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Then the fun started, running a mail-server, with sendmail, was all the rage. And of course you needed to run a webserver (apache) for your domain:

Then we figured that it would be nice to create a special e-mail address for who people wanted to drink some beer. The best pub in the neighborhood was Cafe 't Haantje (dutch link) which was a mere 476 (+/- 10) footsteps away (don't ask how I know).

So we created haantje@atoom.net

The idea was that other students/friends would send an e-mail to that address if they we're going to go 't Haantje or into the city for some drinks.

The first evening, we send an email to the new address saying we were going the bar and everybody was free to join us. The effect was a nice, crowded and special evening at the pub. (And some sort of a hangover the next day.)

This next day somebody else mailed to 'haantje@atoom.net' to ask another set of people to go. Of course we went too.

The third day, we went also. And the fourth, fifth and sixth day. And the week after that. Needless to say: this was working really well.

After a month I took down the e-mail address: It was working too well. We were drinking too much, and it was really hard not to go when you knew other people were going to the pub.

Also we needed our sleep and our study (computer science) needed some attention too... So the e-mail alias got deleted and was never resurrected again.

So ends the story of 'haantje@atoom.net', downed by its own success. But... it was a month to remember.

But!

I've got my Amiga gaming feeling back! Today I've played for hours on the couch, racing against other (computer) players. Love the graphics and the music. Amiga deja-vu all over again.

I'm glad I didn't buy a Nintendo DSi.

I took LPI 201 on Thursday and 202 on Friday. The exams were a lot harder than the LPI-1 exams, which I took last year. Not knowing anything about Apache2, Courier Imap or FTP servers did not help either :) Luckily I do know a lot about LDAP, pam and other low level system configuration systems.

All in all, an LPI-2 certification is worth having and the person having one obviously knows his or her way around Linux.

To top it of I want get LPI-3, luckily this is only one exam; 301.

Hel van Nijmegen

Gelukkig was de snackbar in Groesbeek open, anders was ik eerder naar huis gegaan. De route kan nog ietwat langer gemaakt worden door een stuk van het Reichswald en de Sint-Jans berg erbij te nemen - dat heb ik voor vandaag maar even niet gedaan. Waarschijnlijk kom je rond de 60 km en tegen de 2 km klimmen.

We are having a little party this Saturday.

This was definitively a gap in my up bringing, cheap(er) alcohol only a few kilometers away! Could have saved thousands of Euros if I had know this earlier in my life :)