Our open landscape office environments, as they are today, are pretty sub-optimal constructs. They seem deliberately designed to minimize creativity by maximizing unwanted distractions and disturbances. On top of that, the arguments for the open office landscapes are dishonest. Open offices are mostly implemented …

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I made a see-through LCD screen. It is very easy, if you have the right screen to begin with. I had several cheap VGA LCD screens. I took one apart, and removed the back-lighning. Then you need to consider where the electronics are situated. I my case the electronics are on a circuit board, which you can put in an L …

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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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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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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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I don't actually watch television myself, but sometimes when I'm abroad I help out with downloading programs from svt play, the swedish television play on demand service. Not that im a media snob or anything, I'm just too busy reading Manga or Warhammer novels to have time with television. SVT play is a bit funny, …

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