tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50031431042874943582011-12-26T15:11:21.526+01:00Being an immigrant in my own country.elvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10005059122929615491noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003143104287494358.post-21992405205269544772011-12-26T15:07:00.005+01:002011-12-26T15:11:21.530+01:00

I like this song. It's a nice commercial, although for the 'wrong' brand of Dutch beer.The song is called The Golden Age by the Danisch Asteroids Galaxy Tour.The Heineken commercial is called The Entrance.

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Who said the're no wild animals in Holland? These are wild pigs coming from a nearby reservate. Authorities warn not to approach them because the're dangerous and aggressive, especially when there young animals with them.

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Well, it's some time ago I wrote about this project. I now have a working Linux, although it's a bit slow.I have learned a lot about cross compiling, but until now I did most compiling on the machine itself. Using distcc my main PC helped it with compiling to speed up things.However compiling and installing a big package still takes a few days.So next I want to build an entire environment on my

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On my laptop with dual-boot I used Paragon Harddisk Manager to rearrange the partitions of my OpenSuSE Linux install. I shrinked the Windows partition to the smallest possible size and wanted to move the extended partition to a lower position and resize the home partition of Linux to the maximum available size. Somehow Paragon Partition Manager ruined the entire filesystem.First, when moving the

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Today I did what I wanted to do for a long time. Buying some Barbie-dolls (second hand).Guess I missed something in my childhood :)First I will clean them and make their hair a bit more in fashion

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As you might now from my former post about Big Mother Watching You, i'm also spend some time on a webcam surveillance system using the Linux motion software.Recently I bought this cheap IP camera, the Vilar VC-IPC 1002 from this manufacturer. It's connected to the server by LAN and not by USB, thus avoiding problems with USB-connection overload and problems with restrictions on the length of

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Using marktplaats.nl, in Holland a well known local alternative for eBay, I bought this cheap 7" mini-laptop.Not really a good bargain because I payed €75 for it while in the US they are sold for $80 or even less.Anyways, it was not 2nd hand, it came with the original foil. And an American mains plug. Took me some time to discover that a converter was included in the box. ;)On it is windows CE 6

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Well, since my last post on this subject things have developed:Of course there was OpenSuSE 11.3. I expected much but i got a lot of problems. First the upgrade installer damaged my bootloader install. Then I discovered that the OpenSuSE install DVD no longer has an repair option. so I had to repair Grub manually.And OpenSuSE no longer has SAX2 which means there's no graphic configuration anymore

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Since I have Gentoo on my my computer for some time i decided, after a really damaged Linux install to try Gentoo on this laptop.I used Paragon Diskmanager 2009 to move some ext3 partitions. Unfortunately the entire filesystem was damaged afterwards and, mainly the /etc directory was vanished. Very annoying since this is the most important directory for backup and systemrestore.Anyways, I tried

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I want to make this blog a nice blog about my Linux adventures including tips which might be useful or someone.First of a series of articles i want to write about my 'security' cam.For a long time i wanted to have a webcam connected to my Linux webserver. Mainly for fun, but also a bit for purpose.Unfortunately i couldn't find a webcam working without problems on Linux.In the end i found a cheap

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Mhhz, long time ago since my last post.OpenSuSE Linux now is running smoothly on the notebook. Although the KDE soundsystem sometimes complains about a not working soundcard (but it's working without further problems after this message).The hardware did cause troubles, though. The lit touch buttons partly didn't work and I had it picked up and returned by HP for repair. They replaced the entire

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Since www.nufoto.nl started to block external linked images and doensn't offer any kidn of template for legal linking, i quit using images from this site. This is sad because the user uploaded images are great to view with some english explanation.I will look for other nice content to put here.

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Finally things start to work flawlessy on this laptop.Well, it did work quite nicely already, but there were some highly annoying issues with it.First it was the sound which didn't work out of the box. With the help of the downloaded en compiled most recent source files of Alsa and with a setting of 'model'=hp-m4 i got it working. A few weeks ago i noticed that this extra setting wasn't needed

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And now for something completely different ...Recently i bought a new laptop, of course with Windows Vista preinstalled.But i wanted to put SuSE Linux on it. I don't like M$, and i'm using OpenSuSE for some years now as main OS.On my job i still work with Windows XP, but when i take my laptop i also can have Linux.My laptop is a HP dv7-1010eddual-core 64-bits AMD Athlon processor on 1.8GHz2GB

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A lovely line up of Dunglish, dutch sayings forcebly translated to englishDunglish is a word for Dutch English, poor english spoken by dutch people with poor knowledge of english. Dutch football coaches are notable for this kind of english, in dutch named 'Coal english', but also several ministers are known for there bad english when speaking for an international audience.These are literally

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Have a look at the place in Hilversum where i'm living.I'm living with several other people in a single house with shared kitchen and other shared facilities. Not like an idealist community, but because it's the only way to find a living space when you're new in a town and only have a moderate income.

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Schiphol Airport Express ? Railroad to Heaven ?No, just an accident with a train. The train is hoisted while waiting for a new boogie to arrive. Nobody got hurted, by the way.

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Here's mister Ahmed Aboutaleb, a member of the Dutch Cabinet (a State Secretary) for social affairs. He's clearly supporting the Dutch soccer team for the upcoming European ChampionshipThis very cool looking guy is our minister for education, Ronald Plasterk. He is very fond of this hat and in my opinion he looks very good with it.Here he is posing with some mysterious giant fish.And, eurhm, this

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Forgetting your handbrake creates a specific threat in the old Holland cities with canals.Here you can view a nice video about a German busdriver on a quiet sunday morning in Amsterdam; The bus got stuck and fuel was spilling over the road. While the firemen were cleaning the road, and trying to get the bus unstuck, the bus suddenly started to roll on it's own. The firemen asked he driver three

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Very unexpected a world famous space shuttle visited the town of Nijmegen on the river Waal.SourceIt's the Buran, something similar as the American Space Shuttle. Only one exists and it's being shipped to a museum in Germany. (the river Waal is part f the river Rhine which goes upstream from the port of Rotterdam to Germany)SourceBuran in better times.Source

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Using a wheel loader isn't the usual way in Netherland to get money from a teller machine. Picture Source: Boschje on nufoto.nlHowever it has been tried serval times in recent years, so far without any succes.You can find an extensive report with 35 pictures about this incident here.

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An Army Apache helicopter, practicing night-flying, hit a 380kVolt power line and 100.000 people were left without electricity for 2 days. Apparently they need some more practising.Picture Source: b prins varik heeselt on nufoto.nlThe helicopter could safely land and nobody got hurt in the accident. On the picture you see the temporary construction with two mobile cranes which holds the

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Source: Marcel030NL on Nufoto.nlAround the Christmas time of the year, this antenna-tower, the Gerbrandy-tower, is equipped with 120 lightbulbs thus creating the biggest 'Christmas-tree' in the world.The top is at 367 metres (approx. 1100 ft).The tower is named after Pieter Gerbrandy, prime minister of the Netherlands (in exile) during WW2.

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Last weekend there was the annual memorial for Operation Market Garden. Market Garden was a WW2 operation, performed by Americans, Britons, Canadians and Polish. It's main objective was to secure a series of bridges across the main rivers in german-occupied Holland. Unfortunately the last bridge over the river Rhine by Arnhem turned out to be 'A bridge too far' and the operation ended up in

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United together across boundaries of time and walls of religion on this separated cemetery in the southern town of Roermond.Taken from this story in DutchIn 1842 a then 22 yr old Lady married a 'common' 11 yr older military colonel. The colonel wasn't a member of the nobility and he was a protestant, while the Lady was a catholic. This marriage lasted for 40 years until the colonel died. The lady

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This are some firemen in the small town of Havelte in de Drenthe province. As you can see firefighting is a busy job, but not so busy that it is impossible to pose for a nice picture.Recently there was a small row about this picture in Holland. It looks like the firefighters are forgetting about the fire behind them, but there's a logically explanation for it.They are almost finished with the job

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Mmmmh, that's odd:What exactly is the Canadian Northlander train doing on a train station in Holland ?Or better ask: what exactly is a Dutch international train doing on the Canadian railroads.The train is built in 1957 for the international Trans-Europ Express train between Amsterdam, Holland and Bern, Switzerland. Although new trains in Holland mostly were electric, these international trains

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It seems that Netherland is facing a new 'enemy' ;)The Anti Dutch Movement

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Usually people at a trainstation are happy when the trains are moving, but this time even the stationbuilding itself went on the move.The building in the western Netherlands town Houten was built in 1886 and put out of service in 1935. The building is the only one left of a certain standard type of stationbuiling and therefore there was a reason to move it away instead of tearing it down. A

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Imagine: You're quietly sleeping when suddenly in the middle of the night your nice holiday house is suddenly destroyed because it's hit by a ... rivership.It happened recently in the Frysian town of Grou. A captain fell asleep after sleeping for only three hours before starting to work. In the vacation house a family with two kids resided. Nobody got hurt, but it was a near miss. Most likely the

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Like this new KLM-airliner. Of course the Dutch can do better, like with this lovely roadvehicle/gyrocopter. It's planned to be sold in 2009. Another fine example of Dutch airplane design is the F27 Friendship built by the former Dutch airplane manufacturer Fokker. Designed in 1955 it has been sold all over the world. Almost 800 units

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Looking for WMD anyone ?At the coast of Knokke, Belgium ,very close to the Dutch border, 1.1 million litres of poison warfare gas is 'burried' just 2 metres below sealevel. Somewhere else in Belgium, in a forest 225 tons of poison gas grenades are stored in the open air. No need for evil Saddam look-a-like to make a horror-scenario possibly come true. Article about mustardgas on Belgian beach

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After looking around on the web i couldn't resist of adding another post about what turns out to be really interesting.First here's a promotional Rolls Royce police-car. it's used in a recruiting-campaign for the police department of 't Gooi, the area in Holland known for the many celebrities living here and suggested is that working here as a regular speeding control cop is similar of being a

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Of course it's nice to make a special policecar for some promotional stunts.Here' s a 'police'-version of a $500k Spyker C8. It's specially made for the police in the Flevoland province where the Spyker factory is located.Or the 'police'-mini. Not so very Dutch but the setting's convincing Dutch. :)Behind it there's a Belgian police-version and a firebrigade-mini.This one's for real; During the

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On this day, 30 years ago the train hijack at De Punt was ended by military force. Two hostages and three hijackers got killed. Starfighter jetplanes flew low over the train hitting the sound barrier and in this way dazing the hijackers.When the attackers of the elementary school heard about the ending of the train hijack they also surrendered.Here you can see television images of the military

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A chopper-boat-chase on the Dutch canals. Isn't this nicely looking like Miami Vice in the polder. :)By the way, the people who were chased had damaged some properties and thrown beer bottles at police offciers.They weren't armed which explains why passer-by's are casually coming closer, because there's no danger.(picture by: Jaap van Konijnenburg @ nu.nl) (picture by: A.C. Steenks @ nu.nl)

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Yep, well tornado's are very rare in Netherland but sometimes they occur. Today 40 years ago, May 25 1967 one (F3 on Fujita scale ) occured in the eastern village of Tricht. 5 people died and the entire neighbourhood was destroyed like you can see on the left. This same tornado wreaked havoc in the Belgian town of ChaamIt left the mess like on the picture left.In june 1925 and in 1927 one F4

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On this day, 30 years ago, the train-hijack by Moluccan separatists started (90 hostages).At the same day 4 other Moluccan people took over a primary school (105 hostages).Both terrorist actions were ended at June 11th by military action.The picture on the left became some sort of icon for how the people felt about it; The train in the far distance, unreacheable and unknown what is happening

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Most well known windmills in Netherland are the ones which are used to drain the famous polders such as the famous row of windmills at Kinderdijk.But most windmills were used for other industrial purposes such as grinding wheat like this one. Such mills in the city were built on high pedestals to let them rise above the surrounding buildings.This preserved wheat grinding mill in Arnhem is also

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Posts with label 'site-mission' are used to determine a kind of mission statement for this blog, or a 'format' if other blogs would like to join in (for another country/culture).The some(thing) ... formula should offer something which isn't offered already by other (much better) information sources. Some(thing) ... is something like:- Easy accessible, also for people not primarely interested in

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At the moment there's a lot of fuzz about ABN-Amro bank and another well-know dutch bank, Postbank is also being terminated soon as a separate bank.Since the 1990's a lot of Dutch companies have been sold and privatized in what many Dutch people experience as the Big Sell-Out of Netherland (to those evil capitalists). Whether a reasonable complaint or not, fact is that this list is impressive.

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Here are some vintage post-war vacuumcleaners made by dutch manufacturers. The hand-model is made by Erres and the other two are made by Holland Electro.They're all 220V and 50Hz AC (nowadays it's 240V and 60Hz, same as Germany)All of them are still working and used for regular household.

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Some memorials this weekend:One for the Enschede fireworks blast at may 13th 2000. A fireworks factory exploded killing 23 people, wounding 900 and causing half a billion € damage.live video (poss. disturbing)The other was for the bombing of the inner city of Rotterdam by the nazi's in 1940. After this bombing Netherland capitulated and the 5-year occupation began.

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It's a busy week in HollandApril 30th it was Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) . In fact it's the date of the birthday of the former queen, late Juliana of the Netherland, but that's just for practical reasons since the birthday of the present queen Beatrix isn't very convenient on January 30th.Of course, May 1st it was labour day, although that's hardly celebrated in Holland.May 4th it's Memorial Day

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This is mr. Wilders, a Dutch, controversial radical rightwing politician. Well known for his remarkable artificial blond hairjob which resulted in the nickname 'Mozart'.I guess, in case of someone thát controversial it's the dream of every photographer to catch him in an unattended moment like this.This picture appeared on the front page of several big Dutch newspapers.Oh dear, that's not very

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I would like to make some inventory of Netherlands add-ons for well-known games, or Netherlands themed games. I f you know anything, please notify me.To start with some of my own work for Carmageddon 2.This is the DAF T50 truck. The first truck DAF built in 1950 while being a trailer manufacturer before.Probably the later evolution of this design, the trapezium-nose, is more widely known to

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Did you know that the hole in a CD just fits to the Dutch (former guilder) 10 cent coin ?That's because the Dutch consumer-electronics company Philips has co-invented the well known CD and as a kind of tribute based that standard size to the Dutch 10ct coin.Well, that's at least the story a Philips marketeer told me.

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This is going to be a nice, or not nice blog about Holland, about the Netherlands, or about 'Netherland' as the Netherlanders themselves put it.Dutch ? No, Deutsch ist Germanisch, or whatever.The official media are meant for 'opinion', politics, marketeers and reputation.Chauvinism or even patriotism is difficult for the Netherlanders*; it's because of the Calvinist philosophy: Always show an

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