The languages of machines and man aren't so different. What happens if you see your program code not as a set of instructions for a piece of hardware, but as a story? A story so enjoyable, the machine dreams it, and wants to live it. Free Software then, is a vast shared universe where everyone are welcome to contribute …

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So, my previous artsite was made with mediagoblin, which is nice. However, it has some problems with my particular use case. I store my drawings in a git repository, and I tend to change files a lot, and never really finish them. Each file is really an ongoing mandala process, and I like it that way. This aproach …

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The author of o-blog, the blogging software I use for this blog, recently upgraded to a new major revision 2. The biggest change for me is the upgrade of the Bootstrap libraries, but there are many other interesting changes under the hood. I think the results are very pleasing. I had some technnical difficulties at …

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I have noticed its less boring to do administrative tasks while traveling on a train. Most things you only need an internet connection to do, which works well on the train and a LTE modem. Some things involve printing forms though, like expense reports and so on. A portable printer can be expensive, or slow. I came up …

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(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Fedora-baserad privat server Det är ofta användbart att ha tillgång till en egen server för olika ändamål. I följande artikel visar vi hur man kan sätta upp en server som är lämplig att tex dela filer mellan släkt och vänner, och många …

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(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Linux på Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Microsoft Surface Pro 2 är en laptop i surfplatteformat från Microsoft som är intressant på flera sätt. Innanför höljet har den en fjärde generationens Intell Haswell CPU med bra prestanda, högupplöst …

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(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Kaffeautomat med bitcoin Den krypto-anarkiska valutan Bitcoin är i ropet i media. Nästan varje dag kan man numera läsa artiklar i dagspressen om Bitcoins för och nackdelar. I den här artikeln presenterar vi en enkel tillämpning av …

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I use a number of qemu based android-x86 for various purposes, such as storing proprietary certificate handling software in them. One of the virtual machines suddenly refused to boot. It kept hanging during the display of the android logo in the early boot sequence. Booting the virtual machine in debug mode revealed …

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In sweden we have a system for online authentication that is pretty curious in many ways. It's called BankID, and are issued by, yes, banks. It's not just useful for banks though, you can use it to access public service functions. The thing that makes the system curious in my view, is that its run by the banks, and the …

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I happened to missplace my Pebble charging cable, and I was travelling with no electronics stores near. Its quite easy to make an emergency one with just a spare usb cable, and a piece of tape. Cut off the cable and pull out the red and blue cords. tape the cords to the pebble charging pads. If you get them wrong …

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