Earlier today the Swedish Police has taken down The Pirate Bay (TPB) once again. TPB has been taken down before, but usually rises like a phoenix from the ashes in little or no time. If you really can’t wait for that, here are some alternative options: EZTV – a TV torrent distribution group founded in […]
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Apparently even multinational insurance companies forget to pay their bills every now and then. At least that’s what I suspect happened to If Skadeförsäkring AB. The following domains no longer have any DNS records all of a sudden: if.no – If Forsikring AS (Norway) if.dk – If Skadeforsikring (Denmark) if.fi – If Vahinkovakuutusyhtiö Oy (Finland)
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As I was watching a couple of episodes of The Goldbergs it occurred to me that the voice of Jeff Garlin sounded so familiar, especially when he was raising his voice (he does that a lot). It took me a while, but then I realized his voice is pretty much identical to the voice of
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Now that the hardware has been decided upon and ordered, it’s time to decide on OS & management tools. My current box runs Ubuntu, and I use virt-manager to create & manage the VM’s. The obvious disadvantage of virt-manager is that it’s an GUI application which runs on the server itself. To access it I
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For at least 5 years (I honestly don’t recall when I put the box together…) there’s a been an Antec Mini P180 purring under my desk. This machine has been running various flavors & versions of Linux, mainly performing as KVM host. This box contains 4 hard drives, and a Intel Q9400S CPU. (For those
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The newest (but also oldest!) addition to my ever-expanding bookshelf: ‘Het Nederlants Schoutoneel’ (The Dutch Warscene), by Hendrick Jacobsz. Soeteboom. This work chronicles the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), which was a war fought by France, Sweden, the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, the Archbishopric of Cologne and England against the Dutch Republic, which was later joined by the
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