Guus Bosman

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Dizzy

Wed, 06/18/2003 - 11:15am

I know, I know. It's an old one, but I like it a lot:

Look at the center of this moving picture for 2 minutes, and then take a look at your right-hand...

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vu

Graduating

Wed, 06/18/2003 - 3:37am

I've submitted the official application for my graduation. There are some formalities I still have to do; one of these days I'll go to the VU for that. As soon as the date has been confirmed I'll let you know.

Yesterday morning I woke up with a cold. Nothing serious, but now I'm walking around with napkins all day.

Daniel and Erika arrived yesterday in Amsterdam. They must be a bit disappointed by the weather... compared with Hungary it must be cold here.

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ourhouse

Desk and poster

Sat, 06/14/2003 - 7:43am

WorldmapYesterday we've been 'upgrading' our bedroom a bit. We went to get the desk that was sold out 2 weeks ago. I guess they don't have a huge storage-place in the shop, because the desk that we took was the last one again. It's a small one, but just the right size to work on.

We also put a world-map on the wall, a really big one. It's very nice to have something so colorful there.

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chess

Presentation tomorrow

Wed, 06/11/2003 - 3:35pm

I'm working on a presentation I'll give tomorrow. It's about Struts, a framework that I'm using in our project at work.

Once every month there's a lunch-presentation about a technical subject, and tomorrow it's my turn. It's nice to do: I like this Struts a lot, and I'd be happy if I can make my collegues enthousiastic as well.

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fun

People watching

Tue, 06/10/2003 - 4:08am

People watching.Do you like people watching?

Enjoy.

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vu

Only documentation

Mon, 06/09/2003 - 9:56am

Only the documentation to go, and then I'm ready with the last assignment.

Will be a relief.

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vu

Stunnel part ready

Sun, 06/08/2003 - 9:32am

I'm ready with the stunnel part of the assigment. This means that the communication between the client and server is encrypted, and that the client can be sure that the server is trusted (a Certificate Authority vows for the server).

I'll start now with the 2nd part: making sure that clients have only access to their own accounts. This requires more 'intelligence'n in the server as there must be a mapping between account numbers and certificates.

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vu

Programming this weekend

Fri, 06/06/2003 - 12:50pm

This weekend I'll spend again programming. The 5th assignment isn't very large, and I've started it already, but it will still take quite some time.

I was pleasantly suprised to hear that we'll have a day off Monday; I though Whitsuntide would be next week but it's this weekend.

The goal of this assignment is to make sure that the communication between the bank and its client that we made earlier is secure. We'll use stunnel for that.

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internet

Bugbear -- the sequel

Fri, 06/06/2003 - 7:54am

I don't usually give warning against virusses, but now I'd like to make an exception. Last October a friend received "BugBear", a then-famous virus. Well, now there's a new virus that's called "BugBear B", and it's a really nasty one.

Luckily enough we have good system adminstrators here at Chess. At home my virus-scanner gets updated every few hours as well, so I feel reasonably secure.

But this is a particulary tricky virus: it disables virusscanners, some firewalls, and it spreads itself quickly by e-mail. It knows how to spread itself to Eudora, Outlook and other mail clients. If an Outlook user receives a file with the virus, the attachment will be started automatically. The user doesn't even have to click on it...

My advice: update your virusscanner today. CNN has a story about the virus.

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Best blonde joke ever!

Wed, 06/04/2003 - 3:40pm

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