Posted in Suomeksi, Technology on Jul 7th, 2007
Uusi GPL suojaa ohjelmistoja patenttisodilta ja uusilta väärinkäytöstavoilta, taaten ohjelmistojen käyttäjille ja kehittäjille sekä reilut oikeudet että riittävät vapaudet.
70% kaikista vapaista ohjelmistoista on lisensoitu Gnu General Public License v2:n eli GPL:n alaisena. GPL:n version 1 kirjoitti Richard Stallman, vapaan ohjelmistoliikkeen pioneeri, vuonna 1989. Version 2 hän kirjoitti vuonna 1991. Molemmat olivat hänen itsensä (ja [...]
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Posted in Suomeksi, Technology on Jun 1st, 2007
Moni muukin lienee huomannut, että MacBookista puuttuu se AltGr. Hakasulkujen ja piippujen etsimisessä meneekin pieni tovi. Mac OS X:ssä ne löytyvät Alt-napin takaa vähän hassuista paikoista, mutta löytyvät kuitenkin. Linuxissa asia ei ole näin hyvin ainakaan automaattisesti. Tarvittavat muutokset tehdään xorg.conf-tiedoston InputDevice-lohkoon, jossa määritetään näppäimistö.
Okei, pari vaihtoehtoa: Jos tykkää Mac OS X:n sijoitteluista, voi xorg.conf:ssa [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Jun 1st, 2007
I installed XiphQT to enable Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other better than mp3 music formats. I also installed subversion using MacPorts so I can access my work files and other documents on my server. Subversion in combination with the sshfs allows for pretty good file sharing already, but I’ll need to look at nfs sharing [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 27th, 2007
During the weekend I managed to start using iPhoto and iTunes. Very impressive pieces of software, I must say. No wonder so many people use iTunes. I did import most of my music and photo collections into the applications. There are some aspects where I’d like more control over how they operate, but I guess [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 25th, 2007
Restoring the contents of my previous laptop’s hard drive was a bit more complicated than I thought. I got a firewire/usb box I could stick the hard drive into, and Mac OS X easily showed the FAT partitions of the drive when I plugged it in using firewire. However, there was no way to make [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 24th, 2007
I’ve been a happy penguin for years now, but my personal laptop (Asus M3000N) died last thursday. Took it for a checkup, and the motherboard is busted. It’s nearly 3 years old, so no point in getting it fixed. Happily, I was promised a new laptop by my employer, MediaLab of UIAH. MediaLab is full [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 17th, 2006
I needed to get the Java plugin to work with Mozilla Firefox on yet another Debian workstation. Here’s the (currently updated) instructions:
Get the latest Java Linux self-extracting file (not the RPM)
Become root: sudo -i
Make a folder for the Java environment: mkdir /usr/local/java.sun; cd /usr/local/java.sun (or wherever you want)
Extract the package: sh /path/to/downloaded/jre-whatever.bin – it will [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Jan 25th, 2006
The hard drive started showing symptoms already two weeks ago – while I was on a business trip in Hungary! There were more and more unreadable sectors, and the SMART daemon kept complaining about them daily. When I finally got back to Finland the server was still standing, but barely – many libraries had already [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Jan 23rd, 2006
This server’s old hard drive failed last week. “Did you have backups?” Yes, I did. “Had you tested your backups?” No, I hadn’t. Seems my backup routine did not have enough access to all the files that needed to be backed up, so restoring the server has been a bit of a task. But about [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Dec 17th, 2005
Thoughts based on Clayton M. Christensen, and his book “Innovator’s Solution”. The basic tenent is that product (or service) quality increases faster than the consumers’ ability to utilize it. This is true of most industries. This has two major consequences:
It’s possible for a company to start with a poor product and develop it to be [...]
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