Back to Sportcentrum De Meern

Well, I’ve healed It took ~1 week to get rid of the flu, but much longer for the cold. And even tho after 1 week the flu was gone, I had so little energy I couldn’t even lift a feather with two hands! Fortunately I’m 100% now again and doing kung-fu and fitness as much as I can (love it!).

Saturday last week, I went with my dad to Sportcentrum De Meern for a free fitness try-out. Years ago, I practiced jiu-jitsu at SDM together with my brother. My father drove us there by car every friday, and he did fitness exercises there while we did jiu-jitsu. It was great, but at some point our teacher had somekind of (financial?) problem with the owner and stopped his lessons so I left SDM. But now, I practise fitness as well so I’ve decided to go back to SDM and practise fitness there with my father!

Caught a nasty cold :-(

This week I caught a nasty cold — now I have a headache, flu and my muscles hurt I haven’t been sick for years, but sometimes the unexpected can happen. I’m gonna take a good rest, so I’ll hopefully be better soon.

A new beginning at the VU!

Since a few weeks, I’ve started with the master Parallel Distributed Computer Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It’s almost impossibly busy now, but I’m having a great time and that’s what it’s all about. (I’m mentioned in the HU-Ezine some time ago for it, how cool is that ) One of the projects I am working on is, ofcourse, MINIX 3. I have been assigned the incredibly cool task of writing a driver for the Intel Pro 1000 Gigabit Ethernet card, and it’s going really well. I got the card working under Qemu and a real card already, and we’re doing performance benchmarks as I write this post. Another sweet thing is that I get 9 credits for this project

I’m also doing the Computer Networks Practical, Parallel Programming, and I’m in the WS-Escape project as a research assistant. Meanwhile I also work as an Open Source Consultant at Industrial TSI since August this year, and sport every day at Ram’s Thai and the Shaolin trainings.

Unfortunately due to all these activities, I have very little time for FreeNOS. But I hope some extra time will become available soon, so we can release 0.0.5 to the world

Take care,

Niek

Finally I have a Blog!

It has been extraordinary busy lately, but miracelously I did find a small timeslot to create this wonderful blog

I’m gonna push intesting stuff on it as much as humanly possible, so keep an eye out. I also updated my site today: http://www.nieklinnenbank.nl. It looks much better, and cleaner!