If you’re like me, you might have a lot of ssh keys installed and this might prevent you from logging into servers with the following message as a result:

“Too many authentication failures”.

As far as I understood this happens due to SSH trying each key on the client for logging and failing due to hitting the serverMaxAuthTries in the SSH server configuration. I use the following quick fix to work around this, by forcing SSH to use a password instead of a public key:

ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no username@hostname.com

I’m pretty sure there has to be a better, more durable solution for this issue, but the above fix allows you to at least gain access to your server again. Btw I use this on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) with OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu4.

I use Virtualbox (version 1.5.6_OSE) on Ubuntu Hardy with Windows XP as one of the (guest) virtual machines. In order to access my webserver installed on the host (real physical system (Ubuntu Hardy) I need to use the ip-address 10.0.2.2 (I use NAT in Virtualbox’s network settings) from Windows XP (or any other guest operating system) and edit the hosts (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) file with the Virtual Host names I use on the host. This allows me to access the Virtual Host based websites to be accessed from the Windows XP operating system.

An example hosts file on Windows XP:

# make sure there's at least one space between the ip-address and the virtual host name
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.2.2 SOME_VIRTUAL_HOST_NAME


Replace SOME_VIRTUAL_HOST_NAME with a real Virtual Host name. In my case I use the extension .dev to indicate a local project in development, so it could be something like burobjorn.dev

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I don’t know why, but these pieces somehow captivate and intrigue me. I get a ‘Gotham City‘ feeling from it due to the stark contrast and the slightly angled ‘buildings’.

Found via milov.nl

Ps: interesting starting point about Glitch Art

Hoe serieus kun je een conferentie met de naam LinuxWorld nemen als in de uitnodiging de tip staat:

Wilt u de beurs niet missen? Blok de beursdata alvast in uw Outlook agenda.

Ik schreef al eens eerder niet zo positief over LinuxWorld. Zonde dat een evenement met deze naam mijns inziens meer fout dan goed doet.

I’d like to recommend WFMU-FM. I stumbled across them after 3Voor12 was down again and I was looking for some online music. Well, if you like your music to be anything but mainstream then you may enjoy WFMU-FM as well.

De VWA schrijft dat zij het toezicht op veetransporten, slachterijen en vleesverwerkers dit jaar tot een minimum zal terugbrengen.De autoriteit kan ook niet voldoende toezicht houden op toevoegingen aan vlees. Bovendien wordt 25 procent van de geregistreerde bedrijven niet meer ten minste één keer per jaar gecontroleerd, zoals wettelijk verplicht is.
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Herbivoor, carnivoor of omnivoor goed eten is belangrijk en de controle op ons voedsel is van levensbelang. Als bovenstaande correct is, vraag ik me af hoe dit wordt verantwoord. Wellicht een goed moment om voor de zekerheid vegetariër te worden. Tenminste totdat bekend wordt dat er ook te weinig geld is om toe te zien op de verbouwing van groente en fruit. Bizar.

photo: avlxyz on Flickr licensed under CC-BY-SA

“I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as “a social utility that connects you with the people around you”. But hang on. Why on God’s earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?”

Read the full article by Tom Hodgkinson at The Guardian, but as an exercise fill in any social network you know of instead of Facebook…..

“Dus: Hé Twitter, Flickr op met je posts en je spam, blijf met je bijde benen op Google-earth en don’t believe die Hyves. Ik Digg die lelijke Facebook van je niet.”

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‘We do not promote satanism, belief in magic, drug use, violence, sexual deviation, body piercing, cynical attitudes towards the government, freedom of expression, or any other action or belief not condoned by the authorities.’

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Mark Pilgrim exactly says what I have been thinking about the whole iPhone hype. The only thing he missed is that touchscreens suck in giving back tactile feedback and therefore I personally dislike touchscreens for interfaces. Although this issue might be solved in the future.

In the meantime I bought myself a Nokia E61i , because my old Sony Ericsson was giving my way too much hassle with connections and low battery-life. Until now I’ve been quite happy with the E61i and I’m anxious to play with some Python programming for it. That has to wait though, as I’m in the midst of working on some new Wordpress Mu plugins for clients and developing a new version of Simuze based on the Symfony framework, which at the moment costs me more time than anticipated. On a sidenote: the plugins and software I have been developing the last months also needs to get a space on this website and so I’m also working on setting up a new site. Slowly I will get a decent site. Hopefully before the end of this century

It’s not all work and no play.

I’ve started with a new martial art or to be precise five different martial arts. These are all grouped under one vision, so the different arts are more like Lego blocks and build upon each other. The name of it is Takeda Ryu and I really like it.

I bought a Neuros OSD . The process of getting the device was pretty annoying, because of the box-pusher Expansys. I will blog about the whole experience later on, but to make a long story short: DO NOT buy anything at Expansys . They couldn’t care less about you. Their support team seems to consist of robots more annoying than that depressing one in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and more bureacratic hive-minded than the Borg . Luckily, thanks to the very kind support of the Neuros OSD Technology people I now have a working unit, which I plan to use so I can learn a bit of Lua with it.

The next three months I will also participate in a workshop organised by Stifo@Sandberg, which will kickoff with an interesting conference on 2th of november with some rather interesting speakers. As far as I know the conference is free to attend, but you will have to reserve in order to get in.

Now back to work….