• Accessing your files at home from your office
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    Assume you are at work and you would like to access your files at home in a secure way. There are many ways to accomplish this, for example by remote desktop. In this article I will unveil another approach namely … Continue reading →

  • Connecting to remote SSH-server from within company firewalled network
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    Problem 1: Often company firewalls/web proxies only allow outgoing traffic to HTTP and HTTPS ports, but you also would like to connect to a remote SSH-server. A trick is to start the remote SSH-server at the port which is normally … Continue reading →

  • Adobe Flex with a PHP back-end
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    You would like to create a great Adobe Flex application which will show data from a MySQL-database. You Googled around and found BlazeDS would be a great back-end solution for retrieving your data. Bad luck, you have no Java experience … Continue reading →

  • Home automation: Controlling your heating remotely
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    When buying my house we went during the visit also to the basement. At this place the so called Mercedes of the house was installed: The Vitola 200 oil-fired heating/boiler controlled by the Vitotronic 200 type KW2 produced by the … Continue reading →

  • Weekend in Monschau
    Haus Burgblick Monschau

    The last weekend of May we went with a group of 7 people (30-ers) to Monschau. This group is a group of friends who know each other since they studied together in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). After a long searching exercise … Continue reading →

  • New image Dreambox / Configuring Enigma2
    Communication satellites

    This guide will explain you how to update the firmware/image of the Dreambox (7025+). Most steps in this article also applies to any other DVB satellite/terrestrial television receiver running Enigma2 like the VU Plus (VU+) devices. Read in this case … Continue reading →

  • OpenSocial: Verkrijgen en verwerken van data.

    In dit artikel worden enkele JavaScript codefragmenten getoond. De codefragmenten geven de fundamentele bouwstenen voor het verkrijgen van de data van het socialenetwerk. Ook wordt getoond hoe data opgeslagen kan worden. Voorbeelden zijn gebaseerd op OpenSocial versie 0.7. Expliciet aangeven … Continue reading →

  • Gouden regels voor beleggen
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    Dit artikel zal ingaan op enkele gouden regels die in de beleggingswereld worden toegepast. Belasting Zelf ben ik rond 1997 geïnteresseerd geraakt in beleggen. In die tijd gold in Nederland een belastingstelsel waarbij het liquide vermogen onbelast was (spaargeld) maar … Continue reading →

  • Parallel bash scripts – waiting for completion
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    Assume we would like to execute several independent tasks in parallel and we would like to wait till these tasks are completed. For example we would like to copy a set of files to several (remote) hosts and get a … Continue reading →

  • Running dreamboxEDIT at Linux
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    Learn in this post how to run DreamboxEdit at your Linux machine. I’m using Ubuntu as distribution, but most of this post is applicable to other distributions too. With DreamboxEdit you can create/modify/delete bouquets at your Enigma2 running device such as … Continue reading →