a fix. It’s better to speak of a workaround to correct the setpoint of the household thermostat which slowly shifts over time (see the graph
Security Install SafeNet eToken PRO on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Since I run Ubuntu on my workstation at work I need a working eToken, so every time I upgrade (follow LTS releases) I have to make sure the eToken works.
Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro - dag zeven Weer niet kunnen uitslapen. De laatste dag op de berg moest weer vroeg beginnen. Dit in verband met onze pickup om 09.00u beneden aan de gate. K3 kwam ons
Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro - dag zes Na ons thee en digestive koekjes kon de ellende beginnen. 6 uur lang naar boven klimmen/ wandelen. We begonnen allemaal heel goed en sterk. Sev kreeg op een gegeven moment
Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro - dag vijf We zijn vandaag (zaterdag 16 Jan) van Karanga kamp naar Barafu kamp gelopen en zijn daarmee aangekomen op 4700m. Over deze klim hebben we twee uur gedaan. Het was een
Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro - dag vier Dag vier van de trek. Vandaag zijn we na een korte loop weer droog aangekomen in het kamp genaamd Karanga. Net na aankomst begon het weer te regenen, dus de
Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro - dag drie We hebben goed uitzicht gehad op de top, hij lag er prachtig bij. De hoogte wordt nu pas echt goed voelbaar. We zijn vandaag aangekomen in Baranco camp op 4100m
Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro - dag twee Vandaag een lange dag omdat we een camp site (Shira 1) hebben overgeslagen. Zitten nu op 3900m in Shira 2 en hebben uitzicht op wat ons te wachten staat. BJ,
