Since the bookcase in our living room is is reaching its maximum capacity, we're moving from traditional books to e-books.
My wife already has the Sony PRS-T2 e-reader, and this week, I bought the Kobo Glo
for myself. The reason for choosing the Kobo Glo is that it has an
illuminated screen (which you can turn on and off). So it enables me to
read in the dark. No need for an additional light. It does drain the
battery faster if you enable the integrated light. Not as fast as I
thought initially, but compared to the battery life of the Sony reader,
the difference is significant (weeks instead of months).
This
post won't review the Kobo Glo itself. There are numerous other reviews
online available. So, if you're looking for an in-depth review, please
follow this link and pick one of the search results.
This post goes into the e-book management for the e-reader. Especially on how to sort and display series (e.g. the
Jack Reacher books by Lee Child).
Even though the post describes the management for the Kobo (Glo), it's
possible as valid for other e-readers. The (textual) information was
gathered from several sources on the Internet (and added as a source of
that information).
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 while back I wrote a blog post about enabling global logging on security rules. This week I applied the same technique to enable ping on all zones for testing / troubleshooting purposes.
Instead
of adding ping as a host-inbound-traffic system-service to all zones,
and if you have a couple this means some configuring, you can solve this
by adding just 3 (three) lines of config to the firewall.
The dude deserves a medal. I guess that Uncle Sam would disagree.
The
video itself doesn't reveal that much. Nothing more than a confirmation
of the things we guessed were happening. And don't think that the US is
the only country doing this. They all do (or want to).
Last night, me and the misses, went to the Amsterdam Arena to see Muse.
The show was greater than great. A lot of new songs from their latest
album 'The 2nd Law', and several oldies. They started around 20:30, and
they wrapped things up around 23:00. 2.5 hours of musical happiness and
an excellent show. Even our prime-minister Mark Rutte made an appearance on video (along with Frau Merkel of Germany).
Juniper entered the realm of
application firewalling since the release of Junos 11.4 (for SRX
platforms). A realm that is mainly dominated by Palo Alto (they
basically invented it) and Checkpoint, but more and more vendor's are
starting to move in on that territory.
And Juniper is one of those vendors that started to implement Application Firewalling (AppFW) on their (SRX) firewalls.
This
post will show what needs to be done to enable AppFW, and how to
configure those policies by using the J-Web interface and the CLI. The Junos software used in this exercise is version
12.1X44.4.
Last weekend, I hooked up with >30 (other) photogs/nerds/geeks/whateveryoucallthem in the Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem
(NL). Objective to capture some animals (on film or digital media), and
to talk about everything (but not limited to) related to photography.
I
attended several of these meetings over the years, and I must say that
these outings are always a lot of fun. This time I brought my Leica M9
(28mm, 35mm and 50mm), and my Nikon D300 (with the Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8
VR).
Apart from the mainstream gear that was around (Canon, Nikon with their $$$ L/Pro lenses), there were some oldies as well. A Canon VT rangefinder
(with a rapidwinder in the bottom plate) from the early 50's, with some
Canon 39mm screw lenses that were almost as old as the camera.
