The Curious Engineer

Jan-Piet Mens

2005–2006

458 posts

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2006 350

December 2006

  1. Eleven Times
  2. Burning Wreath
  3. SSL/TLS Connections to HTTPS Sites on BlackBerry
  4. Quake Hurts Our Mail Servers
  5. Brother MFC-425CN
  6. AutoLock for Series 60
  7. Bluetooth on Mac OS
  8. Three-Way SyncML with Synthesis SyncML Server
  9. Alle Jahre Wieder: Timesystem Wochenblaetter
  10. 'Twas the night before Christmas (a FOSS variation)
  11. Synthesis SyncML Server in Production
  12. Open Source SyncML Projects
  13. (not) Calling Home
  14. An Offer You Can't Refuse
  15. Why is BIS with BES Hidden so Well?
  16. Just Foolin' Around...
  17. Hacking BlackBerry
  18. Synthesis: 1, Funabol: 0
  19. Nokia N70 vs. BlackBerry 8700/8707
  20. For Some, Not All is Rosy with BlackBerry MDS Push
  21. Spruch des Tages
  22. So What?
  23. No More Out Of Office Messages
  24. Largest LDAP Directory?
  25. A Bit more BIS: BlackBerry and IMAP
  26. The Directory Guys

November 2006

  1. Gone Fishing
  2. Mr. Clark is Out of the Office
  3. Rippoff
  4. I'll Have #67 Please
  5. Playing Tricks with Lotus' cldbdir.nsf
  6. Talking Turkey
  7. Sweeping Notes Away?
  8. Quote Of The Day
  9. Lotus Notes 7.01 on Linux
  10. Personal Avatar
  11. Don't Trust my Statistics
  12. Boys Need Toys
  13. Oldie but Goldie
  14. Note to Self: Never a Hack without an Interface
  15. Need to Remove the Mail Stores
  16. MailScanner
  17. Lotus Notes Personal Journal
  18. If You Have a BlackBerry...
  19. Male-Only Remote-Controlled Urinals?
  20. The Parson
  21. Backup a la Monty Python
  22. What I Use on my Mac
  23. Spanning Sync
  24. Pure OpenLDAP: a Table of Contents I'd Like to See
  25. OpenLDAP Cosmetics
  26. Upgrade Ubuntu to 6.10
  27. Spam via BlackBerry BIS Account
  28. Cheat Sheets
  29. Kindergarten Online
  30. Most Popular Search String
  31. The Offline Kindergarten
  32. The "mellon" Mails
  33. A Deal's a Deal
  34. Well, What a Good Reason!
  35. Gmail on BlackBerry
  36. Are you people sure this will be FTP?
  37. Of Course He's Right!
  38. I Smell It: It Is Lurking Around The Corner
  39. How To Overcome Writer's Block
  40. From My Inbox
  41. Is developerWorks Having a Massage?
  42. Automatically Deploying Win32 DLLs to Lotus Notes
  43. Phone Call to a Colleague
  44. Two New Buttons in Lotus Notes
  45. The Small Things in Life
  46. OpenLDAP's accesslog Overlay
  47. Her Job

October 2006

  1. Japanese Drums
  2. Firefox Extensions
  3. Thinking Game 2.0
  4. Surface Mail Spam
  5. Four Essential Freedoms
  6. Combatting Spam
  7. Is Your ClamAV Database Up To Date?
  8. Thought for the Day
  9. Dban
  10. Is the Internet to the Left or to the Right of your Firewall?
  11. Tweaking blogit
  12. To Bcc or Not to Bcc
  13. There Are Times...
  14. Portable HTTP from LotusScript?
  15. Lotus Domino Server Add-In Task (2)
  16. Comment Spam
  17. Regarding Research
  18. Lotus Domino Add-In Task for User Creation
  19. Reading Profile Documents with Lotus Notes C-API
  20. Salt
  21. Crappy Situation
  22. Why is my BES 404?
  23. SyncML with Funambol and Lotus Domino
  24. Push E-Mail with Funambol?
  25. The BBC Honeypot
  26. BenQ/Siemens Weekend
  27. Use Search Engines!
  28. The Postman Rang Once
  29. WebDAV on Lotus Domino
  30. Open Window
  31. Lotus Notes Rules*
  32. Firefox 2.0
  33. Codesearch
  34. This isn't Junk, This is Great News!
  35. Mozilla Addons Queue
  36. BlackBerry 8707v Rollout in Progress
  37. Analysing Visitors
  38. Vin Royal: Chocolates Filled with Vinegar
  39. GEZ Gebuehren?

September 2006

  1. Restricting SSH to Copy Files Only
  2. PostgreSQL With Native LDAP Authentication
  3. Nokia N70
  4. MDS Push in Production
  5. SQLiteDBMS
  6. Sushi
  7. Another Massage for Technorati?
  8. A Little Foobar in your CMS, Guys!
  9. What exactly is an "ertified bank draft" ?
  10. Waiting for thawte
  11. Just My Kind Of Day
  12. You Just Can't Win
  13. Driveway Progress
  14. Using DNS to Keep Track of Application/Data Versions
  15. Yeah, It Fails On That Too
  16. Add a Warning!
  17. Forums Suck (a.k.a. What was bad about Newsgroups?)
  18. Real-World BlackBerry MDS Push Apps
  19. Now Playing: Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
  20. Push Framework
  21. Don't Backdate your Out-Of-Office Agent!
  22. I've Uploaded the Uploader
  23. Beware Autocompletion...
  24. Text to Tags: txt2tags
  25. The "Fantastic Competitor to Windows Server" To Be
  26. Counting LDAP Services
  27. Wear a Condom: Use Bcc!
  28. The Definitive Guide to SQLite
  29. Retrieving List of BlackBerry (BES) Users
  30. No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga
  31. bahn.comfort.what.for?

August 2006

  1. The Disappearing BlackBerry Browser
  2. Sending PGP-Encrypted Mail with Perl & GnuPG
  3. More Funambol
  4. New Look & Old Feel
  5. Tiene Usted Huevos?
  6. Simulating BlackBerry Devices with MDS/ESS
  7. How Much Spam, Did You Say?
  8. Audi Service Tag
  9. Authorizing Web Access by PIN
  10. Watching User's Whereabouts
  11. Seclusion
  12. Hardening Linux
  13. Balthasar Paderborn
  14. Bomb Alert!
  15. Juicy Gooey
  16. BlackBerry 8707 vs 8700
  17. And The Winner Is...
  18. BlackBerry Connect on Qtek 9100 (HTC Wizard)
  19. Using BIS with BES
  20. Monitoring BES Health with Nagios
  21. Will You Keep My File?
  22. Sit & Think...
  23. Listed!
  24. No Silver Ingots
  25. More BlackBerry Impressions
  26. Chili con Carne
  27. Bad Marks for OpenLDAP
  28. Aufgefuhrt werden ?
  29. Sucuk
  30. BlackBerry 8707 without TCP!

July 2006

  1. Pimientos Morones
  2. Sysadmin Day
  3. BlackBerry 8707
  4. Gone Fishing
  5. Brainfuck
  6. Hors d'oeuvres
  7. Professional BlackBerry
  8. Don't Throw a BlackBerry!
  9. BlackBerry PIM Sync
  10. Sein Ausweis Laueft Ab...
  11. Failsafe BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  12. Notes on Linux
  13. Best Data Plan for BlackBerry
  14. Mobile Data Service
  15. Funambol: SyncML Server
  16. Boys Need Toys: DVB-T
  17. BlackBerry: First Impressions
  18. Neues c't special "Linux"
  19. DRBD is Very Stable
  20. Check the LEDs Before Rebooting
  21. Hardening Apache
  22. Best Excuses
  23. Great Weekend!

June 2006

  1. LDAP-Driven RADIUS Appliance
  2. Backup of Cisco Routers
  3. 55 * Google
  4. Calling Home With OpenVPN
  5. Pro OpenSSH
  6. Do Not Resist
  7. Pindakaas
  8. Redirecting Browsers: home.cgi
  9. BlackBerry 8700 It Is
  10. Todo Lists
  11. The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite
  12. Gallery2
  13. Logging Specific Radius Requests
  14. Dial-a-Spammer
  15. Regarding Idiot-Proof
  16. Now Playing
  17. Don't Mess with Old People
  18. About planetblues.co.uk
  19. T'is the Season
  20. Pizza Nr. 17
  21. Welcome!
  22. Idiot-Proof
  23. First Steps with VMware ESX
  24. BlackBerry Hacks
  25. Google Browser Sync
  26. LC ISO Creator
  27. BlackBerry
  28. Mozilla Extension for Monitoring Whatever
  29. DAD/miniDAD Available for Download
  30. Gone Fishing
  31. Salade Speciale
  32. RedHat: Please Upgrade OpenLDAP!
  33. Hating IE
  34. Meeting Room has Shut Down

May 2006

  1. Using SASL's EXTERNAL mechanism from Perl
  2. FreeNAS
  3. Fourty Four
  4. Vitello Tonato
  5. Pro Nagios 2.0
  6. How Distinct are Your Passwords?
  7. How Many Appliances Will There Be?
  8. Yup, they're still there
  9. Nagios Blinkenlights II
  10. Exim's SmartHost from LDAP
  11. Trust
  12. Man Spricht Deutsch: OpenLDAP
  13. Mail Servers Project Finalized
  14. Document Formats
  15. C Training

April 2006

  1. Virtually Everything
  2. Telefax
  3. 6 Down, 6 To Go
  4. Nagios Blinkenlights
  5. ldapvacation
  6. Hand in Hand
  7. Fearless
  8. New Telephone
  9. Installation-Friday
  10. Nagios & Mantis
  11. Visualizing & Monitoring POP3 Users
  12. Savoy in Cream
  13. It Is On the Road
  14. OpenLDAP blown away?
  15. New Server Expected
  16. Mail Server Comparison

March 2006

  1. Extending Nagios Monitoring via XML-RPC
  2. CD Delivery
  3. The Installers are Packaged
  4. OpenLDAP delta-syncrepl
  5. No Heating
  6. Snafu on Google Blogsearch?
  7. mini Mail Servers
  8. Letting it all out
  9. Don't Use IMAP (over lousy connections)
  10. Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service
  11. MySQL on a DRBD Cluster
  12. Thunderbird vs. Outlook
  13. I Never Thought I Would
  14. It Happens...
  15. Maildir vs. Relational Database
  16. Firefox Extension: Web Developer
  17. SSH Public Keys from LDAP
  18. WRT54GL Finally Online
  19. WikiPedia on an iPod
  20. Turkish Style Pizza

February 2006

  1. Ultimate del.icio.us Backup
  2. LDAP on a FUSE
  3. freshmeat
  4. cp *.cf /Lotus/Domino/configs.nsf
  5. The Book of Postfix
  6. robots.txt
  7. I'm Not...
  8. Epson HX-20
  9. XML-RPC for PHP
  10. Distributed .profile
  11. What a Difference Some Paint Makes...
  12. Dokuwiki from "Behind"
  13. Yubnub
  14. Visualizing Connections
  15. Staying on Top of News
  16. Intel Inside?
  17. It is Cold in this Office
  18. It Has Happened
  19. Promi im ICE
  20. LDAP's EXTERNAL SASL Mechanism
  21. Delicious Scuttle
  22. It Happens on Saturday Night
  23. Webcalendar
  24. Guess the Date from this LDIF?
  25. Dürüm Yok!
  26. Poor Man's Dynamic DNS
  27. Calendar: 30 Boxes
  28. managing DNS in MySQL
  29. Tech Support
  30. RSS und Podcasts
  31. $REMOTE_ADDR
  32. Mantis RSS Feeds
  33. Tortiglioni Salame
  34. Technorati Stuff
  35. Logos 2.0
  36. Cool Connections
  37. VMware Server is Free
  38. Mantis 1.0.0
  39. LDAP Authorization with Services
  40. Documentation in Open Source
  41. Thought for the Day
  42. Signing Files with signcode on Windows
  43. Pin-ups
  44. Testing SMTP Servers
  45. System Information
  46. Mantis going to Production
  47. Wiz-Bang Thunderbird Profile
  48. Complaining about Spam and about Ham

January 2006

  1. Notes 7 & Google Search
  2. Handy Seriennummer
  3. They Don't Want Our Business
  4. Ego Trip
  5. Any idea what a trillion is?
  6. The Foodhunter
  7. A Week's Waiting
  8. WRT54GL
  9. 14 Million for a Domain Name?
  10. Keeping LDAP Servers in Sync
  11. Potatoes "Alexandra"
  12. Difficult Support
  13. Moving Mail from Lotus Domino to IMAP
  14. Make Your Own
  15. SMTP AUTH relay Server
  16. Thunderbird 1.5 is Out
  17. Girls, Just a Little Patience...
  18. Thunderbird LDIF to OpenLDAP
  19. mozillaAbPerson...
  20. sexy Exim
  21. Ready for Production

2005 108

December 2005

  1. Mission Control
  2. Unified Messaging
  3. Firefox Mousewheel
  4. Customizing Thunderbird
  5. Browsers on Mac OS
  6. Happy Birthday Browser
  7. SquirrelMail Preferences in LDAP
  8. Common GNU/Linux Myths
  9. Open Source Mac
  10. Loose Change
  11. Firefoxy
  12. Gulasch
  13. Back to the past
  14. Presentations for Management
  15. DRBD Cluster
  16. del.icio.us Firefox
  17. Nasi Goreng
  18. Importing X.509 Certificates into Lotus Notes
  19. CMS Made Simple
  20. Don't litter
  21. Risotto
  22. Redir
  23. Ubuntu Linux
  24. Remember the Good Old Days?

November 2005

  1. Grab a page with lynx
  2. O3
  3. Lotus Notes CSV Viewer
  4. Going Flat
  5. Watch out for Mulled Wine
  6. MS Patch
  7. LDAP & Sendmail
  8. An das Handelshaus Legler
  9. PAM-LDAP (on Debian)
  10. Maps in C
  11. ICE 634
  12. 3-2-1 Mine
  13. Showing my age
  14. The back-pain is over
  15. wordpress.com is now free
  16. Nada
  17. How good is your C?
  18. The Jargon File
  19. One-Shot E-mail Address
  20. Ldapvi
  21. iniParser
  22. Boys Don't Need Toys
  23. OpenLDAP Performance
  24. Import Birthdays into Lotus Notes Calendar
  25. A lot of white space...
  26. Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom
  27. Payback for Open Source
  28. blogit: Lotus Domino Server addin-task
  29. TCP load balancers
  30. Can you live by this?
  31. Bugs in commercial applications
  32. Comment Spam
  33. Autumn
  34. TUX Magazine
  35. Why on Earth did They do That?
  36. Notebook Security
  37. High Availability
  38. Upgrade day

October 2005

  1. No small wonder nothing worked at home on Thursday!
  2. Don't let your SAP servers listen on funny TCP port numbers
  3. Stu
  4. Minix revisited
  5. The Power of Plain Text
  6. No more email for me!
  7. It had to happen...
  8. Drive space for Gmail?
  9. Bullet Points
  10. more bcrypt
  11. Another Linux Fan?
  12. Debugging Nagios
  13. Requiem for a Wren
  14. 105 years of 'person' schema
  15. Carmina Burana
  16. Oh yes, of course!
  17. Es gibt noch ehrliche Menschen
  18. Builtin bottle opener
  19. Best chocolate
  20. Presentations
  21. LDAP Exporter
  22. Code

September 2005

  1. Debugging LDAP operations on a Lotus Domino server
  2. NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT
  3. Less is More
  4. Nagios rocks
  5. The Polish Cow
  6. Wo bleiben die Prinzipien?
  7. How Google Works
  8. Firewall
  9. Assmosis
  10. Es ist angerichtet
  11. Thunderbird doesn't retrieve X.509 usercertificate
  12. dot.cat
  13. LDAP bug in Thunderbird
  14. 1023.96
  15. Couscous Salad
  16. Programming
  17. Dwws
  18. Stunnel dispatcher
  19. Radius

August 2005

  1. My first Wikipedia update
  2. Vergeblich gewartet
  3. OpenLDAP chain overlay
  4. Domino hiccups
  5. Blogging

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