Author Archives: Joost

Gmail, Google maps, Market: move to SD card

Posted on 2011-05-12 by Joost

Dear Google, please make it possible to use move to SD card for Gmail, Maps, and Market. Kind regards, a sad HTC Desire user who is always low on phone memory, even with not many apps installed.

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Using virt-manager on MacOSX with Dvorak keyboard layout

Posted on 2011-04-26 by Joost

I have a hosted Ubuntu machine that runs KVM for virtualisation. I just created a new VM, and wanted to use virt-manager to get a graphical VNC connection to the machine. So, I did the following on my macbook with … Continue reading →

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Deleting spam with postfix and SpamAssassin

Posted on 2011-04-23 by Joost

For years, I’ve been using mutt as my main mail program. I love being able to use mutt in screen and thereby having access to my email from anywhere, with just ssh or PuTTY. Back when I first created this … Continue reading →

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Recipe: guild master’s pie

Posted on 2011-01-31 by Joost

And now for something completely different. I have played a lot of World of Warcraft over the past years. During The Burning Crusade, I was Guild Master of a raiding guild. We had a raiding schedule of 4 evenings per … Continue reading →

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Irssi tricks: ignores and hilights

Posted on 2010-09-02 by Joost

I like the IRC client irssi a lot. I’ve been using it for many years now, and have learned many tricks about it. In these irssi blog entries, I’ll be sharing some tricks with you. The /ignore command is quite … Continue reading →

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AJIP 5: Two hands from a cash game

Posted on 2010-08-13 by Joost

This will be a shorter blog than usual. Maybe that will lead to some more feedback than the walls of text I usually produce 😉 Last night, more $0.02/$0.05 cash game with $12.50 max buy-in at PokerStars. A friend, who … Continue reading →

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AJIP 4: $12.50 buy-in cash game at PokerStars

Posted on 2010-08-10 by Joost

The titles of my blog entries were getting a bit long, so I’ve shortened “A Journey Into Poker” into “AJIP”. I wonder how long it will take before googling for “AJIP” has my blog on the first page Last night, … Continue reading →

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AJIP 3: some useful basic concepts

Posted on 2010-08-05 by Joost

Some people have told me that they don’t know enough about poker to be able to follow my “Journey into poker” articles. So, today, I’ll write an article aimed at people who haven’t played poker at all, or have played … Continue reading →

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AJIP 2: play money tournaments

Posted on 2010-08-01 by Joost

Playing for fake money (or Play Money, as they call it on PokerStars) is strange. Very strange. If there’s nothing valuable at stake, people gamble and bluff much more (I’m sure there must be scientific studies that prove this theory, … Continue reading →

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Unhelpful software error messages

Posted on 2010-07-13 by Joost

There are few things that annoy me as much as error messages in software. Error messages are up there on the annoyance ladder, with wasps, vuvuzelas, and someone buying the last bottle of Yop right before you. Error messages generally … Continue reading →

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