“Confidential”

Ik ontving deze mail. Ik ben zelf niet geinteresseerd in het voorstel, maar mocht jij het wel zijn, dan moet je Bao effe contacten.

Hello,

I am Bao Ismail personal attorney to my late client, who was a private oil consultant/contractor with the Shell Petroleum Development Company before his death. My client died as a result of a heart-related condition on April 22nd 2005. His heart condition was due to the death of his wife and his three children in the tsunami natural disaster on 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia. It may interest you to know that my client died “intestate”.

PROPOSITION:

I decided to contact you purely on a personal conviction of trust and confidence to assist in distributing the money left behind by my client. The deceased had a deposit valued presently at (USD$3,500,000:00) and the Bank has issued me a notice to provide a next of kin or beneficiary, otherwise the deposit would be confiscated and reverted to the State as unclaimed.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present you as a relative/next-of-kin and beneficiary of my client, so that the proceeds of this account could be released to you. Then we can share the amount upon our perfect understanding. Please note; this is a legitimate transaction and must be handle through its legitimate procedure without any breach of law.

If this business proposition offends your moral values, do accept my apology. I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter confidential, while I look forward to your prompt response.

Best regards,
Bao Ismail

De phishing-mails worden steeds gekker

Welke idioot trapt hier nou toch in?

Hello,

I am SSG Mark Phillip, an active American soldier serving in Afghanistan, I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Afghanistan, as our mission here is highly exclusive due to insurgents everyday and car bombs are attacking our peaceful mission here.

We managed to secure funds from the war zone. The total amount is US$ 19 Million dollars in cash. We want to move this money out of this place,this place is a war zone, so that you may keep our share for us till when we will come over to meet you.We will take 70%, my partner and I.You take 30%. No strings attached, just help us move it out of Afghanistan, Afghanistan is a war zone. We plan on using diplomatic courier and shipping the money out in a large box, using diplomatic immunity.

If you are interested I will send you the full details, my job is to find a good partner that we can trust and that will assist us. Can I trust you? When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your interest including your most confidential telephone/fax numbers for quick communication also your contact details. This business is risk free.
The box can be shipped out in 48hrs if you want to handle the deal with us as Family.

Thanks
SSG Mark Phillip

I need 4 Raspberry Pi’s

Chances are that by now, you have heard of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap, credit card sized ARM computer, capable of running Linux. As is seems that the distributors (RS Electronics and element14/Premier Farnell) are starting to ship them Real Soon Now, I was thinking how many of them I am going to need 🙂

I think I need 4, to start with:

• A Home Theater PC, running XBMC
• A Car PC
• A shower radio. This one will need a waterproof case, integated speakers, run on batteries and probably have a small integrated amplifier. It will also need WiFi, so it could be a model A without the ethernet interface.
• A NAS controller, although this might not be wise, since the harddisks can only be connected with USB. It’s worth the experiment, in any case.

I hope the Pi will become available in quantities soon!

Policykit adventures

After installing Debian on a laptop this week, once again, I ran into the “problem” of not being able to shutdown or reboot the computer, when another user is logged in, for example via SSH. If you’re a Linux user, maybe you have seen it:

System policy prevents restarting the system when other users are logged in

The cause of this behaviour is something called policykit, and a policy defined in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy. I found several pages on the web, that suggested to modify this file to change the policy. However, as this file is shipped by a package, and living below /usr/share, it is not intended to be modified by users to override the policies it contains.

The correct way to fix the problem is in something called PolicyKit Local Authority, or pklocalauthority. To enable all users to shutdown or reboot the computer, even when other users are logged in, create a file named /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/usershutdown.pkla (the name must end in .pkla) and put the following in it:

[Allow Shutdown]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

[Allow Restart]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes


You may have to reboot the computer (or at least log out and back in) for the policy override to take effect.

Google Chart Tools

Ik ben verzot op grafiekjes, dus een product als Google Chart Tools heeft altijd mijn interesse. En Google kennende maken ze het allemaal weer lekker simpel. Je kunt bijvoorbeeld gewoon naar één van de voorbeelden gaan, de voorbeeld-code copy-pasten in een WordPress post (oh ja, wel ff de html, head en body tags eruit mikken), et voilá:

Geinig he?