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August 13, 2008
  Foxy Fashion release 2

I've released a new version of Foxy Fashion. Included in this release is the Gallery.
So go over there and upload your pictures!

Posted by kajakske at 17:57 UTC |

September 04, 2007
  Firefox Squidoo Dashboard Extension

I created a small Firefox extension to enhance my Squidoo Dashboard.
Since Squidoo didn't want to add totals to the dashboard (or they don't had the time to do so) I made it into an extension.
You can download it here or read about it on my lens.

Posted by kajakske at 17:14 UTC |

June 21, 2007
  Fashion in lenses

I'm trying out some new approaches with Squidoo.
I made 2 fashion lenses: Cavalli and Vera Wang. I'm trying to see what potential Squidoo has when it comes to selling fashion items ...

Posted by kajakske at 13:54 UTC |

November 21, 2006
  Updating LinkedIn profile

I've been updating my LinkedIn profile the past few days. Adding my new employer, changing incorrect data and adding new connections.

If you haven't already tried LinkedIn, you can do so at LinkedIn.com, and when you start using it and have found a good use for it, feel free to contact me and tell me how, because that's still a little vague for me ;-)

Posted by kajakske at 14:24 UTC |

November 29, 2005
  Poem by me

I wrote a little poem yesterday ...
It's in Dutch, and I wrote it when I was feeling a little bit down. If you like it, feel free to comment, otherwise, don't ;-)

Als ik kon kiezen

Als ik kon kiezen zou ik varen
    door je wilde haren
        op de mooie golven.

Als ik kon kiezen zou ik je kussen
    op die volle lippen
        een kus die me naar adem doet happen.

Als ik kon kiezen zou ik verdrinken
    in die mooie ogen zou ik zinken
        een explosie van kleur.

Als ik kon kiezen zou ik je omhelzen
    een knuffel in mijn armen
        die nooit meer eindigen zou.

Maar ik kan dit niet kiezen
    jou wil ik niet verliezen
        voor eeuwig vrienden zijn.

Posted by kajakske at 14:15 UTC |

November 16, 2005
  The nose bleeds

Well, for those of you that wondered where the updates to this site have gone, I've had surgery to straighten my nose bone.
In the end, all went well, but the first couple of days my nose kept bleeding like hell. No pain or anything, just a really annoying feeling...

Posted by kajakske at 01:11 UTC |

January 10, 2005
  New PC coming up

I ordered a new PC @ tones.be (a belgian store).

I'm quite fond of the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard, it has the ability to connect a whopping 14 devices ... 2 SATA controllers provide you with space for 8 devices, 1 other controller gives you 4 old fashioned ATA connections and there is a small, build-in controller for 2 disks.
Added to the motherboard is an AMD ATHLON64 3200+ running on a 939 socket, juiced with 1024 MB of RAM.
The case was something I had to think over alot of times, not sure I bought the right one in the end but the ANTEC Plusview 1000AMG is what I ordered in the end. Other viable options were the Thermaltake cases (Shark for example).
The graphics card was another issue, I'm somewhat a fan of the Radeon family, but the 9800 is kinda out-of-date and the X800 is somewhat expensive. LEADTEK PX6600GT PCX Geforce 6600GT was the only option left. Leadtek, because that was about the only brand they sold featuring a 6600GT, it's PCX (so is my motherboard) and I can replace it later if need be.
Default stuff like the NEC 3500 DVD reader/writer and a harddisk from SEAGATE (200GB 8MB SATA150) are added too.

This PC is supposed to go on for the coming 3 to 4 years, and I don't think that will be a problem.

Posted by kajakske at 14:21 UTC |

November 28, 2004
  Centerparcs Holland

We went on a trip to centerparcs again. 6 people this time, and the one in Holland.
Compaired to the one from last year, the pool was even smaller, but they had a huge Jungle Dome, which was rather cool ... (broke my glasses though, already fixed).
The weather was, as can be expected at this time of the year, very bad. But you don't really need a nice sunshine in centerparcs, one can have a great time indoors.

Posted by kajakske at 23:36 UTC |

September 28, 2004
  Money for president

Weird things happen when 2 persons run for president and need money.

Among the contributers for J.Kerry are some companies that also contribute to the campaign of G.W.Bush. For example, the second biggest contributer of J.Kerry is Citigroup which is also the 10th biggest contributer for the G.W.Bush campaign. Other companies supporting both candidates include the Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. and UBS AG Inc.

Posted by kajakske at 09:53 UTC |

September 22, 2004
  Prime minister makes a tumble

I was cruising home from the kayakclub in Gent when I drove past the R4. A police combi blocked the entrance but I didn't really think much of it.
Then, coming home and seeing the car accident the prime minister was involved in, right there on the R4.
He seems to have sustained only minor injuries, which is really lucky, considering his car went upside down after hitting a concrete wall.
Speaking of Verhofstadt and the difficult DHL problem. I think the Brussels' governement is really annoying. I say DHL should be allowed to expand, and flights should go over Flanders and Brussels equally. Oh well.

Posted by kajakske at 11:13 UTC |

August 30, 2004
  GMail invites or Google shares

What would be the most popular thing at the moment ?
GMail invites or Google shares ?

I'd bet on GMail invites.

I have some of them, to give away.
Just leave your name in a comment, also include your e-mail address (make sure it is the correct one).

I will send you _the stuff_ once I read the comment.
It's on a first come, first serve base, btw.

Posted by kajakske at 14:00 UTC |

August 01, 2004
  Back in town

I'm back from Slovenia.

We had super hot weather, enough water to nicely paddle the Soca & Koritnica, and more than enough fun to make it a great vacation.

Posted by kajakske at 18:41 UTC |

June 24, 2004
  Google joins the free e-mail race with GMail

I've started to test out Google's new feature: Web based e-mail via GMail.
The concept is already very know, like Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, but Google wouldn't be Google if they didn't overdo it all.
The first, and most important, advantage of GMail over its competitors is the 1 GB of storage they offer. Considering e-mail is rarely over half a MB, you could save more than 2000 messages in your GMail account. The motto of GMail is, don't delete mail, just archive it.
Another feature is the introductions of cnversations. Every mail sent is catalogised into conversations, and grouped with it's replies & forwards.
GMail still has alot of shortcomings if you start to compare it with real e-mail software and a POP3 account, but it's certainly better than for example Hotmail.

GMail is still in BETA testing, so you need to be invited by a fellow user to be able to create a login.

Posted by kajakske at 23:42 UTC |

March 16, 2004
  Famous inspirational quotes

Every famous person has probably, during the span of there lifetime, said some inspirational quotes. Below is a small list of quotes:

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.


Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.


Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.


J R R Tolkien

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

Little by little, one travels far.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Posted by kajakske at 23:08 UTC |

March 01, 2004
  New site up and running

We have a new site up and running.

Hawkfield.Tech

It's basically the same as this site, but oriented to the technical facets of the internet.

Posted by kajakske at 15:37 UTC |

February 24, 2004
  Design of new room finally done

My room got a completely new design ...
Not only the paint on the walls, but even the ceiling, the funiture and floor !

I have 2 new closets from "Morres Meubels" in Holland, where I also bought my 2 desks. It isn't the cheapest store, but the quality is good and the design is fantastic.
The walls are painted gray with areas of red combined with red curtains. It looks modern, and that was the whole point.
The ceiling is wood and the floor Vinyl (Both white & gray combo's).

The bed and a third closet are left unchanged, but the lighting in the room has been completely modified.

It looks great !

Posted by kajakske at 19:58 UTC |

February 10, 2004
  Mozilla Firebird to become Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firebird, the fast browser from the Mozilla foundation, changed its name once again. From Phoenix to Firebird and now to Firefox.
The name Phoenix was trademarked and the name Firebird was also used in an open-source project, the Firebird relational database.
Even Firefox, the latest name, didn't go as smooth as planned. In the UK, another company held the trademark to that name, but they got to an agreement with the Mozilla group and it seems they got a final name, at last.

Posted by kajakske at 12:16 UTC |

February 04, 2004
  We need more RAM

The Spirit Mars rover who stopped responding on January 22nd on the surface of Mars ran out of RAM. That is what the scientists concluded.

Apparently, the machine runs on 128 RAM of which 32 MB is reserved for the onboard operating system and some scientific programs.
When it starts working, part of that memory gets filled with data and programs, and after a while, scientists are supposed to remotely remove part of the old data to free up memory. When that doesn't happen, the machine runs out of available memory and goes into diagnostics mode, which is exactly what happened with it on Mars.

Eventually, they were able to fix it and broadcast resumed ...

Posted by kajakske at 17:12 UTC |

January 27, 2004
  MSN to come as last

Goolge made it's toolbar available months ago, Yahoo followed ... And now, MSN does the same.
Microsoft constantly battles it's competitors (in this case search engines) with new tools to direct visitors to there MSN website. More visitors, means more viewers for there content, more viewers for there advertising, which ofcourse means more money in the pocket.

Posted by kajakske at 14:23 UTC |

January 14, 2004
  Movie errors

Most recent movies contain errors or "Movie Goofs" as they are called.
Below is a small list of those movie errors found in some recent titles:

Lord of the Rings
The Return of the King

Near the beginning of the film as the camera flies towards Rohan you can see the smoke pouring back into the chimneys rather than out of them.
The bloody cut on Frodo's right cheek switched to his left cheek when Sam is giving his "We must go on" speech (flopped shot).
At the very beginning of the film, the One Ring goes from muddy to shiny several times between shots. Ofcourse, one could see this as the magic of the ring ... *grin*

The Two Towers

At times the character Gimli is as tall as Aragorn's shoulders. At other times, he is much shorter. Dwarves can grow you know ...
Aragorn's beard repeatedly changes length between shots in King Theoden's hall.
Legolas' eyes are brown for the majority of the battle of Helm's Deep, instead of their customary blue. It has been pointed out that elves' eyes change color with their mood. However, a story is reported that, in fact, this particular color change came about when Orlando Bloom's blue contact lenses were forgotten during some of the shooting for this sequence.

The Fellowship of the Ring

When the Black Rider comes into shot while the hobbits are hiding under the tree-roots, he appears on the left-hand side of the tree without first being visible on the right-hand side (though it has been claimed that this is intentional).
In the final fight between Aragorn and the chief Uruk Hai, Aragorn is thrown against a tree and we see his sword fall from his hand. The next shot shows the Uruk Hai throw his shield pinning Aragorn to the tree and again we see his sword fall from his hand.

The Last Samurai

When Nathan walks into Taka's house after his first round about town since his capture, Taka cleans up after him because he has walked in with muddy shoes. The shot before this showing him walking in the door clearly shows clean shoes.

Could Mountain

In the scene where Ruby and Ada are looking at the stars, you can see an airplane flash among the stars. There were no airplanes in 1864.
When Ada and Ruby stargaze, Ruby identifies Orion. However, Orion is nowhere in that part of the sky.

Finding Nemo

Nigel, the Pelican, is a Brown Pelican, scientifically known as Pelecanus Occidentalis. The movie is set in Australia, where there are no Brown Pelicans, instead there is the Australian Pelican, scientifically known as Pelecanus Conspicillatus. Both birds look quite different.
Marlin and Dory are advised to swim to the back of the whale's throat and then are blown out of the whale's blowhole. This is not physically possible as whales mouths and digestive systems are not connected to their respiratory system and blowhole.
Coral should be bigger than Marlin. Female clownfish are always bigger than their mates (often twice as big).

The Matrix
Reloaded

When Trinity is driving down the freeway, the bullet holes in the right side of the car are not there on several occasions when the car comes into view from behind other vehicles.
When Trinity is driving on the freeway, her door is locked when seen from inside, but unlocked in exterior shots.
During the car chase, the twins shoot out most of the windows in the car that Trinity and Morpheus are driving in. But when seen from the inside of the car, the windows are intact and there is no shattered glass to be seen.
After one of the agents rips the roof off the car on the expressway, there are some shots that show the interior of the vehicle still dark as if the roof was still intact.
When Trinity is disabling the power grid, the computer terminal indicates that she is disabling 27 power nodes, numbers 21-48. That's actually 28 nodes.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

When Obi Wan sends the message for help to Anakin and Amidala, Amidala presses a red button in order to transmit the message to the Jedi council. A minute later she presses the same red button in order to view a map of a galaxy, without first doing anything which might be expected to change the function of the button.
When Obi-Wan throws his blue lightsaber at Anakin, he catches it with his left hand while holding his green lightsaber in his right hand. In the next shot, when Anakin is fighting with Dooku, the lightsabers have switched hands.

Posted by kajakske at 16:42 UTC |

January 13, 2004
  Fog against terrorism

1 plane, crashed into a nuclear power plant on purpose can have serious consequences and cause alot of damage. The German ministry of environment came to this conclusion in a report made after the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001.

One of the proposals to counter such attacks was artificial fog. Civilian aircrafts do not have radar to spot stuctures on the surface, and would have to rely on line of sight to crash a plane exactly into a power plant.
Hiding the plant with fog would take away that line of sight.

However, many practical problems arised, like the wind blowing away the fog, the time needed to start the machines generating the fog, or the considerably large area covered with fog needed to hide such a plant.

Posted by kajakske at 18:39 UTC |

  Microsoft vs Linux - New advertising campaign

Microsoft launched it's new advertising campaign targeted against the rival Linux. Over the past 5 years, Linux captured an increasing share on the server market. Where Microsoft once ruled, Linux is becoming a good and cheap alternative.

The campaign is targeted to prove that, over a long run, Microsoft solutions are cheaper than Linux, which is surely to be doubted.

IBM countered these new actions by launching it's own advertising campaign to promote Linux based IBM servers, targeted at company chiefs.

Wheter Microsoft's and/or IBM's campaign will be a succes is yet to be seen.

Posted by kajakske at 14:21 UTC |

January 02, 2004
  And so it begins

Another year has passed.

A year where many things happened. There are enough sites naming all the big events from 2003, so I'm not going to repeat them.

I will just wish you all the best in 2004, and may the force be with you (to quote some figure from some movie).

Mae Govannen to the new year ...

Posted by kajakske at 10:23 UTC |

December 12, 2003
  Third attack on SCO's servers makes them shut down

A flood attack was being executed on the SCO servers today. The attack, aimed at SCO for starting a lawsuit that claims the rights over a bigger portion of the linux source code, was a simple SYN flood. That sort of attack starts a connection to the server (occupying memory) and never closes it. When done in big numbers, the server machine can run out of resources, or due to the volume of data transported, the network connected to the servers can become completely filled up.
These attacks have been the third blow to SCO in the past three weeks.
The SCO Web site outage was confirmed by several monitoring services. Around 50,000 packets per second hit the company's servers on Wednesday night and around 3,000 packets per second on Thursday.

Posted by kajakske at 14:36 UTC |

December 02, 2003
  A bug in linux to cause serious harm

A serious vulnerability in the Linux 2.4 kernel has been discovered. The flaw allows users on a Linux machine to gain unlimited access privileges, according to a security advisory posted by developers of the noncommercial Debian Linux distribution.

In an attack four Linux servers that hosted Debian's bug tracking system, mailing lists, and various Web pages were compromised.

A patch is (and actually was) already available. The Debian linux distrivution (and some other ones too) just let it slip past there update system.

Posted by kajakske at 16:40 UTC |

November 19, 2003
  The machines are not yet taking over

World number one Garry Kasparov tied his final game with the chess program X3D Fritz, meaning the exciting and sometimes emotional tournament ended in a draw. Experts say that although computers keep getting faster and smarter, humans seem to be keeping up.
This being good news for the human race, I guess.
Previous chess match with Kasparov at one end of the table and the IBM computer Deep Bleu were settled in favor of the computer.
Another chess match between Vladimir Kramnik, current world champion, and an earlier version of the Fritz computer program also ended in a draw.
Another match, between 2 machines (Fritz vs Deep Blue) was settled in favor of Fritz.

Posted by kajakske at 14:41 UTC |

November 06, 2003
  Sparkle the flash

On some fields in software, MS isn't doing as good as it would want to do.
For example animated webpages. Macromedia has a huge lead with its flash player. And that's what MS tries to counter now.
A new toolset, code named Sparkle, would be integrated with Microsoft's .NET to allow developer easy acces to flash-like animations.

Posted by kajakske at 11:49 UTC |

October 27, 2003
  Hermes isn't alone

After 66 years, the asteroid hermes has been rediscovered.
Well, one could argue that it ahs actually been discovered for the first time. Instead of the one big object Hermes was thought to be, it are actually 2 rotating object of about the same size.
Hermes is one of the asteroids that pass earth in a close trajectory.
Because the objects are close to each other, they raise appreciable tides in each other and each has slowed down the other's spin significantly.
Hermes comes really close to earth, but the chances it crashes with earth is very unlikely in our lifetime. It would probably crash into venus first.

Posted by kajakske at 16:04 UTC |

  Tracking via your cellphone

I read an article on this subject before, now I read another one, stating a little more details.
Two British companies, Hampshire-based Roke Manor Research and the aerospace giant BAe Systems, have developed a system to give an exact location of each cellphone. And with the use of the Doppler effect (distortion of a wave because of the speed of the object that's producing the wave) they can estimate the moving speed of an object.

The system could be used to track traffic jams or to track speeders as they go. The new development has also drawn alot of attention from privacy organizations who are concerned that the privacy of the persons using a cellphone would be intruded when the new system would actually be used.

Posted by kajakske at 15:40 UTC |

October 23, 2003
  Gator wants a better reputation

Gator, the software budled with other programs like Kazzaa, wants to get rid of the Spyware reputation.
Gator started to file legal suits against companies mentioning there software as spyware. The company claims spyware is when information is sent about a users surfing habits to target the advertising such programs delivers. Adware on the contrary, the term they wish people to use, do so with the user knowing about it.

At least we can say they aren't as bad as the software bundled with iMesh, where you can't even get rid of it by installing iMesh. I still think software shouldn't be used to monitor other software (aka Gator monitoring your habits with internet explorer) and serve unwanted ads (yes, unwanted, because you choose to allow them to serve ads with your Kazzaa, but not pop-ups whenever you visit sites).

Posted by kajakske at 16:46 UTC |

  Office 2K3 hits the shelves

Office 2003 is the new version from the well known microsoft office suit.

The suite, officially Office System 2003, brings alot of changes under the hood. But there are also new features visible to the user.

However, as always when microsoft is concerned, there are already reports of small but annoying bugs, or features how microsoft like to call them.

A new feature is the sellf destructing e-mail. An a-mail sent by a person get's automatically destroyed after being read. This allows senders of the e-mail to control how long an e-mail exists. Sceptics already proved that the e-mail is not really deleted. parts of the text are still available on different places.
Also compatibility issues arise with new features. For example the information rights management, where certain information can be released to only certain persons. Beta tests show that mac users are completely shut out when using this feature.

Posted by kajakske at 16:37 UTC |

  Nuna II wins Solar race

Nuna II, a solar powered vehicle built by a team of 12 students of the universities of Delft and Rotterdam in Holland, won the World Solar Challenge.
The challange is a 3010 KM race accross the Australian continent. The challenge is to build a car to make it through that distance powered by nothing but the sun.
The winning car, Nuna II, achieved the goal in just under 31 hours, beating all previous records. Built on EAS space technology, Nuna II has a theoretical top speed of 170 kmh, which is quite fast for solar powered vehicles.
I can't wait to drive a normal consumer car with that kind of propulsion.

Posted by kajakske at 16:28 UTC |

  Walruses are right-handed

An article on ScienceDaily caught my eye today.
It's not hard to figure out why. The title was somewhat eye-catching.

Are Walruses Right-handed?

Well, how would I know ? But the article reports a scientific study claiming walruses actually are. When they remove sediment from food buried food, they prefer to use there right flipper.
Another prove were the longer bones in the right flipper. Due to frequent use of the right hand, humans also have longer bones in there right arm.

Posted by kajakske at 16:04 UTC |

  HCC Computer club sues DELL

HCC, the Dutch computer club, sued DELL over there terms and conditions. HCC claims they ciolate Dutch law.
I don't know anything about Dutch law, nor there terms, but at work, we happen to all have DELL PCs. So my interest was drawn to the article in PCWorld today.
Still, I think there terms are not that bad, what I hate about DELL computers, is there custom made hardware. When something is screwed up, you can't replace it with something you buy somewhere, you actually have to order everything @ DELL. And adding harddisks to our desktop PCs neither is possible, there's simply no room for them.

Posted by kajakske at 13:55 UTC |

October 20, 2003
  My battery is flat

"Excuse me, could I get some whater from you ? My cellphones's battery is flat ..."
You think that is a weird question ? Well, I don't, ... anymore.
Canadian scientists have developed a method of generating electricity from water for use in small devices like cellphones, calculators and many more.
The technology is based on the interaction between liquids and solids on a very small scale. The surface of the solid receives a small charge that attracts opposite-charged ions in the liquid and repels like-charged ions. I'm quite sure the details of the process are very interesting, but unfortunatly I don't understand it a bit.
Some work needed to be done to increase the scale of the electricity produced. A 30cm column of water will produce one to two microamps, which is why to little to power anything, but still. They are now developing parallel tubes to increase the current.

Posted by kajakske at 16:30 UTC |

October 07, 2003
  Nokia to sell a game console

I picked up some interesting news a few days ago.
Nokia produced a game console, called the N-Gage and hopes to achieve a large market share in the gaming industry. No prices have been announced yet, but they hope to sell several millions in 2004 worldwide.

Posted by kajakske at 13:00 UTC |

September 19, 2003
  AMD goes 64 bit

AMD has developed the first 64 bit processor intended for consumer PCs. Intel also has a 64 bit CPU, the Itanium, but that one is only used on servers.

The CPU will be allowing 32 bit applications to run on a 64 bit operating system which makes sure existing software will continue to work.

The long-awaited launch of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon64 processor is less than a week away, and it's only a matter of time before rival Intel duplicates AMD's approach, the company has said.
Well, at least AMD is very confident. I for sure will wait to see the development of this ...

Posted by kajakske at 11:09 UTC |

September 17, 2003
  MP3 down the drain

For those of you who live in the united states, and probably in some time for all others too, the recording industry association of America started to file lawsuits against file-sharers.
One has even been settled already, for the amount of $ 2000.
It's interesting to note that for a person to be sued, the ISP has to release personal information of its customers. I'm no law specialist, but I belive that's not yet allowed in Belgium. A law was voted in 1998 in America to allow just that (and many other things).

Posted by kajakske at 14:11 UTC |

August 27, 2003
  Need a new PC ?

Well, I do.
I have an Athlon 600 with 128 MB of RAM at the moment. It is ancient, I know.
I have been thinking of buying a new one with Dell, the have good offers. There's only one problem. Most of there hardware is either custom made, or widely available.
I might just as well go for a clone PC again.

Posted by kajakske at 15:11 UTC |

April 22, 2003
  Busy days

It has been busy lately, as you can see at the amounts of updates here.
Hawkfield has got a new hosting client, the kayakpolo competition is coming closer and we are starting a new project at work.
All of this makes my other duties low priority.

Posted by kajakske at 12:16 UTC |

April 03, 2003
  Removing iMesh and other spy-ware

I noticed some visitors coming here after searching google for 'remove iMesh'. They probably find this page because of a previous article.

But since there is a general interset, here it goes:
How to remove Spy-Ware
There are ofcourse many ways to do it, but probably the easiest way is to go and download Ad-Aware from Lavasoft.
This program is free to use as an evaluation version and detects, warns you, and deletes any malicious program on your PC.

Hope this helps.

Posted by kajakske at 12:48 UTC |

March 27, 2003
  Sister invites for dinner

This evening we're having dinner at my sisters place.
I must reming myself not to forget to go buy the drinks, or we'll be very thirsty.

Posted by kajakske at 12:12 UTC |

February 17, 2003
  Nokia 3310 - 2.5mm socket to 3.5mm

If anyone has any information on the audio jack socket of the nokia 3310, and where I could get 1 convertor from such a 2.5mm socket to a 3.5mm socket, feel free to post in comments or mail me.

Posted by kajakske at 16:25 UTC |

February 10, 2003
  SOCKS5 proxies

Does anyone know any reliable SOCKS 5 or 4 proxy servers running on port 80 ? Or a standard proxy server allowing SSL connections ? Put them in a comment, because I need one ...

UPDATE: For those of you who are also looking for a socks proxy servers, I had no luck there yet. But a fairly reliable public proxy on port 80 is 66.119.34.38.

Posted by kajakske at 10:33 UTC |

February 04, 2003
  Looking for sponsors

We are trying to organise a large scale LAN party in Gent or close to it, but, as we all know, that requires some basic funding.
Therefor we are looking for sponsors, no real date or location has been decided, neither do we know if it will actually work out, but if you are interested, contact me as soon as possible.

Currently, a site is being developed by Hawkfield: web development to provide information to sponsors, crew members and interested people.

Posted by kajakske at 11:04 UTC |

January 14, 2003
  They broke in

At my sisters place, burglars stole some jewelery.
If you happen to come accross a golden marriage ring with the names Marriette - Fernand, well, return it please ...
Not that this will ever happen, but hey, at least it fills this news a little more.

Posted by kajakske at 23:39 UTC |

  Nokia

My Nokia can't do all this: Ericsson T68i.
Oh, I'm so yealous about not having one of those ...

Posted by kajakske at 17:46 UTC |

January 07, 2003
  It's time for some headaches

Well, I don't know wheter it's maybe the winter, or just because I'm tired. But lately, I seem to have way to many headaches.

Posted by kajakske at 10:43 UTC |

January 05, 2003
  iMesh uninstallation

Have you ever heard of iMesh ? The peer to peer download software ? Something just like kazaa ?
Well, I have, and I had it installed untill the time I decided to remove it ... That must have been about 3 days ago.
Removing iMesh was a piece of cake, but removing the spyware that came with it (the one that sends data to a.flashpoint.be and brings you pop-ups when you search for casinos on Google) was not that easy. The firm supplied a program to do it for you. Result after double clicking it: corrupted windows file, computer could no longer reboot and reinstall was needed. I took this opportunity to format the PC and install a clean windows, going much better now.

Posted by kajakske at 21:30 UTC |

December 30, 2002
  My hosting company

Well, this site has been on the internet for some time now, so it's only fair I would tell you something about the company making it possible.
Eternal Hosting is the best and cheapest linux hosting with included PHP and MySQL. even better, they have all the libraries needed to run my weblog.
I could strongly advise you to host your site here if you have not yet got a host.

Posted by kajakske at 13:04 UTC |

December 24, 2002
  SPAM - And I don't mean the meat

There was some spam here earlier.
I'd like to apologise to any blogs receiving a ping.

On a general note: SPAM percentage in my mail dropped for the first time in many months !
I started using mailwasher too, so in my real mail box, almost zero spam, which is good.

Posted by kajakske at 09:10 UTC |

December 23, 2002
  Long time, not posted

It was rather busy the last few weeks, but it's coming all together now ...

X-Mas coming up, present shopping finished and less strees at work. You don't hear me complain.

On a lighter note: The new round of Starsphere started. The galaxy I'm in is top 50, but I'm under attack now.

Posted by kajakske at 16:08 UTC |

November 27, 2002
  Hear hear, who's there ?

Apparently, eavesdropping is legal in Holland.
Or at least semi legal. There is this story about Israelian software being used to listen to phones. And it looks like the makers of the software possibly have access to the same information as the users, enabling them to get data from captured phone calls around the world.
Note, the article is in Dutch.

Posted by kajakske at 10:56 UTC |

  The car goes down

My father had to drive the car to the garage today.
Badly aligned front wheels, heating failure and some other stuff. It's still in garanty, but well, still missing it during the repairs.
Got a replacement car, Ford Orion of some sort. No roof rails and thus no kayak transportation possible, which is why I bought a car in the first place.
Dreaming of the next company car ... When, oh, when ...

Posted by kajakske at 10:41 UTC |

November 21, 2002
  The car shakes

My Volvo 340 GL shakes when driving 105 km/h or more. Oh, and the heating just failed.
It looks ugly but it keeps on driving, it's almost 14 years old.
I wonder when I get my company car.

Posted by kajakske at 08:59 UTC |

November 20, 2002
  Put a robot in your chest
What would you do if the doctor asked you a simple question. You need a heart operation.
Would you rather have me doing it or this robot here (holds up a miniature robot) ?
I don't know yet, but both are now approved by some institute that does this. You only need 4 incisions for a heart operation, which means less recovery time. Besides, it's cheaper with the robot too.
If you feel like reading the article I got it from, go to the CNN news site. The link will bring you straight to the document.
Posted by kajakske at 22:32 UTC |

  Tea for the masses
15.jpg Was he wrong ? Unknowing ? Or stupid ?
In the early 18th century Anders Celsius defined his temperature scale on the melting and boiling temperature of water. You might have been told that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius but the boiling point of water actually depends on the oxygen content and atmospheric pressure. The higher the altitude, the lower the temperature at which water boils. People who live at high altitudes, like Tibetans, drink their tea while it is bubbling with boiling. Many Tibetans who moved to India suffered serious burns when they drank their boiling tea at sea-level.
Posted by kajakske at 15:55 UTC |

  The struggle for survival
Survival of the fittest, ...
Was that Darwin who said so ? Or some other scientist ?

The result is the same. Even in the virtual live that is the internet, the struggle is hard. People die out there, virtual or real.
Dawn of Myth is my concern at this time. I'm under attack and noone can help me.
StarSphere is going better for now.
Posted by kajakske at 12:37 UTC |