Lately we’ve been encountering more and more of these idiots, so we’re starting a new category: the crap parkers.

Here’s the first (ok, not _that_ crap, but it was crap enough that I couldn’t get in anymore the regular way) - car on the left:

Fixkes - kvraagetaan

Makkik binnen makkik binnen om een lieke te beginnen
Over de dinges die kik mij ammaal herinner
Uit de goeien ouwen tijd
Van rekenen en vlijt
Een leven zonder zorgen ambitie of spijt
Heelder dagen gaan sjotten
Voor den donkere thuis
Alleen maar wa ravotten
En t school daar kwam niks van in huis
Drei keer durven was doen
Maskes plagen liefde vragen
En al wa ge zegt da waarde zelf
Me a broek in den helft
Het was zo simpel ammaal
Zo simpel ammaal
Zo simpel as ik vraag het aan

Kvraagetaan

Er was nog gene gsm gene vtm
En niemand die a hannibal of murdock wilde zen
Rons honeymoon carolientje merlina met de parafix
En voerdes was er niks
We mochten niks mor dejen alles
Urbanus was nen held
Ons pa diejen oj nog haar en we telden al ons geld veur de kermis
Showen in de boksauto’s
Outrun in plaats van onze commodore
Er waren geen cd’s geen mp3’s
Alleen mor wa cassetjes
En buurman wa doet u nu
Veur ons allereerste tetjes
Het was zo simpel ammaal
Zo simpel ammaal
Zo simpel as ik vraag het aan

Kvraagetaan

Derde couplet potteke potteke potteke vet
De g’ed al honderd was men eerste brevet
’t songfestival jeuj later naar bed
The reflex fl-fl-fl-flex op ons tennisracket
Ja jonges we zagen het groot
We wieren ammel profvoetballer of piloot
En haten was nog geen nationale sport
Alleen misschient die koteletten op ons bord
Bivakpotsen sponsen broekskes karbonaaien
Die knielappen die z’ aan ons broekskes wilden naaien
Betsaksaai bettemakemaai
Ik stop ermee wa is men schaai
Het was zo simpel ammaal
Zo simpel ammaal
Zo simpel as ik vraag het aan

Een zebra, daar gad’is over
Ne gorilla zal wel willen
En Loch Ness da is een mythe
Die zit mé Elvis wa te chillen
Nen T-rex doe ni in huis
moar daarmee hedde’t wel gezegd
Ne goudvis doe pas kusjes
als ‘em geen eten nimmer kregt
Nen eenhoorn is ook moar
Ne cornetto mé een ego
En ne giraf hee ‘et charisma
Van een blokske lego
Als okra’s hun vervelen
gaan ze mé zeehonde jongleren
En zo ne leeuw hee wel gezag
Moar da stokt nen helen dag

Refr.:
Ik goan stoppen mé zuke
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier
Ik hem oe al gevonne
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier
M’n lievelingsdier

Een eekhoorn is ook moar
Een rat zonder strafblad
En zet Jaws en Flipper samen
En ‘t is garantie nen aflap
Ne jaguar zuipt te veel naft
Nen olifant pakt te veel water
En ik zou begot ni weten
Wat er goe is oan ne kater

Ik goan stoppen mé zuke
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier
Ik hem oe al gevonne
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier
Aha, m’n duifke
M’n apenjaren zén bekan veurbij
Moar poezewoefke
Loat mij toch awen teddybeer zijn

Ik goan stoppen mé zuke
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier
Ik hem oe al gevonne
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier

Ik goan stoppen mé zuke
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier
Ik zet u in een kooike
Ik zet u in een kooike
Gij zé m’n lievelingsdier

In this short howto, I’ll assume you’ll be using a linux server to act as your gateway to the world. I’ll also assume you’ve read the iodine documentation and setup your DNS accordingly. For my example, I’ll be using a (nonexistant) DynDNS.org static DNS entry, iodine.rulestheworld.tld. I’ll also assume that you’ll be using a public internet address of 1.2.3.4, and a private subnet of 10.0.0.1.

1. Install the tun/tap driver for Mac OS X. Easy as doing *click* *click* done! :p
2. Next, install iodine on your Mac. Easy as download, extract, and typing make; make install
3. Now, install iodine on your linux box. It’s included in the package repositories of the usual suspects, for instance debian: apt-get install iodine.

   Start it (or configure it to use) with:
   iodined -P <password> <unused private IP> <dns name>
   or in our example:
   iodined -P mypass 10.0.0.1 iodine.rulestheworld.tld

   This should return the following:

   Opened dns0
   Setting IP of dns0 to 10.0.0.1
   Setting MTU of dns0 to 1024
   Opened UDP socket
   Listening to dns for domain iodine.rulestheworld.tld

4. Configure your linux box for IP forwarding: sysctl -e net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
(and add this to your /etc/sysctl.conf file), and configuring your firewall (iptables) for masquerading:
   iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
5. Next, download NStun.sh, a very handy script that does all the hard work of changing the routes and so on :p

   You’ll want to change the script: change the first lines as the script reads, and lower, change the
   

   NS=`grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf|head -1|awk ‘{print $2}’`

   line to read

   NS=”62.213.207.197″

Now, start NStun.sh on your Mac, and surf away! (well, slowly, but freely, atleast!)

Today I was trying for the 3rd time to get it to work, using CoRD as an RDP client, but I never got any image back - the client started, I saw the connection being built up, but I never got any image over. Starting rdesktop locally gave me the output I expected.

This gave me the idea of using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 Public Beta, to see if it might be a problem with the client… and yup, it is.

Seems CoRD 0.4.3 (the current stable) is unable to handle the output of xrdp. I now installed the 0.5 beta 1 which works without any problems.

What didn’t work, was iSync on this phone. Real bummer, since I was hoping to sync everything between iCal/Address Book and this phone…

Google to the rescue, and i stumbled over this blog posting by James Lloyd, detailing how to get it to work.

Summary:

1. Download the script here
2. Right click iSync from the Applications folder in Finder and choose “Show Package Contents”
3. Navigate to: Contents\Plugins\ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice\Contents\Plugins\Nokia-6131.phoneplugin and choose “Show Package Contents” again.
4. Navigate to \Contents\Resources
5. Replace the content of the MetaClasses.plist file with the content of the script downloaded in step 1
6. (Re-)Setup your phone with your Mac

Done!

• Yesterday, an upgrade at work took longer than expected. Hence, had to call of external testing parties. Today I had to call them again, but most were not available. Joy for tomorrow.
• Yesterday, windows decided to eat a partition which was on a Dynamic Disk. Scanned it today with GetDataBack, but only got half of my stuff back. No joy.
• For some reason, parts of my linux installation broke themselves. No joy.
• This morning, yet another thing broke at work, for obscure reasons. Even less joy.

Can this weekend be over and done already?

With tar, you can make this hassle disappear!

Copying a directory tree and its contents to another filesystem using tar will preserve ownership, permissions, and timestamps. You can use pipe tar to another tar to prevent having to create an intermediate file to store the stuff you want to copy around.

To copy all of the files and subdirectories in the current working directory to the directory /destination, use:

tar cf - * | ( cd /destination; tar xfp -)

The first part of the command - tar - makes a tarball of all the files, and writes this to stdout. The second part of the command part will first change directory, and then extract the tarball in that location, reading from it’s stdin.

Since the cd and tar commands are contained within parentheses, their actions are performed together.

The p option in the tar command instructs tar to preserve the permission and ownership information, if possible. So if you want to move a lot of files around, it’s advisable to do so with the root user to keep all them permissions!