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I have my netbook, and I have a server. Now I want to sync files between these machines in order to keep a backup of all the documents of my netbook on the server. I found a page which explains how to sync between two servers. With a little tweak I created the command which I needed in order to sync the two folders.

$ rsync -avrR --links --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh ~/Documents/ home.basvandijk.eu:

In this command Documents/ is the documents folder in my home dir, home.basvandijk.eu is the server containing a Documents folder as well which is used to sync to.

• -a enables archive mode
• -v enables verbose mode
• -r means recursive
• -R means use relative paths
• –links means copy symlinks as symlinks
• -rsh specifies which remote shell to use

Linux Linux, rsync

Back from a nice week of wintersport with lots of sunshine, I am back in the Netherlands. I made a lot of pictures during this week. One is shot from the top of  the Zugspitze. I really like the result, which made me decide to change my header image into this one

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As posted here I recently bought a Samsung NC10. It comes with Windows XP preinstalled, but I liked to have Kubuntu 8.10 installed as well. The Samsung NC10 is equipped with a 160GB harddisk so there is plenty of space (at least for me). So I started to figure out how I could install Kubuntu 8.10 on a netbook with no cd- nor dvd-drive. In this post I describe how I managed to solve these problems.

My Samsung NC10 running Kubuntu

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Linux, Software kubuntu, netbook, OS, samsung NC10, tutorial

In the first part I described the difference between “Whisky” and “Whiskey”. In this post I continue, as promised, with the different types of whisky glasses.

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Glencairn

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Whisky Whisky

I am using voipbusterpro as my default voip provider. They offer a SIP service which makes it possible to call with any SIP device (both soft- and hardware) you want. Recently I bought a Nokia E51 which has wifi. I wanted to make SIP phone calls over any arbitrary wifi connections with my voipbusterpro account. The only problem was setting the right settings. After a long period of trial and error I figured out the right settings.

This post shows a brief tutorial about the settings needed to setup your Nokia E51  with a Betamax account. Betamax uses a tremendous amount of  different names like: 12Voip, BudgetSIP, Calleasy, DarmowyTelefon, Dialnow, Freecall, Hungarytopup, Internetcalls, Intervoip, JustVoip, LeVoip, LowRateVoip, NetAppel.fr, Nonoh, SmsListo, SparVoip, VoipBuster, VoipBusterPro, VoipCheap, VoipDiscount, Voiphit, VoipRaider, VoipStunt, VoipWise and WebCallDirect…

Nokia E51

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Gadgets nokia e51, sip, tutorial, voip, voipbuster

• Blog with optical illusions
• Need a new wallpaper?
• Very funny Heineken commercial

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When I started this blog I wanted to have nice looking permalinks for all articles. This means all articles have links like:

instead of

I almost got this working except the fact that my URLs contained “index.php” like:

After searching through lots of websites I found a solution for this issue.
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Software Software, web, wordpress

Since three weeks I started to drink whisky. A good friend of mine took me to the whisky cafe L&B in Amsterdam and told me a lot about it. The next day I started to Google around for more information  about the world of whisky. It turns out (as with most subjects) there is plenty of very well written information. Since everyone needs to start somewhere, I started at Wikipedia. For this blog I thought it would be fun to share my experienced and provide some information and links about this topic.

Glencairn whisky glass

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Whisky Whisky

I would like to wish you all a happy new year and  the best for 2009 with lots of fun, blogging and other cool things!

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