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Looking for a new role in IT? You may need these IT skills for 2021.
As I looked for a new role at the end of 2020 in IT, I started to collect the requested skills of jobs I got offered or found while searching. As a service to people currently looking for I compiled this list of skills I found that were in highest demand. So if looking for…
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Script to copy Synology NAS SMB shares on MacOS X to S3 Glacier storage for backup
My soon to be retired Synology NAS needed a AWS S3 place to store the data. To do this I created an S3 bucket via the AWS console and you have to replace the “bucketname” with you actual bucket name.In the “for” line there is a list of SMB shares that get mounted you have…
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Ubiquiti Edgerouter X en KPN glasvezel internet configuratie met Experiabox V10
Update 5 September 2019 Na de update van het Edgerouter OS van 1.10.6 naar 2.0.6 werkte de IPTV van KPN niet goed meer. Beeld stopte na 10 seconden. De volgende setting moest uit de configuratie verwijderd worden: set protocols igmp-proxy disable-quickleave Dit kan via de command line maar ook in de Webgui met “Config tree”…
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Throwback Thursday: 1999 Sun Microsystems benchmarking center in Geneva
1999: Working at the Sun Microsystems benchmarking center in Geneva. Simulating a large LDAP setup for a bank. For connoisseurs, 2x Sun Enterprise 10000 (E10k), couple Sun Enterprise 4500 and A5000 and A1000 storage systems. Not all hardware was used for the benchmarking. Snaps taken by the local webcam. Me sporting a Nokia 6110 cellphone on my…
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Enhancement I would like Ebay to make
I am fan of eBay and look for and regularly buy items. (Boy I hope this brexit doesn’t go through because I get some well priced golf equipment out of the UK without import tax, but anyhow..) The interface for searching and looking for items hasn’t changed much in….well as long as I can remember….
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SSD Boot drive of my Mac Mini broke after 8 months: OWC 120Gb Mercury Electra 6g
Only 8 months after I installed a brand new OWC 120Gb Mercury Electra 6g SSD in my Mac mini my system started to behave poorly and slow. It took a while before I figured out the Disk utility showed this: Hmm not good. Some more tests while S.M.A.R.T. status read out utilities I found on…
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Joomla too high maintenance, move over to WordPress
Stay tuned – also testing google adsense
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iMovie HD 6 start new movie as NTSC and not PAL
I was creating a new movie in Mac OS-X 10.4.11 iLife’s iMovie 6.0.3 and it selected NTSC as the default video format. I was creating it WITHOUT first connecting a camcorder. It seems if you create a project with a camcorder connected iMovie HD will adopt the default NTSC. USA/Japan = NTSC = 720 x…
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PostgreSQL: “ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint “reference_pkey””
I have been playing with POSTGRESQL and Java a bit and ran into the following problem, and I asked the following on the postgresql mailing list:————–I have the follow SQL statement: INSERT INTO reference VALUES (DEFAULT,’123′,’2′,1); Which generates the following error: “ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint “reference_pkey”” And the table definition looks like: CREATE…
