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One year ago: I’m writer and free software author Pieter Hintjens and I’m dying of cancer, ask me anything! : IAmA

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/10

The end of April and early May are busy times for my marching band Adest Musica. The period includes important days like King’s Day and Liberation Day filled with festivities.

Right before Liberation Day is a much more sober Remembrance of the Dead.

To prepare for that, I usually try to put some time aside to do some reflection on the people I’ve lost over the years.

This year, I took a deep breath and read back through the, now 1 year old, [WayBackI’m writer and free software author Pieter Hintjens and I’m dying of cancer, ask me anything! : IAmA.

It’s till impressive and well worth reading, both because of the person (Pieter Hintjens), his life and what he went through until his planned death.

Even though Pieter and I only know each other electronically for a short time, I’m still proud of what I learned from him.

The marching band calendar this spring: https://teamup.com/ks7a793f73fc4d5e89?date=2017-04-22&view=l

–jeroen

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BEVRIJDINGSCONCERT OP DE OUDE HAVEN | Oranjevereniging Sassenheim

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/05

Ik ben benieuwd wat mijn broer er van vindt: [WayBackAankomende Evenementen | BEVRIJDINGSCONCERT OP DE OUDE HAVEN | Oranjevereniging Sassenheim

Zelf ben ik vanavond hier met de een voorproefje van de WMC 2017 show van Adest Musica:  [WayBackZeister Taptoe keert terug op Slot Zeist | Korpsmuziek.nl:

De Stichting wilde met de viering van haar 5-harig bestaan en de organisatie van het 5e evenement een kwalitatief hoogstaand programma op een bijzondere locatie. Daarin is het bestuur geslaagd. Op de komende Bevrijdingsdag keert de Taptoe Zeist na bijna 25 jaar eenmalig terug op de historische locatie Slot Zeist. Hier vonden tussen 1984 en 1993 tien eerdere succesvolle taptoes plaats.

–jeroen

 

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Dagbesteding bij een zorgprofiel (begeleiding groep)

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03

Dagbesteding bij een zorgprofiel

26-4-2017

​Heeft u een indicatie van het CIZ voor een zorgprofiel uit de Wet langdurige zorg en heeft u dagbesteding nodig? Dan kunt u zich vanaf 1 mei wenden tot uw zorgkantoor. Dit kan bijvoorbeeld het geval zijn als u eerder in staat was om (beschut) werk uit te voeren en dat nu niet meer kan.

Het zorgkantoor neemt uw aanvraag voor dagbesteding in behandeling en beoordeelt of u hiervoor in aanmerking komt.

Als u al dagbesteding ontvangt vanuit de Wlz, dan hoeft u niks te doen.

Source: [WayBackActueel

–jeroen

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March ‘Rosehill’  – Enfield Citadel Band – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/30

Interesting piece of music: March ‘Rosehill’  – Enfield Citadel Band – YouTube

We’re going to play this as well.

–jeroen

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Organizational Doxing – Schneier on Security

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/26

X-mas day 2 thought:

best defense might be to refrain from doing things that don’t look good on the front pages of the world’s newspapers

Source: Organizational Doxing – Schneier on Security

–jeroen

via: »Organizations are increasingly getting hacked, and not by criminals wanting to steal credit card numbers or account information in order to commit fraud,… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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Single Malt Fiber…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/24

Via [WayBack] Office so, am Nebentisch: “Mumble, mumble, single mode, mumble, single mode fiber, mumble””Ich höre die Hälfte der Zeit Single Malt. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

While you’re waiting for the packet exchange anyway, enjoy 45 minutes of uninterrupted Lagavulin™ Single Malt Scotch Whisky-drinking bliss with Nick Offerman by the Yule Log Fireplace… and you don’t even need to exchange words… (thanks René Riech).

Or as a close friend would describe it: genitaal…

— more —

 

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Hydrogen – a free and open source cross platform drum machine…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/21

Features | Hydrogen

via: Hydrogen – a free and open source cross platform drum machineHydrogen is a software synthesizer which can be used alone, emulating a drum machine based… – Danie van der Merwe – Google+

 

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OpenSuSE and logging: no more syslogd; journald is default, you can use rsyslog or syslog-NG as syslogd replacements

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/15

In the 1990s and early 2000s I did a lot of Unix-Like (Minix, SunOS, HP-UX, Xenox) and later Linux (mostly RedHat and SuSE) work. The internet and Linux weren’t as big as they are now and old stuff was still in use including syslogd.

So recently wanting to do more on the Linux side of things using OpenSuSE (as 15+ years ago, I spent most of my time with SuSE Linux) and assumed logging was still done using syslogd like Mac OS X does.

Boy, I was wrong. Like the internet and lots of other things, logging on OpenSuSE has fragmented in at least these three categories of which two syslog implementations (but syslogd is deprecated and – according to the URC #SUSE Channel – unmaintained):

  • journald (installed by default on my Tumbleweed text-only systems)
  • rsyslog (which is supposed to be default on modern OpenSuSE installs but somehow isn’t on my Tumbleweed but is on 13.1 and 13.2)
  • syslog-ng
  • proprietary logging (of many applications in /var/log like named, apache, etc)

There seems to be heated debates on what to use when, so I’ll try to stick with the defaults as much as possible.

A few things I need to sort out:

  1. where is journald persisted?
  2. how can journald being rotated?
  3. what to do with packages that require one form of syslog or the other?
    • not sure yet
  4. can I direct journald to a syslog implementation?
  5. how does this apply to other distros?
    • not sure yet

Tonu Su (TSu2) posted an elaborate answer on the above questions on the OpenSuSE forums.

–jeroen

via:

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Learned new German words: Störerhaftung, Abmahnung: Würde #neuland Störerhaftung ernst nehmen…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/28

Learned new German words:

  • Störerhaftung
  • Abmahnung

Source: Würde #neuland  Störerhaftung ernst nehmen… https://ahoipolloi.blogger.de/st…

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I will never grow up. I will grow, not sure which direction, but not up. – Via: When I was 5 the future was obvious

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09

I will never grow up. I will grow, not sure which direction, but not up.

That was my response a long while ago to an interesting post by Marjan Venema: When I was 5 the future was obvious. I was going to be a veterinarian and take….

Now I need someone who can make a nice cartoon out of this…

–jeroen

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