iPad

· apple

All I can say: “Not impressed”.

Too big to be mobile, missing too many key features to be useful.

Actually, I guess Gizmodo said it all.

And besides that, no iPhone OS 4? No working iTunes? Anything truly useful?

New theme

· misc

Happy 2nd anniversary, blog (yes, I’m a couple of days late ;)).

Just updated the old, somewhat boring theme, to this new white, clear and simple theme.

Let’s see how long it takes me this time before I grow tired of it. ;)

Also Yourls is now fully functional (see page sources for the short URL) on this blog. It’s now also using the yeri.be domain instead of tuinslak.be… Made more sense (length-wise). ;)

MRTG

· hardware, misc, networking, software, www

As I often have people asking for the files I use to make my pretty MRTG graphs; I’ll publish them here.

Here are some examples:

Zero - One - Four - vm1 - Sauron

The config files:

Sauron (including Squid stats),

Zero (including fan stats).

List of files included:

  • indexmaker; simple script (included with MRTG) to generate a simple index file with all the graphs
  • snmp-if.sh; will show you the IDs of the interfaces on the server/pc. These IDs have to be edited in the mrtg.cfg file; e.g.:

Target[eth0]: 2:public@localhost:

Windows 7 + iPhone tethering

· networking, windows

If Apple was so kind to give you tethering (and didn’t silently remove it after an update), or if you just happen to have enabled it using, let’s say, the alternative method. And you happen to be forced to use Windows, and you really are tired of XP, and Vista surely isn’t an option; you’re probably running Windows 7.

To enable tethering on the iPhone + Windows; just pair the bluetooth devices (I actually haven’t tried with USB yet, and don’t really plan on doing that), Windows will start to QQ about it being unable to find a suitable driver for the iPhone… I even installed iTunes to see if the message would go away, but apparently it won’t. I’ll have to do some more Googling later on.

Hamachi: Failed to connect to the engine

· errors, software, windows

After getting the Hamachi 2 update (without a prior notice, nicely done… No more auto update if they continue to break stuff) I started to notice a bunch of XPs receiving this error after a reboot: Failed to connect to the engine.

Hamachi is auto started, at boot, because we have a shortcut in the startup folder. No other way to auto start the free version (as far as I know).

HP ProtectTools and Windows 7

· errors, hardware, software, windows

If you’re having troubles using HP ProtectTools and Windows 7, you’ll probably using an outdated version of ProtectTools. Eventhough HP tells you this is the latest version for your notebook.

A simple fix, is to download the latest version, which is model independent.

Be sure to completely uninstall the previous version, reboot, and reinstall the latest version. I can now successfully login using the biometric fingerprint device.