http://www.blackdot.be Jorge's Personal Website By Jorge Schrauwen en-us 15
Every now and then I get requests to update/build some apache module to work on x64.

Usually it's not a problem and it works out okay.
Earlier this week I had another request to update mod_security.

I had one for mod_Security before, I failed back then.
I failed again today. Getting all the dependencies and everything build gives lot of errors.

I wasted around 3h on this.
As of today I won't be looking at mod_security again. I will keep my older binaries around though.

Kind regards

Jorge]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:37 UTC Together with another student in my class, Erwin Staepelaere, I developed a new tool, a cross-platform client for vSphere 4.

It's a tool that manages vSphere 4 servers from every operating system you want (Mac OS, Linux or Windows).

Features:
- Tunneling over SSH
- Display basic information about a virtual machine
- Power On, Pause, Reset, Power Off a VM (When the tools are installed reset and power off will reboot and shutdown respectively)


Take a look at it on http://code.google.com/p/orbit-vm/ and give us your remarks.
You can also click on the screenshot to jump to the code.google page.

You can digg this article if you like it.

Jorge Schrauwen]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:40 UTC People who visit my site from time to time should have noticed it already.
I am in my last year professional bachelor applied informatics in university college Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen in Geel.

Part of the education is doing an internship in a company and the plan was going to the USA or Canada. Now it seems that there are no places for European students.

My school suggested some other European countries and projects, but none of them met my expectations.

Therefor I will do my internship in Belgium in the company where I did summer-jobs for the last three years. They have an exciting project that will benefit both of us. A win-win situation.

The company is Gloriant Belgium. I'm looking forward to the project and I am sure I will learn very much in those three months.]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:21 UTC In november 2006 I became a customer of VPSLand hosting. Not really cheap for what I needed, but the service seemed OK.

After a year I paid for another year of services, but in october 2008 I wanted to change to another hosting company. Right away I removed the info of my VISA-card, so VPSLand could not process any invoice to me anymore.

I cancelled my account directly after that and I got a mail the same day from them (a guy with only a first name Greg) stating that they regretted the fact that I cancelled my account.

But, surprise, surprise, two weeks later more then 300 $ was taken from my bank account. I had to protest that payment with my VISA-card company, but by the time this was accepted I lost several US dollars because of the changed exchange rate.

Well, more surprises, because now (november 3, 2009) I got another mail from them: "we will process payment today for the amount of 312,00 $". They tried to process it but it was not approved.

So, even after a whole year they are still processing invoices to me for non delivered services? Are they still using VISA-card information that they should not have anymore as "current information"?

I replied to them that they should (must) remove me right away from their customer list and I hope I will not have to protest this new invoice another time and probably lose money again.

I got an answer from another guy with only a first name (Nick) stating: "We are sorry to hear that you want to discontinue your account which you have with Vpsland. As you are one of our valued customers, your satisfaction is one of our primary concerns so please let us know if there is anything we can do to retain your business or to improve our services."

So another time I wrote them that I am no longer a customer for over more then a year and that they must stop processing invoices to me. "I want to confirm the confirmation of the cancellation of October 28, 2008." I don't know what word they don't understand in that sentence.

My advice: if you are looking for a hosting company, don't go to VPSLand!

If you experienced the same, you always can let me know.

Update November 7, 2009 at 12:00: today VPSLand processed my VISA-card again for 312,00 USD.
I guess they really don't understand the word confirmation of my cancellation of my account.

Update January 11, 2010: got my money refunded at last. Hope I will not have to go trough the whole process once again next year.

Jorge]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:25 UTC New version of httpd (Apache Server Binary Including mod_deflate & mod_ssl) compiled and a high performance alternative to mod_cgi or mod_cgids. All is tested thoroughly.

Jump to this download page.

You probably realize that building these binaries for Apache on Windows x64 takes quite some effort and lots of my (free) time.

If you feel this is worth something, a small donation via PayPal is highly accepted!

Regards,
Jorge Schrauwen]]> Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:50 UTC Today I start with the third and last year of my bachelor applied informatics in the University College KHK in Geel.

My schedule looks pretty heavy: network security, ASP.NET, XML and web services, database management, accessing WANs, integrated user management, distribution software applications, system analysis.

In the second semester I will do an internship for three months. Won't be in the US though, but still hope to find an interesting company where I can do a challenging internship. ]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 7:09 UTC Together with 275 other "applied informatics" students in Flanders, I investigated 336 websites on accessibility, during the latest school year.

You can read the result (in Dutch) about this on http://www.toegankelijkheidsmonitor.be/.

Only 7% of the investigated sites took a weighted grade (*) of at least 75%, the threshold to qualify as a good accessible website. This is very little, but a clear improvement on the outcome of the Toegankelijkheidsmontor 2007.]]> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:55 UTC It will also compile additional modules if the config is provided.

It's not very polished but it works fine for me.

Would there be interest in such a script?
If there is I'll probably release it but if there isn't it's not worth the documentation/cleanup time needed.

Jorge]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:31 UTC
Let me know if there are any problems.

*goes back to work*]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:48 UTC 64-bit binaries will take a bit longer since I'm working at http://www.gloriant.be this month.
Expect to see them the next weekend.

Jorge]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 6:46 UTC
httpd 2.2.12 x64 is released, this time I included some small fixes people have been complaining about.
If there are any objections I'll revert to vanilla compiles, since they are easier to do and I'm more comfortable with them!

mod_jk has also been updated to 1.2.28.
mod_rotate_log has been updated
mod_auth_xml and mod_macro have been recompiled against 2.2.12.

If you encounter any problems, please let me know.
Due to the extra work it took me to patch and do the modules,
I haven't had time to test them as much as I usually do.

Check the binary page for downloads.

You probably realize that building these binaries for Apache on Windows x64 takes quite some effort and lots of (free) time.
If you feel this is worth something, a small donation via PayPal is highly accepted!
A PayPal button is on the download page!

Jorge]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:11 UTC During our vacation in France this summer I made some pictures.

A selection of them are posted on Flickr.

Comments are welcome.

Jorge]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:27 UTC Now that I have finished the second year of my education applied computer science in college university, the plans for an internship in my third year become more and more concrete.

Do you (or your company) have a project for me next year (beginning of March till end of May 2010)?

I want to emphasize that the project also may be a development project, although my specialization will be 'systems and network management' (a choice I have to make for the third year).

You can find my application letter via this link.

And also a required document that you or your company has to fill in for my school.

The website of my school, KH Kempen University College in Geel (Belgium) is http://www.khk.be

Please let me know if you can help me getting an internship project.

Regards,
Jorge Schrauwen]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:05 UTC Got the results of my exams today.

These are my results of the exams of june:
- CISCO: switching and wireless: 18/20
- Linux: 19/20
- Dynamic webapplications: 17/20
- Businessprocesses with SAP: 14/20
- UML and projectmanagement: 15/20
- VB.NET: 17/20
- Portfolio, personal traject: 14/20
- Social skills and ethics: 13/20
- Dutch: communication techniques: 12/20

The result of the exams in February are in this message.

The combined result of my exams is 80% (A).

More information in English about my college university and courses you can find on these pages on the website of my school

So next year I can start my third and last year, starting September 19.
Also next year I hope I can do an internship abroad from March till May 2010.

If you could help me finding a company, it would be appreciated. Contact me via this page.

~Jorge]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:30 UTC http://www.blackdot.be finished.
Hope you like the design.]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15 UTC