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At work we regularly have to send over files to $vendor. $Vendor has two ways of accepting files: FTP, and Webdav (over https). Since our company’s policy is to not send things out unencrypted, we have to go the webdav way. It’s also the policy to send things over our internetproxy if possible.

After some searching for a console-based webdav client we ran across cadaver, a lightweight client that seemed to do the trick. It has proxy support, so great ;)

What isn’t so great is that it doesn’t have any way to supply the proxy authentication in a non-interactive way, which is crucial to allow us to script this file transfer.

Today I took the time to create a patch that allows just that - setting the proxy info in advance. It also includes a parameter to trust the server certificate implicitly, otherwise it was yet another step where cadaver would come and ask for user input.

Now it works like a charm! :)

After one week of working again, here’s a quick .. urr.. reviewish kind of thingy:

Trains suck. Really. Comon, it can’t be THAT hard to get a train to be on time for atleast the majority of time, not the other way around. I’ve taken the train 10 times this week, of which it was too late 7 times. Not what I’d call a good track record. (track record.. get it? .. nevermind)

I’m damn tired every evening. Guess I still have to get used to the working cycle again…

It’s great to have work! Yay! I have things to do that I find interesting! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :p

Today, my stay of 1.5 months at home comes to an end, and I’m going back to work! Yay!

As such, my updates here should (will?) be less :p

I’m in the market for a car.

Why, you might ask? Because my future work will no longer give me a car to use. That’s fine, the payrise covers it (and more ;) )

The questions are:

• what car?
• new or second hand?

Half of my friends tell me to buy a new car (even my dad told me to buy a new one - I drive accident free, so why not). The other half of my friends tell me to buy a second-hand one, since a new one is ‘throwing away money’. They have a point too.

And what car to buy… I was doubting for a while to go with a Toyota Auris, but the space when sitting with two is too little, it feels very cheaply built and the engine ain’t that (the 1.4 diesel, the 2.0 is too expensive). So I scrapped Toyota, and right now the Volkswagen Golf (On-Tour edition) with extras. Very nice car, not cheap (unfortunately).

Tomorrow I’ll go and have a look at the Kia Cee’d and the Honda Civic Hybrid.

So, what do you (dear reader) think?

Well,

I wrote earlier that I was going to start with CTG, that story has gone a bit awry.

During my 2-week vacation in Spain (more about that here) I was contacted by KBC and they made me a proposal which I accepted. So, I’m going to work at a bank, for a bank! Scary! :p (damn, I’m going to get all mature and old….)

As some of you might already know, last friday was my last day of work for Tri-enniuM (and ergo, Reuters and KBC). I went to say goodbye at our head-office in Rotterdam on the 25th, gave a farewell drink for the collegues at KBC on the 26th, and finally left the company on the 28th. It’s still somewhat strange, being that this was my first job after leaving school. Oh well, we move on in life…

During my farewell drink I was pleasently surprised by Reuters: they gave me a bag of Reuters goodies (yeah, yeah, I can hear you people already, but they’re nice and I appreciate the gesture and they’ll come in handy!)

From the people of the bank, I got a gift certificate for Media Markt… very bad for my own wallet too :p

It’s a bit sad to think that my own company didn’t bother to give anything - I hadn’t expected it, but while the people that I only worked with - not for - bothered, it highlights one of the reasons why I decided to leave: lack of any kind of caring for your employees. For those that are wondering: the other reasons I decided to change jobs is the lack of actual work and diversity in it. Oh, and also the fact that they still don’t get the Belgian legislation right…

Enough about the past! The future is bright, it’s CTG ;) (but only starting 2nd of november, I’m taking a month off in between)

I know some companies are thankful when an employee chooses to work for them (like I did - choosing to go work for CTG)… but it’s a first that the employer actually sends flowers to your home address with a thank you note :P

Thanks, CTG ;) You guys (and gals) already scored good points in my book - and I don’t even actually _work_ there yet!

I’m changing employers…

And taking a month of vacation in between both ;)

Today we went Karting with work in Brussels Kart, a karting / expo / restaurant thing in Groot-bijgaarden (just outside of Brussels).

It was a fun event, though I couldn’t participate in the karting itself (bad stomach aches / sickness for a few days, and I doubt they wanted to redecorate their karting track). In the end, the oldest guys from the team won :p

Afterwards we had a nice dinner there too. I hadn’t expected the restaurant to be so classy (including penguin-style personal table waiter), and the food was deliceous. I opted for _the_ veggy dish of the restaurant, which was veggies with tofu.

All the incriminating evidence can be found here.

Okay, first time I spend an entire night at work, because of a multicast routing problem. It took us a while to diagnose and to figure out where it went wrong and why it did… And having spent a 12h shift before, and then after would’ve been quite deadly ;p

We got a temporary fix in place in the end, tho the real cause still needs investigating (don’t you love multicast - NOT)