Guus Bosman

It's nice to have a Saturday without any obligations! Last Tuesday I delivered my homework assignment, and the next deadline is in 2 weeks. Today I'm not working on it.

In the morning I experimented a bit with the server of this website. Two weeks ago I found out that the floppy diskdrive is broken and this morning I tried another one. However, it seems that there is something wrong with the mainboard; I didn't get any diskdrive working. Not a big deal, but it will be difficult to upgrade to the OpenBSD 3.3. I think I'll wait with that, it isn't very urgent. Maybe I'll have time this weekend to get the new harddisk working. Gerben gave me one (thanks!). It's 800 MB and will therefore double the total capacity of the server.


In the afternoon we went for a long walk and did some shopping. It wasn't extremely busy in the city.

Is there something wrong here?

Basically in the same category as the mirror from a while ago.

Guus Bosman.nl has been unreachable from 15:30 yesterday till 12:00 o'clock today.

Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from Martijn with the tournament schedule for this year and I wanted to be the first website to have them online. And just when I was ready with the article: crash; the internet connection failed.

Because I went out yesterday evening there was no time to have a good look at it. I was afraid it was going to take a lot time. This morning I had a closer look... and it was just a loose UTP cable that made everything fail.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused and I hope you didn't miss the website too much.


I has been a while since the website has been down this long. And by the way: I am still the first to put the tournament schedule online, even 999 Games doesn't have it yet. Hah.

Found a trick at Willy Dobbe.

A mirror for Guus Bosman.nl!


won siht daer uoy naC?

A couple of days ago I've found a nice website that categorizes other website by geographical location.

It can show the neighbours of Guus Bosman.nl. Another site with the same functionality but based on Dutch zipcodes is LogMap.

Websites close to me are for example Een Scherpe Blik, Willy Boerland.com (in Santpoort) and Websnacks.nl (in Haarlem).

A few weeks ago I made a simple extension to the website program I'm using that shows the 10 most recent comments. I thought it would be nice to share it with other people, so I posted a message on the official website of PhpNuke.


Interesting to see how my (English) message got copied and translated into various languages:

I've found the old version of my website! You can find it here.

It's the first website I had ever made; it dates from 1999. That was just after I came back from Bulgaria and two years before I registered 'guusbosman.nl'.


It is so nice to see some pictures of Florijn again.

Every once in a while I feel the need to update the layout of the website a bit. Made some small changes, I hope you like it.


The old layout is still available of course, in 'my account'.

It went a lot quicker than I thought it would: the new processor and motherboard are in the server now, and everything works fine.

The website will be quicker from now on. On the bottom of this page (in a very small font) you can read the page-generation time. For the frontpage it changed from 1,5 seconds to about 0,5 second.