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10 People are currently using Google
// February 7th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized
Or:
How someone can be totally wrong and still be sure and enthusiastic about it. Hilarious 
(Found via @Inferis)
London!
// February 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Family, Trips
We’ve been back from London for a couple of days now and we had a good time. Showed the parents around (they’d never been to London before), took things slow and relaxed, just what I needed
But it was cold in London! Cold! So cold, I walked around in my snowboarding-pants all the time. And the temperature-changes between the cold outside and the warm Underground didn’t do me good either, I’ve been coughing and sneezing and blowing my nose non-stop for the past week, hopefully I’ll be better soon.
The photos should be on my Flickr any day now
London!
// January 28th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized
My parents, my sister and myself are leaving for London tonight!
My bags are almost packed, camera and computer are ready.
Sooooo looking forward to this!
(we’ll be back in Belgium on monday evening)
Exam 3: Internetworks
// January 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // school
A little over due since my last exam was almost a week ago, but still, here’s how it went.
The course covered a very wide range of subjects and was a ton to study.
Amongst others:
Dynamic IP routing: RIP, OSPF, BGP
IPSec
IPv6
Security basics (encryption, certificates, public key encryption)
…..
The exam itself went fairly well, and with the points of the practical exercise and another test, I think I should get enough points to pass.
De Beekse Bergen (over Vlaams Brabant)
// January 14th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
- A little post in Dutch for a change –
‘Ik was toch van Vlaams Brabant hé’ vroeg ze
‘Ja’ zei ik ‘geboren, getogen en wonend te’
‘Of ik daar misschien over wou bloggen’ vroeg ze ‘over mijn favoriete plaatsje ofzo’
Ik ben opgegroeid in Glabbeek, een kleine gemeente langs de N29, ergens halfweg tussen Tienen en Diest, vooral bekend om zijn jeugdhuis (bunker.be).
Als klein jongentje (3de of 4de leerjaar) bracht ik heelder zomer vakanties door bij mijn grootouders, die in Zuurbemde wonen (met een M, ons vader zaagt daar nu nog over), een deelgemeente van Glabbeek.
Oma en opa hadden een grote huis dat vooraan helemaal met klimop bedekt was. En een grote diepe tuin, met kersenbomen en klaprozen. De tuin van oma en opa grensde een grote fruitboomgaard (bijna gigantisch voor een 9/10 jarige)
Zuurbemde ligt op een ‘heuvel’ ten opzichte van Glabbeek. Combineer die heuvels met een uitgestrekte boomgaard.
De Beekse Bergen noemde oma het steeds.
Als 10 jarig jongen ging ik met zus en vriendjes steeds op avontuur in de Beekse Bergen, onder andere op zoek naar de perfecte picnik-plaatsjes. Het duurde niet lang eer we ons favoriete plekje gevonden hadden. Aan de rand van de boomgaard was een manage, met paarden enzo. We vonden plekje op een plateau vanwaar we over de manage en over de boomgaard konden uitkijken.En van waar we opa’s tuin konden zien.
In de Beekse bergen gingen we altijd picnicken. Dan aten we witte brood met boterhamworst en dronken we een caprisonneke. Dan waren de de koning te rijk, meer moest het voor ons niet zijn.
Als ik aan Vlaams-brabant denk, dan denk ik aan thuis. Dan denk ik aan de Beekse Bergen
Intussen ben ik bijna 3 keer zo oud en al helemaal zo klein niet meer. Mijn ouders wonen nog steeds in Glabbeek, maar ik ben verhuist naar Leuven. Opa is er niet meer en ook Oma woont ondertussen in Leuven.
1 dezer dagen, als het weer beter is (ze is niet meer zo goed te been), ga ik Oma nog eens meenemen naar thuis. Dan gaan we samen nog eens wandelen door de Beekse Bergen.
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Exam 2: Mobile Networking
// January 7th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // school
Today started quite bad and abruptly. I had set my alarm for 7 am (early bird and stuff)….but it didn’t go off because my phone’s battery died overnight.
So when i opened my eyes, it was 10h30! Holly Moses, I was running late!
So I got my stuff together and went straight to school. The exam wasn’t for long (18h) but I knew I wouldn’t get much work done sitting here.
The subject?
Modulation techniques used in wireless networking:
- FM
- PSK
- DSSS
….
9 hours later, exam nr. 2 was done. Not bad, not great, enough to pass.
One more to go, next friday. And that’s the hardest one…
Exam 1: Network Operating Systems
// January 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Geek-Stuff, school
So, I had my first exam today.
The course in question: Network Operating Systems 1 – Windows Server 2008
- Warning –
This post may contain higher levels of geeky-ness than normal.
During the semester, my lab-partner and me set up 2 servers, running Windows Server 2008.
(we were running these as a virtual machine, using VMware).
The 2 servers were in seperated subnets, both running a number of services.
The exam consisted of getting everything up and running and showing the teacher everything worked.
Step 1: DHCP
Boot a client-pc, see which DHCP-server he’s getting an IP from. Then disable the DHCP server on that specific server and renew the clients IP-adres. If all goes well, the client should get an IP-adres from the server in the other subnet (only because the ‘iphelper’ command was entered on the router between the subnets).
Check
Step 2: DNS
Add a Pointer-record on one server and make it replicate to the other server.
Check
Step 3: Active Directory
Log on with a normal AD-user. Use the ’set logonserver’ to check with of the 2 servers is being used as logonserver. Then do ’set logonserver=\\%theotherserver%’, log off, then disable the networkcard on the current logon-server (to simulate it being down). Log on again and if everything is good, the client should use the other server as logonserver. (thus making logon possible if the server in the client’s subnet is down)
Check
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And this is where it get’s interesting. The client was on my subnet, so he was using my server as logonserver. So I disabled the network-interface to do the previous step.
In the next step, I needed my server again so I enabled the network-interface again.
And that’s when it happened. The icon stayed grayed-out for longer then expected. And *bamm*. BSOD.
I almost fell out of me chair, holly fuck…
I let it do it’s physical memory dump, it rebooted and worked all normal again. But holy fuck.
Thank god the teacher was standing right behind me when it happened and most the exam was already over.
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Step 4: VPN
We used a predefined VPN-interface on the client (which was pointing to my server, which was why I needed my server online)
Check
Step 5: Group Policy
Create a number of policies, limiting options for specific users. Logon with a number of users to check if the different policies were being applied.
Step 6: VPN+GPO
Log on with a user over VPN and see if the policy is being applied (the policy here being ‘the user can only start notepad and calculator, nothing else).
Check
Check and check. The teacher congratulated us on a good exercise and excellent know-how.
Hell yeah 
Up the next one! (tomorrow that is…)
Tweet for Life!
// December 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
We’re jumping on the bandwagon with Boskabout, DirtyJos and the rest of the Belgian twitter-community. For every tweet I do from now on, I’m giving €0,10 to Music For Life.
The counter is at 11837. Here we go!
— Update —
Tweet For Life brought together €723.15!
Run!
// November 30th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Music
My wake-up song for now:
And this also get back to listening to Snow Patrol, they’ve been on repeat all week and I’m still not sick of it
