Gerco Dries

Gerco Dries (10)

OpenWRT Download Rate Limiting

As a parent to an 11 year old girl with an iPhone (no mobile data contract), I have a problem. The problem is that, when given the chance, she will sit and watch Youtube all day - every day. There are a few ways to…

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Netatalk 3.1.8 on Ubuntu 15.10 via PPA

(This post serves mostly as personal documentation and as a place to host relevant links) Netatalk is a daemon that runs an Apple File Protocol (AFP) service on a Linux or other *nix machine that will allow Macs to use it as a file server…

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Anonymous user counting through DNS

Imagine the following scenario: You are maintaining a free application and you have a fair number of users, but you don’t know exactly how many. Because you want to understand your user base a bit better, you would like to count the number of users.

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Van iCloud bug naar nieuwe iPhone

TL;DR versie: Voor niets nieuwe iPhone gekregen door totaal ongerelateerd probleem, yay! Ik woon in de VS, we hebben hier AT&T en Apple stores met genius bars. Een paar dagen terug kreeg ik een iPhone 4s op de werkbank die al maanden lang batterijproblemen had.

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Google Guice and plugins

While refactoring an application to use Google Guice for dependency injection, I ran across some challenges on how to modularize my application with plugins. It turns out that these is a relatively simple solution: Guice’s Multibinders. Lets look at the problem first. Guice favors constructor…

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