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Who owns my research?

When I submitted my first paper, I realized I had no idea who owned my research! Was I authorized to transfer the rights to a journal or did I need someone else’s permission? After some digging, I found the answer and wrote it all up in a neat little document. So here’s the dusted off version, in case it’s useful to anyone else.

I'm Back!

I restored my blog from an old backup I had. I imported it into Hugo, a static blogging platform. Image by clipart-library

What does “perf interrupt took too long” mean?

Wifi problems So, I’m having a problem with my laptop. When I’m using the “TelenetWiFree” connection, I get disconnected after a certain amount of time, and for some reason I cannot reconnect until I restart my computer. Toggling the hardware Wifi kill-switch, which lets you disable and enable the power to the wifi hardware, does not resolve the problem. After re-enabling the hardware, the wifi doesn’t seem to come back again. Only a reboot makes the Wifi work again…

Pragmatic Docker Day 2015

I got a ticket to the Pragmatic Docker Day meetup in Ghent in exchange for writing a blogpost about it. Free food, drinks & awesome talks for a whole day, who would want to miss that? Not me!

Windows power users are not Linux power users!

Let’s rid the world of one of the most prominent Linux myths: “Desktop Linux sucks. It’s just not there yet”. When Windows power users try out Linux two things always happen:

Things I did after installing Ubuntu Gnome 13.04

Chapter 1 Things I do after installation First, I install the ambiance theme because the default gnome theme looks way to Whity-KDEy-Appely-Fancy-Chromy. I get the feeling I’m standing in the middle of an ice desert, even though I’m in the middle of Africa sweating like a pig…

Older blog (in Dutch)

In 2013 I blogged almost daily about my internship in Kigoma, Tanzania.

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