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OMFG, I just visited the site again and seems the date moved to September 8th. If you're following this blog, you can read that my girlfriend is expecting delivery of our twins the same date. Guess I won't be visiting the parade this year ... or lets pray for an early delivery somewhere in the middle of august ;)

This document is largely inspired by this link. The configuration contains a few flaws however and is not working for Ubuntu Edgy. First we need to install nss-updatedb: sudo apt-get install nss-updatedb Make sure to update /etc/nsswitch.conf : passwd: compat ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db group: compat ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db shadow: compat ldap Populate the cache by issuing: sudo nss_updatedb ldap Make sure nss-ldap doesn't search for the LDAP forever. Update /etc/libnss-ldap.conf : bind_policy hard nss_reconnect_tries 1 nss_reconnect_sleeptime 1 nss_reconnect_maxsleeptime 8 nss_reconnect_maxconntries 2 Check if this worked by unplugging the network and typing the following command: getent passwd Be warned, this might take some time. Now, install libnss-db and libpam-ccreds: sudo apt-get install libnss-db libpam-ccreds Update /etc/pam.d/common-auth : auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth [authinfo_unavail=ignore success=1 default=die] pam_ldap.so use_first_pas...

Prison Break has become a quite popular series here in Belgium. It shows how some dude is helping his brother to escape by tattooing the prison's blueprints on his body, along with some secret messages. Now, here in Belgium, we think that way of escaping is very oldskool and way too complicated. We just hijack a helicopter and airlift the guy from the prison's court. You don't believe it, read this link .

After a long time of uncertainty whether the Cityparade was going to be held this year or not, I found the releaving answer on the site today. It remains uncertain, however, which city will be hosting the parade this year. The other year it has been hosted by Charleroi. The year before that, the parade was hosted by Luik. Both cities are located in the French speaking part of Belgium. So, as tradition prescribes, it should be hosted by a city in Flanders. I don't care really. For the past six years it has always been fun, fun, fun. Be there!

The title says it all. Below is an ultrasound taken march 25th. As you can see, we're expecting twins ;) The babies are due near september 8th. I'll keep you posted ...

I'm sure many of you have encountered the same problem I was facing. I have a portable provided by my employer, but the employer does not provide any means of making backups of this portable. I know, he should, but hey, nobody's perfect. In the past 6 years I've been working for several clients, gathering a lot of data (code, documents, presentations, you name it). The past 2 years I've been doing some Biztalk work as well, working with virtual machines. Using virtual machines is ideal when doing Biztalk work. No need to pollute your perfectly running portable with Biztalk Server 2004 and visual studio. Working with virtual machines also enables me to work with different versions of Biztalk Server. An unpleasant side effect of using virtual machines is that they tend to take a lot of space on your hard drive and you'll need at least 1,5 GB of memory in your machine. As a result, I gathered 30 GB worth of data and virtual machines and I wanted to synchronize this wit...