Author: halfgaar

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Halfgaar is Wiebe. Wiebe is a contributing author on this weblog. He also has a lot of stuff (such as long, in-depth articles) on his personal website.

Wiebe works at YTEC, where he is a senior developer of customer-specific tailor-made software (“klantspecifieke maatwerk software“) for clients in a few select markets: wholesale, printing and healthcare.

Postfix, SASL and rimap: making sure the domain is not stripped from the user name

When you want to use your IMAP account as authentication for Postfix, you can set the SASL mechanism to "rimap". However, by default, it will not supply the realm (domain) and therefore will authenticate with an incomplete username (john instead of john@bla.com). Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on April 23, 2013, at 17:04 | Comments closed

SSHFS on Windows

Just as a jot, a tool to access SSH shares via SSHFS on Windows: win-sshfs. It gives you a drive letter, instead of fiddling with separate tools to access files. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 25, 2013, at 18:03 | Comments closed

Disabling http(s) trimming from Firefox address bar

Some time ago, the Firefox developers decided it was a good idea to trim the http(s):// from the address in the address bar. Since then, I've been getting HTTPS site where I don't want it, because I can't see what I'm doing. Especially so because HTTPS has no concept of virtual host names, and putting https:// in front of any domain might put you on a completely different web site. So, when I accidentally typed https:// in front of an URL once, it will remember that, but not show me... Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 24, 2013, at 12:03 | 1 comment

Cheap Logitech USB video webcam

Noting this down to not forget. The Logitech HD Webcam C270 is a cheap webcam that is simply a USB video device, so it works in all OS's without special drivers. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 20, 2013, at 13:03 | Comments closed

20×2 LCD display

There are a million 20x2 characters LCDs out there, but this is one that I like: http://www.okaphone.com/artikel.asp?id=475234 Farnell code: 9448780 Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 11, 2013, at 21:03 | Comments closed

Making my USB webcam not the first sound card

When I booted my system with the webcam plugged in, it was sound device 0, instead of 1. This is annoying, so I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf: Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 04, 2013, at 10:03 | Comments closed

Creating a Xen bridge with bonding on Debian

Like this, but then with bonding: Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 01, 2013, at 18:03 | Comments closed

A new Archlinux upgrade, a new unbootable system

It's that time again... First my grub broke. So I had to type my config manually: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux26 root=/dev/mapper/lvmopraid-root initrd /kernel26.img boot Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on February 15, 2013, at 21:02 | 6 comments

Making a bash script terminate when a command returns an error

#!/bin/bash -e trap "echo ERROR HANDLING HERE." ERR echo "Starting" asdfasdf echo "End" Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on January 21, 2013, at 14:01 | Comments closed

Chemical tin for circuit boards

For the record, about chemical tin PCB treatment: Seno Glans Tin Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on January 20, 2013, at 16:01 | 2 comments