Robert Hoekstra's blog

Hurricane Electric IPv6 Guru, yay

robert — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:21:43 +0000

Wow, checking the Hurricane Electric site (my ipv6 broker) I noticed they have a certification program to express one’s knowledge on ipv6.

I managed to go from enthusiast > administrator > professional up to Guru. The last one will be a no-go, as my TLD provider doesn’t support ipv6 Glue records.. too bad.

. . . → Read More: Hurricane Electric IPv6 Guru, yay

TOGAF Certified

robert — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:13:53 +0000

As of last week, I’m finally TOGAF 9 certified. With this, I’m allowed to call myself enterprise architect, at least, educated to perform architecture.

Okay, so now I have my license to drive, but yet I’m about to learn how to drive properly…

Logitech Professional Presenter R800 under Linux Fedora 16 with LibreOffice Impress

Egon Kastelijn — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:32:46 +0000

Recently I got a Logitech Professional Presenter R800. (the one with the green laser pointer) I tested it under Linux Fedora 16, and it works like a charm! The device also works nicely under LibreOffice Impress 3.4 ( 1:3.4.3.2-11.fc16 in my case ).

The USB device is detected as a keyboard/mouse device: ( /var/log/messages . . . → Read More: Logitech Professional Presenter R800 under Linux Fedora 16 with LibreOffice Impress

Waarom ook wij mee zouden moeten doen met al die sociale media gekte

robert — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:09:13 +0000

Facebook, Twitter, Hyves, Android Apps…. Waarom, niet voor mij zou ik bijna gezegd hebben….

Maar dan. Ik kan me nog herinneren dat mijn ouders zeiden… ICQ is niet meer voor ons, zijn we te oud voor. Ik ben blij dat mijn moeder het toch actief is gaan gebruiken, zo lees ik nog eens iets . . . → Read More: Waarom ook wij mee zouden moeten doen met al die sociale media gekte

Cyrus-imapd i/o performance (100x speedup)

Egon Kastelijn — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:23:49 +0000

Yesterday I experienced some serious performance problems with Cyrus-imapd.

My INBOX contains about 2500 messages, and accessing it through Squirrelmail took my browser about ~120 seconds to display the overview page.

I found out that performance problem was caused by the imapd process which was causing a lot of iowait. The iowait was caused . . . → Read More: Cyrus-imapd i/o performance (100x speedup)

Bug in OpenID plugin for wordpress

robert — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:42:39 +0000

Do you suffer the fact that you just updated your wordpress plugins, and openID in special, after which your wordpress becomes unusable? I had the same and here’s how to resolve..

Open wp-includes/user.php and at the line that says:

function get_usermeta( $user_id, $meta_key = ”) {

Just write a new function just above That . . . → Read More: Bug in OpenID plugin for wordpress

Vivian is alweer 3 weken oud

robert — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:38:21 +0000

Wat is het toch een dotje.. En wat genieten we er toch van..

Je leven staat ineens helemaal op z’n kop.. je hebt ineens een kind om voor te zorgen. Maar het gekke is dat het allemaal heel snel went. Je weet al niet eens meer hoe het was voordat ze er was.

Ook . . . → Read More: Vivian is alweer 3 weken oud

Fiber optics live !

robert — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:45:42 +0000

Yes, it’s live, my fiber optics internet connection is live..

Now why is this so nice? Check http://gallery.hoekstra.nu, it has my photo albums.. with 100mbit upstream (and my server stationed at home, it is well usable for a viewer..

I like . . .

Tension increasing.. Not long from now . . .

robert — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:39:16 +0000

.. and I will become a dad !!

Yet a couple of things will have to be managed before we can ‘accept’ our youngest family member to our midst. Namely.. the name… This isn’t easy at all..

As with everything else, we’ll manage, but for now it is still undetermined… And after that, the . . . → Read More: Tension increasing.. Not long from now . . .

New mobile phone

robert — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:21:17 +0000

Yep, it’s about two years now.. pondering away…

My mobile phone is facing retirement… it’s a blazing two years old (you know how many DAYS that is.. sheesh).

Time goes fast though.. also in mobile technology.. so I invested quite some time in selecting my new phone.. It’s clear that Android has my favour. . . . → Read More: New mobile phone