wijk-aan-zee pier

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nikon d300 • tokina 12-24 f/4 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad

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pier nuon

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nikon d300 • tokina 12-24 f/4 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad

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branch monster

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populous ii

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nikon d300 • nikkor 70-300 vr • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad

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shrub

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frozen mist

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snoopy

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bags of antwerp

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nikon d300 • tamron 17-50 f/2.8 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad

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christmas lights

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nikon d300 • nikkor 50mm f/1.4 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad

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dried flowers

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flood/leaf

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side sun

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soap

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reflective perspective

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muddy reflections

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full moon

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panasonic tz3 vs doisneau

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evening sun at the grote nete

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pegs

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dew calendula

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ovenschotel van kabeljauw met tomaat

Ingredienten:

- kabeljauwfilet
- champignons
- tomaten
- knoflook
- ui
- boter
- olijfolie
- (spelt)bloem
- kruiden
- zonnebloempitten

Bereiding:

Smeer ovenschotel in met boter. Leg nog klont boter op de bodem.
Panneer filet met wat bloem en leg in de ovenschotel.
Strooi wat zonnebloempitten op de vis.
Giet een klein beetje olijfolie op de vis.
Snij champignons in plakjes en leg rond de vis.
Pers teentjes knoflook erover.
Kruid naar smaak.
Snij tomaat in grote plakken en bedek er de vis en champignons mee.
Snij ui in plakken en versier er de tomaten mee.
Verwarm 20 minuten in een voorverwarmde oven van 220 graden (boven+onder verwarming).
Serveer met bijvoorbeeld pasta, ik gebruikte boekwijtpasta.

cloud eye

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warmoes lasagne; variant

Zie 2 posts terug voor het recept.

Deze keer varieerde ik op het recept als volgt:


warmoes => warmoes + tuinmelde
champignons => gehakt
kaas => gruyere kaas
sjalotten => uien

extra ingredient: een gele paprika, in stukjes gesneden en meegestoofd met de uien.

Dit was weer buitengewoon geslaagd!

Linux Debian 4.0 / Lite-on Lightscriber

To get the lightscriber dvd/cd writer I recently bought to write labels under amd64 debian linux 4.0 I had to do the following things:

• download the basic lightscriber library from http://www.lightscribe.com/
  
• download the 4L lightscriber label software from LaCie
  
• convert both rpms with alien to deb files in a debian 4.0 ia32 schroot
  
• extract both deb files with dpkg-deb -x / towards the root of your amd64 system
  
• make sure the ia32 chroot libraries are available in the librarypath for the tool
  
• run the GUI, as root if you want to burn the label on the CD
  

Use the gimp to make the labels, there are templates with the correct available together with the LaCie software.

warmoes lasagne

Ingredienten:
- warmoes
- champignons
- boter
- peper/zout
- olijfolie (ik gebruikte olijfolie met toscaanse kruiden)
- lasagne vellen
- bloem
- sjalotten
- knoflook
- melk
- kaas (ik gebruikte een geitenkaas met stukjes gedroogde tomaat erin)

Warm de oven voor op 220 graden (hete lucht; boven+onder warmte)
Snij de sjalotten, de look en de champignons fijn.
Verwarm een deel van de boter met wat olijfolie in een pan en stoof er lichtjes de sjalotten, look en champignons in. Voeg peper/zout naar smaak toe.
Voeg bloem en melk toe volgens recept van iets in den aard van een witte saus.
Was de warmoes en droog ze. Stoof ze in wat olijfolie en boter lichtjes op.
Voeg beetje melk toe.
Maak een lasagne in een ovenschotel door de witte saus af te wisselen met de warmoes met lasagne vellen ertussen.
Eindig met wat plakjes kaas,.
Ongeveer 20 minuutjes in de oven.

Heerlijk!!!!

Dell Precision M65 and xorg and synaptics

Out if the box the settings for the synaptics touchpad are horribly bad. Especially since this laptop has a native resolution of 1920x1200.

Thanks to this webpage it now works great!

This is the relevant section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
 Driver  "synaptics"
 Option  "InputFashion"  "Mouse"
 Option  "SendCoreEvents" "false"
 Option  "Device"  "/dev/psaux"
 Option  "Protocol"  "auto-dev"
 Option  "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
 Option  "SHMConfig"  "on"
 Option  "RTCornerButton" "0"
 Option  "RBCornerButton" "0"
 Option  "TapButton1"  "0"
 Option  "TapButton2"  "0"
 Option  "TapButton3"  "0"
 Option  "Buttons"  "8"
 Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5 6 7"
 Option  "TopEdge"  "100"
 Option  "BottomEdge"  "670"
 Option  "LeftEdge"  "100"
 Option  "RightEdge"  "950"
 Option  "MaxSpeed"  "2.0"
 Option  "MinSpeed"  "0.5"
 Option  "AccelFactor"  "0.05"
EndSection

This is great!

linux & logitec media keyboard Y-BN52

To make it work, set the following xmodmappings:

keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 236 = XF86Mail
keycode 130 = XF86HomePage
keycode 223 = XF86Sleep
keycode 161 = XF86Calculator
keycode 230 = XF86Favorites

E.g. add this to a file in your homedir and load it with xmodmap from your .xsession file.

kernel mode pppoe

Kernel mode pppoe, the debian way:


/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider:
plugin rp-pppoe.so eth1
noipdefault
defaultroute
hide-password
lcp-echo-interval 60
lcp-echo-failure 3
noauth
persist
mtu 1492
mru 1492
user "xxx@PROVIDER"

/etc/ppp/pap-secrets:
"xxx@PROVIDER" * "myfunkypass"

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto mydsl
iface mydsl inet ppp
    provider dsl-provider


Replace eth1 by your dsl ethernet link device name, xxx by username, PROVIDER by your provider, and myfunkypass by your password.
Enable with ifup mydsl, disable with ifdown mydsl.

Lembas 0.6

Another batch of lembas :)

Ingredients:

- 100g maple syrup
- 300g prairie flour (whole wheat flour, whole wheat, soy, rye flour, gluten, oat, flax seed, wheat bran, sunflower pits, barley, malt)
- 1 teaspoon "speculaaskruiden"
- 2 teaspoons cacao
- 120g sun flower oil

Mix all together and bake in preheated oven at 150 degrees celcius for 30 minutes.

recept: schandalige chocolademelk

Neem 3 stukjes 99% cacao lindl chocolade. Doe in een beker. Giet er wat ahorn siroop bij. Vul de beker met melk. Ongeveer 2 minuten in de microgolf oven op 900 Watt.
Blijf bij de microgolf staan en stop hem als het net niet overkookt.
Wacht een seconde en start de microgolf weer, en stop weer als het net niet overkookt.
Doe dit een keer of 4.
Eventueel wat roeren.
Nu zou de chocolade perfect opgelost moeten zijn.

debian in kvm mini howto

I started by downloading the debian-40r0-i386-CD-1.iso via jigdo.
Then I created a disk image file like this:

qemu-img create vdisk.qcow 1G

Then I boot kvm like this:

kvm -hda vdisk.qcow -cdrom debian-40r0-i386-CD-1.iso -boot d -m 256

(It may be needed to change the permissions of /dev/kvm)

Proceed with installation as a normal debian installation. I only installed the minimum.
The default kvm uses a build-in user space networking. However I'd like to have bridged
networking.
First I create a tap0 device in /etc/network/interfaces:

iface tap0 inet manual
        pre-up tunctl -b -u <my_user_name> -t tap0
        pre-up ifconfig tap0 up
        post-down tunctl -d tap0

Make sure you have tunctl installed, its part of the uml-utilities package.
Replace the <my_user_name> by the user you want to run kvm as.
Normally my network interface is configured via DHCP, soo I want to keep that.
However I want kvm to be also able to access my LAN. Therefor I create a bridge interface:

iface br0 inet dhcp
        bridge_ports eth0 tap0
        bridge_maxwait 0

Which I bring up via DHCP. Of course I'll have to change eth0 also:

iface eth0 inet manual

Finually make sure they are brought up in the right order:

auto lo eth0 tap0 br0

In total this gives an /etc/network/interfaces like this:

auto lo eth0 tap0 br0

iface lo inet loopback

iface br0 inet dhcp
        bridge_ports eth0 tap0
        bridge_maxwait 0

iface eth0 inet manual

iface tap0 inet manual
        pre-up tunctl -b -u <my_user_name> -t tap0
        pre-up ifconfig tap0 up
        post-down tunctl -d tap0

Finually edit the file /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup and put everything in it in comments.
Now bring down the network and bring it up again:

ifdown -a
ifup -a

And then start the kvm:

kvm -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0 -hda vdisk.qcow -m 256 -localtime

Once booted, log in and change the /etc/network/interfaces file in the image to use DHCP:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

If you bring down the net and bring it up again (within the kvm!):

ifdown -a
ifup -a

you should get a DHCP lease from your LAN and the kvm is available on the LAN.

Now it's time to start using it!

ezmlm delivery disabled

In order to subscribe to an ezmlm mailinglist with a second email address and allow posting with it, but don't receive the mails twice, use "[list-name]-allow-subscribe@..." instead of "[list-name]-subscribe@..." when subscribing.

sound and jackd on the dell precision m65

In order to get the intel-hda soundcard to work properly it is imporant that the software modem is enabled in the BIOS.

To make jackd work without xruns, add the following kernel options to the boot line in your grub config: noacpi acpi=off.

After this jack runs fine with the following settings in qjackctl:

• Realtime
  
• H/W Monitor
  
• H/W Meter
  
• Frames/Period: 256
  
• Sample Rate: 44100
  
• Periods/Buffer: 3
  
• Interface: hw:0
  

This gives a jackd commandline like this:

/usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p256 -n3 -H -M

Bloemkool met gehakt in de tajine

Ingredienten (voor 2 personen)

• 1 bloemkool


• 250g gehakt


• 2 uien


• 2 tenen knoflook


• 2 theelepels groentenbouillon


• kokend water


• olijfolie


• kruidenzout

Bereiding

Snij de uien en de knoflook in stukken en fruit in wat olijfolie tot het glanzend is in de tajine. Voeg 2 theelepels groentenbouillon toe, en leng aan met water. Snij het harde binnenste uit de bloemkool en vul met gehakt. Strooi ruim kruidenzout op het gehakt. Zet de bloemkool in de bouillon, zet de deksel op de tajine en laat ongeveer 3 uur pruttelen op de laagste stand.

Debian udev and eth0 versus eth2

Lately I've been playing with booting Linux from an USB stick.

One wierd thing I noticed that for some reason in dmesg I see the network interface detected as eth0, but eth0 didn't work.
Today I found out that the actual device is eth2!
Turns out that udev automatically adds mac address based mappings to the file

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

As I booted the USB stick once before in another laptop, the mac addresses of that machine already got eth0 and eth2, therefor the mac address of the new machine was mapped on eth2.

Just clearing this file and let it be populated again after a fresh boot fixes it.
Alternatively just edit the interface names in this file to match your liking.

vim embedded commands

A neat trick I use sometimes: it's possible to customize the settings of the vim editor by embedding commands in the file. Put them on the last line after a comment character (which depends on the language of course).
For example for python I like:

# vim:ts=4:noet

which makes sure tabs are not expanded and tabstops are at 4 characters.

Lembas 0.1.1

In preparation of LOTR day, I prepared a modification of my Lembas 0.1 recipe.

Use a mix of white flour, prairy flour and rye flour instead of maslin.

Tasty!

Lembas 0.5

A new batch of Lembas!

Ingredients:
- 30g sunflower oil
- 1 egg
- 50g "appeldiksap" (thick apple juice?)
- 50g maple syrup
- 150g prairie flour (whole wheat flour, whole wheat, soy, rye flour, gluten, oat, flax seed, wheat bran, sunflower pits, barley, malt)
- 100g whole rye flour
- 6g yeast

Put all ingredients in a bowl and knead till it forms a smooth dough.

Let rest for an hour or 2 in the refrigerator.

Roll out on a baking plate to make it about 1.5 cm thick. Precut into pieces with the back of a knife.

Pre-heat the oven at 150 degrees celcius, and bake for around 30 minutes.

gvim, kde and session restore

When I have open gvim editors in KDE and I log out and log in again, the editors are not restored properly in the sense that they are started, but without the document I was editing.

It turned out the solution is really easy:


# apitude install vim-gnome
# update-alternatives --config gvim


and make sure you pick the gnome version as prefered version of gvim in the update-alternatives menu. Aparantly the gnome version is also KDE session aware.

debian ,wifi, wpa supplicant and /etc/network/interfaces

Already a few people asked me how to configure Wifi properly under debian using
the /etc/network/interfaces file.
It's not yet documented in the manual page of the file, but it is documented in the file
/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz

An example setup for wpa2:

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
       wpa-driver madwifi
       wpa-ssid fredsnet
       wpa-passphrase fred was here
       wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
       wpa-pairwise TKIP CCMP
       wpa-group TKIP CCMP
       wpa-proto WPA RSN

gouden gids, witte gids, papierverspilling

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Doen!