REDELIJKHEID
to wreck the SD-card slot cover of the Fujifilm X-T1. An obvious design flaw if you ask me.
Thankfully, I handle my camera with care, but I don't want to think what would happen if I applied a bit more pressure on closing the memory-card compartment.
and not that I wanted it.
This weekend all the REDELIJKHEID.COM services went down. This included;
During the update of my iPhone it got stuck in the so-called recovery mode. This means that everything on the iPhone is lost, and that you need to restore everything from a backup. Thankfully, the last backup was made 10 minutes before the upgrade process began. So no worries there.
The panic started to kick in when the actual recovery process terminated with an unknown error (17).
An unknown error occurred (17)
No matter what I tried, the error kept re-occurring
Searching the Interwebs, I founds several forums mentioning modifying the hosts file on your computer. Any entries referring to the apple.com domain should be removed.
Checking the hosts file out (located @ /etc/hosts on a Mac), I found a reference to a gs.apple.com with a specific IP address. At that point things started to dawn on me....
A couple of years ago I started to experiment with creating your own MobileMe thing (so I would have no need to purchase a MobileMe account back then). In that process you needed to fake some Apple web-servers. One of those servers was gs.apple.com.
After removing the entry from my hosts file and rebooting my iMac, the recovery process went flawlessly.
This 'experience' made me wonder; Did the 'crash' of the iPhone happen because of the hosts file entry? If so, this could be disastrous if someone made these servers unresponsive (e.g. DNS hack, or whatever), since the iPhone would become a brick. At least for as long as these servers are not accessible....
is not as easy (of funny) as it might sound.
Last weekend we a dinner celebrating the 12.5 years of marriage of my sister-in-law. Our gift was a gazillion envelops filled with;
This way they had something to do when they came home from the dinner. The fourth option was supposed to be funny money; scanned and severely altered euro billet.
The initial idea was to create a euro bill for 12.5 euro's, but that would take too much work, so I opted for a 55 euro bill (just clone the existing 5 on the 5 euro bill).
I got my new AirDrop-capable phone today. Not that AirDrop was the reason for getting it, but the feature itself is quite nice; being able to send files between devices. No need to use mail or other communication methods.
This evening I shot a video on my phone and I needed it on my MacBook (with OS X Maverick). Both devices are AirDrop capable, so .....
And there is I went wrong. After trying for about 30 minutes to get it to work I found the answer online.... Looks like that AirDrop between different OS is NOT supported by Apple. And not supported does mean that it won't work.
OS X: Can I use AirDrop with my computer?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4783
iOS: Using AirDrop
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5887
That is one Epic Fail if you ask me.
Even though I switched to the
Apple operating systems and devices in my personal life, I still have
some laptops, and virtual machines around for work. In the almost 15
years, I seen, used, supported and troubleshot(??) basically every
Windows operating system around.
If
you follow the development of the OS through the years, it's getting
better with (almost) every release. There were some bad ones though;
Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows Vista were most notorious....
Until now. Now we have Windows 8(.1).
Windows 8(.1) is (in my opinion) a Frankenstein monster that incorporates a tablet Metro desktop and a crippled old-skool desktop.
Google+ introduced a new (shiny) feature recently called Custom URL's. Up till now people had to communicate these long URL's if you needed to find someone on Google+. Mine for example is: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105217840082627216167/. Not a real slick way of presenting yourself on the Interwebs. When you log in to your Google+ account you get the option of getting one of those URL's for 'free'. It basically is your screen-name in the URL.
Mine would be http://google.com/+GuillaumeRaisonnable/. Would be, because, I'm not getting mine. The reason for this is that you need to leave your mobile phone number with Google for so-called verification purposes. By doing this I would be giving away another piece of privacy for something shiny. Something a lot of other people will be more than willing to do so. Just remember that the NSA never had it any easier since the arrival of social media to violate your privacy.
The last couple of weeks, I got several mails addressed to 'Onbekend IP Adres' (which is Dutch for 'Unknown IP Address') .
The e-mail 'To:' field contains my mail address with the 'Onbekend IP Adres' as an alias.
How are we supposed to take these spammers seriously? First, get my name right. Then, I'll might think about clicking on these links in the e-mail (NOT).
This week, I found the following mail in my mailbox. Not really sure what the scam is, but I'm sure it's gonna cost me money....
(Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks)Dear President,
We are a domain name registration and protection agency in Asia. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 16,2013 that a company which self-styled"Togh International Co.,Ltd"were applying to register"redelijkheid"as their Brand Name and some domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for"Togh International Co.,Ltd".Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Best Regards,
David Zhao
Tel:+86(0551)63434624
Fax:+86(0551)63434924
Address:HuiZhou Ave 999, Hefei, Anhui, China
A couple of years ago, I bought a Canon Pixma IP4500 printer for approx. €80. The reason for buying was that I was able to print documents (concert tickets, etc) and the occasional photo. Generally, I send my photos to a lab, so I don't need an expensive state-of-the-art photo printer.
Recently, I ran out of ink for the printer. The third time in three or four years. The IP4500 holds separate cartridges for each color. This means that I need to invest around €15 for each cartridge. Total costs: >€60.
While I was standing in the store, I saw a new Canon (color) printer for less than €50. This included the ink (for that model). Well, that was an easy decision. Out the 'old' printer and in a new multifunctional printer (Canon MG2250). It prints, scans and copies, while the old printer could only do one thing; print.
There are probably several persons out there that would recommend off-brand inks. Sure, it's possible to buy off-brand, but that introduces the hassle of:
All that to save a couple of bucks. No thank you.
Anyway, I have a new printer (with ink), and the old one is heading for the garbage dump.
"Why not sell it", you ask? Well, no person will ever want to buy it (with no ink in it), since they can get a new printer WITH ink for less money. How fucked up is that?
I wonder if we will ever throw away a car, just because it ran out of petrol and buying a new car (with petrol) is cheaper.
