Archive for the ‘Interwebs’ Category

The Wonderful Telenet detailed usage view.

Posted: 17th August 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet

I dont get it. Telenet has this Wonderful detail view. Im not on the unlimited plan and I can see my downloading habits in this great graph, How much (yeah, thats 83G this month), what type of volume, .. Its all there.

Then Why the Fuck do I have friends, paying more than I do, NOT getting that [...]

And documenting the most popular and often most cruel pieces of creativity is http://knowyourmeme.com/
And there are some AMAZING things on here. Do read the dedicated pages however, the base video might be worth watching, but the epic part is what happens with it afterwards. Peoples reactions, follow up videos, remixes or parody..
From the very funny
Lying [...]

More Fon 2100 (0.7.2 r3) to OpenWRT Fun

Posted: 13th August 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Had another unit lying around, gathering dust. Mini portable servers are an incredible source of potential fun.. if you can do with them what you need to. And that means not being locked down to the firmware. Initial firmware was 0.7.2 r3; which sucks. Luckilly, after a hardware reset, the software reverted to the more [...]

OpenWRT Kamikaze

Posted: 12th August 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

The ssh login into my OpenWRT box; OpenWRT Kamikaze.

Yes THAT Kamikaze Great cocktail!
Though our recipe deals with liters not with oz (ie 1l of each), we add some sugar and just use a big bowl.
That drink caused some Epic stories.

OpenWRT-ing my Fonera

Posted: 11th August 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Wait, Stop, Hold the flaming, I know. Its slightly unethical to do so. But, the Fon2200 is utterly unusable in its usual, locked down version. I dont need the NAT (au contraire, its extremely annoying in my setup); I need more options to separate the fon and the private networks; .. Not to mention that [...]

Just another Telenet disappointment..

Posted: 13th July 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet

The new Telenet usage formulas are up. (Probably for a while already but I just discovered today.) Ive got a 80Gb download limit now; others are unlimited.
Unlimited internet? Well, no.

Turbonet and up customers can enjoy “Free Downloading”. You can now choose to pay for the perception of unlimited downloading. There still is a limit but [...]

Captchas in Perl?

Posted: 7th July 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Although I really love the reCaptcha system, I was asked to check out Captchas that were 100% certain (even when the serv would not be able to reach extrernal servers)
So Im checking out “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” in Perl!
The main concerns being Security, Legibility and Independence. Turns out [...]

Spammers, Will you ever learn?

Posted: 7th June 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

They re getting better, really, they are! They re trying to post content relevant posts, like the following
From: Garry Butkovich
Site: Some cookierecipes blog; Actual url removed
Submitted on 2009/12/30 at 9:17pm
A great idea for future recipes this. Thank you for sharing it. Have you noticed how so many people appear to be cooking again? I wonder [...]

Testing iWatch!

Posted: 7th May 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Next in our “testing” series, after the Office test, today we click trough to the belgian iWatch site and have a look-see.
The verdict? It Doesnt Work!
- Besturingssysteem: Microsoft XP/Vista/Windows 7.0 of Mac OS X
- Internet browser: Internet Explorer 7.0, of Safari of Mozilla Firefox.
- Silverlight* plugin
- 512 MB ram
Yes, they require Silverlight. In this time [...]

Evaluating Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Posted: 3rd May 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Now, thanks to the interwebs, everyone can “enjoy” Microsoft Office trough the Microsoft Office Live Workspace web app. Lets give it a whirl
There are Obviously software requirements, luckily I do have Firefox, so no problem! Its a bunch of ajax n all, I constantly run the google apps, so … hm .. oh [...]

Free eBooks?

Posted: 27th April 2010 by Gert in Entertainment, Interwebs, Planet

I was replying Shelli on Facebook on free books for her fresh eReader when I realised this might actually be an interesting blob to repeat on the ol’ blog!
Free books like any book older than 70 years or so: “Our books are free in the United States because their copyright has expired.” So [...]

The New Site

Posted: 21st April 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

There, gertschepens.be is out there.
A Welcome, a Projects section and an About..
And in the Projects section with the Gnu Screen Tutorial, the info and code on Jopin, the Wammu2cvs code, an overview of the Writings and a proper set of project pages for the eSwitchpad.
And WITH some pretty goodies like the mobilecode page urls (mobilecodes [...]