By Guus , 29 August 2002

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly.

As Shakespeare wrote: let's get it over with.

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By Guus , 28 August 2002

I've been working on the hardware all evening, and the results: at this moment I have:

  • A Pentium 100 with 16MB memory, 800 MB harddisk
  • A 486 with 24 MB memory, 200 MB harddisk

They both boot, but that's it :) Now I'll install a second network card in my Windows 2000 computer, to give the new ones internet access.

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By Guus , 28 August 2002

Obviously after such a long time working with Windows 2000 I don't have any boot disks. This could have been a serious problem but TechW0rm comes to the rescue.

I needed the bootdisk to find the CMOS password. And this W0rm is pretty nice, it contains a small program called 'CMOSPWD.EXE'... BIOS password turned out to be 'VOLVO'.

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By Guus , 28 August 2002

The Pentium boots! Well, that is to say, it's now asking for a bootable floppy disk. It doesn't recognize the harddisk, so I'll have to look in the BIOS. But, how does that work again: clearing a BIOS' password...

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By Guus , 28 August 2002

My mother came for dinner, she had a course in Haarlem. It's a course on emergy-situations that she takes for her school, this afternoon she has been a firefighter.

She brought 2 old computers, a 486 and a Pentium. That means a lot of fun for me :) I'll be installing them tonight. Well... let's first see if they work at all.

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By Guus , 28 August 2002

'Weet u wat ik vind? In Nederland wordt er heel erg negatief gereageerd op de ministers in dit kabinet. In Nederland is er direct een aantal mensen dat zegt: dit klopt niet, dat klopt niet, alles klopt niet! Er klopt helemaal niets van dit kabinet! Als je ziet hoe er is gereageerd op het strategisch akkoord van de kabinetsformatie!' Minister Nawijn (Volkskrant 28 augustus)

'You know what I think? In the Netherlands people are só negative about the ministers in this cabinet. There's a number of people in this country that will immediately complain: 'this is not right, that's not right...' Nothing is right about the cabinet! If you look at the reactions on our Government Coalition Agreement!'

Perhaps it would help if ministers would refrain from making stupid remarks :) This minister Nawijn has been in the news quite often the last two weeks, most of the time because of rather unusual ideas. On 23th Augustus he suggested to sent back all criminals from foreign origin, even the ones with a Dutch passport. As a Dutch newspaper wrote in it's main article, this would mean going back to the Middle Ages, where criminals were sent to leave the country. Interesting enough in the Netherlands we have this thing called Constitution, which (obviously) forbids expelling Dutch citizens...

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By Guus , 27 August 2002

Last weekend we installed a nice tool for remote management of the server, VNC. It's atool that gives you access to the desktop of the server (yes we know a Windows server is less stable, and yes we would like a Linux server, but no, we didn't have time for it).

Anyway, it works great but tonight there seems to be something wrong, and it gave me the following beautiful picture that I wanted to share:

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By Guus , 26 August 2002

I'm enjoying this new software (PhpNuke) a lot! I know that the website is quite slow, but when you ignore that I'm really happy with all the pre-made functionality the software offers. I've been looking for extensions of the software (there is a lot), and I've found some really useful extensions. You know how it is... a website is just a replacement for Lego sometimes :)

I've been looking around for new hardware, and it looks like I've found something. So in a while the performance should be back to normal, and than I can make the current page the starting page.

Enough internet for tonight, going to read my book.

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By Guus , 26 August 2002

Today I started writing my internship assigment (stage opdracht). Friday I spoke to one of my collegues who is involved in the SHAM project and he gave me suggestions for what my actual internship could be. Perhaps tomorrow I'll put the document online.

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