Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Ruby En Rails 2007 Conference

Published on May 23, 2007 in Home. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , .

On June 7th the Ruby En Rails 2007 Conference will be held here in Amsterdam. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with the dutch Rails crowd. I’ll be giving a lighting talk on Mongrel clustering and will share my experience with this in use on a busy site. Also looking forward to some of the talks, especially the opening keynote. Hope to see you there!!

Update: I just read there are no more seats left, so hope you got in!

Region Free for Free

Published on May 22, 2007 in Home. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Yesterday I picked up a DVD player as part of a bundled deal on some big-ass computer speaker / HTS thingy at the local Mediamarkt. The sales dude offered a ‘region-free’ version of the player for a €30 premium and added that the usual ‘punch in some numbers on the remote’ hack absolutely didn’t work with this player (Harman/Kardon DVD23). It was only possible with a special CD from the manufacturer which contained a firmware upgrade. Bullshit of course! I declined. As soon as I got home I googled a bit and sure enough:

  1. Switch The Player On
  2. Make Sure Disk Tray is Empty
  3. Push The “OSD” key
  4. Select “Set-up”
  5. Enter Code “3141590″ (last digit is region, 0 = region-free)
  6. Display Returns To Normal

After that I tested it with a region 1 Terminator 2 DVD, worked flawlessly!