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a settlement regarding the swedish surveillance law
2009-02-26 00:24:00 Information i have received indicates that there have been a settlement regarding the Swedish surveillance law. Which so far seems to be fairly good news. As i have heard the new law will still force operators to hand over all their traffic over Swedish borders, but with the following changes: Only the parliament and military will be ...
Supercomputer inflation
2009-02-26 00:24:00 Today i read on slashdot and other places that Microsoft and Cray are releasing a $25000 HPC 2008 server ready “supercomputer”. Why someone would like to run windows on a supercomputer i can’t tell. But since Cray tends to do sexy machines i decided to look the CX1 up. Well maybe you could call it ... Mer om: Free
Debugging mysql on the wire
2008-12-10 08:12:00 Earlier today i was struggling with a mysql replication that didn’t work and while banging my head at that problem i realized that maybe i would help to see what the master actually sends to the slave. Well i decided to redo my whole replication setup and see if that would help and it did. But ... Mer om: Free
someone elses inbox showed up in facebook
2008-12-10 08:12:00 Well i guess you aren’t going to belive me this time… But just a couple of moments ago i ran into a strange facebook bug, i was looking at someone elses inbox! Just out of the blue when i returned to my inbox after browsing a friends profile, my facebook page was in Turkish and i was ...
how to speed up downloading ports
2008-11-11 21:13:00 Well i guess you all sometime have noticed that the ports system isn’t so smart about which ftp server to start downloading distributions from. Quite often i have noticed that the multi megabyte file i’m downloading comes from japan. Not optimal at all… Well today Wesley Shields pointed out on freebsd-ports that there is a solution ... Mer om: Free
The liberati is here
2008-11-10 03:37:00 So finally we in the Liberati have published our five point declaration defining what the Liberati is and our view of the future of liberal politics in Sweden. The Liberati has allready stired up a loot of feelings in the Swedish blog sphere. Mostly a lot of nit picking regarding the name and the persons engaged. ...
Good resource on modern physics
2008-10-30 09:33:00 The other day i found a nice resource on modern physics. It is the perimeter institute, PI (By the way for a while ago it was a rumours that Stephen Hawking was considering joining them.) who has published a series of introductions to their different research fields. So if you have even the slightest interest in ... Mer om: Science
Swedish scare about cancerogenous substances in wine
2008-10-30 09:33:00 Today in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet there is an article about cancerogenous remnants from pesticides in wine. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) have tested 40 different types of wines sold in “systembolaget”. (”Systembolaget” is the only off license shop in Sweden, strange country it is…) and found remenants of pesticides in all 34 ... Mer om: Free
P is not equal to NP
2008-10-29 22:08:00 My friend Joachim Strömbergson posted on his blog today that there is an article on arxiv.org by the Swedish researcher Sten-Åke Tärnlund claiming that P != NP! If this proof is correct it will have a huge impact on mathematics and some cryptographic algorithms. This proof is considered so important that the Clay Mathematics Institute has ...
british ufo archive released
2008-10-22 03:41:00 The Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet wrote today that the British minister of defense now have released a lot of material regarding UFO sightings in the UK. What they missed to tell is that the archives also contain correspondence with the public regarding UFO sightings. So if you are into UFO’s or are interested in what the ...
a settlement regarding the swedish surveillance law
2008-10-22 03:41:00 Information i have received indicates that there have been a settlement regarding the Swedish surveillance law. Which so far seems to be fairly good news. As i have heard the new law will still force operators to hand over all their traffic over Swedish borders, but with the following changes: Only the parliament and military will be ...
Supercomputer inflation
2008-10-21 18:39:00 Today i read on slashdot and other places that Microsoft and Cray are releasing a $25000 HPC 2008 server ready “supercomputer”. Why someone would like to run windows on a supercomputer i can’t tell. But since Cray tends to do sexy machines i decided to look the CX1 up. Well maybe you could call it ... Mer om: Free
Water cheaper than beer!
2008-10-21 18:39:00 I’m in a state of chock! The Prague rule that beer is always the cheapest drink on the menu dosn’t apply any longer! I have found that the sky bar at hilton prague called cloude 9 is selling water for less than their beer. Their price for a 33cl. bottle of mattoni mineral water is 60 ...
Vinyl gramophone records to usb and SD or MMC
2008-10-21 18:39:00 Living in Prague i didn’t really expect to find a technical gadget that i never seen or heard about before in my local grocery store! Today it happned! I found a gramophone that is able to copy the a record in MP3 or WMA format directly to USB, SD or MMC flash. It also have a ...
Howto run chrome on FreeBSD 7.0
2008-10-21 18:39:00 So as i promised you in my last post (actually posted from chrome!) here is how i managed to get chrome running on Free BSD. Actually this time around it was simple… The secret key lies in the new 1.1.4 version of wine released today. Step by step follows… First install wine 1.1.4: % wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.4.tar.bz2 % tar xfz http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.4.tar.bz2 % ...
Total success in running Chrome on FreeBSD!
2008-10-21 18:39:00 No i have secceded in runing chrome on Free BSD 7.0-STABLE it’s not fast bot it works. I’m even writing this blog entry using chrome! But i’m not pushing my luck so i will keep this entry short and write the howto in another entry using firefox… The short story is use wine 1.1.4, but hang on i’ll ...
I?m running google chrome on FreeBSD, part 3
2008-10-21 18:39:00 Well there have been a lot of work going on in the wine community and version 1.1.4 of wine released today includes some fixes for running chrome under wine emulation. Right now i’m in the middle of compiling wine from source and i’ll be back shortly with information about if it was a success or not… In ... Mer om: Free
I?m running google chrome on FreeBSD, part 2
2008-10-21 18:39:00 After some more testing and googling i found some hints in the Wine AppDB. Apparently i needed some DLL’s from microsoft and some extra arguments for wine to get further. To get the DLL’s use winetricks and winetricks need cabextract so install that first. So this is what got me further down the road to a ... Mer om: Free
I?m running google chrome on FreeBSD
2008-10-21 18:39:00 Well kind of… Since google chrome just recently launched and it unfortunatly only supports windows i felt a little bit dissapointed. But hey that doesn’t stop me so easy. So i decided to check out what wine (a windows api emulator for linux and Free BSD) could do for me. So i downloaded chrome and tried to run ...
A new integrity hostile Swedish law on it?s way?
2008-10-21 18:39:00 It’s only gone a couple of days since the Swedish parliament voted yes to a law forcing all operators with cables or fiber over the Swedish border to send a copy of all signals to a huge spy center ready to tap into all communication. I have barley managed to settle down a bit after the ...
The day that Swedes lost their integrity
Mer artiklar från denna bloggen:2008-10-21 18:39:00 Today i realised that the Swedish law enabling the government to monitor all communication over Swedish borders will almost certain come true. And im sad, not sad i’m crying. Crying like hell cause i haven’t stuck out my neck to do anything about it. People who know me know that i cry, i remember crying a ... 1-30, 31-60 |
